Thread: Riddle Me This

Originally Posted by slayer

A guy walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a gun on the man and the man simply says "Thank you" and walks away. Why does the man say thank you?

This one may be a little hard...

Nigga had hiccups

Originally Posted by Elis D.

Nigga had hiccups

I don't really like that word...

But yeah, he had hiccups.

I guy leaves home, takes three left turns. When he gets back home, there is a man with a mask there. Who is this man?

Originally Posted by puppycat

I guy leaves home, takes three left turns. When he gets back home, there is a man with a mask there. Who is this man?

Zorro!!!!

Originally Posted by puppycat

I guy leaves home, takes three left turns. When he gets back home, there is a man with a mask there. Who is this man?

Himself :O

1. A house has four walls, all facing south. What colour is the bear?

2. It takes a man an hour to dig a cubic hole, one metre in length. How long does it take him to dig a cubic hole, four metres in length?

3. You are in a room, and are very hungry. The room next to you has a table of food in it. There is a door seperating the two rooms. The door is too heavy to move. How do you get to the other room?

4. You are in a room with three switches (A, B, and C). In the room above you there is a lamp. ONE of the switches lights the lamp. Your goal is to determine which switch (A, B or C) activates the lamp. You may switch any number of the switches off/on any number of times, but when you go upstairs to check the lamp, you can't go back down to the switches again.
You can't see the light of the lamp from the downstairs room. All the switches start in the off position.

5. A man can make ONE cigarette out of SIX cigarette butts. If he has 36 cigarette butts, how many cigarettes can he make? The answer is not 6, smartass.


I will be impressed if you manage 4.

Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick

3. You are in a room, and are very hungry. The room next to you has a table of food in it. There is a door seperating the two rooms. The door is too heavy to move. How do you get to the other room?

i'd knock

Originally Posted by poog

i'd knock

Close, but nowhere near.

Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick

5. A man can make ONE cigarette out of SIX cigarette butts. If he has 36 cigarette butts, how many cigarettes can he make? The answer is not 6, smartass.

7, whenever he smokes one you add one butt to the amount he has.

Originally Posted by stonedape

7, whenever he smokes one you add one butt to the amount he has.

Nice. One down, four to go.

Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick

4. You are in a room with three switches (A, B, and C). In the room above you there is a lamp. ONE of the switches lights the lamp. Your goal is to determine which switch (A, B or C) activates the lamp. You may switch any number of the switches off/on any number of times, but when you go upstairs to check the lamp, you can't go back down to the switches again.

I choose C!

Originally Posted by poog

I choose C!

Clever. But no. You need a 100% sucess rate.

Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick

Clever. But no. You need a 100% sucess rate.

let me talk with Chuck Norris and I'll see if we can come to a conclusion

one of the switches turns it on so why not turn them all on?

Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick

1. A house has four walls, all facing south. What colour is the bear?

White, it's a Polar Bear

2. It takes a man an hour to dig a cubic hole, one metre in length.
How long does it take him to dig a cubic hole, four metres in length?

One hour

3. You are in a room, and are very hungry. The room next to you has a table of food in it. There is a door seperating the two rooms. The door is too heavy to move. How do you get to the other room?

Through the window... how else would you know there's food there?

4. You are in a room with three switches (A, B, and C). In the room above you there is a lamp. ONE of the switches lights the lamp. Your goal is to determine which switch (A, B or C) activates the lamp. You may switch any number of the switches off/on any number of times, but when you go upstairs to check the lamp, you can't go back down to the switches again.
You can't see the light of the lamp from the downstairs room. All the switches start in the off position.

Put A, B, and C up. One of them is bound to work

5. A man can make ONE cigarette out of SIX cigarette butts. If he has 36 cigarette butts, how many cigarettes can he make? The answer is not 6, smartass.

7

Originally Posted by Elis D.

White, it's a Polar Bear



One hour



Through the window... how else would you know there's food there?



Put A, B, and C up. One of them is bound to work



7

Yes, No, No, No, yes


For the answer to the hole; WTF?

There is no window; only the door.

For the answer to the switches; as I highlighted IN BOLD, you are trying to determine which switch activates the light. You're not trying to turn the light on.

3. Could you unscrew the hinges on the door?

2. And is it 64 hours for the hole? That just seems too simple

Originally Posted by stonedape

3. Could you unscrew the hinges on the door?

No. You have no tools of any sort.

2. And is it 64 hours for the hole? That just seems too simple

Well, you're right. Lots of people forget that the cube will have extra depth as well. Ellis seems to have forgotten... basic maths.

Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick

Well, you're right. Lots of people forget that the cube will have extra depth as well. Ellis seems to have forgotten... basic maths.

Haha. I did too. first I put down 16 then I went back and edited it.

Originally Posted by stonedape

Haha. I did too. first I put down 16 then I went back and edited it.

Haha.

Right, only 3 and 4 remain.

4. You are in a room with three switches (A, B, and C). In the room above you there is a lamp. ONE of the switches lights the lamp. Your goal is to determine which switch (A, B or C) activates the lamp. You may switch any number of the switches off/on any number of times, but when you go upstairs to check the lamp, you can't go back down to the switches again.
You can't see the light of the lamp from the downstairs room. All the switches start in the off position.

Flip on Switch A, and wait ten minutes. Then, flip switch A off, turn switch B on.

Then go upstairs.

If the light is on, then it was switch B. If it is off, but warm, then it was switch A. If it is off, but cold then it was switch C.

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

Flip on Switch A, and wait ten minutes. Then, flip switch A off, turn switch B on.

Then go upstairs.

If the light is on, then it was switch B. If it is off, but warm, then it was switch A. If it is off, but cold then it was switch C.

Well done! If you haven't heard that before, then I'm impressed.

One left, people.

I was too slow. I actually knew that one!

Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick

Well, you're right. Lots of people forget that the cube will have extra depth as well. Ellis seems to have forgotten... basic maths.

Naw, I didn't forget, in fact that's the answer that I got... I just figured it was a play on words that made no difference in the amount of time spent.



For the room/food question... it never says that the door is closed, so I just walk through the open door to the food.

Originally Posted by Elis D.

For the room/food question... it never says that the door is closed, so I just walk through the open door to the food.

Good job.

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