There is two rooms one has three light bulbs in it the other has three switches you are only allowed in the first room once you start in the secon how do you find out which switch operates which bulb?
You turn on two switches wait 5 min. and turn one of the switches off! go in the next room the cold one belongs to the switch you never turned on..the warm one the switch you only left on 5 min and the lite one to the switch that is turned on!

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you switch on one switch for a few minutes, one for ages, and dont turn the other one on at all.

you go through to the other room, the bulb that is warm is operated by the first switch, the roasting hot bulb (that would burn your hand) is operated by the second switch, and the cold bulb is operated by the third switch.

so there you go....

i bet you didnt work that out yourself....

i'll tell you this....

an 11 year old worked it out in two seconds.... haha

and now your gonna tell your friends this to see if they get it...

yes, i can read your mind.......

mwahahaha

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