RIddle me, riddle you!
 

YAY! Riddles...

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Here's a few for y'all...

This guy living on the 20th floor in an apartment building got up early each morning to go to work in a downtown store. He always went into the elevator on the 20th floor and rode down to the entrance (1st floor). When he came home he always rode the elevator from the entrance and up to the 8th floor. He walked out of the elevator and walked the stairs up to his apartment on the 20th floor.

Why don't he take the elevator all the way up to his apartment?

Answer: He's a midget and can't reach the 20 button, can only reach up tot he 8 button.


A man is found dead in a field. A package is lying next to him. He has not died of natural causes, nor has he been shot, strangled, poisoined etc. How did he die?

Answer: He's a skydiver. The package is his unopened parachute.

What being, with only one voice, has sometimes two feet, sometimes three, sometimes four, and is the weakest when it has the most?

Answer: The riddle the SPhinx asked Oedipus. The answer is "Man".


I have no wings, yet I can fly. I have no flippers, yet I can swim with the dolphins. I have no hope, yet I fight anyway...what am I?

Answer: A person.

I am a room without walls, windows or doors. What am I?

Answer: I'm told this a mushroom. I worded it wrong. I intended it to be egg but...

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OK, maybe five but...

1. He wasn't tall enough to reach the 20th button. He was able to ride down to the first floor in the morning because the first floor button is at the bottom, but when he comes home, he can't reach all the way up to the 20th button, therefore he reaches up to the 8th which I'm assuming is the highest one he can reach, and walks the stairs up the rest of the way.

2. The unopened package is a parachute I'm guessing, since falling from a plane doesn't fall under any of those categories. Possibly more than one answer to this one.

3. In the words of Oedipus, "Man." Now throw yourself in the sea, Sphinx!

4. A pothead? I dunno about this one.

5. A mushroom.

You got the first three right...and you're the only one so far to pick up on the Sphinx's...wherever else I've submitted or posted them, no-one has seen the link...

(out of interest...you haven't got the book of Greek mythology by Robert Graves have you???)

Keep on guessing at the last two...anyone else wanna try??

No, I read Oedipus Rex in 10th grade.

By the way, I'm pretty sure my answer to the 5th one is correct. I have no idea about the 4th one though.

I know for a fact you're wrong about the fifth...

As for the fourth...you're nearly there...just don't think of drugs etc...

is #5 an egg?

YAY! You got it...

Now, who's gonna take their chances on number 4???

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Others can post riddles...if I just post riddles then it gets rather boring...

According to google, I'm right on number 5. Search for yourself. Every answer I find is mushroom.

My bad if the wording isn't perfect, but look in the Hobbit, and I'm pretty sure you will find that riddle and the answer as an egg.

An egg has walls.

Like I said, google the riddle. The answer is mushroom.

Well I never...my wording is atrocious!

Gimme a mo, I gotta change it to meet my answer...:p

Ah screw it...'K then, mushroom it is.

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Gonna try number 4 yet??

Q: Tribunal tells you, "I am a room without walls, windows or doors. What am I?"

answer: mushroom'

http://www.thejackcat.com/AC/Hobbies/Quests/Citadel.htm


I am a room without walls, windows or doors. What am I? mushroom

http://site170.webhost4life.com/mist...%5Criddles.htm


There's more, but this isn't worth my time.

I'm clueless on number 4 :-(

Think of things that fly without wings and swim without flippers...

Clue: Pothead minus drugs...

People.

YAY! You got it...:D

ANother riddle...

An electric train is travelling north. The wind is blowing east. Which way is the trains smoke going?

No smoke.

Too quick. I was hoping to see someone posting some weird direction...

Right, I'm out of riddles. Someone else take over.

Btw, googling riddles is lame.

Oh, and the riddle is from the Hobbit is as follows:

A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

(All the riddles he asks rhyme.)

You're telling me what's lame?

I googled it after he told me I was wrong because I knew I was right.

Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name?

Because cigars cannot be entirely smoked, a hobo who collects cigar butts can make a cigar to smoke out of every 5 butts that he finds. Today, he has collected 25 cigar butts. How many cigars will he be able to smoke?

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?

Cathy has six pairs of black gloves and six pairs of brown gloves in her drawer. In complete darkness, how many gloves must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair that match?

One of these is a trick question in the disguise of a trick question.

1. Johnny.

2. None, because cigars cannot be entirely smoked..?

3. They weigh.. the same, a pound.

4. Three


Are those right?

The first one is right.

The second... It's a math riddle. I don't smoke cigars, so I don't know how literally it's supposed to be taken.

The third is the trick-trick question, so no. But then, I guess that pretty much gives away the trick. I'll post up the explanation in a bit if nobody else can guess it.

And the fourth isn't even close to being right.

What..? Grav got the third one right. They both weigh a pound so neither could weigh more than the other.

1. Johnny

2. 6. He could make 5 cigars from the butts, then another one from the butts from those 5 cigars.

3. They are supposed to be the same but somehow you've twisted it to be a trick-trick question.

4. 2. In complete darkness, they are all the same color.

1) Johnny

2) 6 Cigars

3) A pound of feathers is more than a pound of gold because, technically, the unit is different. The most commonly used system of weights in the US and Great Britain is the avoirdupois system, where 1 pound = 16 ounces. This is used for most solid objects, except for precious metals and gems; gold is weighed by a special system, called the troy system, where one troy pound = 12 troy ounces. While an avoirdupois ounce is 28.35 grams, a troy ounce is about 31.10 grams. To convert from avoirdupois pounds to troy pounds, multiply the first by 1.2152 to get its equivalent in troy measurement. Therefore, one "pound" of feathers in troy weight is actually 1.2152 pounds (one avoirdupois pound), compared to one troy pound of gold.
(Partially quoted from some random site.)

4) 13 gloves. Example of worst-case scenario:
Pull. Get - 1 Left Black glove.
Pull. Get - 1 Left Black glove.
Pull. Get - 1 Left Black glove.
Pull. Get - 1 Left Black glove.
Pull. Get - 1 Left Black glove.
Pull. Get - 1 Left Black glove.
Pull. Get - 1 Left Brown glove.
Pull. Get - 1 Left Brown glove.
Pull. Get - 1 Left Brown glove.
Pull. Get - 1 Left Brown glove.
Pull. Get - 1 Left Brown glove.
Pull. Get - 1 Left Brown glove.
Pull. Get - 1 Right Black glove.
Pair.

But that's just silly.

And for the fourth, with the gloves.. you didn't specify that there was a specific left and right hand for the gloves. I have many pairs of gloves that are interchangeable. In which case 3 makes sense.

Well, if the gloves have no designated palm, then, yes, 3 is the correct answer.

And, silly or no, now, if you ever have the opportunity to buy a pound of gold, you'll know... or remember... or nothing at all... that it may or may not be the standard 16 ounces that you're expecting.

That's retarded.

I have a riddle:

Documents A-H reveal some of the problems that many farmers in the late nineteenth century (1880-1900) saw as threats to their way of life. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period, (a) explain the reasons for agrarian discontent and (b) evaluate the validity of the farmer's complaints.

Seven.

I believe you missed a few steps Thanatos, you see when you carry the 5 exponent 3, you have to divide the 1.346 by 16. That'll give you the answer.

Damn
Cant wait to go to school and fool my math teacher ^_^

I was in a room full of water. The only way I could kill myself was to hang me..but that was too high. There was no chairs or anything to get myself up there. But I managed to do it. How?

You drown on your way swimming to the noose.

You swam...

Err.. how did I hang myself high.?? Come on guys=).

Thats not what you said. Nice idea for a sig though.

Because the water was ice, Nub.