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Jetée · 11-25-2008, 09:41 AM

That is what they are; challenging riddles from the back of a cereal box. I figured one of them out, but I figured we could try to figure out the rest in a concerting effort to measure our reasoning. Contemplate the possiblities, and give a guess to what it could be (but, for the sake of us all, no google, please).

Here goes:

1) What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

2) You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside? What did you eat?

3) Give me food, and I will live; give me water and I will die. What am I?

4) I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?

5) I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?

6) A long, long time ago, two cowboys where fighting to marry the daughter of the OK Corral rancher. The rancher, who liked neither of these two men to become his future son-in-law, came up with a clever plan. A horse race would determine who would be allowed his daughter's hand. Both cowboys had to travel from Kansas City to the OK Corral, and the one whose horse arrived LAST would be proclaimed the winner.

The two cowboys, realizing that this could become a very lengthy expedition, finally decided to consult the Wise Mountain Man. They explained to him the situation, upon which the Wise Mountain Man raised his cane and spoke four wise words. Relieved, the two cowboys left his cabin: They were ready for the contest! Which four wise words did the Wise Mountain Man speak?

7) In a marble hall white as milk, lined with skin as soft as silk. Within a fountain crytal-clear, a golden apple doth appear. No doors there are to this stronghold, yet thieves break in to steal the gold. What am I?

8) What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?

9) When one does not know what it is, then it's something, but when one knows what it is, then it's nothing. What am I?

11-25-2008, 09:41 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Riddles from a cereal box That is what they are; challenging riddles from the back of a cereal box. I figured one of them out, but I figured we could try to figure out the rest in a concerting effort to measure our reasoning. Contemplate the possiblities, and give a guess to what it could be (but, for the sake of us all, no google, please). Here goes: 1) What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? 2) You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside? What did you eat? 3) Give me food, and I will live; give me water and I will die. What am I? 4) I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I? 5) I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I? 6) A long, long time ago, two cowboys where fighting to marry the daughter of the OK Corral rancher. The rancher, who liked neither of these two men to become his future son-in-law, came up with a clever plan. A horse race would determine who would be allowed his daughter's hand. Both cowboys had to travel from Kansas City to the OK Corral, and the one whose horse arrived LAST would be proclaimed the winner. The two cowboys, realizing that this could become a very lengthy expedition, finally decided to consult the Wise Mountain Man. They explained to him the situation, upon which the Wise Mountain Man raised his cane and spoke four wise words. Relieved, the two cowboys left his cabin: They were ready for the contest! Which four wise words did the Wise Mountain Man speak? 7) In a marble hall white as milk, lined with skin as soft as silk. Within a fountain crytal-clear, a golden apple doth appear. No doors there are to this stronghold, yet thieves break in to steal the gold. What am I? 8) What belongs to you but others use it more than you do? 9) When one does not know what it is, then it's something, but when one knows what it is, then it's nothing. What am I? __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi Last edited by Jetée; 11-25-2008 at 01:46 PM.. Reason: I misspelled 'daughter', among other things... sorry.