loosely inspired by Crusader's 'jokes' thread, i thought i might open up this one for those of you who like mind games.

every couple days or so (assuming theres enough interest in this thread), ill post a new brainteaser, riddle, or puzzle of some kind, as well as the solution to the previous one.

if you have your own brian-benders that youd like to share, by all means, feel free. im always open to hearing some new ones. (hopefully thisll get enough interest so people do that before my own supply runs out..)

the rules of the game, for challengers and players:

1) if theres more than one challenge going on at a time and someone has a question about one, remember to quote it to aviod any confusion.

2) perfect grammer, spelling, and capitolization will be used for anything in the 'riddles' catagory to avoid any confusion on what's a subtle hint, and what's a typo.

the following only applies to the challenges that i post. if someone else feels like putting one up, they make their own rules. if they choose not to, mine remain in affect.

3) necessary hints for the riddles that arent part of the riddle itself will be placed in parentheses.

4) if you come up with the answer before i post it, color it black so it appears invisable to those who havent figured it out yet.
durration is at my disgression.
to avoid spoiling it for anyone who wants to keep working on it, i too, will color it black, so the only way to read it is by highlighting it.

5) after i post each one, you may ask only yes/no questions about them. ill make some exceptions on this rule, but try to keep it to that anyway. ill check this thread about once each day to try and keep up with answering them.

6) hints will be given at the request of several people. hints will not be given if several others contest those requests.


so withough further adieu, the challenges:
usualy itll be one at a time, but ill start with a few this time:

puzzle- place 8 queens on a chess board in such a way that none of them are capable of attacking eachother from that spot using traditional chess movements.

riddle- Put an olive in 'stine', mix it up, and get the equivalent of a fool's London subway.
(the answer is something that can be found at home)

brainteaser- a black dog stands in the middle of a dark road under a broken street lamp. a car with two broken headlighs approches the dog, but somehow turns to avoid him. how could the driver have seen the dog in time?

I gots a riddle: A man walks his dog down the street, turns right at the corner, walks two more blocks, and realizes that he is bankrupt. What happened? :D Took me soooooooooooo long to get it. Man did I feel stupid afterwards!

Anyways, I'm off the try to figure out the chess puzzle :p

Puzzle:http://www.evboard.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7449&stc=1


Fweddie: [he was playing Monopoly]

this is going to be a fun thread...

edit: put answer in black.

A man walks his dog down the street, turns right at the corner, walks two more blocks, and realizes that he is bankrupt. What happened?

funny you mention that one. i think its a variation on one that i almost put up in place of the black dog riddle.
again, answer is in invisable ink.
[a monopoly game?]

Puzzle:http://www.evboard.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7449&stc=1

Brainteaser: maybe it was during the day:confused:

Fweddie: he was playing Monopoly

this is going to be a fun thread...

beat me to the punch bjsm.

a reminder to everyone though, color your answers black so only those who want to see it, highlight it to make it visable.
for some reason your image didnt come through though. maybe its just me. can anyone else see that?

i gots one:

In a deserted barn, a dead man is found hanging from a central rafter, with a wet patch underneat him. The rope around his neck is five feet long and his feer are four feet off the ground. the walls are fifteen feet away. There is nothing else in the building. no ladders or boxes. how did the man manage to hang himself?

In a deserted barn, a dead man is found hanging from a central rafter, with a wet patch underneat him. The rope around his neck is five feet long and his feer are four feet off the ground. the walls are fifteen feet away. There is nothing else in the building. no ladders or boxes. how did the man manage to hang himself?

[climbed up on a block of ice, which then melted out from under him causing the puddle. heard a similar one once invliving a murder in a sauna with an icicle]

i checked your answer to the chess puzzle. youre definately on the right track, but the bottom left, and top right one are still in line of eachother.

got another one for ya:

a farmer has three sons. to decide which of the three should become heir to the farm, he poses a challenge to them to find out which is wise enough to manage it. he tells them whomever can fill the barn the most, will inherit the farm. he gives them each a small amount of money with which to buy something to fill the barn.
the oldest son goes to town and buys a bail of hay. he brings it back and dumps it out over the a small corner of the barn.
the middle son goes to town and uses all the money on a bag of feathers. he brings it back, and it fills slightly more of the barn than the hay did.
the youngest son goes to town and buys two small items. he brings them back and fills the entire barn, and becomes heir to the land.

what were the items, and what did he fill the barn with?

a black dog stands in the middle of a dark road under a broken street lamp. a car with two broken headlighs approches the dog, but somehow turns to avoid him. how could the driver have seen the dog in time?

Sun or moonlight.

In a deserted barn, a dead man is found hanging from a central rafter, with a wet patch underneat him. The rope around his neck is five feet long and his feer are four feet off the ground. the walls are fifteen feet away. There is nothing else in the building. no ladders or boxes. how did the man manage to hang himself?

There must have been a cube of ice big enough so he could stand and hang himself.

a farmer has three sons. to decide which of the three should become heir to the farm, he poses a challenge to them to find out which is wise enough to manage it. he tells them whomever can fill the barn the most, will inherit the farm. he gives them each a small amount of money with which to buy something to fill the barn.
the oldest son goes to town and buys a bail of hay. he brings it back and dumps it out over the a small corner of the barn.
the middle son goes to town and uses all the money on a bag of feathers. he brings it back, and it fills slightly more of the barn than the hay did.
the youngest son goes to town and buys two small items. he brings them back and fills the entire barn, and becomes heir to the land.

what were the items, and what did he fill the barn with?

The two small items are 2 atoms of oxygen to mix and create oxygen to fill the barn? o.O

Tell me if i am right or not!

My riddles: The answer is in black right after the riddle.


Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister who lives on the east side of the Mississippi while the man lives on the west side? How can a man marry if he is dead? Think about it.

A boy claims he can rush over to a lightswitch in his bedroom, flick the light off, and run back to his bed, and be in bed, asleep, even before the room actually gets dark. The bed and light are 50 feet apart. How can the boy accomplish this? Sunlight.

I have two US coins that equal a total of $.55 (cents). One of the coins is not a nickel. What are the two coins? (This one has stumped MANY people...i dont know why ><) One is a half-dollar. The other is a nickel.

A man and his son are driving down a freeway and get into a horrible car crash. THe father dies instantly. The son, barely alive, is rushed to a hospital nearby, off the freeway. In the hospital, the son's surgeon comes. The surgeon says "I cannot operate on him- he is my son!". Explain. The surgeon is the boy's mother.

a farmer has three sons. to decide which of the three should become heir to the farm, he poses a challenge to them to find out which is wise enough to manage it. he tells them whomever can fill the barn the most, will inherit the farm. he gives them each a small amount of money with which to buy something to fill the barn.
the oldest son goes to town and buys a bail of hay. he brings it back and dumps it out over the a small corner of the barn.
the middle son goes to town and uses all the money on a bag of feathers. he brings it back, and it fills slightly more of the barn than the hay did.
the youngest son goes to town and buys two small items. he brings them back and fills the entire barn, and becomes heir to the land.

what were the items, and what did he fill the barn with?

[he bought two bags of corn seeds and grew a whole field of corn to fill the barn with (just a guess)]

For the dog riddle:

[I could have been daytime, or moonlight could have reflected off the dogs eyes. Another possibility is that it barked at the driver. ]

Here's a Riddle:
You are in a room with to doors,
One door leads to freedom,
the other to death,
in the room there is two identicle guards,
on of the guards only lies,
the other only tells the truth,
you do not know which guard is which.

you may pick one guard to ask one question before you pick a door to go through ... what is it you ask??

Here's a Riddle:
You are in a room with to doors,
One door leads to freedom,
the other to death,
in the room there is two identicle guards,
on of the guards only lies,
the other only tells the truth,
you do not know which guard is which.

you may pick one guard to ask one question before you pick a door to go through ... what is it you ask??
"Which dor would the other guard tell me to go through?" They would both point to the bad dor, so you go through the other.

You are in a room with to doors,
One door leads to freedom,
the other to death,
in the room there is two identicle guards,
on of the guards only lies,
the other only tells the truth,
you do not know which guard is which.

you may pick one guard to ask one question before you pick a door to go through ... what is it you ask??

Ask the guard which room will kill you? I have no idea...

Here's a Riddle:
You are in a room with to doors,
One door leads to freedom,
the other to death,
in the room there is two identicle guards,
on of the guards only lies,
the other only tells the truth,
you do not know which guard is which.

you may pick one guard to ask one question before you pick a door to go through ... what is it you ask??


Ok, I'm fucking stumped. Post the answer damnit. :cool:

Ok, I'm fucking stumped. Post the answer damnit. :cool:

hmmmn this is fun ... maybe i should just leave you wondering *evil laugh*

bastard. :cool:

..........................

Here's a Riddle:
You are in a room with to doors,
One door leads to freedom,
the other to death,
in the room there is two identicle guards,
on of the guards only lies,
the other only tells the truth,
you do not know which guard is which.

you may pick one guard to ask one question before you pick a door to go through ... what is it you ask??

pick one guard and ask him what he thinks the other guard will say is the right door?
but really I have no idea :P

Could we have the answer now plz? >< Thats a really hard riddle.

yes it was a hard one lol who would think i of all poeple would give a hard riddle ... anyways heres your answer:
SIX YOU WERE RIGHT :D
Because if you were to ask the guard that tells the truth he would know that the other one would lie so he would say the door to death,
and if you asked the guard that lies he would know that the other guard would say the right door so he would lie about it and say the door that leads to death so you walk out the oppisite door
:p enjoy - gren

Here's a Riddle:
You are in a room with to doors,
One door leads to freedom,
the other to death,
in the room there is two identicle guards,
on of the guards only lies,
the other only tells the truth,
you do not know which guard is which.

you may pick one guard to ask one question before you pick a door to go through ... what is it you ask??
Damn, I knew that one! :p

That was a riddle in the movie Labyrinth :)

a farmer has three sons. to decide which of the three should become heir to the farm, he poses a challenge to them to find out which is wise enough to manage it. he tells them whomever can fill the barn the most, will inherit the farm. he gives them each a small amount of money with which to buy something to fill the barn.
the oldest son goes to town and buys a bail of hay. he brings it back and dumps it out over the a small corner of the barn.
the middle son goes to town and uses all the money on a bag of feathers. he brings it back, and it fills slightly more of the barn than the hay did.
the youngest son goes to town and buys two small items. he brings them back and fills the entire barn, and becomes heir to the land.

what were the items, and what did he fill the barn with?
Answer = [he bought a lamp and a candle, and they filled the barn with light] :p

Here's a Riddle:
You are in a room with to doors,
One door leads to freedom,
the other to death,
in the room there is two identicle guards,
on of the guards only lies,
the other only tells the truth,
you do not know which guard is which.

you may pick one guard to ask one question before you pick a door to go through ... what is it you ask??
You say "If I ask the other guard which room will kill me, what would he say?" :D

You say "If I ask the other guard which room will kill me, what would he say? So if you ask the person who is the truth teller, he would say "this room" and then if you ask the liar he would say the same thing. therefore just go in the opposite door they tell you"

damn I love labyrinthe.

Anyone figure out the chess puzzle yet??


I just remembered another good riddle

"You are in a concrete room, with a concrete roof and concrete floor. The door is made of steel, and locked. The windows have steel bars on them, and there's no way you can fit through them. The only things in the room besides yourself is a wooden table, and a large mirror. How do you get out of the room?"

There is a rich couple who live in a round house. They go out one night and leave their son and all their servants at home. They return to find out that all of their valubles are missing. They decide to investigate. They go to the cook first. They say, "what were you doing while we were out?" the cook answers, "I was at the store buying Parmesan Cheese." They go to their son. They ask him the same question. He says, "I was playing with my toys." They go to the maid. They ask her the same question. SHe says, "I was sweeping this corner." Who took the valubles?

The maid. There are no corners in a round house!


There is a boy at school on the playground. A bully comes up to him and whispers a word in his ear. He says, "what's that word mean?" the bully says, "I'm not going to tell you!" so he goes up to a playground monitor. He tells her the word and asks what it means. She says, "Inside! Now!! Go see your teacher!!" So he goes inside, and the teacher says, "Charlie! What are you doing in so early?" He says, "Well, I got in trouble because this bully told me this word." He tells her the word and asks what it means. She says, "Go see the principal!!! I never want to see you in this classroom again!" So he goes to the principal's office. The principal says, "Charlie, what are you doing? You're supposed to be out at recess!!" He says, "Well, I got sent to my teacher who sent me here because a bully whispered a word in my ear." He tells the principal the word. The principal expells him from school and sends him home. His parents want to know why he's home so early. He says, "Well, I got expelled from school by the principal, who I got sent to by my teacher, who I got sent to by the playground monitor, because someone whispered a word in my ear." He tells his parents the word and wants to know what it means. His parents say, "GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE!! WE'RE DISOWNING YOU!! WE NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!!!!!!!!" So he leaves, very sad. As he's walking, he sees a homeless man. He goes through the same routine. The man chases him with a broken bottle. As he's crossing the street, he gets hit by a bus. What is the moral of this story?

I combined two riddles together, one my sister told me and one my friend told me. The one my sister told me is a lot longer, I just didn't feel like typing that much.

Answer: The moral of this story is look both ways before crossing the street!!! I know I'm evil.



Edit: Fweddie, Um...jump through the mirror?

Edit: Fweddie, Um...jump through the mirror?
You could try that, but then you'd only be hitting your head against the concrete wall. And breaking the mirror!

There is a rich couple who live in a round house. They go out one night and leave their son and all their servants at home. They return to find out that all of their valubles are missing. They decide to investigate. They go to the cook first. They say, "what were you doing while we were out?" the cook answers, "I was at the store buying Parmesan Cheese." They go to their son. They ask him the same question. He says, "I was playing with my toys." They go to the maid. They ask her the same question. SHe says, "I was sweeping this corner." Who took the valubles?

Lol, thats a good one! But pretty easy: Corners? What corners? XD

Lots of these probably work better if they're verbal and not typed out.

There is a boy at school on the playground. A bully comes up to him and whispers a word in his ear. He says, "what's that word mean?" the bully says, "I'm not going to tell you!" so he goes up to a playground monitor. He tells her the word and asks what it means. She says, "Inside! Now!! Go see your teacher!!" So he goes inside, and the teacher says, "Charlie! What are you doing in so early?" He says, "Well, I got in trouble because this bully told me this word." He tells her the word and asks what it means. She says, "Go see the principal!!! I never want to see you in this classroom again!" So he goes to the principal's office. The principal says, "Charlie, what are you doing? You're supposed to be out at recess!!" He says, "Well, I got sent to my teacher who sent me here because a bully whispered a word in my ear." He tells the principal the word. The principal expells him from school and sends him home. His parents want to know why he's home so early. He says, "Well, I got expelled from school by the principal, who I got sent to by my teacher, who I got sent to by the playground monitor, because someone whispered a word in my ear." He tells his parents the word and wants to know what it means. His parents say, "GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE!! WE'RE DISOWNING YOU!! WE NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!!!!!!!!" So he leaves, very sad. As he's walking, he sees a homeless man. He goes through the same routine. The man chases him with a broken bottle. As he's crossing the street, he gets hit by a bus. What is the moral of this story?

Uh...*thinks* Psh, this is stupid, but is it: Look both ways...? Uh...

You are in a concrete room, with a concrete roof and concrete floor. The door is made of steel, and locked. The windows have steel bars on them, and there's no way you can fit through them. The only things in the room besides yourself is a wooden table, and a large mirror. How do you get out of the room?"

Answer: Break the mirror with the table, and use the shards to cut yourself out?

Uh...*thinks* Psh, this is stupid, but is it:

Yeah, that's actually right!!!!

Answer: Break the mirror with the table, and use the shards to cut yourself out?


[what, cut yourself into little bits so you can fit through the bars on the window? ]

LOL!!!!!!

No! ><

I meant: Break the mirror and use the shards to cut the bars and get out v.v

[how do you cut steel bars with glass?]

whoa.. i had a feeling thisd be a fun thread, but i never expected it to grow three pages in one day.
cool :cool:
thanks guys. you make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. (either that or i sat in something)

congrats Fweddie! you were the first to solve my 'black dog and broken lights' brainteaser.

lots of people seem to have gotten it after that.

hehe, no one has figured out the 'olive in stine/ fool's london subway one yet'? or even taken a stab at it? remember, ill take yes/no questions on that.
but i think its time for a hint: the riddle not only tells you how to solve it, it tells you how to confirm your answer.

extra hint: [not a lot of people know, but people in London refer to subways as 'tubes']

Anyone figure out the chess puzzle yet??

[evil laugh..] actualy i have to work on that one myself. i use to know..
hint on the cless puzzle. this probably comes as no surprise, but its the only thing i can come up with short of giving the answer. think about the way a knight moves. if you want to be set on the right track, go to page one of this thread and check the file bjsm posted. hes got the right idea, but in that particular one, the bottom left and top right ons are attacking eachother.

"You are in a concrete room, with a concrete roof and concrete floor. The door is made of steel, and locked. The windows have steel bars on them, and there's no way you can fit through them. The only things in the room besides yourself is a wooden table, and a large mirror. How do you get out of the room?"

are you accepting yes/no questions on this?

[are the windows locked, or are those bars on hinges?]
[is there some way to use the table and mirror to pry up the hinges of the door? maybe by building some kind of lever.]
is the size of te mirror significant?
is it relevant that the table is made of wood?

how many animals did moses take on his arch?:p

how many animals did moses take on his arch?:p[MOSES didn't take anything into an ARK:p ]

Answer: Break the mirror with the table, and use the shards to cut yourself out?
OOOOOOOOOUCH!!!!!!!! :eek:

(no)


Oh gawd, I totally took the post the wrong way! I was like, "What the hell, cut yourself to get out??" But anyways, that's not the answer :p


And in reply to The Muenk's questions:
are you accepting yes/no questions on this? sure

[are the windows locked, or are those bars on hinges?] no, the bars are like prison bars
[is there some way to use the table and mirror to pry up the hinges of the door? maybe by building some kind of lever.] nope
is the size of te mirror significant? nope
is it relevant that the table is made of wood? nope :p

I promise you that once you get it, you'll feel sooooooooooooo stupid!

And I didn't really deserve the congrats, I heard that riddle before :p But thanks! :D


Okay, maybe a hint for the concrete room riddle.
[Read the riddle VERY carefully. It's almost like a play on words.]

Eurgh, I think I gave away too much. Meh.


ps. There's actually 2 answers to this riddle. One is the actual answer; the other I thought of while trying to get the answer, but all my friends agree that what I came up with makes a lot of sense, and would work as a second answer.

"You are in a concrete room, with a concrete roof and concrete floor. The door is made of steel, and locked. The windows have steel bars on them, and there's no way you can fit through them. The only things in the room besides yourself is a wooden table, and a large mirror. How do you get out of the room?"

[you bang your head on the wall until you get a sore,
you use the saw to cut the table in half,
to halves make a whole so you put the hole in the wall and walk out

I got it fweddie... I think. VERY clever riddle!

Answer: Now, it didnt say the walls were concrete, did it? THe walls could be rubber, for all we know. Or there could be no walls.

What i wrote for the answer of the concrete roomriddle is right, i know it, ITS NOT A JOKE and to make it more puzzling the room is surrounded by a moat and 1000000 miles from any other life form (its using the same kind o play on words thing) :D

yes it was a hard one lol who would think i of all poeple would give a hard riddle ... anyways heres your answer:
SIX YOU WERE RIGHT :D
Because if you were to ask the guard that tells the truth he would know that the other one would lie so he would say the door to death,
and if you asked the guard that lies he would know that the other guard would say the right door so he would lie about it and say the door that leads to death so you walk out the oppisite door
:p enjoy - gren


??? There are four different variables here: 1) a door that leads to freedom, 2) a door that leads to death, 3) a guard who tells the truth, and 4) a guard who lies.

How do you know which door each guard is guarding? There are four different possibilities, but you can only ask one question to determine which door is the correct one. I still don't see how it works out with one question.

??? There are four different variables here: 1) a door that leads to freedom, 2) a door that leads to death, 3) a guard who tells the truth, and 4) a guard who lies.

How do you know which door each guard is guarding? There are four different possibilities, but you can only ask one question to determine which door is the correct one. I still don't see how it works out with one question.

i dont get what you mean, the answer is there ... do you not understand it? because wether its possible to answer that question or not that is the answer and i seems to work

I think everyones probably heard this one, but...

1. You are in a house where all four walls face south. A bear walks past the window. What colour is it?

And some others...

2. A woman has five children, and exactly half of them are boys. How is this possible?

3. Take one from 19 to leave 20

4. What would you add to nine to make six?

5. There are two sheep standing in a field. One is facing north and the other south. How can they see each other without turning round?

6. What question can you never answer yes to, even though it's true? (there is more than one, but they have the same gist)

7. What question must you always answer yes to?

8. If a group of people contain a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, an uncle, an aunt, a sister, a brother, a niece, a nephew and two cousins, what is the smallest number they can be?

??? There are four different variables here: 1) a door that leads to freedom, 2) a door that leads to death, 3) a guard who tells the truth, and 4) a guard who lies.

How do you know which door each guard is guarding? There are four different possibilities, but you can only ask one question to determine which door is the correct one. I still don't see how it works out with one question.
We'll call them guard A and guard B.

Go to guard A and ask "If I ask guard B which is the safe door, what would he tell me?"
Now if guard A is the liar, he would automatically tell you the wrong door.
But, if guard A is the truth teller, then he would tell you the door that the liar would say, which is also the wrong one.

So you go to the door that he didn't tell you to.

If missing666 is right about Fweddie's riddle, that is virtually impossible to get right if you don't know it, purely because the answer comes from out of nothing. I thought the answer was walk through the walls, because they're not made of anything.

I have some riddles.

A man lives on the 12th floor of a building. He works every day of the week. Each day, he takes the elevator down to the ground floor and goes to work. Then he comes back, uses the elevator to go to the 6th floor, and then uses the stairs to walk to the 12th floor. Why is this?

And before anyone asks:
- no, the elevator doesn't mysteriously break every day on the 6th floor
- no, the elevator doesn't have any faults and it is perfectly capable of reaching the 12th floor
- no, the man does not walk the steps through choice, or for exercise

I think I worked out the chess one. Let me know if it's wrong.

Put an olive in 'stine', mix it up, and get the equivalent of a fool's London subway

[television]

a farmer has three sons. to decide which of the three should become heir to the farm, he poses a challenge to them to find out which is wise enough to manage it. he tells them whomever can fill the barn the most, will inherit the farm. he gives them each a small amount of money with which to buy something to fill the barn.
the oldest son goes to town and buys a bail of hay. he brings it back and dumps it out over the a small corner of the barn.
the middle son goes to town and uses all the money on a bag of feathers. he brings it back, and it fills slightly more of the barn than the hay did.
the youngest son goes to town and buys two small items. he brings them back and fills the entire barn, and becomes heir to the land.

what were the items, and what did he fill the barn with?
[A box of matches and some petrol - he filled the barn with fire?]

brainteaser- a black dog stands in the middle of a dark road under a broken street lamp. a car with two broken headlighs approches the dog, but somehow turns to avoid him. how could the driver have seen the dog in time?
[I think there were a few answers given, but 'the car has it's foglights on' since the headlights don't work could be an answer. BTW, what was the correct answer? The moonlight thing?]

1. You are in a house where all four walls face south. A bear walks past the window. What colour is it?

White, because it's a polar bear. Is this because it's on the very top of the earth (North Pole), so all four walls would automatically face south, or something?

2. A woman has five children, and exactly half of them are boys. How is this possible?

They're all boys, so half that, quarter it, do what you like; they're still boys. Alternatively, you could say 'half of them' would include the mother, so therefore she has three sons (3), two daughters (2) and herself (1), which equals six. Half of six is three, and that's how many sons she has.

3. Take one from 19 to leave 20

I haven't figured this one out...

4. What would you add to nine to make six?

180 Degrees? A mirror? Minus three (as in, 9 + -3 = 6)? I'm not sure.

5. There are two sheep standing in a field. One is facing north and the other south. How can they see each other without turning round?

One sheep is called north, the other is called south? Wait... they'd be looking at each other anyway.

6. What question can you never answer yes to, even though it's true? (there is more than one, but they have the same gist)

"Can you tell me a lie?"

7. What question must you always answer yes to?

"Can you say yes?"

8. If a group of people contain a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, an uncle, an aunt, a sister, a brother, a niece, a nephew and two cousins, what is the smallest number they can be?

Two: the father and mother are cousins, and the father can also be an uncle, brother, newphew, etc...

Those were cool, I probably got a few wrong.

A man lives on the 12th floor of a building. He works every day of the week. Each day, he takes the elevator down to the ground floor and goes to work. Then he comes back, uses the elevator to go to the 6th floor, and then uses the stairs to walk to the 12th floor. Why is this?




[ the man is a midget. he can't read the 12th floor! ]

[Rachel, close enough. He couldn't reach the 12th floor button. You said 'read' ;)]

[MOSES didn't take anything into an ARK:p ]YAY!!!!! i suck at this stuff.......:p

i dont get what you mean, the answer is there ... do you not understand it? because wether its possible to answer that question or not that is the answer and i seems to work



I missed the part in six's answer which gave the answer, so I didn't get what you were saying. It makes sense now.

This train is on a triangular-shaped track, so there are three points; point A, point B and point C. The three tracks are identical in length, and are all on a flat surface. To get from point A to B, it takes one hour twenty minutes. To get from B to C, it takes eighty minutes. To get from C to A, it takes one hour twenty minutes. Why does the time taken differ on the B-C track?

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A farmer has to get a sack of corn, a chicken, and a fox across a river. The farmer is only able to bring one of the above items along with him at a time. The only problem is if he leaves the fox alone with the chicken, the fox will eat the chicken, and if he leaves the chicken along the corn sack, then the chicken will eat the corn sack. How does the farmer get all 3 items across safely?

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A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a shotgun and points it at him. The man says, thank you and leaves. Why?

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It's more powerful than God.
It's more evil than the devil.
The poor have it.
The rich need it.
If you eat it, you'll die.
What am I

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A man is lying dead with a backpack on, face down in the desert. His entire front half is crushed. What happened to him?

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The one who makes it sells it.
The one who buys it doesn't use it.
The one who's using it doesn't know he's using it.
What is it?

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A farmer has to get a sack of corn, a chicken, and a fox across a river. The farmer is only able to bring one of the above items along with him at a time. The only problem is if he leaves the fox alone with the chicken, the fox will eat the chicken, and if he leaves the chicken along the corn sack, then the chicken will eat the corn sack. How does the farmer get all 3 items across safely?

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[Take the cicken over first, go back across. take the corn over, bring the chicken back. Take the fox over. go back and get the chicken. (then fatten the chicken up with the corn, eat it, shoot the fox and make a coat)

[you bang your head on the wall until you get a sore,
you use the saw to cut the table in half,
to halves make a whole so you put the hole in the wall and walk out
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAH!! Could you possibly have thought up a more complicated answer???? What I meant to say with my hint is: Just read the riddle carefully, and you'll find a loophole.

Nemo's almost got it. [I think I did say the walls concrete, but if I didn't they're concrete :p And how the HELL do you have a roof, door, and windows without walls?? (You're soooooooo close to getting it though.)]

Someone try to figure out the 2nd answer! I actually think it's better than the real answer, partly because I thought it up :p But yea, my answer rocks :D

Fweddie, um, this might be it. [you said the door is steel, and the window bars wont move. but are they actualy attached to the walls? if so, are they the only possable exits, or is there a big hole in the wall somewhere?]

wow, HuggableMonster, you nailed all of mine, escept for the black dog one. nice work on the chess puzzle by the way. few have had the patience for that one. yes, the 'olive in stine' one works as follows, for those of you who dont understand the answer. ["Put an olive in 'stine', mix it up, and get the equivilant of a fool's London subway." works as follows: a synonym for 'fool' is 'boob'. people in London call subways 'tubes'. and if you 'mix up' the letters in both 'olive' and 'stine', you have an anagram for 'television', which is the 'equivilant' of a 'boob tube'.
the correct answer for the black dog teaser was [daylight]. but i wouldve accepted [moonlight, or the dog barking]. [foglights?], yeah, i guess thatd work since i didnt rule it out. but its not really what i was getting at.
also, about the barn and the three sons, [your idea of gas and a lighter is on the right track, but he doesnt have to burn the barn down to fill it with something using those items, and im not talking about smoke.]

stay tuned peoples. as soon as i find my book, ill start posting cryptograms :) .

About the barn one here's my answer :
[ he buys matches and wood and he fills the barn up with light. ]

About the barn one here's my answer...
you got it :)

cant find my cryptogram book yet, but i did find my old notebook with some that are already solved. just means i wont be able to work on solving them myself along with you guys.
the hints for these will be by request only. you ask me for a specific letter, and ill tell you what it equals. once i find that book, we'll be in the same boat and i wont be able to give hints as ill be racing with you guys to solve it myself. theyre all quotes from notable people (comedians, politicians, authors, actors, ect). and im very careful about avioding typos in these.

so to to replace my recently solved challenges, heres some new ones.

puzzle:
PTK DFXXKHP HKBBKO FH YJJLDJJLH QUA PTK HKYJUA FH AFKP DJJLH- TJM UJP PJ KQP MTQP GJS'NK VSHP BKQOUKA TJM PJ YJJL.
-QUAG OJJUKG

riddle:
Fruit-loop on stove.

brainteaser:
what can you put in a barrel to make it lighter?

what can you put in a barrel to make it lighter?

Answer: A hole.

20202020202

Answer....20202020202

correct.
whats with the 202020..?

ok.. im at a loss. i use to have a ton of these things memorized. i have a stack of them in my desk, but there are no cheatsheets to them. rather not dip into that pile yet...
[2 minutes later]

heres one!
three men are outside in the rain. none of them are carrying umbrellas, and only 2 of them get wet. only 2 of them are walking, but all three are moving at the same speed. there are no vehicles involved. what is the situation?

i dont remember if this was part of the origional brainteaser, as its been years since i heard it. but heres a hint if you need it. [the three men are well dressed]

three men are outside in the rain. none of them are carrying umbrellas, and only 2 of them get wet. only 2 of them are walking, but all three are moving at the same speed. there are no vehicles involved. what is the situation?

Answer: The 2 men are carrying a man in a coffin, dead- so he remains dry, yet moving at the same speed as he is being carried. But, the situation itself? Its a funeral, i would bet.

youre quick Nemo. think you answered my last 2 in less time than it took me to post them.

ok.. lets see if i can stump Nemo :D ...

If you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?

Everything Mr Red owns is red, he lives in a red bungalow and his chairs are red, his tables are red. His ceiling, walls and floor are all red. All of his clothes are red, his shoes are red, even his carpet, television and phone are red. What colour are his stairs?

Would you rather a crocodile attack you or an alligator?

If you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?
[The match.]

Everything Mr Red owns is red, he lives in a red bungalow and his chairs are red, his tables are red. His ceiling, walls and floor are all red. All of his clothes are red, his shoes are red, even his carpet, television and phone are red. What colour are his stairs?
[There are no stairs. It's a bungalow.]

Would you rather a crocodile attack you or an alligator?
[An alligator...play on wording/phrasing.]

Answers

Take one from 19 to leave 20

[Roman Numerals XIX =19 so by removing the I which equals 1 you are left with XX which is 20]

A man is lying dead with a backpack on, face down in the desert. His entire front half is crushed. What happened to him?
[The backpack is a parachute that failed to delpoy]

Damn James, Who wants to be a millionaire? :cool:

Huggablemonster you got 1, 2, 5 and 7 right!

For the one about the group of people, the aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews etc have to be accounted for in the group. Therefore if there is an uncle in the group, there must be a niece or nephew as well (and they have to be related) It took me ages!

James you got the 19 and 20 one dead on, well done! Big hint for the 6 and 9 one [The six and nine one is very similar to the 19 and 20 one]

This train is on a triangular-shaped track, so there are three points; point A, point B and point C. The three tracks are identical in length, and are all on a flat surface. To get from point A to B, it takes one hour twenty minutes. To get from B to C, it takes eighty minutes. To get from C to A, it takes one hour twenty minutes. Why does the time taken differ on the B-C track?
[Eighty minutes is one hour twenty minutes]

A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a shotgun and points it at him. The man says, thank you and leaves. Why?
[The man had hiccups]

A man is lying dead with a backpack on, face down in the desert. His entire front half is crushed. What happened to him?
[Parachuting accident]

Fweddie, um, this might be it. [you said the door is steel, and the window bars wont move. but are they actualy attached to the walls? if so, are they the only possable exits, or is there a big hole in the wall somewhere?]
Eurgh, I prolly shoul've been more descriptive in the riddle. I didn't look up the real one, I just told it from what I remember, and mine *could* have more than one loophole which makes it possible to escape from the room. Bleh.

But anyways, yes, the bars are attached to the walls in front of the windows, and there are no holes or anything resembling an exit in the walls.

Ok, here's a hint for the 2nd answer: When you die, what happens?

Erm... this better not be one of those 'he killed himself and his spirit left the room' things... I say you tell us the answer in black for those who want to know. :)

Everything Mr Red owns is red, he lives in a red bungalow and his chairs are red, his tables are red. His ceiling, walls and floor are all red. All of his clothes are red, his shoes are red, even his carpet, television and phone are red. What colour are his stairs?
Answer:
Stairs? What stairs? Bungalows are 1 story. =p

A man is lying dead with a backpack on, face down in the desert. His entire front half is crushed. What happened to him?

Answer: He was skydiving and his parachute didnt poof open. =< Poor guy.

A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a shotgun and points it at him. The man says, thank you and leaves. Why?

Answer: The bartender is actually an assasin and after failing to poison him with his poisoned water- he decided to shoot him but...didnt and just scared him and said "Psyche!"?... This is a hard one. =< The only time i ask for water is when im throwing up or if i have hiccups...

If you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?

Answer: The match. How else do you light the candle or wood stove? =p

Would you rather a crocodile attack you or an alligator?

Answer: Alligator. I actually had to read that about 20x before i got it.

RIDDLES:
A cowboy rides into town on Tuesday. He is tired, so he decides to stay at the town's hotel. He rides out of town on Sunday. He hasn't left town in the meantime or stayed anywhere else, but he only pays the hotel for two nights. How does he do it, without breaking the law?
Answer: He rode in on his horse, Tuesday. He stayed a hotel for 2 nights. He left on his horse Sunday.

If you took 5 chocolates from a box which contained 21 chocolates, how many chocolates would you have?
Answer: 5

3 crows are on a bench. A farmer shoots one. How many are left?
Answer: Unless all 3 are deaf, the answer is 0. The crows woulda flown away.

Erm... this better not be one of those 'he killed himself and his spirit left the room' things... I say you tell us the answer in black for those who want to know. :)
Lol, that's actually the second answer, [the one I came up with while trying to figure out the real answer! "He died and went to heaven!" :D]

Okay, the real answer is: Who said the room had to have 4 walls all around it?? :D Yea, I was PISSED when I heard the answer. Not only did it make me feel stupid, the answer IS stupid! But I bet y'all had fun trying to figure it out :D

Ok guys i have a really good one

Theres three guys who want to stay in a hotel for one night
they go to the main desk and the lady there says that a room with three single beds is $30 so they split it and pay $10 each.
They leave their bags at the desk so the bag boy can take them up and the three of them go up to their room. just before the bag boy takes their bags up the lady at the desk realises the room only cost $25 so she gives the bag boy $5 to take to the three guys. the bag boy is a bit cheap and greedy so he keeps $2 of the $5 he was supposed to give to the guys, then to make it even between them he gives them back $1 each because there are three of them and $3 left. so all in all they each payed $10 and each got $1 back so they payed $9. there are three of them and $9x3=$27 plus the $2 the bagboy has eaquals $29
... so wheres the other dollar??

enjoy - gren :D

Ok guys i have a really good one

Theres three guys who want to stay in a hotel for one night
they go to the main desk and the lady there says that a room with three single beds is $30 so they split it and pay $10 each.
They leave their bags at the desk so the bag boy can take them up and the three of them go up to their room. just before the bag boy takes their bags up the lady at the desk realises the room only cost $25 so she gives the bag boy $5 to take to the three guys. the bag boy is a bit cheap and greedy so he keeps $2 of the $5 he was supposed to give to the guys, then to make it even between them he gives them back $1 each because there are three of them and $3 left. so all in all they each payed $10 and each got $1 back so they payed $9. there are three of them and $9x3=$27 plus the $2 the bagboy has eaquals $29
... so wheres the other dollar??

enjoy - gren :D

Ok ok, I think I have it! is it...? [We shouldn't be trying to add the $2 to get it to $30, we should be taking it off to get it to $25. The $9 is when you are adding up to get to $25, so $9 x 3 = $27, MINUS the $2 that the guys were supposed to recieve but the bag boy kept. Then, you add the $3 that were given back to the guys and the $2 the bagboy kept and voila, you have $30.

A cowboy rides into town on Tuesday. He is tired, so he decides to stay at the town's hotel. He rides out of town on Sunday. He hasn't left town in the meantime or stayed anywhere else, but he only pays the hotel for two nights. How does he do it, without breaking the law?

[He rides in on Tuesday, spends two nights, and then leaves on Thursday. His horses name was Sunday. (Alternatively, he could have arrived on Friday, left on Sunday and his horses name was Tuesday.) Either that or he has two horses, Sunday and Tuesday]

A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a shotgun and points it at him. The man says, thank you and leaves. Why?

[He had hiccups]

A cowboy rides into town on Tuesday. He is tired, so he decides to stay at the town's hotel. He rides out of town on Sunday. He hasn't left town in the meantime or stayed anywhere else, but he only pays the hotel for two nights. How does he do it, without breaking the law?
His horse is called Tuesday

OK, I've got one.

1 11 21 1211 111221

What comes next?

OK, I've got one.

1 11 21 1211 111221

What comes next?
Ha my friend tried this one on me a couple of days ago :p

Hope I get this right...
[312211]

Correct. I wonder if anyone who didn't know the answer got it.

Heh :o

Well... I didn't know the actual answer... I just knew how to work it out... :p

OK, I've got one.

1 11 21 1211 111221

What comes next?
I know a similar one to that but it goes

1 11 21 1112 3112 211213 312213 can anyone get that one.

here i got a few

you may ask yes or no questions for these.

police find a woman dead on her bed. she was killed and the murderer use a pair of siscors to do it. yet there was no blood or wounds, bruises, etc of any kind on the body. how did the killer kill her.

a pair of identical twins were drinking from poisoned drinks. both drinks contained the same deadly poison. yet only one twin died from the poison and the other did not. why?

joe lay dead on the floor. broken glass and water were all about him. how did he die?

A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, twelve The member replied, six and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, six. The member replied, three and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,ten and the man replied, five. But he was not let in. What should have he said?

here are some general riddles, this one is from the hobbit

golden treasure lies within me
i have no locks or lids or hinges.
what am i?

what happens once a minute.,
twice a moment, but never once in a million years.

you must keep it after you give it

you own this, yet everyone uses it.

what is the begining of eternity,
the end of time and space.
the begining of every end,
and the end of every race?

What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?

this is a variation of a riddles someone posted eariler
what does a poor man have, a rich man wants and a common man strives for?

what flies when its on, but floats when its off?

I know a similar one to that but it goes

1 11 21 1112 3112 211213 312213 can anyone get that one.

212223 ? ..................

what flies when its on, but floats when its off?
A airplane thingy that can float in water. :rolleyes: :D

A airplane thingy that can float in water. :rolleyes: :D

em.. close, but not quite

em.. close, but not quite
A penis. That's right, isn't it??!

I'm right! It's a flying penis!!!

police find a woman dead on her bed. she was killed and the murderer use a pair of siscors to do it. yet there was no blood or wounds, bruises, etc of any kind on the body. how did the killer kill her.

[He cut off her oxygen supply cord?]

joe lay dead on the floor. broken glass and water were all about him. how did he die?

[Was Joe a fish from a now-broken fish tank?]

A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, twelve The member replied, six and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, six. The member replied, three and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,ten and the man replied, five. But he was not let in. What should have he said?

[Any even number?]

you must keep it after you give it

[A promise? Friendship? Trust?]

what is the begining of eternity,
the end of time and space.
the begining of every end,
and the end of every race?

[The letter 'e']

What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?

[The first two numbers are flipped 180º to make the second two numbers. And since 2,3,4 and 5 can't be flipped to make another number, we have to wait until 6009. That's my guess anyway.]

this is a variation of a riddles someone posted eariler
what does a poor man have, a rich man wants and a common man strives for?
[Well, the earlier answer was 'nothing', but I don't think a common man strives for that.]

1 11 21 1112 3112 211213 312213 can anyone get that one.

[I think I figured this one out... 212223. Damn, Paradise got it.]

woo, ryan's on a roll

your on the right track for the first riddle but no, that did not happen. you missed an important detail. read it again carefully.

i flubbed up on this one, it should've been
what happens once a minute.,
twice a moment, but never once in a billion years.
it's pretty obvious.

you pretty much got all of them right except the nightclub one. and these.

you must keep it after you give it. [your word

a common man strives for nothing because he doesn't. he's middleclass and barely scraping enought to get by, but his situation doesn't improve or get worse. that's at least what someone else explained to me.

you pretty much got all of them right for the once you answered and these

a pair of identical twins were drinking from poisoned drinks. both drinks contained the same deadly poison. yet only one twin died from the poison and the other did not. why?

you own this, yet everyone uses it.

golden treasure lies within me
i have no locks or lids or hinges.
what am i?


here's another
what's taller sitting down than standing up?

you must keep it after you give it




A venerial disease.... :cool:

what happens once a minute.,
twice a moment, but never once in a billion years.
it's pretty obvious.

[That would be the letter 'm']

police find a woman dead on her bed. she was killed and the murderer use a pair of siscors to do it. yet there was no blood or wounds, bruises, etc of any kind on the body. how did the killer kill her.

[He made her swallow the scissors? Lmao, I don't know... he cut a cable that keeps her alive, or something...]

I don't know the others.

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1. What can go up a chimney down but not down a chimney up? Easy one.

2. A man shot his wife, hung her and left her locked in a dark room overnight. The next day, he took her out and hammered her with a nail to the wall. She hugged him for it... why?

3. You can't end a divorce without it, you can't write cheques without it and your shopping list would be a whole lot emptier without it. It's not money... what is it?

3. You can't end a divorce without it, you can't write cheques without it and your shopping list would be a whole lot emptier without it. It's not money... what is it?

[the date?].............................

1. What can go up a chimney down but not down a chimney up? Easy one.
[ An Umbrella!!!! ]


2. A man shot his wife, hung her and left her locked in a dark room overnight. The next day, he took her out and hammered her with a nail to the wall. She hugged him for it... why?

[ He was a photographer!!! ]

3. You can't end a divorce without it, you can't write cheques without it and your shopping list would be a whole lot emptier without it. It's not money... what is it?

[ a pen? this one is a long shot and i have no idea.lol ]

3. You can't end a divorce without it, you can't write cheques without it and your shopping list would be a whole lot emptier without it. It's not money... what is it?

[The letter e ]

I actually just made it up on the spot, thinking the answer 'a pen' or 'a pencil'... but holy shit, the letter 'e' also applies to it. Damn I'm good. And so are you two. The dates? Paradise, whatever you're smoking, I want some. :)

Oh, and rachel got the first two answers right.

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What holds something up, has more than one hole and sometimes has bits of metal or plastic on it?

I made that up. More later... I. Love. This. Topic. Could someone else post some riddles too?

police find a woman dead on her bed. she was killed and the murderer use a pair of siscors to do it. yet there was no blood or wounds, bruises, etc of any kind on the body. how did the killer kill her.

the woman is in peak physical shape, nothing wrong with her at all

no one has attempted this one yet

a pair of identical twins were drinking from poisoned drinks. both drinks contained the same deadly poison. yet only one twin died from the poison and the other did not. why?

did i stump you guys? come on. ask me and i may give out hints

Okay, me just thought of another riddle:

A man goes to a small town. He's badly in need of a haircut, and he finds 2 barber shops in town. One barber shop is insanely messy, and the barber has the worst looking haircut in the world. The other shop is neat and tidy, and the barber has a very good haircut. The man thinks for a second and goes into the extremely messy barber shop. Why?

Okay, me just thought of another riddle:

A man goes to a small town. He's badly in need of a haircut, and he finds 2 barber shops in town. One barber shop is insanely messy, and the barber has the worst looking haircut in the world. The other shop is neat and tidy, and the barber has a very good haircut. The man thinks for a second and goes into the extremely messy barber shop. Why?


[The messy barbershop is full of hair and stuff because the barber spends most of his time cutting hair, leaving little time to clean up. The barber who owns the neat barbershop gets his hair cut at the other barber since it would be hard to cut his own hair (unless he had a flowbie). The owner of the messy barbershop gets his hair cut by the owner of the neat barbershop, who happens to suck at cutting hair which is why his shop is so neat.]


What holds something up, has more than one hole and sometimes has bits of metal or plastic on it?




[a woman ] ................... :p :cool:

What holds something up, has more than one hole and sometimes has bits of metal or plastic on it?




[a woman ] ................... :p :cool:



What holds something up, has more than one hole and sometimes has bits of metal or plastic on it?




[a woman ] ................... :p :cool:

Okay, me just thought of another riddle:

A man goes to a small town. He's badly in need of a haircut, and he finds 2 barber shops in town. One barber shop is insanely messy, and the barber has the worst looking haircut in the world. The other shop is neat and tidy, and the barber has a very good haircut. The man thinks for a second and goes into the extremely messy barber shop. Why?
[It's good to go with the assumption that, being there is only 2 barbers in the town, they cut each other's hair. So, seeing that it's the "tidy" barber whose hair has been cut well, it's good to assume that it's the messy barber that gives good haircuts.]

This one's easy I suppose, but here goes:

A farmer and his hired help were carrying grain to the barn. The farmer carried one sack of grain and the hired help carried two sacks. Who carried the heavier load and why?

A woman has two gold bars that she escaped with from...well, something or other, I can't remember. She weighs 110 lbs. The bars weigh only 5 lbs each, and they're circular. So I guess they're gold balls, but that sounded funny. For some reason, she needs to keep the gold balls, but she comes to a rope bridge that only holds 117 lbs. How does she get across with both gold bars/balls things?

Oh, and I remember this in french:

Je suis ce que je suis
Mais je ne suis pas ce que je suis
Car si je cuis ce que je suis
Je ne suis pas ce que je suis

What am I? (sorry, it doesn't make sense translated.)

apologize if first has been posted before...my internet's slow and I'm lazy.

This one's easy I suppose, but here goes:

A farmer and his hired help were carrying grain to the barn. The farmer carried one sack of grain and the hired help carried two sacks. Who carried the heavier load and why?
[The farmer is the only one who is carrying any grain, so his load will be the heaviest.]

And now I'll add my favorite riddle. I could make it shorter, but I like this version of it and the story.



Back in medieval times, there was a man who was imprisoned in a tower by the king. On the last day before he was supposed to be put to death, the king went to see him and gave him an offer. He told the prisoner, "It's been many years since someone told me a riddle that has left me completely confused. If by the setting of the sun you can think of a riddle that I cannot solve, then you are a free man." The prisoner walked around his tiny tower room all day, trying to come up with a really good riddle. It was when he stuck his head out the window to get a breath of fresh air, that he thought of one. When the king returned, the prisoner walked over to the window, and pointed down to the courtyard, at a man who was selling vegetables. The prisoner then said, "Though I have no sisters or brothers, that man's father is my father's son. What relation am I to that man?" The king was not able to come up with the correct answer by the time the sun set, so the prisoner was granted his promise and set free. But what is the answer?

Back in medieval times, there was a man who was imprisoned in a tower by the king. On the last day before he was supposed to be put to death, the king went to see him and gave him an offer. He told the prisoner, "It's been many years since someone told me a riddle that has left me completely confused. If by the setting of the sun you can think of a riddle that I cannot solve, then you are a free man." The prisoner walked around his tiny tower room all day, trying to come up with a really good riddle. It was when he stuck his head out the window to get a breath of fresh air, that he thought of one. When the king returned, the prisoner walked over to the window, and pointed down to the courtyard, at a man who was selling vegetables. The prisoner then said, "Though I have no sisters or brothers, that man's father is my father's son. What relation am I to that man?" The king was not able to come up with the correct answer by the time the sun set, so the prisoner was granted his promise and set free. But what is the answer?

[He's that man's father. Take the phrase "My father's son" and switch it out with the word "me", because the prisoner would be "me", as in my father's son is me. Now say it again. That's man's father is me.]

And Steph was right with the riddle I posted.

A woman has two gold bars that she escaped with from...well, something or other, I can't remember. She weighs 110 lbs. The bars weigh only 5 lbs each, and they're circular. So I guess they're gold balls, but that sounded funny. For some reason, she needs to keep the gold balls, but she comes to a rope bridge that only holds 117 lbs. How does she get across with both gold bars/balls things?

[She juggled them.]

Oh, and I remember this in french:

Je suis ce que je suis
Mais je ne suis pas ce que je suis
Car si je cuis ce que je suis
Je ne suis pas ce que je suis

What am I? (sorry, it doesn't make sense translated.)

apologize if first has been posted before...my internet's slow and I'm lazy.
I am that I am
But I am not that I am
If I believe that I am
I am not that I am

Yea, you're right, doesn't make the tiniest bit of sense when translated :p


Paradise and Shivercide both got the barber shop riddle :p Except Paradise: the neatness/messyness of the shops is actually irrelevent

Back in medieval times, there was a man who was imprisoned in a tower by the king. On the last day before he was supposed to be put to death, the king went to see him and gave him an offer. He told the prisoner, "It's been many years since someone told me a riddle that has left me completely confused. If by the setting of the sun you can think of a riddle that I cannot solve, then you are a free man." The prisoner walked around his tiny tower room all day, trying to come up with a really good riddle. It was when he stuck his head out the window to get a breath of fresh air, that he thought of one. When the king returned, the prisoner walked over to the window, and pointed down to the courtyard, at a man who was selling vegetables. The prisoner then said, "Though I have no sisters or brothers, that man's father is my father's son. What relation am I to that man?" The king was not able to come up with the correct answer by the time the sun set, so the prisoner was granted his promise and set free. But what is the answer?



[ His father. Our Tech Ed teacher told us this one at school. It took us two weeks to figure it out. Sad, aren't we?]

[a woman ] ................... :p :cool:[/QUOTE]

Wrong, but good guess.

Right on the first one.


I am that I am
But I am not that I am
If I believe that I am
I am not that I am

Yea, you're right, doesn't make the tiniest bit of sense when translated :

Suis also means I follow. So

I am what I am
But I am not what I follow
Because if I am what I follow
Then I am not what I am

It's much, much easier now. "suis" means two different things, and therein was the confusing part.

Mike (Nitecrawl3r) got it right first. :)

[ His father. Our Tech Ed teacher told us this one at school. It took us two weeks to figure it out. Sad, aren't we?]
If you're talking about the prisoner himself, then yes. And it took me four months to figure out. However, I was only six years old. Still kinda sad. ;)

i guess no one cares about my poison drinking twins riddle so here is the answer.

a pair of identical twins were drinking from poisoned drinks. both drinks contained the same deadly poison. yet only one twin died from the poison and the other did not. why?

the poison was in the ice cubes. so the twin who drank his fast was not affected by the poison and the other twin took time to drink his drink, thus letting his ice cubes melt which released the poison into his drink. tada?!'

...ahem...

here's another one, it's good this time i promise, kind of a trick question but here it goes.

i have two coins in my pocket that total 30 cents, but one of them is not a nickle. what two coins do i have in my pocket?

i have two coins in my pocket that total 30 cents, but one of them is not a nickle. what two coins do i have in my pocket?

[A quarter and a nickle. You only said one of them is not a nickle. Not neither of them.]

i guess no one cares about my poison drinking twins riddle so here is the answer.

a pair of identical twins were drinking from poisoned drinks. both drinks contained the same deadly poison. yet only one twin died from the poison and the other did not. why?

the poison was in the ice cubes. so the twin who drank his fast was not affected by the poison and the other twin took time to drink his drink, thus letting his ice cubes melt which released the poison into his drink. tada?!'
From the information given in the riddle, how are people supposed to know or even come to an assumption that there was ice in the drinks... or the rate at which the twins each drank them? Maybe you can explain it.

i have two coins in my pocket that total 30 cents, but one of them is not a nickle. what two coins do i have in my pocket?
[A quarter and a nickel. One of them is not a nickel.]

A boy claims he can rush over to a lightswitch in his bedroom, flick the light off, and run back to his bed, and be in bed, asleep, even before the room actually gets dark. The bed and light are 50 feet apart. How can the boy accomplish this? Sunlight.

[Do it during the day.]

I have two US coins that equal a total of $.55 (cents). One of the coins is not a nickel. What are the two coins? (This one has stumped MANY people...i dont know why ><) One is a half-dollar. The other is a nickel.

[one nickel, one half dollar because one of them is indeed not a nickel]

i guess no one cares about my poison drinking twins riddle so here is the answer...

yeah, im getting the same problem. starting to wonder if i should break this up or something. what do you guys think? a thread for riddles, one for puzzles, and a third for brainteasers? because some good ones here are getting burried.
really cool to see that so many people enjoy this stuff though.

anyway, im gonna go ahead and give the answers to mine.
what flies when its on, but floats when its off?
[a bird's feather]

Fruit-loop on stove.
[the answer is 'orange'. fruit has a dash after it seperating it from the rest of the riddle, rather than saying 'fruitloop'. so its defineing the answer. a loop forms an O. and another name for a stove is a 'range'. hence, the 'fruit' is an Orange]

PTK DFXXKHP HKBBKO FH YJJLDJJLH QUA PTK HKYJUA FH AFKP DJJLH- TJM UJP PJ KQP MTQP GJS'NK VSHP BKQOUKA TJM PJ YJJL.
-QUAG OJJUKG

no, it takes too much effort to type up cryptograms to just give away the answer right away. is anyone even working on that?

Paradise and Shivercide both got the barber shop riddle :p Except Paradise: the neatness/messyness of the shops is actually irrelevent


Touche, but I think it is relevant in a small town where the barber may not have any employees other than himself; if he is good, he spends most of his time cutting hair, not sweeping up. Perhaps it is an unnecessary detail, but it still fits. You could make the riddle more confusing though if the good barber with a nice hair-cut had a neat shop as well. I don't know if you made the riddle up yourself, but I think that detail was meant to be a clue. ;) :cool:

Touche, but I think it is relevant in a small town where the barber may not have any employees other than himself; if he is good, he spends most of his time cutting hair, not sweeping up. Perhaps it is an unnecessary detail, but it still fits. You could make the riddle more confusing though if the good barber with a nice hair-cut had a neat shop as well. I don't know if you made the riddle up yourself, but I think that detail was meant to be a clue. ;) :cool:
Nah, I'm no good at making up stuff like this. My friend told me the riddle. The neatness/messyness of the shops was just meant to make you feel that the man would go to the neater shop. I mean, when you go get a haircut, wouldn't you rather go to a nice clean shop, rather a crummy one with hair all over the floor?

From the information given in the riddle, how are people supposed to know or even come to an assumption that there was ice in the drinks... or the rate at which the twins each drank them? Maybe you can explain it.
]

that's what makes it a tough riddle right? i said earlier that anyone could ask me yes or no questions to help solve it but no one even attempted to do that.


voiceless it cries,
wingless it flutters,
toothless bites,
mouthless mutters.

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.
it comes first and follows after,
ends life, kills laughter.

my friend told me this one

'twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell,
an echo caught faintly the sound as it fell;
on the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest,
and the depths of the ocean its presence confessed;
'twill be found in the sphere when 'tis riven asunder,
be seen in the lightning and heard in the thunder.
'twas allotted to man with his earliest breath,
attends him at birth, and awaits him in death,
presides o'er his happiness, honor, and health,
is the prop of his house, and the end of his wealth.
in the heaps of the miser 'tis hoarded with care,
but is sure to be lost on the prodigal heir.
it begins every hope, every wish it must bound,
with the husbandman toils, and with monarchs is crowned.
without it the soldier, the seamen may roam,
but woe to the wretch who expels it from home!
in the whispers of conscience its voice will be found,
nor e'en in the whirlwind of passion be drowned.
'twill not soften the heart; but though deaf be the ear,
it will make it acutely and instantly hear.
yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower,
ah... breathe on it softly, - it dies in an hour.

The messiness makes far too much sense to not be an important clue, I agree with Paradise.

Anyway, got any more? Here's a joke, but you can work the answer out :) Why was 6 scared of 7?

Oh, and here's an anagram because I'm bored. No cheating! HARPTECAU

concrete room riddle: [break the mirror, then hold a piece outside the window, then turn it so that it shows your reflection. You're out of the room (sort of).]

murdered woman with scissors: [her hair was cut off and strangled with it? Or she was one of those people in the hospital with life support?]

golden treasure riddle from Hobbit: [egg]

woman crossing bridge with 2 gold balls: [roll them across, then cross the brigde herself]

French one: [shadow]

Voiceless it cries...: [wind]

Cannot be seen, cannot be felt...: [darkness]

6 afraid of 7: [7 8 9 (seven ate nine)]

Didn't want some of the ones no one answered to be forgotten. Anyway, some brainteasers.

If there are 3 apples and you take 2 away, how many do you have?

You have four nines (9, 9, 9, 9). Using only these nines, arrange them to total 100. Each nine can only be used once.

Divide 30 by half and add 10. What is the answer? (a little tricky)

If the earth weighs six-trillion tons and you built a stone and mortar wall around the equator weighing one-trillion tons, what would be the weight of the earth and the wall?

Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?

How far can a dog run into the woods?

If there are 3 apples and you take 2 away, how many do you have?

[ you have 2 ]



Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?

[ because he's not dead! ]

How far can a dog run into the woods?

[ halfway ]

You have four nines (9, 9, 9, 9). Using only these nines, arrange them to total 100. Each nine can only be used once.

[9 divided by 9 equals 1 + 99 = 100]

Divide 30 by half and add 10. What is the answer? (a little tricky)
[30 divided by .5 equals 60 + 10 = 70]

If the earth weighs six-trillion tons and you built a stone and mortar wall around the equator weighing one-trillion tons, what would be the weight of the earth and the wall?

[Well, the answer obviously isn't seven-trillion... I'll guess at six-trillion still... I dunno]

Hopefully this one wasnt posted:

There are 4 birds on a fence, the man who's fence it is comes out of his house and shoots one of the birds. How many are left?

Hopefully this one wasnt posted:

There are 4 birds on a fence, the man who's fence it is comes out of his house and shoots one of the birds. How many are left?
[None, because they flew away after hearing the shot]

And it was posted before :p


If there are 3 apples and you take 2 away, how many do you have? [2]

You have four nines (9, 9, 9, 9). Using only these nines, arrange them to total 100. Each nine can only be used once. [99 + (9/9)]

Divide 30 by half and add 10. What is the answer? (a little tricky) [70]

If the earth weighs six-trillion tons and you built a stone and mortar wall around the equator weighing one-trillion tons, what would be the weight of the earth and the wall?[6 trillion, because the wall would be built from earth]

Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada? [the buddy's still alibe]

How far can a dog run into the woods? [halfway, because after that, he'd be running out]

:p

that's what makes it a tough riddle right?

Actually, a true riddle always holds the answer within the words.

Fweddie, you got all the questions right except the divide 30 by half one. Ryan - Yeah, I guess your equation with the nines would work. Good job, I've never thought of that or maybe I just worded it wrong. I feel stupid now.

Divide 30 by half and add 10 is still not solved correctly. Here's some more.

A woman gave a beggar 50 cents. The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar isn't the woman's brother. Why not? (this actually stumped people!)

You walk into the kitchen and find a ping pong in a glass bottle. The neck is big enough for the ping pong to fit through, but it's too small for your hand to fit through. Without breaking the bottle or tilting it so the ball will roll out, how would you get the ping pong out? (made this one up on the spot so I don't know if there are more than one answer or if it's told properly).

Divide 30 by half and add 10 is still not solved correctly.
[Actually, they were both correct. The answer is 70. Multiply it by two - it's the same as dividing by half. In which case it's 60. Then add 10, and the answer is 70.]

A woman gave a beggar 50 cents. The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar isn't the woman's brother. Why not? (this actually stumped people!)
[Because the beggar is a woman, and so she's the woman's sister...omg I can't believe I answered that. :)]

Divide 30 by half and add 10 is still not solved correctly.

[30 halved is 15, add 10 is 25.]

A woman gave a beggar 50 cents. The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar isn't the woman's brother. Why not? (this actually stumped people!)

[The beggar is the woman's sister.]

You walk into the kitchen and find a ping pong in a glass bottle. The neck is big enough for the ping pong to fit through, but it's too small for your hand to fit through. Without breaking the bottle or tilting it so the ball will roll out, how would you get the ping pong out? (made this one up on the spot so I don't know if there are more than one answer or if it's told properly).

[Use a hoover to suck the ping pong ball out! :) Or... just fill up the bottle with water.]

Divide 30 by half and add 10 is still not solved correctly.

[30 halved is 15, add 10 is 25.]
I believe that's the trick answer that most THINK it's supposed to be. :)

I believe that's the trick answer that most THINK it's supposed to be. :)
Ohhhhh well it doesn't say divide by a half....

French one: [shadow]

Thank you!

Divide 30 by half and add 10. What is the answer? (a little tricky)

[70]

If the earth weighs six-trillion tons and you built a stone and mortar wall around the equator weighing one-trillion tons, what would be the weight of the earth and the wall?

[six-trillion tons]

By the way, the thing that "holds things up" in my riddle: a belt! It has holes in it and sometimes has metal or plastic on it. :)

I believe that's the trick answer that most THINK it's supposed to be. :)
Bleh. I hate plays on words. They're fun to make other people figure out though! :D

You walk into the kitchen and find a ping pong in a glass bottle. The neck is big enough for the ping pong to fit through, but it's too small for your hand to fit through. Without breaking the bottle or tilting it so the ball will roll out, how would you get the ping pong out? (made this one up on the spot so I don't know if there are more than one answer or if it's told properly).

[You get the ping pong out with your finger - the whole hand doesn't fit, not the fingers]

You walk into the kitchen and find a ping pong in a glass bottle. The neck is big enough for the ping pong to fit through, but it's too small for your hand to fit through. Without breaking the bottle or tilting it so the ball will roll out, how would you get the ping pong out?

Answer: Use your fingers- or blow into the bottle, having the air push the ball back up?

Actually, a true riddle always holds the answer within the words.
ok then how about this one.

a pair of identical twins were drinking from poisoned drinks. both drinks contained the same deadly poison. one twin drank his drink slow and the other took his time. yet only one twin died from the poison and the other did not.

does that qualify?

the answer is in this riddle plain as day but yet no one has attempted to answer it.

'twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell,
an echo caught faintly the sound as it fell;
on the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest,
and the depths of the ocean its presence confessed;
'twill be found in the sphere when 'tis riven asunder,
be seen in the lightning and heard in the thunder.
'twas allotted to man with his earliest breath,
attends him at birth, and awaits him in death,
presides o'er his happiness, honor, and health,
is the prop of his house, and the end of his wealth.
in the heaps of the miser 'tis hoarded with care,
but is sure to be lost on the prodigal heir.
it begins every hope, every wish it must bound,
with the husbandman toils, and with monarchs is crowned.
without it the soldier, the seamen may roam,
but woe to the wretch who expels it from home!
in the whispers of conscience its voice will be found,
nor e'en in the whirlwind of passion be drowned.
'twill not soften the heart; but though deaf be the ear,
it will make it acutely and instantly hear.
yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower,
ah... breathe on it softly, - it dies in an hour.

or should i start giving hints when i post these brainteasers?

Answer: Use your fingers- or blow into the bottle, having the air push the ball back up?

wouldnt it only go so far before getting blown back down upon entering the neck?
[could try filling it with water so the ball floats to the top]

wouldnt it only go so far before getting blown back down upon entering the neck?
[could try filling it with water so the ball floats to the top]
Pfft, ping pong balls weigh a ton! It'll sink to the bottom of the bottle! :D

what kind of balls have you been playing with? :cool:

what kind of balls have you been playing with? :cool:

lol.

no one seems to be going for my cryptogram puzzle, so lets try something a little easier.

DR'OR YQSSGYRK EG EOW HPK AR ORHM. HPK B URRM HMGPR, HPK DR'OR PGE EGZRELRO. HPK ELHE BY ORHM.

i know the shorter ones are usually harder because theres not as much to work with. but you have apostrophes, common words, 2 letter words, a double letter word, and a one-letter word. not to mention this should be a very familiar quote to you guys.

for those of you whove never worked these before, here's a tutorail on how to solve them. in black only because it gives away one of the words. doesnt spoil the whole thing though, so feel free to read if youre having trouble.
[first, what youre looking at is a phrase where each letter has been replaced by another letter. your job is to decode it. all the things i just listed are good places to start. for example, the one letter word B can only be ‘a’, or ‘i’. for the double letter word YQSSGYRK, make a list of all the letters that could fit for S, such as e, c, f, l, m, n, p, and t. (s isnt a possibility since thats what youre translating from). check them off as you work other parts of the puzzle.

look at the apostrophes. 2 letters come after that. so its not going to be like ‘wouldn’t ’ or ‘isn’t’ or ‘there’s’ where theres only 1 letter at the end. so what abbreviations would yield 2 letters at the end? cant be ‘will’ because then the 2 letters will the same (’ll). i think the only options are the abbreviations for ‘are’ (’re) and ‘have’ (’ve). in either case, you now know that R = ‘e’. this means you have two 2 letter words that end in ‘e’, DR and AR. List off all the 2 letter words the end in ‘e’- ‘we’, ‘be’, ‘me’, ‘he’. not too many of them.

start making some cross references. you have a 3 letter word, EOW. if the abbreviation ends in ‘ve’, making O = ‘v’, that means your 3 letter word would have to have a V in the middle of it. not too likely, so its pretty safe to assume DR’OR ends in ‘re’. remember that list of 2 letter words ending in ‘e’? ‘we’ is the only one that would fit with this abbreviation, making DR’OR= ‘we’re’. you now have at least 3 letters translated throughout the puzzle, making it easier to find other connections.
make a list of letters, listing vowels separate from constants, and cross them off as you use them. when the list of vowels gets shorter, itll be easier to make some assumptions to mess with in hopes that something clicks.
a e i o u y
b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x z]

cryptograms make my head hurt. :cool:

Answer: Use your fingers- or blow into the bottle, having the air push the ball back up?
I'm guessing the answer is fill the bottle with water, but blowing into the bottle wouldn't work, and using your fingers would be too obvious.

ok then how about this one.

a pair of identical twins were drinking from poisoned drinks. both drinks contained the same deadly poison. one twin drank his drink slow and the other took his time. yet only one twin died from the poison and the other did not.

does that qualify?

[I think you described this wrong, because when you say 'poisoned drinks', that would make them deadly if drunk, whereas if the answer is that the ice cubes are poisoned, then the drinks are not. I suppose the fact that it had ice cubes in would be okay, but it'd be a better riddle if you dropped a hint in there, like 'on the rocks' or something. But also, it would be better if you didn't use the words 'poisoned drinks' since one of them isn't.

Also, you said 'one twin drank his slow and the other took his time'. I think you mean 'one twin drank his fast...']

Divide 30 by half and add 10 is still not solved correctly. Here's some more.
Other than 70 the only other answer can be is [12. I got this by using the following formula a/(a/2)+10. 30/(30/2) = 30/15 = 2 and add the 10 would make 12]

Divide 30 by half and add 10 is still not solved correctly. Here's some more.

[You could look at it as "half and add 10" as in 10.5. The answer is 2.857..., or 2.9. That's another possible way of looking at it. Another way would be 'what exactly is half?' So maybe you could divide 30 by half of 30, which would be 15, which is 2. Then add 10, which would equal 12. So far, I've come up with the following answers:

30/0.5 + 10 = 70
30/15 + 10 = 12
30/ (0.5 + 10) = 2.857
30/ (15 + 10) = 1.2

Koumori, are any of those correct? Am I even on the right track, here?]

I haven't read the entire thread (my brain stated to hurt :() so sorry if these have already been posted:

A plane carrying 50 english passengers and 50 french passengers is on it's way to france. The pilot has a heart attack while driving the plane and the plane crashes before the co pilot can take over. Tha plane crashes exactly half way to its destination. Where were the survivors buried?

A donkey is standing, tied by rope, exactly 5 meters away from a bale of hay. Without damaging the rope how can the donkey get to the bale of hay?

EDIT: I half remember one... but I don't know if this is the right wording,

Eve has two
Adam has none
Everyone has three
But in the whole of our planet, there's only one

I haven't read the entire thread (my brain stated to hurt :() so sorry if these have already been posted:

A plane carrying 50 english passengers and 50 french passengers is on it's way to france. The pilot has a heart attack while driving the plane and the plane crashes before the co pilot can take over. Tha plane crashes exactly half way to its destination. Where were the survivors buried?

A donkey is standing, tied by rope, exactly 5 meters away from a bale of hay. Without damaging the rope how can the donkey get to the bale of hay?

1. Survivers are alive

a pair of identical twins were drinking from poisoned drinks. both drinks contained the same deadly poison. one twin drank his drink slow and the other took his time. yet only one twin died from the poison and the other did not.

[Because only one of the twins drank, as the other was just taking the time the one drinking took]


A donkey is standing, tied by rope, exactly 5 meters away from a bale of hay. Without damaging the rope how can the donkey get to the bale of hay?

[You didn't say how long the rope is, so he could just walk there if the rope is long enough] :D

Well done Codger... I guess it works better when you say it.

A plane carrying 50 english passengers and 50 french passengers is on it's way to france. The pilot has a heart attack while driving the plane and the plane crashes before the co pilot can take over. Tha plane crashes exactly half way to its destination. Where were the survivors buried?

[You don't bury survivors]

A donkey is standing, tied by rope, exactly 5 meters away from a bale of hay. Without damaging the rope how can the donkey get to the bale of hay?

[The rope is only tied to the donkey, nothing else.]

Eve has two
Adam has none [BOOBS!]
Everyone has three
But in the whole of our planet, there's only one

[The letter 'e']

A donkey is standing, tied by rope, exactly 5 meters away from a bale of hay. Without damaging the rope how can the donkey get to the bale of hay?

ive seen a couple answer to this. heres another possability
[the rope is tied to the hay bale]

Ryan. was right.

(must find harder ones!)

'twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell,
an echo caught faintly the sound as it fell;
on the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest,
and the depths of the ocean its presence confessed;
'twill be found in the sphere when 'tis riven asunder,
be seen in the lightning and heard in the thunder.
'twas allotted to man with his earliest breath,
attends him at birth, and awaits him in death,
presides o'er his happiness, honor, and health,
is the prop of his house, and the end of his wealth.
in the heaps of the miser 'tis hoarded with care,
but is sure to be lost on the prodigal heir.
it begins every hope, every wish it must bound,
with the husbandman toils, and with monarchs is crowned.
without it the soldier, the seamen may roam,
but woe to the wretch who expels it from home!
in the whispers of conscience its voice will be found,
nor e'en in the whirlwind of passion be drowned.
'twill not soften the heart; but though deaf be the ear,
it will make it acutely and instantly hear.
yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower,
ah... breathe on it softly, - it dies in an hour.
[The letter H.] Many of the same type of riddles have been floating around in this thread. :)

what kind of balls have you been playing with? :cool:
I'll never say. :p :D

A plane carrying 50 english passengers and 50 french passengers is on it's way to france. The pilot has a heart attack while driving the plane and the plane crashes before the co pilot can take over. Tha plane crashes exactly half way to its destination. Where were the survivors buried?
[You can't bury survivors! That's murder!]

I've heard ones like that a lot. Not in this thread, but around.

This train is on a triangular-shaped track, so there are three points; point A, point B and point C. The three tracks are identical in length, and are all on a flat surface. To get from point A to B, it takes one hour twenty minutes. To get from B to C, it takes eighty minutes. To get from C to A, it takes one hour twenty minutes. Why does the time taken differ on the B-C track?

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A farmer has to get a sack of corn, a chicken, and a fox across a river. The farmer is only