Timeline for Older twin's birthday is one day after younger's
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| Feb 14, 2015 at 17:30 | comment | added | David Richerby | This is a completely unreasonable parsing of the sentence. | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 9:41 | comment | added | Shivan Dragon | Agreed, my solution is sort of stretchy. But I honestly feel that the other answers offer rather stretchy solutions as well. Maybe the puzzle doesn't have an elegant solution. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 23:10 | comment | added | Incassator | @ShivanDragon While we can stretch "semantics" so that "Foo celebrates his birthday" means "Foo celebrates his BROTHER'S birthday" I don't see how you can stretch it even more to reverse the meaning of "his" in the next sentence. So no, this one contradicts the statement of the problem. As for "Poisoned Iced Tea" puzzle the answer is perfectly normal in my view not requiring "semantics" or idioms ("poisoned iced tea" means drink called "iced tea" that is poisoned). | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 17:25 | comment | added | user3453281 | this is a lot more likely than the timezones answer imo. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 17:10 | comment | added | WernerCD |
I like this - because semantics are a HUGE part of many puzzles like this and in some aspects makes perfect sense. I want to agree with it... but after some thought and some rewording: Jack is born on the 15th, John on the 16th. Jack celebrates Johns birthday on the 15th. John celebrates Jacks birthday on the 16th just doesn't "connect" for me. I've never heard of brothers celebrating the others birthday on their birthday, unless that's a local custom type thing...
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| Feb 12, 2015 at 14:33 | comment | added | Shivan Dragon | It'd be nice to know why the down vote. I honestly believe it's the same type of solution as the one for the Poisoned Iced Tea puzzle (and it doesn't even need the strain of accepting the idiom "poisoned iced" as meaning "poisoned ice") | |
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| Feb 12, 2015 at 14:23 | history | answered | Shivan Dragon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |