The Riddler...

[peachexploration]

Know any good riddles to sharpen the mind? Yeah? Let's play The Riddler. Each day (or shorter for the smarties out there), someone will post a riddle to solve. The member who posts the correct answer becomes The Riddler and has to post the next riddle. If the riddle isn't solved within 24 hours, then The Riddler must give the answer and post the next riddle. The object of game is to "stump the people' and remain as The Riddler for as long as you can. Since googling is allowed, it's going to be rough to keep the position. Good Luck. :D

Here's the first one

What row of numbers comes next?
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

[peachexploration]

Know any good riddles to sharpen the mind? Yeah? Let's play The Riddler. Each day (or shorter for the smarties out there), someone will post a riddle to solve. The member who posts the correct answer becomes The Riddler and has to post the next riddle. If the riddle isn't solved within 24 hours, then The Riddler must give the answer and post the next riddle. The object of game is to "stump the people' and remain as The Riddler for as long as you can. Since googling is allowed, it's going to be rough to keep the position. Good Luck.

Here's the first one

What row of numbers comes next?
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

And the answer is: (drum roll)

The next row is
1113213211
Starting with the second line, every line describes the line before it. In writing, it is:
One One
Two Ones
One Two One One
etc.
etc.

Next Riddle:A man walks up to you and says - "everything I say to you is a lie."
Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?

[squirrel]

Neither.... I think it is called a paralogism... correct me if I'm wrong... :oops:

My bro graduated Philosophy... and we used to have many discussions... one of these is such as the above...

But it was a little different, with a crocodile and a man and his son... :)

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:P No, some really annoying and crazy answer. Anyone else want to take a stab at this one?

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Next Riddle:A man walks up to you and says - "everything I say to you is a lie."
Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?
ANSWER: He's lying. Even though he's lying when he says "everything" he says is a lie, some of the things he says can be a lie, and this is one of them.

NEXT RIDDLE: A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?

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RIDDLE: A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?
ANSWER: ALL the children are boys, so 1/2 half are boys and so is the other half.

NEXT RIDDLE:In the NBA, how many men are on the basketball court for each team.

7

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Muhahhahah :twisted: :twisted: I rule, the undefeated Riddler strikes again! Muhahahahha :lol:

In the NBA, how many men are on the basketball court for each team.
ANSWER:Five. If you said ten, don't feel bad as most people do. "Each team" is the key here.

NEXT RIDDLE: 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?

8

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NEXT RIDDLE: 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?

ANSWER: The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.

NEXI RIDDLE:If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?





9

[Haz]

ANSWER: 2nd

QUESTION: A man while looking at a photograph said, "Brothers and sisters have I none. That man's father is my father's son." Who was the person in the photograph?

[SDsalsaguy]

Self-portrait! :wink:

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SD, got another riddle for us? :)

[SDsalsaguy]

R1: I pass befor the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?

R2: No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

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Hmm, Sundial and Your Word?

[SDsalsaguy]

Nope...

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How about Wind and Silence?

[SDsalsaguy]

Yup, you got 'em! :D

Next?

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Okay, an easy one....
A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?

[SDsalsaguy]

Ummm... because he was walking? :wink:

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Yeay, very easy one. :D Got another one for us?

[SDsalsaguy]

OK, how's this... a car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another?

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Umm :P Umm :P Thinking... :lol: :lol:

Okay, a true palindromic number would be 797 so I'm going to guess 630 miles as the answer. If you reverse 7927 and get 7297 and add 630, you'd be back at 7927 again? :P I don't know, just guessing.... :P

[SDsalsaguy]

Nope, look at the question again... What are the minimum miles [as in additional miles] that you would need to travel to form another palindromic number?

[Haz]

is 7927 palindromic? i thought it had to read the same front and back. if you're askin for the next true one after that, wouldn't it be 7997?

and as for the 'self-portrait' answer...wrong ;).

[SDsalsaguy]

Ooops, good call Haz, the number is meant to be 72927.... I accidently left out the first "2"... :oops:

[Haz]

then 73037 ;)

and the answer to mine was his son

[SDsalsaguy]

then 73037 ;)
Almost! ... because the question was what are the minimum miles you would need to travel (from 72927) to form another palindromic number. So, while 73037 is the next palindromic number possible, the answer is 110 miles! :wink:

[SDsalsaguy]

and the answer to mine was his son

Umm, I'm not sure I agree...

That man's father is my father's son.

:wink:

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Sorry Haz, I agree with SD as well. :wink: Okay SD, you're still the riddler. Next one? :D

[SDsalsaguy]

#1: Manwalks over, man walks under, in times of war he burns asunder. What is it?

#2: My life is often a volume of grief, your help is needed to turn a new leaf. Stiff is my spine and my body is pale, but always am I ready tell a tale. What am I?

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#1 is a bridge
#2 is a book :)

NEXT RIDDLE: Power enough to smash ships and crush roofs. Yet it still must fear the sun. What is it?

[SDsalsaguy]

H2O?

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Close but not quite... :)

[SDsalsaguy]

Yes it is... just in solid form! Ice!!! :wink:

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:D Next riddle...

[SDsalsaguy]

there is a common english word that in nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

[Miami Rueda dancer]

there are 8 square boxes in this order:

. . . .
. . . .

fit 9 cows in these 8 boxes you can't put any on top or cut any in half
have fun! :D

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Ur..Ummm....Still thinking on these. :? Anyone else want to take a shot at riddles from SD and MRD?

[arli]

Answer to SD is -> startling.

startling
starting
staring
string
sting
sing
sin
in
i

About the cows, thats a tricky one..no idea.. _yet_ ;)..

But here is another one

Is there any way you can add the number 5 to 103 and make it less then 11? :P

[Miami Rueda dancer]

about the cows hehehe

ANSWER: N I N E
C O W S
lol

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I would have never gotten that one, MRD. :lol:

But here is another one

Is there any way you can add the number 5 to 103 and make it less then 11? :P Is the answer 9? 5+1+0+3=9 :)

[salseralon]

Thought i'd bump this up to the top, anyone got anymore riddles, i like to try and figure em out, unfortuntely im really rubbish at it lol.

Im racking my brain to remember one i want to post, so as soon as i do ill come back

[asdfadsfa]

and the answer to mine was his son

Umm, I'm not sure I agree...

That man's father is my father's son.

:wink:


I was reading your site for an answer to a riddle and I came across the riddle ‘A man while looking at a photograph said, "Brothers and sisters have I none. That man's father is my father's son." Who was the person in the photograph?’ and someone had given the answer “Self-portrait!”. I’m only 15, and I thought that the person who had given that answer was wrong, and that the actual answer was his son. Later on, the person who had posted the riddle had also said that the real answer was his son. It’s impossible that the answer could be self-portrait, because if he was looking at a picture of himself, how could his own father be his father’s son?

If the man was looking at a picture of himself and said “that man’s father is my father’s son”, then “that man’s father” would mean his own father, and “my father’s son” would be himself. His father isn’t himself.

However, if the man was looking at a picture of his son and said “that man’s father is my father’s son”, then “that man’s father” would mean himself, and “my father’s son” would also be himself, proving that it is his son in the picture.[quote]

[matt]

y

[matt]

I heard it was a funeral procesion going by. someone asked a man "who has died?" the man said " Broters or sisters i have none, that man's father is my father's son" It was his son who had died. His son's father is him, and he is his father's son.

heres one......

The three wisest sages in the land were brought before the king to see which of them were worthy to become the king's advisor. After passing many tests of cunning and invention, they were pitted against each other in a final battle of the wits.

Led blind-folded into a small room, the sages were seated around a small wooden table as the king described the test for them.

"Upon each of your heads I have placed a hat. Now you are either wearing a blue hat or a white hat. All I will tell you is this- at least one of you is wearing a blue hat. There may be only one blue hat and two white hats, there may be two blue hats and one white hat, or there may be three blue hats. But you may be certain that there are not three white hats."

"I will shortly remove your blind folds, and the test will begin. The first to correctly announce the colour of his hat shall be my advisor. Be warned however, he who guesses wrongly shall be beheaded. If not one of you answers within the hour, you will be sent home and I will seek elsewhere for wisdom."

With that, the king uncovered the sages' eyes and sat in the corner and waited. One sage looked around and saw that his competitors each were wearing blue hats. From the look in their eyes he could see their thoughts were the same as his, "What is the colour of my hat?"

For what seemed like hours no one spoke. Finally he stood up and said, "The colour of the hat I am wearing is . . ."

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......For what seemed like hours no one spoke. Finally he stood up and said, "The colour of the hat I am wearing is . . ."

What?