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[susie_flo]

A team-building puzzle from my work... 

Daphne, Velma, Scooby and Shaggy are on an outdoors team building course.  They have to cross a bridge in 17 minutes. The bridge will collapse if there are more than 2 people on it at the same time.

It is dark and it is too dangerous to cross the bridge without a torch. There is only 1 torch.

Daphne can cross the bridge in 1 minute. The others are wounded or injured to varying degrees which means that it takes Velma 2 minutes to cross the bridge, Scooby 5 minutes and Shaggy 10 minutes.
If there is more than 1 person on the bridge, the bridge can only be crossed at the speed of the slowest person.

How can they cross the bridge in 17 minutes?

 

Comments

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

1) Scooby is a dog and has excellent night vision, so doesn't need a torch. Akso he isn't a person, so doesn't count unless you're an obsessive like Carla Lane or Brigitte Bardot.

2) Leave Daphne behind because she's a vapid bimbo.

3) Shaggy is a waster so no-one would miss him.

4) Velma's the only one with a decent brain, so let her save herself.

This is why people hate it when I'm on team-building courses...

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I'd like to invite you to my future team building events :-)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I go out of my way to subvert every single loophole I can find (which is why I'm good at my job). And if there's an accepted process, I will ALWAYS try and find a different way of doing it.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

In corporate wankspeak, this means that you like to wear two hats... the green one (which means you are a creative "out of the box" thinker) and the black one (which means that you like to disagree and play devil's advocate.)

I learned this last week. Isn't it nice to know that, despite all best endeavours, some management consultant out there has come up with a nice little corporate personality-type box to put you in ;-P

See you later... I'm just nipping off to slit my wrists.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I generally wear my black hat, as it's far more fun.

What's great is where people used to complain that I was being destructive, or using it as an excuse for why something shouldn't be done, now I can position it as "risk management analysis" and get away with it.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

"now I can position it as "risk management analysis" and get away with it. "

Ooh - and charge lots too? You have found a sanity vacuum in the system that lets you be negative and annoying and get paid for it... well done you.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

On second thoughts, maybe you're just treading the path laid out for you by Simon Cowell.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I'm a civil servant - "paid lots" really doesn't come into the equation!

[steer.livejournal.com]

Velma's the only one with a decent brain, so let her save herself.

If she's so damned clever how come every damned episode she gets her glasses knocked off and can only crawl about the floor going "oh my glasses!" A little bit of elastic or a glasses chain and it would all work out so differently.

Nowadays she could have laser surgery or move to contacts.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

A little bit of elastic? Surely even Velma would draw the line at holding her glasses to her head with a piece of elastic round the back... she'd never pull Shaggy looking like that!

[steer.livejournal.com]

Loads of people have that kind of thing for sports though. She could just swap to those glasses when tracking down swamp monsters, ghosts and so on.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Throw the torch?

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I tried throw the torch, but I didn't get a banana.

[steer.livejournal.com]

D+V cross (2 mins)
D returns with torch (1 mins)
Sc+Sh cross (10 mins)
V returns with torch (2 mins)
D+V cross (2 mins)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Clever cloggs!

[thirstypixel.livejournal.com]

Can a single person stand in the middle of the bridge and effectively light the way for crossers on one side of them?

If so:

Shaggy and scooby go to the middle of the bridge with the torch (5 mins)
Shaggy keeps the torch and lights Scooby's way to the other side (2.5 mins)
Shaggy lights Daphne's way first on one side, then the other (1 min)
Shaggy lights Velma's way to him (1 min)
Shaggy and Velma travel to the other side of the bridge (5 mins)

Total: 14.5 mins

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Show off... (nobody asked you to exceed expectations y'know!)