Can anyone solve this riddle?

WTF? · New Member Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 1

A freind sent me this one but it's kinda brain draining:

You are in the Boston office of your company, and you have a 100-page document to send to a colleague in the L.A. office. In each office is a copying machine (with "enough" supplies), a bunch of envelopes stamped and addressed to the other office (again, "enough" of them), and a telephone (which you can only use once).

Now, to make it hard...the document has unnumbered pages, and they are in a language you don't understand, so there's no way for you (or your colleague) to determine which page is which just by looking at the page. Note that you also don't have any writing utensils, so you can't write on the pages to mark them. You are only allowed to place one page in each envelope. And the Post Office tends to lose a lot of mail (like 1 out of every 5 pieces gets lost).

How do you get the document to your colleague with no missing pages and in the right order?

Guest · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:52 am Post subject:

you deliver them yourself? thats not hard

Riddleman · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 598

does it have something to do with enough?

renee146blah · Guest

haha... YOU DON'T!!! Very Happy

Whitney · Guest

i'm still trying to figure out why #1 the document isn't numbered and why its in a foreign language and #2 why there are no writing utensils in an office! plus, how would you write the address for your colleague in LA?

Guest · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject:

use the phone and call some guy

Guest · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 8:01 pm Post subject:

the phone is hooked up to a fax machine.

Guest · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 5:51 pm Post subject:

then whats all that other stuff havet o do wit it im still tryin to figure that out? did you give the wrong answer?

Riddleman · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 598

i think the fax macheine answer is right.