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#1 2007-03-26 16:49:43
- nazza
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Fish puzzle
Help!
I gave some students the "Who owns the fish?" puzzle and I cant find the answer...they'll kill me!
Anyone know it?
#2 2007-03-26 20:36:52
- mathsyperson
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Re: Fish puzzle
Why don't you just solve it yourself? 
It's the German who owns the fish.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#3 2007-04-02 04:11:19
- jagabandhu
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Re: Fish puzzle
It seems just making fun out of the question.
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#4 2007-05-01 20:49:49
- star_rider1
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Re: Fish puzzle
it really easy i'm 11 and i solved it in 25 minutes. whoo go me!
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#5 2007-05-01 21:44:27
- MathsIsFun
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Re: Fish puzzle
Well done, star_rider
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
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#6 2007-09-07 10:20:02
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Re: Fish puzzle
do you work at washington< because if so im in your 6th hour class. just wondering
#7 2008-05-21 15:58:35
- Albert
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Re: Fish puzzle
Read the puzzle again. Then read it again. After you read it a third time and if you still state categorically that the person who owns the fish is the German then you are in the 98% of the population who get it wrong.
#8 2008-05-22 01:38:37
- mathsyperson
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Re: Fish puzzle
Yes, technically all we can deduce is that the other four people in the puzzle don't own the fish.
For all we know, the German might breed exotic mayflies and the fish turns out to be owned by Unmentioned Jamaican Man.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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