Forwards I'm heavy, backwards I'm not.
What am I?
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Forwards I'm heavy, backwards I'm not.
What am I?
Your a ton.
nice, :D
How do you lift an elephant with one hand?
Nice play on words there. I know the answer but I shall ignore it, you should answer my question.Quote:
Originally Posted by poog
If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how
long would it take four men to build it?
By using your finger to press the "up" button on the elephant lift.Quote:
Originally Posted by poog
Think harder about the question =P.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brainchild
It is pretty much like If a rooster lays an egg on the top of a roof which side will the egg roll off of? joke.
How do you lift an elephant with one hand?
Like this!
*shows you*
why would the other four build it if its already built? :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
what has been around for millions of years, but only a month old?
Edit: nvm poog beat me.
Uh...Woof Woof Awwwooooooof (|( | ( ) O ( ) | ) |)Quote:
Originally Posted by poog
What is green in New York city but blue in Oklahoma?
idk.... really...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
the grass?
just a guess :D
The water =P. No just kidding. I was going to say something like a middle class citizen. (green with envy, blue with angst).
i seeQuote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
The jokers face.
What can go up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
:lol::laughhard::laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by sloth
UmbrellaQuote:
Originally Posted by poog
http://zip.4chan.org/v/src/1221089948497.jpg
The same way you lift one with four hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by poog
Elephants don't have hands...
What's the smartest thing in a science lab?
I give.Quote:
Originally Posted by poog
Deck of cards.Quote:
Originally Posted by poog
the thermometer :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
it has the most degrees
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...
It's a bar!Quote:
Originally Posted by slayer
Well uhh...it's not a metal bar...it's just a bar. Like a club or whatever. Not like that joke where the guy walks into a "bar" and says ow or whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by nitsuJ
Nigga had hiccupsQuote:
Originally Posted by slayer
I don't really like that word...Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
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?
Zorro!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by puppycat
Himself :OQuote:
Originally Posted by puppycat
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.
i'd knockQuote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
Close, but nowhere near.Quote:
Originally Posted by poog
7, whenever he smokes one you add one butt to the amount he has.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
Nice. One down, four to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by stonedape
I choose C! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
Clever. But no. You need a 100% sucess rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by poog
let me talk with Chuck Norris and I'll see if we can come to a conclusionQuote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
one of the switches turns it on so why not turn them all on?
White, it's a Polar BearQuote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
One hourQuote:
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?
Through the window... how else would you know there's food there?Quote:
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?
Put A, B, and C up. One of them is bound to workQuote:
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.
7Quote:
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.
Yes, No, No, No, yesQuote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
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
No. You have no tools of any sort.Quote:
Originally Posted by stonedape
Well, you're right. Lots of people forget that the cube will have extra depth as well. Ellis seems to have forgotten... basic maths.Quote:
2. And is it 64 hours for the hole? That just seems too simple
Haha. I did too. first I put down 16 then I went back and edited it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
Haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by stonedape
Right, only 3 and 4 remain.
Flip on Switch A, and wait ten minutes. Then, flip switch A off, turn switch B on.Quote:
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seismosaur
One left, people.
I was too slow. I actually knew that one!
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
THE RIDDLEMASTER IS DEFEATED
Didnt say anything about walls. Walk around the door.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
I would assume that the two switches that don't light the lamp must light something else...so first I would switch them in order to see what they turn on...the one that doesn't turn something on would likely turn the lamp on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
That one's already been answered. And you're wrong. They're all connected to different light bulbs in a different room.
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Originally Posted by Seismosaur
Damn, beat me to both of those. I love the light switch one, that never fails to get people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
Hehe, not bad...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dizko
I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. What is it?
A splinter!Quote:
Originally Posted by stonedape
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It's more powerful than God.
It's more evil than the devil.
The poor have it.
The rich need it.
If you eat it, you'll die.
What is it?
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My tines be long,
My tines be short
My tines end ere
My first report.
What am I?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
Nothing...and wtf is a tine?
Correct on the splinter.
Is the first one cocaine? Either that or money.
Tines are like prongs on a fork or something, but I don't get that one at all.
No the first one is "nothing"Quote:
Originally Posted by stonedape
Nothing > than god
Nothing evilier that devil,
if you eat nothing you die,
and meanwhile you have to take liberties when you say nothing for the poor, and rich people need nothing...
Oh. Good one.
I got one now.
Three men walk into an inn and ask for three rooms. The man at the counter tells them there is only one room left, but they can share it if they want. They agree to share a room, paying ten dollars each for a total of thirty dollars. Later, the manager hears what happened tells the man at the counter that they don't charge over twenty-five dollars per room, so he takes five dollar bills and heads up to the room. On his way up, he realizes that the five dollars cannot be divided evenly between the three men, so he keeps two for himself as a tip and hands one dollar to each man.
Since each man got a dollar back, they only paid twenty-seven dollars. There are two dollars in the pocket of the man at the counter, making twenty-nine dollars. Where's the last dollar?
The Manager's money was included in the 27 they payed. So you cannot add it again to the 27 dollars.
Each man did pay 10 dollars = 30
The actual cost of the room ended up at 25 = 5 dollars left
Manager keeps 2 and returns the other 3 = nothing left.
Good job. I didn't think anyone would get it so fast.
The answer to my question (since nobody cared to answer it)
A man leaves home and makes 3 left turns, he returns home and sees a man in a mask, who is it?
Spoiler for Answer:
clever :D
from above i'm nothing,
from below i'm something special
nothingQuote:
Originally Posted by poog
______
special
!
yes, that would be the riddleQuote:
Originally Posted by nitsuJ
the answer please :D
Oxygen above or below water?Quote:
Originally Posted by poog
Or just the sky...since you can't see it...but then there is also night time...
he says thanks because he cured his hiccups!Quote:
Originally Posted by slayer
Water?
BumpQuote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
Long Shorth?Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
Or Longs...
I'm guessing space?Quote:
Originally Posted by poog
Here's one of my favourites, it's a pretty difficult one if you've never heard it before.
Ok, so a ship comes back after a long journey, and a guy gets off and goes straight into a restaurant. He sits down, and orders albatross soup. When he receives the soup, he tastes it. He proceeds to put the spoon down, leaves the restaurant, goes out to the dock and drowns himself. Why?
He was allergic to something in the soup?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bayside
You guys have to read way into this one... I know it so I won't say right now though. Maybe in 24 hours if no one's got it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bayside
For now, here's another riddle.
2 fathers and 2 sons all go on a fishing trip together. They fish all weekend, and each person comes home with a fish. There are 3 fish total. How can this work?
Yeah, I know the answer to this one, too, and I don't think there is any way anyone is going to get it, without looking it up (as I did).Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
This one I can figure out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
It was three generation of men. A son, a father, and a grandfather. Two fathers. Two sons.
Righto
Don and Dan entered a tavern and are served identical drinks. Don drinks his quickly and feels fine. Dan drinks his very slowly and dies. Why?
Nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by puppycat
Yeah, it's a tough one. I remember a substitute teacher gave it to us back in junior high I think it was, it took the class like 45 minutes of guessing to get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
Ah, this is a good one, I know it but I won't say. These are so fun when you don't know the answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
Wasn't the Albatross thing a story in school? If it's the same answer.. I know it was a story! I don't remember the name of it though.
About Don and Dan, was the drink one of those with the flame on it?
Here's an easy riddle!
What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?
The ice in the drinks is frozen poison.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
A man kisses his wife goodbye and leaves for work. He gets in an elevator and when he leaves the elevator, he is sure his wife is dead. How does he know?
He left her funeral?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pastulio_
No, she was alive when he kissed her.Quote:
Originally Posted by nitsuJ
His lips were laced with poison?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pastulio_
He's an assassin?!
Try again. Here's a hint, he didn't leave her funeral...Quote:
Originally Posted by nitsuJ
The man's wife was on life support, and the power went out.
BingoQuote:
Originally Posted by Man of Steel
Omghax!
A murder was committed before thousands of people, but all of them thought it was an accident. How is this possible?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bayside
Spoiler for my guess:
I haven't heard this before, but I'm sure its something along these lines.
The person was poisoned?Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
Nope. After an autopsy the death was still ruled an accident
Has this already been answered?Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
He drinks it so slowly that he dies of old age. :D
They'd have backup generators.Quote:
Originally Posted by Man of Steel
THIS RIDDLE IS TECHNICALLY INNACURATE
Someone is killed in a sport event!Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
Close, it was an athletic event. I wouldn't say it was a sport though.
A marathon, the starters pistol was loaded? Meh, I got nothing...
Was it nascar? Did somebody crash their car into another person on purpose and end up killming them.
A cheerleader is tossed into the air and falls and breaks her neck?Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
Justin's gettin closer... there was a fall involved.
If you guys just want the answer lemme know and I'll get it to you in an hour or so when I get out of class.
Skydiving!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
Damn this riddle!!!!
Of course! Gravity murdered him!Quote:
Originally Posted by nitsuJ
Case closed.
Gravity was a cause, yes. But no, it wasn't skydiving
What was it!!!
Pool diving?
I GIVE UP!!
Hmm...
An accident happens in front of thousands of people at an athletic event...
Could it be possible that it happened over the TV?
Wow, I can't believe you got it that fast. Nice job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xaqaria
A stagelight fell on somebody?Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
Answer:Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
A trapeze artist that took his cues from the organist for when to start, reach and land, fell to his death. The organist has purposely changed the tempo in mid-act as to throw him off.
Oh yeah like any of us would have gotten that...Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
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Originally Posted by Elis D.
It is a pointless riddle since there are multiple answers.Quote:
Originally Posted by slayer
I'm a firm believer that the best riddles seem obvious after you hear the answer, no matter how stumped you were before hand.
That riddle is just ridiculous. It's not even a riddle! It's just forcing you to guess a specific series of events!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bayside
In a room, 4 walls, a ceeling and floor. No windows or doors, nothing but an orange and a knife. How do you get out?
The walls are made of paper, so you walk through them, and eat the orange for a snack.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
The walls are not made of paper. You cannot walk through them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
Are they made of balsa wood? You could cut through them with your knife.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
They are made from thick Iron that neither you nor the knife can penetrate
... but it's a special kind of iron that dissolves when orange juice is placed on it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
I'm such a genius.
Is this the.....you cut the orange in half and put it together to makea hole which you climb out of joke?
WrongQuote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
Correct, but fixed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
I've heard that one before but instead it is a chair and a mirror...or a piece of chalk, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
I have another but requires pen and paper.
Rules:
- Put a line through all 9 dots
- You must only make 4 straight lines
- You must not lift your pen off the paper
- You cannot double back on yourself
- The 4 lines must be joint
o-------o-------o
o-------o-------o
o-------o-------o
For example drawing a box around the 8 dots would be 4 straight joining lines, trick is you have to do it through all 9.
o-------o-------o
|---------------|
|---------------|
o-------o-------o
|---------------|
|---------------|
o-------o-------o
That's the best example I could do on here lol :)
the same way you would lift a 2 handed oneQuote:
Originally Posted by poog
Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
Spoiler for possible solution - ish:
No paper folding allowed either.
Your riddles suckQuote:
Originally Posted by Adam
:cry:
EDIT:
w00t got the solution.
Spoiler for solution:
I don't believe it is possible...Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
WRONGQuote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
check my solution ^^^
You are correct :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
I use this at work when with new people to teach them to think outside the box!
Haha. Clever!Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
X.X I saw that before but I guess I read double back wrong...I was thinking you couldn't intersect the lines...only connect them at the end...Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
Why am I always late on the ones I know!
this is an easy one.
A person has a younger brother but their younger brother doesn't have an older brother. how is this possible?
Because the person is a girl.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xandier
correctQuote:
Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick
There are three jews in a fountain.
What colour is the flag?
ok this one is harder
0 = pig
--- = fence
, = space
___________
l,0,,,,,0,,,,,0,l
l,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,l
l 0,,,,,0,,,,,0 l
l,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,l
l,0,,,,,0,,,,,0,l
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How do you seperate all 9 pigs by using only 2 squares?
(you cant take any of the pigs out of the fence)
(the squares can be any size and you can rotate the squares)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ermany.svg.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by Seismosaur
Riddle me this...
A Red house is made of Red bricks,
A Blue house is made of Blue bricks,
A Yellow house is made of Yellow bricks,
So what is a Green house made of?
You put in a square rotated 45 deg that cuts out the corners and a small square in the middle that isolates the middle pig.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xandier
Mud bricks.Quote:
Originally Posted by RockNRoller123
Sorry, that's wrong... and mud is brown.
Windows! It's a green house for plants.Quote:
Originally Posted by RockNRoller123
WRONG.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elis D.
seismosaur, why don't you take a crack at mine? I'd love to hear your answer.
Money of course!Quote:
Originally Posted by RockNRoller123
Haha, close... Well atleast closer than "mud".
Okay... Something real original: Green Bricks!
Quote:
Originally Posted by RockNRoller123
.Quote:
Originally Posted by slayer
Oh! Haha sorry didn't see your answer. You are correct. Slayer wins.
Quote:
So what is a Green house made of?
Quote:
is a Green house made of?
Quote:
Green house made of?
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Green house
=/= greenhouse.Quote:
Green house
You did the riddle rong.
Whoa! That just blew my mind.
You spelled "rong," wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seismosaur
Irony I smell?
good jobQuote:
Originally Posted by drewmandan
Yes, I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by slayer
Now someone answer my riddle:
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Originally Posted by Seismosaur
Are the jews living people or statues?Quote:
Originally Posted by Seismosaur
Red white and blue.
Yes and no.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Seismosaur
Ok...so yes they are living, no they are statues...
Hmm. The flag is invisible.
No, you misunderstand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandform
Is the flag blue and white?
And, what are they doing in a fountain? It seems to me that it might not be a country's flag...
The flag is made of ashes. HEHEHEHEHE.
o---------o
| |
| PARK |
| |
| |
o---------o
This is a park. The owner wants to double the size of the park but still keep the four trees (o's) on the border and keep the parks square shape. He doesn't want to move the trees. How can this be done. (doubling the height of the park does not count)
um...that didn't work. pretend it's a square with trees in each corner
Why was my thread locked?
No idea. Anyone got my riddle yet?
dig and plant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Pig
Try againQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Pig
He could make it so instead of straight lines he makes little angular thingies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Pig
_____o---------o
___| |
__| PARK |
___| |
____| |
_____o________o
______._______.
_______._____.
________.___.
you get the idea.
Yay! You win! gtg
at first sight i may seem mysterious, but at second glance i'm nothing serious
i know the whereabouts
a slotted spoon does not hold much soup
you will not find it in a man's pants
i know the whereabouts
RIDDLE ME THIS:
Four men were in a boat on the lake. The boat turns over, and all four men sink to the bottom of the lake, yet not a single man got wet! Why?
They were wearing wet suits!Quote:
Originally Posted by RockNRoller123
I know I've heard this one before...but I'm not sure that's right...
Quote:
Originally Posted by RockNRoller123
No something ate by something really big.Quote:
Originally Posted by slayer
Not a single man got wet, all four of them did.
Haha I'm surprised no one got this.
They were all married!
:bang: