Riddle Thread.

[omega 616]

In a room with only 2 exits are two guards, of which one will always tell the truth, and one will always lie, and you do not know which is which. One exit leads to certain death, the other to freedom. You may ask ONE guard ONE question. What do you ask to guarantee your freedom?

But if you ask only one of them about the doors then you still have a 50% chance of living. If you ask a question to find out whether they lie or not, you've still got no help on the doors. You need more questions.

And this should probably have gone in Forum Games.

It is about making a double negative. You could always ask them if you are male or female, if one has to lie then he is going to tell you your the wrong gender, so you don't pick his door.

 

[Aethren]

What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, and has a bed but never sleeps?

Often held but never touched, always wet but never rusts, often bites but seldom bit, to use me well you must have wit.

You can spin, wheel and twist, but it can turn without moving. What is it?

Today he is there to trip you up and he will torture you tomorrow. Yet he is also there to ease the pain, when you are lost in grief and sorrow.

No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

If you break me I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?

Always old, sometimes new, never sad, sometimes blue. Never empty, sometimes full, never pushes, always pulls.

are they all supposed to be different riddles? i'm assuming so.

the first line is a river

the second is a tongue

the third could be tide

the fourth i don't know

the fifth is silence (and has already appeared in the thread)

the sixth and seventh i also don't know

You got 2/7 correct. It's not tide.

 

[Jon Shannow]

Take you out, put me in and a horse appears in this happy person.
who am i?

 

[SamuelT]

A man leaps off of the roof of an eleven story building. He takes a running start and when he leaves the roof, he is traveling at 3.2m/s.

How long does it take him to reach the ground?

2.61 seconds. Physics- It works.

Not when faced with the wonkey logic of riddles!

Never did anyone state the traveling velocity was downwards. >.>

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

A man leaps off of the roof of an eleven story building. He takes a running start and when he leaves the roof, he is traveling at 3.2m/s.

How long does it take him to reach the ground?

2.61 seconds. Physics- It works.

Not when faced with the wonkey logic of riddles!

Never did anyone state the traveling velocity was downwards. >.>

Someone did say there was a downward velocity. Newton. And the horizontal velocity doesn't factor in to the actual amount of air time.

 

[SamuelT]

A man leaps off of the roof of an eleven story building. He takes a running start and when he leaves the roof, he is traveling at 3.2m/s.

How long does it take him to reach the ground?

2.61 seconds. Physics- It works.

Not when faced with the wonkey logic of riddles!

Never did anyone state the traveling velocity was downwards. >.>

Someone did say there was a downward velocity. Newton. And the horizontal velocity doesn't factor in to the actual amount of air time.

Again; the logic of the riddle.

 

[spacecowboy86]

2 fathers and 2 sons were out hunting one day. By the end of the day, they had each shot and killed one duck, but they only bring home 3 ducks. How is this possible?

its a grandfather, his son, and his son's son, because the son is the son of the father and the father is the son of the grandfather = 2 sons. The grandfather is the father of the father and the father is the father of the youngest = 2 fathers.

you are in a basement with three switches, each switch turns on a lightbulb upstairs. how can you use the switches so that you can figure out which switch goes to which bulb the first time you go upstairs? (hint: you have as much time as you need)

 

[Epslion.Bear]

Person X and Person Y are going to have a 3km race to win a million dollars: Person X may choose any mode of transportation he wants to travel on the race (cars, etc) Person Y, however may only go on foot. Before the race, they must both drink a glass of water. Person Y wins the race. Why?

X chooses a Sinclair C5 and fails

 

[TaintedDev]

Who builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?