Clever Riddles/Puzzles

[Weasellord21]

anybody heard of einsteins riddle. apparently about 2% of people can get it, i couldnt.

There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.

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

HINTS

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

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

 

[Weasellord21]

oh and if you answer back in like 5 minutes i know you cheated and went to the answer page.

 

[MicrosoftPaysMe]

anybody heard of einsteins riddle. apparently about 2% of people can get it, i couldnt.

There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.

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

HINTS

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

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

dude my brain hurts

 

[Equidistantly out of Reach]

1)Work the following problem out completly in your head:
Take 1000, add 20, add 1000, add 30, add 1000, add 40, add 1000, then add 10. What is the total?

2)Imagine a wine bottle with a string on the bottom of the cork so that the string dangles inside the bottle. On the string is tied a coin that dangles an inch from the bottom. Without touching the bottle, the cork, the string, or the coin with your hand or anything you might hold (like a stick or gun), how could you make the coin fall and hit the bottom of the wine bottle.

3)In a family, there is a mother, a father, and 7 daughters. Each daughter has exactly one brother. How many people are in the family?

4)There are three boxes containing fruit. The first box is marked CHERRIES, the second box is marked BANANAS, and the third box is marked CHERRIES AND BANANAS. Each of the boxes is labelled incorrectly. How could you label each box correctly if you were allowed to select only one fruit from one of the boxes?

5)If it takes seven men three hours to dig five holes, how long would it take for one man to dig half of a hole?

 

[MicrosoftPaysMe]

anybody heard of einsteins riddle. apparently about 2% of people can get it, i couldnt.

There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.

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

HINTS

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

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

I got it!!!




It's the German in the green house. Took me a while though
good 1

 

[supermaster1337]

What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon and 3 legs in the evening?

a human lifespan

 

[MicrosoftPaysMe]

What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon and 3 legs in the evening?

a human lifespan

4 is a baby crawling 2 is walking and 3 is when u use a cane
my question is how many legs does a cripple have?

 

[kjrubberducky]

1)Work the following problem out completly in your head:
Take 1000, add 20, add 1000, add 30, add 1000, add 40, add 1000, then add 10. What is the total?

2)Imagine a wine bottle with a string on the bottom of the cork so that the string dangles inside the bottle. On the string is tied a coin that dangles an inch from the bottom. Without touching the bottle, the cork, the string, or the coin with your hand or anything you might hold (like a stick or gun), how could you make the coin fall and hit the bottom of the wine bottle.

3)In a family, there is a mother, a father, and 7 daughters. Each daughter has exactly one brother. How many people are in the family?

4)There are three boxes containing fruit. The first box is marked CHERRIES, the second box is marked BANANAS, and the third box is marked CHERRIES AND BANANAS. Each of the boxes is labelled incorrectly. How could you label each box correctly if you were allowed to select only one fruit from one of the boxes?

5)If it takes seven men three hours to dig five holes, how long would it take for one man to dig half of a hole?

Spoiler: One.

5100. Just gotta know how to keep them decimals in line.

Spoiler: Three.

Ten. Mom, Dad, seven sisters, and one brother.

Spoiler: Four.

Take a fruit from the cherries & bananas box. If it is a cherry, then it must be the real cherry box. Then the cherry box has to be the real banana box, because if it had cherries & bananas, then the banana box would have bananas, but we know all the box labels are wrong. Therefore, the banana box has both cherries & bananas in it.

If you pulled out a banana, then switch cherries and bananas in the above paragraph.

 

[Machine Gun Man]

How about this...

Hank is on the 31st floor of an office building, looking through a dirty window, and all of the sudden, overcome with depression, Hank slides open the window and jumps through it. It's a sheer drop from the 31st floor to the ground, yet Hank lands completely unharmed.
How?

He is a window cleaner and he is jumping into the building.

 

[Glerken]

a man and his son are in a car accident. the father is killed and the son is rushed to the hospital. the surgen says i cant opperate this is my son. how?

This has been done a lot in the thread.
Surgeon is his mother.
But I never understood why that factor would stop her from operating.
Hell, by the time it takes to switch surgeons, she could have just killed her son.
Good job...

 

[purplegothchick]

1)Work the following problem out completly in your head:
Take 1000, add 20, add 1000, add 30, add 1000, add 40, add 1000, then add 10. What is the total?

2)Imagine a wine bottle with a string on the bottom of the cork so that the string dangles inside the bottle. On the string is tied a coin that dangles an inch from the bottom. Without touching the bottle, the cork, the string, or the coin with your hand or anything you might hold (like a stick or gun), how could you make the coin fall and hit the bottom of the wine bottle.

3)In a family, there is a mother, a father, and 7 daughters. Each daughter has exactly one brother. How many people are in the family?

4)There are three boxes containing fruit. The first box is marked CHERRIES, the second box is marked BANANAS, and the third box is marked CHERRIES AND BANANAS. Each of the boxes is labelled incorrectly. How could you label each box correctly if you were allowed to select only one fruit from one of the boxes?

5)If it takes seven men three hours to dig five holes, how long would it take for one man to dig half of a hole?

Number 5 is there's no such thing as half a hole. (The other ones I knew the answers to had already been answered!)

 

[Brotherofwill]

This is a fairly standard one, couldn't bother reading all the pages to see if it has been done before.

3 men are tied to poles. The poles are positioned in a straight line, allowing each man to only look at the pole straight ahead: The one at the front sees nothing, the one tied to the middle pole sees the man on the first pole and the last guy can see both the first and second man. The men either wear red or blue(both colors are represented)colored hats. In order to be untied they need to guess the color of their own hat.

Which man can solve the riddle and why?

To make the position of the poles a bit easier:

* = First pole
* = Second pole
* = Third pole

The line of sight would be to the north in this diagram.

 

[Glerken]

There's Buddha, kill him!

Yes, that is the full riddle. My 7th grade history teacher told us it and I was the first to figure it out!

Not really a riddle. There's no question. Nothing to answer.

I guess I'd have to go with "No"

 

[bad rider]

Two that were never solved, I think.

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Indianna Jones, a woman, a child and a old man have 22 minutes until the volcano erupts and destroys the only bridge out. However it's dark and they need a torch to see where Planks have rotted in the bridge, and only two people can cross at any time. They only have one torch.

Given that it takes indy 3 minutes the woman 4 minutes the child 6 minutes and the old guy 7 minutes to cross the bridge. How do they make their escape?

Edit: Note these are simple pen and paper excircises.

indy and the woman cross 4 minutes
indy goes back 3 minutes
old man and child cross 7 minutes
woman goes back 4 minutes
indy and woman cross 4 minutes
total: 22 minutes


EDIT: I fail at quoting.

Bravo.

 

[Ryuuzoji]

Haven't read all these pages, but does anyone know this one;

If you say my name, i am no more. Who am I?

Fear? I don't know

Silence

Precisly

 

[DrDeath3191]

There is no bear
Okay
If you have it, you do not tell
If you know it, you do not want it
If you receive it, you dont know it
What is it?

an std.

That makes sense, but my answer would be counterfeit money.

Yea i would agree counterfit money

A secret?

 

[Flap Jack452]

If you have it, you do not tell
If you know it, you do not want it
If you receive it, you dont know it
What is it?

Counterfeit money
EDIT: jeez, I should really check to see if other people have answered these.

 

[supermaster1337]

What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon and 3 legs in the evening?

a human lifespan

4 is a baby crawling 2 is walking and 3 is when u use a cane
my question is how many legs does a cripple have?

i said that! that is what the human lifespan is.

and cripples have 4 legs again for the 4 wheels on a wheelchair.

 

[New Troll]

Two men wearing white shirts and blue pants are found dead in a cabin at the bottom of a cliff. How did they die?

No one has beaten this riddle yet...

Spoiler: HINT

Cabin not made of logs.