A riddle...
 

A man is murdered with 53 bicycles in front of him. Why?

he cheated at a game of cards...bicycles is a brand of cards.

Um...his bike shop was being robbed and the robbers shot him?

...And there should only be 52 cards on the table.

I like the bike shop answer better, It could happen!

Oldie but goodie.

excatly, he was cheating

more more, i like those riddles

there are 53 cards because he cheated with an EXTRA card.

tour de france wreck

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 :o

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

He's a homeless man who stole a car?

I suck at these riddles..

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...:(

wow.... a bit late to the party....

my contribution...

there's a man in the desert with a backpack...

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?

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.

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.

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...

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?

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....

The correct answer was light.

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?

A plane crash. The cabin is the cabin of an airplane.

What goes in and out of cities 24 hours a day but doesn't move?

a road.

NEW riddle:
What goes in hard and pink, but comes out soft and mushy? it's not what your thinking of :p

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?

air?

nope...

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?

A ring

could it be a bubble or baloon

Correct.

Ooh, my favorite.
Man goes into a restaurant, orders albatross soup. Takes one taste, runs out of restaurant screaming.

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)

What has fingers but can't type?

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.

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 :)

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?

1 and a half....

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

its not 1.5, well it could be, but the first number is important in deriving the (or a) soultion

Actually, the solution I've been taught is the blind man who uses the ringing of the buoy tied to the dock as a signal to turn. The buoy broke free and the man drowned. Yours, however, is acceptable. :)
Sleepyjack, these are originally puzzles where you are allowed to ask "yes or no" questions of the person to determine what went on. TIO just knows them all, like I do. Did you go through a gifted program in school, perhaps? And where are your riddles, Mr. Smarty Man, TIO? :)
Sleepyjack, your answer is "three." Number of letters in the word version of the number, e.g. four -- four, three -- five, etc.

And Cynthetiq's is Superman/Kryptonite.

ok, that yes and no stuff helps a lot. It just was very surprising how TIO kinda pulled it out of the bag. lol

yep three was right as well :)

If you go out of the sun and I go in what do you get?

Sin, Hard8s
Nice one; I hadn't heard that one before.

And since Kadath wants questions...I'll start with an easy one. A traveller met two men eating lunch, and joined them. One of the men had 3 loaves, and the other had 5. All were the same size. The three men shared the loaves equally. After they had eaten, the traveller gave the men 8 gold coins as payment for the food. How should the men fairly divide the money?

hmm my maths may be a little shaking, nut basicallly here is my working for the answer.

ok 8 loafs between 3 guys. 8/3 = 2.66 loafs each abouts
one guy has 3 loafs so 3 - 2.66= 0.33 of his loaf was unaccounted for.

the other guy has 5 loafs. 5 - 2.66 = 2.33
so he had 2.33 loafs accounted for

then theres a total of 2.66 loafs which the other guy ate and is gonna consequently pay for, by the 8 coins. He then would've had 0.33 of one guys loaf and 2.33 of the other guys loaf.
maths again

2.33/2.66 = 0.8759 and 0.33/2.66 = 0.124

ok nows that the percentage of the total payment each should get.

edit: ignore the rounding errors, i just did it with my trusty calc and it works out exact...pretty sure its right as well.

.8759*8 = 7
0.124*8 = 1

therefore the guy with 5 loafs gets 7 coins and the guy with 3 loafs gets 1 coin.

i guess. Is that right. Sorry if my maths and explanation is a little shady, it was my first go :o

ok i found this old one i know back from HS, its pretty cool. Sorry for the formating, thats how i got it off the web page....

Three guys in a hotel call room service
and order two large
pizzas. The delivery boy
brings them up with a bill for exactly
$30.00. Each guy gives him
a $10.00 bill, and
he leaves. When he hands the
$30.00 to the cashier,
he is told a mistake
was made. The bill was only $25.00, not
$30.00. The cashier gives
the delivery boy five $1.00 bills and
tells him to take it back to
the 3 guys who ordered the pizza.
On the way back to their room, the
delivery boy has a
thought....these guys did not give him a
tip. He figures that
since there is no way to split $5.00
evenly three
ways anyhow, he will keep two dollars
for
himself and give them
back three Dollars. OK! So far so good!
He knocks on the door and one fellow
answers. He explains about a
mix up in the bill,
and hands the guy the three dollars,
then
departs with his two
dollar tip in his pocket.
Now the fun begins! remember $30-$25=$5
Right?
$5-$3=$2 Right? So what's the problem?

All is well, right? Not quite.

Answer this: Each of the three guys
originally gave $10.00 each.
They each got back $1.00 in change. That
means they paid $9.00
each, which times three is $27.00. The
delivery boy kept $2.00 for a tip.
$27.00
plus $2.00 equals
$29.00.

Where the heck is that other dollar????????????

Well done, Sleepyjack.

As for your question, it's an oldie but a goodie. Very hard to spot at first.

Each guy did pay $9. Then, $2 of the $27 went to the delivery boy, and the other $25 went to the pizza place.

The trick is where you add the $2 to the $27 collected. That shouldn't be there.

One of my favourites:
A businessman had an important meeting which led him to fly from London to New York on the concorde (this is in the past, before it crashed). When he left home in the morning, his wife drove him to the airport and kissed him goodbye as he went through to the departure lounge. She did some shopping at the airport, and saw the concorde take off on time.
The businessman's flight from London to NY was, of course, a direct flight. He went straight through customs when he arrived in NY, and had no baggage to collect. There in the arrivals hall was his wife, waiting to drive him home! She had only seen him off that morning, and had not flown or taken a boat; how did she get there to meet him?

Thanks for throwing your hat in the ring :)
Well, off the top my head I'd say at no point does it say the guy only took one flight. If he's, say the pilot of the concorde...
So he lives in NYC, flew the concorde out to London, then flew it back to NYC. Since it's the concorde and does the flight in about 2 hours or some such sick amount of time, it's easily possible to fly to Europe and back to America in the space of one working day. If I'm right about this, it doesn't hold up as well as it did before the concorde crashed, because it NEEDS to use a plane that can do the distance in such a short amount of time, and that you're forced to make reference to the fact that this was before it crashed draws unwanted attention to the type of plane. Of course, if I'm wrong....
How about:
Four friends are on their way home at night. They come to a darkened bridge that is, for whatever reason, only traversable by two people at once. Also, they have only one flashlight between them, and the flashlight must be carried whenever crossing the bridge. They cannot risk losing the flashlight by throwing or rolling it back across the bridge, so someone must convey it back for the group to cross. The four friends are varied in athletic ability. One is a sprinter and can cross the bridge in one minute flat. The second is a soccer player and can cross in two minutes. The third is a typical unathletic American and can only cross in five minutes, and the last has a broken leg. It takes him ten minutes. The good news is that it takes only the greater amount of time for two people to cross, i.e., the sprinter takes the fat slob's pace. They have 17 minutes to get all the way across : how do they do it?

yay, i finally got it.

ok there alwyas gonna be 5 trips minimum. I just got stuck trying to use the sprinter too much. Like kept getting
sprinter+soccer = 2
sprinter back = 1
sprinter + typical = 5
sprinter back = 1
then sprinter + leg guy = 10

total = 19

alas, finally realised that you really need to get the broken leg guy and the typical guy to go over together as there only move to optimise the get over time.

anyways here it is.

sprinter + socer = 2
soccer back = 2
leg + typical = 10
sprinter back = 1
sprinter + soccer = 2
total =17

cool little trick, got me thinking again on holidays.

cheers

as for that airplane one, thats mind boggling... is it on a real life scale or some game thing...hmm i dunno. Although i only quickly read kadaths reply i didn't really get it. Maybe i'll think about it later, the bridge is still on my mind lol

Jack, Kadath was correct. The man lived in New York. He flew to London for the meeting, and flew back that night to his wife. With that knowledge, read the question again and see if it makes any more sense

k, i get it now :)

another little maths riddle, not a baddie

A frog fell into a well 12 feet deep. He could jump 3 feet, but every time he jumped 3 feet, he fell back 2 feet. How many times did he have to jump to get out of the well?

10

Actually, I vote for eight jumps, depending on whether you consider jumping to 10 feet able to get out of the well, or if he needs clearance. Think about it this way: the first number is how high he reaches with the jump, the second is where he falls back to.
3 -- 1
4 -- 2
5 -- 3
6 -- 4
7 -- 5
8 -- 6
9 -- 7
10(out) -- 8

My riddle...hmm. Easy one off the top of my head. Father and his son are out driving together. They get in a terrible car accident. Both are rushed to the hospital. The doctor for the son walks in, sees the boy on the table, and says "I cannot operate on this boy: he is my son." Explain!

Kadath, the well is 12 feet deep :P

The two involved in the crash were the son and grandson of the surgeon.

For more family fun:
At a family reunion, the following relationships existed:
father, mother, son, daughter, uncle, aunt, brother, sister, nephew, neice, and cousin. What is the minimum number of people who could have been there?

And a classic: a man in front of a painting says "Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man's father is my father's son."
Who is in the picture?

Oh...shit :) But you're wrong on mine! Well, it would work, I guess, but it's not what I was going for. A father, Frank, and his son, John....John is brought before the doctor. The doctor says "I can't operate on him. He is my son."

Are we talking about West Virginia? buddum bum bum.
Last first: Himself.
The other one. I come up with 4. Bobby is brother and uncle, and father. Susie is mother, sister and aunt. Tommy is nephew and cousin and son Annie is niece and cousin and daughter. A brother and sister, and each has one kid.

@ kadath, also the doctor could've been the sons mother. Everyone thinks a guy is a doctor fro some reason.
for the family question, i got 4....no idea how right it is

1 man, 1 women, 1 girl, 1 boy
basically the man and women are bro and sister and each has a child of different sexes, it doen't matter which one goes to which. That covers all of those relaitonships.

unless there is some kind of inner breading.....

also i guess he's looking at a picture of himself...

i'll add some more later :)
unless i am completely wrong ;)

EDIT: damn kadath beat me by 2 minutes :(

Sorry buddy, glad we confirmed each other though. But you are dead bang on with the doctor question, including the reason people get it wrong. Oh, and you wanted "inbreeding." Mmmmm...inner breading... :)

old classic. A similar variation is in that old movie labrynth with David Bowie and the bog of etenral stench

You arrive at the gate of heaven and hell. Two guardians are here. None of them is seating in front of a particular gate, they are just walking around. One of the gate leads to heaven, the other to hell, and as you might have guessed, you have to find which one. The only thing you know is that one of the guardian is always lying and the other always telling the truth. You can ask one question to one of them.

GAAAH! Why didn't I get that?

You're both wrong about the painting.

Jack, ask one of them, "If I ask the other guard where your gate leads to, what will he say?"
If the guard says "Heaven," the gate leads to hell, and vice versa.

Another easy one:

2 grandmasters played 5 games of chess. Each won the same number of games and lost the same number of games. There were no draws in any of the games. How could this be so?

not playing each other?

A longer one, but a good one, and better suited to the more elderly... feel free to ask questions if you've not heard it before

A man is driving his car to work. He switches on the radio to hear some music playing, and immediately drives his car off the convenient nearby cliff to kill himself. He is not mentally unhinged/suicidal before switching on the radio...

why does he kill himself?

Well done, Cliche

I haven't heard that one before, either! Methinks I'm going to like having you in this thread :)

Did he perhaps hear on the news that his involvement in some crime or scandal had been discovered?

FUCKING idiot. It's the man's son. This man's father is my father's son. I am ASHAMED..
And I'm going to have to approach cliche's as a yes/no game...but not yet. Not yet.

Narcyleptic? Sleeper agent from the old Sovient Union whose musical trigger to accelerate in a certain direction was played? He was stuck in his car with a broken radio and killed himself to end the agony of substandard quality music.

My 2 cents:

A man lives in a very tall building, almost at the top floor. In the morning, he takes the elevator down to ground-level, gets in his car, goes to work, comes back home, takes the elevator to the 8th floor, goes up all the way to the top by the stairs, and gets back to his apartment.
The next day, he takes the elevator downstairs again, all the way to groundlevel, gets in his car, goes to work, comes home, takes the elevator to the 8th floor, and runs up the stairs for the remaining floors...

Why does he do this, assuming it's not to work out?

OK, Kadath, if you want a yes/no:
"If I ask the other guard if this gate leads to heaven, will he say yes?"
Same difference.

Nisses, he's a midget

oh so he couldn't reach the higher buttons on the elevator?
thats very clever :)

@TIO, i beleive kadath was refering the yes no game in order to solve cliche's riddle. Unfortunaly, these things are normally much more effective with a real time element. Like that albatros soup one, cliches one about the car would probably have a lot of backstory as well in order to solve it.

My thanks, Sleepyjack. :)

TIO:
the radio was playing music only
Xell101:
narcolepsy - he remained conscious throughout, and deliberately drove his car off the cliff
sleeper agent - good but no
bored of music - despite being quite repetitive, the music was actually the kind he would normally enjoy and play

I'll drop some more hints if ppl are keen

I'm pleased, one to add to the repository. You say he is not mentally unhinged or suicidal before turning on the radio, so is he mentally unhinged after? Is he suicidal after? They may seem dumb questions, but assumptions are the enemy in these games. Does the song remind him of a specific event in the past that causes him to be suicidal? I'm keen.
And I kind of want to ask a cheating question: is the solution some sort of joke, wherein he hears The Byrds Turn, Turn, Turn and is forced to comply or something?

Kadath:
He is suicidal afterwards - he deliberately swerves his car off the cliff
As for the song reminding him of something in the past - yes, you could say it does
And the solution is no joke!

Shouldn't he just give the guy with 3 loaves 3 gold and the guy with 5 loaves 5 gold? there was no math to go with it, but it just seems to make sense. Also you can't split one gold coin anyways.

he should have said 3, in reference to the number of letters to spell the number that the doorman said.

sorry i myself don't know of any riddles to share

So was the song playing when a loved one died? Or did he perhaps make a pact with himself that if he ever hears that song again, he'll kill himself? Maybe it's a song his partner made money off of and he didn't?

wlcm, read the first response to the loaves question. Each man ate 2 2/3 loaves, so the one with 3 loaves gave away 1/3 of a loaf, and the other gave away 2 1/3 loaves.

Cliche, that's a great riddle! I haven't heard it before, and I must admit, I'm stumped!

Does he know the DJ or programming manager from the radio station? Is the song being played some kind of signal to him?

*brain wave*
Is the question set near the end of some war or another? Does the enemy's national athem on the radio signal this man's nation's defeat in the war?

This makes me sure that the war answer is right!

Cut off my head and I shall still be found
Though somewhat shorter, still the same in sound.
Cut off my tail, I still remain the same
Bereft of both, I will not change my name
Not even if you deprive of my middle
Now lest as me you would considered be
I pray you quickly to find out this riddle

I still say it was the Soviets

Kadath:
nothing special about which song is playing
TIO:
yes, he does know the station manager and the DJ - but no, the song is not a signal - and no, the war isn't relevant

There is a tape in the car "radio" that he had previously given to his lover. He knows his wife drove the car last and because of loving words he spoke at the beginning of the tape (right before the music he just heard) he knows his wife knows about his affair?!?

Toss in some stuff about losing all his money in the divorce...

I dunno, could happen.
:)

Cliche: Does he hear a DJ or just music?

smarm: nice guess, I like it - but no, he's listening to real radio, no DJ comes on

The guy in the car turned off the lights instead of turning on the radio and accidentally drove off the cliff...

I like danzilla's answer.

But... since he knows the PD and the DJ, maybe he works at the radio station. He's driving to work, so when he turns on the radio and hears music, he knows his job as a talk radio host is lost since the station has obviously changed formats to music from talk. Knowing that he has lost his job he kills himself?

Ok... I'll stop flailing now.

Well, he knows the station manager, that's a big step. Is the station manager boning his wife? Is the station manager his wife? does the song indicate the end of his marriage or relationship in some way?

danzilla: :) but no

smarm: Like the answer. He does work at the radio station, but he was expecting to hear music on the radio

Kadath: Station manager is not his wife. Might have been having an affair with her (possibly irrelevant but makes for a nice story). You'll have to be more specific with questions about what the song indicates

1. He works at the station.
2. He hears music, no DJ.
3. He is reminded of something in the past by the music.
4. He is suicidal after he listens to the music.
5. This puzzle may be "better suited to the more elderly"


Sorry, just wanted to recap.

Is the man upset over something related to his wife?

he heard "its the end of the world as we know it" and thought it really was the end of the world....

another riddle, and damnit I want to know the answer to the car one first!


A young lady's mother dies and at her mother's funeral, the girl meets a very nice young man. Yet, before she can find out who he is, he has disappeared before she can ask. The next week, the girl's brother dies. Who did it, and why?

ok I got it......

The guy works as a DJ, he decides to go kill someone, and use work as his alibi so he puts on a really long song (we'll say NOFX's The Decline, thats pretty long). He goes, kills the person, and on the way home, turns on the radio to find that the song is skipping, signaling to everyone that he isn't really there, so he kills himself instead of going to jail..

BrinlyNoya: Well done, I'm impressed!

BrinlyNoya: is the girl a delicate little flower, or is she a borderline psychopath?

hehe
cliche has it on the girl whose brother died :)

TIO - I guess you guessed what I was thinking. Depends on how nice the young man, irritating the brother, and availability of weaponry. Still, the real question is - what's wrong with this bloke that he keeps turning up at funerals?

Has anyone got anywhere with Xell101's? I'm thinking of words with lots of double letters in but not getting very far

Since I totally missed Xell's riddle, here it is again:
"Cut off my head and I shall still be found
Though somewhat shorter, still the same in sound.
Cut off my tail, I still remain the same
Bereft of both, I will not change my name
Not even if you deprive of my middle
Now lest as me you would considered be
I pray you quickly to find out this riddle"

I think the key to the riddle is "Now lest as me you considered be I pray you quickly to find out this riddle." "As me" would be stupid, or slow, or somesuch. I want to say a zero, based on the "deprive me of my middle" thing. Still, I'm not sure how the head and tail fit in.

the only reason I got that was because Iwas asking my friends about it. One of them said it had to be one of those questions they ask you to see if you are going to be a psychotic killer or not, he used the riddle I told (about the girl's mom's funeral) as an examplel... So I just had to think like a crazy person.. and I got it .. I don't know whether to be happy.. or worried......................... :rolleyes:

The girl, so she can meet the man again.

whats greater than god, more evil then the devil, poor men have it, rich men dont want it, and if you eat it you will die

is it U

cauz if u cut the top of a u off it still looks like one
cut of the tail still looks the smae
i dnt no what berefet means :S
you - take out middle (o) changes it to yu - still sounds same

watupyo - good idea on Xell101's

as for yours - can't think of anything. Nothing. Zilch. Nada... ;)