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[Umbrella Secrets]

You are on an island, it is in the middle of a lake, there are no bridges leading to it, you are the only one on the island.

A tractor picks up people for hay rides and drives around the lake.

Some how the tractor gets on the island without any boats or planes. How did the tractor get there?

The water is very deep.

Who ever gets it right, wins. If I see the right answer then I will quote it.

Edited by U-W-SAtomicarmy, 14 March 2008 - 23:37.

[Alias]

It was driven over when the water was frozen.

[Umbrella Secrets]

no

[Jok3r]

Is it an amphibious tractor?

[Umbrella Secrets]

No


Hint: It has something to do with the weather.

Edited by U-W-SAtomicarmy, 15 March 2008 - 00:04.

[Jok3r]

is there a land bridge?

[Umbrella Secrets]

no

[Lizzie]

Tornados

[Umbrella Secrets]

no

[Alias]

It was built on the island.

[Umbrella Secrets]

no

Another Hint: It has something to do with rain.

Edited by U-W-SAtomicarmy, 15 March 2008 - 00:23.

[Izzy]

The water evaporated

[Umbrella Secrets]

Izzy, on 14 Mar 2008, 19:24, said:

The water evaporated

Your right!

[Alias]

Erm, what?
You said it's deep.

Deep water doesn't evaporate... that's like saying the Mariana trench drained because of heat...

[Umbrella Secrets]

There was a drought, deep water can evaporate.

It was as deep as any other lake.

Edited by U-W-SAtomicarmy, 15 March 2008 - 00:32.

[Dauth]

You posted and gave out 2 hints within 1 hr? No wonder no-one got it in one, give us time.

Who want their brain scrambled by physics?

[Umbrella Secrets]

Yeah, sorry I do another one and I won't give any hints.

[Alias]

U-W-SAtomicarmy, on 15 Mar 2008, 11:31, said:

There was a drought, deep water can evaporate.

It was as deep as any other lake.

Which is 8 metres+ (remember, it has to be deep enough to have an island in it). That much water doesn't evaporate... even if it did, it'd be fairly difficult to drive through the abyss that was left.

Your answer is illogical, to say the least... the commonly accepted answer to this riddle is either the water froze, or the tractor was built on site.

Edited by Alias, 15 March 2008 - 00:36.

[Umbrella Secrets]

I didn't come up with the BrainBuster, someone else did, I'll find a better one.

Edited by U-W-SAtomicarmy, 15 March 2008 - 00:37.

[Alias]

Even so, it has to be large enough to accommodate a tractor... that has to be fairly large, because there's no point having a tractor on an island if it would be more efficient to walk.

[Thez]

Here's one, those that already know it please don't spoil it:

You have two pieces of rope

The only thing you know about them is that if you light a piece of rope up (match or lighter) on an end, it will take exactly an hour for it to burn up.
The thickness and speed of the burn is completely random, it could burn through 99% of the rope in a minute and then burn through the remaining 1% in 59 minutes, the ONLY thing you know is that it always takes exactly an hour (60 minutes) for one rope to burn up when light up on an end.

Using your two pieces of rope, you have to be able to determine when 45 minutes have passed.

Note: You cannot go for answers like "When Rope A is halfway burned through" because that is, as said, completely random so you cannot know when that is.
You don't have a watch or anything to watch the time, your only time measurement is the rope burn time of exactly 60 minutes when light up on an end.

Edited by Thierry/Thez, 15 March 2008 - 01:04.

[Dauth]

I do know the answer to this but will keep stum, gl everyone.

[Umbrella Secrets]

When 99% of the rope is gone?

[nova]

are both strings the same ???

[Alias]

You light both ends of one of them, and one end of the other.

When the one with both ends is lit finishes (30 minutes), you light the other side of the one you only lit one side of. When that's burnt, you have 45 minutes.