riddles




Posted by psp

Answer the riddle and the post a new one. Free rep for every correct answer.
Riddle: What weighs more, a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?




Posted by Echo

....They weigh the same. That one was lame, by the way.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

What have I got in my pocket?

It was bound to happen sooner or later.



Okay, seriously. Why is a raven like a writing desk?




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire

Because it can produce a few notes, though they're very flat.

or

"I haven't the slightest idea,"




Posted by Poison


Quoting Wings:
Okay, seriously. Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Because the raven is weird! ...I swear, the real answer better not be LAME!



Posted by Vampiro V. Empire


Quoted post: I swear, the real answer better not be LAME!


If it's from Alice in Wonderland, I already gave the correct answer.



Posted by The Judge

I begin eternity
and end space
I am at the end of time
and in every place
last to life
second to death
never alone
found in your breath
contained by the elements:
Earth Water and Flame
my granduer so awesome
Wind dare not tame
not in your mind
I am in your dreams
vacant to kings
present to queens.

What am I?




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire

The letter "e"




Posted by The Judge

Have I told you that one before?




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire


Quoted post: Have I told you that one before?


I believe you have. ;)



Posted by brownoystercult

What can you catch but not throw?




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire

a cold




Posted by brownoystercult

WTF HACKS

A man walks into a pub and sits down at the bar, and simply orders a water. The bartender looks at the man, and then, quickly pulls out a shotgun and points it at the man. The man says "Thank you," and leaves. Why did they behave this way?




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire

He had the hiccups

Worst riddle ever?




Posted by brownoystercult

F*ck this guy is good.

Try this one you whore >:O

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go?




Posted by sabre

Didn't go anywhere, the maths is wrong. Look at it in terms of where the original cash went:

[code] 30 (the amount that the clerk was holding)
- 1 ]
- 1 ] (the amount the friends got back each)
- 1 ]
- 2 (the bellhop's keep)
= 25 (the amount the clerk kept: he gave




Posted by brownoystercult

The facts in this riddle are clear: There is an initial $30 charge. It should have been $25, so $5 must be returned and accounted for. $3 is given to the 3 friends, $2 is kept by the bellhop - there you have the $5. The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking - and quite successfully for most. Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay $9, not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid $27 for the night. But we know that the clerk will tell us that they were charged only $25 and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by the bellhop, you come up with $30.

Well, that's the answer :/




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

I thought the Carroll riddle had no answer...




Posted by The Judge

He who makes me doesn't use me.
He who buys me doesn't need me.
He who uses me doesn't care.




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire

Counterfit money.

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.




Posted by The Judge

I have no idea, but by the by, the answer was a coffin. I'll repost your riddle in case someone else knows:

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.




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire


Quoted post: I have no idea, but by the by, the answer was a coffin.


I've heard the riddle a dozen times, and I've never heard "coffin" as an answer. Though it seems to work, so whatever.



Posted by The Judge

Reveal the answer to your riddle. :(




Posted by G-Sides

I've seen this one before, the answer is darkness.

I'm not posting one. 8-)




Posted by The Judge

Darkness doesn't work there. :(




Posted by mis0

It can.

Rich people don't have it but poor people do,
You can't see it,
You can hold it in your hand,
and you can eat it but eating it will kill you.




Posted by brownoystercult

Nothing.




Posted by G-Sides

k

1, 11, 21, 1211, _____

What's the next number? (Hint: It's not a mathematical pattern.)




Posted by The Judge

31337

An Iron beaked bird with a neck made of pine
it flies through the air with its wings left behind
it lies in its nest with its feet in the air
if you hear it coming it's already there




Posted by G-Sides

It's an arrow, but you, sir, are incorrect. (even though you probably did that on purpose because you got pwned. :( )

"1, 11, 21, 1211, _____

What's the next number? (Hint: It's not a mathematical pattern.)"




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

2122, at best guess.




Posted by Acheron


Quoting G-Sides: 1, 11, 21, 1211, _____


1231.



Posted by G-Sides

Wrong still.


1, 11, 21, 1211, _____

The answer is 111221.

How? Well, each number describes the number before it. 11 would come after 1 because in 1, there is one one (or 11). 21 would come after 11 because there are two ones (or 21.) 1211 would come after 21 because in 21, there is one two and one one (or 1211).

111221 would come after 1211 because in 1211, there is one one, one two, and two ones (or 111221). :)



Not posting a new riddle.



EDIT: [quote]The Judge disagrees: OMFG YOU DIDN'T ANSWER MINE YET
Erm, actually, I did.




Posted by The Judge

we love it more than life, we fear it more than death
it's taller than the tallest mountain and deeper than the deepest ocean
the rich want it, the poor have it
babies are born with it, and if you eat it you die.

EDIT: OK, sorry, I missed the answer, but either way, an eye for an eye, and a useless derepping for a useless derepping.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

****, and I knew that number one.
Oh, and Judge - Misoxeny posted that. It's 'Nothing'.


Easy one: Middle of middle and end of the end.




Posted by G-Sides


Quoting Misoxeny: Rich people don't have it but poor people do,
You can't see it,
You can hold it in your hand,
and you can eat it but eating it will kill you.



Quoting The Judge: we love it more than life, we fear it more than death
it's taller than the tallest mountain and deeper than the deepest ocean
the rich want it, the poor have it
babies are born with it, and if you eat it you die.


Hm?



Posted by The Judge

Mine was more poetic.

And whereas the answer to mine is "nothing" the answer to Miso's is "Low-grade invisible plutonium."




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

READ MY POST K THX




Posted by The Judge

NO U.




Posted by brownoystercult

The three wisest sages in the land were brought before the king to see which of them were worthy to become the king's advisor. After passing many tests of cunning and invention, they were pitted against each other in a final battle of the wits.

Led blind-folded into a small room, the sages were seated around a small wooden table as the king described the test for them.

"Upon each of your heads I have placed a hat. Now you are either wearing a blue hat or a white hat. All I will tell you is this- at least one of you is wearing a blue hat. There may be only one blue hat and two white hats, there may be two blue hats and one white hat, or there may be three blue hats. But you may be certain that there are not three white hats."

"I will shortly remove your blind folds, and the test will begin. The first to correctly announce the colour of his hat shall be my advisor. Be warned however, he who guesses wrongly shall be beheaded. If not one of you answers within the hour, you will be sent home and I will seek elsewhere for wisdom."

With that, the king uncovered the sages' eyes and sat in the corner and waited. One sage looked around and saw that his competitors each were wearing blue hats. From the look in their eyes he could see their thoughts were the same as his, "What is the colour of my hat?"

For what seemed like hours no one spoke. Finally he stood up and said, "The colour of the hat I am wearing is . . ."




Posted by The Judge

White.

EDIT: Wait....Blue!




Posted by brownoystercult

White..joking :D Yeah, you're correct.

The paragraph below is most unusual. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?



"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honour got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby , walking towards that group, saw a youg girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "

The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930's




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

****. And I was going to say blue, but wasted time answering it fully with reasoning.


In fact, give me the reasoning, because I'm fairly sure that's worded wrongly.




Posted by The Judge

Wait...was it white or blue? And why?




Posted by brownoystercult

Wings, here is the answer: The hat is blue.



At first glance, this problem appears to be impossible to solve. Contributing to this is the feeling that the King's only real clue - that there is at least one blue hat - is useless since the sage can clearly see that there are at least two blue hats.

Don't feel bad if you sat stuck on this one for a while: as the puzzle clearly states, so did the three wisest sages in the kingdom. It is this fact that allowed our sage to give his answer. In truth, any one of them would have come up with it, given enough time. Why?

Consider a situation which we knew was not the case- that there was exactly one blue hat. What would happen? There would be a split second of pondering by the person wearing that hat, and he would say "I am wearing a blue hat." No real puzzle there, but of course there wasn't just one blue hat. The important fact is that everyone knew there was not one blue hat. But more importantly than that, everyone knew, or could quickly figure out that everyone else knew this (by the fact that answer was did not come out in the first few seconds.)

This leaves everyone wondering, "Are there two or three blue hats?"

Consider this less obvious situation- that there were exactly two blue hats. This seems a very real possibility at first, after all, we can see exactly two blue hats. So everyone sits and thinks- for a little while. But if there are only two hats, then two people see one blue and one white hat. These two people will very quickly, by virtue of the other's silence, rule out the possibility that there is only one blue hat. One of these two lucky sages would cry blue within a few short minutes, if that long.

There is only one case which forces the three sages to sit in silence - three blue hats. Our sage, through his sharp wits was the first to reach this conclusion.

'Tis be of course, ripped off of a site.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Ah, yes - there were TWO LEVELS of shouting out about their own colour, where I only delved into the one.




Posted by G-Sides


Quoting Roinkz: White..joking :D Yeah, you're correct.

The paragraph below is most unusual. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?



"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honour got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby , walking towards that group, saw a youg girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "

The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930's


There's no E?



Posted by brownoystercult

You got it, G-Sides.

Someone else post a riddle >:O




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

And G-Sides wins the Internet for noticing that puzzle was even THERE.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke
different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

Now: Who owns the fish?

Hints:
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

Albert Einstein wrote this riddle, and at the time, only 2% of people in the world were said to be able to solve it - these days, I like to think that it's lowered to 1%.


EDIT: And you're only cheating yourself if you trawl the net for the answer.




Posted by The Judge

This is the most intelligent thread on VGC.

And no I'm not gonna answer yet, cause work's done and it's time to go home.




Posted by brownoystercult

The swede.. wait. German? One of those? :(




Posted by G-Sides

THIS CALLS FOR A MATRIX GRID




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Roinkz, you need to WORK IT OUT.

And if you've already done it before you found this thread, let people work it out.

As a guideline, it took me forty-five minutes.




Posted by Bebop

What's long, hard and full of seamen?

A submarine! Lol olol l




Posted by brownoystercult

Wings. I've came to the conclusion. It's the German. I'm almost positive.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

I'll need the colour of house, plz.




Posted by G-Sides

NATETHESHIZNI t: GOT IT
NATETHESHIZNI t: GERMAN
NATETHESHIZNI t: DRINKS COFFEE
NATETHESHIZNI t: GREEN HOUSE
NATETHESHIZNI t: FISH
NATETHESHIZNI t: =
willeththefourth: well done
NATETHESHIZNI t: F*CKING YEAH
NATETHESHIZNI t: \m/

Matrix grids help a bunch.




Posted by brownoystercult

I was away getting bass guitar lessons, at this fool takes my answer! GRAH!




Posted by Acheron


Quoting G-Sides: Wrong still.


No, it's just an alternate solution. If you look closely, you'll notice that 1211 contains one two and three ones.



Posted by Killer Jordo

How many letters in the alphabet




Posted by brownoystercult

Eight




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Eleven, you FOOL.




Posted by Poison

...26, ****ing losers.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Darn! Out double-bluffed!




Posted by The Judge

If I own 3 non-black shirts, and 0 non-black jeans, and I'm wearing jeans and a t-shirt right now, what color are each?




Posted by Acheron

Dude you never wear anything besides black so they're both black.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

WIN




Posted by The Judge

You sir are correct. Even the pen I'm chewing on right now is black.

My only comment is g*d d*mn it's hot.




Posted by G-Sides

A man parked his car infront of a hotel and immediately knew he was bankrupt. HOW




Posted by Acheron

He ran over three presidents, five prime ministers, and seventeen CEOs?




Posted by Killer Jordo

Answer to mine is 11.

ForG-Sides. Maybe because his car was a piece of [COLOR=White]shi[/COLOR]t




Posted by TheresaL


Quoting The Judge: 31337

An Iron beaked bird with a neck made of pine
it flies through the air with its wings left behind
it lies in its nest with its feet in the air
if you hear it coming it's already there


an arrow



Posted by NightmareBassX

Always invisible, yet never out of sight. What are they?




Posted by Bebop

....Silence




Posted by NightmareBassX

[QUOTE=Bebop]....Silence




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire

"I" and "S"




Posted by NightmareBassX

Yup, I don't want to post another riddle... Someone else.




Posted by Tinkleheimer

U2 have a concert that starts in 17 minutes and they must all cross a bridge to get there. All four men begin on the same side of the bridge. You must help them across to the other side. It is night. There is one flashlight.

A maximum of two people can cross at one time. Any party that crosses the bridge, either 1 or 2 people, must have the flashlight with them. The flashlight must be carried back and forth, it cannot be thrown, etc. Each band member walks at a different speed. A pair must walk together at the rate of the slower man's pace:

* Bono: - 1 minute to cross
* Edge: - 2 minutes to cross
* Adam: - 5 minutes to cross
* Larry: - 10 minutes to cross

For example: if Bono and Larry walk across first, 10 minutes have elapsed by the time they get to the other side of the bridge. If Larry then returns with the flashlight, a total of 20 minutes have passed and you have failed the mission.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Hah, I had that puzzle in Maths a few months ago. It is possible but I've forgotten how...

EDIT: Remembered!

Bono crosses with Adam first, and Bono comes back. That's 3 minutes.
Edge crosses with Larry. That's 10 minutes (and 13 in total)
Adam then comes back. That's another 2 minutes. (15 in total)
And Adam crosses with Bono, another 2 minutes, making 17 in total.

However, of course, the time taken for U2 to figure this out would mean that they were late for the concert anyway, especially if the venue's doors weren't directly at the end of the bridge... :p




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire

I've heard this one before... though it was with different people I think...

Edge-Bono, 2 minutes
Edge returns, 4 minutes
Adam-Larry, 14 minutes
Bono returns, 15 minutes
Edge-Bono, 17 minutes

Edit: Wings beat me to it... I think.




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Yeah, I did, muhaha.




Posted by Fei-on Castor

Anyone gonna post another? I have an easy one if no one does.




Posted by Vv_Alien_vV

A prisoner is told "If you tell a lie we will hang you,but if you tell the truth we will shoot you." What can he say to save himself?




Posted by WILLETH FOR MONTHS

Nothing at all. Easy.




Posted by Vv_Alien_vV

no haha Good Answer but not the one that im looking for ne one else




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire

"You will hang me"




Posted by Vv_Alien_vV

Yes correct because if they hang him he told the truth and if they shoot him he lied




Posted by Fei-on Castor

Driving down a road, you come to a fork in the road, and there lies a house. In the house live two girls, twins. They are identical, except that one always is lying, and the other always telling the truth. You aren't sure which way to go on the road, and you can ask either girl only question, but you're not sure which is which. So what one question could you ask either girl to determine which way to go?




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire

"Which path would your sister say was the right path"


Or something like that...




Posted by Fei-on Castor


Quoting Vampiro: "Which path would your sister say was the right path"


Or something like that...

Vampiro for the win.



Posted by Vv_Alien_vV

yea he is good




Posted by maian

How do you stuff a giraffe into a refrigerator?

...Since the answer is so incredibly lame, I'll tell it. That's just the beginning of it. Use the answers from the previous questions to answer the next.

You open the door, put the giraffe in, and close it.

How do you stuff an elephant into a refridgerator?

The animal king of the jungle is calling a large animal conferance. Every animal except for one shows up. Which one didn't attend?

Meanwhile, three explorers need to cross a wide river while in the jungle. There's no bridge, rope swings, rocks, or anyway to get across without getting wet, and it's crocodile infested. How do they cross?




Posted by Poison

[QUOTE=maian]
How do you stuff an elephant into a refridgerator?
1- take the giraffe out and put the elephant in.
[QUOTE=maian] The animal king of the jungle is calling a large animal conferance. Every animal except for one shows up. Which one didn't attend?
2- the elephant, he was still in the refrigerator.
[QUOTE=maian] Meanwhile, three explorers need to cross a wide river while in the jungle. There's no bridge, rope swings, rocks, or anyway to get across without getting wet, and it's crocodile infested. How do they cross?
3- he just swims across, the crocodiles are at the animal conference meeting.


What bonds two things while ripping them apart?




Posted by Fei-on Castor

There's a man, in a room, with only two objects, a mirror, and a board.

No doors, no windows... How does he get out?

(Note: This one is kinda lame, but funny)




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire

Look in the mirror, see what you saw. Take the saw, cut the board in half. Put them back together to make it whole. Climb out through the whole.

Yeah, lame.




Posted by Fei-on Castor


Quoting Vampiro: Look in the mirror, see what you saw. Take the saw, cut the board in half. Put them back together to make it whole. Climb out through the whole.

Yeah, lame.

Just repped you, so I can't now, but I owe you some rep. Not for solving the riddle, but for pointing out that it was lame, which it, in fact, was.

A woman walks into a restaurant, and she asks for a glass of water. The man whom she had asked immediately pulled out a gun, and pointed it at her, unexpected. She smiled, said thank you, the man put his gun away, and she walked out.

What happened?

And no, it's not a squirt gun.



Posted by NightmareBassX

Hicupps (Spelled right?) I think...




Posted by Vampiro V. Empire


Quoted post: A woman walks into a restaurant, and she asks for a glass of water. The man whom she had asked immediately pulled out a gun, and pointed it at her, unexpected. She smiled, said thank you, the man put his gun away, and she walked out.

What happened?


Already asked I believe.



Posted by Fei-on Castor


Quoting NightmareBassX: Hicupps (Spelled right?) I think...

Yep.

[quote=Vampage]Already asked I believe.

My bad, wasn't aware...