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From: ugfailau@sunybcs.UUCP (Fai Lau)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: Re: the \"yes-no mystery\" game **SPOILERS**
Message-ID: <2964@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 15:07:33 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 22 15:07:33 1986
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> > > 	A man went to visit a small deserted island which rarely gets
> > > any visitor. He reached the island by crossing a worn wooden 
> > > bridge. He found that there was absolutely no living thing, animal
> > > or vegetation, whatsoever. So he decided to return. But when he put his
> > > foot on the bridge he found the bridge was about to collopse. Since the
> > > doesn't know how to swim and the bridge was the only mean he had to return
> > > to the main land, he was confined to the island. He didn't carry any
> > > thing at all beside his clothings.
> > > 	However, by the end of the twenty-first day he made it through the
> > > bridge without any help. What happened?
> > 
> > The man starved, lost weight, and thus could walk across the bridge
> > without breaking it.  (This assumes that the bridge is not further
> > weakened during the twenty-one day stay on the island.)
> > 
> 
> No, he went THROUGH the bridge, and fell in the water.   :-)
> -- 

	GOOD ANSWER!! GOOD ANSWER!!! 8^) |^) 8^)

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|  Fai  Lau                                                                   |
|  ECE / CS  SUNYAB                                                           |
|  BI: ugfailau@sunybcs                                                       |
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