The Riddle Thread

[ravenx495]

Hey if u got some cool riddles that just breath coolness, post em here. Make sure they are tough. Here are some of mine. Try to guess these!

1. Two men are playing chess. Each won the same number of games (5) out of all 5 games they played. No draws. How can you figure this?

2. A man is living in New York. Why can't he be buried west of the Mississippi River?

3. A man builds a house in which all four walls have southern exposure. A big bear wanders by. What color is the bear?

4. If you take two apples from a man with three apples, what do you have left?

5. There are 17 sheep. If all but nine dies, how many sheep will be left?

I'll explain these after I get a good response.

[PRSplaya]

My answers are in white so they want spoil it for anyone who doesn't want to see them (not saying they're right though :rolleyes: )

1. Two men are playing chess. Each won the same number of games (5) out of all 5 games they played. No draws. How can you figure this? they weren't playing each other

2. A man is living in New York. Why can't he be buried west of the Mississippi River? because he's still alive?

3. A man builds a house in which all four walls have southern exposure. A big bear wanders by. What color is the bear? White polar bear?

4. If you take two apples from a man with three apples, what do you have left? 2 apples

5. There are 17 sheep. If all but nine dies, how many sheep will be left? 9

[DAMAGED ONE]

Hey if u got some cool riddles that just breath coolness, post em here. Make sure they are tough. Here are some of mine. Try to guess these!

1. Two men are playing chess. Each won the same number of games (5) out of all 5 games they played. No draws. How can you figure this?They played 10 games 5 each

[Andrew Sa]

I have not yet read Erics answers, I will do so after I post my own, in white ofcourse, and see how ours compare.




1. Two men are playing chess. Each won the same number of games (5) out of all 5 games they played. No draws. How can you figure this?
jThey are not playing against each other

2. A man is living in New York. Why can't he be buried west of the Mississippi River?
Well, he is still alive, so let's not bury him just yet

3. A man builds a house in which all four walls have southern exposure. A big bear wanders by. What color is the bear?

well, in order for all four walls to be facing south, the house needs to be at the North Pole, so the bear, a polar bear, is white

4. If you take two apples from a man with three apples, what do you have left?
You have only the two apples that you took

5. There are 17 sheep. If all but nine dies, how many sheep will be left?
This one confused me...is it something to do with "dies" rather than "die"? If not, then there are 9 sheep left

[Andrew Sa]

Hey Eric, your and my answer seem to match pretty welll...reckon we could be on to summin

[PRSplaya]

Hey Eric, your and my answer seem to match pretty welll...reckon we could be on to summin
yeah, we pretty much kick ass :cool:

[rockonn91]

Hey if u got some cool riddles that just breath coolness, post em here. Make sure they are tough. Here are some of mine. Try to guess these!

1. eh ive heard ones like this before but I still dont know how it goes.

2. Because he is still living.

3. how do all four walls have southern exposure? that has to do with the answer, i know it.

4. you have two apples.

5. nine.

I'll explain these after I get a good response.

I answered the questions in the quote. woot.

[HDJ]

1. They were playing different people and not each other..

2. Because he's LIVING in New York and not dead.

3. The house would have to sit directly on the north pole. Polar bears are the only bears that live there. They appear white, but their hair is actually hollow and clear.

4. 2

5. 9

[ravenx495]

They played 10 games 5 each

no this is wrong guys just send me a private message with the answers

[PRSplaya]

no this is wrong guys just send me a private message with the answers
guys? he's the only one that got it wrong :confused:

[da_ardvark]

Facts:
1: There are 5 houses in 5 different colours.
2: In each house lives a person of different nationality.
3: No two owners play the same game, smoke the
same cigar, or drink the same beverage.

Further details:
1: The Brit lives in a red house.
2: The Swede plays Scrabble.
3: The Dane drinks Tea.
4: The green house is immediately left of the White house.
5: The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
6: The person who smokes Pall Mall plays Dominoes.
7: The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8: The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9: The Norwegian lives in the first house to the left.
10: The man who smokes Blend lives next to the man that plays Checkers.
11: The man who plays Bridge lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12: The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13: The German smokes Prince.
14: The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15: The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

Now .. using logic, tell me .. who is the chess player ?

[da_ardvark]

1. Two men are playing chess. Each won the same number of games (5) out of all 5 games they played. No draws. How can you figure this?

I think you may have worded this wrong. If you are implying the there are only five games played and each one an equal number then the equal number that they won could not have been five. Each could have won a max of 2 games.

[PRSplaya]

I think you may have worded this wrong. If you are implying the there are only five games played and each one an equal number then the equal number that they won could not have been five. Each could have won a max of 2 games.
You're not thinking this one through... where in the original statement did it say that they played 5 games against each other? ;)

[PRSplaya]

What occurs once in a second, once in a minute, twice in a millennium, but never in the course of a lifetime?

[da_ardvark]

The Answer is of course

The Letter N

[da_ardvark]

You're not thinking this one through... where in the original statement did it say that they played 5 games against each other? ;)

I read it the same way as you at first. And came up with the same answer. but he says the each on 5 games out of 5 games played. If they were two sets of games that would be 10 games played. So if there are only 5 games played, the most that can be won by each and have the same number of games won would be two. Each won two games. and one player played against a third player and lost.

:cool:

[magicninja]

Now .. using logic, tell me .. who is the chess player ?
Brit-Red-Pallmall-Milk-Dominoes
Swede-White-Bluemaster-Beer-Scrabble
Dane-Blue-Blend-Tea-Bridge
Norde-Yellow-Dunhill-Water-Checkers
German-Green-Prince-Coffee-Chess

[dvenetian]

1) A farmer died and left his 17 cows to be divided between his three sons.
The oldest was to receive 1/2 of the stock
The middle son got 1/3
and the youngest got 1/9
How many cows did each son get?

2) How can you take one away from twenty-nine and end up with thirty?

3) A long street has 100 buildings that are numbered from 1 thru 100.
How many 9's are used in numbering the buildings?

4) A Fruit stand sells apples for $1 each. Each apple is wrapped in a special gold wrapper. You can then trade in 3 gold wrappers for 1 apple. If you had $15 to spend, How many apples can you get altogether?

[magicninja]

1) A farmer died and left his 17 cows to be divided between his three sons.
The oldest was to receive 1/2 of the stock
The middle son got 1/3
and the youngest got 1/9
How many cows did each son get?

2) How can you take one away from twenty-nine and end up with thirty?

3) A long street has 100 buildings that are numbered from 1 thru 100.
How many 9's are used in numbering the buildings?

4) A Fruit stand sells apples for $1 each. Each apple is wrapped in a special gold wrapper. You can then trade in 3 gold wrappers for 1 apple. If you had $15 to spend, How many apples can you get altogether?

1)8,6,3
2)by subtracting -1
3)19
4)21

[earthman buck]

1) A farmer died and left his 17 cows to be divided between his three sons.
The oldest was to receive 1/2 of the stock
The middle son got 1/3
and the youngest got 1/9
How many cows did each son get?

2) How can you take one away from twenty-nine and end up with thirty?

3) A long street has 100 buildings that are numbered from 1 thru 100.
How many 9's are used in numbering the buildings?

4) A Fruit stand sells apples for $1 each. Each apple is wrapped in a special gold wrapper. You can then trade in 3 gold wrappers for 1 apple. If you had $15 to spend, How many apples can you get altogether?
1.) You add another cow so that there's eighteen. The oldest gets nine, the middle one gets six, and the youngest gets two. The person who donated the eighteenth cow gets it back, as 9+6+2=17.
2.) In Roman numerals, 29 is XXIX. You take the I away, you get XXX, or 30.
3.) Twenty. 9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, and 99.
4.) You can get 21 apples. You buy 15 apples with your $15. You can trade in your 15 wrappers for 5 more apples. You can then trade in 3 of those 5 wrappers for another apple.

[dvenetian]

1) A farmer died and left his 17 cows to be divided between his three sons.
The oldest was to receive 1/2 of the stock
The middle son got 1/3
and the youngest got 1/9
How many cows did each son get?

2) How can you take one away from twenty-nine and end up with thirty?

3) A long street has 100 buildings that are numbered from 1 thru 100.
How many 9's are used in numbering the buildings?

4) A Fruit stand sells apples for $1 each. Each apple is wrapped in a special gold wrapper. You can then trade in 3 gold wrappers for 1 apple. If you had $15 to spend, How many apples can you get altogether?
Sorry Magic..............................
Congrats Earthman... 1,2 and 3 are correct!!!!!! I'm impressed......
Look at your last sentence in #4 and remember 1 apple also awards 1 shiny gold wrapper toward the leftovers.......
These were some of my tougher riddles, or so I thought. I'm gonna have to dig deeper into the vault since you aced three of my four beauties!!!!!!!!!!
Sharp.....;;..

[earthman buck]

Sorry Magic..............................
Congrats Earthman... 1,2 and 3 are correct!!!!!! I'm impressed......
Look at your last sentence in #4 and remember 1 apple also awards 1 shiny gold wrapper toward the leftovers.......
These were some of my tougher riddles, or so I thought. I'm gonna have to dig deeper into the vault since you aced three of my four beauties!!!!!!!!!!
Sharp.....;;..
Ah yes, I see my mistake now.

There's this game called "MindTrap" that has a ton of riddles like these. For the past month or so I've been grabbing a handful each night and refusing to go to sleep until I solve them. One of these days I'll pick out a few good ones and post 'em.

[dvenetian]

Ah yes, I see my mistake now.

There's this game called "MindTrap" that has a ton of riddles like these. For the past month or so I've been grabbing a handful each night and refusing to go to sleep until I solve them. One of these days I'll pick out a few good ones and post 'em.
Haven't seen the game yet, lookin forward to seeing a few good ones.
In the mean time, here's another.
1) A elementry class celebrates Valentines Day. Every student sends a Valentine to each student in the class for a total of 306 Valentine's.
How many students are in the class?

[earthman buck]

Haven't seen the game yet, lookin forward to seeing a few good ones.
In the mean time, here's another.
1) A elementry class celebrates Valentines Day. Every student sends a Valentine to each student in the class for a total of 306 Valentine's.
How many students are in the class?
>Eighteen<

Okay, here are a few from MindTrap:

1.) Which number is next in this series, and why?: 10, 4, 3, 11, 15
.........a) 14
.........b) 1
.........c) 17
.........d) 12

2.) There is a certain club which is for men only. There are 600 men who belong to this club and 5% of these men wear one earring. Of the other 95% membership, half wear two earrings and the other half wear none. How many earrings are being worn in this club?

3.) Mr. and Mrs. Clatter have five children. Half of them are boys. How is this possible?

4.) A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years. How long did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?

5.) If you divide thirty by a half and add ten, what do you get?

6.) Six glasses are in a row. The first three are filled with juice, and the last three are empty. By moving only one glass, how can you arrange them so the glasses alternate between full and empty?

7.) What is the product of the following series?:
.........(X-A)x(X-B)x(X-C)x(X-D).....(X-Z)

8.) What is the next letter in the following sequence?:
.........O T T F F S S

9.) How many cubic meters of dirt are in a hole 6 meters long, 2 meters wide, and 1 meter deep?

10.) Which of the following words does not belong with the others, and why?:
.........Father
.........Aunt
.........Sister
.........Cousin
.........Mother
.........Uncle

11.) Picture a ship at anchor. Over the side there hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?

12.) A man and a boy who are walking together step out with their right feet. The boy walks three paces while the man walks two. On what step will they both put their left feet forward together?

[dvenetian]

>Eighteen<
Correct.........

Okay, here are a few from MindTrap:

1.) Which number is next in this series, and why?: 10, 4, 3, 11, 15
.........a) 14
.........b) 1
.........c) 17
.........d) 12

2.) There is a certain club which is for men only. There are 600 men who belong to this club and 5% of these men wear one earring. Of the other 95% membership, half wear two earrings and the other half wear none. How many earrings are being worn in this club?

3.) Mr. and Mrs. Clatter have five children. Half of them are boys. How is this possible?

4.) A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years. How long did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?

5.) If you divide thirty by a half and add ten, what do you get?

6.) Six glasses are in a row. The first three are filled with juice, and the last three are empty. By moving only one glass, how can you arrange them so the glasses alternate between full and empty?

7.) What is the product of the following series?:
.........(X-A)x(X-B)x(X-C)x(X-D).....(X-Z)

8.) What is the next letter in the following sequence?:
.........O T T F F S S

9.) How many cubic meters of dirt are in a hole 6 meters long, 2 meters wide, and 1 meter deep?

10.) Which of the following words does not belong with the others, and why?:
.........Father
.........Aunt
.........Sister
.........Cousin
.........Mother
.........Uncle

11.) Picture a ship at anchor. Over the side there hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?

12.) A man and a boy who are walking together step out with their right feet. The boy walks three paces while the man walks two. On what step will they both put their left feet forward together?

1) 1------- 15-1= 14
2) 600 .....it equals out
3) each have 5 children
4) 9 years
5) 70....... 30 div~ .5 = 60 + 10 = 70
6) pour juice from 2nd glass into 5th glass
7) 0
8) E........... 1st letter in Eight
9) 0 .......... it's a hole
10) cousin........ all others state gender
11) all of it........... the boat will rise with tide
12) the next step???????

[earthman buck]

You got all but three right...

1.) Sorry, wrong. The answer is:Fourteen. By spelling out the name of each number, each word has one more letter than the one before it.<

3.) I should be more specific...they have five children together. Of those, half are boys. How? The answer: They're all boys.<

12.) Wrong. The answer:They never will. Every second cycle their right feet will match up, but never their left.<

[dvenetian]

You got all but three right...

1.) Sorry, wrong. The answer is:<

3.) I should be more specific...they have five children together. Of those, half are boys. How? The answer: They're all boys.<

12.) Wrong. The answer:<

I pondered over #1 for some time and all I could find was they equalled the sum of 14 when grouped. The correct answer never dawned on me.

#3 by common sense tells me that 10 children is necessary to fit the quota because no parent has 1/2 boy, but after evaluating, I'm mistaken...

#12 caught the error, it's an odd / even thing.....
Very good, I'll see if I can think up some others.......