Transcendence

I post a riddle. The first one to solve it posts another one etc.

Here it is (this is a really difficult one):


In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.

In each house lives a person of different nationality.

These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

The riddle is: Who owns the fish?

Clues:

1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.

The German owns the fish. See the attachment for the explanation.

I'm going to look for a nice riddle...

You are right ;D

That riddle was actually invented by Einstein more than a century ago... he claimed that 98% couldn't solve it (He was quite proud of himself wasn't he)

I got quite far on my own (variables & clues in the table and step 1) but I wasn't too sure at which left side of the white house the green house was (from the watcher's point of view or from the houses'). I started from the houses' point of view, but after I got further, I thought it would be beter to check whether I was right, so I looked it up (I was right). After that, I've done most of it myself (but I must admit I couldn't resist peeking every now and then ^^)

Here is my riddle:

How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think that nothing is wrong with it at all-- and, in fact, nothing is. But it is a bit odd. Why? If you study it and think about it, you may find out, but I am not going to assist you in any way. You must do it without any coaching. No doubt, if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you. Who knows?

Good luck.

No E's, every other vowel, but E. My Turn!!

You're right ^^ *waits patiently for the next riddle*

Guys, to keep the game going please after answering correctly post a riddle...

sorry i went to bed >.<, here it is

A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, "You may make a statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?

holy...that one makes my brain hurt O_O

Probably something like: "You will sentence me to 6 years of prison"
That would work right?

If you assume it's false he would have to give him 6 years, but that makes it become true...
If it's true that means he will have to give him 4 years, but that would mean it becomes a false statement...

If it's correct here is mine:

While on my way to the beach I saw a man with 7 wifes. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sacks had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kittens, sacks, cats, wifes. How many were going to the beach?

If werr is correct.

The answer to werr riddle is 154.

If i'm right, here is my riddle:

There was a guy stuck in a metal room with a metal door.The door was locked and there were no windows. The following items were inside the room:
a piano, table,a saw,and a bat.
How did the man get out? (3 ways)

Criss, that's wrong.... While on "my" way to the beach...

Quote from: Criss on July 27, 2009, 09:45
If werr is correct.

The answer to werr riddle is 154.

If i'm right, here is my riddle:

There was a guy stuck in a metal room with a metal door.The door was locked and there were no windows. The following items were inside the room:
a piano, table,a saw,and a bat.
How did the man get out? (3 ways)

Sorry, but you are wrong ^^
Even if you were on the riht path tha answer would still be wrong since it's 343+49+7+7+(1)=406 (407) (if you count the man)

@Crisn, you are right

Ark!! Opps !!
Too bad...guess that's what happens when you do algebra h/w and tries to solve a riddle at the same time =]

Congrats Crisn ^^

I don't get that riddle...

Ahh, so he was talking about the other one...

Forget my riddle ^^
I didn't answer werr's right...(but you did)
It's your turn to post a riddle now =]

okay criss, hope you don't mind me piggy backing

There was a guy stuck in a metal room with a metal door.The door was locked and there were no windows. The following items were inside the room:
a piano, table,a saw,and a bat.
How did the man get out? (3 ways)

Quote from: Crisn on July 28, 2009, 06:19
okay criss, hope you don't mind me piggy backing

There was a guy stuck in a metal room with a metal door.The door was locked and there were no windows. The following items were inside the room:
a piano, table,a saw,and a bat.
How did the man get out? (3 ways)

Well since it's is technicaly imposible to get out with those items I am guessing it's one of those word games (I think that was the name)

For example the bat. Ig it's a baseball bat he has to miss the ball 3 times and is out (3 strikes)
The piano has keys, although I am not sure how exactly that fits.
About the saw and table I don't know...

He plays the piano until he finds the right key.

To add on to Evory and Crisn's answer, I believe he sawed the table in half, and two halves make one whole (hole). ^^

@Kiriane: I heard a different version, and in that version there was a mirror as well. I think he looked in the mirror and saw the table.

Haha yeah I know! I heard that one too xD

I guess i can't reply xDD

WHAT?? that made no sense!! what did that have to do with getting out the room? i understand the piano thing, and the bat thing, but... the saw?? that is a WTF moment... i hate this riddle, i hope it gets cancer and dies...

@Crisn: I think another way the mirror/table thing goes is:
I saw myself in the mirror.
I took the saw and cut the table in half.
Two halves make a whole.
I climbed through the hole.

Quote from: Crisn on July 30, 2009, 16:50
WHAT?? that made no sense!! what did that have to do with getting out the room? i understand the piano thing, and the bat thing, but... the saw?? that is a WTF moment... i hate this riddle, i hope it gets cancer and dies...

Err... it's your riddle... and you should at least say who got it right so we can continue

Gosh. These riddles are giving me headache >_<

Dear Werr,
     If you are reading this, I have left on a journey to kill find the creator of that terrible interesting riddle. I am going to force convince him to suicide retract this riddle. Sorry if that i could not reply to your post about who won as the riddle destroyed my faith in humanity and I have also left to quit life.
         LOVE <3 Crisn,

P.S.
Send socks, and food, and clean clothes...preferrably underwear. I am wearing only 1 pair of underwear, I should've thought that through...

P.P.S. oh and macadamia cookies please!! again Love Crisn

Quote from: Crisn on July 31, 2009, 20:43
Dear Werr,
     If you are reading this, I have left on a journey to kill find the creator of that terrible interesting riddle. I am going to force convince him to suicide retract this riddle. Sorry if that i could not reply to your post about who won as the riddle destroyed my faith in humanity and I have also left to quit life.
         LOVE <3 Crisn,

P.S.
Send socks, and food, and clean clothes...preferrably underwear. I am wearing only 1 pair of underwear, I should've thought that through...

P.P.S. oh and macadamia cookies please!! again Love Crisn

Hahaha

Man, don't do it! You still have friends here who care for you! Your parents will be sad without you! And more importantly who do you think is going to do your job in transcendence?!

How can you stand phisycaly stand behind someone if he is phisycaly standing behind you?

Um...since the earth is round...if you went back far enough...that person would be standing behind you?
Cos...you went all the way around the earth....
I'm pretty sure this is wrong. =.='

Quote from: Tammy on August 01, 2009, 04:37
Um...since the earth is round...if you went back far enough...that person would be standing behind you?
Cos...you went all the way around the earth....
I'm pretty sure this is wrong. =.='

Yup. It's wrong^^
But I love you anyway  :P

Hmm... not sure about it the two person are standing beside each other but not facing each other? Its like Person A is facing the left <<<< and Person B is facing the right >>>> so for "Person A" "Person B" is standing behind him and for "Person B" "Person A" is stand behind of him O.o" LOL if you get what I mean?

I don't think if it's correct but I am still going to post my riddle just in case ><"

Highlight to see! XD

Riddle: A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?

Quote from: Crisn on July 31, 2009, 20:43
Dear Werr,
     If you are reading this, I have left on a journey to kill find the creator of that terrible interesting riddle. I am going to force convince him to suicide retract this riddle. Sorry if that i could not reply to your post about who won as the riddle destroyed my faith in humanity and I have also left to quit life.
         LOVE <3 Crisn,

P.S.
Send socks, and food, and clean clothes...preferrably underwear. I am wearing only 1 pair of underwear, I should've thought that through...

P.P.S. oh and macadamia cookies please!! again Love Crisn

What ?!
Crisn is coming to kill me...
*stuff things in a bag and goes into hiding*

@crisn: Highlight to see the answer to the previous riddle =3 (hope you get it now)

First, he played the piano until he found the right key.

Second, he sawed the table in half then held the two pieces together. Two halves make a whole.(hole)

Third, he swung the bat three times. Three strikes, he's out.



@shiki:
The answer to your riddle is :
The first Friday is the name of his horse.
He rode into town on Wednesday and left on Friday.
Sry, i don't know how to explain this....

Quote@shiki:
The answer to your riddle is :
The first Friday is the name of his horse.
He rode into town on Wednesday and left on Friday.
Sry, i don't know how to explain this....

Yes I know what you mean but it is possible that the horse is called Friday XD so he rode on Friday and left on Friday meaning on the same horse lol

It's criss' turn ...

OK ^^
Here is mine:

I'm sometimes white,
Although sometimes I'm black.
I take you there,
But never bring you back.
What am I?

Maybe a hearse?
But then again maybe not... it's not white...

You're right ^^
Congrats, your turn ~~
:=X:

Here is simple one:

Which is faster, hot or cold?

If you're referring to molecular activity then heat is faster.
Molecules slow down as they cool until all molecular movement ceases at absolute zero.

If you're referring to absorption rate. I must know what is being heated or chilled.
Water will absorb heat faster than it will give up heat in order to be chilled.

Or

Much more simpler:
Hot is faster coz you can catch a cold

Quote from: Criss on August 05, 2009, 09:52
Hot is faster coz you can catch a cold

Yeah^^

Here is mine:
I am slim and tall,
Many find me desirable and appealing.
They touch me and I give a false good feeling.
Once I shine in splendor,
But only once and then no more.
For many I am "to die for".
What am I?

Um...cigarette

You're Right
Congrats, your turn xD

Yay! Okay~

There was this man who was staying at a hotel. He was just sitting in his room reading when someone knocked on the door. The man opened the door, to find another man standing outside. The man standing outside said "Oh, sorry, I thought this was my room" and left. How did the man staying in the room immediately know that the man who just left was lying?

he knocked on the door?

Yay~
kinda obvious once you think about it for a bit. XD
your turn!

not my turn but posting a riddle anyway~

a man gets on a plane and sees his friend.  he calls out to him and is immediately knocked down by security.  why?

The friend's name is Jack. So when he calls out "Hi, Jack", security thinks he's going to hijack the plane.

My riddle:

A man walks into a bar, and asks the bartender for a drink of water. The bartender pulls out a gun, points it at the man, and cocks it. The man says "Thank you" and leaves. What happened?

Hints:

1. Question: Could the bartender hear him? Answer: Yes
2. Question: Was the bartender angry for some reason? A: No
3. Question: Was the gun a water pistol? A: No
4. Question: Did they know each other from before? A: No
5. Question: Was the man's "Thank you" sarcastic? A: No
6. Question: Did the man ask for water in an offensive way? A: No
7. Question: Did the man ask for water in some strange way? A: Yes

The man had hiccups and the bartender scared them away for him.

correct ^^.

You should post the next riddle.

Thankyou, maths teacher, for giving me this awesome riddle!
And, sorry for the wait...:'(
There are three people in the room. They each have a coloured square stuck on their back. They do not know what colour the square is.

Then they are told:
The squares are either yellow or blue.
Once you know for certain that you have a blue square on your back, you must leave the room.
At least one of you has a blue square on their back.

This means that there are two possible configurations of blue and yellow squares. How then, in both situations, do the peole with the blue squares ascertain their colours and leave the room?

If they are allowed to talk to each other, they could of course simply tell to the blue-squared-backs people that they have a blue square on their back.

The answer if they are not allowed to talk:
Answer#1: If there is only one blue square in the room: The one with the blue square sees that the other two have yellow squares, and knows that (s)he is the one with the blue square *leaves the room*. The other two know that they have yellow squares
Answer#2: If there are two blue squares in the room: If no one leaves the room after a few minutes, they know that there are two blue squares in the room (because if there was only one, that person would already have left). So if you can see the person with the yellow square, you and the other one have a blue square. *Both leave room*

ding ding ding! Correct! XD
your turn.

No legs have I to dance,
No lungs have I to breathe,
No life have I to live or die
And yet I do all three.

What am I?

Wind? Fire? Water? But I think it's fire since it's the only one described as dancing...

Yes, it's fire :goodjob:. Your turn.

What is tha only question you can never answer yes to?

Marry me?  :=X:
Kidding. No idea!

um...
are you dead?
Are you asleep?
Are you deaf?
Are you ignoring me?

Well yeah, it is more than one... any of these would be valid

Here's my puzzle.
It's a logic puzzle. XD

Here is a list of words:
INN   PEN   PET   PIE   TEE   TIE

Three logicians are told, "i have told each of you one of the three letters in a word listed before you so that the three known letters together spell the word".

Then they are told. "None of you can tell how many vowels the word has."

Then they are told, "At this point still none of you can tell how many vowels the word has".

Then one of the three logicians says he knows what the word is.

What is the word and how did the logician know?

The word is PET

How he knew:
1. No one is told the letter N, because then you would know that there would be one vowel. So "INN" and "PEN" are discarded
2. No one is told the letter I, because then you would know that there would be two vowels. So it also can't be "PIE" or "TIE"
3. PET and TEE are the only ones left. That means one person is told "T", and an other one is told "E".
4. The logician that was told the letter "P" knows that the word is "PET".

I am a three digit number.
My tens digit is five more than my ones digit.
My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit.
What number am I?

154?

No.

I ment 194 :D

Yes!

You may post another riddle. :=X:

If three cats catch three mice in three minutes, how many cats would be needed to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?

3 cats = 3 mice / 3 minutes = 1 mouse / 1 minute

3 cats = 100 mice / 100 minutes

So you'll need 3 cats.

The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father's age is the son's age reversed.
How old could they be? (3 possible solutions).

42 -24
51 -15
60 - 6

(I have no riddles, someone just post one or me please XD :omg:)

A woman shoots her husband.
Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes.
Finally, she hangs him.

But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together.

How can this be?

She probably shot him with a camera, and then... you know they use liquids to develop the photos, so "he" was under water and finally she "hanged" the picture to dry. That's the only way it makes sence.

Another riddle (blow-in!)

Romeo and Juliet are found dead on the floor in a bedroom. When they were discovered, there were pieces of glass and some water on the floor. The only furniture in the room is a shelf and a bed. The house in is a remote location, away from everything except for the nearby railway track. What caused the death of Romeo and Juliet?

Um...Romeo and Juliet were fish? And the rumble of the train knocked their bowl onto the floor...
wait, i think I heard this riddle before and am now subconciously remembering it...
Darn! for a minute there i actually thought i was smart! :'(

Post a new riddle please :=X:

Oh damn, I always seem to forget to post new riddles. Sorry! :bow:
Okay:
- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.

- In each house lives a person of different nationality.

- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

The Question: Who owns the fish?

Necessary clues:

1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.

This was the first riddle, it was already answered by me (The German owns the fish).

An officer wishing to arrange his men in a solid square found by his first arrangement that he had 39 men left over. He then started increasing the number of men on a side by one but found that 50 additional men would be needed to complete a new square. How many men did the officer have?

That was more of a maths problem :P

But I'm pretty sure it's 1975 :D

Am I right?

Yup ^^

(  For those interested, the calculation:
x= the number of men on one side of the square during the first situation
first situation
full number of men=x^2+39 (x^2=number of men currently in the square, and 39 is the number left over)
second situation
full number of men=(x+1)^2-50 ( (x+1)^2 is the number of men currently in the square in this situation, 50 is the number the officer would need extra to complete the square)
first situation=second situation (the total number of men remains equal)

x^2+39=(x+1)^2-50
x^2+39=x^2+2x+1-50
39=2x-49
2x=88
x=44

total number of men=x^2+39=44^2+39=1975  )

Your turn to post a riddle :=X:

O_________________O...

Four men were in a boat on the lake. The boat turns over, and all four men sink to the bottom of the lake, yet not a single man gets wet. Why?

Uhm... Either it was raining, so they were already wet (so the couldn't 'get' wet), or they're all married (not a 'single' man got wet).

If correct:
Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunnelling because it will take too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan?

Married :)

Um they use the dirt from the tunnel, and stand on it and each other? Either that or on the bed the one on top of each other...

right ^^

your turn

You guys are outrageously good at this.  :dignose:

Mr. and Ms. Ketchup have 6 daughters. Each daughter has one brother.
How many people are in the Ketchup family?

I got this one when I was in fourth grade. O_____o It's that hard.

hmmm...
I think the answer is 9... there are 9 people...

if right :
2 mothers and 2 daughters went fishing. They each caught a fish. In total they caught 3 fish. How is that possible?

The mom of the youngest daughter is the daughter of the other mother. ( I hope that makes sense)

WELL... THAT'S CLOSE TO THE ANSWER BUT STILL NOT RIGHT....

oops sorry if it's all capital letters...

meh. grandma, mom, and daughter!

YES!!!! *skip
next riddle:

A wolf, chicken and a pea half to cross the river. There is a boat, bu the boat can only take two people at a time. The wolf and chicken cannot be on the boat and neither can the chicken and the pea. How do they cross?

bring chicken over,
go back,
bring wolf over,
bring chicken back,
bring pea over,
go back,
bring chicken over.

TADAHHHH!

correct?? o__o

oops!!! I forgot o say that an animal has to bring the boat back...
so WRONG.

okay.

Bring wolf and pea over,
bring pea back.
bring chicken over,
bring wolf back.
bring wolf and pea over.

TADAHHH!!!

isn't it supposed to have 7 steps?

ARGH okay okay lemme try again.
i forgot that pea isn't an animal =.=


bring wolf and pea over.
bring wolf back.
bring chicken over.
bring ch....

this isn't gonna work out if the pea can't steer the boat. i'll never get all the animals over. and the pea.
unless your boat which can only take two "people" (i assume is animals) has space for one more pea.

~_~

thw wolf and chicken cannot be together for even ONE mament.... this is hard, eh? :hmmm:

meh. i hate these types of riddles.



Thousand strings.
Ten thousand strings.
And disappears
when it reaches the ground

  what is it?

pretty easy if you know this riddle in chinese

I KNOW!!!! IT'S RAIN!!!! :=X: right?

xD yeah.

i used to love riddles when i was a little kid.

me too!! XD
BUT STILL!!! NO ONE ASNWERED MY RIDDLE!!!! :donwan:

we're all too lazy.

I live in the ground
i have a hundred eyes
no noses
no. not even one

what am i?

it's not a monster. ok?
it's kinda a vegetable........?

POTATO! is it?

uh...ya.. that's what I thought..... :hmmm:

xD. yes it is.

SOMEONE ASNWER MINE!!!  :donwan:
or else there won't be any other riddle!!! :noway:

meh, i'll supply the riddles.

GO AHEAD!!! YOU'LL RUN OUT EITHER WAY!! :=D:

I'm waiting for the next one, by the way!

ok.

Golden treasures I contain, guarded by hundreds and thousands. Stored in a labyrinth where no man walks, yet men come often to seize my gold.

By smoke I am overcome and robbed, then left to build my treasure anew.

What am I?


XD   here's the answer

Answer: Beehive

Riddle: What english word means burning wood when you take away the first letter of the word?
(This is actually a pun.)

heh? burning wood......when you take away the first letter of the word....

uh...weed? xD

I think it's CASH!!

     
Urban.