Post your impossible questions riddles jokes etc

[ObsessiveSketch]

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

(An oldie but a goodie. I nevar get tired of it, one way or the other.)

Having performed the Mad Hatter in a production of Alice in Wonderland, the cast and crew had some fun trying to come up with several answers for me. Lewis Carroll admits that it was supposed to be a riddle with no answer, but the best one I've found while looking around is that "They both have inky quills."

Off-topic, for anyone that found Tim Burton's Chocolate Factory and Wonderland a bit unsatisfactory: <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFzLRP8e4vE&playnext_from=TL&videos=HR3h4G45jSA>Tim Burton's secrets revealed!!!

What is Santa Claus multiplied by "i"?

Real ;P

A box without hinge, key, or lid. Inside a golden treasure is hid.
Possibly my most favorite riddle ever. ^.^

An egg. Bilbo ftw.

chicken or egg?

Chicken. Otherwise, what kept the egg warm?

You hire a man to work for you for seven days. You have one bar of gold with which to pay him, segmented into seven sections. You must give him a piece of gold per day. If you can only make two breaks in the bar, how will you pay him?

It's a binary problem, right? Sorta like the 3 chickens 3 foxes riddle. Break the bar into a 1 piece, 2 piece, and a 4 piece segment. 1st day=one-piece, 2nd=give him 2-piece, he gives you 1-piece. And so on.
Day : Piece
1:1
2:2
3:1&2
4:4
5:1&4
6:2&4
7:all

 

[I am Jack's profile]

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

THe online dictionary defines Clapping as

"to strike the palms of (one's hands) against one another resoundingly, and usually repeatedly, esp. to express approval: She clapped her hands in appreciation."

One hand... can not clap. the sound it produces is irelavent

 

[twasdfzxcv]

If a Synchronised swimmer drowns what do the rest do?

Get help.

A box without hinge, key, or lid. Inside a golden treasure is hid.

An open box with a golden treasure in it.

Assume you are 10 feet from a door. Your first step is 5 feet from the door, your next step is 2.5 feet from the door, your next step is 1.25 feet from the door, and the pattern continues. How many steps will you take before you reach the door?

3 steps and you open the door with you hand.

chicken or egg? and if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? yes, overused, but i didnt see anyone else use em

Egg. Evolution.

http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/img127.imageshack.us/img127/9265/triangle1os.gif

hopefully that works
Where does that 1 by 1 square go? Look at the picture and you decide

They're not triangles.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

(An oldie but a goodie. I nevar get tired of it, one way or the other.)

You can set both of them on fire.

 

[kiwi_poo]

a car goes at light speed. what happens if you turn on the front lights?

 

[ObsessiveSketch]

a car goes at light speed. what happens if you turn on the front lights?

Supposedly, nothing travels faster than light without becoming light energy itself, so the lights would just add more light energy....I think.

You can set both of them on fire.

I lol'd

 

[asam92]

Here's a riddle I found.

You hire a man to work for you for seven days. You have one bar of gold with which to pay him, segmented into seven sections. You must give him a piece of gold per day. If you can only make two breaks in the bar, how will you pay him?

My friend's boyfriend knocked this thing out in a heartbeat; when I heard the answer I was like "Ohhhh, it was so EASY!" But when someone can't solve a problem like this, it's because they affix limitations to themselves that aren't there. Which is interesting in and of itself.

Thats easy, the bar is already in seven pieces you dont need to divide them

I can't think of one, I just wanted to answer that one.

 

[MarsKitagawa]

You just made up all that up, didn't you?

No seriously, what the hell does it mean?

I didn't make it up. Like I said, I heard it from my cousin. Maybe he made it up, maybe he got it somewhere else, I dunno.

But I honestly can't elaborate any more than that - it's not that I'm not willing to, I actually CAN'T. Besides, it loses all meaning if you can't figure it out for yourself.
Try telling it at your next gathering of friends, though. See who gets it and who doesn't.

Well, yeah, if you can't figure it out, how will you ever know the meaning? It has at least more meaning when you know the answer than when you don't because the one person on the site that knows it won't tell...

Hey, did you all know that 3.14% of all sailors are Pi-rates?

 

[Chinasaur]

I could just post the riddle by Epicurus, but I have no doubt someone has posted it already and I think it would be a bit inflamatory.

Nope. Not posted yet. Although i find it hilarious that its been over 2000 years since it was first posed. And there still isn't an answer for it. PWNED B#$%$@S.

Anyways.

Here's one.

Young i am tall.
Old i am short.
Of many colors i may be,
Sickly green i love to be.
Oft i gain scorn,
I hold sway over your porn.

Solve that.

A loading / Downloading bar

 

[T-Bone24]

When poured on cereal, what is milk?

A soup?
A beverage?
A broth?

 

[chstens]

0/0=?

In certain cases of really high-up-there mathematics, you can, in fact, divide by zero, though, 0/0 is fairly easy, it's nothing split among nothing, so the answer is simply nothing.

 

[chstens]

Mountain Dew? =)

They're a band i remember you posting this one!

You were in another riddle thread, then. I do like that one. =D

It didn't even occur to me that they were anything BUT a band.

 

[iamnotthewalrus]

A man without eyes saw pears on a tree
He did not take pears
He did not leave pears
how can that be?

 

[OmegaCheese]

What thread have I made that wasn't a bad idea?
What could make me slightly good at online FPS's?

The most impossible questions of all time.

 

[Daniel_Rosamilia]

irresistible force, immovable object. Go!

Easy. Square root negative one over zero.

There's all problems solved.

Mind you, we're all dead, but what the hell?
At least I solved the peace problems!

 

[skeliton112]

ive got one

there are 2 guards, one that always lies, and one that tells the truth
one guard has a bag of gold and the other has a bag of feathers
you dont know which guard is which, nor do you know which bag has the gold
you are only allowed to ask one guard, one question
what question do you ask to get the bag of gold

i dont know the answer myself, lol, just taught id put it up

Ask a one of the guards "Are you a guard, and while we are talking do you have any gold?" I see that as 1 question. If he says no 2 both or yes to both he has the gold.

 

[realistix2]

The following statement is true. The preceding statement is false.

Liar's paradox.

 

[mechanixis]

0/0=?

In certain cases of really high-up-there mathematics, you can, in fact, divide by zero, though, 0/0 is fairly easy, it's nothing split among nothing, so the answer is simply nothing.

I've had math teachers prove that 0/0=1 in the past, actually. Not that I could replicate it, I have no idea.

 

[mechanixis]

This one isn't too impossible, but it's something my math teacher told me that amused me.

There are two towns, Town A and Town B. People from Town A will always tell the truth, and people from Town B will always tell a lie. You are exactly in the middle between the two towns, and there is somebody there. What do you ask him to find out what town he's from?

I ask him what color the sky is.