You are locked in a jail cell with no windows. and you need to tap out a message on the wall for the man in the other cell next to you. The problem is that you have to do it at exactly 9:15 PM, when the guard outside is switched, so your noise won't be noticed. You can't hear the switching of the guards through your walls, and you have no clock.
There is a faucet with water dripping very consistently from it in the corner, but you don't know if it is dripping at 30 or 40 or however many drops per minute, and that wouldn't give you the time in any case. You can just make out the chiming of a church bell, but it chimes just once at the top of each hour, so you can't tell the time from that. You can feel the wall facing west start to cool after the sun sets, but you don't know what time the sun is setting, and this isn't very precise in any case. Your dinner is always passed into your cell between 6:15 and 6:45. How do you determine when it is exactly 9:15 PM?
2006-11-12 09:00:30 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
After dinner arrives, you listen for the church bell. Since dinner comes between 6:15 and 6:45, the next chiming has to be at 7:00 PM. When you hear it, you start to count the drips from the faucet until you hear the chime again at 8:00 PM. Divide the number of drips by four, and you'll have the number of drips that fall in fifteen minutes (Or you can divide by sixty to get the drops per minute, and then multiply this by fifteen). When the bell chimes again at 9:00, you start counting drips until you reach the specified number. It is now 9:15 PM, and time to tap out your message.
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2006-11-12 11:34:11 · answer #1 · answered by It's Me! 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would ask the guard to come to my cell and ask him what time his watch says. Otherwise, I would bang on the wall--since I can't hear the switching of the guards, who knows if they would hear me banging. Another thing is that after my meal was served, I would ask the guard what time his watch says and then wait for the church bell because it chimes every hour. When the third chimes sets off, I would know that it is nine and then I would go by the drips of the faucet and countdown for 15 minutes until I am close to 9:15 and then wait a few seconds(because you have a whole minute before it turns 9:16) and then start banging on the wall.
2006-11-12 17:11:21 · answer #2 · answered by ALI 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
After dinner arrives, you listen for the church bell. Since dinner comes between 6:15 and 6:45, the next chiming has to be at 7:00 PM. When you hear it, you start to count the drips from the faucet until you hear the chime again at 8:00 PM. Divide the number of drips by four, and you'll have the number of drips that fall in fifteen minutes (Or you can divide by sixty to get the drops per minute, and then multiply this by fifteen). When the bell chimes again at 9:00, you start counting drips until you reach the specified number. It is now 9:15 PM, and time to tap out your message.
2006-11-12 17:12:50 · answer #3 · answered by arthur!!! 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well I can get to 9:00 as you hear the church bell around when your food is served and know that is 6:00 then wait three more times but I am working on the minutes. Ok count the number of drips between church bells. Wait until your dinner is delivered and wait until the next church bell which would 7:00 then wait two more bells which would be 9:00 the divide the number of drips you counted between bells by 4 which would be fifteen minutes count those after the chime of 9:00
2006-11-12 17:03:57 · answer #4 · answered by ஐAldaஐ 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
First you wait for the church bell to ring after you get your dinner. The you count the number of drips from the church bell to the next church bell. That is how many drips per hour. If you count the number of drips during the hour and divide by four, you have how many drips there are for 15 minutes. Then you wait until the church bell to ring after that, signaling 9:00, and start counting the drips until you get to the number you decided was what 15 minutes was, and Voila!
2006-11-12 17:28:11 · answer #5 · answered by One moment please... 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ask the guard when it is 9:15
2006-11-12 17:15:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Better ask the person giving out your food what time it is when they give it to you, and start saying 1 Mississippi 2 Mississippi, after that until you think that it is 9:15! I don't know! Tell your cell mate to conduct his own damn messages from now on!!!!
2006-11-12 17:06:31 · answer #7 · answered by pitbull lover 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
between bells, count the number of drops (this number will be the number of drops in an hour)
after dinner, wait three chimes (that will be 9 oclock)
divide the number of drops in an hour by 4, and count this number of drops
now it's 9:15!
2006-11-12 17:14:07 · answer #8 · answered by JV 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Okay this is simple the man in the cell don’t know the time either so what ever time you start the note is okay. You make your own time. So it could be any time after you have eaten you dinner. Thank you. Please send an email to me if this in not the answer.
2006-11-12 17:20:41 · answer #9 · answered by SHAY 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Listen for when the guard leaves! If HE can hear YOU tapping out a message, certainly YOU would be able to hear HIM as he's walking out to leave.
2006-11-12 17:43:31 · answer #10 · answered by Sherry 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋