The Big Riddle Thread!!

[AcolyteOfDeath]

Post your riddle here, answer other's riddles, have fun!

My riddle:

Say you have 6 bars of neutronium alloy (unbreakable material), all equal in length, girth, and thickness. How do you arrange them so that they form 4 equilateral, congruent triangles?

[Skiewalker]

Make a triangular-based pyramid with them (otherwise known as a tetrahedron).

[oneredpanther]

what do you call a five-legged Mango with one eye and a tennis racket?

[AcolyteOfDeath]

Alright then, prove that this badly drawn triangle is equilaterahttp://www.comixmatrix.com/members/works/image.asp?id=986433

[Langy]

Due to the funky marks on the angles and sides, we know that the sides and angles are all congruent. Therefore, it is equalateral.

And Panther:

You call it a five-legged, one-eyed, tennis-playing fruit:P

[skywalker]

Originally posted by OneRedPanther
what do you call a five-legged Mango with one eye and a tennis racket?

Pantha on drugs

[AcolyteOfDeath]

Nope, the >> mean parallel.

[Uzod I]

Here's one that Athexx posted on these boards a long, long time ago in a thread not unlike this one:

Suppose I have five computers and I am worried that two of them might be infected by a virus, only I don't know which two. (All I know is that in my group of five, at least three are virus-free, they might all be virus-free, or four of them may be virus free and one of them infected, or two of them infected)
The only way of checking if a computer has a virus or not is to use another computer to check it. The checking computer will then tell you if the computer you are checking has a virus or not. Unfortunately, if the checking computer has the virus, it MAY lie to you. So it may tell you that the computer you are checking has the virus when it really does not, or it may tell you that the computer you are checking does not have the virus when it really does. OR it could tell you the truth - just to confuse you. (If the checking computer is virus free it will always perform correctly).
The virus is semi intelligent in that if you use a computer with the virus to check another computer repeatedly, it will always give you the same result (so it doesn't randomly choose, it picks something arbitrarily and sticks with it) although if an infested computer lies one time, that doesn't mean it will always lie when checking a different computer.
So the problem is : what is the minimum number of 'checks' (being one computer checking a second computer for the virus) required to find ONE computer that must be virus-free? And what are these checks?
Remember, you have five computers, and SOME of them are virus free although you don't know which ones or how many except that there are at least three.

(And if you're wondering: No, no one ever figured it out :D )

[Langy]

Acolyte - Not possible. Have you ever seen parrallel lines? Look at your triangle again. Are the lines parallel? NO. If they weren't, then there would be no angles, and so there would be no triangle. Only three completely seperate lines. I'm still right.

[blackjack]

What creature has four legs, then two legs, then three legs, and the more legs it has the weaker it is?

[hellion]

Originally posted by blackjack
What creature has four legs, then two legs, then three legs, and the more legs it has the weaker it is?

a human, when it crawls, when it walks on two legs, and when it has to walk with a cane

[blackjack]

/me throws himself into the sea

(10 bonus points to anyone who can name the play, along with who's riddle it was and who solved it)

[Walker]

heh

whats brown and sticky

hehe

[Skiewalker]

(10 bonus points to anyone who can name the play, along with who's riddle it was and who solved it)

I believe that was from Oedipus Rex with Oedipus solving the Sphinx's riddle to save the town of Thebes.

Edit: Written by Sophocles if I remeber correctly also

[iwanthw2]

Originally posted by AcolyteOfDeath
Nope, the >> mean parallel.

That's correct, but it is not necessary in the picture and tick marks on the sides like || would have been more appropriate.

[Vaarok]

If I am as to a bridge, and you cannot choose to stand on either end, but must pass from one side to the other, what am I in truth?

[Alpha_Monkey]

...confusing.

[AcolyteOfDeath]

[i]Originally posted by: Langy
Acolyte - Not possible. Have you ever seen parrallel lines? Look at your triangle again. Are the lines parallel? NO. If they weren't, then there would be no angles, and so there would be no triangle. Only three completely seperate lines. I'm still right.

You're exactly correct! The triangle IS impossible.

[iwanthw2]

A man has been given the death penalty and gets the option of choosing how he dies. He is allowed to make one statement. If the statement is true, then he will die by hanging. If the statement is false, then he will be die by drowning. He walks away. What did he say?

[Walker]

a stick

[iwanthw2]

No, he did not say "a stick."

[Helix]

He said, "I'm lying".

[Walker]

a stick, geddit

[Alpha_Monkey]

"I have...photographs, of the warden, with someone who definitely isn't his wife . How much are they worth?"
No? Awright, then.

How about:
"Y'know, that rope looks kinda frayed..."

[Harmanoff]

Here's a rather simple one i heard on a tv show(a stupid show with good looking women i might add):

I can build houses but i can also tear them down. I may help people to see again but i can also make them blind.

Who am i?

When you answer this one i will pick up on the joke thread and make riddles about norweigans...

[iwanthw2]

Originally posted by Helix
He said, "I'm lying".

Nope, he said, "I will not die by hanging" or "I will die by drowning." :D

[Dark_illusion]

Alright heres one

ok now you have 2 strings, they are unbendable, unbreakable, uncuttable(is this a word?) etc. Now you can only BURN the strings. Each string is made of different materials inside and so the strings NEVER burn at a constant rate. Now it take 1 hr to burn ONE string. How can you use the two strings to calculate 45 mins. BTW you only have a lighter and the two strings, nothing else.

[Archon]

Illusion that's confusing. I don't see the purpose of the second string. All you'd have to do is wait until 75% of the first string is burnt out, or at least that's what I'm getting from what you said.

[skywalker]

Ah but that is wrong. Because the strings don't burn at a constant speed, the first half may take 50 minutes to burn and the second half may take 10 minutes to burn.

dunno the answer tho.

[Tygre]

Tie the strings together at one end at 12:00 on January 16. Start counting to 2700, saying "mississippi" after every count under 100, wrap it around your throat, tie one end of your double string to a fuse on a block of C4, then set it on fire on the other end. Jump off a cliff anywhere not above a body of water when you reach 2696. Four counts later, it will be somewhere around 12:45. Soon after, you'll never have to answer a lousy stinking riddle again. At 2:00, anyone who saw you fall and came to inspect your remains will also never have to answer a lousy stinking riddle again.

[Langy]

Illusion - You don't. That is a trick question AKA there is no solution. It isn't possible (well, other than counting like what Tygre said).

[Walker]

What's green, and turns red at the touch of a button?

What's black and white, and can't turn round in a Church?

[skywalker]

Originally posted by Walker
What's green, and turns red at the touch of a button?

A lizard that you set on fire with the touch of a button.

What's black and white, and can't turn round in a Church?

A space shuttle.

[Sans_Shadow]

Some of you must know the answer to this....

Albert Einstein wrote this riddle in the late 1800s.

He said 98% of the world could not solve it. Can you?


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1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.

2. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.

3. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

4. The question is "Who owns the fish?"


FACTS:
The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green house's owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smoke Dunhill.
The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.


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:dunce:

[Alpha_Monkey]

No, no, wait a minute...

How the hell are you supposed to answer that?
There's not anything to suggest ANYONE has fish. Not even for dinner...

[Langy]

Alpha - Due to the question, you can assume that the person who doesn't have the cat, horse, dog, or bird has the fish.

And the answer is:


















































The German:p





























That was TOO easy... I remember that my dad did it for his college class a while ago and finished it in something like three days, maybe more. I did it in under 30 minutes:p Well, I'm not sure how long it took me, but it was under an hour at the most. Maybe 15 minutes. I dunno.

[Tygre]

Nuh-uh, it was the butler.

Here's my riddle:

A train (T) leaves San Francisco at 13:45 Zulu traveling at a constant speed of 120 miles per hour, minus one mile per hour per car because it is propelled by an engine. Another train (Y) leaves New York at 21:44 US Central traveling at a constant speed of 113 kilometers per hour, propelled by a magnet so no speed is lost per car. Each car on train T is ten meters long and each car on train Y is thirty feet long. The kitchen car of train T is the sixth car from the front and the kitchen car of train Z is the fourth car from the back. Given that the total number of cars from each train adds up to 51 and train Z has double the number of cars from train T, at what time (US Est) will someone in the center of the kitchen car from train Z hear the sound of the screams of someone in the center of kitchen car T due to the two trains colliding, if sound would not lose energy over distance and the human scream reaction time is two seconds?

[deadguy]

Tygre, the trains aren't going to hit each other at any time, since they're on different tracks. A maglev train doesn't use conventional rails, and wouldn't ever be found on a collision course with an engine-driven train.

[AcolyteOfDeath]

Well if your father did it for college and you know that he did it, you obviously know the answer to it and took under an hour to recall the answer.

And these are the kinds of riddles I want, not the joke kind.

[Walker]

Why? Joke ones are funnier, no, funny. Way too serious in here otherwise.

What's green and turns red at the touch of a button?

A frog in a blender.
(anti-animal rights laffs)

What's black and white, and can't turn round in a Church?

A nun with a spear through her neck.
(shoot-the-missionaries laffs)

OK, here we go:

As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with 7 wives...um...each wife had 7 bags, er, each bag had seven kits? Kits, cats, bags, wives...how many... Mmm, it was silly anyway.

[Alpha_Monkey]

That was TOO easy
...



balls...:dunce:


LOL@Walker
*whips out notepad*

[Langy]

Acolyte - Actually, I'm pretty positive my dad did a different one for college... I can't remember for the life of me waht it was, though. I only spent a second looking at it. THe thing is taht that 'riddle' is just an algorithmic solution, so I opened up Excell, plugged everything in, and found the answer. Rather easy, actually.

[Tygre]

Deadguy is teh win. I thought of that in 2-3 minutes...too obvious huh?

[Sans_Shadow]

Do not put Einstein's riddle through a search engine... the site I looked at gave two links to the answer... I haven't looked at it, and don't intend to.

As a clue to the method, draw out a table which is six columns by five columns and put the data into that - I think that is what is said underneath the riddle but I can't remember.

It will be interesting to see who can honestly work it out.



:dunce: :argue: :rolleyes: :confused:

[Dark_illusion]

pffft you guys there is an answer
first you burn both ends of one string and one end of the other. When the two flames from the first string hit each other, then it will be 30 min because your burning it from BOTH ends and 1hr divided by 2 is 30min. Now when the first string burns up, it will be 30min, at that exact moment, you burn the other end of the second string which should be halfway done. Now 30min divided by 2 is 15 min. 30min from the first string + 15 min from the second = 45

[AcolyteOfDeath]

Ok ok, I submit.

That which runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks.

How can a person be his own uncle?

How do you get a triangle that has angles that add up to more than 180 degress?

If Mel and Will leave their homes at 6:00 AM and drive towards each other, Mel going at 60kph and Will going at 30kph, and they are 120 km apart, what time will they pass each other and where on the 120km road will they pass each other?

[deadguy]

A river.

By marrying his aunt.

By counting the degrees between the outside edges, rather than the inside edges.

About 7:25 am, and about 79 km from Will's house.


If I'm wrong, that's to be expected after being awake for nearly two days from the flu.

BTW - there's a very funny song from the thirties (based on an anecdote by Mark Twain) called "I'm my own Grandpa". See if you can find the version by Moe Jaffe and Dwight Latham. At least find the lyrics.

[Dark_illusion]

Its ez
all you do is use thing formula 60x + 30x = 120
which equals to 1.333 hrs. So 1.33 hrs from 6am is 7:20

[Chariot]

I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of every place. what am i?

[Dark_illusion]

the letter "E"

[deadguy]

Thank you, Illusion - my brain is mush.

[Langy]

Sans_Shadow - I'm being fair here. I DID do it myself. Without any help from anything other than a spreadsheet I made in Excell. I didn't use anything other than that. Just try it yourself. It's extremely easy, seeing as you don't need to actually think about anything and, instead, simply plug in all of the given information.

[AcolyteOfDeath]

A river.

By marrying his aunt.

By counting the degrees between the outside edges, rather than the inside edges.

About 7:25 am, and about 79 km from Will's house.

All pretty much correct except for the third. Good job.

I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of every place. what am i?

A Bentusi in his trusty Bentusi Trade Vessel

[Langy]

Originally posted by AcolyteOfDeath
How do you get a triangle that has angles that add up to more than 180 degress?

If what deadguy said was wrong, then this is impossible. Triangles ALWAYS have 180 degrees. It's not a triangle otherwise.

[Sans_Shadow]

Three cowboys are fighting against each other in a meadows. The first one, John, is a good shooter, he kills his target 2/3 of the time, and misses one third of the time. The second, Slim, is an average shooter, whose chances to kill and miss or even. The third, Bob, is a poor shooter, he only kills his target 1/3 of the time. They look at one another in silence... sweat starts pearling on their faces... Anyway, their rule is the following. They shoot in rounds. One shot per round. They always shoot at the best shooter but themselves. They do as many rounds as neccesary so that either they all die or only one remains alive. Who has the most chances to survive?

:dunce: My brain hurts...

[Sans_Shadow]

1. I'm more powerful than god, more evil than the devil, rich people want me, poor people have me, and if you eat me, you die.

Who am I?

2. Two brothers we are, great burden we bear
By which we are bitterly pressed.
In truth we may say
We are full all the day
But empty we go to our rest.

What are we?

3. What runs around a city
but never moves?

[Helix]

1. Nothing

2. Shoes

3. A wall

[Langy]

1. Nothing.
2. Boots.
3. Refridgerators:p

BTW - Do I sense someone who played Baldur's Gate II? The first two riddles I remember from it...

And John has the best chance of surviving.

[Dark_illusion]

Originally posted by Sans_Shadow
Some of you must know the answer to this....

Albert Einstein wrote this riddle in the late 1800s.

He said 98% of the world could not solve it. Can you?


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1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.

2. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.

3. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

4. The question is "Who owns the fish?"


FACTS:
The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green house's owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smoke Dunhill.
The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.


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:dunce:

I have solved it
GG $$

[The Collector]

Didn't Langy solve it already?

[Langy]

I did. It was easy. Anyone with patience and some time on their hands can do it. It doesn't show intellect AT ALL.

[AcolyteOfDeath]

If a tree branch can hold three people and John weighs twice as much as Adam, and Rachel weighs half as much as Adam, then Rachel, John and Adam can all sit together on the tree branch safely.

T or F?

[Langy]

Aco - It depends on how high off the ground it is and what you call 'safely'. If you mean if the tree branch can hold them, then yes, as John, Adam, and Rachel are probably people. Now, if they are spaceships or something, then no.

[AcolyteOfDeath]

Here's a fun one:

Connect all the dots without letting your finger (or whatever you are using) go off the screen.

0.....0.....0


0.....0.....0


0.....0.....0

[StarHawk]

If its okay if I join heres one.

What has roots nobody sees
Its taller then trees
Up up it goes
Yet it never grows.

So can you guys solve this one?

[AcolyteOfDeath]

A mountain.

[Tygre]

How do you get a triangle that has angles that add up to more than 180 degress?

Non-euclidean geometry? Like on a sphere or something...

[Langy]

Or it could be a building or something of that ilk.

Anyways, I'm going to assume that the dot-connection one would be you can't overlap a line and it needs to makee a box with an X inside of it. If that isn't the case, it could either be easier or harder. I'm just going to assume it is, in which case I can't do it. I've always hated those types of things...

[Dark_illusion]

haha hers a ez one
i'll post more later

whats the sqrt of -16?

[StarHawk]

Yup Aco your right Its a Mountain.
Okay how about this one?

Voicless it cries
No wings but it flutters
Toothless it bites
And Mouthless it mutters.

Can you figure that one out so easily?

[Langy]

Starhawk: Wind

DI: 4i

[RevivedEnder]

I dance four feet to ev'ry line, with A and A I try to rhyme. And B and B make couples two, the answer my friend stands in front of you.

I'm as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I'll approach like a breeeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I'll dance to the music, though I can't hear. Of names I have many, of names I have one. I'm as slow as a snail, but from me you can't run. What am I?

[StarHawk]

YIkes those are hard

A SWARM OF BUGS NUMBER 2 IS A SWARM of bugs

[RevivedEnder]

I picked some very hard ones, as I thought you guys might want a challenge. And a swarm of bugs is an incorrect answer.

[Langy]

The answer to Number 2 looks to be death.

[Archon]

What can you break without hitting or dropping it?The Law. :)

[Maverick_3058]

The ice.

[Chariot]

a prisoner :devil:

[IgnusDei]

I have no eyes yet i see, i have no ears yet i hear, i have no nose yet i smell, i have no skin yet i feel, i have no tongue yet i taste.

What am I?

[AcolyteOfDeath]

That's incorrect, langy. All you need to do is connect the dots from outside of the box.

As for the Triangle problem, yes, you'd use Non-Euclidean Geometry.

To the "mouthless mutters" riddle, which is from the Hobbit,

The wind.

I'm as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I'll approach like a breeeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I'll dance to the music, though I can't hear. Of names I have many, of names I have one. I'm as slow as a snail, but from me you can't run. What am I?

Disease, plague, viruses, funguses

[TheGunslinger]

Originally posted by StarHawk
Hmm maybe but I was not thinking about death I mean could someone explain how that fits to death?

Hey good job solving mine Langy and guys. :D
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I am not always seen but I always there.
Where you go I go. In the darkness I flee but
In the sunlight you may see me.
What am I?
_________________________________________

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The answer is a shadow. I played this riddling game a long time ago when I was a kid. This translates to not having a life, at least for me. Good riddles, though.

[Tygre]

I am yukky and vanilla-y. I am Caffeine Free. I am way too bubbly. I come in icky looking aluminum shaped into a 355cc vessel. I've been around since 1889. My ingredients are Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Potassium Benzonate, Citric Acid, Caramel Color, and Artificial Flavor. You can mail my fool creators somewhere in Hayward, California 94545.

[SvK]

I dance four feet to ev'ry line
with A and A I try to rhyme.
And B and B make couples two,
the answer my friend stands in front of you.

The riddle is its own answer. It has two couplets, and has four feet to a line (I think the "my friend" should be dropped from the last line, though)

[RevivedEnder]

Both of my riddles have been answered correctly. SvK answered the first, and AoD answered the second. I applaud you both. I'll try to come up with the answers to your riddles while I sit and work on this research paper. In the meantime, you guys get graced with another riddle. It's one of my favorites:

What goes up, but at THE SAME TIME goes down? Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground. It's present tense and past tense too, come for a ride, just me and you!!!

[AcolyteOfDeath]

I am yukky and vanilla-y. I am Caffeine Free. I am way too bubbly. I come in icky looking aluminum shaped into a 355cc vessel. I've been around since 1889. My ingredients are Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Potassium Benzonate, Citric Acid, Caramel Color, and Artificial Flavor. You can mail my fool creators somewhere in Hayward, California 94545.

Root beer? Coca-Cola?

[iwanthw2]

Coke's from Atlanta, so not Coke.

[RevivedEnder]

Well then maybe it's Pepsi. There's just too many drinks that someone could think bad to guess which one it is. And I win the riddle of where AoD's sig is from: Alpha Centauri! Yay! Go me! :cool:

[Langy]

RE - Which one of AoD's answers was correct? I had said 'death' and, seeing as all of AoD's answers were ways of going about dieing, what was right?

As for your new riddle, I can't think of anything. Damn you for stumping me! I need to get to this report now..

[RBA-Wintrow]

1.

It cannot be seen,cannot be felt
cannot be heard, cannot be smelt
it lies behind stars and under hills
and empty holes it fills

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2.

What am I?

As I watch
I see the world pass me by.
All the good, all the bad,
in the twinkle of an eye.

I watch and wait,
and patiently sit.
I never began,
so I shall never quit.

My only presence
is in my being.
It is hardly noticed,
but worth everything.

I'm fast as light,
thin as air.
don't let me pass by.
in the end you'll care.

To avoid me
is the mark of a fool.
For all you're worth,
your life is my tool.

You can't beat me,
But you always try.
The question is:
What am I?
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3.

What falls but never breaks?

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4.
What breaks but never falls?
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5.
You are in a room with 2 doors -- one leads further into the
dungeon, one leads to freedom. There are two guards in the
room, one at each door. One always tells the truth. One
always lies. What one question can you ask one of the guards
that will help you pick the door to freedom?
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6.

ou have four unmarked bottles of pills each containing 100
tablets. One bottle of pills is poisoned. The good pills weigh
exactly 1 gram a piece. The poisoned ones weigh exactly 1.1
gram a piece. You also have use of a scale, but can only use it
one time. How can you determine with certainty which
bottle of pills is poisoned?
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7.
Dies half its life
lives the rest
dances without music
breathes without breath

[RevivedEnder]

Crud. I didn't notice that post. Sorry. I give the point to Langy, then. The "correct" answer is a shadow, but that answer sucks. I think that death fits is better. But SvK got the answer correct about the four feet riddle.

[TheGunslinger]

Originally posted by RBA-Wintrow
1.

It cannot be seen,cannot be felt
cannot be heard, cannot be smelt
it lies behind stars and under hills
and empty holes it fills

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I'm gonna say space, mainly because I'm an unimaginative sort...

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2.

What am I? As I watch I see the world pass me by.
All the good, all the bad,
in the twinkle of an eye.

I watch and wait,
and patiently sit.
I never began,
so I shall never quit.

My only presence
is in my being.
It is hardly noticed,
but worth everything.

I'm fast as light,
thin as air.
don't let me pass by.
in the end you'll care.

To avoid me
is the mark of a fool.
For all you're worth,
your life is my tool.

You can't beat me,
But you always try.
The question is:
What am I?
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Another death answer... Very uplifting.
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3.

What falls but never breaks?

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Night.

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4.
What breaks but never falls?
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Day.

5.
You are in a room with 2 doors -- one leads further into the
dungeon, one leads to freedom. There are two guards in the
room, one at each door. One always tells the truth. One
always lies. What one question can you ask one of the guards
that will help you pick the door to freedom?
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"Which one of you is the liar?" Failing that, it's "Who wants to say hello to my boomstick?"

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6.

ou have four unmarked bottles of pills each containing 100
tablets. One bottle of pills is poisoned. The good pills weigh
exactly 1 gram a piece. The poisoned ones weigh exactly 1.1
gram a piece. You also have use of a scale, but can only use it
one time. How can you determine with certainty which
bottle of pills is poisoned?
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Take one pill from each bottle and place them one at a time on the scale. When it hits x.1, you know you found the pills.

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7.
Dies half its life
lives the rest
dances without music
breathes without breath

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Ummmm.... Elvis fans? I dunno...



Oh well... Good riddles. Makin me think these days.... Thanks.

[StarHawk]

What runs but never moves goes anywhere on its own?
___________________________________________
It can't be heard or felt.
It can't be seen or smelt.
It lies behind the stars and under hills
It comes first and follows after.
It fills empty holes.
Ends life kills all laughter.
What is it?
____________________________________________________
I am all around yet never seen or smelt but sometimes felt without me life is naught but for some creatures death I have brought.
What am I
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I figure you guys will get this one quickly but hey Its worth a shot.
I heard the third one when I was a young kid and it stumped me but you guys will probobly figure all three out with out hardly any work.

[edit] Oh and heres one thats just for fun
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A woman cooks carrots and peas in the same pot UNSANITARY.
Why?
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[Langy]

RE - Not a problem. Shadow doesn't really fit very well with the riddle, seeing as you can't be hit by it. Anyways, on to the new ones...

Wintrow:

Ooo, easy riddles! I like these. They make my ego grow.

1. Nothing
2. Time
3-4: Gunslinger got these right.
5. "If and only if you are the truth-speaker, does the right door lead to freedom?"

Explanation available upon request.

6. Break one pill from each jar at a specific place. One you would break of 1/4 of it, another 1/2, anotehr 3/4, and the last you leave whole. You then drop the pills on the scale and then use math to figure out which of the pills was the poisoned one.

7. While Gunslinger didn't get this one correct, I can't get it for the life of me. It sucks to get all the other ones except the last... Ego going down:(

SH:

The grammar of these riddles makes it hard to understand what they are supposed to mean, seeing as riddles use tricks to make you look at other things, and grammar utterly ruins these tricks at times. I'll try to piece the riddles together and answer them, however...

1. A Refridgerator. Or a wall.
2. Nothing
3. Oxygen/Air
4. She was making Carrot-Pea Soup?

[deadguy]

How about a rephrase - "Woman who cooks carrots, and pees in same pot, very unsanitary."

[StarHawk]

Oh oops thanks deadguy.

Uh Langy they are almost the exact same wording as I saw them but since many of you know their original wording to well I altered it just slightly.

1. Incorrect [ I rewrote it so go take a look]
2.Incorrect
3. Correct
4. Uh let the rephrase then you'll get it easy that was just a joke.

[Langy]

Starhawk - There are many things that run but don't move on their own. A refridgerator runs, yet it doesn't move on it's own. A wall runs around a city. Things like that.

As for the second one, nothing is the answer. Reason:

It can't be heard or felt - Nothing can not be heard or felt
It can't be seen or smelt - Nothing can not be seen nor can it be smelt
It lies behind the stars and under hills - nothing lies behind stars that also lies under hills. I had originally read this as 'It lies between the stars and under hills', and so I had thought nothing right away. I'm not sure about this, but I can't think of anything that can be BEHIND a star, hence nothing.
It comes first and follows after - Nothing came before the universe, and nothing will follow it.
It fills empty holes - Nothing fills empty holes
Ends life kills all laughter - Nothingness can kill and the end of a laughter is nothing (but silence, which is nothing).


EDIT: YOU CHANGED THE WORDING!? That is one thing you should NEVER do with a riddle! EVER! Look at what happened to the -GRY riddle from that! Someone made it impossible by simply changing the wording around. DON'T DO THAT.

[StarHawk]

Well actually langy the wording equals the same thing it is only missing one or two words which wouldnt help you either.
okay I'll give you the answer.
1. What lies behind stars [I.E. what is there behind stars not as in planets but as in star systems]
What fills empty holes, think about whats in a hole.
What is under hills. think about it.
Answer= Darkness.
Kills life ends laughter [Evil kind of darkness.]

So if I made an error sorry.

The thing that runs but does not go anywher ON ITS OWN. Think about the ON ITS OWN part.

[Langy]

StarHawk - There are MANY MANY things that run but don't go anywhere on their own. That riddle is not good, as there are too many potential answers.

And darkness CAN be seen. It also does NOT end life or kill laughter. It is NOT the correct answer to your riddle.

[StarHawk]

Uh lets see Langy you can NOT see darkness because you can NOT see period. As I said I think the darkness thing for Kill laughter and Ends life is the Evil kind you know.

And AN ENGINE COME ON LANGY IT RUNS BUT DOES NOT GO ANYWHERE ON ITS OWN it takes a car with it. :-)

[Tygre]

7.
Dies half its life
lives the rest
dances without music
breathes without breath

I dunno...a worm?

[Langy]

Starhawk - As I said, there were too many possible answers for that riddle for it to be a riddle.

And even the evil kind of darkness does not kill laughter. Nothing fits MUCH better for that riddle than darkness. And, yes, you CAN see darkness. Go into a room that is dark. Open your eyes? What do you see? Darkness.

[Tygre]

Technically, isn't darkness the LACK OF light? You're not seeing anything per se...and that's what darkness is.

And the answer to my riddle was Shasta Cream Soda.

[Noname_MiB]

Suppose I have five computers and I am worried that two of them might be infected by a virus, only I don't know which two. (All I know is that in my group of five, at least three are virus-free, they might all be virus-free, or four of them may be virus free and one of them infected, or two of them infected)
The only way of checking if a computer has a virus or not is to use another computer to check it. The checking computer will then tell you if the computer you are checking has a virus or not. Unfortunately, if the checking computer has the virus, it MAY lie to you. So it may tell you that the computer you are checking has the virus when it really does not, or it may tell you that the computer you are checking does not have the virus when it really does. OR it could tell you the truth - just to confuse you. (If the checking computer is virus free it will always perform correctly).
The virus is semi intelligent in that if you use a computer with the virus to check another computer repeatedly, it will always give you the same result (so it doesn't randomly choose, it picks something arbitrarily and sticks with it) although if an infested computer lies one time, that doesn't mean it will always lie when checking a different computer.
So the problem is : what is the minimum number of 'checks' (being one computer checking a second computer for the virus) required to find ONE computer that must be virus-free? And what are these checks?
Remember, you have five computers, and SOME of them are virus free although you don't know which ones or how many except that there are at least three.
simple. Format one of the computers :angel:

creds go to Mr.Mcgamer... who wasnt registered at the time :p

[Mr_McGamer]

i'd just like to say i came up with that one mm'kay

thanks


ahh yes, he changed it, excellent

[Langy]

Hell... Why didn't anyone get that before? It's easy... The number of checks required to find ONE computer that MUST virus free is eight. The checks are as follows:

4 computers check the fifth computer. At least two of them will agree, as the fifth computer could be virus-free while the third and fourth have viruses and so lie. After that, you use 4 computers to check one of the computers that had agreed with at least 1 other computer. If three agree that it has a virus, then it MUST have the virus, and if three agree it does not, then it doesn't. If only two agree, then it also must NOT have the virus, seeing as there are only two computers that can possibly lie and if only two agree then the computer being checked can't have a virus.

So, basically, it's 8.

[RBA-Wintrow]

Good one the Gunslinger!

1.

It cannot be seen,cannot be felt
cannot be heard, cannot be smelt
it lies behind stars and under hills
and empty holes it fills

Darkness
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2.

What am I?

As I watch
I see the world pass me by.
All the good, all the bad,
in the twinkle of an eye.

I watch and wait,
and patiently sit.
I never began,
so I shall never quit.

My only presence
is in my being.
It is hardly noticed,
but worth everything.

I'm fast as light,
thin as air.
don't let me pass by.
in the end you'll care.

To avoid me
is the mark of a fool.
For all you're worth,
your life is my tool.

You can't beat me,
But you always try.
The question is:
What am I?

Time
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3.

What falls but never breaks?

Night
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4.
What breaks but never falls?
Day
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5.
You are in a room with 2 doors -- one leads further into the
dungeon, one leads to freedom. There are two guards in the
room, one at each door. One always tells the truth. One
always lies. What one question can you ask one of the guards
that will help you pick the door to freedom?


If you just wanted to determine which one tells the truth and which lies, you would ask:
"If I were to ask the other guard whether you always tell the truth, what would he say?"
A reply of "no" means you are talking to the truth teller, a reply of "yes" means you are talking to the liar.
So since you only have one question to select the right door, you would have to ask "If I were to ask the other guard, which door would he say leads to freedom?" You would then select the door opposite to the one he picked.
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6.

ou have four unmarked bottles of pills each containing 100
tablets. One bottle of pills is poisoned. The good pills weigh
exactly 1 gram a piece. The poisoned ones weigh exactly 1.1
gram a piece. You also have use of a scale, but can only use it
one time. How can you determine with certainty which
bottle of pills is poisoned?



Remove 1 pill from Bottle 1.
Remove 2 pills from Bottle 2.
Remove 3 pills from Bottle 3.
Remove 4 pills from Bottle 4.
Combine the 10 pills and weight them together.
If Bottle 1 has the poisoned pills, the 10 pills will weigh 10.1 grams.
If Bottle 2 has the poisoned pills, the 10 pills will weigh 10.2 grams.
If Bottle 3 has the poisoned pills, the 10 pills will weigh 10.3 grams.
If Bottle 4 has the poisoned pills, the 10 pills will weigh 10.4 grams.


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7.
Dies half its life
lives the rest
dances without music
breathes without breath


Trees

[deadguy]

Actually, StarHawk had the wording right, but the reason it's a riddle is you have to read it out loud to realize that 'peas' and 'pees' are homonyms, thus the "HaHa" peart later. My rephrase was a visual vresion of saying it out loud.....

[nickersonm]

Originally posted by AcolyteOfDeath
How do you get a triangle that has angles that add up to more than 180 degress?

Like Tygre said, use Non-Euclidian geometry. I actually have a triangle with 230 degrees in my binder. And a circle with 290 degrees. And initially parralel lines that cross.
(Interesting note: If you made a triangle with the sun somewhere inside, it would have more or less than 180 degrees if you measured carefully, because of General Relativity :D)

New riddles:

This thing all things devour:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays kings, ruins towns,
And beats high mountains down.

One more:
What have I got in my pocket? :D

- nickersonm

[deadguy]

time

and....

I'd rather not know

[Tygre]

water and your wallet.

[Noname_MiB]

What have I got in my pocket?
the ring :D

[Tygre]

hmm, can't you get up to 270 degree triangles on a sphere? I think all you have to do is put a vertex at three adjacent poles...

[Walker]

WTF is all this maths stuff, it doesn't make sense. Somehow this thread turned from funny/compelling riddles, to an exercise in mathematical conundrums, to hardcore alternative-geometrical nerdship.

[Noname_MiB]

hehe heres 5 riddles my teach bombarded us with. She still hawsnt given us the answers, shes gonna tell us tommorrow. You guys got any idea?

1) A murderer us condemmed to death. He has to choose between 3 rooms. The first has raging fires, the second assasins with guns, and the third lions that havent been fed for 3 years. Which is the safest?

2) A woman shoots her husband, holds him underwater for 5 minutes, and finally hangs him. Then she goes out with him later that night and has a wonderful dinner. How?

3) there are two plastic jugs filled with water. How could u put all the water into a barrel and tell which they came from without using dividers or jugs and still tell which jug the water came from?

4) Whats black when you buy it, red when you use it, and grey when your done?

5)Can you name 3 consecutive days without using monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, and 1st 2nd 3rd ect....

[SvK]

1) The lions that haven't been fed for 3 years. They're dead of starvation. Of course, now the murderer is locked in a room with rotting lions, but that's beyond the scope of the riddle. :)

2) She took a photograph, held the picture under the developing fliuds to make it show up, then hung it on the wall.

3) Freeze the water in one jug. Then the solid water in the barrel is from that jug, and the liquid water is from the other. You'll probably have to break the jug to get the water out.

4) Charcoal

5) Christmas Eve, Christmas, Boxing Day!

:dunce:

[Noname_MiB]

yea thats what i figured for 1 2 and 4 :)

[AcolyteOfDeath]

What have I got in my pocket?

*moaning, schizo kind of voice* myyyy.. precious! Give its! Give it to us! Give it!!! My Precious!!

[Mac_Bug]

1. The second. Assassins don't do executions.

2. She is clearly delusional. Not guilty by reasons of insanity.

3. It's a trick question. I'll pour both in then you prove me wrong.

4. Black Barbie blow up doll

5. yesterday, today, tomorrow

[sub]

RIDDLE:

The maker does not use it, the buyer does not use it, the user does not see it.

What is it?

[eadipus]

microsoft spyware

[Tygre]

a coffin

[AcolyteOfDeath]

Glasses for a blind person

[sub]

a coffin

Correct!

[StarHawk]

What is in my pocket
gets hissing voice "Whats hasss it got in ints pocketsess nasty little hobbit, yes my precious what hass it got in its pocketsess. GIVE us the preciousss you nasty little bagginsesgollum gollum." Or something like that.

Okay the guy has three doors to choose from is easy enough.