RIddle me, riddle you!

[Lenny]

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...

[!King_Amazon!]

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.

[Lenny]

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??

[!King_Amazon!]

No, I read Oedipus Rex in 10th grade.

[!King_Amazon!]

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

[Lenny]

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...

[Kaneda]

is #5 an egg?

[Lenny]

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...

[!King_Amazon!]

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

[Lenny]

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.

[!King_Amazon!]

An egg has walls.

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

[Lenny]

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??

[!King_Amazon!]

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/mistikal/info%5Criddles.htm


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

[!King_Amazon!]

I'm clueless on number 4 :-(

[Lenny]

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

Clue: Pothead minus drugs...

[!King_Amazon!]

People.

[Lenny]

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?

[Medieval Bob]

No smoke.

[Lenny]

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

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

[Medieval Bob]

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.)

[!King_Amazon!]

You're telling me what's lame?

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

[Medieval Bob]

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.

[Grav]

1. Johnny.

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

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

4. Three


Are those right?

[Medieval Bob]

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.

[Thanatos]

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

[!King_Amazon!]

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.

[Medieval Bob]

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.

[Grav]

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.)


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.

[Medieval Bob]

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.

[Thanatos]

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.

[Grav]

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.

[Thanatos]

Seven.

[Kaneda]

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.

[slaynish]

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

[tokill.ace]

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?

[Kaneda]

You drown on your way swimming to the noose.

[!King_Amazon!]

You swam...

[tokill.ace]

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

[Kaneda]

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

[slaynish]

Because the water was ice, Nub.

[tokill.ace]

Yep. Thats it.

[Kaneda]

The whole point of a riddle is the use of words to make something that seems impossible, possible. So if you aren't frazing the riddle right or using the correct words. Then your not going to get your desired and correct answers.

[HandOfHeaven]

How do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky? Is it Louisville (Loo-ee-vil) or Louisville(Loo-is-vil)?

[Medieval Bob]

It's Frank-fert.

[!King_Amazon!]

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

Just to clarify why I'm right and the answer is mushroom...

Does a mushROOM have walls, windows, or doors?

[Lenny]

I know! You don't need to make a big song and dance out of it...geez...

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Right, new riddles...

What goes up, but must come down; When you look at it, its like a mirror; It can be an abundance, and it can be scarce?

No matter how you look at me I always look the same to you,
The only way you can see the difference is by looking at pictures of times gone past,
You see me everyday and yet you only notice me when you want to,
I'm the hardest person to forgive, yet the easiest person to live with,
I am the one who is always there. Who am I?

I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. What am I?

[!King_Amazon!]

I was just clarifying it. If people didn't catch the room at the end of mushroom, it's actually a pretty oddball answer.

1.

2.

3. The letter E. Too easy.

Only one I can figure out right now. Too early to think.

[Grav]

1. A boner!

2. Yourself?

3. E

[Lenny]

3rd one is E yep.

2nd is yourself...

And the first...not a boner...

[Medieval Bob]

All too easy. The first is water.

[Lenny]

Yep.

You got 'ny more??

[!King_Amazon!]

1 could have so many different answers that I figured it was a trick question somehow. It could also be silver, mercury, glass, anything like that.

[Lenny]

Don't go googling it to get the right answer...I say the answer's water, and my god, the answer's water...K?

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Anyone else got any more riddles???

[!King_Amazon!]

I didn't google it. I'm just saying, based on that description, it can be a lot of different things.

[Lenny]

Got a riddle for us???

Google is allowed this time...:p

[Lenny]

Fine, I'll post some more...

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Two legs I have, and this will confound: only at rest do they touch the ground! What am I?

What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows. What is it?

I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot I'm always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?

A horse travels a certain distance each day. Strangely enough, two of its legs travel 30 miles each day and the other two legs travel nearly 31 miles. It would seem that two of the horse's legs must be one mile ahead of the other two legs, but of course this can't be true. Since the horse is normal, how is this situation possible?

Answer: A horse walking in a circle (working in a mill). His inside legs travel less distance than his outside legs.

[Medieval Bob]

1) An airplane.

2) Something to do with a building? Though buildings doin't toil... Bah I've gotta go to class...

3) The horse is walking in a circle. Its inside legs are moving less distance than the outside legs.

[Lenny]

You got the horse one correct.

Nearly there about the building.

I'm guessing your airplane answer is for the two legs. It's wrong whichever you are answering so...

[Medieval Bob]

Ya... I guess airplanes would have 3 legs...

Kangaroo?

[Lenny]

Nope. Guess again...

[Medieval Bob]

Oh, I didn't even see the one. It's a mountain. Stop yanking riddles from The Hobbit.

[pr0xy]

Ok.

There is a man hanging from a rope in the middle of a bare, unfurnished room. On the ground is a puddle of water. How did he kill himself?

[Kaneda]

Oh oh I got number 1. It's a hooker!

[!King_Amazon!]

Ok.

There is a man hanging from a rope in the middle of a bare, unfurnished room. On the ground is a puddle of water. How did he kill himself?
He was standing on a block of ice with a noose around his neck, when the ice melted he died, and there was a puddle left on the floor.

[Medieval Bob]

Or he could have just been a badass, thrown the rope around a water pipe on the ceiling, pulled himself up with one arm, and tied it around his neck with the other. Since he was such a badass, the pipe came out of the fitting a little bit, and water started leaking onto the floor.

[Thanatos]

That's probably what happened.

[Lenny]

Hooker is wrong.

Mr. Bob is right with Mountain, but I didn't rip it directly from The Hobbit...

[Original Sin]

Ha....

The barrel is made of wood, what can you put in it that will make the barrel lighter and can be seen with the naked eye?

[Lenny]

A lit match to make it burn???

It will lighten it up and once the barrel catches fire then whoomph! people from a long way away can see it...:p...am I right???

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Anyone gonna guess the two of mine that are still waiting to be answered correctly???

Two legs I have, and this will confound: only at rest do they touch the ground! What am I?

and

I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot I'm always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?

[Medieval Bob]

Windmill.

[Lenny]

YAY!!! You got it...:D...now how about the two legs one???

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Am I right with the match Sin??

[Original Sin]

Nope, didn't get it right. the barrel still has to exist.
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A bird -_-

[Lenny]

Nope. 'S not a bird...

Hmm, make it lighter and visible to the naked eye...does it mean that the barrel can be seen by the naked eye, or the thing that you put in it???

Wait, that destroys the point of a riddle...don't answer...erm...a light???

[Original Sin]

Keep trying....think outside the box though.

[Lenny]

Ah...outside the box riddle...I'm screwed...

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Erm...something outside the barrel that makes it lighter and visible to the naked eye...a spotlight trained on the barrel???

He he he...I'm a not giving up on my "light" idea...:p...to be honest, I can't think of anything else...

Just wait for 'K_A'...he'll google it and get the answer for is all...:p

[Original Sin]

well, it has to be put into the barrel, just remember that.

[Lenny]

He he he...think outside the box that goes in the barrel...:p...

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Anti-matter??? No wait...that would annihilate (sp??? I'm sure I've fucked that spelling up)...

SOmething that goes in something and makes it lighter...helium???

[Original Sin]

Umm, that might make it float, but technically it gains mass if you put helium in it....

this is so much fun.

[Lenny]

It's not fun...I can't guess it...:(...

I'm pretty sure that you can't put something in something and make the second something somewhat lighter...surely the only way to do that is subtract things from it...VACUUM!

[Kaneda]

A hooker fits the definition perfectly! I'm making the answer a hooker!

Oh and you would put a beaver in the barrel, and it would get lighter, after a while...

[!King_Amazon!]

If you put a hole in a barrel it makes it lighter.

Are you afraid of the dark?

[Xenn]

Two legs I have, and this will confound: only at rest do they touch the ground! What am I?

http://www.1000plus.com/Hbirds/t010922%20DSBG%20Praying%20Mantis.JPG

[slaynish]

okay
Here's one(by the way I changed it to make it easier)

I have 2 legs. I come from a place that most people have not seen. I come while you sleep, and eat your leftovers.
This one you'll never get.

BTW, dont try searching Google, becuase I just made that up.

[Kaneda]

A dustmite. Easy.

[slaynish]

Wrong.

If the answer was infact Dustmite, then why would i have put that most people have not seen where I come from.

Dustmites are everywhere.

[Xenn]

The answer is probably something stupid, like Grav

[Kaneda]

I'd say your average white middle class american has know idea what a dustmite is, let alone that they eat your dead skin cells of your sheets and shit. lol and shit.

[slaynish]

The answer is probably something stupid, like Grav


DING DING DING

GG

[Lenny]

But it's not a hooker!!!

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I'm stubbornly saying...a light.

[!King_Amazon!]

I already said, it's a hole. It's from Are You Afraid of the Dark, that old Nick show.

[Lenny]

What's a hole??? To put into the barrel?? But how...??? Screw it...

[Thanatos]

I already said, it's a hole. It's from Are You Afraid of the Dark, that old Nick show.

That show was the shit.

[Sovereign]

Anyone remember Goosebumps books?

[Original Sin]

Ahh, yes those good old pieces of shit.

[!King_Amazon!]

Can you put a hole in a barrel? Yes. You put a hole in a barrel the same way you put a hole in your head or a hole in the wall. If you put a hole in a barrel, you can see the hole, and it makes the barrel lighter.

That show was pretty cool.

[Lenny]

So the answer is a hole...yes???

[!King_Amazon!]

Yes, the answer is a fucking hole. JESUS CHRIST DONT YOU GET IT?

[Lenny]

Nope...:D

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No-one gonna answer my one about the two legs???

[Jamesadin]

Anyone remember Goosebumps books?


"How I learnt to Fly" was the best!

[Lenny]

I've got about 7 of them on my bookcase...all untouched...

[!King_Amazon!]

I've got "Why I'm afraid of bees" where the kid gets turned into a bee.

[Xenn]

Say Cheese and Die... Again!


I used to read those when I was like, 6.

[Kaneda]

I would melt army men together and make SilentHill lookalikes.