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A riddle for you - first correct answer gets 10 points?

Indiana jones steals 3 gold bars from a Mayan temples, then he is chased by the priests and runs away.

He reaches a rope bridge with a 1000ft drop that can only take 240 lbs without breaking.

Mr Jones weighs 180lbs, each bar weighs 25 lbs - yet he manages to get to the other side with all 3 bars - how?

He cannot throw any bars across - it is too far.

He does not use any other items, e.g. helium baloons.

He does not take anything off in order to make himself lighter.

He has no string, or any means to pull the bars across after he makes the other side.

Update:

He does not have time to make more than 1 trip

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    juggle them accross the bridge

  • 1 decade ago

    2 bars= 50 lbs.so indiana jones took 2 bars,with him,weighting 180+50=230 lbs to the other side of the bridge.then he walk back alone to take the last bar and walk across the bridge again?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    He leaves 1 bar behind.

    The following priests take the bar but still persue the other two bars,1st priest crosses with gold bar , is shot by Jones, who retrieves the bar cuts the bridge and makes good his escape !

  • 1 decade ago

    he ties one of the bars to the bridge rope. carries the other two across then pulls the rope with the one tied to it across. this makes the bridge uncrossable for the priests too.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    He negotiates with the priests who then swing on the rope one after another each carrying one gold bar.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    steve can tie a extensive helium balloon to himself or the gold, this could decrease the burden on the bridge. Or he can tie a string around a bucket /bottle with the gold, decrease it into the river/riverbed and drag it alongside on the water, it relatively is going to weigh lesser. Or he can try beginning up his outfits and bypass to the rest room besides. or try loosing weight, like some boxers, by skill of taking water pills. or have a hair cut back if his hair is long. or tie one bar to a kite and fly that over. or do it on an entire moon day at intense tide while issues weigh lesser. or tie his gold to 3 rockets and hearth it for the time of. or seem for a ship/raft to get for the time of. or seem for yet another bridge. or take some weight off the bridge. or advance the bridge to hold greater weight. or verify his weight back, the gadget he used might have been defective. or check out the calculations of the engineer, they could be defective and he can carry 3 kg in spite of everything. or juggle the three bars making confident 2 are constantly in the air to be risk-free. or tie a protracted rope to the gold, bypass the bridge and pull the gold around the bridge. or his puppy circus parrot or falcon can carry one bar for the time of for him. or take a threat and verify out crossing the bridge with the three pounds, the engineers constantly play it on the safer area. or deliver the gold by skill of placed up and then bypass for the time of. or sell the gold in this economic company and purchase gold from around the river.

  • 1 decade ago

    He puts down one bar and carries the other two over the bridge first

    then he comes back and takes the remaining bar over

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Simple.

    All you need is a hollywood film crew, an army of wadrobers, caterers and publicists, a budget of several $10's of millions and a totally gullible public.

  • Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    He makes it in 2 trips.. the priests are very slow at chasing people.

  • 1 decade ago

    Is it possible that he can juggle those gold bars?

    If he manages to juggle them correctly, the most he would ever weigh would be if he had two in each hand (230 pounds).

  • 1 decade ago

    He walks over with 2 and leaves the other one behind then walks back to collect the other one!

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