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Conclamo Ludus · 07-08-2003, 03:08 PM

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

lafemmefatale · 07-08-2003, 03:21 PM

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

lurkette · 07-08-2003, 03:21 PM

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

07-08-2003, 03:26 PM

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Originally posted by lafemmefatale
he cheated at a game of cards...bicycles is a brand of cards.

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

hotzot · 07-08-2003, 05:32 PM

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

Conclamo Ludus · 07-08-2003, 05:49 PM

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Originally posted by Jaelin
Yup - one of the first riddles I ever heard.

Oldie but goodie.

YourNeverThere · 07-08-2003, 06:36 PM

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Originally posted by Big Julie
...And there should only be 52 cards on the table.

excatly, he was cheating

NetterButter · 07-08-2003, 07:29 PM

more more, i like those riddles

MacGnG · 07-08-2003, 07:36 PM

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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.

AppleSauceMcGee · 07-08-2003, 08:26 PM

tour de france wreck

Sleepyjack · 07-08-2003, 10:29 PM

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?

Tower · 07-09-2003, 12:42 PM

He's a homeless man who stole a car?

I suck at these riddles..

YourNeverThere · 07-09-2003, 01:02 PM

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...

Cynthetiq · 07-09-2003, 01:07 PM

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

my contribution...

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

marcus · 07-09-2003, 08:50 PM

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Originally posted by Sleepyjack

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?

Fake Alias · 07-09-2003, 10:16 PM

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Originally posted by marcus
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?

The Atomic Boy · 07-09-2003, 10:38 PM

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.

Lebell · 07-10-2003, 12:44 AM

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.

Sleepyjack · 07-10-2003, 02:12 AM

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Cynthetiq said

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...

Peetster · 07-10-2003, 03:44 AM

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?

Sleepyjack · 07-10-2003, 05:42 AM

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....

Fake Alias · 07-10-2003, 08:33 AM

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Originally posted by The Atomic Boy
A hole.

The correct answer was light.

TIO · 07-10-2003, 09:12 AM

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?

Darkblack · 07-10-2003, 09:38 AM

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

Fred Gassit · 07-10-2003, 05:22 PM

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

MacGnG · 07-10-2003, 08:31 PM

a road.

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

debaser · 07-10-2003, 08:38 PM

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?

MacGnG · 07-10-2003, 08:41 PM

debaser · 07-10-2003, 08:44 PM

nope...

paj · 07-10-2003, 09:07 PM

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?

TIO · 07-10-2003, 09:58 PM

A ring

Fake Alias · 07-10-2003, 10:29 PM

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Originally posted by debaser
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

debaser · 07-10-2003, 11:42 PM

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Originally posted by Fake Alias
could it be a bubble

Correct.

Kadath · 07-13-2003, 05:53 PM

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

TIO · 07-13-2003, 10:31 PM

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)

marcus · 07-13-2003, 11:15 PM

What has fingers but can't type?

Kadath · 07-14-2003, 05:33 AM

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Originally posted by marcus
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.

TIO · 07-14-2003, 07:23 AM

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

Sleepyjack · 07-14-2003, 08:17 AM

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Kadath said

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

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TIO said

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?

Cynthetiq · 07-14-2003, 09:49 AM

1 and a half....

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

07-08-2003, 03:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
Conclamo Ludus Modern Man Location: West Michigan	A riddle... A man is murdered with 53 bicycles in front of him. Why? __________________ Lord, have mercy on my wicked soul I wouldn't mistreat you baby, for my weight in gold. -Son House, Death Letter Blues

07-08-2003, 03:21 PM	#2 (permalink)
lafemmefatale Insane Location: Vancouver	he cheated at a game of cards...bicycles is a brand of cards. __________________ -poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another-

07-08-2003, 03:21 PM	#3 (permalink)
lurkette My future is coming on Moderator Emeritus Location: east of the sun and west of the moon	Um...his bike shop was being robbed and the robbers shot him? __________________ "If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France

07-08-2003, 05:32 PM	#5 (permalink)
hotzot We're having potato pancakes! Location: stalag 13	I like the bike shop answer better, It could happen! __________________ The Bully Boys are here!

07-08-2003, 07:29 PM	#8 (permalink)
NetterButter Crazy Location: in a hole, ventura county,cali	more more, i like those riddles __________________ www.holeinthe.net

07-08-2003, 08:26 PM	#10 (permalink)
AppleSauceMcGee Tilted Location: universe	tour de france wreck __________________ "The Church says the Earth is Flat, But I know that it is Round, For I have seen the Shadow on the Moon. And I Have more faith in a shadow Than in the Church." - Ferdinand Magellan

07-08-2003, 10:29 PM	#11 (permalink)
Sleepyjack Fast'n'Bulbous Location: Australia, Perth	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? Last edited by Sleepyjack; 07-08-2003 at 10:39 PM..

07-09-2003, 12:42 PM	#12 (permalink)
Tower Tilted Location: Whitewater, Wisconsin.	He's a homeless man who stole a car? I suck at these riddles.. __________________ Regulator 2k3. Intergalatic Planetary.

07-09-2003, 01:02 PM	#13 (permalink)
YourNeverThere Practical Anarchist Location: Yesterday i woke up stuck in hollywood	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... __________________ The Above post is a direct quote from Shakespeare

07-09-2003, 01:07 PM	#14 (permalink)
Cynthetiq Tilted Cat Head Administrator Location: Manhattan, NY	wow.... a bit late to the party.... my contribution... there's a man in the desert with a backpack... __________________ I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not. What's the best nation in the world? DO-NATION!

07-09-2003, 10:38 PM	#17 (permalink)
The Atomic Boy Tilted Location: Indianapolis	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. __________________ All problems no matter how complex can be solved with fire and/or duct tape.

07-10-2003, 12:44 AM	#18 (permalink)
Lebell Cracking the Whip Location: Sexymama's arms...	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. __________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis The ONLY sponsors we have are YOU! Please Donate!

07-10-2003, 03:44 AM	#20 (permalink)
Peetster Right Now Location: Home	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? Last edited by Peetster; 07-10-2003 at 03:47 AM..

07-10-2003, 05:42 AM	#21 (permalink)
Sleepyjack Fast'n'Bulbous Location: Australia, Perth	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....

07-10-2003, 09:12 AM	#23 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	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? __________________ Strewth

07-10-2003, 09:38 AM	#24 (permalink)
Darkblack Banned Location: Pennsytuckia	A plane crash. The cabin is the cabin of an airplane.

07-10-2003, 05:22 PM	#25 (permalink)
Fred Gassit Upright Location: Wisconsin	What goes in and out of cities 24 hours a day but doesn't move? __________________ The dogs philosophy of life: If you cant eat it, fuck it. If you cant fuck it, piss on it.

07-10-2003, 08:31 PM	#26 (permalink)
MacGnG Know Where!	a road. NEW riddle: What goes in hard and pink, but comes out soft and mushy? it's not what your thinking of

07-10-2003, 08:38 PM	#27 (permalink)
debaser Sir, I have a plan... Location: 38S NC20943324	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? __________________ Fortunato became immured to the sound of the trowel after a while.

07-10-2003, 08:41 PM	#28 (permalink)
MacGnG Know Where!	air?

07-10-2003, 08:44 PM	#29 (permalink)
debaser Sir, I have a plan... Location: 38S NC20943324	nope... __________________ Fortunato became immured to the sound of the trowel after a while.

07-10-2003, 09:07 PM	#30 (permalink)
paj Tilted	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?

07-10-2003, 09:58 PM	#31 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	A ring __________________ Strewth

07-13-2003, 05:53 PM	#34 (permalink)
Kadath Muffled Location: Camazotz	Ooh, my favorite. Man goes into a restaurant, orders albatross soup. Takes one taste, runs out of restaurant screaming. __________________ it's quiet in here

07-13-2003, 10:31 PM	#35 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	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) __________________ Strewth

07-13-2003, 11:15 PM	#36 (permalink)
marcus Upright Location: GR	What has fingers but can't type?

07-14-2003, 07:23 AM	#38 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	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 __________________ Strewth

07-14-2003, 09:49 AM	#40 (permalink)
Cynthetiq Tilted Cat Head Administrator Location: Manhattan, NY	1 and a half.... my addition... may laying on a beach near a rock... __________________ I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not. What's the best nation in the world? DO-NATION!