Riddles

Postby **Needle Noggin** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:14 pm

Some are very hard.Some are easy *coughnumber2and3cough*.

[url=http://]http://www.tolkien.co.uk/jrrtolkien/riddles.asp[/url]

Postby **agasfas** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:20 pm

Suggestion: Why not just start one Riddle Thread instead of having....*counts* 3 different threads? PLus it may be more appreciate for the Goof off forum. *shrugs* Just a suggestion.

Anyway, I've never been good at riddles, this includes easy ones. Don't know why....
Your link doesn't seem to work, perhaps it's just my browswer. But it says invalid url.

But the only riddle I've ever gotten was:
You have a barrel. You put something in, it is both visible w/ the naked eye yet makes it lighter. What did you add to the barrel?
[Spoiler]A hole. You can both see it w/ the naked eye and it make it lighter[/Spoiler]

Postby **Felix** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:27 pm

Yeah, I've heard that one before.

Here's another,

A man is hanging by his neck from a rope. There is a puddle of water underneath him, but nothing that he could have stood on to hang himself.
How did he die?

how do I do the little spoiler wrap thing?

Postby **Needle Noggin** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:29 pm

By the way don't tell anyone the answers please.
I'm not sure about the link I will check. It works for me.

Try copy and pasteing it.

http://www.tolkien.co.uk/jrrtolkien/riddles.asp

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:49 pm

i cant get the first one

Postby **Raiden no Kishi** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:03 pm

Felix wrote:Yeah, I've heard that one before.

Here's another,

A man is hanging by his neck from a rope. There is a puddle of water underneath him, but nothing that he could have stood on to hang himself.
How did he die?

how do I do the little spoiler wrap thing?

That one's ancient. [spoiler]He stood on a block of ice and it melted.[/spoiler]

Spoiler tags go a-like this:

[spoiler]insert text here[/spoiler*]

Remove the asterisk and you get a nice little spoiler box. ^_^

Rai

Postby **Felix** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:33 pm

Ok, thanks.

Here is one that I heard a while ago. It was a yes-or-no-question style of riddle that took about three hours to figger out. It doesn't make too much sense.

There is a man who always wears a black cloak. One day, he get's a package that contains a human arm. He shoots himself.
Why?

It's like impossible

[spoiler]He and a friend were stranded on an Island after a plane wreck. They finally decided to make a deal. one would cut off his arm for food as long as the other did too. They cut off the friend's arm but just as they were about to eat it, they got saved. The friend wanted our guy to cut off his own arm because thay had made the deal and sent him the amputated arm in a box to remind him. The man would rather die than cut off his arm so he shot himself.
The reason he was always wearing the cloak was to fool his friend into thinking he had already cut off his arm. *phew*

that was long and pointless, wasn't it?[/spoiler]

Postby **agasfas** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:04 pm

It's impossible to solve based on a lack of information. The anwser was a lot longer then the question

. OH well.

Postby **Felix** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:06 pm

that's why it's a question-answer riddle.
I guess there was no point in posting it was there?

Postby **Raiden no Kishi** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:06 pm

. . .

I'm not sure if that's really a riddle, but meh.

I think there are many explanations. One could be that he had been on a ship in about the 16 or 1700s and had seen many amputations. He never got over it and the bloody images haunted him. One day, some malefactor (that means bad guy) sends him a severed human arm, knowing of his phobia. The sight pushes him over the edge and he commits suicide. So yeah.

I guess my definition of a riddle is something that has a single clear answer that can be found if you look at the information given enough. Your mileage may vary.

Rai

Postby **Felix** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:16 pm

Ok, then, here's a better one.

Three guys jump in a pool but only two get their hair wet?
why?

simple.

[spoiler]one was bald[/spoiler]

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:17 pm

yeah, zip sent me one of those riddles that lack information and could have 835673057 answers to it

Postby **Felix** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:20 pm

I used to know a ton of riddles, but now I've forgotten them all.
Shame.
They probably sucked anyway.

Postby **Beast** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:46 pm

Ok heres one:

You are stranded on an island, you have a five gallon jug, and a 3 gallon jug. They are not messured! And you can't bite on the jugs to
messure them. And you can fill them up in the water, over and over again.

The challlenge!: 'get four gallons of water in a jug.'

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:26 pm

pour them till they both are filled equally (you dont need to make a mark to measure them)

Postby **Beast** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:20 pm

What do you mean Mr.SmartyPants? :eh:

To Write Love on Her Arms · Postby **ZiP** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:22 pm

pour one into the other then pour one into the empty one until they are equal.

Postby **Beast** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:34 pm

No no no, You don't know how much one gallon is, you only have five gallon JUG, and three gallon JUG. It never says on the jug the mesurements.

So if you wan't the answer then ask me! :dance:

Postby **Kinkosami** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:39 pm

I'm too lazy to think about that one too much. But I'm not so sure you stated the riddle correctly Beast... and those who answed only confused me more... my head hurts... maybe I'm just tired.

To Write Love on Her Arms · Postby **ZiP** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:17 am

No no no, You don't know how much one gallon is, you only have five gallon JUG, and three gallon JUG. It never says on the jug the mesurements.

But what I'm saying is that you pour the whole 3 galleon jug inot the 5 galleon jug, then pour half the eight galleon jug into the empty jug, you measure by putting them up to each other to see if they're equal, if they are, then there's 4 galleons in each..

Postby **uc pseudonym** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:33 am

I would agree that a riddle is only a proper riddle when there is one definite answer, not something based on information not introduced in the problem. For example, take this classic:

There is a large party at which only punch is served. Every person at the party later dies of poisoning except for one man. He arrived early, drank as much punch as anyone else and left after a few minutes. Why didn't he die?

[spoiler=the answer]Traditionally we say that the poison was in the ice cubes. At the time this man drank the punch, the ice had not melted and none of the poison was in his system.

The problem with this solution is that it requires information not given in the problem: the existence of ice cubes. Hence, why not add other pieces of information?[/spoiler]

[spoiler=an alternate answer]For example, there isn't any poison in the punch at all. Everyone at the party became involved with the Mafia several years later, and were eventually poisoned, except the one man who left early. The party is just a red herring.[/spoiler]

To Write Love on Her Arms · Postby **ZiP** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:43 am

Indeed, riddles whee it's possible to answer more than one way, are wrong.

Here's a good riddle:

" Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again.

What is it?"

Postby **Raiden no Kishi** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:29 am

A bone?

Rai

EDIT: Or maybe a friendship...

To Write Love on Her Arms · Postby **ZiP** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:59 pm

Eh:

1. If you were to brake a friendship, it wouldn't be "better"

2. If you brake a bone, it's not "better" either.

Postby **Beast** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 2:08 pm

No GUYs. Theres only a 5 GALLON JUG!! AND A 3 GALLON JUG! :mutter:

THere Are only TWO Jugs in this hole riddle!! No one gallon jug or 8 gallon jug!
So heres the answer!

Take the 3 gallon jug, fill it up, and dump all of it in the five gallon jug!
THen fill up the three gallon jug again! And dump it into the five gallon jug intil it reaches the top! So you will ahve one gallon of water left in the 3 gallon jug! Then you dump out all five gallons in the 5 gallon jug, and dumb the one gallon of water that was in the 3 gallon jug, in the five gallon. Then fill the 3 gallon jug and dump it in the 5, Then it's four gallons in the five gallon jug!!!!!!!! :dance:

Postby **agasfas** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 2:22 pm

Came a bit late on this riddle, and to actually think I knew the anwser. Sounds like the riddle from Die hard 3. As I recall, they had a very similar almost exact riddle. But yeah, as you can see there is a definite anwser, all the information is given to actually derive at an anwser, no assumptions. No sign of Red Herring here.

To Write Love on Her Arms · Postby **ZiP** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 2:34 pm

THere Are only TWO Jugs in this hole riddle!! No one gallon jug or 8 gallon jug!

GARGH!
Look to the text that I type
*Take one jug, pour it all into the other jug, you are left with an 8 galleon jug ,and an empty jug, you then pour half the 8 galleon jug into the empty one.
you measure by putting the jug beside each other, if they both have 4 galleons they will be EQUAL HEIGHTS! EQUAL HEIGHTS DANGIT!

AGGGGH

*Runs off to slam head of something*

Postby **Heart of Sword** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:05 am

No GUYs. Theres only a 5 GALLON JUG!! AND A 3 GALLON JUG!

Uh-oh, Beast is going Battousai on us :evil:

Here's a riddle:

In the morning, it has four legs, in the afternoon, it has two legs, and in the evening, it has three legs. What is it?

-_- ... easy eh?
(I don't get the gallon one.)

Postby **uc pseudonym** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:13 am

The Sphinx's riddle, eh? The answer is man. Does everyone know why?

Postby **Beast** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 4:29 pm

? A man? why?

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