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August 26, 2008 5:37 PM

There is one sure way to keep water from comng into your home. What is it?

So that's my blow-the-weekly-question this time 'round. It's 6th grade homework time, and I've helped the kid with all the other stupid "logic" puzzles. This one I can't remember.

It's in a league with other zingers like:

Q. What animal can jump as high as a house?
A. Any animal - houses don't jump

Q. What can you put in a bucket to make it weigh less?
A. A hole.

posted by LoraxGuy to home & garden (10 answers total)

A: Don't pay your water bill.
posted by sharkfu at 5:43 PM on August 26, 2008 [2 favorites]

Live on the moon.
posted by lee at 5:51 PM on August 26, 2008

Don't open the door for it?
posted by olinerd at 5:52 PM on August 26, 2008

Sharkfu's was the answer when my old boss used to put "puzzles" on the breakroom wall. Seconding that.
posted by Schlimmbesserung at 5:53 PM on August 26, 2008

Fill the house with water so that it will spill out instead of in?
posted by philosophygeek at 5:57 PM on August 26, 2008

Here are the riddles.
Here are the answers.

Yours is #94.
posted by netbros at 5:58 PM on August 26, 2008 [4 favorites]

Thanks guys. Worth the $5. Again. I'd even made it to the page referenced by netbros, but hadn't followed the German well enough to find the answer. (Actually, I lost patience before I even found my specific question.)

My kid looks like the genius again.
posted by LoraxGuy at 6:13 PM on August 26, 2008

I just want to say that the correct answer to #95 from the site netbros linked to is: the side that was facing the sun.
posted by emyd at 7:05 PM on August 26, 2008 [1 favorite]

i just got this riddle on a laffy taffy last week!
posted by kidsleepy at 6:01 AM on August 27, 2008

Live in a submarine?
posted by nickerbocker at 7:56 PM on August 27, 2008