Riddles and Brain Teasers
 

Hey people,

I noticed that a lot of you tried to answer the brain teaser that Titan posted (http://www.abandonia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=294) so I thought it would be cool to try have another one. Maybe if there is enough interest then I can make it like a weekly or bi-weekly thing.

So, on to the first one... (A riddle this time)

Magnificent Seven:

Eight and five, last name and given,
We are one six six six even;
The first in cow, the last in oxen
Three in damsel, three in vixen.

Question: What are we called?

I'll post a hint next week Sunday, and give another week till posting the actual answer (unless of course someone figures it out).

Good luck... :shock:

Could it be the letters V, O, X, E, N, S & I?

These are the only letters that appear more than once in all the words, and there are seven of them :?

I know the answer.. but i'll just PM it to Mika :terror:

Muhahaha..

Tom: that's a good direction to take. Keep going...

nah. tom I think ya wrong... I think he's tricking eh?
Nah amn, with puzzles like this ya gotta think outside the box! :terror:

I know the answer but i am not going to tell it ;) i'm serious i really know the answer.

:terror: :terror: yay new emoticon!! :twisted:

Considering I'm going away for a week, I'll post the hint now...

One of five, I the only one,
One in cat, two in mitten,
Two are odd, five are even
Seven in all, one in seven.

Interesting to see that only 1 person has actually attempted to answer the riddle other than the people that already *know* the answer of-course.

Any takers? Come on Tom, you can do it ;)

WOW...i dont get this :(

Hehe - I see that maybe this one might have been a bit too hard? (I didn't get it either). So anyway, here's the answer:

ROMAN NUMERALS.

Explanation of the riddle:

The last name has eight letters (NUMERALS) while the first or given name has five (ROMAN).

Using each of the numerals once gives MDCLXVI, which is 1,666.

C ( which is found in Cow) is first of the seven in the alphabet while X ( which is found in oXen) is last.

Three of seven are found in DaMseL. Three are also found in VIXen.

Explanation of the hint:

I is the only one of five vowels among the seven Roman numerals.

C is found in Cat, M and I in MItten.

I and V are odd numbers. The rest are even numbers.

There are seven Roman numerals. One of them is found in seVen (the V).

Sorry Tom, you were close...

Dang!
A-Ding-dang-doo!!!
:x

Ok....
New one! :)

Lol, that's a weird, brain-breaking riddle. I would never be able to solve such one because the answer is that hidden that you cannot logically find it at all...

Well here's another one:

Weight in my belly, Trees on my back, Nails in my ribs, Feet I do lack. What am I?

Those with a keen eye might recognise this one... :lol:

An old clock?
You know the kind that hides away in a corner in your grandparents' house...

Nope ;)

i don't think it's a creature, is it??

my guess would be "mother earth" ?? 8)

guess i played too much elemental type RPGs..

I think i got it... PM'ing you to not "spoil" it...

Yup, Titan's got it! Anyone else before I post the answer? Extra point to anyone who can guess where it's from. ;)

um... um... um... :? another hint please?? :wink:

Where it's from?
Since i've got the correct answer, here is a guess... it's an OLD riddle then, perhaps something from 17:th century'ish?

Are you looking for a specific writer? is it a famous one?

:shock: !!! could it be....

a catapulting mechanism? like a 'trebuchet' from the game age of empires.. kinda make sense with the tree in my back (launcher), nails in my ribs (made of wood) and feet i do lack (using wheel).. but the belly stuff doesn't make any sense.. (weight = stones??) coz the stones are put in the launcher..

and what about the writer?? :shock: :shock: are we talking about a book here?

Eric: Nope - but good lateral thinking - try again.

Hint? Key is Ribs. ;)

It's source is quite related to this site.

Hmm....

I think it is Kosta!

Weight in my belly
He eats too much Danish Cookies...

Trees on my back
He works as a part-time woodcutter...

Nails in my ribs
He had a serious accident, where he fell over a cliff... while on the job. And his rib-cage is now supported by nails...

Feet I do lack
He was carrying his chainsaw when he fell... It was a gruesome sight...

:P

(Actually I do not have a clue... Maybe because I just woke up, and am on my way to work).

:D :D :D

Ouch - sounds painful! :shock:

Now, could that be a cannon from the 17~ century? That cannon that shots balls?
Weight in my belly - cannonballs inside
Trees on my back - igniter cord (or perhaps people?)
Nails in my ribs - nails that support it's body
Feet I do lack - wheels
Right?

I dunno what it is but i really think it's something...that we use or see alot...It's just that kinda riddle...

I still thinks it is Kosta...

All the hints fit...
(Except Titan's, but I do not trust him :P )

I mean... Kosta is somewhat connected to this site :P :P

(Ok.. I will be nice, now....)

Hehe. Ok to end the suspence :P The answer is .... A Ship!
It's from a very cool Sierra game called: "Conquest of Camelot".

Should I post another? Here you go...

I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I lick Will soon turn red. What am I?

mm.. let's see.. must be a very ferocious beast someone keep as a pet.. :twisted:

i know it :) Easy one!

It could be a sword or a knife...

no ideas for any of them

Is it fire? because it must be fed with fuel, will burn any fuel given to it(hungry) and will burn your finger.

No idea where it comes from though.

I believe you are right...
Fire can also "lick"....

Right you are! Fire it is. Titan got it right too with a secret PM ;)

That one was too easy 8)

Another you say?
Each morning I appear To lie at your feet, All day I follow No matter how fast you run, Yet I nearly perish In the midday sun. What am I?

This one's easy, I worked out the answer in 2 seconds but I don't want to spoil it for everyone else because I solved the last one so I'll just PM it to mika.

Also PM'ed... damn.. someone beat me to it...
Easy one..

Too easy...

Even I got it :lol:

PM'ing you with the answer.

Too damn easy by the looks of it - all of ya got it!

Ok, here's one I find quite funny although also quite easy:

Many many years ago when I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be.

This widow had a grown-up daughter Who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, And soon the two were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother, For she was my father's wife.

To complicate the matters worse, Although it brought me joy.
I soon became the father Of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle, Though it made me very sad.

For if he was my uncle, Then that also made him brother to the widow's grown-up daughter Who, of course, was my step-mother.

Father's wife then had a son, Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson, For he was my daughter's son.

Who is my Grandma?

:lol:

His grandma is either his dad's or his mom's MOM...

I just drew up a family tree on a piece of paper. I think I have found the answer, his grandma is his wife because his father is married to his step-daughter and her mother is his wife

You got it!

Here's the proper answer (I found it quite amusing):

My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue. Because, although she is my wife, She's my grandma too. If my wife is my grandmother, Then I am her grandchild.

Hmm. You guys are just too clever :roll: I'm gonna have to find something a little more challenging. :twisted:

PS: Hey Tom - I like your new avatar - brilliant!

With that last riddle, because you are married to your grandma, that would make you your own grandfather. :shock:

thats Gross

I've got one:

There is one that has head without an eye,
And there is one that has an eye without a head:
You may find the answer if you try;
And when all is said,
Half the answer hangs upon a thread.

Pin-without eye but with head
Needle-Without head but with eye
and they have thread :P

i guess u heard that one..


Make this Correct with one line: 5+5+5=550

5+5+5=550...

hm.. does this make any sense at all??

Well....

One could put a line over the =....

That would then make it say 5+5+5 IS NOT 550 :P

the = sign..

you forgot the = sign.. -> 5+5+5 is not = 550

hm.. i think i need to reprogram my brain.. :?

That can be looked as correct, but not the answer I'm looking for...

Any more Guesses?

whatever...the answer is

5+5+5=550
545+5=550

If you put a small slash on the first"+" it becomes a "4"

Easy, huh?

gee.. now i know i shouldn't think in a complicated ways to solve a puzzle..


well, i'd like to participate too and i got this one.. actually i got this from a game so i don't think it'll be fair for those who haven't played this game before, but might be abit challenging.. :)

"My first is the first. My second is the last. Next comes myself.
Then back to the end, and to the beginning again. Who am I?"

w00t?

what has 4 wheels and flys?

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang?

Well just to answer this one it's: <span style='color:darkred'>"AZIZA"
Although I knew this one from before but noone was biting. I'll try organize another.

nice mika..

for kiddiarni, it's from the classic Quest For Glory II game.. :wink:

Ye...I remember that one...Not...

Now here's quite a cool one...

I live above a star, and yet I never burn,
I have eleven neighbors, and yet none of them turn,
I am visited in sequence, first, last or in between,
PRS (& sometimes Q) are my initials,
now tell me what I mean.

I know that one...the answer is...































































a WATERMELON..

No, just kiddin...i dont get it... (",)

Hehe - had me goin for a sec ;)

Plus I really like your emoticon (",), you got any more like that?

o",) (",)

(0
++: )
(0


i <<
i (",)
<( )>
,,,JL,,

P.S. Those orange "+" and "i" are not supposed to be there...If i make a space it disappears and the emotion gets fd up

So guys? Noone dares to guess an answer to the last riddle? What's the matter? Chicken? pak-pak-pak-paaaaaaaaak! :P

Ummm?

The moon?

as i said a watermelon...No i dont know

Nope - think closer...

Uummm... Are you talking about the key on the keyboard that is exactly above the * key?

If so then I have won, but I don't know what key it is, since I am using a laptop and therefor have a different keyboard. On mine it is th back-space key that is above "the star"...

Man you're good - although you're thinking of the wrong keyboard...

Do you mean a calculator?

In that case remember that there are a lot of calculators out there, and every one of them is different :wink:

Mac's keyboard?

Cmon, you guys are SOOOOOO close...

Piano, synthesizer (also called keyboard)? Although I'm just guessing now...

Damnit...

I am looked in my train of computer keyboard thought, and I can't get off...

I give up :(

is it the function keys?? they consist of F1-F12 and it matches the 11 neighbours section..

but the * is below F6 and F7.. hmm.. and the initials PRS (sometimes Q)??

I told you it was a good one ;)

The answer is:

The number 7 key on a PHONE. Most have PRS and only newer ones have the letter Q on them. Phones have 12 keys including the # and * and the number 7 is just above the * key.

But damn you guys were close.

yewah...We almost got it...

Wait...something wrong here...


THEY almost got it :P

it's a good thing you realized it.. 8)

Here comes one of the easiest.

A magnetic train travels with 60 kilometers per hour. The wind travels to the opposite direction with 80 kilometres per hour. Towards wich side will the smoke emited by the train be turning?

magnetic train got NO smoke... 8)

i fell for that one a long time ago.. :evil: but not this time :twisted: MWAHAHAHAHAHA...

This one is easy...A megnetic train got no smoke...

Another one like that:

There is a bungalow, it is pink, absolutly evevything in the bungalow is pink. The walls are pink, the carpets are pink, the sofa is pink, everything. What colour are the stairs?

[quote]Another one like that:

There is a bungalow, it is pink, absolutly evevything in the bungalow is pink. The walls are pink, the carpets are pink, the sofa is pink, everything. What colour are the stairs?

Stairs?
It is a bungalow!
By definition, a bungalow don't have any floors... or basements.
It is a single floor placed on the ground. Nothing more.

That is the answer to the riddle, it's another one to try and catch out people who don't think. :D

Ok...

What is the difference in a Strawberry and a hippo?

They're both fat, but strawberry is small and yummy, where hippo is big and ugly.

Wrong...

one is a fruit while the other is an animal?

one is small while the other is big?

one is the food while the other is the eater?

one lives above the ground while the other lives on the ground?

one is red in color while the other is gray(i think) in color?

okay i give up :?..

What is the difference in a Strawberry and a hippo?

I hate these Elephant "riddles"....

Examples:

How do you know you have had an Elephant in your fridge?
-You can see his footprints in the marmelade!

The answer is always one that only the asker knows.

The answer to Kiddiarni's riddle could be that Elephants don't look good in red....

yeah.. like the riddle : "how do you put an elephant into a fridge in 3 step"

answer :
1. open the fridge
2. put elephant inside
3. close the fridge

doesn't make sense but that's the answer... damn cheesy riddles..

To follow that one:

How do you get a giraffe in a fridge?

1: Put Giraffe in massive blender
2: Mash it up
3: Open fridge
4: Put mashed giraffe in fridge

It works..

No...

1. Open fridge.
2. Take elephant out
3. Put giraffe in
4. Close fridge.

U got it right...The color is the difference

:lol: yay...

and to follow R Havell's one,

"From all the animals in the world, which one that didn't attend Tarzan's birthday party?"

The human?

teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet..

wrong answer.. anybody else??
:)

The kangaroo?

The giraffe : it's still stuck in a fridge. :D

Tell me three reasons to be a teacher in Greece

Come on give it try!

Money??

fame? fortune? the chicks?

Hahahaha! Teachers in Greece are paid only 900-1000 Euros

You have not gound it!

3 months of vacations in summer
2 weeks of vacations in Xmass
2 weeks of vacations in easter

[quote]Tell me three reasons to be a teacher in Greece
You can punish kids whenever you want, and send them to the principal, or just beat them yourself :evil: :twisted:
:oops: :whipped:

I think teachers in Iceland are going on a strike :( That means no school :( And I was looking forward starting school again after summer....

But Three reason becoming a teacher in Greece.... Hmm.... Free dental service? Uh... respect? :wink: and... uh.... wow I have no idea.

But here's an easy one :wink: If you can't answer that one, then.... *shake my head*
What can everybody touch with their left hand but not their right one?

Damn that one's easy :P

The right elbow.

What do you call a Blonde with a half brain?

Smart blonde?

Nooo...Don't be stupid Stupid...(love this sentence, from Survivor All-stars)

GIFTED...is the answer :D

Don't go too far... Keep it civilized.

Sry dewd..
as i said, It's a Survivor Quote

Sorry if u got offende or somn :oops:

Nono, just noticed that you go little offensive to some others too... Just like said above, hold you in some borders, so others don't get offended :wink:
No big problem with me. :D

I was offended! ...I guess

Offended by what, Maikel?

OK here's one riddle....

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

The farmer, because he carried one full sack and also the two others partially, where the helper only helped to carry the two, thereby only used to carry half the weight.

Sorry, gaur, but wrong :wink:

Well, when the helper carried smaller sacks, then the farmer still carried heavier load... :hmmm:
Another way - the farmer was accustomed to carry heavy load, while the hired helper wasn't accustomed to such weight, so the farmer took the heavier sack and the helper took two more light sacks, so both carried the same weight in the process...
Either way, the real answer is always known 100%ly only by the one who asked it, so... :crazy:

Yeah, it's ALMOST right.... But I want more people to try to find the real answer... you're ALMOST there, Freddy! :wink:

The Hired help had two Hagkaups Pokar of Grain and the Framer had one svartur Ruslapoka of Grain :P ?????

Wrong, hehe. It's actually more simple than you think... :wink:

*lol*
Hagkaup & ruslapoki :wink:
Try again, friend, try again !!!

-not wanting to think about it and starving to post his own riddle-
Well, the helper carried the heavier load because he carried two sacks and the farmer only one :D :D :D :D








Know it MUST be wrong.......but....

I hope Puffin doesn't mind if I post a new riddle.....otherwise he'll bite me to death :wink:


A shepherd owns a boat.
He must cross a river, and carry to the other side a wolf, a sheep and a load of vegetables.
He can carry only one item per crossing and can do infinite crossings.
The wolf can't be left alone with the sheep, and so the sheep can't be left alone with the vegetables.
How will he do?

Why on earth am I trying to solve a riddle for fun?! Anyway I think this is it:
First the sheep to the other end.
Then the wolf to the other end, while taking the sheep back.
Then move the vegetables to the other end. Go back to finally
Take the sheep.

He takes the sheep across the river and then goes back, he then takes the wolf across the river, he then picks up the sheep and goes back to the first shore, he then picks up the vegetables and carries them across, he then goes back to pick up the sheep and puts it on the other bank. Job done :D .

LOL, ROFLMAO...You two guys posted with a one minute between :P...:D

Hey, it's lunch brake. Then you can try these things :)

well..Want a Riddle Einstein said only 2% of the people who tried would be able to finish..here it goes

I solved it, but the answer has been deleted. So that others might try to solve it too 8)

I solved it about year ago. I'll PM to Kiddiarni my answer that I hope it's right. It was right but I forgot it. Hope I remembered good.

Thirty two white horses stand on big red mountain. They are ready to chew everything on their way. Who/What are they? I hope I translated it good. I heard it in Croatian version. Tell me if you have any problems in understanding it.

I haven't got your PM...:?

I didn't know you need to put a subject.

Yup you were correct :D anyone Else...?

Hey Kiddiarni, take a look at my riddle.

no idea....but definately not horses :P

I have edited it. Maybe now you'll be "enlighten".

[quote]Thirty two white horses stand on big red mountain. They are ready to chew everything on their way. Who/What are they?
I guess they are the teeth in the mouth...

You're right! I read this one in Tolkien's "Hobbit".

This one is from adventure "Black Mirror". If you played this game don't tell the solution.

The more you take away,
The larger it grows.
(only four letters)

"hole" :D

Got it!

Rivers without water,
Forests without trees,
Cities without houses.

That all? no more hints?

Iceland :D









Nooo, just kidding...hope it didn't offend anyone :wink:

Nah, it's funny :lol: (hope THIS one didn't offend anyone)
Ahh, now this is a nice rank :D :D :D
1000 posts! I come for you, Tom! :twisted:

:shock: Nice avatar FreeFreddy!!! How long did it take you to find that? With the posts, Tom doesn't stand a chance!

P.S. No clue about the riddle.

Well, I stumbled occasionally upon the avatar in one of the forums somewhere there outside in the cyber-world... Needless to say, I liked it the first moment I saw it. :wink:

Well....

Since I have worked exactly 103 hours these past 7 days, I feel I have a good excuse for not posting so much 8)

But I'm back now, and will soon be zooming away from FreeFreddy.
Nice try, though :wink:

For those who are interested:
My worklist

Monday
08.00 - 20.00

Tuesday
08.00 - 20.00

Wednesday
08.00 - 20.00

Thursday
08.00 - 23.00

Friday
08.00 - 23.00

Saturday
08.00 - 23.00

Sunday - Monday
08.00 - 06.00

Grand total: 103 hours.

I don't know what you do, but that are not funny workhours anymore :(. Try to half it, then at least it's 'averge too much' ;)

One word, three letters.

"Sea"? It's a wild guess, but still.

Nice try....

But wrong. :wink:

Try again it's free!

Need Any other hint?

Rank: Call me, God.
You forget to put comma, but I'll call you anyhow.

See!!! This is what happens to poor young man, who spends to much time on abandonia forum. :shock:

:?: :?
Btw., I don't think there belongs a comma there...
Could these be the ants?

Nope.
Hint: Rivers, Forests and Cities are Rivers, Forests and Cities.

Well, I'll guess one more time then:
1. Wasteland?
2. Lava river over a landscape with forests and cities?
:)

This one was realy good try!

Hint: It's drew by man.

[quote]Got it!

Rivers without water,
Forests without trees,
Cities without houses.
Ok, now (I think) I got it
Rivers without water - roads made of concrete (made by humans)
Forests without trees - telegraph masts or headlight masts
Cities without houses - the cars that are driving on it. So if I'm wrong, I give up there (let me think about it in the evening, when I'm more awake and think better :wink: )...

I don't want you to get mad. The answer is MAP.

Hah, the answer is always simpler than assumed... You didn't get me mad, man, I'm a tolerating person. :D :wink:

This one is from Sofoklo's "Edip". Sphinge asked Edip about it.

"When it's morning, it has four legs,
When it's midday, it has two legs,
When it's sunset, it has three legs.
It is most agile when has less legs.
Who is it?"

Easy one - it's a human:
1. In the morning he's a child so he has yet to learn to walk with the legs only
2. In the midday he has grown and learned how to walk fast
3. In the sunset the human becomes aged and cannot hold his weight alone on the two legs, so he has to use the going stick that supports his weight.
:D

Off course it's easy when you heard it before.

Isn't it always so that you know the answers to the more complex riddles only if you know them from somewhere?

Ok, but I don't believe you, that you solved it in one second. Do you have any riddles? Or somebody else?

Well, this isn't a real riddle, it's a sort of dumb joke I heard when I was in Dusseldorf on stage last May....

A Polish, a Turkish and a Russian are in a car. Who drives?

Turkish, becouse he drinks turkish cofee so that he can stay awake.

Of course I couldn't solve it in a second, therefore I have written too, that the more complex riddles only can be solved if you know the answer for them from somewhere else already. :) Else it would be almost impossible. Well, at least if you don't take your time and think about the riddle. :wink:

Here's one from Baldur's Gate II, so knowers please don't reveal:
One can get me the whole life long, although I am given only once with the birth. My weight is less than nothing, but I fell the strongest ones of you, if I am stopped.

No. Smart answer, but no.
If I remember right, however, turkish coffee is less strong than Italian coffee.

The Polish drives, 'cause he stole the Russian's car, the Russian wants it back again and the Turkish is there to buy the car off from the Polish(or like that, is alreay quite some time ago since I heard this joke).

[quote]Of course I couldn't solve it in a second, therefore I have written too, that the more complex riddles only can be solved if you know the answer for them from somewhere else already. :) Else it would be almost impossible. Well, at least if you don't take your time and think about the riddle. :wink:

Here's one from Baldur's Gate II, so knowers please don't reveal:
One can get me the whole life long, although I am given only once with the birth. My weight is less than nothing, but I fell the strongest ones of you, if I am stopped

Breath?

It's not so brain-teasing at all.....

It's the police that drives!!! :twisted:

[quote]Man, you cheated! Yes, you got it... :roll: :wink:

OK:

Santa Claus, a blind man, a sober Irishman and an intelligent blonde are in a lift, there is a ?50 note on the floor of the lift, who picks it up?

The blonde.

Wrong.

The blind man's dog.

The blind man can't see it, and none of the other exist. So the only left is his dog.

Correct!

I rock! C'mon! Feed me riddles!!!!

Riddle me this, riddle me that!
Who's afraid of the big blue twat?!

OK...this requiires a little drawing.

Draw a 4X4 square. it represents a prison, with 16 rooms.

A most wicked killer, something like Charles Manson, but much worse, is imprisoned in the upper left room.
The prison guard sits in the bottom right room.
All others room are occupied by other prisoners.
The killer manages to get a passpartout to open all prison doors, so he starts to escape.
He is heavily psichically disturbed, and has 2 problems:
1- he HAS to kill every person he sees.
2- he is scared by blood (!), so he can't get back in a room where he killed someone.

The guard of the prison is the last person to kill(after killing all the others).

What's the route to freedom?

Just a quick question. Are they all in motion all the time? Does the killer start to mave emidiately after the doors are unlocked? And what about the other criminals, do they sit still waiting for death to come?

My answer would be that he just sits in his room, lalling away, and when the guard comes to look for him. He kills him and escapes, but you said he killed ALL of his inmates. So that can't be right. :roll:

Well, I told you he's a hell of a guy, its rage is impossible to contrast.
He WILL kill anyone. and when they are sleeping, so they can't even try to defend themselves. The guard doesn't notice him until the murderer kills him.

No one moves, except the killer

I didn't realize until now how hand it is to draw straight lines using letters :) .
P S. If he is afaid of blood why doesn't he just strangle all of his victims?

If no-one moves. He makes them :wink:

He moves up to them while they are sleeping and drag them into the previous room where he kills them. Then he moves to the next room, and copy that method. At last he will get to the room diagonally from the guard. With one inmate to the right, and one to the bottom. He grabs one of them, drag him into the previous room. Enter the room with the other inmate. Kills him on the spot, and moves out to the guard.

Well, Tom, you're undoubtly a thinkin guy.

But you forgot he has to kill every person the same time he sees it.
How could he bear to carry his victims?

You must concentrate on the route.

K | p | p | p

p | p | p | p

p | p | p | p

p | p | p | G

This is the prison. K the killah, p the prisoners and G the guard.
The bars are doors. there are also door that lead up and down, but I couldn't draw them.
Make a small drawing in a paper and try to write the route.

OMG!

He kills one of the guys next to his cell, then runs back into his cell and continues the killing spree the other way!

You're right.

Yeah. Right.

And you? Any riddle?

Tom, you're smart. I have been thinking for about half an hour and I didn't think it's posible (there's always one little bastard that rests alive). :twisted:

Actually I don't know many riddles... I just like to solve them :)

I can fly without wings,
I can pass trough bushes full of thorns without getting scratched.

I hope I translated it good.

Wind or air?

Easy....a feather :D .

It's supposted to be wind, but TheVoid found even other solution.

Here's one (I hope) more difficult one for you:
Of all your possessions I am most difficult one to protect. If you have me, you will want to divide it. If you divide me, you do not possess me any longer.

A Secret!

Right... :(

It was difficult (for me), but my sister solved it! It's good to have an inteligent sister near :) :D :lol:

Cacodemon says:
"ME WANTS OTHER RIDDLE!!!!"

Here you are:
The life, which I live, consists hardly of hours, or less. I serve the whole time by being used. I am thinly fastest, thickly slowest and wind is the enemy of the gift that I bring.

A clock :wink: .

Nope. :D
(hope i can hold you longer off with this one :twisted: )

Really?????Was sure I got it...
Thinly-the minutes stick
Thickly-the hours stick

Than it must be RAIN!!!

Nono :wink: I am thinly fastest, thickly slowest - doesn't fit there...

Any hints? :idea:

One small hint: it served mostly earlier, 19th century and below. :wink:

It's a candle.

Yeah you're probably right, Tom..... Must be... because of the last sentence. The wind is the enemy of the gift that I bring... :wink:

true..
Let me guess..U google search the riddle and find the answer that way??? ;)

Bah Tom, you spoil all the fun. Why don't you let others break their heads too? :? :wink:
Yes, you're right.

Oki another one! Another one, anybody!! :D :D *puffin claps his wings*

That's not bad idea.
The problem is that I translate riddles from croatian (with some gramatical errors), so it will be more difficult to find it on the web (practicly impossible). :lol:

Ok, here's another one:
I can have no colors, but the darkness can lie in me. I weigh nothing and hold nothing, and if one puts me into a container, it becomes even easier.

Thanks a lot for your trust! No I do NOT cheat! I hate F#¤@ING cheating. It spoils all the fun :mad:

I'll PM you from now on... Gee... I'm left out :cry:

Cheating on a riddle is in fact the worst crime that can be committed. At least people always are mad if someone cheated to solve a riddle. Ask me someday to tell you a story about that...
But, Tom, I know you didn't cheat, just you're little too smart here... :wink:

Tom, you have to accept the theory that you are too smart for us.

ROTFL :lol:

Have you even looked at my result in the I.Q topic. 8)

Air!

P.S. I'll check it out.

Nopes. If one puts me into a container, it becomes even easier - air weighs something :wink:

Helium...is a gas lighter than air...
No, definitively not the right answer.

Then just - nothing.
Or maybe darkness itself.

Why don't you ask your sister? :wink:

She's so stupid. I guess she got luck solving that one before. *runs away as his sister aproach*

You all dance around the solution, but it evades you 'cause it's simpler than you think - like always. :wink:

Haha I know the answer! I pm-ed Freddy and it was correct :D
I am the smartest puffin around, dewds! :wink:

IQ doesn't mean anything. This is the perfect prove for that.

Vacuum. Hope I spelled it right.

Yes, you spelled it right (I guess 8) ). But, it's still not it... :wink:
You're thinking too complex.

Space?

Close to it, but not the right branch. :lol: :wink:
And you're still thinking too complicated... :roll: It's nothing that amazing...
Ok, perhaps a hint: it's nothing mental or philosophical, it's a material thing, but it's not consistencial.

how many letters?

Only four...

hole?

Your hint could be a riddle in it self :wink:

And Puffin told me the answer... Space was my guess too, and it is not far from the truth. Just remember that putting space in a container does not make it lighter. The container is already empty 8)

And the winner is:*****R Havellll!!! :wink:
That took your time, people *wondering*

Wooooo!!! I rule!!!! That's the second riddle today that I got where the answer is "hole" :D . First I thought black hole as it is in space and it sucks up light.

Hey, excuse me, but wasn't I the first? :cry: I must be the winner!!!!! :cry:

Oh, sorry :oops:
You're the winner, of course, as you solved it as the first one :D
But R Havell also solved it, so he also deserved the attention, ok?
Don't be offended, please :wink:

Hehe no problem, gaur! :wink:

There is something that is nothing, but it has a name. It joins our walks; it joins our talks; it plays in every game. What is it?.

Echo.

Nopes :wink:
Try again! :wink:

luck or fate?

No... sorry! Not even close :wink:

The shadow.

When you move, it moves...
When you talk, it joins in...

And it also mimics you when you are playing...

Correct, of course! :D

I always tell the truth, but I cannot speak. Look upon me and know, what is real.

a picture?

Well, almost, Manny Calavera :wink:
But pictures don't always tell the truth....

a camera?

It could be a FACT!

Facts are always true, because otherwise they would not be facts.

Mirror?

I guess, cameras also show what you want them to show...

I also think this is the correct answer.

Ok... I guess it is my turn to post a riddle in this topic.

The one who makes it doesn't need it
the one that buys it doesn't keep it
the one that sells it doesn't use it
the one that's using it never knows it being used
What am I?

A coffin :twisted:

Correct...

You're good too.

How much letters exist in The alphabet.

eleven? :wink:

Seven.
T
H
E
A
L
P
B

Right?

Eleven. But this one with seven was nice try.

Well, seven DIFFERENT letter, effectively you asked -only- for letters.

This one is not hard but tricky:

What animal didn't enter Noah's Ark?

Xyz's brother died, but xyz's brother didn't have any brothers. How could it be?

[quote]Xyz's brother died, but xyz's brother didn't have any brothers. How could it be?

Xyz was born after his brothers' death.

You're really original with that answers, but the problem is that those answers are not the ones i'm looking for.

But they're all valid answers, and not the main answers people are supposed to find. This fact puts me a step above normal people 8) .

But WTF!! I'd love to get the real ones :D

Then keep going. Hint: focus on xyz's brother.

I sent a PM to The Picard, and he immediatly fixed the problem. You're no longer an Abandiona Nerd.

[quote]

This one is not hard but tricky:

What animal didn't enter Noah's Ark?

Dinosaur. He was too big, so he died in wasteland (more in waterland).

Nope. Died thousand years before men appeared. Focus on actually living animals

Thax Void. I guess you didn't make it becouse of me, than becouse yourself. NERD!

Sea animals or even others?
P.S. Any other hints?

Yeah, right way. The answer is "fish", but I guess all sea animals will do.

Next one:
What looks like a lion, has lion teeth, has lion tail, has lion legs, growls like a lion and runs like a lion but is not a lion?

liones

Got it :D .

When It was 1990 I was 15, but when it was 1995 I was 10.

Let me hear your original answer TheVoid.

The final one before going to sleep....and this is VERY hard!!Beware!!!

The Wanderer Choice</span>

A wanderer finds himself at a fork: one route leads to Truth Town (where all citizens say ever the truth), the other route to Lie Town (where all citizens ever lie).
The wanderer wants to reach Truth Town, and not knowing what route to take, he asks a passer-by for information.

The passer-by lives in one of the two cities, but the wanderer doesn\'t knows which, so:

<span style=\'color:darkred\'>What should he ask to the passer-by to be sure to know the route to Truth Town?

He lived before Christ. Easy, no? :wink:

And don't bother for now with my riddle, it's real HARD.

I have the answer to both "The Wanderer's Choice" and the xyz one, the answer to the wanderer's choice I have PMed to theVoid but the answer to the other is this: xyz is a woman :) .

You're cheating!!! (I'm sure if these riddles exist in english)

How?

[quote]The final one before going to sleep....and this is VERY hard!!Beware!!!

The Wanderer Choice</span>

A wanderer finds himself at a fork: one route leads to Truth Town (where all citizens say ever the truth), the other route to Lie Town (where all citizens ever lie).
The wanderer wants to reach Truth Town, and not knowing what route to take, he asks a passer-by for information.

The passer-by lives in one of the two cities, but the wanderer doesn\'t knows which, so:

<span style=\'color:darkred\'>What should he ask to the passer-by to be sure to know the route to Truth Town?
I think it's so:
He will ask the passer-by to show him the way to the passer-by's hometown - if he's citizen of Lie Town, he will show him the way to the Truth Town, if he's citizen of Truth Town, he will also show him the way to Truth Town.
Right?

Yes,right :D .
I'm verifying R Havell's answer, but I think he got it too.

Haha!! I solved the hard one! :lol: :D 8)

I got there first! Well done though, it is hard.

Yep, you were faster. :wink: *respect*

Peter's mother had three sons. First Monday, second Tuesday, third ________?

Peter :D , unless peter is a girl :) .

Tomorrow I'm coming with something REALLY hard..... :twisted:

[quote]Peter's mother had three sons. First Monday, second Tuesday, third ________?
Are Monday and Tuesday names of the sons? If so, third is Peter... *logically*

Monday and tuesday are only to confuse you. Peter is third son. you got it.

Hehe, trying to play on our asleepness, hm? :wink:

It is worth pointing out that we both got different answers, and your's is less complicated, mine was:

Ask the man, "If I were to ask a member of the opposite tribe the way to truth town, what would he say?", and then go the opposite direction to what he says.

5 men were running to church. it was raining so 4 of them get wet. how the last one came dry?

Three theories:

1. He ran really fast so he didn't get wet.
2. He is the vicar so he lives next door to the church.
3. He brought an umbrella.

Nope. BTW they all did the same way.

They all were in a car, but the car broke, so the 4 got out and pushed it on while the fifth steered it?

Nice try, but wrong. Take a look at TheVoid's riddles he has the key word in his answers. ( page 18 )

The fifth was in a coffin 8)

You got it freddy.


A bottle without bottom.

This one is from category almost stupid.

I'm goin' to change my pic (wizz!)

:? Uh..... somebody broke the bottom off ? :wink: :?
Wow, this vexes me.... *thinking* :wall:

The Special Frogs</span>

There\'s a kind of frogs that, every day, grows twice his previous size. One of these frogs, thrown just born in a deep well, takes 20 days to occupy the whole well.

<span style=\'color:darkred\'>How many days does it takes to fill the well if the frogs are two?

19!

Because:

2^20 = 1,048,576

2^19 x 2 = 1,048,576

YAHOOO! I'm a tech wizz now! On my way to climb the social stair...

:D :) :D :) :D :) :D :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


Yeah, 19 is the right answer. Good work R HAvell!!

Hint: It has a bottom, but you can't touch it. Why?

because it has water in it? :?

You're getting close.

Because it has something dark in it so you can't see the bottom?

No, no, no. You can't "feel" the bottom, even if you touch it (with your bare hands).

I'll tell you because it's not really a riddle.

The answer is because there is an extra strong acid in the bottle. Try to touch the bottom! 8)

This one is pretty tricky, so PM the answer to me instead posting it in the forum.

The Lift</span>

A man lives in a 20-floor skyscraper.. Every morning he exit his apartment, calls the lift to his floor, takes it, goes to the bottom floor and goes to work.
When he comes back home, he calls the lift from the bottom floor, goes with it to the 5th floor, and then arrives to his door using stairs.
Knowing that:
1-He doesn\'t do it for his will (he\'d prefer to use the lift to the 20th floor)
2-The lift works perfectly.

<span style=\'color:darkred\'>How can you explain his behaviour?

Solved it, PMed it.

Well, both Unknown Hero and R Havell answered right.

I answered first! I must be the winner! :o

You answered exactly at the same time, 11:39.

So you must divide the gold medal :D

Car Models</span>

Bob and Rob enter a model car store.
There are only three models left: a Mercedes for 30 €, a BMW for 40 € and a Ferrari for 50 €.
Bob gives to the clerk 50 € and asks for the BMW, gets it and the change and goes away.
Rob gives to the clerk another 50 € and says nothing. However, the clerk exactly gives him the Ferrari and takes the money.

<span style=\'color:darkred\'>How could he know which car Rob wanted?

Because he drove to the shop in a Ferrari, had red hair and was wearing a T-shirt that said "I LOVE FERRARIS!!!".

A rock group with four members, which are all dead. WHAT am I?

I guess that nickname of M.Schumacher is Rob. :lol:

Not even close.

But you forgot a big flag with the horse rampant, red sunglasses and the writing "MONTOYA THIS IS THA PLACE" tatooed on the ass.

[quote]A rock group with four members, which are all dead. WHAT am I?

Mount Rushmore :D :wink:

He gave the shopkeeper two €20 notes and a €10 note, so he could have given the exact amount of money for the other two cars, but he gave €50 so he wanted the ferrari.

That's the correct answer. :Mr_red:

[quote]That's not fair. :cry:
You heard it before. :cry:

I swear I didn't.
I knew it was far too simple to be a dead rock band, then I noticed it actually was a "rock GROUP", so immediately I remembered the mountain with the 4 presidents-Washington Jefferson Lincoln Roosevelt if I recall.
The greatest difficulty was to remember mount's name-took a half minute. :wink:


And I agree with Tom about the NO RIDDLE-CHEATING POLICY!!! :!:

Here's one..u need to have imagination to think about the situation ;)

Adam and Eve escaped from Eden and god didn't have the time too find them. While they were escaping they found some Moderns clothes and a time machine that brought them to the 21st century. God hired a PI (Private investigator) to find them. After some time the PI hjad gathered around 500 people and knew that Adam and Eve where in that goup. He had no idea how they looked and as i said before they wore Modern clothes (Like levis Jeans and Diesel sweaters). They had also learned the language that wass spoken in that country...

How did the PI find Adam and Eve?

Now answer that..

He could have done a background check on the people he had gathered.

Adam and Eve will not have any history. No shcool papers, no life-long friends... and they will not be mentioned in any public or official papers.

Forbidden Fruit's indigestion :D .
He could have checked their hospital card.

He saw Eve carrying the Apple from the forbidden tree...

She ATE the apple from the forbidden tree, so she wouldn't still have that.

Well, good try, but they got themselves those papers.


hehe, Nice try, but...No

No, thats long gone ;)

I assume you take it more on the Christian believe.....
It's not supposed that Eva and Adam, as first woman and first man, would look much more like Neanderthalians than modern people (altough many still look and think like those)

Because Eve, according to the Bible, was made from Adam's basin bone, so they both looked similar, like twins?

Nopes, Wrong again (or at least Not the answer i was Looking for)

u give up :?:

Nope, I for my part want to think more yet. :twisted:

ok...one hint...it IS something that you can see

GOT IT!!! Adam and Eve wouldn't have belly buttons because they weren't born!

They had the snake in their pocket? :shock: :lol:

aight....There you have it folks :D

They had clothes on :roll:

The PI told them to take 'em off ;)

http://www.ricky-web.it/cazzate/immagini/evoluzione.jpg

Duh! :D

If they snuck out of the garden, while God wasn't looking... it means they had not been thrown out. Which again mean they have yet NOT touched the apples and know they are forbidden.

So if the detective offers apples to the people, Adam and Eve would be reluctant to eat them. For fear of God.

Here, bite your teeth off this one:
It was the forest, in which I got it, therefore I sat down, in order to look for it. I did not find it, no matter how much I searched, therefore I took it with me home. What is that?
:D

Disapointness. Or something like that.

Nopes. http://forum.giga.de/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

I will get you off that smile!!!





Sooner or later! :pissed:

I can think of two things...

A flea or a wooden splinter.

The reason? They both exist in the forrest and they magically seeks you out, and get under your skin... And if you can't get rid of them, you bring them with you back home.

Yep, it's a splinter, you got it again. :wink:

Of course, it could also be any other irritating bug... like a tick.




Ooh! Cool! I solved that one too :mrgreen:

And this one?:
It is better than the best of all things, and worse than the worst of all things. You love it more than the life. You are afraid of it more than the death. The rich ones need it and poor ones have it in the abundance.

Uhmmm....

We already had that one...

The answer is given in a previous riddle.

I always go forward, and I never dare to look back. There's no man that knows my limits.

I'll play it safe and say Time...

You played it good. You won. :cry:

Really? That was a good guess.

What do you always get right after you need it?

Answers? Heh heh.

No :) .

What about necessities? Food and water etc.

no, I'll give you a hint, it is not a material thing.

Problem is, LOTS of things need stuff. The questions isn't very good...

Even if it isn't material =)

Edit: Alright that isn't phrased very well, you always get what you need if it's needed though...

It's experience. It's not too spirtual a thing, nor is it material. All of the other things you need you don't get RIGHT after you need them.

I still think it's too general, even if it does make sense...

[quote]And this one?:
It is better than the best of all things, and worse than the worst of all things. You love it more than the life. You are afraid of it more than the death. The rich ones need it and poor ones have it in the abundance
Where did we have it? :?
And there's no right answer on the previous riddle... :roll:

The answer is ....


See? I solved it.

Ok, you solved it :wink:

This one is too big for this forum so i made new forum. If you want to see my new riddle go to: http://www.abandonia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=802.

Ok, here's one more biting (don't say me you'll solve this one easily too):

*********************1
*****************2*****3
***************4****5***6
************7****8***9***10
**********11 12 13 14 15
********16 17 18 19 20 21
******22 23 24 25 26 27 28
****29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
**37 38 39 40 *41 42 43 44 45
46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55
**56 57 58 59 *60 61 62 63 64
****65 66 67 68 *69 70 71 72
******73 74 75 76 77 78 79
********80 81 82 83 *84 85
**********86 87 *88 *89 90
************91 *92 *93 *94
**************95 **96 *97
****************98****99
*******************100

Find the code that is simple.
:twisted:

:shock:

No hints at all?!

Should we go from one end to the other? Should we find a system? Are there words hidden in the figure?

You just tells us to find the easiest code...

Well here is THE easiest system. You count from 1 to 100 left to right and starting at top going down. Then you always place one more number in the next line, until you get to 55... Then you decrease the line by one number.

Well, I didn't say to find the easiest code, I said "find the code that is simple" - this message contains a hint in itself. :roll: Actually this riddle IS how I became it and solved it too.
As in this riddle are no more hints allowed, because this will else spoil the riddle, it's little more difficult.
And no, there're no words hidden in the figure or the numbers-rows. :wink:

I think Tom's solution is pretty simple.

That's not what is meant with "simple code". :wink:

OK, "1".

Hm? What "1"? :?

That one a the top of the grid, it's the simplest line. You need to give us more of an idea what to do, do we find a message hidden inside there? Do we find the simplest way of representing the grid? What?

You have to use mathematics to find a code / keyword that is simple. No more hints are allowed, sorry. Good luck! :wink:

Here goes.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

S I M P L E
19 9 13 16 12 5

I've worked out the formula for the numbers down the right hand side:

1+(n-1)2+0.5(n-1)(n-2)1

Actually, you're both wrong.
Tom, it's not the word "simple" itself, that you have to find with certain combinations of numbers...
R Havell - you think of it much more complex that it needs to...
@ all - You have to use mathematics to find a code / keyword that is simple and consists of numbers alone, not for any "word"-meaning behind them.
Actually, I'm making it much easier for you here than I did have it, when solved the riddle... :roll: :wink:
No help anymore! Use your heads! :twisted:

Ok... How about this:

Take the utmost right and subtract the left number. As the figure expands... you will get the answers in a upgoing line.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Then as the figure starts to shrink, the answers will follow that motion and get smaller as well...

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Quite interesting... But that's not it. :wink:

I hate you for this "riddle" :wink:

*Hits himself on the forehead.... Think. Think. Think. Think*

I knew you'll like this one. :D
Ok, I'll place it here again, so you all can further see it whithout the need to go back to read it:


Ok, here's one more biting (don't say me you'll solve this one easily too):

********************1
*****************2*****3
***************4****5***6
************7****8***9***10
**********11*12*13*14*15
********16*17*18*19*20*21
******22 23 24 25 26 27 28
****29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
**37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45
46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55
**56 57 58 59 *60 61 62 63 64
****65 66 67 68 *69 70 71*72
******73 74 75 76 77 78 79
********80 81 82 83 *84 85
**********86 87 *88 *89 90
************91 *92**93 *94
**************95***96 *97
****************98****99
*******************100

Find the code that is simple.
B)

This one looks really interesting. But I can't figure it out at ALL! :huh:

You need mathematics to solve it. :)

Freddy. I already told you not to forget inserting comma.
"Find the code, that is simple!"
Seriously I have no idea about the clue. <_<

Nope, there doesn't belong the comma to - it's supposed to be written as it it. ;)

ok...uhh...1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 etc?

That's too simple again. <_<
So it's not correct. ;)

uhh..

1+1=2+2=4+3=7+4=11 etc...?

And what should that become? :sneaky:

100?

Right, but that's not the answer for the riddle, you need a code / password, after all... ;)

Im empty...i don't get it... :blink:

What do you mean by simple ?

He mean: the most difficult code ever.

BTW I know there doesn't belong the comma to, I was just joing.
"That is simple." --> Your sence of humor is also good.

Actually, it is simple in it's own way... :rolleyes:
Just you cannot get to it - think harder! :P Like some maths-teacher would say - think in the way of mathematics. ;)

OK, it seems we're stuck on this one so I'll post a quick 'n' easy riddle to "bump this thread up.

I walk 10 miles south, I walk 10 miles east, I shoot a bear, I walk 10 miles north, I am back where I started. What colour was the bear?

The only place in the world this little trip is possible is if you start exactly on the North-Pole. And the only bears there are white... so.......

Take your colour pick :sneaky:

He's right, Now for another connected one:

A polar bear eats a penguin, where is this happening?

I know! I know!

But saying it here would only spoil the fun for the rest :P

(These riddles are a bit too easy on people like me who have lived nextdoor to icebears ;) )

PM me the answer, if you know it.

On dryland? I mean out of the water? As the bear is white, the penguin probably won't notice him that good on ice-covered dryland as in water, where the penguin has much better chances to escape, too...

Totally and completely WRONG

Tom's got it right.

Ah, I think I got it. In the zoo?

Yes, because polar bears live at the north pole while penguins live in the south pole, so a zoo would be the only place where they would meet.

Lemme know if anyones put this one up before but its stumped everyone I've told it to so far (one guy kept saying the answer was a shoe for odd reasons)


I raise and level mountains. I destroy cities and empires. I fill and drain lakes and shape oceans. What Am I?



Its a little simple if you think about it. PM me the answer. I want to see how many folks bang their heads over this one :twisted:

Are you kidding me? People get stumbed by this? :blink:

Belive it or not some do. far as answers have gone only R Havells gotten it right. a clue would probebly be "I destroy cities and EMPIRES." incase you havent noticed it. still good guesses. but nothing from the earth itself I.E:natural disaster.

Well folks got it now. Should we move or let more people guess?

Let them burn some longer. :P

*cleaning dust from the thread*

Man it's dusty! :karate: :hammer:

Here's the riddle:

A blackman is standing in dark tunnel. His teeth shine! He has a briefcase. What for is he holding his briefcase?

I don't know if this one will work, but I hope it will! :ok:

I have an answer but I don't know if it's right PMing now.

When you say his teeth are shining does that mean if someone else were standing in there they could only see his teeth?

And if so the only way his teeth could shine was if there was light reflecting off them.

And in that case I would assume the briefcase is holding the light to shine on his teeth.

But then if that were true then the room wouldn't really be dark cause the light from the briefcase would at least dimly light the room. Unless the beam of light was cut down and concentrated on his teeth only, but then you would still probably be able to see the the briefcase to some extent.

Actually now that I think about he could have put some glow in the dark substance on his teeth to make them visible in the dark, but that isnt really classed as shining.

Then I would assume the briefcase is for holding this glow in the dark substance.

But what kind of a person would carry around a glow in the dark substance in a briefcase.

After all this I have no idea what the briefcase is for. LOL

So what's the answer?

The answer is: He is holding his briefcase for its handle! (It's not my fault, that Croatian is not so similar to English :tomato: :tomato: )

Anyway here's another (more similar to English):

How ... the horse have four legs?

Is that how come the horse has four legs?

Or do I have to fill in the blank?

How come the horse has four legs??

If I say "how much" then the riddle wont work, cuz this can't be translated, too. How much is only one word in croatian. Try using any options with how.

So we fill in the blank.

How can the horse have four legs?
How does the horse have four legs?
How will the horse have four legs?

Yes, you fill in the blank, and answer the same "filled question"!

I will try to explain it to you - in Croatian (as how much is one word) you ask two questions in one! how much and how long, but people who is answering think that you are asking how much, so they answer you - 4.
I think that now you can guess the answer!

How COME the horse has four legs.??

Answer: Because God gave it to him :angel:

So it's like the question: What do cows drink?

Some people answer milk cause its a trick question.

You didn't get what I'm saying.
The question is:
How MUCH/LONG the horse has four legs?
How much - 4.
How long - for whole his life.


Husband and wife are standing on one side of the river. On the other side, there's church. How will they cross the river (if there's no boats and they don't know how to swim) to get married?

@ Crow

Yeah, but this answer is true.

Cross the bridge?

Go to another church on their side of the river.

Pray the river ain't deep and walk through it?

C'mon, you know I always make stupid riddles :bleh: ! The answer is, just as always, stupid!



Husband and wife are standing on one side of the river. On the other side, there's church. How will they cross the river (if there's no boats and they don't know how to swim) to get married?

Read it through! The answer is hideing somewhere in.

They'll take the bridge?

Nope. No any way of crossing the river!

There is no point in crossing the river anyways since they are already maried.

They don't have to get married in a church.

BTW I think my last answer was pretty stupid.

Walk around the river its bound to come to an end at some point.

They wait for the river to dry with hot weather, or it is already and they just cross it on foot.

They get married on the side they were standing?? :blink:

Sorry for delaying in reply, but this is correct answer!

Of course. ;)

Any new riddles???

What gets wetter as it dries?

(No need to bother with PMs, if you know the answer just post it)

I'd say a towel

If you said that you'd be right.

What gets bigger as you take more out?

EDIT: I'm at the top of the last 4 pages! What is it with me and being on top?

a hole?

Yes, anyone got anymore riddles?

During WWII, there was a bridge connecting Germany and Switzerland, and on the German side, there was a sentry tower with a guard in it. He would come out every three minutes to check on the bridge, and he had orders to turn back anyone who tried to get into Germany, and shoot anyone trying to escape without a pass. There was a woman who desperately needed to get into Switzerland, and she knew she didn't have time to get a pass. It would take her at least six minutes to cross the bridge, but she managed to do it. How?

A classic:

In the morning this creature have four legs.

At noon the creature have 2 legs.

At the evening, this creature have 3 legs.

What is the name of the creature?

Fluxy: 2 solutions I can think off my head.

First, she began crossing the bridge right after the last guard watch over the bridge. After 3 minutes she was in the middle of the bridge when the guard told her to go away. When the guard went back to his post, she took the remaining 3 minutes to cross the rest of the bridge.

Second: she stealthily climbed under the bridge and crossed it that way. ;)

Old one: it's a human. In the morning it's a child, has to creep before it learns to go upright. At noon he's adult, walking upright. At the evening he's old, needing the support of walking stick, therefore 3 legs. <_<

Damm..

Finally i know this one and now i`m too late...

But it`s really a classic one...was even standing in the Donald Duck (is that the same name in other languege>??)

Well, when you have no new ideas anymore, you still may try to solve my last riddle. It's still not solved up to day, so if anyone would like to beat it, just go on. :sneaky: :whistle: :D
It's on page 27, the first post.

Can you explain what to do, or is that part of the puzzle ?

I for one don't understand: 'Find the code that is simple' ? :help:

UUhh..

What exactly to do??

That's the riddle. You'll have to find out the sense. The riddle is pretty simple, but because you first need to find what to do, it's that hard for you. :sneaky:
It needs logical, mathematical thinking. ;)

The code is:

50.5 (that`s excact the middle of the puzzle...)

That's wrong. ;)

I'm troubles by code. Could you also say pattern. Or increasing rate?

1+1=2
2+2=4
4+3=7
7+4=11
11+5=16
16+6=22
22+7=29
29+8=37
37+9=46
46+10=56
56+9=65
65+8=73
73+7=80
80+6=86
86+5=91
91+4=95
95+3=98
and finnaly, 98 + 2 =100!

Simple indeed! ;)

Edit: I got my brain working on that one for about 20 minutes. And I am pretty tired after a sleepless night. Lost most of my time trying something way too complex, like trying to find a mathematical link in the pyramidal shape of the numbers...

Oh, and before I forget... 100 + 1 = 101. This mean that you could just put 101 under 100 on a single line and start back again from 101 to 200, ad infinitum.

Well its interesting.

Well, I knew the solution, but I didn't want to ruin the party! :bleh:

You were rather close, but here:

When the sentry went into the tower, she would start to cross into Switzerland, and when he came out, she would start to walk back into Germany. When he saw her, he would tell her to turn back into Switzerland.

Was the puzzle correct now??:

It most likely is. Eagles solution seems very logical.

A plane crashes on the border of america and canada. Where should the survivors be buried.

You should all get this since you can see it in writing, but when you ask someone to their face it isnt as obvious.

I'm sorry to ruin your good mood now, but no one of you solved it yet.
@Eagle of Fire - there's only one number 1 and only one number 2 in there, therefore you cannot add 1 to 1. Good work, but it's still wrong. ;)
But hey, it seems to be biting you that much so say when I finally should post here the right solution. :max:

And I would have been pissed had it been correct, as I gave the exact same answer in the past :sneaky:

What eagle has done is taken the first number from each line and added to it the amount of numbers on the line and the addition of those numbers makes the first number for the next line. So he isn't saying there are two number 1's or two number 2's. The second two and the second one are the amount of numbers on each line.

BTW I think it should be the answer it works very well.

But there's pretty different idea behind the puzzle... :rolleyes:
You could also say - the Chinese and the Indians could be seen as the same ones because they're both Asians. And they're still pretty different races. :D

It's mean to bury people who are not dead already. ;)

Edit: typo! :wacko:

Erm... Indians are Asians?????? :blink:

Ahahahahaha. Yeah like I said it's easier when you have it written in front of you.

Yes, they are. They live in India.

You are thinking of Native Americans ;)

Yeah, but natives of America are also Asians. Or don't you know the official history? :whistle:

I don't know the official history. Please enlighten me.

Well, as Tom too seems not to know it, I'll post it here. Well, it should be pretty known. Anyway, here's the story.
Around 40.000 years ago, during one of the ice ages, the small waterstreet between Asia and America called Bering-street was frozen over, allowing the people from Asia to cross it and to reach America. Therefore it's officially stated that the Natives of America are the successors of the Asian people that drifted in the Far East during that ice age. ;)

The reason they were orginally called indians is because when Columbus found America he thought he'd reached India (because he didn't know about America) so he called them West Indians.

That was very interesting. Thankyou.

No question. You're welcome. ;)

Not at all. I live in America, mind you. ;)

Don't wanna spoil your fun, but official history only begins with the discovery of writting. Before that you have the pre-historic. But the theory of Indians being Asians is very likely anyway, although it could also be possible for them to have crossed from Asia into the Americas in some other way than up north. But that would include the Orange-peal theory developed by Einstein, which many scientist still believe to be a fary tale!

Or they could be remnants of the great Atlantean Empire too... But there's no evidence of such theories anyway. <_<

Well the orange-skin theory might actually answer that one.
It goes something like that:
The hard crust of the Earth is like the peal of an orasnge, and as the core cools down it shrinks (when things are cold they have a smaller volume than when they are hot). The core is cooling down (but very, very slowly). So at some point before the ice age the crust and the core were not in the perfect sync (they werent turning at the same speed), do to the loss of the core volume and the weight of the polar ice caps. So the crust tilted (that's what Einstein really tried to prove in his latter years). Before this tilt the continent of Antarctica was not in the polar region, but at a region with the climate similar to the one in Australia today. But almost over night this changed.
They say that only such a dramatic change could cause the mamoth in sibera to freeze at such speed, that it would not devour the leaves it had in the stomach. They even say, that this could explain some maps, where not onlay the continent of antarctica is seen, but it's shown as two islands (which people only discovered to be true after taking satelite infrared photos of the Earth). So if pre-ice age Antarctica was Atlantis, it did not sink, but froze. And the survivors would go to Asia and South America (and firs Indian civilizations did evolve on the continent of South America).

Well, I guess it's well know today that Antarctica was not a frozen continent many milleniums or perhaps even many millions of years ago, but instead an equatorial zone and was well populated. Than some gigantic accident caused the earth to change it's position equally to the sun so Antarctica froze very fast over. And it might really be that it once was the fabled Atlantis... But there's simply no evidence of it. And who knows why there isn't any...

Well, the best detective teams can't find evidence of a crime that happened just a few days ago, I guess we can't expect anyone to find undeniable evidence of something that happened about 12.500 year ago (if not more in the past)!

But we still managed to find some nearly impossible details about the dinosaurs and the animal population in the time of the beginning of the live on earth. ;)
Thus being said, there was no real interest to search for things seen as being fabled, and even if there was by some inspired people, it wasn't financed for real so there couldn't be much, if any success at all.

Let's hope that will change. There were some quite impresive documetaries on discovery about it, so maybe it's a step in the right direction!

I'm sure all this is very interesting and informative. But I couldn't be bothered reading it all. I'd like to see another riddle or brainteaser.

O.K.

What kind of a sticker would a family of ammunition have an the back of their car?

I eat gunpowder for breakfast. :crazy:

Don`t pass...ill get mad :rifle:

Nah,
a little hint:
If you read the message it sounds like a thing you spell completely differently and you all know!