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Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Minnesota
by Sandy Wood - October 6, 2008 - 6:30 AM

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Happy Monday!

Harry and Larry are twins,
born to the same parents in 1987.

Harry is the elder twin, born
twenty minutes before Larry,
but Harry celebrated his 21st birthday
two days before Larry did.

How is this possible?

HERE is the solution.

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  1. Pretty easy but thanks for making me feel smart on a Monday morning.

    posted by Michelle on 10-6-2008 at 7:20 am

  2. An alternate answer could be that the mom was traveling across the international date line.

    posted by rta on 10-6-2008 at 7:23 am

  3. Can’t you “celebrate” your birthday on anyday? Meaning if my birthday fell on a Wednesday, maybe we would celebrate it on Monday and my twin bro’s on Wednesday? That way we both felt “special”.

    posted by Mikey on 10-6-2008 at 7:51 am

  4. what does this have to do with minnesota?

    posted by Mike S. on 10-6-2008 at 8:14 am

  5. The Minnesota Twins, of course.

    posted by Sandy on 10-6-2008 at 8:24 am

  6. How did Harry and Larry become John and James?

    posted by Meri on 10-6-2008 at 8:41 am

  7. I’m with you rta! I always like it when I think too much.

    posted by Roger on 10-6-2008 at 8:54 am

  8. meri,

    they witnessed a brutal crime and were put into the witness relocation program. sandy just gave them away. way to go.

    posted by grant on 10-6-2008 at 8:54 am

  9. I also went with the International Date Line. Nothing in the rules stated about place of residence. Maybe one moved to Russia, while the other moved to Alaska. The same islands that the news has been all over, so that one could rub it in when he was celebrating his birthday, while the other had to wait.

    The 11:50 pm to 12:10 am was the easier part of the game.

    Guess that would also mean that he celebrated his birthday THREE days prior if everything was aligned right.

    posted by Floyd on 10-6-2008 at 11:02 am

  10. Meri, they were, of course Harry John, and Larry James Smith…..

    posted by Vickey on 10-6-2008 at 12:03 pm

  11. I thought it was because of blue laws. If John was born on a saturday at 11:50 pm he would be able to “enjoy” his 21st while his brother in many counties with blue laws would not be able to “enjoy” his 21st birthday until monday.

    posted by me on 10-6-2008 at 3:14 pm

  12. Pretty easy, but seriously why 11:50 pm and 12:10 am? Why not 11:55 pm and 12:15 am or the like?

    posted by Fran on 10-6-2008 at 3:15 pm

  13. My favorite variation is:

    Two days ago I was 28. Next year, I will turn 31. What day is my birthday on, and what day is today?

    (No time-travellers were hurt in the making of this puzzle.)

    posted by Bryan on 10-6-2008 at 7:08 pm

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