Can you solve this puzzle?

[kang]

If you’ve heard it before, or otherwise know the answer, keep quiet for bit to let others puzzle over it…

You are in a 12 foot square concrete room. There is a steel pipe 25 centimeters in length cemented into the center of the concrete floor. The pipe protrudes about 15 centimeters. A ping-pong ball is dropped down the pipe. There is a fraction of a centimeter clearance between the surface of the ping-pong ball and the inside diameter of the pipe. Your task is to get the ping-pong ball out of the steel pipe undamaged. The only items that are available are a wooden ruler, a ball of string, a pocket mirror, a paper clip and a small magnet. Since nothing else is allowed in the room, how could you get the plastic ping-pong ball out of the steel pipe?

[71T Targa]

Do I need to pee?

[masraum]

I looked the answer up online. It definitely wasn't what I was expecting.

[Hoots]

Use the mirror to reflect light to warm the pipe. As the pipe warms it will expand to allow the paper clip with the string attached, and using the magnet to squeeze it past the ball. Once past, stop reflecting light, the pipe cools, and the string can be pulled causing the clip to push the ball out of the pipe.

[Mo_Gearhead]

QUOTE: "Do I need to pee?"
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+1

[Stuart993]

Use the mirror to reflect light

What light?

[kang]

Originally Posted by phred68

Do I need to pee?

Sooner or later we all need to pee. How much coffee did you drink this morning?

[the]

Is there a Penthouse magazine in the room?

[Overpaid Slacker]

guessing something to do with generating static electricity...

[71T Targa]

Originally Posted by kang

Sooner or later we all need to pee. How much coffee did you drink this morning?

I don't think I've had more than 4 cups. And at least that many diet dews.

So, What do I win?

[kang]

Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts

I would consider getting the ping pong ball covered with pee, well, as "damaging it".

-Wayne

Just rinse it off!

Yes, that is the answer I had in mind...

[M.D. Holloway]

I knew a girl that could suck it out

[stomachmonkey]

Go into the basement and pick the ping pong ball off the floor.

[Z-man]

Man, the solution is weak.

-Z-man.

[Hoots]

Originally Posted by Stuart993

Use the mirror to reflect light

What light?

From a window. I hope your aim is good without light,

How do you know the pipe will hold the urine?

[Stuart993]

No window is mentioned.

[the]

Originally Posted by Z-man

Man, the solution is weak.

-Z-man.

Sounds like you need more Vitamin C in your diet, then.

[Hoots]

Originally Posted by Stuart993

No window is mentioned.

nothing stating urine will stay in the pipe.

[Aerkuld]

I hope this isn't going to turn into a pi55ing match.

[Stuart993]

Originally Posted by Hoots

nothing stating urine will stay in the pipe.

This is also true, but still no window, no light.