Riddle Me This/Riddle Me That

Stray_Bullet · 03-14-2005, 12:53 PM

Quote:

"It opens doors, but it cannot make a fist"

What is it?

doorknob, crowbar, battering ram, axe, dynamite, key...

sledge hammer, security panel, motion (if automatic door)...

The will of mankind and the persistance of such good will! (if a door to the future)

But I like doorknob.

Quote:

"A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys...How is this possible?"

"Them" includes the woman. She has four male children.

Quote:

"A farmer and his hired help gather grain one day. The farmer is carrying one sack of gain and the hired help is carrying 2 sacks. Who is carrying the heavier load?"

I assume the hired help is carrying two sacks rather than two sacks of grain... and I also assume that a sack of grain weighs more than two empty sacks. So, the farmer carries a heavier load.

Quote:

" A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50."

The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less.

In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?"

The carny wrote a weight (i.e. 120 lbs) and the boy must have exlaimed "O! My weight is not that of 120 lbs. I weigh but only 115!" When the carny, as trickey as he may be, wrote "115" on his paper, having not explained that he could write the weight before or after the kid revealed the value, but that he had to write it on the paper at all.

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"A man was born in 1955. He's alive and well today at age 33. How is this possible?"

Assuming today is not 1988? What if 1955 was a town, or a hospital? Suppose Age 33 was also a location.

MuGen · 03-14-2005, 12:54 PM

simple enough, but incorrect. You need to make a fist to use the doorknob. You or it cannot make a fist, but it still opens doors.

Vampyr · 03-14-2005, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyuzo

simple enough, but incorrect. You need to make a fist to use the doorknob. You or it cannot make a fist, but it still opens doors.

Are you saying all of his answers are incorrect, or just the doorknob?

And you don't technically make a fest to open a doorknob. I could do it with two fingers, or use both hands or my foot.

ulala06 · 03-14-2005, 01:17 PM

the government could kill off every one of this animal, and yet it would continue to be reproduced... what is it?

Neo · 03-14-2005, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ulala06

the government could kill off every one of this animal, and yet it would continue to be reproduced... what is it?

A fungi

Stray_Bullet · 03-14-2005, 01:36 PM

"Brothers and sisters, I have none. But this man's father is my father's son."

"A man is walking and comes to a fork in the road. He's heard a tale that one path leads to a city of truth, in which no man can lie. The other path, of course, leads to a city of farce, in which no man can speak the truth. At the fork of the road, however, is a man from one of the cities. Being foreign to the area, the traveller cannot identify whether the man was from the city of truth or farce, so he had to ask a question. He doesn't have much time, unfortunately, so he can only ask one question. Which question must he ask to get to the city of truth?"

ulala06 · 03-14-2005, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Stray_Bullet

"A man is walking and comes to a fork in the road. He's heard a tale that one path leads to a city of truth, in which no man can lie. The other path, of course, leads to a city of farce, in which no man can speak the truth. At the fork of the road, however, is a man from one of the cities. Being foreign to the area, the traveller cannot identify whether the man was from the city of truth or farce, so he had to ask a question. He doesn't have much time, unfortunately, so he can only ask one question. Which question must he ask to get to the city of truth?"

this reminds me of "labyrinth"...

"would a man from the other town tell me that this way leads to the city of truth?"

GameMaster · 03-14-2005, 04:46 PM

Hint: To defeat Kyuzo, the evil riddler, simply insert a piece of any of his riddles between quotation marks and enter it into Google. The answers to his and other trickster's riddles will soon become apparent.

The Germanator · 03-14-2005, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by ulala06

this reminds me of "labyrinth"...

"would a man from the other town tell me that this way leads to the city of truth?"

Yeah, totally from Labyrinth, well maybe not originally, but still...

"Chilly Down with the Fire Gang!"

Stray_Bullet · 03-14-2005, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by ulala06

this reminds me of "labyrinth"...

"would a man from the other town tell me that this way leads to the city of truth?"

If honest and the path leads to truth the man would say "no"
If honest and the path leads to false the man would say "yes"
If a liar and the path leads to truth the man would say "no"
If a liar and the path leads to false the man would say "yes"

but while you are correct, I forgot a very important detail that set this apart from the labyrinth

.

The ammendment to the riddle is as follows:
Suppose neither of the two villages know of the other's existance nor their abilities to tell truth or not.

You gain credit for giving an answer to the original question. However, I did indeed leave a part out. Mah bad,

MuGen · 03-14-2005, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Stray_Bullet

doorknob, crowbar, battering ram, axe, dynamite, key...

sledge hammer, security panel, motion (if automatic door)...

The will of mankind and the persistance of such good will! (if a door to the future)

But I like doorknob.

incorrect

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stray_Bullet

"Them" includes the woman. She has four male children.

All of them are boys. But simply stating that half are boys.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stray_Bullet

I assume the hired help is carrying two sacks rather than two sacks of grain... and I also assume that a sack of grain weighs more than two empty sacks. So, the farmer carries a heavier load.

Correct

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stray_Bullet

The carny wrote a weight (i.e. 120 lbs) and the boy must have exlaimed "O! My weight is not that of 120 lbs. I weigh but only 115!" When the carny, as trickey as he may be, wrote "115" on his paper, having not explained that he could write the weight before or after the kid revealed the value, but that he had to write it on the paper at all.

He wrote "your exact weight."

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Originally Posted by Stray_Bullet

Assuming today is not 1988? What if 1955 was a town, or a hospital? Suppose Age 33 was also a location.

He was born in Room 1988

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Originally Posted by Stray_Bullet

Brothers and Sisters I have none, but this man's father is my father's son

this man's father is the person speaking.

THE FOLLOWING RIDDLES HAVEN"T BEEN SOLVED:

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Originally Posted by The greatest GTer around, Kyuzo

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

FOUR is HALF of FIVE.
Is this statement True or False?

Happydude · 03-14-2005, 02:44 PM

hey! this isn't fair! i wrote those answers and then he edited his post! GRRR! i should be compensated! compensated i say!

MuGen · 03-14-2005, 02:48 PM

Yes Happydude, you got the sacks of grain and the carnival weight riddle correct. Go you! now answer the other riddles

Canyarion · 03-14-2005, 03:34 PM

Hey! "Brothers and Sisters I have none, but this man's father is my father's son." this man's father is the person speaking. SO 'this man' is the son of the one telling. Right?

And I'll just say that 4 is not the half of 5. But it probably has to do with FOUR and HALF and FIVE.

And do you mean the man was born in room 1955? Cause you said 1988.

"half of them are boys"--> I thought of that explenation, but it would be too stupid.