On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Kergma, The Chaotic Trickster wrote:

And Ishido, Mihoshi and White Wolf answered quickly ;)

Um, none. 

I answered first!

forgetting her luggage.  The question is....who's the cabdriver?

The reader.

Too slow!  I got this one too.

What shape must a piece of wood be to cast (depending on how its held) 
shadows of a circle, square or a triangle.

Um...  I'm a bit baffled.  I could describe to you a peice of wood that
would do this....  (A cylinder with heigth and diameter the same, sliced

>from top side to bottom on other side.)  But I don't see how this is a

riddle?

No, I'd have to be a cylinder h = d, then imagine a line accross the
diameter of one round end, and remove all of the material from both
sides of the  line to the tangent of the other end.



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  /  \ 
 |----| Top (Yes, it's supposed to be round)
  \__/ 
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 |    |    /\
 |    |   /  \
 |____|  /____\

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J.

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