Riddle Me This

[The Dark Knight]

Alright this was a new idea that I had, just to see how good everyone here is at logic and riddles. My thought was that each day I will type out a new riddle or puzzle and someone will try to solve it. If at the start of the next day no one has solved the riddle I will keep it there, but if someone has naturally I'll post a new riddle. This has probably been attempted in the past, and may potentially end in people calling other people stupid due to their answers. So, each person may only post up to two possible thoughts for answers to a riddle or logic puzzle.

The First riddle: (hopefully a nice easy one to get started)
What goes up and down yet stays in its place, no matter year or time or space?

~good luck, have fun

[uniquinous]

potato

[death rico]

im guessing an eyeball :p

[The Dark Knight]

im guessing an eyeball :p

Not a bad guess, could have potentially worked, but not what I was looking for.
You still have another shot, the clues are all there in the riddle.

[death rico]

the earth!

[Neeko-MC]

Earth?

[The Coder]

potato

No uniq, it's fried potato

[The Dark Knight]

Nope not the earth. Keep guessing.:bigsmile:

[Neeko-MC]

Moon.

[BaxVarlet]

Stairs.

[bloodreign]

Um AIR?

it goes up, it goes down but always remains where it is.. plus no matter year time or space air is always there?


it's my noob answer


Wait i'm going to call my friend Steven Hawking for the answer.

[gryph89]

Um AIR?

it goes up, it goes down but always remains where it is.. plus no matter year time or space air is always there?


it's my noob answer


Wait i'm going to call my friend Steven Hawking for the answer.

Yes that's why it's so windy in the black abyss of space. :P

[Ächilles]

A penis.

It never moves from between my legs; always in the same place. Regardless of the weather, date, time, location, anything, it is constantly going up and down. I know mine is.

I win.

[Excaliber]

thermometer

[The Dark Knight]

Thermometer right now is the closest thing to a right answer as that definately works, and moon is also good and is on the right track for what I am really looking for.

[gryph89]

An elevator.

[Neeko-MC]

The Aтmosphere?

[The Dark Knight]

An elevator.

Not too bad there, but an elevator still technically moves, I'll give you a hint look at the words that are in the second half of the poem.

[Neeko-MC]

Temperature :D

[rabbi]

Well i was gonna say Earth but seeing as though its been takin and its already wrong, it saves me a guess, heh.

hhmmm. no matter year, nor time, nor space...? hmmm, the sun?
or a star? but the sun is a star so that would still be my first guess, heh. is it right?

[The Dark Knight]

Well i was gonna say Earth but seeing as though its been takin and its already wrong, it saves me a guess, heh.

hhmmm. no matter year, nor time, nor space...? hmmm, the sun?
or a star? but the sun is a star so that would still be my first guess, heh. is it right?

Indeed it is the sun. Congratulations, I was going to give it to the person who said star, but I was looking for specifically the sun. Okay for our next puzzle

2nd Puzzle: Okay one of the oldest lateral thinking puzzles here we go

A man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day, he takes the elevator to the first floor to go to work or to go shopping. When he returns, he always takes the elevator to the seventh floor and then wals the remaining flights of stairs to his apartment on the tenth floor. Why does he do this?

[Neeko-MC]

Its a midget and he cannot reach the 10th button.

[death rico]

hmm thats accually a smart answer. :D but im guessing the elavator is broke...

[Zander]

Its a midget and he cannot reach the 10th button.
The higher the number, the lower the button is to the floor(depending of course on how many rows of buttons there are).

[Serge]

The higher the number, the lower the button is to the floor(depending of course on how many rows of buttons there are).
Neeko's still right though. It's a lateral thinking puzzle, you're being too logical.

[Wisher]

He's a midget! I have heard that riddle lots.

[The Dark Knight]

Its a midget and he cannot reach the 10th button.

Indeed Neeko is correct, It is indeed a midget, and this was an excellent answer. Congratulations Neeko, here is the next puzzle:

Third Puzzle:
When Gertrude entered the plane she cuased her own death and the deaths of 200 people. Yet she was never blamed or criticized for her actions. What happened?

[bloodreign]

The first riddle sucks, not because i didn't get it, because sun moon ect.. were on my mind, but in all reality the sun is but a spec in a rotating arm of our galaxy so in relation to the ever expanding universe it is always moving away from it's place.

Maybe i think to metaphysicaly because you say no matter the time....well there was a point where nothing existed but a super dense singularity before the big bang.. so " no matter the time" is not apropriate. Your riddle is narrowly confined to our small perspective from earth.....i think to broadly.

And by the wayYes that's why it's so windy in the black abyss of space. :P ever heard of solar wind? hahahah

[Mordecai]

.!

[Kyir]

And by the way ever heard of solar wind? hahahah

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The depths of your stupidity astound me.

[stryker]

Indeed Neeko is correct, It is indeed a midget, and this was an excellent answer. Congratulations Neeko, here is the next puzzle:

Third Puzzle:
When Gertrude entered the plane she cuased her own death and the deaths of 200 people. Yet she was never blamed or criticized for her actions. What happened?

Gertrude is the name of a boat, which the plane crashed in to, sinking it and killing everyone.

Even if this isn't right, I'm still doing the next one.


There are Knights and Dragons that fight every day. Rather than using conventional medieval weapons, they battle with poisons. There are 8 numbered wells which appear to be filled with water, but are actually all filled with poisons. The poisons vary in power, poison from well 1 is the weakest, poison from well 2 is a little stronger, 3 stronger etc. Also, if someone/thing is poisoned, they can be cured by drinking poison from a higher well. I.E. A knight drinks poison 3, he goes to well 6 and cures himself. Both the knights and dragons have access to wells 1-7, but only the dragons have access to well 8, so the dragons continually kill the knights by giving them the superior poison and curing themselves with poison 8.

One day however, a knights is able to kill a dragon and cure himself.
How is this done, using only the poison system.

[Mordecai]

-1200 rep points from one dude LOL

ha you losers that negged me for this one barely did anything

you guys really care about the rep system that much that your gonna neg me when i'm already like -1000 neg points? lol find something else to do with your time

or, keep negging me I guess ^^

cmon guys, the queef joke wasn't all that bad

[Riathmus]

Gertrude is the name of a boat, which the plane crashed in to, sinking it and killing everyone.

Even if this isn't right, I'm still doing the next one.


There are Knights and Dragons that fight every day. Rather than using conventional medieval weapons, they battle with poisons. There are 8 numbered wells which appear to be filled with water, but are actually all filled with poisons. The poisons vary in power, poison from well 1 is the weakest, poison from well 2 is a little stronger, 3 stronger etc. Also, if someone/thing is poisoned, they can be cured by drinking poison from a higher well. I.E. A knight drinks poison 3, he goes to well 6 and cures himself. Both the knights and dragons have access to wells 1-7, but only the dragons have access to well 8, so the dragons continually kill the knights by giving them the superior poison and curing themselves with poison 8.

One day however, a knights is able to kill a dragon and cure himself.
How is this done, using only the poison system.

He combines two of the poisons?

[stryker]

He combines two of the poisons?

Nope.

[The Dark Knight]

Gertrude is the name of a boat, which the plane crashed in to, sinking it and killing everyone.

Even if this isn't right, I'm still doing the next one.


There are Knights and Dragons that fight every day. Rather than using conventional medieval weapons, they battle with poisons. There are 8 numbered wells which appear to be filled with water, but are actually all filled with poisons. The poisons vary in power, poison from well 1 is the weakest, poison from well 2 is a little stronger, 3 stronger etc. Also, if someone/thing is poisoned, they can be cured by drinking poison from a higher well. I.E. A knight drinks poison 3, he goes to well 6 and cures himself. Both the knights and dragons have access to wells 1-7, but only the dragons have access to well 8, so the dragons continually kill the knights by giving them the superior poison and curing themselves with poison 8.

One day however, a knights is able to kill a dragon and cure himself.
How is this done, using only the poison system.

The Knight combines some of the poisons from the wells to kill the dragon and to cure itself. And your answer to my question is very creative, and not bad, but not the right answer. Nvm looks like I'm wrong just finished my response xD

[Kyir]

The Knight combines some of the poisons from the wells to kill the dragon and to cure itself. And your answer to my question is very creative, and not bad, but not the right answer. Nvm looks like I'm wrong just finished my response xD

He doesn't because mixing two poisons does not always increase it's effects.

He then proceeds to die.

Do I win yet?

[The Dark Knight]

Does he find or create another poison from a 9th well? Therefore a better cure and a stronger poison.

[The Coder]

He relabels the wells. Thusly when the dragon thinks he's drinking out of 8, he's drinking form one.
That, or the dragon ran out of 8.

[stryker]

He doesn't because mixing two poisons does not always increase it's effects.

He then proceeds to die.

Do I win yet?

Not yet.

Does he find or create another poison from a 9th well? Therefore a better cure and a stronger poison.

Unfortunately, there is no ninth well involved in this riddle.

He relabels the wells. Thusly when the dragon thinks he's drinking out of 8, he's drinking form one.
That, or the dragon ran out of 8.

Because the knights do not have access to well eight, it's impossible for them to relabel it. For the purpose of this riddle the wells are bottomless.

I'll be back in a while, keep thinking.

[The Coder]

Well I mean why drink from 8 if 7 will do?

[death rico]

he mixes two 7 potions to make a 14 power potion. he then throws the potion at the dragon and the dragon dies. then he can drink from the left over potion to cure himself. sometimes they can increase when u add 2 potions.

[Serge]

Gertrude is the name of a boat, which the plane crashed in to, sinking it and killing everyone.

Even if this isn't right, I'm still doing the next one.


There are Knights and Dragons that fight every day. Rather than using conventional medieval weapons, they battle with poisons. There are 8 numbered wells which appear to be filled with water, but are actually all filled with poisons. The poisons vary in power, poison from well 1 is the weakest, poison from well 2 is a little stronger, 3 stronger etc. Also, if someone/thing is poisoned, they can be cured by drinking poison from a higher well. I.E. A knight drinks poison 3, he goes to well 6 and cures himself. Both the knights and dragons have access to wells 1-7, but only the dragons have access to well 8, so the dragons continually kill the knights by giving them the superior poison and curing themselves with poison 8.

One day however, a knights is able to kill a dragon and cure himself.
How is this done, using only the poison system.
How do they poison each other?

[The Coder]

he mixes two 7 potions to make a 14 power potion. he then throws the potion at the dragon and the dragon dies. then he can drink from the left over potion to cure himself. sometimes they can increase when u add 2 potions.

Already shot down, dumbass

[stryker]

Well I mean why drink from 8 if 7 will do?

The dragons play it safe and give 8 to the Knights every day.

How do they poison each other?

As illogical unrealistic as it it, the knights and dragons exchange and drink poison that they give each other every day.

It's just a thing they've got going.



And back to Dark Knight's, is Gertrude the name of a hurricane?

[Duplicity]

Is Gertrude a bird that flew into an engine and totally f**ked up the plane?

[The Coder]

Forced the dragon's poison upon itself?

[stryker]

When the Dragon dies and the Knight lives, the dragon drank what the knight gave him and the knight drank what the dragon gave him.

[Ächilles]

A penis.

It never moves from between my legs; always in the same place. Regardless of the weather, date, time, location, anything, it is constantly going up and down. I know mine is.

I win.

I'm right. Don't avoid it.

[steve12]

Yeah, you are... The same applies with me. :p

This thread is interesting, but I'm not getting this poison one.

[sayter]

yellow

[The Dark Knight]

Is Gertrude a bird that flew into an engine and totally f**ked up the plane?

That is the answer to my question, congratulations duplicity. My next puzzle is this one:

Fourth Puzzle:

A man lay dead next to a piece of string and a tattered cloth. How did he die?

[Neeko-MC]

Ive heard this one before dark I'am trying think what it was lol.

[Mordecai]

That is the answer to my question, congratulations duplicity. My next puzzle is this one:

Fourth Puzzle:

A man lay dead next to a piece of string and a tattered cloth. How did he die?

He already ingested all the cyanide that was force fed to him?

[rabbi]

what does tattered mean?

[Neeko-MC]

It's english talk for old cloths with holes and stuff in them very scruffy...

[The Dark Knight]

He already ingested all the cyanide that was force fed to him?

Not even close...please try to be serious the next time you post here.

[Mordecai]

Not even close...please try to be serious the next time you post here.

that was serious mr dark knight?

[rabbi]

This one is difficult....Maybe he was flossing choked on the string?(as serious as i could think of, lol)

[gryph89]

I hate these dumb riddles that paint no reason for observation

"He dropped his old disrag in the dumbster missed and it landed next to a piece of string as he bent over he banged his head on the dumpster and killed himself" can be as elaborate as

"a murderer shot him numerous times after he was tied to a chair, as his means to escape before bleeding to death, he got his hands free and the string fell to the floor, his cloth filled with bullet holes fell from his pocket as he fell"

"or his crappy unraveling cloth dropped a piece of string and he had a hearattack and died:

See what I mean...

[Worker]

This one is difficult....Maybe he was flossing choked on the string?(as serious as i could think of, lol)

He obviously slipped on a tampon.

[Punishment]

That is the answer to my question, congratulations duplicity. My next puzzle is this one:

Fourth Puzzle:

A man lay dead next to a piece of string and a tattered cloth. How did he die?

He was skydiving. and Failed.

The dragon riddle : The knight gives the dragon NORMAL water that is unpoisoned. The dragon then proceeds to drink from well 8, and kills himself since there is no higher poison.
edit: hmm, no regular water is there? In that case i will need to rethink.

gg. Punmeister, out.

[Punishment]

Alright, new solution!

So the knight , before the battle drinks some of this poison from any of his wells... So that the #7 the dragon has access to will cure him.

The knight then pees into a cup. His pee is not poisonous...

So the knight gets healed by 7. The dragon drinks 7, since dragons don't have taste buds he thinks it is poison, and gets killed.

GG.

[Worker]

Pun all depends on what m/l per second the Knight is peeing.

[Punishment]

21.7 ml/s.

[BaxVarlet]

The knight drinks poison from any of the wells he has access to before meeting up with the dragon.

He drinks half of the portion of the poison 8 that the dragon gives him and is cured and saves the rest.

The next day he goes back and drinks some poison before hand. He gives the dragon the rest of the poison 8 from the day before. The Knight is healed again by the poison 8, and the dragon can't heal himself.

[Punishment]

I like my answer better. It only takes one day.

And what if the knight only had one glass? huh?

[The Dark Knight]

He was skydiving. and Failed.



Good guess, but no. Like the train of thought though.

And I believe that Bax is correct here.

[Punishment]

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/3351/graphnu5.jpg

[stryker]

He was skydiving. and Failed.

The dragon riddle : The knight gives the dragon NORMAL water that is unpoisoned. The dragon then proceeds to drink from well 8, and kills himself

This is correct. If you want to argue that the knights didn't have water to use, just say that he used super clear urine, which he has to have. The key point is that the poison looks exactly like water.

The knight drinks poison from any of the wells he has access to before meeting up with the dragon.

He drinks half of the portion of the poison 8 that the dragon gives him and is cured.


And so is this.

Good job.

[gryph89]

pun...what the hell?

[Red Fire]

Alright this was a new idea that I had

It was also an idea that I had about a year ago .... see link:

http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16610&highlight=Riddle+Thread

Not to be a hard ass ... but if there is going to be a riddle thread, would like it to be the original, thanks.

[The Dark Knight]

It was also an idea that I had about a year ago .... see link:

http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16610&highlight=Riddle+Thread

Not to be a hard ass ... but if there is going to be a riddle thread, would like it to be the original, thanks.

Hmm, sorry about that, but I didn't know...

Here are the Polls: (these people had the correct answer or an answer that worked, I've decided to keep track to see who is the best at this)
Neeko-MC, Duplicity~4
Punishment, Stryker~3
Stryker, bludhoundz, XeqtR~2
Bax Varlet, Serge, Rabbi, Excalibur, Mithrandir, StupidCowsCan'tSwim, DJ2006, Magician, bludhoundz, Gryph89, Jeffrey~1

[death rico]

he died of hipothermia(sp?) the was wearing the tattered cloth and use the string to try to sow it together. but during that he died of being too cooled. therefore he was dead next to a string and a tattered cloth. hmm i am sure of this one ^.^

[The Dark Knight]

he died of hipothermia(sp?) the was wearing the tattered cloth and use the string to try to sow it together. but during that he died of being too cooled. therefore he was dead next to a string and a tattered cloth. hmm i am sure of this one ^.^

Interesting idea, but still wrong...

[Serge]

Continue the pattern:

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11
21
1211
111221
312211

[meat.eater]

Those who make it, sell it.
Those who buy it, dont need it.
Those who need it, dont know that they need it.

[Serge]

Those who make it, sell it.
Those who buy it, dont need it.
Those who need it, dont know that they need it.
Coffin. Isn't that shit in the Hobbit?

I always see people bust out the riddles from the Hobbit. If you're a nerd and haven't read the Hobbit you should go hide in a hole and cry. Actually, you're not good enough to be in a hole if you haven't read the Hobbit.

[Lonely Tylenol]

Third Puzzle:
When Gertrude entered the plane she cuased her own death and the deaths of 200 people. Yet she was never blamed or criticized for her actions. What happened?

Gerty's a birdy. Sucked into the engine. (EDIT II: Damnit, I didn't see Duplicity's post before this...)

Here's a good logic question for y'all to ponder:

A man and his son are driving down the road one day when they get into a terrible accident. The two are loaded into two different ambulances and driven to separate hospitals. When the son gets to the hospital, the surgeon takes one look at him and says, "I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son."

How is this possible?

EDIT: Meat, yours is:

Those who make it don't want it;
Those who buy it don't use it;
Those who use it don't see it.
What is it?

And Serge is right. :wink2:

[Magician]

The surgeon is the boys' mother. Come on LT! :p

[Lonely Tylenol]

The surgeon is the boys' mother. Come on LT! :p

Ah, all right, all right. Here's another one.

A man walks into town one day and confuses everyone when he says he can drop an egg six feet over hard concrete and it won't suffer so much as a scratch. Intrigued and somewhat skeptical, one of the townspeople gives him an egg (which for whatever reason he was carrying) and tells him to demonstrate this trick.

Upon receiving the egg, the outsider successfully drops the egg six feet on the sidewalk without scratching or breaking the egg. No gimmicks are used to slow the fall or lessen the impact. How did he do it?

[RaX]

Fake egg?

[Magician]

Does he alter the egg in any way? A fake egg just seems too... easy.

[RaX]

I know im wrong but often in these things the simplest answer is the right answer.

[Punishment]

Ah, all right, all right. Here's another one.

A man walks into town one day and confuses everyone when he says he can drop an egg six feet over hard concrete and it won't suffer so much as a scratch. Intrigued and somewhat skeptical, one of the townspeople gives him an egg (which for whatever reason he was carrying) and tells him to demonstrate this trick.

Upon receiving the egg, the outsider successfully drops the egg six feet on the sidewalk without scratching or breaking the egg. No gimmicks are used to slow the fall or lessen the impact. How did he do it?

Uh --- Did the egg actually hit the floor? You said he dropped it 6 feet on the sidewalk, but not onto the sidewalk =P -- If it hit the sidewalk i got no idea though.

[rabbi]

Superman's egg? :D

[BaxVarlet]

They're in space.

[death rico]

serge:
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
131223

egg:
they were ants?

[Serge]

serge:
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
131223

egg:
they were ants?
Wrong on the number one.

[The Dark Knight]

That is the answer to my question, congratulations duplicity. My next puzzle is this one:

Fourth Puzzle:

A man lay dead next to a piece of string and a tattered cloth. How did he die?

Well, so far no one has gotten this one. Here is a clue, the cloth was in the shape of a diamond.



Here are the Polls: (these people had the correct answer or an answer that worked, I've decided to keep track to see who is the best at this)

Bax Varlet, Punishment, Rabbi, Excalibur, Duplicity, Stryker, Neeko-MC, Magician~1

serge:
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11
21
1211
111221
312211
113121
egg:
It was hard boiled.

[Punishment]

He was flying a kite that got hit by lightning.

[gryph89]

Continue the pattern:

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11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

dumb quote thing lol

[The Dark Knight]

He was flying a kite that got hit by lightning.

Correct. It took way too long for people to figure that out I had to give a clue:dry:. Punishment takes the lead in the polls, and here is the next puzzle:

Fifth Puzzle: (a riddle)

What is it that gets wetter as it dries?

[gryph89]

A towel

[The Dark Knight]

A towel

Meh. That was a little too easy:bigsmile:. Good job Gryph. Okay here is the next puzzle:

Sixth Puzzle: (my favorite riddle of all time)

A man looks at a painting and says, "Brothers and sisters I have none. But this man's father is my father's son." How is the man related to the man in the painting?

[Neeko-MC]

The Speaker's son our nephew.

[Punishment]

It's a painting of the mans son.

[Punishment]

The Speaker's son our nephew.

#1 -- It says brothers and sisters i have none, so it can't be a nephew.

Punmeister wins again, 3 pts ;)

[Neeko-MC]

I wrote son our nephew so nooo it;s not ur win lol.

[Punishment]

I wrote son our nephew so nooo it;s not ur win lol.

You can't guess two things. And you edited after i posted -_-

[death rico]

its a painting of the man looking at the picture.

[Neeko-MC]

You can't guess two things. And you edited after i posted -_-

No i didnt i edited it before you bud lol i put the son then changed it to son and newphew. :D

[Punishment]

But son AND NEPHEW is wrong.

[Riathmus]

The man in the painting is himself.

[XeqtR]

The man in the picture is "the man's" son, of course. Nice thread.

[The Dark Knight]

The Speaker's son our nephew.
You can't guess twice, but I would be forced to take your first answer so you are correct...however you edited and since I cannot see your original post you are incorrect now. No points for you.
It's a painting of the mans son.

Pun once again gets the points, therefore It is pun 3 everyone else 1 or 0. Next puzzle:

Seventh Puzzle: (knowledge based)

Okay here comes a knowledge based question. What is it that a baby has more of than an adult?

[Neeko-MC]

He seen my edited post was son.. and the answer is


Growth potential. Bones Newborn baby girls also have more ova. They also have a lot of other things (like meconium) that are best not gone into.

[death rico]

its not teeth... hair! or bones

[Zander]

I'd just like to say that a damn good percentage of these can be answered by googling them.

[Dj2006]

You can't guess twice, but I would be forced to take your first answer so you are correct...however you edited and since I cannot see your original post you are incorrect now. No points for you.


Pun once again gets the points, therefore It is pun 3 everyone else 1 or 0. Next puzzle:

Seventh Puzzle: (knowledge based)

Okay here comes a knowledge based question. What is it that a baby has more of than an adult?

cartilage

[Neeko-MC]

A baby is born with some 350 seperate bones. As the baby grows, some of these bones join together so that in maturity the same person has only some 206 bones.

It's bones im sure its bones....!

[Zander]

I'd just like to say that a damn good percentage of these can be answered by googling them.
A baby is born with some 350 seperate bones. As the baby grows, some of these bones join together so that in maturity the same person has only some 206 bones.

It's bones im sure its bones....!
See what I mean?

[Neeko-MC]

I know.. no point in this cause u just go on ask.com and it tell you.

[The Dark Knight]

A baby is born with some 350 seperate bones. As the baby grows, some of these bones join together so that in maturity the same person has only some 206 bones.

It's bones im sure its bones....!
You are correct...
cartilage
That is close enough that so are you...
I'd just like to say that a damn good percentage of these can be answered by googling them.

Alas I know, but I was hopeful that some people were above such methods. Ah well, that was too knowledge based to ask, I'll avoid those types in the future. Okay this one cannot be googled.

Eighth Puzzle:

A traveler begins a journey. For the first week, he is carried south. For the second week, he carries others. In the third week, he is lifted up. In the fourth week, he fall back down. Who is the traveler?

[Neeko-MC]

The traveler is an iceberg to begin with. Then it is free flowing water Then it is a water cloud as from a kettle or where the hot water boils under the ice. Then it is rain or snow

My dad told me that about 6 month ago.

[The Dark Knight]

The traveler is an iceberg to begin with. Then it is free flowing water Then it is a water cloud as from a kettle or where the hot water boils under the ice. Then it is rain or snow

My dad told me that about 6 month ago.

Meh. You got it tying you with punishment, okay here is another one. The next puzzle:

Ninth Puzzle:

Not far from my hometown, there lies a large abandoned barn. It is completely empty except for a dead man hanging from the central rafter. The rope around his neck is twelve feet long, and his feet are three feet off the ground. The nearest wall is 25 feet away. It is not possible to climb the walls or along the rafters yet he hanged himself. How did he do it?

[stryker]

He stood on a block of ice and it melted.

[death rico]

he jumped off the roof with the noose around his neck.

[The Dark Knight]

He stood on a block of ice and it melted.

Meh, people are getting these so fast now, congrats Stryker that is correct...Okay hopefully here is a stumper...

Tenth puzzle:

A man was being chased by a gang of robbers. He had escaped with two solid gold balls, and the robbers wanted to kill him and steal the balls. He came to a wooden bridge over a deep ravine that was 125 feet long, and there was a notice that said "Maximum weight on the bridge is 172 pounds." Strangely this was exactly correct and would break if she carried more than 122 pounds. He weighed 160 pounds and the two balls weighed 11 pounds each There was no time to leave one behind and get it later. Yet he still managed to escape with both the balls. How did he do it?

[bludhoundz]

Meh. You got it tying you with punishment, okay here is another one. The next puzzle:

Ninth Puzzle:

Not far from my hometown, there lies a large abandoned barn. It is completely empty except for a dead man hanging from the central rafter. The rope around his neck is twelve feet long, and his feet are three feet off the ground. The nearest wall is 25 feet away. It is not possible to climb the walls or along the rafters yet he hanged himself. How did he do it?

Edit: Didn't realize this one had been gotten.

In response to the 10th one: he juggled them.

[The Dark Knight]

Correct bludz, *scratches head* people are getting these too fast now.:bigsmile: Well, lets see here...

Eleventh Puzzle:

A man who wanted a drink walked into a bar. Before he was able to say anything, he was knocked unconcious. Why?

[Duplicity]

Correct bludz, *scratches head* people are getting these too fast now.:bigsmile: Well, lets see here...

Eleventh Puzzle:

A man who wanted a drink walked into a bar. Before he was able to say anything, he was knocked unconcious. Why?

That's more of a joke. :bigsmile:

[death rico]

the guy walked into the bar. but the door hit him on his way in,therefore making him unconsious

[Serge]

dumb quote thing lol
right.

[stryker]

I have a new one for ya.

There are 3 black hats and 2 white hats in a box. Three men (Let's say Punishment, Serge, and The Dark Knight) each reach into the box and place one of the hats on his own head. They cannot see what color hat they have chosen. The men are situated in a way that Punishment can see the hats on Serge and TDK's heads, Serge can only see the hat on TDK's head and TDK cannot see any hats. When Punishment is asked if he knows the color of the hat he is wearing, he says no. When Serge is asked if he knows the color of the hat he is wearing he says no. When TDK is asked if he knows the color of the hat he is wearing he says yes and he is correct. What color hat is TDK wearing and how did he figure it out?

[Duplicity]

I have a new one for ya.

There are 3 black hats and 2 white hats in a box. Three men (Let's say Punishment, Serge, and The Dark Knight) each reach into the box and place one of the hats on his own head. They cannot see what color hat they have chosen. The men are situated in a way that Punishment can see the hats on Serge and TDK's heads, Serge can only see the hat on TDK's head and TDK cannot see any hats. When Punishment is asked if he knows the color of the hat he is wearing, he says no. When Serge is asked if he knows the color of the hat he is wearing he says no. When TDK is asked if he knows the color of the hat he is wearing he says yes and he is correct. What color hat is TDK wearing and how did he figure it out?

1. Punishment says no. Therefore the other 2 people are either wearing black/black or black/white.
2. Serge, knowing this, says no. Therefore he can't tell which scenario it is by looking at TDK's hat. Therefore TDK is wearing a black hat.
3. TDK, being the crazy riddle master that he is, figures out he is wearing a black hat from the previous 2 statements.

I give him way too much credit. :bigsmile:

[Lonely Tylenol]

the guy walked into the bar. but the door hit him on his way in,therefore making him unconsious

You just redeemed yourself for that retarded "end of the world" thread. :bigsmile:

Anyway, nobody got my egg thing. And NO, it's an ORDINARY egg (unboiled, uncooked, nothing special about it), ORDINARY fall and ORDINARY concrete. Nothing breaks the egg's fall or makes the impact easier on the egg, but it falls six feet without so much as a scratch. How?

Or would you rather I just gave the answer? :)

[Zander]

... It falls at a certain angle?

[XeqtR]

1. Punishment says no. Therefore the other 2 people are either wearing black/black or black/white.
2. Serge, knowing this, says no. Therefore he can't tell which scenario it is by looking at TDK's hat. Therefore TDK is wearing a black hat.
3. TDK, being the crazy riddle master that he is, figures out he is wearing a black hat from the previous 2 statements.

I give him way too much credit. :bigsmile:

You beat me to the punch. Anyway, here is another.

Two guys Jim and Clark are going on a journey. Jim has 5 breads and Clark has 3 breads. They stop for having their lunch. A third man Peter joined them. Peter had no bread of his own so Jim and Clark decided to share their bread with him. So the three men equally ate together all the 8 breads. After eating, Peter departed giving them 8 cents to share between the two.

Jim says since he had 5 breads, he should get 5 cents while Clark argues that since all three men ate equally the money should also be equally distributed and he should get 4 cents.

How should Jim and Clark fairly distribute the 8 cents?

[Jeffery]

You beat me to the punch. Anyway, here is another.

Two guys Jim and Clark are going on a journey. Jim has 5 breads and Clark has 3 breads. They stop for having their lunch. A third man Peter joined them. Peter had no bread of his own so Jim and Clark decided to share their bread with him. So the three men equally ate together all the 8 breads. After eating, Peter departed giving them 8 cents to share between the two.

Jim says since he had 5 breads, he should get 5 cents while Clark argues that since all three men ate equally the money should also be equally distributed and he should get 4 cents.

How should Jim and Clark fairly distribute the 8 cents?
Jim should kill Clark and take it all.

[Lonely Tylenol]

... It falls at a certain angle?

Ordinary fall. He drops the egg.

[Zander]

Ordinary fall. He drops the egg.
It lands at a certain angle! I'm honestly half-way sorry for the anguish I hope this will cause you.

[XeqtR]

You just redeemed yourself for that retarded "end of the world" thread. :bigsmile:

Anyway, nobody got my egg thing. And NO, it's an ORDINARY egg (unboiled, uncooked, nothing special about it), ORDINARY fall and ORDINARY concrete. Nothing breaks the egg's fall or makes the impact easier on the egg, but it falls six feet without so much as a scratch. How?

Or would you rather I just gave the answer? :)

I could not find your original question, but here would be my take. If the egg lands on one of its "ends", it would just not break (this is assuming that it is caught on the bounce or somehow not let fall on the side later on). The principle is that the force is completely distributed over the curved portion and not just the contact point. The same reason why arches are stronger than normal rectangular door sockets.

[Lonely Tylenol]

I could not find your original question, but here would be my take. If the egg lands on one of its "ends", it would just not break (this is assuming that it is caught on the bounce or somehow not let fall on the side later on). The principle is that the force is completely distributed over the curved portion and not just the contact point. The same reason why arches are stronger than normal rectangular door sockets.

No physics!

This one's really simple, why's everyone making it so complicated? Think easy solutions. :D

[Zander]

A man walks into town one day and confuses everyone when he says he can drop an egg six feet over hard concrete and it won't suffer so much as a scratch. Intrigued and somewhat skeptical, one of the townspeople gives him an egg (which for whatever reason he was carrying) and tells him to demonstrate this trick.

Upon receiving the egg, the outsider successfully drops the egg six feet on the sidewalk without scratching or breaking the egg. No gimmicks are used to slow the fall or lessen the impact. How did he do it?
He released his hold on the egg and let it fall to the ground <_< Last one.

[Lonely Tylenol]

He released his hold on the egg and let it fall to the ground <_< Last one.

Not THAT simple. :)

Get on AIM and I'll give you the answer!

[XeqtR]

Thanks for quoting the original question.

It says "...the outsider successfully drops the egg six feet on the sidewalk without scratching or breaking the egg..."

So, he started dropping the egg from more than 6 feet - say, for example, 7. So, for the first 6 feet the egg dropped, it did not suffer a scratch or a break. :)

[Lonely Tylenol]

Thanks for quoting the original question.

It says "...the outsider successfully drops the egg six feet on the sidewalk without scratching or breaking the egg..."

So, he started dropping the egg from more than 6 feet - say, for example, 7. So, for the first 6 feet the egg dropped, it did not suffer a scratch or a break. :)

Correct! Nice job. :happy:

[bludhoundz]

Wouldn't a dinosaur / ostrich egg also work? I'm not sure how much impact an ostrich egg can take, but it's supposed to be pretty tough.

[Lonely Tylenol]

Wouldn't a dinosaur / ostrich egg also work? I'm not sure how much impact an ostrich egg can take, but it's supposed to be pretty tough.

And NO, it's an ORDINARY egg (unboiled, uncooked, nothing special about it), ORDINARY fall and ORDINARY concrete.

:rtfm:

[Neeko-MC]

Correct bludz, *scratches head* people are getting these too fast now.:bigsmile: Well, lets see here...

Eleventh Puzzle:

A man who wanted a drink walked into a bar. Before he was able to say anything, he was knocked unconcious. Why?

Cause he was already drunk?

[The Dark Knight]

That's more of a joke. :bigsmile:
Do you know the answer, or are you just going to let a bunch of people suffer...:p
1. Punishment says no. Therefore the other 2 people are either wearing black/black or black/white.
2. Serge, knowing this, says no. Therefore he can't tell which scenario it is by looking at TDK's hat. Therefore TDK is wearing a black hat.
3. TDK, being the crazy riddle master that he is, figures out he is wearing a black hat from the previous 2 statements.

I give him way too much credit. :bigsmile:

You do no such thing, had I not fallen asleep I would have gotten this one, but good job Duplicity. *Takes off the hat I was wearing* It is black!

[stryker]

You beat me to the punch. Anyway, here is another.

Two guys Jim and Clark are going on a journey. Jim has 5 breads and Clark has 3 breads. They stop for having their lunch. A third man Peter joined them. Peter had no bread of his own so Jim and Clark decided to share their bread with him. So the three men equally ate together all the 8 breads. After eating, Peter departed giving them 8 cents to share between the two.

Jim says since he had 5 breads, he should get 5 cents while Clark argues that since all three men ate equally the money should also be equally distributed and he should get 4 cents.

How should Jim and Clark fairly distribute the 8 cents?

They each eat 2 and 2/3 of the bread, but we don't know how much of that was given to peter by jim and how much was given by clark, so i don't see how one would solve this logically. To split the money evenly, they would each have to give an equivalent portion of there bread. 1 and 2/3 of Jim's 5 breads 33% and 1 of Clark's 3 breads is also 33%, so in that situation they would each get 4 cents, even though Jim gave more.

However, I'm not sure if this correctly answers the riddle.

[XeqtR]

It is perfectly possible to mathematically solve it. You got lost somewhere half-way through it. Try again from there.

[The Dark Knight]

Logically each person gets 2 and 2/3 pieces of bread. So therefore, when we take that away, Jim gives away 2 and 1/3 pieces, while Clark gives peter 1/3 of a piece of bread. Therefore Clark gets 1 cent, and Jim gets the other 7 cents. Still no one has figured out my eleventh puzzle.:bigsmile:

[bludhoundz]

Correct bludz, *scratches head* people are getting these too fast now.:bigsmile: Well, lets see here...

Eleventh Puzzle:

A man who wanted a drink walked into a bar. Before he was able to say anything, he was knocked unconcious. Why?

It's a bar made of metal.

OR

He walked into the side of the bar (as in place to drink), not through the door.

I'm pretty sure most people knew this, especially Duplicity since he knows the joke.

"3 guys walked into a bar and one ducked"

Or..

"A man walked into a bar"

Or any number of variations.

[The Dark Knight]

Yeah I was pretty sure Duplicity got it too, but I'll give you both the points. Ok here is the next puzzle:

Twelth Puzzle:

A master forger forged a US $100 bill. The bills he made were perfect copies of the original in every detail, yet he was caught. How?

[stryker]

The original 100$ bill looks different from the modern 100$ bill.

After homework, i'll get back to the bread one.

[death rico]

cuz all the money would have the same code. :p

[The Dark Knight]

The original 100$ bill looks different from the modern 100$ bill.

After homework, i'll get back to the bread one.

I already solved the bread one, I'm just waiting for him to confirm it is right. I'm not sure what you are trying to get at with your answer stryker. You need to explain yourself better.

[stryker]

Yeah I was pretty sure Duplicity got it too, but I'll give you both the points. Ok here is the next puzzle:

Twelth Puzzle:

A master forger forged a US $100 bill. The bills he made were perfect copies of the original in every detail, yet he was caught. How?

The bills in use today(or modern bills) are not the same to those used when the 100$ bill was created (or original bills). A man paying with old fashion 100$ dollar bills that he forged could be caught because his money doesn't match with the actual money used today.

[The Dark Knight]

The bills in use today(or modern bills) are not the same to those used when the 100$ bill was created (or original bills). A man paying with old fashion 100$ dollar bills that he forged could be caught because his money doesn't match with the actual money used today.

Okay, that was what I was looking for. That is correct, I will post another puzzle in a bit.

[XeqtR]

Logically each person gets 2 and 2/3 pieces of bread. So therefore, when we take that away, Jim gives away 2 and 1/3 pieces, while Clark gives peter 1/3 of a piece of bread. Therefore Clark gets 1 cent, and Jim gets the other 7 cents. Still no one has figured out my eleventh puzzle.:bigsmile:

Spot on.

In regard to your $100 bill riddle, the master forger printed the bill with perfect detail, but he forgot to print the back side. Right?

EDIT: Ah... Missed that.

[The Dark Knight]

Okay, hopefully I've finally found a stumper. Here we go:

Thirteenth puzzle: (another riddle)

A maiden's head so deathly still
Cold and quiet, yet not ill
Her long tresses hang toward the sky
Hair that burns when it is dry
Food to man and creature's lair
Name both her and her hair.

[XeqtR]

$100 is given to Joe to purchase three types of birds - Peacock, Pigeon, Sparrow.

Price of one Peacock is $5
Price of one Pigeon is $1
Price of one Sparrow is $.05

He has to spend $100 and purchase 100 birds of all three kinds.

How many birds of each kind will he purchase?

[XeqtR]

Okay, hopefully I've finally found a stumper. Here we go:

Thirteenth puzzle: (another riddle)

A maiden's head so deathly still
Cold and quiet, yet not ill
Her long tresses hang toward the sky
Hair that burns when it is dry
Food to man and creature's lair
Name both her and her hair.

Lol, we posted new riddles at the exact same minute. :)

I have seen this puzzle before so I know the answer already. If no one gets it by tomorrow, I will post it.

[Duplicity]

80 sparrows, 1 pigeon, 19 peacocks.

EDIT: Bah, sparrows are 5 cents, not 50.

I also know the answer to TDK's riddle because I've read The Seventh Tower.
(Quick, go get out your Seventh Tower books and search for the answer!)

[The Dark Knight]

$100 is given to Joe to purchase three types of birds - Peacock, Pigeon, Sparrow.

Price of one Peacock is $5
Price of one Pigeon is $1
Price of one Sparrow is $.05

He has to spend $100 and purchase 100 birds of all three kinds.

How many birds of each kind will he purchase?

100 total birds?

[XeqtR]

Sorry Duplicity. You are not yet there.

[bludhoundz]

Okay, hopefully I've finally found a stumper. Here we go:

Thirteenth puzzle: (another riddle)

A maiden's head so deathly still
Cold and quiet, yet not ill
Her long tresses hang toward the sky
Hair that burns when it is dry
Food to man and creature's lair
Name both her and her hair.

Tree & Leaves.

[The Dark Knight]

Tree & Leaves.

That is incorrect, and XeqtR and Duplicity could you PM your answer to this riddle, that way other people will have an opportunity who have not read that series of books.

[Liquid Swordsman]

Tree & Leaves.

sorry, you forgot to give your answer in the form of a question

[Duplicity]

80 sparrows, 1 pigeon, 19 peacocks. I misread the price of the sparrow :dry:

[cs_zero]

Okay, hopefully I've finally found a stumper. Here we go:

Thirteenth puzzle: (another riddle)

A maiden's head so deathly still
Cold and quiet, yet not ill
Her long tresses hang toward the sky
Hair that burns when it is dry
Food to man and creature's lair
Name both her and her hair.

some kind of ocean/lake grass?

[Jeffery]

some kind of ocean/lake grass?
A rock in a lake with seaweed/seegrass growing off it.

[cs_zero]

SEAWEED!!!
I couldn't remember what it was called.

[XeqtR]

80 sparrows, 1 pigeon, 19 peacocks. I misread the price of the sparrow :dry:

Yep, that is it.

[The Dark Knight]

A rock in a lake with seaweed/seegrass growing off it.

Yes, Jeffrey has got the answer. Okay the next puzzle:

Fourteenth Puzzle:

When the music stopped he died very suddenly. How?

[Neeko-MC]

Yes, Jeffrey has got the answer. Okay the next puzzle:

Fourteenth Puzzle:

When the music stopped he died very suddenly. How?

"he" is an insect sitting on one of the musical chairs Unfortunately he was squashed when the music stopped.

[death rico]

the insect was playing a tune with his legs..then got stepped on..

[steve12]

A farmer had 9 haystacks separated on a field. He added them all together. How many haystacks did he have?

EDIT: This one is better..

I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.

[Mithrandir]

A farmer had 9 haystacks separated on a field. He added them all together. How many haystacks did he have?
One big one?

I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.

This one is too easy. The letter S.

[StupidCows]

My turn!

A doctor says to lawyer "We were born on the same year, month, day, and minute. We were born in the same hospital, hospital room and we have the same 2 parents. We are not twins and we have no brothers." Explain this.

[XeqtR]

My turn!

A doctor says to lawyer "We were born on the same year, month, day, and minute. We were born in the same hospital, hospital room and we have the same 2 parents. We are not twins and we have no brothers." Explain this.

They are both girls. And, they are triplets or quadruplets or...etc.

[StupidCows]

They are both girls. And, they are triplets or quadruplets or...etc.

guess it wasn't as good as I thought...

[XeqtR]

Lol. Or maybe I am just too brilliant. :p

Okay, here is a different one from me.

8 + 8 = 91. How is this possible

[StupidCows]

if you turn 91 upside-down then it's 16, and 8 upside-down is 8 so turn the whole thing upside-down!

[XeqtR]

That was fast. But, it is a beautiful brain teaser nevertheless.

Another simple one: How many times a day does a clock’s hands coincide?

[StupidCows]

24 times... once an hour?

[lthlinjction]

Um... google ftw?

[XeqtR]

Nope, its not 24.

[StupidCows]

It's 22... because it happens every hour except for the 11th hour in which it goes straight to 12... =D am I right now?

[XeqtR]

Yeah. :)

[The Dark Knight]

22 times because of the eleventh hour they don't intersect.

[Neeko-MC]

22 times because of the eleventh hour they don't intersect.

Did I get the answer right to urse?

[The Dark Knight]

Did I get the answer right to urse?

Yeah you are correct. Okay here is the next puzzle:

Fifteenth Puzzle:

There are two glasses on the table, one containing water and the other one wine. They both contain exactly the same amount by volume. If you take a teaspoon of water and mix it into the wine and then take a teaspoonful from the wine glass and mix it with the water, both glasses become contaminated. But which is the more contaminated? Does the water now contain more wine than the wine does water or the other way around?

[XeqtR]

I suppose the water gets contaminated more. Because the wine being a liquid already has a lot of water in it so one more teaspoon of water would not hurt so much as plain water being contaminated by wine particles.

[StupidCows]

if you first put water in the wine, then (for example) say 1 out of every 100 ppm is water, then you take 100 ppm and put them in the water, the water contains 99 ppm of wine while the wine contains 100 ppm of water =D so the water is less contaminated

[Neeko-MC]

Yeah you are correct. Okay here is the next puzzle:

Fifteenth Puzzle:

There are two glasses on the table, one containing water and the other one wine. They both contain exactly the same amount by volume. If you take a teaspoon of water and mix it into the wine and then take a teaspoonful from the wine glass and mix it with the water, both glasses become contaminated. But which is the more contaminated? Does the water now contain more wine than the wine does water or the other way around?

Ok, so i should be easy cause punisher not been posting NOW upgrade me a gold lol o/j umm i'll have think this one it's hard.

[The Dark Knight]

No you guys haven't got the correct reasoning yet so keep guessing.

Here are the updated Polls:
Duplicity~5
Neeko-MC, XeqtR~4
Punishment, Stryker~3
Bludhoundz, StupidCows, uniquinous~2
excaliber, rabbi, BaxVarlet, Serge, Magician, gryph89, Dj2006, The Dark Knight, Jeffery, Mithrandir, xeaglex~1

[XeqtR]

On second thoughts, I think the wine would be contaminated more since water was first added to it diluting the same. This - let us say 99% wine and 1% water is then used to contaminate the water so it contains only 99% of the teaspoonful of wine and 1% water is basically returning back to its home.

[StupidCows]

that's exactly what I said XeqtR, so apparently we're wrong

[gryph89]

Wine is more contaminated.

usually in science you pour Acids into water, that way if it splashes its effect is the least. but if you water into acid, it will splash, making it more effective.

[uniquinous]

depends how you define contaminated

macroscopically, the wine would be more "contaminated", in that it would be more diluted with water than the water would be with wine

microscopically, they wouldn't mix, so they're technically even

[XeqtR]

Okay, this one is downright hard. I totally object. :)

I read my answer again (the second one) and I find it horribly wrong. Because, once the water is added to wine, the volume of it increases. This would in turn reduce the percentage of water returning to an extent that is minimal.

In simpler terms, when you transfer wine to water, that much amount can't go anywhere but to water. And, when you do the reverse, the same happens. Even more simply, the wine that he water had replaced MUST be in the water glass. Hence, BOTH are contaminated to an equal extent.

If this is not right, I don't know what will be. I am not going to break my head over this anymore. :angry:

[The Dark Knight]

depends how you define contaminated

macroscopically, the wine would be more "contaminated", in that it would be more diluted with water than the water would be with wine

microscopically, they wouldn't mix, so they're technically even

Correct Uniq, you get the point. They are in fact equaly contaminated due to the microscopic aspect.

Okay, this one is downright hard. I totally object. :)

I read my answer again (the second one) and I find it horribly wrong. Because, once the water is added to wine, the volume of it increases. This would in turn reduce the percentage of water returning to an extent that is minimal.

In simpler terms, when you transfer wine to water, that much amount can't go anywhere but to water. And, when you do the reverse, the same happens. Even more simply, the wine that he water had replaced MUST be in the water glass. Hence, BOTH are contaminated to an equal extent.

If this is not right, I don't know what will be. I am not going to break my head over this anymore. :angry:

Correct deduction, but I'm afraid Uniq beat you to the answer, plus this was your third try and I specifically said only two tries so no points to you. Okay here is the next puzzle:

Sixteenth Puzzle:

A man got into a taxi and told the driver his destination. After that, they did not say a word. On the way, the taxi driver stopped the taxi at a lonely spot and beckoned the man to get out. The driver then picked up a stone and dealt his passenger a heavy blow to the head, killing him. He then drove off.

The taxi driver was not a criminal. He had never met the passenger before nor did he recognize his face or voice. He did not rob the man. Why did he kill him?

[XeqtR]

Heh heh. I somehow read "was not a criminal" as "is not a criminal" and got into thinking too much.

The man gave the driver the address of the driver's home where his wife is alone?

[death rico]

he did not tip.

[The Dark Knight]

Heh heh. I somehow read "was not a criminal" as "is not a criminal" and got into thinking too much.

The man gave the driver the address of the driver's home where his wife is alone?

Correct again X, man are you on a roll, good job. Ok here is the next puzzle:

Seventeenth Puzzle: (I thought this one was pretty easy)

A man died and went to Heaven. There were thousands of other people there. They were all naked and everyone looked as the did at the age of 21.

He looked around to see if there was anyone he recognized. Suddenly, he saw a couple, and he knew they were Adam and Eve. How did he know?

[uniquinous]

no belly button - easy!

guess #2: the only couple with undetachable fig leaves :p

[bludhoundz]

62 - 1 = 63

Move one digit in this equation to make it true. By move, I mean you may change its positioning. You can turn the 62 into a 26, you may move the 6 in 62 to the beginning of 63 and make it 663. You may not move the equals sign or minus sign.

NOTE: moving a digit does not mean switching its place with another.

[The Dark Knight]

no belly button - easy!

guess #2: the only couple with undetachable fig leaves :p

Huzzah! Told you it was easy.:bigsmile:

So blud we can't switch the two and three therefore making it 63-1=62?

[uniquinous]

i think i'm on the right track - is it better to write this out bludz?

[lthlinjction]

62 - 1 = 63

Move one digit in this equation to make it true. By move, I mean you may change its positioning. You can turn the 62 into a 26, you may move the 6 in 62 to the beginning of 63 and make it 663. You may not move the equals sign or minus sign.

NOTE: moving a digit does not mean switching its place with another.

Ugh... we can't switch it's place with another? o.O

Re-do ftw?

[bludhoundz]

What I meant is that you can move the 6 to after the 2. It wasn't a switch, it was just moving one. I guess that was a bad example.

Uniq - probably.

[xEaglex]

Am I allowed to make the 62: 2^6 (two to the sixth power)? Or is that considered switching numbers?

[The Dark Knight]

If he can that is definately the right answer, nicely done eagle.

[bludhoundz]

Am I allowed to make the 62: 2^6 (two to the sixth power)? Or is that considered switching numbers?

I said moving, not switching. That technically moves it (since it doesn't say 62^1), and is the right answer.

[The Dark Knight]

Here comes the next puzzle:

Puzzle nineteen:

Mrs. Smith was very jealous one day of Mrs. Jones's house. So she too wanted a new house. She very much liked to see the sun shining into a room, so she instructed the builders to construct a house of which all four walls face south. After much thought, the builder managed to erect such a house. How did he do it?

[uniquinous]

on the pole?

[StupidCows]

You didn't say the outside facing south, just a side, so if you put it at an angle... like corners facing NW, NE, SW, and SE then at least one face (inside or outside) will get hit by the sun.

[The Dark Knight]

You didn't say the outside facing south, just a side, so if you put it at an angle... like corners facing NW, NE, SW, and SE then at least one face (inside or outside) will get hit by the sun.
Well, that is a good thought process...
on the pole?
But this is the correct answer, obviously the North Pole. Congrats Uniq. Okay here is the next puzzle:

Puzzle 20:

A man pushing his car stopped outside a hotel. As soon as he got there, he knew he was bankrupt. Why?

[StupidCows]

because he was pushing his car... if he had money he'd go to the gas station and drive to the hotel!

[xEaglex]

He was playing Monopoly!

[The Dark Knight]

He was playing Monopoly!

Oohs ahhs, we have an emerging riddle master here.
Congrats Eagle that is indeed correct. Okay here is the next puzzle:

Puzzle 21:

Ted was color blind, because of this infliction he landed an important job. What was it?

[xEaglex]

Bah this is a toughie. Does it have to do with rainbows? :P