Riddle Thread.

[Spawny0908]

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

your age?

 

[EmpressZombiKitty]

Since no one seemed to try my other one, here's another!

There was a man who was walking. There was heavy rain and it was very muddy. The man looks back to see his footprints, but they aren't there. Why?

He wasn't walking in the rain? As in, it was raining heavily, but not where the man was?

It was raining heavily and muddy where the man was walking. Proving that he's making deep footprints. (It's how my dad told it to me awhile back, anyway.)

 

[godfist88]

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?

neither, both lead to death.

 

[Zechnophobe]

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.

 

[TornadoFive]

Since no one seemed to try my other one, here's another!

There was a man who was walking. There was heavy rain and it was very muddy. The man looks back to see his footprints, but they aren't there. Why?

He wasn't walking in the rain? As in, it was raining heavily, but not where the man was?

It was raining heavily and muddy where the man was walking. Proving that he's making deep footprints. (It's how my dad told it to me awhile back, anyway.)

Was he dragging something behind him? Something that would destroy the footprints as he walked?

 

[Coldster]

What happens when an unstopable force meets an immovable object?

OR:

It cannot be heared, it cannot be felt.
It cannot be seen, it cannot be smeled.
It lies behind the stars and under hills,
and empty holes it fills.
Comes first, follows after.
Ends life, kills laughter.
Of what do I speak?

Dark! The answer is Dark! LOL I remember that from that funny cartoon.

You sir just made my day.

 

[The Thinker]

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?

neither, both lead to death.

It is stated that one door leads to freedom. No good riddle has a solution which includes the riddle teller lying.

 

[Rough Sausage]

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

 

[EmpressZombiKitty]

Since no one seemed to try my other one, here's another!

There was a man who was walking. There was heavy rain and it was very muddy. The man looks back to see his footprints, but they aren't there. Why?

He wasn't walking in the rain? As in, it was raining heavily, but not where the man was?

It was raining heavily and muddy where the man was walking. Proving that he's making deep footprints. (It's how my dad told it to me awhile back, anyway.)

Was he dragging something behind him? Something that would destroy the footprints as he walked?

Nope.

 

[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?

 

[TornadoFive]

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

An envelope! I hadn't heard that one before, so it took me a few miutes to work it out. Good one sir!

 

[The Thinker]

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

An envelope.
Goodnight.

(though technically, you can have more than one letter in an envelope.)

Edit: Darn! Not fast enough!

 

[Spartan448]

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

 

[The Thinker]

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

An angel gained its wings?

 

[Lawbringer]

What happens when an unstopable force meets an immovable object?

Both things cannot exist as they contradict each other.

snip

I always figured the unstoppable force would just bounce off

I think he (the physicist) said something along those lines, too. The energy being dissipated sideways so it does not stop, just changes direction.

He certainly used enough sciency jargon to sound convincing to a mere layman such as myself!

 

[Spartan448]

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

An angel gained its wings?

Nope! Keep trying, though.

 

[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.