dexlargo - he's a driver of some sort (taxi, HGV, whatever) and he wasn't looking where he was going (changing tape/mobile phone etc). Suddenly, he looks up and sees he's heading straight towards a large bus (coincidentally the last bus of the evening)...

He swerves... and misses! Hurrah, no real damage, just a few shaken nerves. He lives, happily, to fight another day.

Am I right?

(edit: just seen mathmo's... I like it! :) )

Mathmo got it, he's Evel Knievel!

(Edited because I can't spell strange names)

cliche: i guess that would work, but thats not the answer... whats a fool proof way that he could do it (after all, if it is sunny the white ones will get hot, though not as hot, and when he touches black ones his hands will get hot and it will be hard to judge etc etc)
lets keep heat out of it

Shpoop - a couple of ideas:

1. he can ask someone who isn't blind (cheat's method ;) )
2. he can use his fingers to spot the head vs tail by touch alone (overly-sensitive method, and I guess you'll tell me the coins are blanks)
3. make 4 piles. 3 have only one coin in, 1 has all the others. He now has at least 2 piles with the same number of white side up coins (as at least 2 of the 3 with only one coin will be the same) (foolproof, wasteful method :) )

I've got it... He picks ten coins at random from the pile of 100, it doesn't matter which ones. Then he flips those coins over. These are his two piles.

If he chose 10 black coins, then he would have flipped them and had 10 white in both piles.

If he chose 9 black and 1 white, then he would have flipped them and had 9 white in the new pile and guess what? there are nine white in the larger pile too.

Repeat for all numbers of coins, still works.

dexlargo - well done! (fx: kicks self) :)

Where is the bull?

Well, I'm at the point of tearing my hair out, so I'll guess at Noble (No bull)??

Well done mathmo! That was it!

Well, you definitely gave the ultimate hint!!

You've got to love puns :)

hey I have one i heard the other day...

Two people are driving in a car. A father and his son.
They have an accident, a bad car crash and the father DIES and the son is badly injured.
The son is rushed to emergency for operation. The surgeon walks in to the room and sees the kid and says I cant do this, I cannot operate on my own son.

How is this possible..? :rolleyes:

double - I think we may have already had this one...
However, I'll go for a short-sighted surgeon or a "My Two Dads" type explanation :)

the surgeon is the kid's mother.

...Da correct answa. :p

What kind of cheese is made backwards?

edam.

Yup, you got it, shakran. :)

The Riddle oy the Sphinx (again, for the sake of completeness):
What has four legs in

TIO, you might need to finish writing that riddle if you want it to be understood!

For real completeness: ;)
What has four legs in the morning,
Two legs in the afternoon,
And three legs in the evening?

Man.

Four legs - child crawling
Two legs - adult walking
Three legs - adult walking with a cane

Damn! I did finish it, I'm certain! Perhaps it just didn't send before I started backtracking.

A new riddle:

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

yea ive seen this one... ill let someone else have a go

I managed to spend my whole morning on this (and half of my afternoon)... :)

startling
starting
staring
string
sting
sing
sin
in
I


And here's a new one:
Can you name 3 consecutive days without using Monday, Thursday or Sunday?

What about yesterday, today, tomorrow :)

Ahh... OK than... Accepted... :D

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I don't think I've seen an answer to this one yet:

A: Nothing. Nothing is greater than god, nothing is more evil that the devil, poor men have nothing, rich men don't want nothing and if you eat nothing then you die.


And here are some more (I can't make it to the forums often, so I'll post the lot in one go):

Q: I have a heart that never beats,
I have a home but I never sleep.
I can take a mans house and build anothers,
And I love to play games with my many brothers.
I am a king among fools.
Who am I?



Q: They call me a man, but I'll never have a wife.
I was given a body, but not given life.
They made me a mouth, but didn't give me breath.
Water gives me life and sun brings me death.
What am I?

I've heard two decent answers to the above one



Q: The following number is the only one of its kind.
8,549,176,320
Can you figure out what is so special about it?



Q: What is ten men's length and ten men's strength and yet ten men cannot make it stand on its end?


Whew. That's it for me.

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A snowman

I think the first is a card? Perhaps the king of hearts?

Not sure about the number other than it has all the digits (but so do rather a lot of others). It's not a square or a cube.

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The numbers are in alphabetical order:

eight-five-four-nine-one-seven-six-three-two-zero

how bout this:

God never sees it. A king seldom sees it. We see it every day. What is it?

BonesCPA: Yep, or a river.

cliche: right again.

mathmo: yes.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Shpoop: Is it a father, or someone older than them? Something like that, anyway.

Shpop, is it an equal?

TIO got it

I'm sure the cheating at cards is the right answer but let's say he stole the 54yh bike and got shot for it.

Welcome to the thread. :)

Ok I got a pretty good one

There are three worms in a line moving forward

The first worm says " There are two worms behind me"

The second worm says " There are two worms infront of me"

The middle worm says " There are no worms infront ot behind of me"

Why does he say this?

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Just looking over the previous riddles, no-one seems to have suggested an answer for this one:


So, how about a rope, a tug-of-war rope perhaps???

- | -

All moving one way. Or the middle worm is stupid...maybe the soviets made him numb...

Well the answer is "he was lying" heh pretty stupid

The word CANDY can be spelled using just 2 letters. Can you figure out how?

mathmo:

Yes, a rope.

K & D? (sound it out)

Bones, I'd say it's C&Y

I agree with TIO

yea it is CandY

A man without eyes, saw plums on a tree
He did not take plums and he did not leave plums
How could this be?

Did he remember plums? See them in his mind?

TIO, Shpoop, y'all are correct. :)

ooh its something like since he had bad sight, he thought he saw plums but they were apples and he took one or something like that, right?

I don't see the implication he actually did anything other than look at plums

"he did not leave plums"

The man only had one eye. As for the rest of the riddle I'm not sure. Maybe he only took some of the plums and left some others on the tree?

"Two bodies have I, though both joined in one, the stiller I stand the faster I run."

Messed up post, please delete...

Did he see the plums, go blind, and leave the plums alone?

He only had one eye. So he still could see. There were 2 plums. He took one, and left one. Therefore he didn't take nor leave plums plural.

...arg, I didn't think there might be wacky grammar, drats!

yea i was gonna say that munku, but u got to it first...

as for quietus'
a nose?
or some sort of river/ straight

Nope... A river kind of makes sense I guess, but not what I'm looking for.

i wish i found this sooner!!


this is my favorite riddle. i guess microsoft asks this to potential employees, and expects them to get it in five minutes or less.



"U2" has a concert that starts in 17 minutes and they must all cross
a bridge to get there. All four men begin on the same side of the
bridge. You must help them across to the other side. It is night.

There is one flashlight. A maximum of two people can cross at one
time.

Any party who crosses, either 1 or 2 people, must have the flashlight
with them. The flashlight must be walked back and forth,
it cannot be thrown, etc. Each band member walks at a different
speed.

A pair must walk together at the rate of the slower man's pace:

Bono:- 1 minute to cross
Edge:- 2 minutes to cross
Adam:- 5 minutes to cross
Larry:-10 minutes to cross

Answer to this is that U2 are a bunch of sellouts and decide to f*ck their fans and get drunk instead. Thus they don`t need to cross the bridge.

A plane is flying over enemy territory. It is in perfect working order and is maintaining a perfectly static altitude. The bomb-bay doors are opened over the target and the bombs are released, but dont fall towards their targets.

Why is this?

Not appreciated, Blistex. Take it to Music or something.

The riddle's been posed before, colourmerish.
Bono and Edge over, Edge back
Adam and Larry over, Bono back
Bono and Edge over, and off to the concert.

Props to Sleepyjack for getting it the first time 'round

As for Blistex's riddle, the plane is flying upside down.

The plane is flying upside down.

ah yes quietus, i thought id heard that riddle before, and now i remember it, an hourglass.

how bout this one: I am lower with a head than without one. what am i?

A Wang?

Think you're funny, do you?


the real answer is a pillow.

Good job Shpoop.

"Who makes it has no need of it. Who buys it has no use for it. Who uses it has no knowledge of it. What is it?"

If the plane RIGHT over the target when the bombs are droped then the wont hit because the bombs are moving when they fall.

Quietus, that one took me a while...a coffin

Well done TIO.

"I never was, yet always will be. I am never
seen, yet always come. I can carry nothing, yet hold much
for some."

Easy...tomorrow!

I have a mouth, I do not speak
I have four eyes, I do not see
I have a bed, I do not sleep
Can you tell me who I be?

With thieves I consort,
With the vilest, in short
I'm quite at ease in depravity,
Yet all divines use me, and savants can't lose me,
because I am the centre of gravity
What am I?

Think of words ending in GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that you use every day. If you have listened carefully I have already told you the answer.

And one of my favourites: why are 1967 pennies worth more than 1952 pennies?

The Mississipi River.



Sure it is more - but on $.15 more - because that is how many more 1967 is than 1952

The simple answer to that riddle would be the word 'language' because of the way it was written. You would simply ignore the first and last 2 sentences and it basically gives you the answer. However this riddle has been passed around so much that there are now several variations of it each with its own answer.
Here is a good article explaining it:

http://www.quinion.com/words/articles/gry.htm

Now here is one from me :

There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters." What is the word?

wow ive missed out on a few... but ive heard them all before except tios that hasnt been answered... and ive heard spived's so ill give someone else a chance... as for tios, i have no idea... maybe somethign about money or nothing or a pole (center of gravity, royal staffs, criminals with bars) but i have no idea

Must be the letter v then.

ahhh i hate those types

It's only because I enjoy crosswords (perhaps a little too much) that I got it.

Centre of, head of, tail of are all pretty standard in cryptics.

Well done, Mathmo and BCPA!

It's gone quite silent in here

I can't think of a riddle atm

whatever man!!

bah the only riddle out of all of these 10 pages i knew was the coffin one and got beat to it :). you folks are incredibly bright and i will continue to leech off of your knowledge to make myself sound smart when riddles come up in my conversations.

Ok. I have no idea how I wound up in a thread from 2003. But let's see if we can't get this going again! And if you know the answer already, let some other people have their fun!

Two bodies have I
Though both joined in one
The more still I stand
The quicker I run.

What am I?

(An easy one. From the first Elder Scrolls game, I think.)

A river?

Good answer, but nope!

was gonna go with river myself...?not too sure though.

new one...

The begining of eternity
The end of time and space
The begining of every end
The end of every place,

What am I?

quite an easy one, but this was the only one that came to mind from my school days...all I could come up with were limericks. hehehehehe

Nope, not river. :)

I learned that riddle as:

From the beginning of eternity
To the end of time and space
At the beginning of every end
To the end of every place.

I can get mandy's, it's the letter e. I'll think about yours more, Ishamel.

Ishmael:


an hourglass.

Excellent!

Now, this next one is from a Magic (MtG) card. Thus, the answer wasn't printed, but I think I have it anyhoo. It's harder (I think).

I live without food
Stand without leg
Wound without force
And am harder to fight than to kill.

that one is prolly easy...but for the life of me, i cant think of anything.

Damn, my brain's rusty. :(

its kinda easy, but definitely not intuitive!

"I live without food
Stand without leg
Wound without force
And am harder to fight than to kill."

Time? (Probably wrong)

Old one. Please don't use Google to find and post the answer.
It is a perfect and famous triple pun. So many of you already know it.
---
Three brothers went into business raising beef cattle. They asked Mama what to call it. She said, "Why call it the Focus Ranch, of course."

Why?

Focus Ranch. Hrm.

(Hooray for rezzing old threads!)

Focus isn't the family name is it?

:expressionless:

I actually said the answer in my head and didn't even notice anything by it. Checked for the real answer and went, "... Damnit." :expressionless:

I just googled it and am glad I did, I'd never have gotten this one in a million years. Spoiler: It's a bit of a groaner, but clever.

I've heard it before, so I didn't have to google it. It's where the sons raise meat (sun's rays meet).

Sadly I ran out of riddles long ago, so someone else can take it.

I have always enjoyed this one but have never posted it here... so here's my riddle:

- I went to the forest and I got it

- I sat down to look for it

- And I took it home with me because I couldn't find it.

What is it?