Puzzles

[crazy canuck]

There is a period of silence which means the third man sees a white hat and so stays quiet because he does not know what colour hat he has - ie he doesnt see two black hats so his could be either black or white.

The second man is also quiet which means the first man's hat must be white.  If it was black the middle man would know that his hat was white. 

edit: nevermind

[Viking]

Again, any yes and no questions. No special knowledge of the technical details of frequency modulation needed. But, seriously you should realize that there is no such thing as FM waves. FM is a way of encoding information into radio waves.

[Grey Fox]

Deaf or has become deaf.

[Admiral Yi]

He heard a man's voice singing in the car.  He realized he had been cuckolded when the radio didn't work.

[Viking]

Deaf or has become deaf.

He hears static

[Viking]

He heard a man's voice singing in the car.  He realized he had been cuckolded when the radio didn't work.

While not the answer, show your reasoning, how did you get there?

[Admiral Yi]

While not the answer, show your reasoning, how did you get there?

He asked his wife who was that singing in the car, wife said it was the radio.  When the radio didn't work he knew it was a man.

[Jacob]

I solved it many years ago. But I solved if fair and square that time. Unlike DGuller I have a puzzle, similar to the death in childbirth puzzle above.


Late at night a man drives his car to his place of work. He turns on his fm radio. He hears only static. He pulls out his gun and shoots himself in the head. Why did he kill himself?

Is his place of work a radio broadcaster or otherwise related to radio broadcasting?

[Admiral Yi]

He killed himself because he realized that mankind had been wiped out in a thermonuclear holocaust.

[Liep]

It's a The Mist-kind of situation. He fears the worst and preëmptively shoots himself.

[Viking]

I solved it many years ago. But I solved if fair and square that time. Unlike DGuller I have a puzzle, similar to the death in childbirth puzzle above.


Late at night a man drives his car to his place of work. He turns on his fm radio. He hears only static. He pulls out his gun and shoots himself in the head. Why did he kill himself?

Is his place of work a radio broadcaster or otherwise related to radio broadcasting?

Yes

[Viking]

It's a The Mist-kind of situation. He fears the worst and preëmptively shoots himself.

No

He killed himself because he realized that mankind had been wiped out in a thermonuclear holocaust.

and No

[Liep]

It's Greece, he realises that the government just fired him.

[Admiral Yi]

Because he was supposed to be on-air at the time?

Or through some other failure to perform a work function?

[Viking]

It's Greece, he realises that the government just fired him.

No

Because he was supposed to be on-air at the time?

Yes