Thread: Riddle Me This

Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick

4. You are in a room with three switches (A, B, and C). In the room above you there is a lamp. ONE of the switches lights the lamp. Your goal is to determine which switch (A, B or C) activates the lamp. You may switch any number of the switches off/on any number of times, but when you go upstairs to check the lamp, you can't go back down to the switches again.
You can't see the light of the lamp from the downstairs room. All the switches start in the off position.

I would assume that the two switches that don't light the lamp must light something else...so first I would switch them in order to see what they turn on...the one that doesn't turn something on would likely turn the lamp on.

That one's already been answered. And you're wrong. They're all connected to different light bulbs in a different room.

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

Flip on Switch A, and wait ten minutes. Then, flip switch A off, turn switch B on.

Then go upstairs.

If the light is on, then it was switch B. If it is off, but warm, then it was switch A. If it is off, but cold then it was switch C.

Originally Posted by Elis D.

Naw, I didn't forget, in fact that's the answer that I got... I just figured it was a play on words that made no difference in the amount of time spent.



For the room/food question... it never says that the door is closed, so I just walk through the open door to the food.

Damn, beat me to both of those. I love the light switch one, that never fails to get people.

Originally Posted by Dizko

Didnt say anything about walls. Walk around the door.

Hehe, not bad...

I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. What is it?

Originally Posted by stonedape

I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. What is it?

A splinter!


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It's more powerful than God.
It's more evil than the devil.
The poor have it.
The rich need it.
If you eat it, you'll die.
What is it?

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My tines be long,
My tines be short
My tines end ere
My first report.
What am I?

Originally Posted by Elis D.

A splinter!


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It's more powerful than God.
It's more evil than the devil.
The poor have it.
The rich need it.
If you eat it, you'll die.
What is it?

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My tines be long,
My tines be short
My tines end ere
My first report.
What am I?

Nothing...and wtf is a tine?

Correct on the splinter.

Is the first one cocaine? Either that or money.

Tines are like prongs on a fork or something, but I don't get that one at all.

Originally Posted by stonedape

Correct on the splinter.

Is the first one cocaine? Either that or money.

Tines are like prongs or something, but I don't get that one at all.

No the first one is "nothing"

Nothing > than god
Nothing evilier that devil,
if you eat nothing you die,
and meanwhile you have to take liberties when you say nothing for the poor, and rich people need nothing...

Oh. Good one.

I got one now.

Three men walk into an inn and ask for three rooms. The man at the counter tells them there is only one room left, but they can share it if they want. They agree to share a room, paying ten dollars each for a total of thirty dollars. Later, the manager hears what happened tells the man at the counter that they don't charge over twenty-five dollars per room, so he takes five dollar bills and heads up to the room. On his way up, he realizes that the five dollars cannot be divided evenly between the three men, so he keeps two for himself as a tip and hands one dollar to each man.

Since each man got a dollar back, they only paid twenty-seven dollars. There are two dollars in the pocket of the man at the counter, making twenty-nine dollars. Where's the last dollar?

The Manager's money was included in the 27 they payed. So you cannot add it again to the 27 dollars.

Each man did pay 10 dollars = 30
The actual cost of the room ended up at 25 = 5 dollars left
Manager keeps 2 and returns the other 3 = nothing left.

Good job. I didn't think anyone would get it so fast.

The answer to my question (since nobody cared to answer it)

A man leaves home and makes 3 left turns, he returns home and sees a man in a mask, who is it?

Spoiler for Answer:

The Umpire!

clever

from above i'm nothing,
from below i'm something special

Originally Posted by poog

clever

from above i'm nothing,
from below i'm something special

nothing
______

special


!

Originally Posted by nitsuJ

nothing
______

special


!

yes, that would be the riddle

the answer please

Originally Posted by poog

clever

from above i'm nothing,
from below i'm something special

Oxygen above or below water?

Or just the sky...since you can't see it...but then there is also night time...

Originally Posted by slayer

A guy walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a gun on the man and the man simply says "Thank you" and walks away. Why does the man say thank you?

This one may be a little hard...

he says thanks because he cured his hiccups!

Water?

Originally Posted by Elis D.

My tines be long,
My tines be short
My tines end ere
My first report.
What am I?

Bump

Originally Posted by Elis D.

Bump

Long Shorth?

Or Longs...

Originally Posted by poog

clever

from above i'm nothing,
from below i'm something special

I'm guessing space?

Here's one of my favourites, it's a pretty difficult one if you've never heard it before.

Ok, so a ship comes back after a long journey, and a guy gets off and goes straight into a restaurant. He sits down, and orders albatross soup. When he receives the soup, he tastes it. He proceeds to put the spoon down, leaves the restaurant, goes out to the dock and drowns himself. Why?

Originally Posted by Bayside

I'm guessing space?

Here's one of my favourites, it's a pretty difficult one if you've never heard it before.

Ok, so a ship comes back after a long journey, and a guy gets off and goes straight into a restaurant. He sits down, and orders albatross soup. When he receives the soup, he tastes it. He proceeds to put the spoon down, leaves the restaurant, goes out to the dock and drowns himself. Why?

He was allergic to something in the soup?

Originally Posted by Bayside

I'm guessing space?

Here's one of my favourites, it's a pretty difficult one if you've never heard it before.

Ok, so a ship comes back after a long journey, and a guy gets off and goes straight into a restaurant. He sits down, and orders albatross soup. When he receives the soup, he tastes it. He proceeds to put the spoon down, leaves the restaurant, goes out to the dock and drowns himself. Why?

You guys have to read way into this one... I know it so I won't say right now though. Maybe in 24 hours if no one's got it.




For now, here's another riddle.
2 fathers and 2 sons all go on a fishing trip together. They fish all weekend, and each person comes home with a fish. There are 3 fish total. How can this work?

Originally Posted by Elis D.

You guys have to read way into this one... I know it so I won't say right now though. Maybe in 24 hours if no one's got it.

Yeah, I know the answer to this one, too, and I don't think there is any way anyone is going to get it, without looking it up (as I did).

Originally Posted by Elis D.

For now, here's another riddle.
2 fathers and 2 sons all go on a fishing trip together. They fish all weekend, and each person comes home with a fish. There are 3 fish total. How can this work?

This one I can figure out.

It was three generation of men. A son, a father, and a grandfather. Two fathers. Two sons.