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Post by Leb on Dec 30, 2002 15:01:14 GMT -5
Here're a few from me (although I didn't make them up): 1. The Smith family includes Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their five children. Half of their children are boys. None of their children have any kind of birth defects. How is this possible? 2. This paragraph is just plain odd. What's wrong? Can you find out? I think you'll think and think for months. Not wrong, in truth, but odd. Unusually odd. Why is it odd, barring all the 'odds' in it? Think on it for a bit! 3. 'Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.' Ignoring its senselessness, what is unusual about the preceding sentence? 1. Um, they have 10 kids? It says it includes 5 kids, and half are boys, so I'm guessing that they have 5 girls and 5 boys. 2. Not a clue. 3. It has all the letters in the alphabet in it? |
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Post by sollunaestrella on Dec 30, 2002 15:02:46 GMT -5
Here're a few from me (although I didn't make them up): 1. The Smith family includes Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their five children. Half of their children are boys. None of their children have any kind of birth defects. How is this possible? 2. This paragraph is just plain odd. What's wrong? Can you find out? I think you'll think and think for months. Not wrong, in truth, but odd. Unusually odd. Why is it odd, barring all the 'odds' in it? Think on it for a bit! 3. 'Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.' Ignoring its senselessness, what is unusual about the preceding sentence? 2. There aren't any "e"s in it, and e is the most popular letter, so that makes it odd! |
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Post by mushroom on Dec 30, 2002 15:52:41 GMT -5
#3's right. On #1, the Smiths have only five children--sorry if that was confusing.
Yep!
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Post by sollunaestrella on Dec 30, 2002 16:00:06 GMT -5
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Dec 30, 2002 16:46:54 GMT -5
Hmm...The DJ's girlfriend was also his boss and had just broken the news that she was going to fire him, so he killed her and tried to make it look like she killed herself. He was horrified at what he did, but still extremely angry with her, so he decided to kill himself and make it look like she killed him. He started to drive back to work, so it would look like she had been in the car, too. He turned the radio on to mask the noise, so timing the killing would be hard for the police...then killed himself as painfully as possible to help make up for his crime...I dunno  That is so weird I don't know how to respond. What I also find weird is that none of you have hit upon the significance of what his job is. That was the FIRST thing I figured out when I was told this riddle. . . |
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Post by Leb on Dec 30, 2002 16:57:57 GMT -5
Some more riddles, this time from a lateral thinking puzzle book. I've included the clues, since some of these are really hard.
To make this less confusing, how about when someone has an answer, they write it in red? And when someone has new riddles, they post them in blue. It'll be easier to find, but it's just a suggestion.
1. A man shot his wife, and she died. She was not threatening him or anyone else. The man gave himself up to the police, and they released him. Why?
Clues: The man had a longstanding motive to kill her; The man was clearly guilty, but had to be released under the law; The man was punished for his crime.
2. Why did Bill thank Ted for eggs that Bill had never received and Ted had never given?
Clues: They were neighbors; Ted was lazy.
3. (here's an easy one) A woman threw a ball three feet. The ball stopped and came back to her hand. There was nothing attached to the ball, and it didn't touch anything but air when it left the woman's hand. Explain how this happened.
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Post by sara on Dec 30, 2002 17:05:00 GMT -5
Here're a few from me (although I didn't make them up): 1. The Smith family includes Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their five children. Half of their children are boys. None of their children have any kind of birth defects. How is this possible? Half of the children of the children (in other words, the grandchildren of Mr. and Ms. Smith) are boys. *Snicker* Why are DJs, popular music, soap opera, dating, and boyfriends/girlfriends so entertwined? Actually someone nobody here knows told me the answer to Oddhatters 6th riddle and it involved killing a wife, and since it seems to be the same kind of riddle, I immediately translated to those terms. If nobody else wants to take a stab at the one-page Gulliver's Travels riddle, I'll post the answer. In case you don't want to search through old pages, I'll re-post the riddle with (hopefully) clearer phrasing. 13) The novel Gulliver's Travels is availible in a form which is only one page long. If I wanted to read it that way, how would you suggest I obtain access? |
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Post by Leb on Dec 30, 2002 17:06:06 GMT -5
Here're a few from me (although I didn't make them up): 1. The Smith family includes Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their five children. Half of their children are boys. None of their children have any kind of birth defects. How is this possible? |
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Post by sara on Dec 30, 2002 17:09:13 GMT -5
3. (here's an easy one) A woman threw a ball three feet. The ball stopped and came back to her hand. There was nothing attached to the ball, and it didn't touch anything but air when it left the woman's hand. Explain how this happened It's called Newton's 1st Law of Motion (aka gravity) |
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Post by Leb on Dec 30, 2002 17:11:06 GMT -5
13) The novel Gulliver's Travels is availible in a form which is only one page long. If I wanted to read it that way, how would you suggest I obtain access? And Sara, it's correct, obviously.  |
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Post by sara on Dec 30, 2002 17:12:03 GMT -5
To make this less confusing, how about when someone has an answer, they write it in red? And when someone has new riddles, they post them in blue. It'll be easier to find, but it's just a suggestion. That's fine, except the blue is a little hard to read. I personally liked it when we numbered the riddles - that way we could say "Riddle #16" or "#E7" or something. |
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Post by sollunaestrella on Dec 30, 2002 17:12:56 GMT -5
Some more riddles, this time from a lateral thinking puzzle book. I've included the clues, since some of these are really hard. To make this less confusing, how about when someone has an answer, they write it in red? And when someone has new riddles, they post them in blue. It'll be easier to find, but it's just a suggestion. 1. A man shot his wife, and she died. She was not threatening him or anyone else. The man gave himself up to the police, and they released him. Why?
Clues: The man had a longstanding motive to kill her; The man was clearly guilty, but had to be released under the law; The man was punished for his crime.
2. Why did Bill thank Ted for eggs that Bill had never received and Ted had never given?
Clues: They were neighbors; Ted was lazy.
3. (here's an easy one) A woman threw a ball three feet. The ball stopped and came back to her hand. There was nothing attached to the ball, and it didn't touch anything but air when it left the woman's hand. Explain how this happened. |
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Post by sara on Dec 30, 2002 17:15:01 GMT -5
With a really, really powerful microscope?And Sara, it's correct, obviously. Like you said, it was an easy riddle. However I see nobody is going to get the Gulliver's Travels riddle in a hurry, so I'll give a hint - currently I (and probably you too) could access it in less than two minutes, and even better, it's free  . |
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Post by Leb on Dec 30, 2002 17:20:07 GMT -5
Oh! Is it a page long on the internet?
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Dec 30, 2002 17:22:17 GMT -5
Like you said, it was an easy riddle. However I see nobody is going to get the Gulliver's Travels riddle in a hurry, so I'll give a hint - currently I (and probably you too) could access it in less than two minutes, and even better, it's free . Oh oh oh oh!!! INTERNET INTERNET INTERNET INTERNET! *claps* *is hyper* |
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