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quality: difficulty: solvability: line & color logic only
Puzzle Description:
Sooner or later my friend, One of us will run out of time. (http://www.xkcd.com/39/)
#1: tvnprasad (tvnprasad.1) on Jun 26, 2008
Good, unable to guess till the end.#2: Adam Nielson (monkey) on Jun 26, 2008
What on earth is this?#3: Alice Camille Gundrey (Sparkles629) on Jun 26, 2008
Yeah...?#4: Jane Doe (telly) on Jun 26, 2008 [SPOILER]
I looked at the website and still don't know. I like the person though.#5: Naomi Millar (sailormewtwo) on Jun 26, 2008 [SPOILER]
Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on here either :D#6: Nancy Snyder (naneki) on Jun 26, 2008 [SPOILER]
I had an urge to make a puzzle and ended up going throught the xkcd archive until I found something half decent.
LOL...funny joke..made me laugh#7: Adam Nielson (monkey) on Jun 26, 2008
I read through several of the "comics" after # 39 and many of them were funny. I guess I just didn't get this one.#8: Logan J. Huorli (evillttlimp) on Jun 27, 2008 [SPOILER]
child versus salad?#9: Naomi Millar (sailormewtwo) on Jun 27, 2008 [SPOILER]
Child versus toy ship floating in a bowl (the water was greenish in the original).#10: Adam Nielson (monkey) on Jun 27, 2008 [SPOILER]
Not that it makes much more sense that way >.>
But what's the point, whether it is a toy ship, a salad, green water, or whatever? One of us will run out of time? For what? LOL#11: wendy herndon (wendyherndon) on Jul 1, 2008
Very cute. I love xkcd. (I'm a math teacher.)#12: Gypso (Gypso) on Jul 1, 2008 [SPOILER]
Fun puzzle and funny comic. Thank you for both. :-)#13: Adam Nielson (monkey) on Jul 1, 2008
Adam, I think that you have to think like a kid. I see that either the child will eat whatever is in the bowl (which will sink the boat) or the boat will "sail away" before the child sinks it.
Or I could be wrong.
Sounds good to me! No one else has given ANY possible solution, so I will go with yours. :-)#14: Nancy Snyder (naneki) on Jul 1, 2008
hers is what I saw also ~#15: John Macdonald (perlwolf) on Mar 6, 2017
Purse your lips gently and give a blustery blow. Loose lips sink ships.#16: John Macdonald (perlwolf) on Mar 6, 2017
BTW, I've been following xkcd (and Randall Munroe, its creator) for over a decade now - he created many of the iconic comics for many computer and science situations, often quoted.
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