| Author | Message | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1685 Registered: 3-2006 |
This one should be a piece of cake. One December day, a lady walks into a cake shop, and announces that she would like to buy a cake. "Sorry, madam", says the shop assistant, "but we will not sell it to you. Nor will we sell you a cake next February". What's going on? It's meant to be a quickie, but as ever, please email if you know it already. | ||
| Kaygee (Kaygee)
New member Username: Kaygee Post Number: 164 Registered: 9-2008 |
Is she a H? A? F? Did she ask for a specific type of cake? Is this type of cake not found in cake shops? | ||
| Logician (Logician)
New member Username: Logician Post Number: 419 Registered: 6-2003 |
Would she be sold the cake in January? Would it be correct to assume "announcing that she would like to buy a cake" to be the same as "asking to buy a cake, from your shop, right now"? Is it worth finding out which day (apart from: in December) she asks to buy a cake? (If FA, do substitute with phrase implied from previous question.) Is there a crime being committed here? By the lady? By the shop assistant? By someone else? By "cake" are you referring to the everyday food substance? Is it, by any chance, a reference to the fake drug popularised in "Brass Eye"? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 1710 Registered: 1-2007 |
Would I have been sold a cake in December or February? Was there any other customers in the shop? relevant? Is the ladies appearance relevant? what she was wearing? her profession? Does the shop assistant know the lady ? Is this the first time she has visited the shop? If not has she successfully bought a cake there before? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1688 Registered: 3-2006 |
Is she a H? A? F? yes, all of these Did she ask for a specific type of cake? yes or yes-ish, depending on what you mean by "specific type". It would work equally for a fruitcake or a Victoria sponge, for instance Is this type of cake not found in cake shops? no, it IS found in cake shops Would she be sold the cake in January? it's more likely, yes Would it be correct to assume "announcing that she would like to buy a cake" to be the same as "asking to buy a cake, from your shop, right now"? yes, for all practical purposes Is it worth finding out which day (apart from: in December) she asks to buy a cake? not really: discovering the exact date will not help you (If FA, do substitute with phrase implied from previous question.) Is there a crime being committed here? no By the lady? By the shop assistant? By someone else? not by anyone By "cake" are you referring to the everyday food substance? a delicious fruity confection, yes Is it, by any chance, a reference to the fake drug popularised in "Brass Eye"? Hahah, I'd forgotten that beauty. No, not that. Would I have been sold a cake in December or February? I would have thought so, yes Was there any other customers in the shop? possibly but ... relevant? ... no Is the ladies appearance relevant? no what she was wearing? no her profession? no Does the shop assistant know the lady ? irrel Is this the first time she has visited the shop? again, not relevant If not has she successfully bought a cake there before? again, possible but not relevant | ||
| Alhucema (Alhucema)
New member Username: Alhucema Post Number: 387 Registered: 11-2008 |
Are they out of cakes? Would the assistant do the same to any other person wanting a cake? Is this particular kind of cakes not produced in certain periods? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1689 Registered: 3-2006 |
Are they out of cakes? no, they have lots in stock Would the assistant do the same to any other person wanting a cake? no Is this particular kind of cakes not produced in certain periods? no: these cakes are produced all the time | ||
| Qwike (Qwike)
New member Username: Qwike Post Number: 29 Registered: 1-2009 |
Does it involve Adolph Hitler Campbell? | ||
| Alhucema (Alhucema)
New member Username: Alhucema Post Number: 390 Registered: 11-2008 |
Is there anything special about the lady which makes the shop assistant refuse to sell her the cake? Religion relevant? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1690 Registered: 3-2006 |
Does it involve Adolph Hitler Campbell? It does indeed: see my first post. Care to spoil? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1691 Registered: 3-2006 |
*** SPOILER *** The fruitcake in question, a Mrs Campbell, wanted to buy birthday cakes for her children, with their names in icing. Unfortunately, her children's names were Adolf Hitler and Aryan Nation. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/12/16/2008-12-16_happy_birthday_adolf_hitler_boy_with_naz.html Congrats to Oisin for solving this one, and for reading my initial post. I thought it could have made a puzzle of sorts. | ||
| Qwike (Qwike)
New member Username: Qwike Post Number: 36 Registered: 1-2009 |
*that part wasn't in bold like the puzzle was, so I didn't read it - it looked like the extra stuff, like "posted on saturday..." but they didn't refuse to sell the cake. They offered to sell a cake with enough blank space for the parents to write their own name on, as they would have done in february | ||
| Qwike (Qwike)
New member Username: Qwike Post Number: 37 Registered: 1-2009 |
*that part wasn't in bold like the puzzle was, and the puzzle was over at the end of the boldd, so I didn't read it - it looked like the extra stuff, like "posted on saturday..." but they didn't refuse to sell the cake. They offered to sell a cake with enough blank space for the parents to write their own name on, as they would have done in february | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 1713 Registered: 1-2007 |
Sky news reported during the week that those kids were taken into care. Bout 3 years too late if you ask me. |
