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obediah · 08-04-2003, 07:04 AM

are you allergic to cats, or perhaps embalming fluid?

cliche · 08-04-2003, 09:28 AM

Well done obediah - yup, major cat hair allergy. Sneezing everywhere on getting near the box. Hope ppl enjoyed it!

mathmo · 08-04-2003, 09:47 AM

Congrats obediah. Great riddle cliche, but I'm still kicking myself for not getting it!

obediah · 08-04-2003, 12:33 PM

Heh some of these riddles get pretty ridiculous.
Some of them are based far too much on guess (or more likely remembering the answer) then solving the problem. Here's a great example:

A man dies in his own home

TIO · 08-04-2003, 03:42 PM

Well done, Obediah!

I hope you're going to give us some more information on that last one...'a man dies in his own home' is hardly a remarkable circumstance.

Xell101 · 08-04-2003, 06:46 PM

Well the box question is like a good one for Yes/No analyzing, man dies in home is not.

cliche · 08-04-2003, 11:04 PM

Obediah - what makes it a puzzle? Did he die in his own home, surrounded by adoring family, with gradually furring arteries that caused a big heart attack sometime during the night? I'm confused

wlcm · 08-04-2003, 11:25 PM

i contend its a jack in the box

obediah · 08-05-2003, 06:34 AM

I was confused by that one as well. I have a list of several hundred riddles, and that was about the lamest one. Perhaps it was a typo, because it does make sense (and become rather easy) if you add a few qualifiers to it:

A man dies of thirst in his own house.

cliche · 08-05-2003, 08:37 AM

chained to a bed, partner had heart attack? (or is that the plot of a Steven King novel?)

mathmo · 08-05-2003, 08:59 AM

Or the house is a houseboat?

Water, water everywhere but nowhere a drop to drink??

floonine · 08-05-2003, 09:06 AM

allergies, thats good.

A woman is found dead in her car, with bullet wounds in her chest being the cause of death. The car itself was locked up tight, all the windows rolled up, and after extensive forensic testing police found traces of gun powder inside the vehicle. Knowing that there are no bullet holes on the outside of the car, how did she die?

BrinlyNoya · 08-05-2003, 12:29 PM

she shot herself, or was shot, then placed in the car (and then sent for a dip in a big river...)

cliche · 08-05-2003, 01:20 PM

Is it a convertible?

Did she have the windows down when she was shot, but the car is one of those posh ones that helpfully closes everything if you forget?

floonine · 08-06-2003, 07:02 AM

convertible is correct. you are THE SMART

obediah · 08-08-2003, 09:41 AM

mathmo had the correct answer for my riddle.

Here's a fairly easy logic problem with the details changed to make googling a bit harder. If you've heard it before or use the web, please refrain from posting the answer for those that want to work through it.

There is an isolated village of people, some of which have green stars on their forehead.

There are no mirrors in the town, and people don't talkabout the symbols. The stars can not be found by touch.

Anyone that finds out they have a star, must kill themselves before at dawn the next day.

A visitor comes to the village, and makes a comment about seeing a star, but doesn't mention how many or on whom.

Six days later, a number of bodies are found after dawn. How many? and why?

fresprite · 08-08-2003, 09:58 AM

all of them out of fear the that they might have one and decide to take teir own life

BentNotTwisted · 08-08-2003, 12:10 PM

Does the answer have to do with the number of days later the bodies were found?

BentNotTwisted · 08-08-2003, 12:24 PM

I think the stars one is going to take a while to solve, so here's an easy one.

Being a stranger in town a man asks the local gas station attendant where he can get a haircut. The attendant tells him there are two barbers, one at each end of town (it's a small town). The man walks into a barbershop at one end and is immediately disgusted. The place is a mess. Magazines strewn about, hair clippings covering everything in site, even the work counter was in complete disarray. When he got a look at the barber it was even worse. The barber had a smock on that looked like it hadn't been washed in weeks. He was sporting one of the worst looking beards ever and his hair looked like someone had used a butcher knife to cut it.
The man immediately left and went to the barber at the other end of town. This barber shop was so clean it looked like you could perform surgery on the floor. The barber was wearing an immaculate white smock with pressed creases. He was clean shaven and had a perfect hairut.
As soon as the man saw this he left and returned to get his hair cut at the first barber.

BrinlyNoya · 08-08-2003, 01:51 PM

the stars one, the visitor is only human, and like most people, tends to stare at the oddities of other people, and so the people with stars realized that they had them because the visitor would never look them in the eyes, the visitor always stared at thier foreheads.

BrinlyNoya · 08-08-2003, 01:53 PM

on the haircut one:

if there are only 2 barbers in town that means the clean guy cut the dirty guys hair, Since the clean guy had a nicer hair cut, that means the dirty guy cuts hair better.

BentNotTwisted · 08-08-2003, 01:55 PM

Ding, ding, ding. Wasn't too tough. I just always liked the story.

catback · 08-08-2003, 02:20 PM

Good Riddle

obediah · 08-09-2003, 10:16 PM

The star riddle does have to do with the number of days until bodies were found.

The visitor gave no indication what-so-ever as to who or how many people had the markings.

TIO · 08-10-2003, 12:06 AM

obediah, did the visitor stay in the town for those 6 days?
Were any other bodies found in the meanwhile?
Did the visitor make any further comments about the stars between his first comment and the suicides?

wario · 08-10-2003, 05:37 AM

Is the color of the stars relevant? At first you mention that they're green stars, and from then on they're only called stars.

cliche · 08-10-2003, 03:26 PM

If I didn't see any stars, I'd surely have to kill myself the next day (because I know there's at least one). So if there was only one, they'd have been found dead the day after the stranger made his comment...

On that day, anyone who only saw one star should have to kill themselves before next dawn (there would be two of them) - as they'd both know they had a star.
Day after, anyone who saw two stars (three people). etc.

So (assuming by 'six days later' you mean, on the sixth morning following the comment) I reckon there were six bodies found....

? is that the right way to look at it?

BentNotTwisted · 08-12-2003, 10:26 AM

What single english word could you use to describe a male steer that has just swallowed an explosive device?

What word describes the scene after the explosion?

cliche · 08-12-2003, 10:45 AM

bull-something?

cliche · 08-12-2003, 10:47 AM

oh...
abominable

The scene afterwards - splattered? gungy? bulldozed?

BentNotTwisted · 08-12-2003, 11:36 AM

Yes, abominable. Keep trying on the second. Think of the bull.

cliche · 08-12-2003, 03:22 PM

bull-asted (blasted)?
terri-bull?

TIO · 08-12-2003, 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BentNotTwisted
male steer

As opposed to a female steer?
:P

cliche · 08-13-2003, 12:27 AM

While everyone's working on this enjoya-bull puzzle:

A man is driving his car to work. He turns on the radio and listens for a while, and immediately spins the car round, goes home and shoots his wife. Why?

(nb this isn't the same as the last one)

BentNotTwisted · 08-13-2003, 06:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by cliche
bull-asted (blasted)?
terri-bull?

Nope. Not bad though.

Quote:

Originally posted by TIO
As opposed to a female steer?
:P

Ok, so I'm not a wrangler. I just needed to make sure people knew I was talking about the male animal. What's the female equivalent of a steer? If you say cow, I think milk, not steaks on the grill.

TIO · 08-13-2003, 08:08 AM

cow. A bull is a he-cow, and a steer used to be a he-cow.

Foopius2 · 08-13-2003, 07:38 PM

oooh riddles... i cant believe ive missed out so far, ive known alot of them.

lets see on the car one... is it the radio or is it a casette? did whatever he was listening to reveal something about his wife that he didnt know? that she was having an affair with him?

oooh i got so many riddles, heres a shorty but goody: I went out into the woods and got you. Then i sat me down to look for you. I couldnt find you, so i took you home. what are you?

BrinlyNoya · 08-13-2003, 11:08 PM

radio.. hmmmm.. if its different.. and he is promted to kill his wife..
its his wife on the radio calling KC KAsem (spelling) doing his thing and she is making a dedication to __________(insert male name here)_, that is not him. He assumes she is having an affair and kills her.

cliche · 08-14-2003, 12:04 AM

Foopius2 - Listening to radio, not tape. And it revealed his wife was having an affair (not with him, that wouldn't be an affair!

)

BrinlyNoya - He doesn't hear his wife[/b]

cliche · 08-14-2003, 12:06 AM

Foopius2 - it's not something like 'nothing' is it? Or 'myself' - like trying to "find myself" in the woods?

08-04-2003, 09:28 AM	#202 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	Well done obediah - yup, major cat hair allergy. Sneezing everywhere on getting near the box. Hope ppl enjoyed it! __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-04-2003, 09:47 AM	#203 (permalink)
mathmo Tilted Location: London, UK	Congrats obediah. Great riddle cliche, but I'm still kicking myself for not getting it! Last edited by mathmo; 08-04-2003 at 09:51 AM..

08-04-2003, 03:42 PM	#205 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	Well done, Obediah! I hope you're going to give us some more information on that last one...'a man dies in his own home' is hardly a remarkable circumstance. __________________ Strewth

08-04-2003, 11:04 PM	#207 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	Obediah - what makes it a puzzle? Did he die in his own home, surrounded by adoring family, with gradually furring arteries that caused a big heart attack sometime during the night? I'm confused __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-05-2003, 08:37 AM	#210 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	chained to a bed, partner had heart attack? (or is that the plot of a Steven King novel?) __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-04-2003, 07:04 AM	#201 (permalink)
obediah Crazy	are you allergic to cats, or perhaps embalming fluid?

08-04-2003, 12:33 PM	#204 (permalink)
obediah Crazy	Heh some of these riddles get pretty ridiculous. Some of them are based far too much on guess (or more likely remembering the answer) then solving the problem. Here's a great example: A man dies in his own home

08-04-2003, 06:46 PM	#206 (permalink)
Xell101 Junkie	Well the box question is like a good one for Yes/No analyzing, man dies in home is not.

08-04-2003, 11:25 PM	#208 (permalink)
wlcm Tilted Location: Austin, TX	i contend its a jack in the box

08-05-2003, 06:34 AM	#209 (permalink)
obediah Crazy	I was confused by that one as well. I have a list of several hundred riddles, and that was about the lamest one. Perhaps it was a typo, because it does make sense (and become rather easy) if you add a few qualifiers to it: A man dies of thirst in his own house.

08-05-2003, 08:59 AM	#211 (permalink)
mathmo Tilted Location: London, UK	Or the house is a houseboat? Water, water everywhere but nowhere a drop to drink??

08-05-2003, 09:06 AM	#212 (permalink)
floonine Insane Location: Silicon Valley, Utah	allergies, thats good. A woman is found dead in her car, with bullet wounds in her chest being the cause of death. The car itself was locked up tight, all the windows rolled up, and after extensive forensic testing police found traces of gun powder inside the vehicle. Knowing that there are no bullet holes on the outside of the car, how did she die? __________________ Political arguments do not exist, after all, for people to believe in them, rather they serve as a common, agreed-upon excuse. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest and finish finally and infamously as heretics.

08-05-2003, 12:29 PM	#213 (permalink)
BrinlyNoya Crazy	she shot herself, or was shot, then placed in the car (and then sent for a dip in a big river...)

08-05-2003, 01:20 PM	#214 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	Is it a convertible? Did she have the windows down when she was shot, but the car is one of those posh ones that helpfully closes everything if you forget? __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-06-2003, 07:02 AM	#215 (permalink)
floonine Insane Location: Silicon Valley, Utah	convertible is correct. you are THE SMART __________________ Political arguments do not exist, after all, for people to believe in them, rather they serve as a common, agreed-upon excuse. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest and finish finally and infamously as heretics.

08-08-2003, 02:20 PM	#223 (permalink)
catback Psycho Location: North America	Good Riddle

08-08-2003, 09:41 AM	#216 (permalink)
obediah Crazy	mathmo had the correct answer for my riddle. Here's a fairly easy logic problem with the details changed to make googling a bit harder. If you've heard it before or use the web, please refrain from posting the answer for those that want to work through it. There is an isolated village of people, some of which have green stars on their forehead. There are no mirrors in the town, and people don't talkabout the symbols. The stars can not be found by touch. Anyone that finds out they have a star, must kill themselves before at dawn the next day. A visitor comes to the village, and makes a comment about seeing a star, but doesn't mention how many or on whom. Six days later, a number of bodies are found after dawn. How many? and why?

08-08-2003, 09:58 AM	#217 (permalink)
fresprite Upright	all of them out of fear the that they might have one and decide to take teir own life

08-08-2003, 12:10 PM	#218 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	Does the answer have to do with the number of days later the bodies were found? __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free

08-08-2003, 12:24 PM	#219 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	I think the stars one is going to take a while to solve, so here's an easy one. Being a stranger in town a man asks the local gas station attendant where he can get a haircut. The attendant tells him there are two barbers, one at each end of town (it's a small town). The man walks into a barbershop at one end and is immediately disgusted. The place is a mess. Magazines strewn about, hair clippings covering everything in site, even the work counter was in complete disarray. When he got a look at the barber it was even worse. The barber had a smock on that looked like it hadn't been washed in weeks. He was sporting one of the worst looking beards ever and his hair looked like someone had used a butcher knife to cut it. The man immediately left and went to the barber at the other end of town. This barber shop was so clean it looked like you could perform surgery on the floor. The barber was wearing an immaculate white smock with pressed creases. He was clean shaven and had a perfect hairut. As soon as the man saw this he left and returned to get his hair cut at the first barber. __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free

08-08-2003, 01:51 PM	#220 (permalink)
BrinlyNoya Crazy	the stars one, the visitor is only human, and like most people, tends to stare at the oddities of other people, and so the people with stars realized that they had them because the visitor would never look them in the eyes, the visitor always stared at thier foreheads.

08-08-2003, 01:53 PM	#221 (permalink)
BrinlyNoya Crazy	on the haircut one: if there are only 2 barbers in town that means the clean guy cut the dirty guys hair, Since the clean guy had a nicer hair cut, that means the dirty guy cuts hair better.

08-08-2003, 01:55 PM	#222 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	Ding, ding, ding. Wasn't too tough. I just always liked the story. __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free

08-09-2003, 10:16 PM	#224 (permalink)
obediah Crazy	The star riddle does have to do with the number of days until bodies were found. The visitor gave no indication what-so-ever as to who or how many people had the markings.

08-10-2003, 12:06 AM	#225 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	obediah, did the visitor stay in the town for those 6 days? Were any other bodies found in the meanwhile? Did the visitor make any further comments about the stars between his first comment and the suicides? __________________ Strewth

08-10-2003, 05:37 AM	#226 (permalink)
wario Insane	Is the color of the stars relevant? At first you mention that they're green stars, and from then on they're only called stars.

08-10-2003, 03:26 PM	#227 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	If I didn't see any stars, I'd surely have to kill myself the next day (because I know there's at least one). So if there was only one, they'd have been found dead the day after the stranger made his comment... On that day, anyone who only saw one star should have to kill themselves before next dawn (there would be two of them) - as they'd both know they had a star. Day after, anyone who saw two stars (three people). etc. So (assuming by 'six days later' you mean, on the sixth morning following the comment) I reckon there were six bodies found.... ? is that the right way to look at it? __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-12-2003, 10:26 AM	#228 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	What single english word could you use to describe a male steer that has just swallowed an explosive device? What word describes the scene after the explosion? __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free

08-12-2003, 10:45 AM	#229 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	bull-something? __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-12-2003, 10:47 AM	#230 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	oh... abominable The scene afterwards - splattered? gungy? bulldozed? __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-12-2003, 11:36 AM	#231 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	Yes, abominable. Keep trying on the second. Think of the bull. __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free

08-12-2003, 03:22 PM	#232 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	bull-asted (blasted)? terri-bull? __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-13-2003, 12:27 AM	#234 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	While everyone's working on this enjoya-bull puzzle: A man is driving his car to work. He turns on the radio and listens for a while, and immediately spins the car round, goes home and shoots his wife. Why? (nb this isn't the same as the last one) __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)

08-13-2003, 08:08 AM	#236 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	cow. A bull is a he-cow, and a steer used to be a he-cow. __________________ Strewth

08-13-2003, 07:38 PM	#237 (permalink)
Foopius2 Banned	oooh riddles... i cant believe ive missed out so far, ive known alot of them. lets see on the car one... is it the radio or is it a casette? did whatever he was listening to reveal something about his wife that he didnt know? that she was having an affair with him? oooh i got so many riddles, heres a shorty but goody: I went out into the woods and got you. Then i sat me down to look for you. I couldnt find you, so i took you home. what are you?

08-13-2003, 11:08 PM	#238 (permalink)
BrinlyNoya Crazy	radio.. hmmmm.. if its different.. and he is promted to kill his wife.. its his wife on the radio calling KC KAsem (spelling) doing his thing and she is making a dedication to __________(insert male name here)_, that is not him. He assumes she is having an affair and kills her.