Post your impossible questions riddles jokes etc

[Dendio]

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?

Ask him how many fingers you are holding up

The person will be forced to either tell the obvious truth or an obvious lie

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

1. Let a and b be equal non-zero quantities

a = b

2. Multiply through by a

a^2 = ab

3. Subtract b^2

a^2 - b^2 = ab - b^2

4. Factor both sides

(a - b)(a + b) = b(a - b)

5. Divide out (a - b)

a + b = b

6. Observing that a = b

b + b = b

7. Combine like terms on the left

2b = b

8. Divide by the non-zero b

2 = 1

Dunno if someone posted this yet, but solve this math riddle.

Mathematical fallacy. If a = b, then a - b = 0. Thus at step 5, you are dividing by zero and carried the error through to the end.

Beyond that, the final assertion violates the concept of unambiguous numerical value. There are plenty of excellent proofs that are valid that demonstrate wierdness with absolute rigor (such as a common one wherein the infinite series 0.999... is equivalent to 1).

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

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

He cut down the tree and took it

nope

The answer probably lies in the word "eyes" and "pears" (each of which is plural). If this tree had but two pears and the man had but one eye (a requirment for sight in the first place) he would have taken "pear" and left "pear".

 

[Dendio]

In light it hides, in shadow it plays,
fighting an eternal enemy.
Without life,
it breathes and eats and dies as we do.
Decider of fate, destroyer of life,
it is a necessary evil.

Religion?

Faith?

The last line is subjective >:[

 

[iamnotthewalrus]

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

He cut down the tree and took it

nope

The answer probably lies in the word "eyes" and "pears" (each of which is plural). If this tree had but two pears and the man had but one eye (a requirment for sight in the first place) he would have taken "pear" and left "pear".

Correct

 

[axelspitfire]

This is one i thought up ( dunno if its already done though ):
Your at a vending machine, each item is 50p, you put in £1 and then a 50p.
at the end of it you are left with no change and only two items. why?
(Surely with £1.50 you could of had 3?)

You put in $1 and recieve 50c change. You then insert the change.

Aw you got it.


Heres mine:

In light it hides, in shadow it plays,
fighting an eternal enemy.
Without life,
it breathes and eats and dies as we do.
Decider of fate, destroyer of life,
it is a necessary evil.[/quote]

I'm going to say 'Fire'

 

[AmbroseBaal]

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

You ask a guard "What would the other guard say is the bag with the gold in it?" Then take the other bag

NEXT

 

[Claymorez]

Some of these took me a while to figure out - FYI to OPer This thread has already been posted. Dont make repeat Threads in future.

And Another one for you all to answer is this one:

What is red, blue and black all over?

 

[ohyeah635]

If you went into a black hole where would you go?

Is a Jaffa Cake a cake or a biscuit?

Why am i wasting 5 minutes of my life thinking of more impossible questions? xP

 

[azukar]

</mega-snip>
That is if the two objects could even exist at the same time.

This is it. You CAN'T have the two objects at the same time. If you have an irresistable force then there IS nothing in the universe that can stop it. So if there's an immovable object out there, then the irresistable force is not irresistable.

 

[automatron]

For the people who like those truth or lie riddles:
You are standing at a road with three different paths, guarded by three brothers. One road leads to a city where you will get some money, the other two to nothing, where you will get lost. You can ask two questions. One always tells the truth, one always lies, and one always stabs people who ask tricky questions. What do you do?