Can anyone solve this riddle without looking it up?

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Published: Feb 28, 2018
Author: me
Post Date: 2018-02-28 12:47:49 by no gnu taxes
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A boy wants to sleep. His bed is located 10 feet from a light switch. He sleeps in a bunk bed 8 feet over the floor. He turns off the light switch. He doesn't use any contraptions ( wires, poles, clapper, etc.). Yet, he gets in bed while the room is still lighted. How is this possible?

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#1: misterwhite    To: no gnu taxes (#0)

It's daytime. He turns off the light switch and sleeps during the day.

misterwhite posted on 2018-02-28 12:52:58   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Tooconservative    To: no gnu taxes (#0)

He uses an AR-15 to shoot out the light bulb.

Tooconservative posted on 2018-02-28 13:18:44   Reply   Private Reply

#3: Pinguinite    To: no gnu taxes (#0)

A boy wants to sleep. His bed is located 10 feet from a light switch. He sleeps in a bunk bed 8 feet over the floor. He turns off the light switch. He doesn't use any contraptions ( wires, poles, clapper, etc.). Yet, he gets in bed while the room is still lighted. How is this possible?

Analyzing the question, it's curious that he's in a bunk bed. That detail would likely be significant as most beds are not bunk beds. Bed is 10 feet from the switch, bunk bed is 8 feet above the floor -- a difference of 2 feet.

So I would say the switch is located on the ceiling 2 feet above the bunk bed, easily within arms reach.

Pinguinite posted on 2018-02-28 14:13:58   Reply   Private Reply

#4: Pinguinite    To: Tooconservative (#2)

He uses an AR-15 to shoot out the light bulb.

Are you sure it wasn't a shot gun?

Perhaps that may be too subtle. I'm alluding to the report of some news station showing a video of what an AR-15 could do to a watermelon, except the shooter was using a shotgun instead.

Pinguinite posted on 2018-02-28 14:16:21   Reply   Private Reply

#5: no gnu taxes    To: Pinguinite (#3)

I think misterwhite had the correct answer.

no gnu taxes posted on 2018-02-28 14:18:40   Reply   Private Reply

#6: Tooconservative    To: Pinguinite (#4)

I'm trying harder to understand why this warrants a thread.

Tooconservative posted on 2018-02-28 14:22:41   Reply   Private Reply

#7: Pinguinite    To: no gnu taxes (#5)

If so, then why would it be important that the kid was in a bunk bed, or how high off the floor the bunk bed was?

A proper riddle answer should account for the clues presented in the riddle question.

Pinguinite posted on 2018-02-28 14:23:19   Reply   Private Reply

#8: Pinguinite    To: Tooconservative (#6)

I'm trying harder to understand why this warrants a thread.

That would be another riddle!

Pinguinite posted on 2018-02-28 14:24:20   Reply   Private Reply

#9: Tooconservative    To: no gnu taxes (#5)

I think misterwhite had the correct answer.

You asked us to solve a riddle and you don't have the answer?

What a dud of a thread.

Tooconservative posted on 2018-02-28 14:25:24   Reply   Private Reply

#10: Tooconservative    To: Pinguinite (#8)

That would be another riddle!

Here's a clue: the answer includes the words "dumbass" and "waste of time".

Tooconservative posted on 2018-02-28 14:26:08   Reply   Private Reply

#11: Pinguinite    To: Tooconservative (#9)

Maybe no gnu is trying to win some radio call in contest.

Pinguinite posted on 2018-02-28 14:30:11   Reply   Private Reply

#12: Liberator    To: no gnu taxes (#0)

Simple. He's Chuck Norris.

The outlet asks him whether it should shut itself off.

Liberator posted on 2018-02-28 15:44:26   Reply   Private Reply

#13: Liberator    To: Tooconservative (#6)

I'm trying harder to understand why this warrants a thread.

EASY now, big fella....

Liberator posted on 2018-02-28 19:06:40   Reply   Private Reply

#14: GrandIsland    To: no gnu taxes (#0)

He doesn't use the switch... he unscrews the bulb from the fixture, (that he can reach 8 feet up on the buck bed).

GrandIsland posted on 2018-02-28 20:13:38   Reply   Private Reply

#15: no gnu taxes    To: Tooconservative (#9)

Who said I don't know the answer? Sometimes words can be used not so rigidly.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stick%20up%20their%20butt

no gnu taxes posted on 2018-03-01 07:42:21   Reply   Private Reply

#16: Tooconservative    To: no gnu taxes (#15)

A day later, does anyone care what the answer to a childish riddle is?

Tooconservative posted on 2018-03-01 08:34:21   Reply   Private Reply

#17: Liberator    To: GrandIsland, misterwhite, no gnu taxes (#14)

He doesn't use the switch... he unscrews the bulb from the fixture, (that he can reach 8 feet up on the buck bed).

Heh...creative.

I say both you and MW win this riddle contest.

Liberator posted on 2018-03-01 08:46:38   Reply   Private Reply

#18: Liberator    To: Pinguinite, GrandIsland (#7)

If so, then why would it be important that the kid was in a bunk bed, or how high off the floor the bunk bed was?

A proper riddle answer should account for the clues presented in the riddle question.

I think GI may have figured that bunk bed clue out.

Liberator posted on 2018-03-01 08:47:45   Reply   Private Reply

#19: no gnu taxes    To: Liberator (#17)

misterwhite's answer is actually the correct one.

The riddle states that the switch is turned off, and the boy gets in bed while the room is still lighted. So if he turned off the switch, the room would be dark if it is dark outside when he gets in bed. This is true even if he can unscrew the bulb from his bed.

no gnu taxes posted on 2018-03-01 08:57:51   Reply   Private Reply

#20: Liberator    To: no gnu taxes, misterwhite, GrandIsland (#19)

misterwhite's answer is actually the correct one. ...

Thanks...

Sometimes we need a bit a levity to lighten things up.

Liberator posted on 2018-03-01 09:09:31   Reply   Private Reply

#21: no gnu taxes    To: Liberator (#20)

My 11 year old daughter stated he had a streetlight outside his window. I guess that could be interpreted as also correct.

no gnu taxes posted on 2018-03-01 09:17:28   Reply   Private Reply

#22: Liberator    To: no gnu taxes (#21)

My 11 year old daughter stated he had a streetlight outside his window. I guess that could be interpreted as also correct.

Yes...

OR, a Full Moon was shining in through the window.

Liberator posted on 2018-03-01 09:19:41   Reply   Private Reply

#23: no gnu taxes    To: Tooconservative (#16)

A day later, does anyone care what the answer to a childish riddle is?

stick up the butt

someone who is ridged, and not flexible. Not fun, cannot see humor, and overall, unpleasant.

no gnu taxes posted on 2018-03-01 12:32:57   Reply   Private Reply

#24: Tooconservative    To: no gnu taxes (#23)

someone who is ridged, and not flexible. Not fun, cannot see humor, and overall, unpleasant.

It's a stupid riddle. It isn't funny. It isn't even clever.

And you're a dumbass.

That's a pretty fair assessment.

Tooconservative posted on 2018-03-01 12:46:58   Reply   Private Reply

#25: no gnu taxes    To: Tooconservative (#24)

And yet you keep the thread alive by constantly posting to it.

no gnu taxes posted on 2018-03-01 12:58:00   Reply   Private Reply

#26: GrandIsland    To: Liberator (#17)

I say both you and MW win this riddle contest.

Was there an official answer?

GrandIsland posted on 2018-03-01 21:00:13   Reply   Private Reply

#27: Tooconservative    To: GrandIsland (#26)

Was there an official answer?

I have one: he's a dumbass and doesn't know the answer to his own riddle. And that's as official as it's gonna get.

Tooconservative posted on 2018-03-02 06:53:21   Reply   Private Reply

#28: no gnu taxes    To: GrandIsland (#26)

Misterwhite's answer was correct.

no gnu taxes posted on 2018-03-02 08:32:37   Reply   Private Reply