hardest brain teaser ever!!!

**tmeoe** · 11-19-2003, 01:09 PM

I'm still trying to figure this one out, so go ahead and see what you come up with:

If your floating down the river on a cement canoe and the wheels fall off, How many pancakes does it take to shingle a doghouse?

I think the answer would solve the mysteries of the universe

LORDBLiTZ · 11-19-2003, 01:16 PM

How big is the doghouse?

**RoNNy THe BuLL** · 11-19-2003, 01:17 PM

What the fuck?

IS there even an answer?

**tmeoe** · 11-19-2003, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by RoNNy THe BuLL

What the fuck?

IS there even an answer?

Apparently there is, but my prof hasn't told us and i have no clue at all, i thought was hilarious!

It'll throw anyone off that gets asked for sure, should be fun with your drunk friends!

**RoNNy THe BuLL** · 11-19-2003, 01:22 PM

Aight, first off...no no no. There is no answer. THAT'S my answer.

How many pancakes does it take to shingle a doghouse? Fuuck...the same amount you used to make the boat. I dunno, fuuuuck it.

**RoNNy THe BuLL** · 11-19-2003, 01:23 PM

I KNEW I should've never looked at this thread. Now my brain is going haywire.

**Bigboy123** · 11-19-2003, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by RoNNy THe BuLL

I KNEW I should've never looked at this thread. Now my brain is going haywire.

Makes me feel like a retard, like their really is an anwser that we should all know right away...

**BUYLONGTERM** · 11-19-2003, 01:37 PM

There can't be an answer?

**mass junkie** · 11-19-2003, 01:39 PM

There is no correct answer to that question

**BUYLONGTERM** · 11-19-2003, 01:56 PM

I just found out!!!!! its 6! think about it. It's actually quite funny and not to hard

**Testify** · 11-19-2003, 01:59 PM

Are they regular sized pancakes or silver dollars?

**Juggernaut** · 11-19-2003, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by buylongterm

I just found out!!!!! its 6! think about it. It's actually quite funny and not to hard

No more crack for you! hahahaha

**BigGreen** · 11-19-2003, 02:06 PM

I would think that since the doghouse is spoken of absolutely (ie, not "Jim's doghouse" or "that red doghouse") the answer must then be absolute, much like the answer to "how many times does the earth rotate on its axis within a 24 hour period?" or, to be as somewhat abstract in the absolute as the original question, "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop". While it may be a jump to claim that the answer is infiinitely absolute, it is specifically absolute. In other words, the licks, shingles, rotations, etc can be presumed to have been the same, absolutely in that specific incident, regardless of the independent conditions placed before it. Thus, rather you were flying on a teflon hamburger and the threads unraveled, driving in a straw station wagon and the windows caved in, or floating in a cement canoe and the wheels fell off, the only logical answer can be the same that it would have been whether or not you were in the canoe or the wheels fell off. Furthermore, as the question logically implies the absolute of a doghouse (and as such a rule of absolute), one can't fall back on any sort of chaos theory bullshit.

**slamd097** · 11-19-2003, 02:08 PM

my brain hurts....how in the hell did you figure out 6?????

and a concrete canoe???? who is that idoit floating on the river in that canoe??? and was he hungry or his dog?? and just so you know. How Long is a china man.

**cb25** · 11-19-2003, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by BigGreen

I would think that since the doghouse is spoken of absolutely (ie, not "Jim's doghouse" or "that red doghouse") the answer must then be absolute, much like the answer to "how many times does the earth rotate on its axis within a 24 hour period?" or, to be as somewhat abstract in the absolute as the original question, "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop". While it may be a jump to claim that the answer is infiinitely absolute, it is specifically absolute. In other words, the licks, shingles, rotations, etc can be presumed to have been the same, absolutely in that specific incident, regardless of the independent conditions placed before it. Thus, rather you were flying on a teflon hamburger and the threads unraveled, driving in a straw station wagon and the windows caved in, or floating in a cement canoe and the wheels fell off, the only logical answer can be the same that it would have been whether or not you were in the canoe or the wheels fell off. Furthermore, as the question logically implies the absolute of a doghouse (and as such a rule of absolute), one can't fall back on any sort of chaos theory bullshit.

Oh my god my head hurts

**Juggernaut** · 11-19-2003, 02:09 PM

The answer is one! It's a very small dog ergo the doghouse is likewise. One flapjack should cover it. hahahaha

**slamd097** · 11-19-2003, 02:12 PM

Green, um I understand..oddly...so with that thouhgt, im going to take my teflon hamburger and go back to my damn planet!!!

**bermich** · 11-19-2003, 02:12 PM

Green stole my answer. I was typing it and then he swooped down and posted it first. Almost to the letter.

**BigGreen** · 11-19-2003, 02:14 PM

For real...following a logic chain, the only legitimate answer can be "The same as it would have been had you not been on the river". Your being on a river doesn't change any absolutes, whether it's on a concrete canoe or not. 0+1 still equals 1 and the way that the teaser asks "how many pancakes does it take to shingle a doghouse" can't imply anything but a similar absolutist (even if specifically applied) "equation".

***Cycleon*** · 11-19-2003, 02:20 PM

Its quite easy - of course it is one - it does not curtail how large the pancake must be or how large the doghouse is.

As biggreen ponted out - the canoe, et al is external to the question and has no part of causation - thats the kind of questions he had to anwer on the LSAT - except much more tricky.

**Dude-Man** · 11-19-2003, 02:20 PM

i'd just say the answer is that you don't shingle a doghouse with pancakes... or that it doesn't matter because you're going to drown without wheels on your canoe anyway.

***Cycleon*** · 11-19-2003, 02:24 PM

chris - that is an equally good answer to say that pancakes are not used to shingle doghouses so answer = 0

**slamd097** · 11-19-2003, 02:27 PM

I have a question...why in the hell does the canoe even have wheels???!!!

screw it!!!! Shoot that damn dog and burn his f***in house to the ground, that way you have to worry about all that time in the damn kitchen trying to cover the roof of a dog house!!

**Full Intensity** · 11-19-2003, 03:14 PM

tell ur prof to give u the answer fast or a bunch of juiced up MOFOs from AR and gonna come beat it out of him

**D3m3nt3d** · 11-19-2003, 03:59 PM

I say...cement sinks, a canoe doesn't have wills, and nobody makes a doghouse shingle out of pancakes

**Nailer** · 11-19-2003, 04:12 PM

would that mean it would rain syrup on the shingles?

**RoNNy THe BuLL** · 11-19-2003, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by CYCLEON

Its quite easy - of course it is one - it does not curtail how large the pancake must be or how large the doghouse is.

As biggreen ponted out - the canoe, et al is external to the question and has no part of causation - thats the kind of questions he had to anwer on the LSAT - except much more tricky.

YOU THE MAN

**TheDfromGC** · 11-19-2003, 04:36 PM

id say 20, but depends on what type of pancake mix u use.....

**BUYLONGTERM** · 11-19-2003, 04:42 PM

It's six!!! You guys are looking way to much into this???

**peregrine** · 11-19-2003, 04:45 PM

If it takes a baker one hour to bake one dozen of the the number one cakes in the world, how long would it take for a one armed monkey to pick the seeds out of a pickle?

**snatchfactor5** · 11-19-2003, 07:50 PM

well im up to 500 pancakes but my dog has eaten 496 of them so i cant give you a proper figure

**TheMudMan** · 11-19-2003, 08:07 PM

There's no answer, and the part about the cement canoe is to throw you off.

**peam** · 11-19-2003, 08:17 PM

Wow... cement floats? Canoes have wheels? and I had no idea pancakes were that durable.

**bornbad71** · 11-19-2003, 08:19 PM

This is the very reason I sleep in school..........all they do is try and trick u with some BS question that has no answer.......that being said I will not try and solve this that can not be solved.

This would be fun to ask a room full of drunks...

**Juggernaut** · 11-19-2003, 08:26 PM

Originally Posted by Full Intensity

tell ur prof to give u the answer fast or a bunch of juiced up MOFOs from AR and gonna come beat it out of him

No fun for you until the shoulder is all better...................but we can bring him by for you to kick one or twice..........and not real hard either..............we don't want pictures of where they have to cut you if you F up a leg. hahahaha

Oh and the answer is still one!

**Da Bull** · 11-19-2003, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by TheMudMan

There's no answer, and the part about the cement canoe is to throw you off.

**RON** · 11-19-2003, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by buylongterm

It's six!!! You guys are looking way to much into this???

ofcourse its 6. Its totally easy. It always takes 6. Guess were the only 2 people who work in the pancake shingle industry

**TheDfromGC** · 11-19-2003, 08:56 PM

how about this one.........what do buffalos do when they need some money??

**TheDfromGC** · 11-19-2003, 08:58 PM

and the answer......they get a buffaloan.....sorry it was on the stick of the popsicle i just ate......

**CBR9Seadoo** · 11-19-2003, 09:01 PM

Come on... what is the answer.... I am studying the god damn endocrine system for an Anatomy test tomorrow and all I can think about is how many fricken pancakes it takes to shingle a dog house. Do we get

's w/ the pancakes?