Clever Riddles/Puzzles

[Samuel Adams]

EDIT, just scrolled through a few pages. Found the answer (I was correct =D) since i cant delete posts ill just write this instead.

 

[GoldenCondor]

You have 11 sticks of the same size. How can you make them 9 without removing, breaking, or adding more?

Simply arrange them into the shape of the number 9?

Nope. But you're getting there.

 

[sune-ku]

You have 11 sticks of the same size. How can you make them 9 without removing, breaking, or adding more?

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[FallenRainbows]

All I see there Flap Jack452 is.

Learn to...

I do not get the rest at the moment. Is my logic in the right direction?

Learn to use your mind as a weapon.

 

[GoldenCondor]

You have 11 sticks of the same size. How can you make them 9 without removing, breaking, or adding more?

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You win!
A+

 

[Federalist92]

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

 

[Federalist92]

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

 

[wordsmith]

Time.

What have I got in my pocket?

 

[phoenix352]

Time.

What have I got in my pocket?

lint

 

[Toners]

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!!!

Spoiler

It's the German in the green house.

Took me a while though
good 1

Yeah, this one took me friggin' ages too. This was my solution:

Spoiler

|Norwegian...|Dane......|British.....|German...|Swede..........| nationality
|Yellow...........|Blue.......|Red..........|Green......|White.............| colour
|Water............|Tea.........|milk..........|Coffee.....|Beer...............| drink
|Dunhill..........|Blends..|Pall Mall...|Prince.....|Blue Master..| cigar
|Cats..............|Horses..|Birds.........|Fish........|Dogs..............| pet

Though I'm fairly sure none of those brands are cigars

EDIT: either that one quite early on about the circus midget was written wrong, or it's impossible. I researched it and a different riddle involving a BLIND circus midget was about, but not the one posted. It's actually driving me mad >. >

 

[Toners]

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And now for some of mine:

A midget has a job st the circus, which he loves very much. For his 15th anniversary of preforming there, his circus friends throw him a party. Getting quite drunk at the party, he goes home to his trailer. The next day, he wakes up and makes breakfast. Halfway trough making it, he looks at the table in the middle of his trailer, drops the pan in shock, and shoots himself. Why did he kill himself? All the information needed is given.

honestly... what is the answer to this?
There must be something I'm not seeing, it's mental

 

[tfkillah]

I heard this ages ago. forgive me if I don't get it quite right

A man dessed all in black stumbles drunk out of a pub. he stops and sits in the middle of a narrow road. suddenly a speeding car without its headlights on turns onto the road and heads straight for the drunken man. there are no streetlights and no moon in the sky yet the car manages to see the drunken man and stop before hitting him. how is this possible?

 

[happysock]

I was interested to see some of the riddles you guys have picked up along your travels. They can be the trick questions, or just word games. Mine is:
L . . . N . ... S . . . U . . . N . . . A ... P
. E . R . T . U . E . O . R . I . D . S . W . A O
. . A . . . O . ...Y . . ....M . . A . . . E N

Learn to use your mind as a weapon

 

[realguypablo]

I have two:

A man lives in a hotel, and everyday he gets the lift from the top floor (20th) to the bottom, and goes to work. However on the way back up after work he only goes to the 8th floor, and walks the rest of the way.

You are in a room, n which all the walls facing south. Out one of the windows you see a bear, what colour is it?

He's short and can't reach the button and white do i get a cookie?

 

[realguypablo]

I got two!

A man jumps off a building in an attempt to commit suicide. When he lands an ambulance takes him to a hospital where he is eventually released and not sent to prison. If he had jumped on any other day,however, he would have been arrested after recovering. Why?

An eccentric queen places a diamond inside a metal box and tells her kingdom that whomever can remove the diamond from inside the box, without using any tools, can keep that diamond and half the royal treasures. Many tried but none succeeded. One day a young girl comes to the queen and asks to try, but she demanded to try for as long as she wanted. Granted this wish, she went every day to try and after a very long time managed to extract the diamond and the queen gives her all she promised. How did the young girl manage this?

 

[NeedAUserName]

I have two:

A man lives in a hotel, and everyday he gets the lift from the top floor (20th) to the bottom, and goes to work. However on the way back up after work he only goes to the 8th floor, and walks the rest of the way.

You are in a room, n which all the walls facing south. Out one of the windows you see a bear, what colour is it?

He's short and can't reach the button and white do i get a cookie?

Yes but it was fresh when I first posted the riddle, its all blue and hairy now.

 

[Kriptonite]

A man is found dead in the woods surrounded by fifty three bicycles. Why was he killed?

Quote me with your answer and I'll tell you if you are right.

 

[DuplicateValue]

I got two!

A man jumps off a building in an attempt to commit suicide. When he lands an ambulance takes him to a hospital where he is eventually released and not sent to prison. If he had jumped on any other day,however, he would have been arrested after recovering. Why?

An eccentric queen places a diamond inside a metal box and tells her kingdom that whomever can remove the diamond from inside the box, without using any tools, can keep that diamond and half the royal treasures. Many tried but none succeeded. One day a young girl comes to the queen and asks to try, but she demanded to try for as long as she wanted. Granted this wish, she went every day to try and after a very long time managed to extract the diamond and the queen gives her all she promised. How did the young girl manage this?

Eh no idea on the first one, but does the second one have to do with her bringing mouthfuls of water in to float it out?
I don't even know if diamonds float or not...

 

[realguypablo]

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!!!

Spoiler

It's the German in the green house.

Took me a while though
good 1

Yeah, this one took me friggin' ages too. This was my solution:

Spoiler

|Norwegian...|Dane......|British.....|German...|Swede..........| nationality
|Yellow...........|Blue.......|Red..........|Green......|White.............| colour
|Water............|Tea.........|milk..........|Coffee.....|Beer...............| drink
|Dunhill..........|Blends..|Pall Mall...|Prince.....|Blue Master..| cigar
|Cats..............|Horses..|Birds.........|Fish........|Dogs..............| pet

Though I'm fairly sure none of those brands are cigars

EDIT: either that one quite early on about the circus midget was written wrong, or it's impossible. I researched it and a different riddle involving a BLIND circus midget was about, but not the one posted. It's actually driving me mad >. >

I did it! I think but you both got it wrong i think. The one who owns the fish is...

Spoiler

The Norwegian owns the fish!

 

[realguypablo]

I got two!

A man jumps off a building in an attempt to commit suicide. When he lands an ambulance takes him to a hospital where he is eventually released and not sent to prison. If he had jumped on any other day,however, he would have been arrested after recovering. Why?

An eccentric queen places a diamond inside a metal box and tells her kingdom that whomever can remove the diamond from inside the box, without using any tools, can keep that diamond and half the royal treasures. Many tried but none succeeded. One day a young girl comes to the queen and asks to try, but she demanded to try for as long as she wanted. Granted this wish, she went every day to try and after a very long time managed to extract the diamond and the queen gives her all she promised. How did the young girl manage this?

Eh no idea on the first one, but does the second one have to do with her bringing mouthfuls of water in to float it out?
I don't even know if diamonds float or not...

It's a closed box so no try again.