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Please help me with this puzzle
Topic Started: Feb 26 2007, 06:55:38 PM (318 Views)
ohippy
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Dad has set me this puzzle as a parting gift.

If a car is travelling at a steady 60mph and a train is also travelling at a steady 60mph, both are the same distance away from a junction where the road crosses the track at a right angle. There are no under or over passes.

How does the driver make it safely across ?

Any ideas ?
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Anne
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he left 10 minutes before the train
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GranAnne4PaTerry
26th February, 2007 - 06:09pm
he left 10 minutes before the train

nope - they're both the exact same distance away from the junction
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it's a different junction
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GranAnne4PaTerry
26th February, 2007 - 06:14pm
it's a different junction

nope - same junction. It has to be something fundamental.

eg he just came out with the one - if you had two coins which add up to 15pence and one is not a 10pence - what coins have you got ? a 10 and a 5, one coin might not be a 10 pence but the other one is
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ohippy
26th February, 2007 - 07:55pm
Dad has set me this puzzle as a parting gift.

If a car is travelling at a steady 60mph and a train is also travelling at a steady 60mph, both are the same distance away from a junction where the road crosses the track at a right angle. There are no under or over passes.

How does the driver make it safely across ?

Any ideas ?

The driver stops to let the train through?
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Or, they are both travelling away from the junction
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He stops & lets the train through the junction first.
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no - neither stops
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Anastasia Beaverhausen
26th February, 2007 - 06:33pm
Or, they are both travelling away from the junction

no - both travelling towards the same junction
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ohippy
26th February, 2007 - 08:43pm
no - neither stops

They are travelling in opposite directions.

The car is on the train (channel tunnel train) :whistle:
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Anastasia Beaverhausen
26th February, 2007 - 06:47pm
They are travelling in opposite directions.

The car is on the train (channel tunnel train) :whistle:

no - both travelling directly towards the junction at right angles to each other

This is really annoying now and it's all Soapys fault !!
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ohippy
26th February, 2007 - 07:53pm
Anastasia Beaverhausen
26th February, 2007 - 06:47pm
They are travelling in opposite directions.

The car is on the train (channel tunnel train) :whistle:

no - both travelling directly towards the junction at right angles to each other

This is really annoying now and it's all Soapys fault !!

Oh god, you're doing this here as well. Is there no escape :rolleyes: :lol:
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It's a competition to see who can come up with the right answer first !! :lol:
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How does the driver get across? He doesnt, theres a horrible mess, network rail blamed for a faulty level crossing, sued by the victims, goes out of business and the network finally gets run by someone with competence :dunno:
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ohippy
26th February, 2007 - 06:55pm

How does the driver make it safely across ?

Any ideas ?

Do you mean the train driver or the car driver?
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ohippy
26th February, 2007 - 06:55pm
Dad has set me this puzzle as a parting gift.

If a car is travelling at a steady 60mph and a train is also travelling at a steady 60mph, both are the same distance away from a junction where the road crosses the track at a right angle. There are no under or over passes.

How does the driver make it safely across ?

Any ideas ?

the car is on the train
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Ooh ooh, the train is like the one on Back to the Future 3, it flys :thumbsup: :thumbsup: am I right, am I, am I, am I :thumbsup:
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I was about to say that.
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:lol:
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oops i should read the whole thread :blushing:
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Soapy
26th February, 2007 - 08:07pm
the car is on the train

I'm with Soapy.
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nope all wrong
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ohippy
26th February, 2007 - 09:26pm
nope all wrong

Confiscate your Dads ticket, he's not going anywhere till we get the bleedin answer!!!!!
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ohippy
26th February, 2007 - 06:55pm
How does the driver make it safely across ?


Across what?
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he's promised me $50 if I get the answer before tomorrow !
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Its a model set, the driver is looking down on the scene controlling both car and train and remains unscathed.


I give up :angry: :P
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ohippy
26th February, 2007 - 09:32pm
he's promised me $50 if I get the answer before tomorrow !

And I take it you will share the money with whomever guesses the answer? :rolleyes:
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The junction is behind them, they have already passed it. Its where they set off!
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goes without say ing - and this rate, whoever gets it right can have it all it's bugging me so much, stumping OH too which is quite funny to watch
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