Riddle Thread.

[SmilingKitsune]

Here is a riddle taken from Kurt Vonnegut's fantastic book The Sirens of Titan.

A man is locked in a room with nothing but a calander and a matress, how does he survive?

He survives on dates and... I forget the second part.

Water from the springs in the matress.

 

[spartan231490]

In a room with only 2 exits are two guards, of which one will always tell the truth, and one will always lie, and you do not know which is which. One exit leads to certain death, the other to freedom. You may ask ONE guard ONE question. What do you ask to guarantee your freedom?

But if you ask only one of them about the doors then you still have a 50% chance of living. If you ask a question to find out whether they lie or not, you've still got no help on the doors. You need more questions.

And this should probably have gone in Forum Games.

No, the first guy got it right. If you ask him to tell you which way the other would say is safe, both will end up pointing towards the way that leads to death.

 

[MrFluffy-X]

watch labyrinth

I SAW MA BABY....

 

[SmilingKitsune]

What is big, yellow, and cannot swim? (warning - this is very stupid question)

More serious one:

If you go to the movies and you're paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice, or two friends to the movies at the same time?

It would be cheaper to take two friends at the same time, as otherwise you would have to buy two tickets for yourself.

 

[MrFluffy-X]

A man leaps off of the roof of an eleven story building. He takes a running start and when he leaves the roof, he is traveling at 3.2m/s.

How long does it take him to reach the ground?

depends on a lot of variables:
his weight and build
the height of each storey
weather conditions
etc

but mere seconds either way

his weight wouldnt matter

 

[pendragonown]

I've got one:

What is greater than God, more evil than the Devil? The poor have it and the rich need it? If you eat it, you will die?

Also, you had better know this one:

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.

What is it?

Nothing.

Genius!

Do you not know the second one? I thought everyone (at least most people on here) knew that one.

And you didn't use Google did you?

Edit: Should've read a few more post into this before answering.

 

[The Night Shade]

What's the thing that Always goes up but never down?

your age?

Yes but this one was already answered

 

[Jerious1154]

A young man, a young woman, a small child, and an old man are in a cave when it suddenly starts to collapse. In order to exit the cave, they have to cross a bridge that can only hold two people at the same time. What's more, they only have one flashlight, and they need the flashlight to cross the bridge. Therefore, the only way to get everyone across is to send two people across and then one person back with the flashlight, so that they can use it to get two more people across (one of whom will then have to come back with the flashlight, etc). If they were going by themselves, it would take the young man 2 minutes to cross the bridge, the young woman 3 minutes, the small child 5 minutes, and the old man 7 minutes. However, since they only have one flashlight, the two people on the bridge can only move at the pace of the slower person. They have 18 minutes before the cave collapses on them. How do they all get across the bridge?

 

[Tharwen]

But... an hour and a half?

Look:

Yeah, a LOONG time working on that floor height. In my mind he spends 20 minutes finding consensus on whether the classroom is a good enough example or not, or whether they should find a national or global average.

Then someone suggests the average height of people in the nation should be normalized for.

Then after much data mining, it is agreed upon! And the rest took 1 minute or so to write out.

...and then the class told him the answer and he went away to start cutting himself.

 

[Paladin426]

The more you take the more you leave behind. What are they?

Steps

 

[Mute52]

Who let the dogs out?

 

[Urgh76]

Who let the dogs out?

Michael Vick

OT: What runs but never walks? XD

 

[Urgh76]

What is big, yellow, and cannot swim? (warning - this is very stupid question)

More serious one:

If you go to the movies and you're paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice, or two friends to the movies at the same time?

Two friends because then you pay for 3 ppl, if you took the same friend twice, you pay for 4

And your first one....... giraffe?

EDIT: Just saw you had your second riddle already answered.... sorry

 

[SilverHammerMan]

What happens when an unstopable force meets an immovable object?

I don't know if you've gotten the answer yet since I don't want to look through 5 pages to check, but as Superman said:
"They surrender."

Now here's one, not so much a riddle, but a joke.
Why did the absurdist cross the road?

 

[EmpressZombiKitty]

The more you take the more you leave behind. What are they?

Steps

Yeah, Steps or Footprints. Good job!

 

[Yossarian1507]

What is big, yellow, and cannot swim? (warning - this is very stupid question)

More serious one:

If you go to the movies and you're paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice, or two friends to the movies at the same time?

Two friends because then you pay for 3 ppl, if you took the same friend twice, you pay for 4

And your first one....... giraffe?

EDIT: Just saw you had your second riddle already answered.... sorry

About the second one, you're both correct.

About the first one... Nope. You can try again, or read the spoiler for answer.

Spoiler: the answer is...

a bulldozer

I told you, it was stupid

 

[Nuuu]

A bell rings, a man drowns, a bell rings. What happened?

Someone jumped off a cruise liner? or maybe his phone is going off, darn phone, always going off at the WORST times...

 

[Asuka Soryu]

You can fit 20 into a cup. And one can fill a barn.

 

[LikeDustInTheWind]

What starts with e, ends with e, and contains only one letter?
...It's not the letter e.
Goodnight people.

An envelope.

The fox-bag-chicken riddle: A farmer has a fox, a chicken, and a bag of seeds. If the wolf is alone with the chicken, it will eat it. If the chicken is alone with the seeds, it will eat them. The farmer has to cross a river and can only bring one thing at a time. How does he get all of them over?

 

[Spartan448]

A bell rings, a man drowns, a bell rings. What happened?

Someone jumped off a cruise liner? or maybe his phone is going off, darn phone, always going off at the WORST times...

Still wrong! Although you ARE getting closer.