Riddles

[pevergreen]

You are in a concrete room. There is a steel pipe 25 centimetres in length cemented into the centre of the concrete floor. The pipe protudes about 15 centimetres. A Ping-Pong is dropped down the pipe. There is a fraction of a centimetre clearance around the ping-pong ball and the pipe. Your task is to get the ping-pong out of the steel pipe undamaged. The only items that are available are a wooden ruler, a ball of string, a pocket mirror, a paper clip and a small magnet. Since nothing else is allowed into the room, how could you get the plastic ping-pong ball out of the steel pipe?

[drone]

You pee in the pipe, the ball will float to the top. ~D

[Fragony]

Way to go drone! Too hard for me let's do easy.

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These mia muca's are coins, move one to get 4 horizontally and 4 vertically.

[pevergreen]

Put one from vertical on top of the second from bottom coin. :D

Howd you know that one! First person to have ever gotten it that ive ever seen!

What word has kst in the middle, in the beginning, and in the end?

[Vladimir]

Gry?

[Caius]

What word has kst in the middle, in the beginning, and in the end?
kst-kst-kst?

[Dutch_guy]

Howd you know that one! First person to have ever gotten it that ive ever seen!


I believe someone, it might actually be you, posted that riddle here at one point or the other. Both the riddle and solution ring a bell.

:balloon2:

[TruePraetorian]

Ha I remember this one from grade school...inkstand? in at the beginning, kst in the middle, and in the end.


O O O

O O O

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You can draw this one on a piece of paper if you want...

Start on any dot, connect all of the dots with four straight lines without lifting up your "pencil".

If that doesn't count as a riddle, then:
If a butcher wieghs 160lbs on one foot, what does he weigh on both feet?

[pevergreen]

lets see if i can represent the first one

https://img129.imageshack.us/img129/466/riddlesv7.png
Top left to middle bottom. Continue down, so you can do the entire right hand side. At top right continue up and then reverse and get top middle and middle left. Continue the line, then get Bottom Left and Middle.
160 pounds.

[Whacker]

There's also a solution like this that doesn't involve crossing over existing lines:

https://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9137/4linesolutionox0.gif

[Mouzafphaerre]

lets see if i can represent the first one

https://img129.imageshack.us/img129/466/riddlesv7.png
Top left to middle bottom. Continue down, so you can do the entire right hand side. At top right continue up and then reverse and get top middle and middle left. Continue the line, then get Bottom Left and Middle.
160 pounds.
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The man says straight lines; you've got gay diagonal lines! :gah2:
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[pevergreen]

but they are straight. He never said they had to be horizontal or verical. Just straight. There is no bend.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Short of using diagonal lines, it's impossible to get it done with only four lines anyway. :yes:
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[Lemur]

Let's go old-school:

What can run but never walks,
Has a mouth but never talks,
Has a bed but never sleeps,
Has a head but never weeps?

[Papewaio]

River

[Gregoshi]

And who will be the first smart-alec to ask "what have I got in my pocket?"

:inquisitive:

Ooops.

[Martok]

And who will be the first smart-alec to ask "what have I got in my pocket?"

:inquisitive:

Ooops.
Except wasn't Gollum's riddle about fish?

[Lemur]

Alright, since the river riddle was insufferably easy, let's see how quickly this one gets busted:

When there is fire in me then I am still cold
When I own your true love's face then you will not see me
To all things I give no more than I am given
In time I may have all things and yet I may keep nothing.

[ajaxfetish]

A Mirror?

Ajax

[Drisos]

https://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6808/riddleow1.jpg

took me half a minute in paint, so don't complain about straightness of the lines.. I'm sorry :P

[Fragony]

I believe someone, it might actually be you, posted that riddle here at one point or the other. Both the riddle and solution ring a bell.

:balloon2:

Got from hotel dusk, DS game

[TruePraetorian]

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Short of using diagonal lines, it's impossible to get it done with only four lines anyway. :yes:
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Sorry, you can use diagnols... it goes top right down to bottom left, then all the way up and out of the "box", then through the second one on the top until it connects two of them, then left through the rest...Ill post a pic later.

As for the second one; no he wieghs meat silly.

[Whacker]

People, people. The original instructions posted said straight lines. A straight line does NOT need to be perfectly horizontal or vertical to be straight, it can go in any direction. Thus, any of the solutions thus far will work. :smash:

[ajaxfetish]

People, people. The original instructions posted said straight lines. A straight line does NOT need to be perfectly horizontal or vertical to be straight, it can go in any direction. Thus, any of the solutions thus far will work. :smash:
Though I'm most satisfied with Drisos solution so far. All of the others require the points to be circles with surface area to work, Drisos' would work even if they're mere points.

Ajax

[Vladimir]

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The man says straight lines; you've got gay diagonal lines! :gah2:
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Well as we all learned from a survey here, even the straightest are at least a little, um, diagonal.

[Gregoshi]

...mere points.

Mere points? Don't you go dissin' my point bretheren! Just think about what life would be like if it was pointless. <insert numerous geometry puns here> Heck Ajax, even your post has a point, and a good one too. :laugh4:

[Whacker]

Though I'm most satisfied with Drisos solution so far. All of the others require the points to be circles with surface area to work, Drisos' would work even if they're mere points.

Ajax This would be the more "kosher" way of drawing what he did, which is also a valid solution, provided the rules don't require no crossing of previously drawn lines. I've seen this often as well.

https://img528.imageshack.us/img528/3253/solution2xi6.png

Edit - Nevermind, he must have updated it.

:bow:

[Somebody Else]

I can do it in one line.

Just remove one of the dimensions, so that it's now 1d, then draw line through 'squished' dots!

[Vladimir]

I can do it in one line.

Just remove one of the dimensions, so that it's now 1d, then draw line through 'squished' dots!

Hmm, you know, they didn't specify the width of the line either.

[Drisos]

So these two haven't been done yet?

"What word has kst in the middle, in the beginning, and in the end?"

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"You are in a concrete room. There is a steel pipe 25 centimetres in length cemented into the centre of the concrete floor. The pipe protudes about 15 centimetres. A Ping-Pong is dropped down the pipe. There is a fraction of a centimetre clearance around the ping-pong ball and the pipe. Your task is to get the ping-pong out of the steel pipe undamaged. The only items that are available are a wooden ruler, a ball of string, a pocket mirror, a paper clip and a small magnet. Since nothing else is allowed into the room, how could you get the plastic ping-pong ball out of the steel pipe?"

but.. we need more. I can't think of any atm. I'll see what I can come up with later on..

[Mouzafphaerre]

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"What word has kst in the middle, in the beginning, and in the end?"
inkstand done. ~;p
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[pevergreen]

First one has been done also.

I shall fetch two more.

Ok.

If a third of six is three, what is half of twenty?


and


Four men sat down to play,
They played all night 'till break of day,
They played for gold and not for fun
With separate scores for everyone.
When they came to square accounts,
They all had made quite fair amounts.
Can you the paradox explain,
If no one lost, how could all gain?

[sapi]

If a third of six is three, what is half of twenty?My guess would be 10, the fact that a third of six is three doesn't change the meaning of a half.



Four men sat down to play,
They played all night 'till break of day,
They played for gold and not for fun
With separate scores for everyone.
When they came to square accounts,
They all had made quite fair amounts.
Can you the paradox explain,
If no one lost, how could all gain?They weren't playing each other ~:)

[pevergreen]

Sorry, both incorrect.

[Mouzafphaerre]

First one has been done also.

I shall fetch two more.

Ok.

If a third of six is three, what is half of twenty?


and


Four men sat down to play,
They played all night 'till break of day,
They played for gold and not for fun
With separate scores for everyone.
When they came to square accounts,
They all had made quite fair amounts.
Can you the paradox explain,
If no one lost, how could all gain?
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They were a string quartet?
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[TevashSzat]

If a third of six is three, what is half of twenty?


15

In regards to this sentence, 1/3 = 1/2 since 3/6= 1/2. 1/3 multiplied by 3/2 is 1/2 so 1/3 of 20 is 1/2 of 20 or 10 multiplied by 1.5 to get 15.


Four men sat down to play,
They played all night 'till break of day,
They played for gold and not for fun
With separate scores for everyone.
When they came to square accounts,
They all had made quite fair amounts.
Can you the paradox explain,
If no one lost, how could all gain?


Music. The four men were part of a quartet.

They played for money as in that was their job. Separate scores meant that they had
different sheets of music which is also known as a score

I am reasonably sure that I got them correct so heres mine:

You are in a house with a ground floor and a basement.

On the ground floor there are three light bulbs that looks exactly the same and are placed next to each other.

In the basement, there are three unlabeled switches with each for one of the light bulbs.

If there is no way to look at the light bulbs from the basement, and there is nothing else in the house, how do you determine which switch is for which light bulb?

Edit: My post count is l33T!

[pevergreen]

First one yes. The answer i have is

15. The question is worded to make it confusing. Instead of considering how 3 can be a third of 6, work out what three is one third of, which is 9. By using the same sort of reasoning, you know that half of twenty is ten and therefore ten is one third of 30. Consequently, if three is on third of six, 15 must be half of twenty.

And for the other one: The players were professional musicians.

What is the value of 1/2 of 2/3 of 3/4 of 4/5 of 5/6 of 7/8 of 8/9 of 9/10 of one thousand?

[TevashSzat]

I think you missed a 6/7 there, but shouldn't it just be 100?

[pevergreen]

yes. :tongue: On both accounts. Bah.

Anyone else got some?

[ajaxfetish]

I am reasonably sure that I got them correct so heres mine:

You are in a house with a ground floor and a basement.

On the ground floor there are three light bulbs that looks exactly the same and are placed next to each other.

In the basement, there are three unlabeled switches with each for one of the light bulbs.

If there is no way to look at the light bulbs from the basement, and there is nothing else in the house, how do you determine which switch is for which light bulb?

Edit: My post count is l33T!
I think you should specify that you only get to go to the ground floor once. Otherwise you could just flip one switch, go check it, flip another, go check it, etc.

Ajax

[pevergreen]

You leave one on for a long time, then go check. Turn a diff one on.

One will be off the entire time, one will be hot from being on a while, and the third will be just turned on.

[TevashSzat]

pevergreen your correct

[pevergreen]

Bump for more. Mine seem to be too easy.

[Lemur]

Okay, I want help with a riddle that has bothered me for ages. Read it in a book years ago.

The riddles is posed like this:


I sat with my love, and I drank with my love, and my love she gave me light. I'll give any man a pint o'wine, that'll read my riddle right.

Another character answers:


I sat in a chair made of my love's bones, drank from her skull, and saw by the light of a candle made from her fat. There. Are you satisfied?

For the life of me I have never puzzled this one out. Help appreciated, since you clever Orgahs whipped through every other riddle.

[Csargo]

I don't understand what you don't get.

[pevergreen]

Doesnt sound like there is anything to answer.

[Lemur]

Very amusing, lads. Now if anyone wants to pose a serious answer ...

[Marcellus]

Okay, I want help with a riddle that has bothered me for ages. Read it in a book years ago.

The riddles is posed like this:


I sat with my love, and I drank with my love, and my love she gave me light. I'll give any man a pint o'wine, that'll read my riddle right.

Another character answers:


I sat in a chair made of my love's bones, drank from her skull, and saw by the light of a candle made from her fat. There. Are you satisfied?

For the life of me I have never puzzled this one out. Help appreciated, since you clever Orgahs whipped through every other riddle.

The second person has solved the riddle by suggesting that the questioner murdered his wife: there is no puzzle remaining. It would have been clearer had he replied 'You sat in a chair made of your love's bones...'.

However, after some searching I came across this (http://www.arschkrebs.de/sandman/annotations/sandman.17.shtml) source (about half way down the page, marked 'page 11'), which suggests an alternative, less macabre answer: his love was a bottle of wine.

* The Fool:
A riddle. I sat with my love, and I drank with my love, and my love she gave me light. I'll give any man a pint o'wine, that'll read my riddle right. Only I don't have a pint of wine. Do you give up?
* Tim Hunter:
I don't understand the question.
* The Fool:
How about your friend?
* Mister E:
It is an evil rhyme, and it has an evil answer.
* The Fool:
Oh so? But can you riddle it?
* Mister E:
I sat in a chair made of my love's bones, drank from her skull, and saw by the light of a candle made from her fat. There. Are you satisfied, fool? Let us leave this place, Timothy Hunter.

It may be that the "true" answer to this riddle is "wine". The teller sits with a bottle of wine and drinks from it; a candle is stuck in a wine bottle and lit. This is why the Fool doesn't have a pint of wine, he drank it.

Mister E, as a consequence of his character, may simply be taking the most evil interpretation that he can.

[ajaxfetish]

While we're on the subject of answers to riddles, my favorite response to Carroll's classic

"How is a raven like a writing desk?"

is

"Because both begins with b."

Ajax

[drone]

Here's an Army riddle I heard once:

You are a lieutenant. For this task you have a squad consisting of a sergeant and 4 men. Equipment consists of a 30' flagpole and two lengths of rope measuring 40' and 20'. There is a 10' deep hole dug. How do you raise the flagpole?

Answer:
"Sergeant! Get this flagpole up!"

[sapi]

Here's an Army riddle I heard once:

You are a lieutenant. For this task you have a squad consisting of a sergeant and 4 men. Equipment consists of a 30' flagpole and two lengths of rope measuring 40' and 20'. There is a 10' deep hole dug. How do you raise the flagpole?

Answer:
"Sergeant! Get this flagpole up!"
:laugh4:

[Moros]

Which side of a duck has the most feathers?

[drone]

Which side of a duck has the most feathers?
The out side.

[Moros]

correct lol that was an easy one wasn't it. Another one:

You lay 8 matches on a table, you take four matches. Now you have 7 (on the table).
How?

[Martok]

correct lol that was an easy one wasn't it. Another one:

You lay 8 matches on a table, you take four matches. Now you have 7.
How?
I already had 3 in my hand?

[Moros]

No, 7 on the table. sorry for not being clear.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Two fathers and two sons go to a restaurant. They order three chickens. How many chickens will each of them have? (Equal amount.)
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[ajaxfetish]

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Two fathers and two sons go to a restaurant. They order three chickens. How many chickens will each of them have? (Equal amount.)
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I'm going to say 3 because I'm suspecting it's a man with his father and his grandfather.

Ajax

[Moros]

Don't you mean one?

[drone]

Another one:

You lay 8 matches on a table, you take four matches. Now you have 7 (on the table).
How?
I'm guessing they are laid out like this:


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and 4 are removed so you are left with:

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[Moros]

That's correct, well the solution I had was:
\ / | | | | | |

take four away:

\ / | |

but your's is definately correct too.

Another one?

Irk says that Dirk lies, Dirk says that Kirk lies, and Kirk says that both Irk and Dirk are lying.
Who is lying?

[Mouzafphaerre]

I'm going to say 3 because I'm suspecting it's a man with his father and his grandfather.

Ajax
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:yes:
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[Good Ship Chuckle]

If you are in an elevator traveling faster thatn the speed of light, what happens to the light when you turn a flashlight on?
~My thanks to Einstein for this one.

[SwordsMaster]

If you are in an elevator traveling faster thatn the speed of light, what happens to the light when you turn a flashlight on?
~My thanks to Einstein for this one.

It lags the elevator. Depends on where you point it also...

[ajaxfetish]

Don't you mean one?
errr . . . yes. :embarassed:

Ajax

[Good Ship Chuckle]

It lags the elevator. Depends on where you point it also...

Ding...ding...ding!
Your are correct, come on down! Here's your prise---> :2cents:
Don't spend it all at once.:tongue3:

When you turn on the flashlight, the light will seem as if it is bending down to the floor, but this is actually because the elevator catches up to the light.

[seireikhaan]

Another one?

Irk says that Dirk lies, Dirk says that Kirk lies, and Kirk says that both Irk and Dirk are lying.
Who is lying?
None of them.

[LittleGrizzly]

Posted by Moros
Another one?

Irk says that Dirk lies, Dirk says that Kirk lies, and Kirk says that both Irk and Dirk are lying.
Who is lying?

They are all lying..?

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Another one?

Irk says that Dirk lies, Dirk says that Kirk lies, and Kirk says that both Irk and Dirk are lying.
Who is lying?
You are! :girlslap:
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[Lord Winter]

A certain small town in north dakatoa has 5% of there population unlisted. If you where to select 105 names at random out of the phone book how many of them would be unlisted?

[TevashSzat]

None. By being listed in the phonebook, you cannot be unlisted.

Add punctuation to the following phrase to make something gramatically and logically coherent:

is is not not not is not is is is is not is not is it not

[Somebody Else]

'is' is not 'not', 'not' is not 'is'; 'is' is 'is', 'not' is 'not'. is 'it' 'not'?

[Lord Winter]

None. By being listed in the phonebook, you cannot be unlisted.

Add punctuation to the following phrase to make something gramatically and logically coherent:

is is not not not is not is is is is not is not is it not


:yes:

[sapi]

That's correct, well the solution I had was:
\ / | | | | | |

take four away:

\ / | |

but your's is definately correct too.

Another one?

Irk says that Dirk lies, Dirk says that Kirk lies, and Kirk says that both Irk and Dirk are lying.
Who is lying?
As has been said, it has to be everyone, no one person can be telling the truth ~:)

[pevergreen]

Its Dirk.

Dirk says Kirk is lying, But Kirk is lying because he said both are lying. Only 1 is, therefore his statement is false.

[sapi]

Its Dirk.

Dirk says Kirk is lying, But Kirk is lying because he said both we lying. Only 1 is, therefore his statement is false.
If Dirk is telling the truth, isn't Kirk lieing, thus Irk telling the truth, and thus Dirk lieing?

Or are we allowed to take Kirk's statement as 50% false? ~:)

[Drisos]

If a third of six is three, what is half of twenty?

5 came to mind.. since a third is 1/3 and a half is 1/5

Your version is logic too though :P


That's correct, well the solution I had was:
\ / | | | | | |

take four away:

\ / | |

I don't understand :dizzy2: how is that related to 7?

[drone]

I don't understand :dizzy2: how is that related to 7?
The first 4 matches in his line are laid out like roman numerals.

[TevashSzat]

'is' is not 'not', 'not' is not 'is'; 'is' is 'is', 'not' is 'not'. is 'it' 'not'?

Thats essentially the answer, except I had is it not? without any ""

[sapi]

5 came to mind.. since a third is 1/3 and a half is 1/5

Your version is logic too though :PBut a half is 1/2, isn't it, and 1/5 one fifth (.2)? :inquisitive:

[pevergreen]

:inquisitive: I just read that too.

[PershsNhpios]

Ahem.

If you are in an elevator travelling faster than the speed of light, holding a flashlight, and you attempt to turn it on, you will be unconscious before your thumb manages to trigger the light.

Either this or that circumstance's warped sense of gravity would cause a somewhat nightmarish, garish result.

My respect is found in Einstein's memory however.

[Moros]

I don't believe anyone gave the right awnser to the riddle of the (potential) three liars.

[pevergreen]

OP of it clarify?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Irk says that Dirk lies, Dirk says that Kirk lies, and Kirk says that both Irk and Dirk are lying.
Who is lying?Irk and Dirk are lying.

It sounds fairly illogical, yet Irk says that Dirk lies, Dirk says that Kirk lies and Kirk says that both Irk and Dirk are lying.

I'm not sure if this is right - I never was very good at riddles ~:(

[Moros]

Still not correct.

[Somebody Else]

Dirk is telling the truth. The others are not. Let there be cake.

[Moros]

Dirk is telling the truth. The others are not. Let there be cake.
correct.

[Moros]

Make 1000 by using only the number Eight. (you can't use 88, 888 or something only 8) You can use the following math functions:
'x' (or '.' ) , ':' (or '/' ), '+', '-' and '(' or ')'

No composed numbers, so
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
is wrong.

[drone]

Make 1000 by using only the number Eight. (you can't use 88, 888 or something only 8) You can use the following math functions:
'x' (or '.' ) , ':' (or '/' ), '+', '-' and '(' or ')'

No composed numbers, so
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
is wrong.
8 = 1000
8 (base 10) = 1000 (base 2) ~D
probably not the answer you are looking for...

[Moros]

only multiplying, divisions, + and -. You can also use these ( ).

[Myrddraal]

Make 1000 by using only the number Eight. (you can't use 88, 888 or something only 8) You can use the following math functions:
'x' (or '.' ) , ':' (or '/' ), '+', '-' and '(' or ')'

No composed numbers, so
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
is wrong.

(8 * 8 * 8) + (8 * 8 * 8) - 8 - 8 - 8 = 1000

There are loads of ways of solving this one...
(8*8*8) + (8*8) + (8*8) + (8*8) + (8*8) + (8*8) + (8*8) + (8*8) + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000

[Moros]

(8 * 8 * 8) + (8 * 8 * 8) - 8 - 8 - 8 = 1000

There are loads of ways of solving this one...
(8*8*8) + (8*8) + (8*8) + (8*8) + (8*8) + (8*8) + (8*8) + (8*8) + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
Sorry I was a moro(n/s). You can only use the number 8 eight times.

[Myrddraal]

In 7:

(8 + 8)*8*8 - 8 - 8 - 8 = 1000


EDIT: Unless you mean I have to use it 8 times. Give me a sec...

In exactly 8 8's:

(8*8 + 8*8)*8 - 8 - 8 - 8

[Moros]

Meh. Talking about an easy solution. Lol damn.

[ajaxfetish]

correct.
Pevergreen already had it. See post #75.

Ajax