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The Frog
There is a frog dead in the center of the pond on a lily pad. The pond is 7 meters in diameter. There are 6 lily pads leading to the edge, which the frog MUST jump onto if he wishes to get out. The frog can only jump to 3 pads each day. How many days will it take him to get to the edge of the pond?
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He will NEVER get out as he is "dead".Hide Answer Show Answer
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how can the frog "wish" to get out if it is dead, also the teaser states the frog "MUST" jump, how is that a posiblility.
mad-ade. lighten up. damn poor frog.
i worked that one out instantly. but i still worked out the answer if he was alive. it would be 2. because by the time he was on the 6th pad, he can just leap to the bank as it isnt considered another lily pad.
Its better said... as u don't have to put so much emphasis on the DEAD part.... just say it as the saying... "dead in the center"
mad-ade, read the question more before you make a comment like that. It clearly stated "IF he wishes..." The key word here is IF. I got it right away but good for kids.
Chambers, you are right, the word to look at is indeed "IF". It is also worth noting that when you are dead, you can not wish for everything, so "IF" doesn't even come into it. The word "IF" indicates choice, being dead gives you no choice. Take your own advice and read the teaser, perhaps you missed the part about the frog being dead.
Wishing is an option, whether dead or not. But, you can eliminate the option for him being dead. Also, the word must is used figuratively as when a child says, "I must see the concert." If you MUST nitpick, do it wher you MUST not ruin it for everyone else. While the comment box is is open to everyone I think it is not open for stupid nitpicking ideas, or "suggestions".
Who's nitpicking, the simple fact is a dead frog cannot wish, and the last thing I need is morallity lessons from the Queen of copy and paste!!!
wow. why is everybody so nasty to each other? this is supposed to be fun. there's no need for all the bickering. let's just have fun teasing our brain.
mad-ade, relax. the frog is dead, you got the teaser wrong, just pop a midol and take a nap.
ANNOY!!!!!
Who are you calling the queen of copy and paste? Excuse you! I'm terribly sorry if you enjoy being a warthog, but you really need to chill out!
Misdirection is key to any good riddle, and I think it was done nicely here, but the "if he wishes" part was taken out of context by a few people. It could have been worded a bit better. I would have used "how many would we have to move him to get him to shore."
three cheers for missie! that was a good teaser. the object of a "trick" teaser, Mad-Ade, is to mislead or trick people and this teaser. If you wanna nitpick at it and say, "oh, my goodness, that could never happen in real life," why don't you just stuff it up your--
Mad-ade,I have noticed you nitpick on a hell of a lot of teasers....are you jealous because they are all original,and thought of by the people sending them in? where as all yours are copied from MINDTRAP and other such sources? GET A LIFE!!!!!!
I was just looking through your teasers Curly, hang on you haven't any. A touch of the green eyed monster? Ask your babysitter to think of some for you.
Mad-ade: lotsa people join the site to post comments on teasers and to vote for them. Not everyone has to submit something.
Hit a nerve there have i mad-ade? truth hurt does it? I come on this site to READ teasers!! when i read yours it just bores me because they're all copied and i've seen them in mindtrap ect, when other people submit teasers you are quick to jump in and criticize,maybe its because they have a mind of their own,or indeed a life,somthing you are sadly lacking.How many teasers have you submitted? how many are YOUR OWN!!?
look. i think we can all agree this teaser bites major rear.
i got it wrong. i said 3 days.
curly, i'd say cough cough *none*
I've been reading all of the comments, and it seems that a new conversation has erupted out of the "dead frog"
You Peoples, isnt this supposed 2 B a family site???
Now Mad-Ade I havn't got any teaser's so u don't have 2 critisize me, but i fink dis is a good teaser, and Mad-Ade yr really jealous coz yr da king of copy and paste-and missie actully has a BRAIN
a little TOO easy but nice try and good joke
mad-ade u really need to get out more hey..so wat ..read the title of the thing its a "trick"..hence not THINKING into it too much..probably hard for you though, being such a high intellectual 11 year old!
hehe. well i actually liked this teaser. It fooled me, but unlike mad-ade when i get it wrong i think "wow, great teaser" i don't complain that the teaser was wrong. Well done!
P.s: are there any teasers that mad-ade does like?
P.s: are there any teasers that mad-ade does like?
i thought this was a good teaser, i think it is a bit easy but made-ade i dont think that just because your a subscriber ypu can harrass other people. this is a sitre to tease the brain and post questions or comments on a teaser. not say things like "that darn thing is wrong i'm gonna spend a year complaining about it(note the dates)" i agree that of course you do have certain privelages but i know what they are and none of them include harrassing people about a little miswording on their teaser. if your gonna harrass someone do it on my teasers and let the rest of these people enjoy their time on this site.
Mad Ade has not commented on this teaser since 2002, he only commented from May to July of that year. His comments are valid points.
You say comment on your teasers, what BOTH of them?
When Mad ade posted his comment she was NOT a subscriber (they did not exist), or an editor.
Do check your facts before having a rant.
You say comment on your teasers, what BOTH of them?
When Mad ade posted his comment she was NOT a subscriber (they did not exist), or an editor.
Do check your facts before having a rant.
She??
Ooops HE, that should be HE
If I may add my two cents, I think I like this website for the comments more than for the teasers sometimes...I am sitting here at work, reading this history, and LMAO!
nice teaser
*sob Frogs can die?!?!?! *cry miley
I thought it was saying that he was in the center, or the exact middle of the pond.
That complicates things a bit
SUPER TEASER
A bird might see the dead frog, eat it and fly away from the pond.
That would get the frog out of the pond.
It was pretty obvious, as when it said "dead in the center", I already assumed it was dead, and had to reread when it talked of it escaping to realize it was using the figure of speech. So it was then immediately clear to me it was a trick question, and it did mean literally dead, as I had originally interpreted. In my own experience, people usually say "in the dead center", not "dead in the center", so that was probably a big factor.
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