Just for abit of fun.
Get the old noggin working.

"In the basement there are 3 light switches in the off position. Each switch controls 1 of 3 light bulbs on the floor above. You may move any of the switches, but you may only go up stairs one time. How can you determine which switch controls each light?"

Switch two of the lights on.

Hang around a bit.

Switch one of the two "on" lights off.

Go upstairs

Obviously the light that's on corresponds to the light you left on downstairs.

Feel the temperature of the two lights that are off.

The hot one is the one you switched on and off

The cold one is the one you left switched off.

Damnit Paul. I should have known you'd get it. =]

Nice one.
Can you post a riddle of you're own now please? :)

Switch two of the lights on.

Hang around a bit.

Switch one of the two "on" lights off.

Go upstairs

Obviously the light that's on corresponds to the light you left on downstairs.

Feel the temperature of the two lights that are off.

The hot one is the one you switched on and off

The cold one is the one you left switched off.

I would've turned only one on, left that for a bit then turned it off. Then turn one of the others on, leaving one untouched. The warm off light would be the first, the cold off light would be third and the on light would be the second.

I would've turned only one on, left that for a bit then turned it off. Then turn one of the others on, leaving one untouched. The warm off light would be the first, the cold off light would be third and the on light would be the second.
Why is this fundamentally any different to my method?

In fairness, I'd heard the answer before.

I'll post a riddle when I get the chance, but everyone feel free to post another one, to keep the thread moving.

Why is this fundamentally any different to my method?

It isn't. It's almost the same. In fact, my post was actually completely pointless... apart from the fact that it demonstrated that I too, knew the answer.

But I too had heard it before...

Except that you do save up more energy.

What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

:p

What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

:p

A keyboard.

Damn, now I need to come up with two riddles.

Here's a really easy one.

What time is always coming but never arrives?

Tomorrow is a fairly obvious answer.

Although I suppose the Future is more accurate.

Tomorrow is a fairly obvious answer.

Although I suppose the Future is more accurate.

yes it is tommorow. I was going to say what day is always coming but never arives, but then it would be a bit too obvious.

There are two men in a boat. They have 3 cigarettes and nothing else. How do they manage to smoke?

There are two men in a boat. They have 3 cigarettes and nothing else. How do they manage to smoke?

Does this require some sort of special knowledge about cigarettes and how they are lit? Or is it more a trick thing requiring some sort of play on words?

There are two men in a boat. They have 3 cigarettes and nothing else. How do they manage to smoke?

The boat they are on has a smoking funnel on it or something?
I dunno!? *Shrugs*

There are two men in a boat. They have 3 cigarettes and nothing else. How do they manage to smoke?
They break off 2 bits from the boat and scratch them together to start a fire. For the fuel, they could use either more bits from the boat, if it's made of wood, or a person's hair.


I have a tail and a head, but I have no body. I am NOT a snake. What am I?

Hehe, this is a slight trick. Not sure if it's right.

They throw one cigarette overboard, thus making the boat a Cigarette Lighter.

I have a tail and a head, but I have no body. I am NOT a snake. What am I?

A coin.


I am everywhere until you say my name. What am I?


...I'm sure this one has been done to death...but oh well.

I am everywhere until you say my name. What am I?

Silence.

. .

I am everywhere until you say my name. What am I?


...I'm sure this one has been done to death...but oh well.
I would have said 'silence', but that one's not everywhere anymore if you say anything at all.
Umm... 'God'? Because he leaves when he realises that it means someone's about to pray to him again?

Umm... 'God'? Because he leaves when he realises that it means someone's about to pray to him again?
Do some research before you start saying stuff like that, would ya?
If you want to know the truth on why God permits suffering, PM me.

Since no one posted another riddle...


You want to build a stone wall around your 12'x20' garden. If the bricks are 6" high & 6" wide and 1' long,. How many bricks will you need to make a wall 6" wide & 4' tall ?

You want to build a stone wall around your 12'x20' garden. If the bricks are 6" high & 6" wide and 1' long,. How many bricks will you need to make a wall 6" wide & 4' tall ?

One.

However, if you want the wall to go around the garden, then you will need 64.
64 Bricks.



Another one.


He who made it, didn't want it.
He who bought it, didn't need it.
He who used it, had never seen it.

One.
You need at least eight 6" high bricks to make a 4' high wall. That's how maths works.

You need at least eight 6" high bricks to make a 4' high wall. That's how maths works.

Whoops, read that one wrong. Indeed, eight 6" bricks to make the 4' Wall. I read what I wanted to read, not what was there.

*bangs head*

Oh well, multiply 64 by 8 and you get 512. Multiply one by eight and you get 8.

Indeed, the corners...

...And that's still wrong, because you've done the corners twice. The answer is, I think, 498.

Remove two bricks per layer. 2 * 8 = 16
512 - 16 = 496

Hmm... thats different.

Your all wrong.

You can't use bricks to make a stone wall. :rolleyes:

Your all wrong.

You can't use bricks to make a stone wall. :rolleyes:
One prob:
You want to build a stone wall around your 12'x20' garden. If the bricks are 6" high & 6" wide and 1' long,. How many bricks will you need to make a wall 6" wide & 4' tall ?
You didn't say that it was a stone wall, you only asked how many bricks it would take to make a wall.
Once again, another riddle has been ruined by SCIENCE!

There are two men in a boat. They have 3 cigarettes and nothing else. How do they manage to smoke?Use a match:)

Oh wait, they have nothing else... erm... find a fire... somewhere :-/

You can't use bricks to make a stone wall. :rolleyes:

I thought it was just a mistake you made.

I would have said 'silence', but that one's not everywhere anymore if you say anything at all.
Umm... 'God'? Because he leaves when he realises that it means someone's about to pray to him again?

I'm going to beat you to the ground. No conversation.

You want to build a stone wall around your 12'x20' garden. If the bricks are 6" high & 6" wide and 1' long,. How many bricks will you need to make a wall 6" wide & 4' tall ?Depends how think the mortar is.

And you can make a stone wall out of bricks. My house is made out of quarried stone that has been shaped into bricks.

He who made it, didn't want it.
He who bought it, didn't need it.
He who used it, had never seen it.

. .

I thought it was just a mistake you made.

If it wasn't a play on words, it would just be a math problem. :p



Math...*shudders*

If it wasn't a play on words, it would just be a math problem. :p



Math...*shudders*


Heh. Indeed. Technically, a stone cut into a brick shape is not a brick. It's more a Stone Block.

I think... I'll have to check on that to be certein, but I'm not going to.

Jim is driving a bus.

He picks up 7 people at the first stop.
At the 2nd stop he drops off 2 people and picks up 5 people.
At the 3rd stop he drops off 1 person and picks up 3 people.
At the 4th stop he picks up 2 people.
At the 5th stop he drops off 6 people and picks up 2 people.

Now, who is driving the bus??


Wait...

Nevermind. :(

Jim is driving a bus.

He picks up 7 people at the first stop.
At the 2nd stop he drops off 2 people and picks up 5 people.
At the 3rd stop he drops off 1 person and picks up 3 people.
At the 4th stop he picks up 2 people.
At the 5th stop he drops off 6 people and picks up 2 people.

Now, who is driving the bus??


Wait...

Nevermind. :(

that riddle works every time when you say it but not when your type or write it

Heh. Indeed. Technically, a stone cut into a brick shape is not a brick. It's more a Stone Block.

I think... I'll have to check on that to be certein, but I'm not going to.Wikipedia says otherwise: "Bricks may be made from clay, shale, soft slate, calcium silicate, concrete, or shaped from quarried stone"

Wikipedia says otherwise: "Bricks may be made from clay, shale, soft slate, calcium silicate, concrete, or shaped from quarried stone"

Well there we are, I was wrong.

Wikipedia says otherwise: "Bricks may be made from clay, shale, soft slate, calcium silicate, concrete, or shaped from quarried stone"

Oh, well, Wikipedia must be right, then.

He who made it, didn't want it.
He who bought it, didn't need it.
He who used it, had never seen it.

Is the answer "time"?

Is the answer "time"?

No.

I am not sure how you came about that answer either.

Wikipedia says otherwise: "Bricks may be made from clay, shale, soft slate, calcium silicate, concrete, or shaped from quarried stone"

That's because YOU edited it! :mad:


Let it go people. Seriously.:p

He who made it, didn't want it.
He who bought it, didn't need it.
He who used it, had never seen it.

It's a coffin.


... damn. Three riddles.

Okay, here's the first of them.

You're walking in the mountains when you come across a cabin. You look through the window of the cabin and see three people, all seated and all dead. The people seem to have been restrained in their seats somehow.

How did the three people die?

Some kind of restraint that involves stangling them? like a really tight restraint that they all put too tight around their necks and died?

Or, seeing as they're in the mountains, they may have been cold and froze.
Or someone else killed them, i mean you never said there was no-one else.
Or you have some kind of sight ability that makes people die when you see them.
Or an elextric chair system which they are in.

I don't think the mystery is "how is it possible that somebody could die whilst tied to a chair" so much as it is "can you deduce how these people are likely to have died, given that all three of them are restrained in their seats and they're in a mountain cabin". I suspect the eventual answer will be rather more elegant than "you have some kind of sight ability that makes people die when you see them" or "for reasons best known to themselves, they all tied themselves to chairs and then froze to death".

You're walking in the mountains when you come across a cabin. You look through the window of the cabin and see three people, all seated and all dead. The people seem to have been restrained in their seats somehow.

It's the cabin of a plane, which has crashed.
(You told it incorrectly, by the way. :p)

that riddle works every time when you say it but not when your type or write it

Thank you for clearing up the point of my joke and taking all of the humor out of it.

It's a coffin.

Yeah.

About the cabin... well it's not very precise. But a plane does make sense.

Here's a riddle.
Every day, Julie becomes seasick in her house, yet she goes outside and vomits on dry land.
How is this posible?

She lives on a houseboat, and she has a phobia of being poisoned.
She is also very susceptible to seasickness.

Her boat is connected to a dock which connects to land, and there is a poison control center nearby.

Every day, she becomes desperately seasick, but she's so paranoid that she thinks she has been poisoned, so she runs out onto dry land, toward the poison control center, only to vomit.

The end.

See, the way it was originally told to me was in the form "Initial statement plus unlimited yes/no questions", which is why it's a little vague.

I think I told you all you really needed to know, though.

Here's a riddle.
Every day, Julie becomes seasick in her house, yet she goes outside and vomits on dry land.
How is this posible?

Are you confusing Seasickness to Caresickness? The two are different.

Another.

What's black & white and full of fuzz?

And another.

I an the beggining of every ending, the end of time and space, I complete every generation, and finish every race. What am I?
(Hint: The answer is not Chuck Norris.)

The letter 'e'.

My first one.. i dont think this qualifies as a riddle but.. why not?

If you had a friend, who is a woman, and suffers from syphilis, and has 8 children, three of them deaf, two blind, one mentally retarded, and the woman is pregnant, would you recommend that she aborts?

If you said yes, OMG you just killed Bethoven!

The following is just to crack your head.


Can you imagine working in an organization that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

29 have been accused of spousal abuse

7 have been arrested for fraud

19 have been accused of writing bad checks

117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses

3 have done time for assault

71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit

14 have been arrested on drug-related charges

8 have been arrested for shoplifting

21 are currently defendants in lawsuits

84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess what organization it is?

Well.. Its the 535 members of the United State Congress.. The group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year to keep us in line. Amazing?

OK a riddle.

Why is Donkey Kong called a "DONKEY" when he's a monkey?

I do not have the answer myself :)

Why is Donkey Kong called a "DONKEY" when he's a monkey?

The creator confused the words Donkey and Stupid.

My first one..

... [blah] ...

I do not have the answer myself :)

Not riddles.

i think Nintendo created Donkey Kong. A copy of King Kong, eh?

and i found the reason behind the name "Donkey Kong". Google is your best friend.

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/8702/donkeykongkw4.png

Also, Donkey Kong was a mistranslation. In Japanese, it means Monkey Kong. A mistranslation led to Donkey Kong.

Here's one from me;

What object gets wetter the more it dries?

And another;

You are a detective. Jack and Jill are dead. The scene of death has nothing but an open window, a small coffee table with a ring mark on it, and some water on the floor. No blood. How did they die?

A mistranslation led to Donkey Kong.You have to wonder what these translators are on sometimes. I mean, did they think to look at the character art at all?

What object gets wetter the more it dries?


A Towell.

You are a detective. Jack and Jill are dead. The scene of death has nothing but an open window, a small coffee table with a ring mark on it, and some water on the floor. No blood. How did they die?Jack and Jill were goldfish. Something (a cat?) came through the window, knocked the goldfish bowl over, which shattered, killing the fish. The cat left.

The ring is where the goldfish bowl was.

If you had a friend, who is a woman, and suffers from syphilis, and has 8 children, three of them deaf, two blind, one mentally retarded, and the woman is pregnant, would you recommend that she aborts?

Deep questions =/= Riddles.

But having an abortion is something that is completely up to her, and no one has the right to make that decision for her.

Can you imagine working in an organization that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

29 have been accused of spousal abuse

7 have been arrested for fraud

19 have been accused of writing bad checks

117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses

3 have done time for assault

71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit

14 have been arrested on drug-related charges

8 have been arrested for shoplifting

21 are currently defendants in lawsuits

84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess what organization it is?

Well.. Its the 535 members of the United State Congress.. The group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year to keep us in line. Amazing?

You know, a lot of those could've been stacked.
A person who was drunk driving could also be in a lawsuit.
So it isn't as bad as it looks.

Besides, the entire point of congress is that it is filled with people like us, and people like us can do stupid things sometimes.

Besides, the entire point of congress is that it is filled with people like us, and people like us can do stupid things sometimes.
No, people like us do stupid things all of the time! You seem to be mixing us up with regular people.

i ripped that off the Net directly, so don't blame me.

But having an abortion is something that is completely up to her, and no one has the right to make that decision for her.
I think you're still allowed to give your friends advice.

i ripped that off the Net directly, so don't blame me.

I'm assuming the end of this would have been "congratulations, you've just killed Beethoven", in which case it's also total fiction.

What's black & white and full of fuzz?

Is it Keystone Cops?

I'm assuming the end of this would have been "congratulations, you've just killed Beethoven", in which case it's also total fiction.

Its a true story i suppose.

Its a true story i suppose.

Err...
Okay.

Though I believe Beethoven was very much alive at one point, which kinda invalidates your "true story" claim.

Err...
Okay.

Though I believe Beethoven was very much alive at one point, which kinda invalidates your "true story" claim.

I think he meant this part:
If you had a friend, who is a woman, and suffers from syphilis, and has 8 children, three of them deaf, two blind, one mentally retarded, and the woman is pregnant, would you recommend that she aborts?
Apparently that woman would be Beethoven's mother.
I honestly don't know if it's true and can't bother looking it up.

Three pages in and retardation has onset. :/

A blind and deaf man walks into a staionary shop. He manages to feel is way to the counter to face the shop keeper.
He then holds up his hand with outstretched middle finger and forefinger and moves the two fingers together and apart again in a scissor motion. The shopkeeper gets the idea that the man wants some scissors and gives him some scissors.

The man also wants to tell the shop keeper that he needs a pencil, what should he do?

A blind and deaf man walks into a staionary shop. He manages to feel is way to the counter to face the shop keeper.
He then holds up his hand with outstretched middle finger and forefinger and moves the two fingers together and apart again in a scissor motion. The shopkeeper gets the idea that the man wants some scissors and gives him some scissors.

The man also wants to tell the shop keeper that he needs a pencil, what should he do?

Say he wants a pencil. I mean, you said he was blind and deaf, but you never said he was dumb.

nor did you say he's a mute.

nor did you say he's a mute.

"You never said he was x!"
"Nor did you say he was x+1-1!"

I mean, seriously, people.

"You never said he was x!"
"Nor did you say he was x+1-1!"

I mean, seriously, people.
It's just Franpa. Ignore him and he'll go away.

Its a true story i suppose.

No, it's total fiction.

nor did you say he's a mute.
nor did you say that he is speech impaired

Assuming that the man WAS mute, then he would put his pointer finger against his other hand's palm and scribble like it was a pencil.

He could also flip around the "pencil" and rub the palm with his knuckle, insinuating that he want's a pencil with an eraser, not a pen.


I actually found that kind of fun to work out. Give me more.

Say he wants a pencil. I mean, you said he was blind and deaf, but you never said he was dumb.

Correct, I guess that one was a bit easy.

It's better when said to someone than typed on a forum.

Hehe, this is a slight trick. Not sure if it's right.

They throw one cigarette overboard, thus making the boat a Cigarette Lighter.

Correctamundo.

Here's one.

You go forward in time 5 years in a time machine and carve your name in a tree. Then you go back to the present and chop down the same tree. What will happen in five years?

In 5 years, a time paradox will occur, screwing up causality and space-time, thus ending the universe. Good move, chopping down that tree, buster.

What's black & white and full of fuzz?


Come on, People!

Here's one.

You go forward in time 5 years in a time machine and carve your name in a tree. Then you go back to the present and chop down the same tree. What will happen in five years?Nooooobody knows.

Alternatively, in the intervening five years, the council plant an identical tree in tribute to the one some unknown miscreant callously vandalised.

The interesting thing about this one is that it feels paradoxical, yet it also fits in nicely with the idea of the "wormhole time machine" that can't go back further than the time it was built.

Here's one.

You go forward in time 5 years in a time machine and carve your name in a tree. Then you go back to the present and chop down the same tree. What will happen in five years?

In between the 5 years into future and the present something happens that involves the tree getting restored and stood up again or the tree getting replaced.

OR

In the future the tree is cut down but still has your name carved on it.

OR

cutting down the tree causes you to never go to the future and carve your name on it in the first place.

If you cut down the tree in the past, there would be no tree in the future to carve your name on, so it would actually be impossible to carve your name on the tree.

But that's ignoring the paradox and means that fate is real.

If it is the exact same tree as the one you carve your name in in the future, then you couldn't chop it down.
In the future, that tree is standing. That means that it CANNOT be chopped down before then.

So no matter what you try to do to that tree in the past, it wouldn't work out.

It's not like it couldn't be cut, it's more like any attempt to cut it will fail.

Like it would constantly slip out of your hands when you swing. If you try shooting an atom bomb at it, then there would be technical failures, or it would be a dud.
Any time you try to destroy the tree, it would somehow go wrong. No matter what you do, the past has to fit with the future, in which the tree is standing.


Note that this is with a singular timeline. I believe in multiple timelines, in which this IS possible, but singular timelines are SO much more fun to ponder about.

What's black & white and full of fuzz?
A police station in a black and white movie.

but singular timelines are SO much more fun to ponder about.

And more simplistic.

Here's one.

You go forward in time 5 years in a time machine and carve your name in a tree. Then you go back to the present and chop down the same tree. What will happen in five years?
You got arrested for illegal wood chopping?

Well if you believe in a singular timeline, it doesn't matter. You go to the future, carve your name on the tree, but by going back to the past the future can be changed again.
There are not two instances of you, there cannot be two instances of you, so there's not going to be a you in the future trying to carve in an unexistant tree. What you did in the future will just be "erased", so to speak.

Most people get the impression you can meet yourself in the past/future, but doing so would mean you would somehow have to split during the traveling, and just how the hell do you do that? The only way this can happen is if you travel to an alternate universe/timeline that is exactly the same as this with the only difference being you landing in a different time. Then it wouldn't matter what you do since your past is in a different universe/timeline.

The answer I got was that the tree regrows with the carving in it,
OR
The tree creates a time warp that brings you back to before you cut the tree down. It also makes the tree indestructable.


Here's a hard one.
The letters on the top row of a typewriter spell "qwertyuiop". What is the longest word you can make (you can use each letter more than once.) If you don't figure this one out, you'll be saying "Why didn't I think of that?" when I give you the answer.

Typewriter

Here's one.

You go forward in time 5 years in a time machine and carve your name in a tree. Then you go back to the present and chop down the same tree. What will happen in five years?

you never cut the tree down nor do you go to the future, cutting down the tree results in a blank in your memory and the world and everything on it acts like you never did anything of importance during that blank moment.

people would think your suffering from a touch of amnesia and your life would progress normally and you most likely wont encounter that tree that you cant have engraved your name into.

Here's one.

You go forward in time 5 years in a time machine and carve your name in a tree. Then you go back to the present and chop down the same tree. What will happen in five years?
Five years, eh? That'll be 2012, and I'll be 21 then!
Actually, a lot of stuff will happen in five years...

And what's that sentence about a time machine there for?

Here are 2 hard ones.

I am a common English word. Take off my first letter and I stay the same, take off my last letter and I stay the same, and take off my middle letter and I stay the same. What word am I?

"My head and tail both equal are,
My middle slender as a bee.
Whenever I stand on head or heel
Is quite the same to you and me.
But cut my head off,
The matter's true, though passing strange
Directly I to nothing change."
What am I?

Well if you believe in a singular timeline, it doesn't matter. You go to the future, carve your name on the tree, but by going back to the past the future can be changed again.
There are not two instances of you, there cannot be two instances of you, so there's not going to be a you in the future trying to carve in an unexistant tree. What you did in the future will just be "erased", so to speak.

That's actually what would happen with multiple timelines, more or less.

A singular timeline basically means that all events are set in stone, so if you carve your name into a tree in the future, you will ALWAYS carve your name into that tree. It cannot be changed. DESTINY.

The answer I got was that the tree regrows with the carving in it,
Then that would mean that the carving would be there when you arrive in the future.
Saying just "The tree regrows" would work, though.

I am a common English word. Take off my first letter and I stay the same, take off my last letter and I stay the same, and take off my middle letter and I stay the same. What word am I?

The words "a", "I" and other words that consists of one letter? I knew i would be wrong.

"My head and tail both equal are,
My middle slender as a bee.
Whenever I stand on head or heel
Is quite the same to you and me.
But cut my head off,
The matter's true, though passing strange
Directly I to nothing change."
What am I?

the lines in bold are the ones which crack my head. is it a typo/grammar error?

EDIT: oh yeah, i forgot - its a riddle.

That's actually what would happen with multiple timelines, more or less.

A singular timeline basically means that all events are set in stone, so if you carve your name into a tree in the future, you will ALWAYS carve your name into that tree. It cannot be changed. DESTINY.

Right. But, by that logic, you wouldn't be able to go back to the past anyway.
Why? Because You weren't There.
Since you time travelled, it means you weren't there in the periods in between the present and the future. No one and nothing interacted with you, you were simply missing, and seeing as the events are set in stone, you would be unable to come back.
Now let's say that you were there.
But that's not possible. You might think you left and came back to the exact moment so you were in fact there, in between the two times, to interact with things. But what happens when you get to the moment to where you had originally time traveled to... You can't meet yourself carving the tree since there cannot be 2 instances of you at a same given time, and you cannot just dissapear while he's there and then appear back later after the past you leaves.
So you see, that theory of yours prohibits travelling back in time, so it's not "destiny". It's "You can't change what already happened".

So, if you are able to go back in time again, you are actually just "erasing" anything that happened in the future. You are reversing events and you carving something into the tree just will not happen, even if it's stored in your memory.
And that's still in a single timeline. What I understand as multiple timelines, is two different instances of what happened being stored in one single universe, which would mean the universe would be capable of existing in two or more different ways at the same time.
But I don't like that theory...
I'd rather believe in the existance of multiple universes that are entirely the same but are misplaced in time. So while in your universe it's 2007, in the other universe it's still 1980, so you can hop there and invest in microsoft. And eventually meet yourself and have a party. So it's not really time travelling, since you're only hopping between universes, and time moves the same in both universes, just one of them is misplaced a few years. That way there are no paradoxes. :p

"My head and tail both equal are,
My middle slender as a bee.
Whenever I stand on head or heel
Is quite the same to you and me.
But cut my head off,
The matter's true, though passing strange
Directly I to nothing change."
What am I?

8

. .

Right. But, by that logic, you wouldn't be able to go back to the past anyway.
Why? Because You weren't There.
Since you time travelled, it means you weren't there in the periods in between the present and the future. No one and nothing interacted with you, you were simply missing, and seeing as the events are set in stone, you would be unable to come back.
Now let's say that you were there.
But that's not possible. You might think you left and came back to the exact moment so you were in fact there, in between the two times, to interact with things. But what happens when you get to the moment to where you had originally time traveled to... You can't meet yourself carving the tree since there cannot be 2 instances of you at a same given time, and you cannot just dissapear while he's there and then appear back later after the past you leaves.
So you see, that theory of yours prohibits travelling back in time, so it's not "destiny". It's "You can't change what already happened".

So, if you are able to go back in time again, you are actually just "erasing" anything that happened in the future. You are reversing events and you carving something into the tree just will not happen, even if it's stored in your memory.
And that's still in a single timeline. What I understand as multiple timelines, is two different instances of what happened being stored in one single universe, which would mean the universe would be capable of existing in two or more different ways at the same time.
But I don't like that theory...
I'd rather believe in the existance of multiple universes that are entirely the same but are misplaced in time. So while in your universe it's 2007, in the other universe it's still 1980, so you can hop there and invest in microsoft. And eventually meet yourself and have a party. So it's not really time travelling, since you're only hopping between universes, and time moves the same in both universes, just one of them is misplaced a few years. That way there are no paradoxes. :p

Is it just me, or was that all nonsense?

I'd rather believe in the existance of multiple universes that are entirely the same but are misplaced in time. So while in your universe it's 2007, in the other universe it's still 1980, so you can hop there and invest in microsoft. And eventually meet yourself and have a party. So it's not really time travelling, since you're only hopping between universes, and time moves the same in both universes, just one of them is misplaced a few years. That way there are no paradoxes. :p
Perhaps, but one thing: that's not actually time travelling. That's just universe-switching.

Is it just me, or was that all nonsense?
I honestly don't know. Is it? Because it makes sense to me.

Perhaps, but one thing: that's not actually time travelling. That's just universe-switching.
So it's not really time travelling, since you're only hopping between universes
Yeah I'd already pointed that out. But thanks for pointing it out again, now I can point it out again.

I am coloured, yet clear;
I am hard, yet soft;
I am Jelly.

WHAT AM I???

Jelly. You gave the answer yourself LOL

Dootily dootily doo

Indeed

I am coloured, yet clear;
I am hard, yet soft;
I am Jelly.

WHAT AM I???

Little Britain reference, i see.

How many lightbulbs does it take to change a socket???

Both of them

How many lightbulbs does it take to change a socket???

two logical answers and one question in my mind.

The question:

A socket is a place on a wall with two/three/four holes (depending on your region) which can be said as a "power source".

People usually confuse socket and plug. the plug is like a screw and the socket is like the screw hole.

So when you say "change a socket", do you mean change the socket physically or to replace it?

The answers:

Reference:
... change the socket physically...

Use 5500 lightbulbs and make the socket blow up. it wont look like a socket anymore but some lump of half-molten plastic.

Reference:
... to replace it?

None, since you cant use a lightbulb to change/replace a socket. you will need a screwdriver.

I'd rather believe in the existance of multiple universes that are entirely the same but are misplaced in time. So while in your universe it's 2007, in the other universe it's still 1980, so you can hop there and invest in microsoft. And eventually meet yourself and have a party.Ah, but you wouldn't meet yourself, because by the time Universe 1980 gets to the year 2007, Universe 2007 (the only one where you were born, built your time machine, and vanished in a puff of logic) has moved on 27 years to 2034.
I think this theory also avoids the old "Historic Moments" paradox, which went something like this:

People one day build time machine
People want to watch great moments in history
People chronoport back to great moments (moon landings, magna carta, writing the declaration of independence)
More people chronoport back to great moments
Crowds form at all historic incidents
BUT there were no reports of hoards of weird futuristic people at such events
Therefore the people were not there
Therefore they can't have chronoported back
Therefore they can't have invented the time machine
But if everything has its own universe, then our universe can still be the one where the time machine is invented, and other universes get the mess - an vast number of other universes get Neil Armstrong stepping out and meeting a set of time travellers with their cameras ready.


I feel better now.


Oh, and How many lightbulbs does it take to change a socket???Answer: In the (infinite) universes where lightbulbs have become the main inhabitants, through poorly-designed artificial intelligence, I'd say one skilled lightbulb with a A Level in Household Electrics should be able to change a socket.

I think this theory also avoids the old "Historic Moments" paradox, which went something like this:

People one day build time machine
People want to watch great moments in history
People chronoport back to great moments (moon landings, magna carta, writing the declaration of independence)
More people chronoport back to great moments
Crowds form at all historic incidents
BUT there were no reports of hoards of weird futuristic people at such events
Therefore the people were not there
Therefore they can't have chronoported back
Therefore they can't have invented the time machine

Of course, that wouldn't happen if time machines also required an exit machine.

Ah, but you wouldn't meet yourself, because by the time Universe 1980 gets to the year 2007, Universe 2007 (the only one where you were born, built your time machine, and vanished in a puff of logic) has moved on 27 years to 2034.

But if the universe you traveled to is exactly the same as yours, then there's also a you born in that universe, and you can indeed meet him in that universe. And have a party.

Now the riddles thread becomes a universe/time-travelling debate thread.

Now the riddles thread becomes a universe/time-travelling debate thread.
Sorry. My fault.
Anyway, until Cisken1 decides to give us a hint to his riddle (if there IS an answer), here's an OLD one:

What is greater than God, yet more evil than the Devil; the Richest need it, yet the Poorest often have it?


Edit: Notice the "OLD" warning. We need more riddles ASAP.

What is greater than God, yet more evil than the Devil; the Richest need it, yet the Poorest often have it?

I hope everybody posts the answer.

I hope everybody posts the answer.

NOTHING! I WIN!

Ha

NOTHING!Yup. But we need a new riddle, fast.

Here's one.

You go forward in time 5 years in a time machine and carve your name in a tree. Then you go back to the present and chop down the same tree. What will happen in five years?

well... when you carved your name into the tree in the future, it could already have been cut down by you in the past. you're just carving into a dead and fallen tree.

end of.

I dislike the view of timetravel where it's all just a never ending unchangeable loop. There has GOT to be a first time, a first time travel, which means it can't be an infinite loop that has alwase excisted.

That's why I much prefer timelines and each time travel creating a new timeline in a seperete universe or whatever you whish to call it.
Here's one.
You go forward in time 5 years in a time machine and carve your name in a tree. Then you go back to the present and chop down the same tree. What will happen in five years?
Awnser: Nothing, the tree will still be chopped down.

It's extreamly simple..
1) I go forward five years, carve the name as planned. I now go back in time. I chop down the tree.
2) Now an alternative universe has been created, where the tree is chopped down. The tree still excists and awaits the signature, but that's in the first universe.

I'd love to see a couple of Knights and Knaves riddles around here.

What is greater than God, yet more evil than the Devil; the Richest need it, yet the Poorest often have it?
Well, I can answer "ME!" to the first three points, but I'm stumped for the last one...

*runs away*

Here's one.

You go forward in time 5 years in a time machine and carve your name in a tree. Then you go back to the present and chop down the same tree. What will happen in five years?

No, hdhdhd, your fact is wrong. When you go to the future, you will not be able to find the tree. Thus, you cannot chop it off.

Since i cannot attach image files, and imageshack is too slow, i'll explain that timeframe using asterisks.

........ From this time onwards, the tree doesnt exist.
......... *
************************************************** **
* ....... * .................................................. . *
Now ... Tree chopped off ............................ Five years later

What is greater than God, yet more evil than the Devil; the Richest need it, yet the Poorest often have it?

Poverty.

Since i cannot attach image files, and imageshack is too slow, i'll explain that timeframe using asterisks.

........ From this time onwards, the tree doesnt exist.
......... *
************************************************** **
* ....... * .................................................. . *
Now ... Tree chopped off ............................ Five years later

If i define correctly, yauhui is trying to say that everything happens in a single timeline, and because you already chopped the tree 5 years back, you wont be able to find the tree.

I think i can translate that for you into a pic...

I hope I got it right.

Man, the internet is slow... its taking a long time to attach the pic...

yes.. mikhail, you seem to read my mind. http://image.gg-game.com/forum/images/smilies/yct/yct16.gif

I sense love in the air... ;)
:p

Poverty.

I think the rich good do without poverty

The answer, as I already said, is Nothing :rolleyes:

A lot of things are bigger than god tho.

A lot of things are bigger than god tho.

Yes, but nothing is also bigger than god
And doesnt it say 'greater than god'?

God's mother, is greater than God.

God's mother, is greater than God.

Then why was she riding a donkey?

Because that was the shiznit at the time, riding donkeys. It was like riding a Rolls Royce. :cool:

Then why was she riding a donkey?

That was Jesus's mother,not God's.

That was Jesus's mother,not God's.

If Jesus is part of God (the whole Trinity thing), then in a sense of the way, yes she was.

Here is a riddle:
I fly under my own power.
My wings don't flap much.
There are many species of me, big and small.

What am I?

Here's a classic one:
John and Bill are standing at a fork in the road. You know that one of them always tells the truth, and the other always lies, but you don't know which. You also know that one road leads to your destination, and the other leads to nowhere.
By asking one yes/no question, can you determine the correct road to take?
By asking one yes/no question, can you determine whether John tells the truth?

What am I?
A bird! An insect! A squirrel that ate too much baked beans!

Here is a riddle:
I fly under my own power.
My wings don't flap much.
There are many species of me, big and small.

What am I?

airplane.

you cant flap an airplane's wings!

Here's a classic one:
John and Bill are standing at a fork in the road. You know that one of them always tells the truth, and the other always lies, but you don't know which. You also know that one road leads to your destination, and the other leads to nowhere.
By asking one yes/no question, can you determine the correct road to take?
By asking one yes/no question, can you determine whether John tells the truth?

yes. but that riddle is near impossible as you did not specify where are they from.

i'll give two riddles here now:

1)
You come to a fork on a road. you know one of the roads lead to the Truthful Village (where everyone tells the truth) and the other to the Lies Village (where everyone lies) but you dont know which. You see a man, but you do not know where he comes from.

What should you ask him if you want to go to the Truthful Village?

2) This is an easy one.

There are 6 apples in a basket.

Ben takes an apple, Julie takes 2 apples, Marty takes one, Jade takes one and finally, Tom takes the last one.

Why is there still one apple in the basket?

If Jesus is part of God (the whole Trinity thing), then in a sense of the way, yes she was.

Actually the 'whole trinity thing' isn't correct. If you think about it, Jesus had to pray to God. If he was God, he wouldn't have to pray to himself for strength. (which he did on many occasions) Not only that but if Jesus was God, he would of never actually died. (As it was God who resurrected him) Thus making his whole earthly life, and sacrificial death - as well as all the promises and prophets leading up to Jesus- a hope for humanity - would all be a complete lie and waste of time that is utterly pointless.
Why would God suffer so much for nothing at all? :p Another thing is that referring to the battle of Armageddon, it is said that nobody knows the day or the hour it will come, not even the Son, but only the Father. How an all knowing being such as God would know, and yet not know something, doesn't make sense.
There is a lot of stuff that proves that the trinity isn't real. Those are just a few examples.
As of saying that Mary is the mother of God, well what I just said, kinda disproves that. But people don't know that, and believe everything that they are told with little explanation, and never check for themselves to see it is real. Thats another reason you have so called 'Christians', using statues and symbols (such as the cross) in their worship to God, even though the Bible CLEARLY states that idol worship is wrong in Gods eyes.


... Sorry for the religious rant.



BACK TO THE RIDDLES YO!



There are 6 apples in a basket.

Ben takes an apple, Julie takes 2 apples, Marty takes one, Jade takes one and finally, Tom takes the last one.

Why is there still one apple in the basket?

Tom took the last apple along with the basket?

1)
You come to a fork on a road. you know one of the roads lead to the Truthful Village (where everyone tells the truth) and the other to the Lies Village (where everyone lies) but you dont know which. You see a man, but you do not know where he comes from.

What should you ask him if you want to go to the Truthful Village?

"Take me to your village".

2) This is an easy one.

There are 6 apples in a basket.

Ben takes an apple, Julie takes 2 apples, Marty takes one, Jade takes one and finally, Tom takes the last one.

Why is there still one apple in the basket?

Slick's answer actually works, I guess, but I think it's probably more along the lines of Marty taking one of Julie's apples.

Here's a classic one:
John and Bill are standing at a fork in the road. You know that one of them always tells the truth, and the other always lies, but you don't know which. You also know that one road leads to your destination, and the other leads to nowhere.
By asking one yes/no question, can you determine the correct road to take?
By asking one yes/no question, can you determine whether John tells the truth?


1. Would the other guy send me to this door if i asked for the right path? (pick one door to ask about) and if they both say yes go through the other and if it's no go through it?

2. Assuming it's not related tot he other question of going the right way, I could ask am I a boy? The one who says I'm not is a liar. If it is related...I don't know.

Here's a classic one:
John and Bill are standing at a fork in the road. You know that one of them always tells the truth, and the other always lies, but you don't know which. You also know that one road leads to your destination, and the other leads to nowhere.
By asking one yes/no question, can you determine the correct road to take?
By asking one yes/no question, can you determine whether John tells the truth?

For the first question: you ask John "If I asked Bill if this door leads to my destination, what would he answer?"
If John is lying, he will know that Bill would tell you the correct answer, so he will tell you the wrong answer. If John is telling the truth then he will know Bill would give you the wrong answer so he will give you the wrong answer. So if the answer is "Yes" then it's not the right door, and if the answer is "no" then it is the right door.
As for the second one, given that you apparently already know he is John, just ask him "Are you John?" If he's lying he'll say "no" and if he's telling the truth he'll say "yes". :rolleyes:

Door... road... button... it's all the same riddle ;)

You can do both if you assume you don't know which is John and which is Bill, but the logic is the same. Also, you can phrase your questions "what would you say if I asked you..." and thus get 100% reliable answers.

Ghost;601025']1. Would the other guy send me to this door if i asked for the right path? (pick one door to ask about) and if they both say yes go through the other and if it's no go through it?

2. Assuming it's not related tot he other question of going the right way, I could ask am I a boy? The one who says I'm not is a liar. If it is related...I don't know.

there are no doors.

just ask john what 1+1 is (since one always lies) and if he gives the truth then ask him another question ;)

2. Assuming it's not related tot he other question of going the right way, I could ask am I a boy? The one who says I'm not is a liar. If it is related...I don't know.
just ask john what 1+1 is (since one always lies)
As for the second one, given that you apparently already know he is John, just ask him "Are you John?" If he's lying he'll say "no" and if he's telling the truth he'll say "yes".
Ok, can we try do this without asking questions like that?

just ask john what 1+1 is (since one always lies) and if he gives the truth then ask him another question
I did say "By asking one yes/no question,"

Here's a classic one:
John and Bill are standing at a fork in the road. You know that one of them always tells the truth, and the other always lies, but you don't know which. You also know that one road leads to your destination, and the other leads to nowhere.
By asking one yes/no question, can you determine the correct road to take?
By asking one yes/no question, can you determine whether John tells the truth?

A better solution (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0327.html)



Alternatively,

I did say "By asking one yes/no question,""Does two plus two equal four (in base ten)?"

People one day build time machine
People want to watch great moments in history
People chronoport back to great moments (moon landings, magna carta, writing the declaration of independence)
More people chronoport back to great moments
Crowds form at all historic incidents
BUT there were no reports of hoards of weird futuristic people at such events
Therefore the people were not there
Therefore they can't have chronoported back
Therefore they can't have invented the time machine
Conclusion: Someone invents the SEP field before time travel.

Easy one:
What becomes bigger the more you take away from it?

What becomes bigger the more you take away from it?
A hole. Too easy!

Easy one:
What becomes bigger the more you take away from it?

A chain of takeaways.

What can be followed, changed, stretched, bent or broken but never touched?

EDIT:
Who played for both England and France on the same afternoon at the same time at Wembley stadium?

EDIT2:
There are 2 blue socks and 2 red socks in a drawer. If you are blind, what is the LOWEST number of socks you have to take out of the draw to be sure of having one matching pair?

EDIT3:
The number of bacteria in a large sealed jar doubles every minute. An hour after the first bacterium was put into the jar and sealed in, the jar is full. When was the jar half full?

EDIT4:
I have a square-shaped four sided house. there are windows on each side of the square yet technicaly, they all face in the same direction. Where does my house need to be for this to be possible?

EDIT5:
Is there any sentence where it is grammaticaly correct to say "I is"?

EDIT6:
A man offers you a flask of strange liquid which he claims will desolve absolutely anything it touches. You take one look at the flask and imediately know he was lying. How did you know?

What can be followed, changed, stretched, bent or broken but never touched? No idea :confused:
Who played for both England and France on the same afternoon at the same time at Wembley stadium?The orchestra doing the national anthem? :confused:
There are 2 blue socks and 2 red socks in a drawer. If you are blind, what is the LOWEST number of socks you have to take out of the draw to be sure of having one matching pair?3. Either BBR or RRB, you've gotta have one pair.
The number of bacteria in a large sealed jar doubles every minute. An hour after the first bacterium was put into the jar and sealed in, the jar is full. When was the jar half full?At 59 minutes.
I have a square-shaped four sided house. there are windows on each side of the square yet technicaly, they all face in the same direction. Where does my house need to be for this to be possible?The North Pole; every window faces South. Of course, it could be the South Pole, or indeed the centre of the Earth.(Air conditioning costs a fortune down there, though.)


Edit: Woo-hoo! More riddles!

Is there any sentence where it is grammaticaly correct to say "I is"?I is the 9th letter of the alphabet.
A man offers you a flask of strange liquid which he claims will desolve absolutely anything it touches. You take one look at the flask and imediately know he was lying. How did you know?The flask hasn't dissolved.



I love this thread.

No idea :confused:
The orchestra doing the national anthem? :confused:
3. Either BBR or RRB, you've gotta have one pair.
At 59 minutes.
The North Pole; every window faces South. Of course, it could be the South Pole, or indeed the centre of the Earth.(Air conditioning costs a fortune down there, though.)


Edit: Woo-hoo! More riddles!

I is the 9th letter of the alphabet.
The flask hasn't dissolved.

All correct except for the first one!

Is there anything from which you can take away the whole and still have some left?

All correct except for the first one!

Is there anything from which you can take away the whole and still have some left?
The word 'wholesome'.
That one I didn't hear before actually, but was too easy to figure out.

Wait! I know...What can be followed, changed, stretched, bent or broken but never touched?The topic of most Team17 threads! Apart from the "followed" bit, of course.


As for: Is there anything from which you can take away the whole and still have some left?This is a bit of a long shot, but... if you take the "w" from "whole" you still have some of the "hole" left...?

The word 'wholesome'.
That one I didn't hear before actually, but was too easy to figure out.

Correct!

A boy was asked to multiply five numbers together. He was shown each number in turn, but before even seeing the last two numbers he gave the correct answer. He wasn't guessing. How did he do it?

Here's a hard one!
"How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think nothing was wrong with it at all- and in fact nothing is wrong, it's just distinctly odd. Go to work and try your skill!"

EDIT:
The topic of most Team17 threads! Apart from the "followed" bit, of course.
Actualy, the answer i was looking for is "the rules" but that is true as well.

Correct!

A boy was asked to multiply five numbers together. He was shown each number in turn, but before even seeing the last two numbers he gave the correct answer. He wasn't guessing. How did he do it?One was 0.
Here's a hard one!
"How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think nothing was wrong with it at all- and in fact nothing is wrong, it's just distinctly odd. Go to work and try your skill!"I love this, so I won't spoil it. If anyone else recognises this one, keep quiet. I want to watch how long it takes "normal" people to work out! :p

PS: If you want a hint, this is an add-on bit, too.


PPS: (not part of the hint) For the one-word answers earlier on, we really need some way of disguising the answers from easy cheat-reading. How about answers in morse, or something?

A boy was asked to multiply five numbers together. He was shown each number in turn, but before even seeing the last two numbers he gave the correct answer. He wasn't guessing. How did he do it?
One of the numbers was zero.

Here's a hard one!
"How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think nothing was wrong with it at all- and in fact nothing is wrong, it's just distinctly odd. Go to work and try your skill!"
The letter E isn't used.

One was 0.
Correct!

Incase anyone is wondering, I am getting most of my recently posted riddles from a book. there will be more to come.

Other than in fiction, where would August come before July?

Other than in fiction, where would August come before July?
On a yearly basis. August 2006 came before July 2007, for example.

Correct!

Incase anyone is wondering, I am getting most of my recently posted riddles from a book. there will be more to come.

Other than in fiction, where would August come before July?
Plasma's right, but he wants "dictionary"

Well, there were really a lot of answers to that one. For example, one of them could be that July and August were the names of a couple in love, and they [SENTENCE REMOVED]

Plasma's right, but he wants "dictionary"

I am now willing to bet that yappydog actualy owns the same book I am getting these puzzles from.
It's called "Mind-Bending Lateral Thunking Puzzles by Des MacHale" incase anyone was wondering.

After passing her driving test, Sally was on her way home, feeling very pleased with her self and not really concentrating on where she was going. She went the wrong way up a one-way street and straight over a zebra crossing without looking, hitting someone in the process. Her driving instructor and a passing policeman saw the incident but didn't mind. Why?

After passing her driving test, Sally was on her way home, feeling very pleased with her self and not really concentrating on where she was going. She went straight up a one-way street and straight over a zebra crossing without looking, hitting someone in the process. Her driving instructor and a passing policeman saw the incident but didn't mind. Why?
She didn't do anything wrong. She went straight up a one-way street the right way, and there was nobody on the zebra crossing. The person she hit was a passenger in the car that did something that deserved a smack.

No, I have not actually heard any of your riddles before.

I've heard one or two before, but I swear that I haven't got the same book. I tend to read lots of the BrainBashers (http://www.brainbashers.com) puzzles, though, so you get used to the lateral thinking you need. I liked the playing-for-two-teams-at-once one, though.

Here's one:I can swoop or swipe;
I can swing or shriek;
I can scowl or soar;
What am I?One word answers, thank you.

Here's one:I can swoop or swipe;
I can swing or shriek;
I can scowl or soar;
What am I?One word answers, thank you.
A person!
err...
Person!

Person!Nope.

By the way, Mind-Bending Lateral Thunking Puzzles???

And the answer to my riddle is:

Nothing! Because the universe never ends! :p

"How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think nothing was wrong with it at all- and in fact nothing is wrong, it's just distinctly odd. Go to work and try your skill!"

theres a "-" after "all".

"How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think nothing was wrong with it at all- and in fact nothing is wrong, it's just distinctly odd. Go to work and try your skill!"

theres a "-" after "all".
No, I already got that one.
http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=601183&postcount=154

How many lightbulbs does it take to change a socket???And the answer to my riddle is:

Nothing! Because the universe never ends! :pUm... I don't really see the link. Care to explain fully, Cisken1?

What is in my pocket?

If you guys don't get this reference im outta here :)

What is in my pocket?

If you guys don't get this reference im outta here :)

The one ring to rule them all?

The one ring to rule them all?

bugger.

:( got me

Um... I don't really see the link. Care to explain fully, Cisken1?

Twas just a random joke, sorry...

How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?

EDIT:
What is the burning question on the mind of every dyslexic existentialist?

What is the burning question on the mind of every dyslexic existentialist?

Why is the world so cruel as to make the word Dyslexic so damn difficult to spell?

Why is the world so cruel as to make the word Dyslexic so damn difficult to spell?

And 'lisp' so difficult to say (if you have one)
And 'stutter' so difficult to say (again, if you have one)

Why is the world so cruel as to make the word Dyslexic so damn difficult to spell?
because the person who called it that was dumb?

She didn't do anything wrong. She went straight up a one-way street the right way, and there was nobody on the zebra crossing. The person she hit was a passenger in the car that did something that deserved a smack.

No, I have not actually heard any of your riddles before.

Whoops. there was a typo in that riddle. I have fixed it below. any more guesses?

After passing her driving test, Sally was on her way home, feeling very pleased with her self and not really concentrating on where she was going. She went the wrong way up a one-way street and straight over a zebra crossing without looking, hitting someone in the process. Her driving instructor and a passing policeman saw the incident but didn't mind. Why?

EDIT:
Here's a hard one!
"How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think nothing was wrong with it at all- and in fact nothing is wrong, it's just distinctly odd. Go to work and try your skill!"
The letter E isn't used.
Correct!

After passing her driving test, Sally was on her way home, feeling very pleased with her self and not really concentrating on where she was going. She went the wrong way up a one-way street and straight over a zebra crossing without looking, hitting someone in the process. Her driving instructor and a passing policeman saw the incident but didn't mind. Why?

They were blind!
It was in Grand Theft Auto and there was a glitch in the AI!
Everyone was actually dead!

They were blind!
Everyone was actually dead!
Keyword: Saw

She was on a practice track?

After passing her driving test, Sally was on her way home, feeling very pleased with her self and not really concentrating on where she was going. She went the wrong way up a one-way street and straight over a zebra crossing without looking, hitting someone in the process. Her driving instructor and a passing policeman saw the incident but didn't mind. Why?

Because (for largely this reason) it's normal practice to walk home from driving tests.

Because (for largely this reason) it's normal practice to walk home from driving tests.

Correct!
The policeman didn't care because Sally was walking home not driving.

I may submit more soon if i can be bothered.

I feel pathetic because I didn't get that one.

Here's a maths one. Figure out what I did wrong in these equations.
Everyone that knows algebra should be able to get this one:x(x-x) = x^2-x^2 = 0
(x+x)(x-x) = x^2+x^2-x^2-x^2 = 0
hence:
x(x-x) = (x+x)(x-x)
divide both sides by x-x:
x = x+x
divide both sides by x:
1 = 2

And one that requires a bit more mathematical knowledge:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/a/a/2/aa20c2fdaf3cb9044da68611c6116f07.png

On the first one, you try dividing by x-x, which is dividing by 0.
What you should do is x*0 = 2x*0. I think.
It's what I would do.



sqrt -1 * sqrt -1 does not = sqrt -1*-1
Because you can't do a square root of any negative number. i is the imaginary unit for a reason.

I only sort of know the answer. I can't get all technical with proper reasons why.

Here's a hard one!
"How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think nothing was wrong with it at all- and in fact nothing is wrong, it's just distinctly odd. Go to work and try your skill!"



A paragraph needs indention.

On the first one, you try dividing by x-x, which is dividing by 0.
Korrect!

What you should do is x*0 = 2x*0. I think.
It's what I would do.
That would be a lot easier to spot!

sqrt -1 * sqrt -1 does not = sqrt -1*-1
Also Korrect!

A paragraph needs indention.

Someone has already guessed the right answer to that riddle. The answer is that the paragraph does not contain the letter E despite it being the most common letter in the english language.

what goes up must come down, what goes around doesnt come around?

What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs at night?

Man.

A baby walks on all fours. Children, teenagers and adults walk on both legs. Ollder people may walk using a walking stick.

Yup.

If you break me, I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?

If you break me, I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?
A chaos emerald!
Yeah, I know that's not really the right answer, but it still fits in. The chaos emerals practically 'break' in Sonic Adventure, but they still work.

What eats pie?

What eats pie?
People.

Is that some sort of a trick question?

What eats pie?

Superblob.

Yup.

If you break me, I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?
A heart.


I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?

I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?

Carbonation?

Nope.

Read it again, it's tricky.

A MIRROR.

YOUR EYEBALL.

Wrong, but they were good guesses. Sort of.

Not a proper riddle as I'm sure it has multiple answers, but this does have a certain practical element:

How do you get good at something by being bad at something else?

IE, name the "something" and the "something else". No simple inverse relationships are accepted.

Something: Relationships
Something else: Behaving

Something: Football
Something else: Being British

Something: Making good-quality games
Something else: Keeping that promise to your wife not to go drinking this afternoon

Something: Posting on this forum
Something else: Everything else

None of the suggested. I'll give you a hint, pay attention to the answer it wants.

Not a proper riddle as I'm sure it has multiple answers, but this does have a certain practical element:

How do you get good at something by being bad at something else?

IE, name the "something" and the "something else". No simple inverse relationships are accepted.Clues:

1. Food-related.
2. Real life event.

Netheir. Like I said, pay attention to what it's asking...;)

Netheir. Like I said, pay attention to what it's asking...;)Who exactly were you talking to then?

Who exactly were you talking to then?
It being the riddle.

Read it again, and look at what the riddle is asking of you.

I'm.... quite certain that Paul knows the answer, given that he posted the riddle.
Unless you are talking about another one, but that would also make no sense since you are replying to Paul and Plasma, who are both talking about Paul's riddle.

I'm.... quite certain that Paul knows the answer, given that he posted the riddle.
Unless you are talking about another one, but that would also make no sense since you are replying to Paul and Plasma, who are both talking about Paul's riddle.

^ What he said.

Whoopsy daisy, didn't read the quotes.

That's a toughie, Paul. Is it a word trick or a regular bang-your-head-against-the-wall-trying one?

Whoopsy daisy, didn't read the quotes.

That's a toughie, Paul. Is it a word trick or a regular bang-your-head-against-the-wall-trying one?
Neither really. I'll give the answer, because it isn't really a fair one.

My answer (because it happened to me in real life) is that you get good at making cheese sandwiches by being bad at cutting cheese. Because you have to cut the cheese in thicker slices, because you don't have the precision to cut thinner ones.

My answer (because it happened to me in real life) is that you get good at making cheese sandwiches by being bad at cutting cheese. Because you have to cut the cheese in thicker slices, because you don't have the precision to cut thinner ones.
...
LAAAME!

LOL.
But seriously, how was anyone supposed to guess that one, Paul? :p
Besides, I actually like cheese slices thinner on my sandwiches... and more meat in them. :cool:

LOL.
But seriously, how was anyone supposed to guess that one, Paul? :p
Besides, I actually like cheese slices thinner on my sandwiches... and more meat in them. :cool:

Yes, but that's because North America has rubbish cheese.

Can't help but agree. European cheese is the best.

Another riddle, anyone?

Yes, but that's because North America has rubbish cheese.
I doubt better quality cheese would change my preference of thinner slices, but if I'm ever in europe I'll give it a try.

I doubt better quality cheese would change my preference of thinner slices, but if I'm ever in europe I'll give it a try.

In fairness, if you're having a burger then I guess it doesn't matter how thick the cheese is. I was thinking more of cheese sandwiches.

I was thinking of regular sandwiches, with ham, turkey, lettuce, tomato, etc with some cheese slices.
Like the ones I had today last night, infuenced by your mention of sandwiches. :p

Umm, i'll try this one. pretty tough.

I do not know if this has been asked.

" Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, when I have flown."

I was thinking of regular sandwiches, with ham, turkey, lettuce, tomato, etc with some cheese slices.
Like the ones I had today last night, infuenced by your mention of sandwiches. :p

Since when is cheese not a regular type of sandwich? :confused:

Since when is cheese not a regular type of sandwich? :confused:
Huh maybe I worded that wrong, perhaps I should have said standard?
By cheese sandwich, you mean a sandwich that only/mostly has cheese in it? Because that's rather uncommon here, hence why I don't consider it "regular"...

Fair enough. Cheese sandwiches are pretty popular in Britain (partly because our cheese is Not Rubbish, and partly because bread and cheese were two of the staples of the farmer's diet back in the day).

Umm, i'll try this one. pretty tough.

I do not know if this has been asked.

" Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, when I have flown."
Time .

yeah. easily found on google.

Einstein's riddle (dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnn) :

A fellow encountered a bear in a wasteland. There was nobody else there. Both were frightened and ran away. Fellow to the north, bear to the west. Suddenly the fellow stopped, aimed his gun to the south and shot the bear. What colour was the bear?
If you don't know, this may help you: if the bear ran 3.14 times faster than the fellow (still westwards), the fellow could have shot straight in front of him, however for the booty he would have to go to the south.

Note: There are many arguements on this riddle, and for the sake of everyone, solution and arguements. (http://brainden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=102)

yeah. easily found on google.

Einstein's riddle (dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnn) :

A fellow encountered a bear in a wasteland. There was nobody else there. Both were frightened and ran away. Fellow to the north, bear to the west. Suddenly the fellow stopped, aimed his gun to the south and shot the bear. What colour was the bear?
If you don't know, this may help you: if the bear ran 3.14 times faster than the fellow (still westwards), the fellow could have shot straight in front of him, however for the booty he would have to go to the south.

Note: There are many arguements on this riddle, and for the sake of everyone, solution and arguements. (http://brainden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=102)It's white. Why are you making such a big deal out of a simple, everyday riddle?

A fellow encountered a bear in a wasteland. There was nobody else there. Both were frightened and ran away. Fellow to the north, bear to the west. Suddenly the fellow stopped, aimed his gun to the south and shot the bear. What colour was the bear?
If you don't know, this may help you: if the bear ran 3.14 times faster than the fellow (still westwards), the fellow could have shot straight in front of him, however for the booty he would have to go to the south.
That question was just too obvious thanks to the 'a bear passes by a south window' riddle.
Moreso, the man would be facing the south regardless of how fast the bear went. So if he was shooting straight in front of him, it would still be aiming to the south.