Riddle Thread.

[kane.malakos]

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?

Nah, I just knew it. And the second one is time.

 

[Alastore]

Riddles time
Post Riddles, Answer Riddles.


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?

Ask 'tell me which is the safest path?' The honest one will point me in the right direction and the liar will too point the right direction to freedom

 

[silver wolf009]

I've got one.

What is now my favorite, was once detested. I shrunk from it like flame, but now I cannot get close enough to it. What/who am I?

 

[Riptide1]

A man lies face down, dead, and naked in an open field. In his hand he holds a straw. In the distance there are high voltage power lines. How did he die?

 

[ScoopMeister]

Riddles time
Post Riddles, Answer Riddles.


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?

I apolgise if anyone's already answered this. It's: 'What would your brother say if I asked him, "which door leads to freedom?'
The one who lies will say the wrong door, and so would the one who tells the truth. So you pick the door neither of them says.

 

[whatdoyouthink]

What's blue and smells like red paint?

blue paint


What stinks when living and smells good when dead?

 

[ScoopMeister]

Woman walks into a restaurant, orders albatross. Takes one bite, leaves the restaurant and later shoots herself in the head. Why did she do it?
A helpful hint: the woman had recently been involved in aplane crash. They had landed on a desert island, many died, and they had initially struggled to find food.


And no, it's not 'cause she didn't like the taste.

 

[Wierdguy]

An oger stops an adventurer on the road and sais: If you tell me a lie I shall chop off your head! But if you tell me a truth I shall strangle you with my hands!

What can the adventurer say to escape the situation?

 

[EmpressZombiKitty]

An oger stops an adventurer on the road and sais: If you tell me a lie I shall chop off your head! But if you tell me a truth I shall strangle you with my hands!

What can the adventurer say to escape the situation?

Say Nothing?
Edit: Command him to let him go?

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

 

[caz105]

An oger stops an adventurer on the road and sais: If you tell me a lie I shall chop off your head! But if you tell me a truth I shall strangle you with my hands!

What can the adventurer say to escape the situation?

I'm lying.

 

[floppylobster]

"Riddle me, riddle me, rot-tot-tote!
A little wee man, in a red red coat!
A staff in his hand, and a stone in his throat;
If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat."

Who knows their Beatrix Potter?

"A house full, a hole full! And you cannot gather a bowl-full!"

 

[Mr Companion]

i think its safe to say my riddle has been solved!!

i lost my hat this morning. after about an hour of searching, i found it. what was the first thing i did once i found it?

Celebrated

1. You have two old-fashioned hourglasses. One contains five hours of sand, one contains eight. How would you go about timing eleven hours?

Find a better way of measuring time.

 

[Jon Shannow]

"Take you out, put me in and a horse appears in this happy person"
I honestly for the life of me figure this out

 

[Leemaster777]

I've got a doozy right here.

What is the beginning of the end, the end of every place, the beginning of eternity, and the end of time and space?

Yes, this is a real riddle, with a real answer.

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.

 

[Not George Carlin]

I've got a doozy right here.

What is the beginning of the end, the end of every place, the beginning of eternity, and the end of time and space?

Yes, this is a real riddle, with a real answer.

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.

The letter "e".

Like a boss.

 

[Leemaster777]

I've got a doozy right here.

What is the beginning of the end, the end of every place, the beginning of eternity, and the end of time and space?

Yes, this is a real riddle, with a real answer.

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.

The letter "e".

Like a boss.

*clapclapclap*

Didn't think it would be solved so quickly. Where did you hear this riddle?

 

[Zechnophobe]

That which devours all things is of course

Spoiler

time

That's kinda been done to death.

 

[kane.malakos]

An oger stops an adventurer on the road and sais: If you tell me a lie I shall chop off your head! But if you tell me a truth I shall strangle you with my hands!

What can the adventurer say to escape the situation?

"You will chop off my head."

 

[Zechnophobe]

An oger stops an adventurer on the road and sais: If you tell me a lie I shall chop off your head! But if you tell me a truth I shall strangle you with my hands!

What can the adventurer say to escape the situation?

I'm lying.

He can say nothing, that seems obvious, and much better than a false/truth paradox. That could just leave you strangled, and then beheaded.

 

[Tharwen]

Thirty white horses on a red hill.
First they champ.
Then they stamp.
Then they stand still.

Ask which way the other would point to.

What have I got in my pocket?

String or nothing.

Or handses. Everyone forgets the handses...

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?

The rest of his life.

DING DING!

We gave that to my Physics teacher in high school. He took the whole hour and a half of class writing it out. Bell rang, we told him the answer. Free day of class!

Your physics teacher clearly doesn't know his A-level physics then.