Thank you guys for playing along! That was fun!

I really had fun and I got to train my brain a bit.
Thank you Elli and GFED! <3

You would need a striking surface to do that. :1orglaugh

I agree, thanks ladies!

Keep them coming... :thumbsup

This one is harder! Or, potentially, very simple. :)

The Case of the Bumped Head

The express train running between New York and Los Angeles had to back up outside Chicago.

Alas, the engineer stopped the train too suddenly while in reverse. Passengers tumbled like tenpins, incurring several suits against the railroad.

"The stop happened at 9pm," said Mills, the railroad's insurance man, while discussing the incident with Dr. Haledjian.

Mills related the biggest headache -- Ted Sheldon, a passenger who was suiing for one hundred thousand dollars.

"At 8pm," said Mills, "Sheldon had the porter make up his berth in the last car. He claims he had just retired for the night when the stop occurred.

"He says he was so forcefully jerked that his head struck the wall behind his pillows.

"Because of terrific head pains, he says, he left the train at Chicago," concluded Mills. He showed Haledjian a Chicago doctor's affidavit that Sheldon had suffered a skull fracture.

"You think Sheldon hurt his head somewhere else?" asked the sleuth.

"If I can't disprove his story about his hitting his head in the Pullman berth, the company is going to have to settle."

"You won't have any trouble," said Haledjian.

Why not?

The position of a "berth" or sleeping bed in relation to a train is perpendicular not parallel. Which means it's impossible to hit the top of his head on the wall behind the pillows, if anything he would've collided with his whole body/face to wall on his right?

What's the answer to the last question? Curious.

I think he would have hit his feet as the train was going in reverse.

Angel shadow of my pennies?

50 iq....

i also go with "the match". but the thing is, the riddle is worded as it mentions 3 things and "which one would you light up first?", meaning you have to pick one of the lamp, newspaper and wood.

Alright, here is one for you.

You are downstairs in a house and you have 3 switches in front of you, all in the "off" position. There is one bulb upstairs which is turned off. One and only one of the switches control the light bulb. How do you determine which one of the 3 switches controls the bulb if you can only go upstairs once?

Good luck :)

turn switch 1 and 2 up, don't touch 3
wait
turn switch 2 down
go up immediately

bulb is lit: 1
bulb is off but warm: 2
bulb is off and cold: 3

correct gj :thumbsup

I would light then all at once

But how would you know which one controls the bulb then? :)

other than checking with the options David suggested, You could go eeni meeni minee mo & put a tenner on it, and usually it would be the nearest switch to the upstairs :winkwink:

Yeah, or just fuck up the whole building, break down the walls and find the cable that goes from the switch to the bulb innit? :D

My brain feels worked out now thanks! :thumbsup