Riddles

[Yoshi_egg80]

What's the one question you can't say yes to without lying.

 

[Jaygee02]

Not so much a riddle as a logic question, but...

A room has three light bulbs. There are no windows, and only one door. The switches for these light bulbs are outside the room, out of sight of the door or the bulbs. Without using cameras or any similar means of cheating, how can you tell which switch turns on which bulb, without entering looking into the room/entering the room more than once?

 

[Delicious]

Not so much a riddle as a logic question, but...

A room has three light bulbs. There are no windows, and only one door. The switches for these light bulbs are outside the room, out of sight of the door or the bulbs. Without using cameras or any similar means of cheating, how can you tell which switch turns on which bulb, without entering looking into the room/entering the room more than once?

Flip the first switch for ten minutes.

Flip it off.

Flip the second on and enter the room.

The first switch will correspond to the bulb that is off, but still warm. The second will be on. The third will be off and and cold.

Do I win?

 

[Jaygee02]

You sure do

 

[Sanaj]

This one is pretty easy.

My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.

View the spoiler for the answer to quiet_samurai's riddle.

Spoiler

A candle.

Edit:
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks,
has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

Click the spoiler to reveal the answer

Spoiler

A river

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Not so much a riddle as a logic question, but...

A room has three light bulbs. There are no windows, and only one door. The switches for these light bulbs are outside the room, out of sight of the door or the bulbs. Without using cameras or any similar means of cheating, how can you tell which switch turns on which bulb, without entering looking into the room/entering the room more than once?

Flip the first switch for ten minutes.

Flip it off.

Flip the second on and enter the room.

The first switch will correspond to the bulb that is off, but still warm. The second will be on. The third will be off and and cold.

Do I win?

Nice, that's really good.

 

[Gadzooks]

Why is a raven like a writing desk?
(There are actual solutions to this)

Poe wrote on both.

Funny I should accidentally stumble across the answer while wiki-walking to nowhere in particular.

 

[Jaygee02]

Not so much a riddle as a logic question, but...

A room has three light bulbs. There are no windows, and only one door. The switches for these light bulbs are outside the room, out of sight of the door or the bulbs. Without using cameras or any similar means of cheating, how can you tell which switch turns on which bulb, without entering looking into the room/entering the room more than once?

Flip the first switch for ten minutes.

Flip it off.

Flip the second on and enter the room.

The first switch will correspond to the bulb that is off, but still warm. The second will be on. The third will be off and and cold.

Do I win?

Nice, that's really good.

Yeah, I was really proud of myself for guessing when I was first told it. I was impressed someone here got it so quickly.

 

[sabotstarr]

da

What starts off white and comes down yellow AND white?

I'll give the answer in an "EDIT:"

an egg

There was a man who was on a vacation to Africa,after a few days there he was kidnapped from his Hotel room by some natives.The natives who kidnapped him said they would kill him but let him chose his death.
They told him that he shall give one True and false statement, if it was true then he would be boiled in water, if it was false he would be boiled in oil. The man didn't want to die,but after a few Minuets he prepared a statement.
What was the statement?

pudding.
i win

This statement is false.

which is also the answer.

damn... you got me. Also pudding is always the answer.

 

[-=Spy=-]

Quarter and a nickel.

Edit: Thought I was on last page but was on 2nd.

(This one is weird, it releys mostly on wordplay but whatever.) You are in a room with no doors, no windows, no exits of any kind. All that is in the room is a table, a mirror and you. How do you escape the room?

 

[Delicious]

Quarter and a nickel.

Edit: Thought I was on last page but was on 2nd.

(This one is weird, it releys mostly on wordplay but whatever.) You are in a room with no doors, no windows, no exits of any kind. All that is in the room is a table, a mirror and you. How do you escape the room?

1. Look in the mirror and remember what you saw.
2. Use that saw to cut the table in halves.
3. Combine those halves to make a whole.
4. Then crawl out of the hole.

 

[BuckminsterF]

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks,
has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

A river

Your last ping pong ball has fallen into a metal pipe embedded one foot into a concrete slab, all you have is a hat, a ping pong paddle, and a live chicken, how can oyu get it out

 

[Shock and Awe]

What starts off white and comes down yellow AND white?

I'll give the answer in an "EDIT:"

Underwear

 

[BuckminsterF]

Not really riddles at all, saw them in a text book

using logic, estimate the amount of wear on a tire tread in one rotation, and the number of piano tuners in chicago circa 1950

(the two aren't related, and there is a solution)

 

[Azraellod]

What's the one question you can't say yes to without lying.

-are you asleep?
-are you dead?
-will you answer this question with no?

quite a few apparently.

 

[standokan]

i got one, you got a mouse, a mouse gets 30 lil' mouses a month, how many mouses do you have after 7 months?

 

[Jaygee02]

i got one, you got a mouse, a mouse gets 30 lil' mouses a month, how many mouses do you have after 7 months?

I'd say none, you have mice, but that could be me being a grammar nazi

 

[Knight Templar]

Here's one!

How many Escapists does it take to use the Search [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.55748?page=1] Button [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.99031?page=1]?

Finaly somebody remembers my thread.

Anywho to contribute:
I have two heads, yet only one body. The longer I stand still, the faster I run!