maypaxvobiscum wrote:1) There is a common english word that is a thing that a large number of people have close to hand.
The word has the unusual feature of containing six adjacent consonants!
With the possible exception of diseases named after people, I believe that this is a record for number of adjacent consonants in a word.
What is the word?
2) During WWII, there was a bridge connecting Germany and Switzerland, and on the German side, there was a sentry tower with a guard in it. He would come out every three minutes to check on the bridge, and he had orders to turn back anyone who tried to get into Germany, and shoot anyone trying to escape without a pass. There was a woman who desperately needed to get into Switzerland, and she knew she didn't have time to get a pass. It would take her at least six minutes to cross the bridge, but she managed to do it. How?
3) A cork will not stay in the center of a glass of water. Instead it will slowly drift over to the side of the glass, where it will remain. There is, however, a simple way to make the cork remain floating in the center of the glass. How?
ps: there are 2 unsolved riddles above
2) She waited until the guard went back inside, then walked for 3 minutes to the middle of the bridge, and turned around as the guard was coming back out to check the bridge. The guard would think she was coming from Switzerland into Germany, so he would send her back towards Switzerland.
3) Fill the glass with something else? a thicker liquid? Or something like that?
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