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Old 07-08-2003, 03:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
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A riddle...

A man is murdered with 53 bicycles in front of him. Why?
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Old 07-08-2003, 03:21 PM   #2 (permalink)
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he cheated at a game of cards...bicycles is a brand of cards.
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Old 07-08-2003, 03:21 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Um...his bike shop was being robbed and the robbers shot him?
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Old 07-08-2003, 03:26 PM   #4 (permalink)
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he cheated at a game of cards...bicycles is a brand of cards.
...And there should only be 52 cards on the table.
 
Old 07-08-2003, 05:32 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I like the bike shop answer better, It could happen!
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Old 07-08-2003, 05:49 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Yup - one of the first riddles I ever heard.
Oldie but goodie.
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Old 07-08-2003, 06:36 PM   #7 (permalink)
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...And there should only be 52 cards on the table.
excatly, he was cheating
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Old 07-08-2003, 07:29 PM   #8 (permalink)
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more more, i like those riddles
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Old 07-08-2003, 07:36 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally posted by lafemmefatale he cheated at a game of cards...bicycles is a brand of cards.
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Originally posted by Big Julie ...And there should only be 52 cards on the table.
there are 53 cards because he cheated with an EXTRA card.
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Old 07-08-2003, 08:26 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Old 07-08-2003, 10:29 PM   #11 (permalink)
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another solution is that he stole 53 bikes from a bike shop and the shop owner killed him. kinda ripped from lurkette tho, sorry

Also another riddle, which is probably really common, but its the first one that comes to hand, i hope i remeber it fully tho

A man parks outside a hotel and then realises he's bankrupt. Why?


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Old 07-09-2003, 12:42 PM   #12 (permalink)
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He's a homeless man who stole a car?

I suck at these riddles..
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Old 07-09-2003, 01:02 PM   #13 (permalink)
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i suck at them as well, i can only ever htink of the most obvious or the most out there answers, hes parked there becuase he ran out of gas? or his wife just left him and hes driving around crying and then it hits him that when she left she took at his money! leaving him broke broke broke, so them he turns around and smashes into the hotel and when the shock wears off that all he can think of. Eather one of thoses right? i didnt think so...
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Old 07-09-2003, 01:07 PM   #14 (permalink)
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wow.... a bit late to the party....

my contribution...

there's a man in the desert with a backpack...
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Old 07-09-2003, 08:50 PM   #15 (permalink)
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A man parks outside a hotel and then realises he's bankrupt. Why?
He is playing, or rather just lost, the game monopoly.

NEW RIDDLE
What food do we throw away the outside. Then cook the inside, only to eat the outside then throw away the inside?
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Old 07-09-2003, 10:16 PM   #16 (permalink)
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He is playing, or rather just lost, the game monopoly.

NEW RIDDLE
What food do we throw away the outside. Then cook the inside, only to eat the outside then throw away the inside?
Corn?

New riddle...

What can you put in a box to make it lighter?
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Old 07-09-2003, 10:38 PM   #17 (permalink)
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A hole.

Ok man is found hung. There is a puddle of water below him. There is no furniture in the room how did he hang himself.
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Old 07-10-2003, 12:44 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Easy one, he stood on a block of ice to hang himself.

Sorry, I don't know a good one off the top of my head that doesn't come from Bilbo.
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Old 07-10-2003, 02:12 AM   #19 (permalink)
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there's a man in the desert with a backpack
well he was sky diving over the desert and he forgot to open his parachute

Ok another RIDDLE

A man rides into town on Friday stays two nights and then leaves town on Friday...

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Old 07-10-2003, 03:44 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Friday was the name of his horse?

In the middle of what was a raging forest fire, miles from the coast is found a dead man in full SCUBA gear. What happened?

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Old 07-10-2003, 05:42 AM   #21 (permalink)
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hehe, i heard that one the other day.

anyways, one of those water chopper thingys got a load of water from the lake or ocean and accidentally picked up the scuba diver. Then it dropped the load of water on the fire to put it out.

hmmm sorry i don't have another one at hand atm....
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Old 07-10-2003, 08:33 AM   #22 (permalink)
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A hole.
The correct answer was light.
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Old 07-10-2003, 09:12 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Two people are found dead in a cabin on the side of a hill. There is no fire in the cabin, no tracks leading too or from the cabin of any kind. There is no food in the cabin, but both people are well fed. Neither was suffering from any form of medical trouble before the events which killed them.
How did they die?
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Old 07-10-2003, 09:38 AM   #24 (permalink)
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A plane crash. The cabin is the cabin of an airplane.
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Old 07-10-2003, 05:22 PM   #25 (permalink)
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What goes in and out of cities 24 hours a day but doesn't move?
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Old 07-10-2003, 08:31 PM   #26 (permalink)
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a road.

NEW riddle:
What goes in hard and pink, but comes out soft and mushy? it's not what your thinking of
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Old 07-10-2003, 08:38 PM   #27 (permalink)
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A gumball.



What is nothing on its inside, nothing on its outside, is as light as a feather, yet ten men cannot pick it up?
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Old 07-10-2003, 08:41 PM   #28 (permalink)
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air?
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Old 07-10-2003, 08:44 PM   #29 (permalink)
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nope...
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Old 07-10-2003, 09:07 PM   #30 (permalink)
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great thread everyone, lets keep this up!

i am a token of someones love, i have no end and no beginning, what am i?

and

what is the only olympic event where both males and females compete equally against each other for the medals?
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Old 07-10-2003, 09:58 PM   #31 (permalink)
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A ring
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Old 07-10-2003, 10:29 PM   #32 (permalink)
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What is nothing on its inside, nothing on its outside, is as light as a feather, yet ten men cannot pick it up?
could it be a bubble or baloon
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Old 07-10-2003, 11:42 PM   #33 (permalink)
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could it be a bubble
Correct.
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Old 07-13-2003, 05:53 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Man goes into a restaurant, orders albatross soup. Takes one taste, runs out of restaurant screaming.
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Old 07-13-2003, 10:31 PM   #35 (permalink)
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He thought he'd been eating albatross soup on the desert island, when really he had been eating his wife, who the other guy on the island had cooked up (after telling the first man that the wife had fallen off a cliff)
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Old 07-13-2003, 11:15 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Old 07-14-2003, 05:33 AM   #37 (permalink)
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Gloves.

Seeing as how TIO knocked me the fuck out, here's the most concise one I've got.

A rope broke, a bell rang, a man died.
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Old 07-14-2003, 07:23 AM   #38 (permalink)
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The bell usually rang as a signal to the blind tightrope walker that he had reached the end of his rope, and that it was time to step aside onto the ladder. When the rope holding the bell broke (presumably through the wear of circus travel) and the bell sounded as it hit the ground, the tightrope walker stepped aside too early and fell to his death.

Keep trying, Kadath
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Old 07-14-2003, 08:17 AM   #39 (permalink)
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Quote:
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Man goes into a restaurant, orders albatross soup. Takes one taste, runs out of restaurant screaming.
Quote:
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He thought he'd been eating albatross soup on the desert island, when really he had been eating his wife, who the other guy on the island had cooked up (after telling the first man that the wife had fallen off a cliff)
i think some of these are getting into too much ambiguity and then fantasy. How the fuck where we to assume they're on a desert island and he's eating his wife. I know these require lateral thinking, but also there should be some remote logic or rationality behind the solution. I showed a friend and my brother and they thought it was ridiculous... Anyone else undertstand where i am coming from?

btw i am not trying to slander TIO or Kadath. I'd also like to know where that came from, and also how anyone could actually come up with that as a clevely unique solution.

equally the soup could've been too hot. Although thats not clever at all, I just think that other one is too fantastical.

Sorry if i've upset anyone. i am attacking/questioning the merit of the riddle not the people...unless you came up with it...*hides*

anyway, i just found another one on the net. Its quite easy, well i solved it quickly, maybe a little lame... anyways here it is.

A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, "twelve." The member replied, "six " and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, "six." The member replied, "three" and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,"ten" and the man replied, "five." But he was not let in.

What should have he said?
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Old 07-14-2003, 09:49 AM   #40 (permalink)
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1 and a half....

my addition... may laying on a beach near a rock...
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