Riddle Me This/Riddle Me That

MuGen · 03-14-2005, 12:30 PM

Riddle me this, riddle me that... this thread is for posting riddles, and not for your cat.

Answer me this, GT members:

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

What is it?

Answer me this, GT members:

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

Answer me this, GT members:

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

Answer me this, GT members:

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

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

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

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

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

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

I soar without wings, I see without eyes.
I've traveled the universe to and fro.
I've conquered the world, yet I've never been anywhere but home.
Who am I?

Dark Samurai · 03-14-2005, 12:51 PM

An oppertunity?

I have no riddles as of yet, so i'll just leave like a...jet?

Stray_Bullet · 03-14-2005, 12:53 PM

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

What is it?

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

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

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

But I like doorknob.

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

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

Quote:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MuGen · 03-14-2005, 12:54 PM

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

Happydude · 03-14-2005, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyuzo

Answer me this, GT members:

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

depends on how much grain is in each sack.

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Originally Posted by Kyuzo

Answer me this, GT members:

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

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

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

the man wrote "your exact weight" on the peice of paper.

Vampyr · 03-14-2005, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyuzo

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

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

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

ulala06 · 03-14-2005, 01:17 PM

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

Neo · 03-14-2005, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ulala06

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

A fungi

Stray_Bullet · 03-14-2005, 01:36 PM

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

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

MuGen · 03-14-2005, 01:42 PM

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