I've seen this one before in a popular YouTube video that was going round of a builder springing this one on his poor mate who fell for it and after everyone started laughing at him still couldn't figure it out and still couldn't after being given a second chance and still.didn't understand when it was explained to him through steiffked giggling.
I didn't understand it then until embarrassingly late in to the video and felt bad for the poor guy who obviously cops that shit from his 'friend' a lot so the memory and details of it really stuck with me.
I saw this post, saw the title read the first part of the setup, knew something was coming and still fucking guessed 35 and although I knew that that was the trick answer that this is rigged to elicit and knew that I was wrong I still couldn't figure it out for like several seconds. Something about this pretty simple trick is remarkably effective at short circuiting my brain even when I know the correct answer.
"Wrong. That sister is a decoy. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he's the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris by the Trocadero. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier. "
Not enough info to say for sure, but between 66½ and a day before 68 years old. It depends on when during the age of 6 the sister was exactly half the age. The sister is between 3-3½ years younger and we don’t know exactly where during the older sibling’s
70th year the question is posed.
17 Comments
boyi@lemmy.sdf.org · 44 pts · 2y
this could happen due the sister moving
faster thancloser to the speed of light relative to her brother.edited: correcting theoretical error. Thanks to pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online for pointing that out.
_danny@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
Or if the sister died.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online · 13 pts · 2y
Not faster than, just closer to it than the older sibling.
boyi@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 2y
yep my bad. forgot theoretical (in vacuum) we can't travel faster.
rbn@feddit.ch · 2 pts · 2y
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 2y
I've seen this one before in a popular YouTube video that was going round of a builder springing this one on his poor mate who fell for it and after everyone started laughing at him still couldn't figure it out and still couldn't after being given a second chance and still.didn't understand when it was explained to him through steiffked giggling.
I didn't understand it then until embarrassingly late in to the video and felt bad for the poor guy who obviously cops that shit from his 'friend' a lot so the memory and details of it really stuck with me.
I saw this post, saw the title read the first part of the setup, knew something was coming and still fucking guessed 35 and although I knew that that was the trick answer that this is rigged to elicit and knew that I was wrong I still couldn't figure it out for like several seconds. Something about this pretty simple trick is remarkably effective at short circuiting my brain even when I know the correct answer.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 17 pts · 2y
"Wrong. That sister is a decoy. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he's the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris by the Trocadero. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier. "
dhtseany@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 2y
67
bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 46 pts · 2y
Wrong, 35
Keep up
superbirra@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
let's have a hard one next time please
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 2y
Me gusta
vinylshrapnel@lemmynsfw.com · 9 pts · 2y
Not enough info to say for sure, but between 66½ and a day before 68 years old. It depends on when during the age of 6 the sister was exactly half the age. The sister is between 3-3½ years younger and we don’t know exactly where during the older sibling’s 70th year the question is posed.
Fixbeat@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 2y
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 2y
No
Zeroc00l@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Me gusta indeed
tomi000@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Pretty sure theyre joking
yokonzo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
https://youtu.be/j0yL-gZkxqw?si=2sU8XTP7nLgRLKjC
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · -3 pts · 2y
I fell for it 😅