Lateral Thinking Puzzles

11. Why Does it Take Eight People 88 Years to Build 8 Houses?

Why does it take eight people 88 years to build 8 houses?

Submitted by tartle · Added 11 September 2008

Solution:

Because the builders are on Mercury, where a “year” is only 88 Earth days, so 88 Mercury years equal just 88 Earth days—about the time eight people would reasonably need to put up eight houses.


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Comments (1)

x_kill_me_bby_x 23 April 2009

they build 1 house every 11 years

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