I don't know if anybody has thought of this, but I think it would be nice to have thread of riddles...

Here's mine, kind of lame but it's all good

You throw it up, it's white, comes down, it's yellow...
What is it?

I give up.. whats the answer?

yeh agreed , givin up. (doesnt even have the energy to search yahoo for the answer)

It's a snow ball in the city. You throw it up it is white, a guy pisses out his window at it, it comes down yellow.

Eggs!!!!!!!!!

Yes, it's an egg

Do you guys have any riddles to post?
If you do please do...

Okay but this one is kinda goofy...


How many letters are in the alphabet?

All of them.

Originally posted by Imagineer
All of them.

LMAO........... damn you are wrong but it is a better answer than mine....:D

8 letters in alphabet
:)

Originally posted by DracRomin
8 letters in alphabet
:)

Yeah 8 in alphabet or 11 in "the alphabet"...

:banana:

O.K.

Two duck in front of a duck. Two ducks behind a duck. One duck in the middle! How many ducks?

Originally posted by Dan Fussell
O.K.

Two duck in front of a duck. Two ducks behind a duck. One duck in the middle! How many ducks?

ok, I am not sure if there is a play on the word duck so I will go with the obvious and likely be wrong... I say there are 3 :p

Sal is probably right but I will say 2 just to have a different number ;)

ill go for the obvious 5

Well, can we have an answer here... I am curious...

Could be any amount of ducks really, but the smallest answer is 3.

Here is another. 2 men are in the park playing chess. They play 5 games. Each of them wins 3 of their played games. How?

They don't play each other. Each player plays 5 games against other people and they win 3 of 5

This is more of a math problem then a riddle but here goes...

A cylinder 105 cm high has a circumference of 20 cm. A string makes exactly 7 complete turns round the cylinder while its two ends touch the cylinder's top and bottom. How long is the string in cm?

175cm.

Lionel's answer is confirmed...a hint for the confused: Flatten the cylinder (into a rectangle).

Yeap... do you guys have any more riddles or fun problems...?

This one is really old but the first time I was sooooooooooo riddled by it.... I swear it took me fooooorever but I did finally get it...

Here goes and good luck....

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????

Originally posted by ~Sal~
Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????
The trick here is that the guys paid $27, yes...but two of them went to the bellhop. You don't add the bellhop's "tip", you subtract it. You then get $25, which is what the hotel got. Simple.

Originally posted by BorgHunter
The trick here is that the guys paid $27, yes...but two of them went to the bellhop. You don't add the bellhop's "tip", you subtract it. You then get $25, which is what the hotel got. Simple.

YuP :banana: Are you sure you are only 16????

Originally posted by ~Sal~
YuP :banana: Are you sure you are only 16????
Fairly certain. :cool:

The answer on the ducks is 3 Sal.
Most people say 5.
Good job.

You are right next to a river with a 5 gallon container and a 3 gallon container. You need to measure out 4 gallons of water. How do you do it?

How do you get six nines to equal exactly 100? (You can use addition, division, and decimals... just no other digits.)

Each container half full?

99/99+99

Originally posted by The Praetorian
You are right next to a river with a 5 gallon container and a 3 gallon container. You need to measure out 4 gallons of water. How do you do it?
Get 5 gallons in the big bucket. Pour three from the big bucket into the small bucket, leaving two gallons in the 5-gallon container. Dump the three gallon container, put the two gallons from the big bucket in the 3-gallon bucket. Fill the 5-gallon bucket again. Pour from the big bucket into the three gallon bucket (which has two gallons in it) until it's full. You're left with four gallons in the big bucket and three in the small one.

Congratulations, Borg and 500. :)

Originally posted by BorgHunter
Get 5 gallons in the big bucket. Pour three from the big bucket into the small bucket, leaving two gallons in the 5-gallon container. Dump the three gallon container, put the two gallons from the big bucket in the 3-gallon bucket. Fill the 5-gallon bucket again. Pour from the big bucket into the three gallon bucket (which has two gallons in it) until it's full. You're left with four gallons in the big bucket and three in the small one.

Or you watch the movie 'Die hard with a vengance' and catch the part where Simon Gruber riddles John McClane and Zeus Carver.

Dop

Originally posted by BorgHunter
Lionel's answer is confirmed...a hint for the confused: Flatten the cylinder (into a rectangle).
I solved it differently than you. How did you arrive at your conclusion?

Originally posted by Lungdop Philing
Or you watch the movie 'Die hard with a vengance' and catch the part where Simon Gruber riddles John McClane and Zeus Carver.

Dop
Good call, Dop. :)

Originally posted by The Praetorian
I solved it differently than you. How did you arrive at your conclusion?
If you flatten the cylinder, you get a rectangle with a width equal to the circumference of the circle, and a height equal to the height of the cylinder. Then, use the Pythagorean Theorem. I made a picture to show you...kind of crude, I'm afraid...

Originally posted by The Praetorian
I solved it differently than you. How did you arrive at your conclusion?

I mentally rolled the cylinder out until there was a triangle with a bottom length of 140cm (7 x 20cm) and a height of 105cm. 140^2 + 105^2 = 175^2

I was on an island last summer, and this island was very special. It had 2 native tribes, one could not tell the truth, the other tribe could only speak the exact truth. People from each tribe look exactly the same except for one difference. The non-truth tribe has black souls on their feet, while the truth tribe has white souls.
During the day, both tribes mingle in a general market

One day, i was talkin to a guy in the market, and we were really getting along fine. Then i thought, hey! what if this guy is just bsing me and he doesnt like me at all? So, i ask the guy, what color are the souls of his feet. He mumbles something i cant understand. The guy next to him said, "He says the souls of his feet are white." The guy next to him said, "That middle guy is lying."

What color are the souls of the middle guy's feet?

bear with me, i mighta messed it up. its a very complicated riddle to remember.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
I mentally rolled the cylinder out until there was a triangle with a bottom length of 140cm (7 x 20cm) and a height of 105cm. 140^2 + 105^2 = 175^2
That's exactly what I did. :)

Btw, thanks for the explanation, Borg.

I dont see a clear answer for the feet thing.

It could be W W B or it could be B B W

Right or no?

Originally posted by Evil Homer
I was on an island last summer, and this island was very special. It had 2 native tribes, one could not tell the truth, the other tribe could only speak the exact truth. People from each tribe look exactly the same except for one difference. The non-truth tribe has black souls on their feet, while the truth tribe has white souls.
During the day, both tribes mingle in a general market

One day, i was talkin to a guy in the market, and we were really getting along fine. Then i thought, hey! what if this guy is just bsing me and he doesnt like me at all? So, i ask the guy, what color are the souls of his feet. He mumbles something i cant understand. The guy next to him said, "He says the souls of his feet are white." The guy next to him said, "That middle guy is lying."

What color are the souls of the middle guy's feet?

bear with me, i mighta messed it up. its a very complicated riddle to remember.
Well, as you wrote it, the middle guy's soles are white. Here's why: If middle guy's soles are black, then he lied when he said the other guy said that his soles are black. Meaning, the guy said he had black soles. Now, if he said he had black soles, then there are two options: Liar, and non-liar. If he's a liar, he must have lied when he said he had black soles, meaning he had white soles. Impossible, because white soled people tell the truth. If he's a non-liar, he was telling the truth when he said he had black soles, but that's impossible because black soled people lie. So the middle guy's soles cannot be black, and therefore must be white. QED.

Thats a long enough explanation that i'm pretty sure its right. As i recall, i required many sentences to explain it.

Originally posted by Evil Homer
I was on an island last summer, and this island was very special. It had 2 native tribes, one could not tell the truth, the other tribe could only speak the exact truth. People from each tribe look exactly the same except for one difference. The non-truth tribe has black souls on their feet, while the truth tribe has white souls.
During the day, both tribes mingle in a general market

One day, i was talkin to a guy in the market, and we were really getting along fine. Then i thought, hey! what if this guy is just bsing me and he doesnt like me at all? So, i ask the guy, what color are the souls of his feet. He mumbles something i cant understand. The guy next to him said, "He says the souls of his feet are white." The guy next to him said, "That middle guy is lying."

What color are the souls of the middle guy's feet?

bear with me, i mighta messed it up. its a very complicated riddle to remember.

White

Originally posted by Ed Blank
White
Uh, Ed? I already said that.

Here's a new brain teaser...Enjoy.

Mom, Dad, and 2 kids have come to a river, and they find a boat. It is small and can only carry one adult or 2 kids at a time. Both kids are good rowers, but how can the whole family reach the other side of the river?

The two kids cross. Kid A returns, lets Mom go across. So we have Kid B and Mom across now. Kid B goes back, picks up Kid A, who both go across. Kid A gets dropped off, Kid B goes to the original side, and lets Dad cross. Then Kid A takes the raft to the original side, picks up Kid B, and they cross together, leaving the family to go off on their adventures on the other side of the river which, they find out, isn't really great. Thus, they perform the whole process all over again to get back to the original side of the river and they go home. Mom ends up having an affair with Drac, and the two parents get divorced. Kid A goes with Mom and Kid B goes with Dad. Drac decides he doesn't want the responsibility of kids and tries to run away from Mom, but she's really a psychopath who kills both Drac and Kid A. She then hunts down Kid B and Dad before finally turning the gun on herself.

And now YOU know...the rest of the story.

You know...come to think of it...the family could just have swam across that river...

Maybe the two kids should have just left Mom and Dad to rot on the other side of the river? That would have been fun.

What the hell is your problem Borg???
You keep "putting me down"... damn man

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

Congratulations, Borg. That was the correct answer to the riddle. However, I am quite perplexed as to how I am included in this solution. As I recall, the riddle didn't include myself or a sociopathic person (after all, the archaic term 'psychopatic' may be offensive to some, not that you have any problems with that.) I recall the fact that you have the intelligence quotient in the range of 160. So tell me, what are you doing sitting here making posts in excess of 7 times a day? i thought you were taking college level courses. While taking one myself, i know how much time is spent in preparation for each lesson. Though, your astromomical IQ may enable you to speed right through your lessons, so why not do something that would be more beneficial to society as a whole. As an administrator, you should have the maturity to not insult the users of his board. I find your name quite ironic, Borg. Do you travel from forum to forum, 'assimilating' others into your so-called viewpoints? How amusing. For a change, why don't you just spend more time pleasuring yourself to Jeri Ryan's 'occular implants' and quit perpetuating this air of omniscience, because my friend, you only know as much as a google search will permit you to know.

Originally posted by DracRomin
Congratulations, Borg. That was the correct answer to the riddle. However, I am quite perplexed as to how I am included in this solution.
Just having a bit of fun with you. No offense intended.
So tell me, what are you doing sitting here making posts in excess of 7 times a day?
Boredom...

As for the rest of your post, I obviously did something to offend you...I don't exactly know what it was, but I apologize. I really was just having a bit of fun, and you, being the person posing the riddle, was the nearest person to include in my little anecdote. I could have used a number of other people...I was considering Vile or Astrapol...but I chose you. Really, lighten up...

That was a little harsh Drac. I'm pretty sure Borg was just joking, and on a side note, I wouldn't be at all surprised if he figured out the riddles without searching for an answer. He's the smartest 16 year-old I've ever had the pleasure of conversing with. Jmo.

Originally posted by The Praetorian
I wouldn't be at all surprised if he figured out the riddles without searching for an answer.
I will admit that I needed a Google search for the string and cylinder one. I came up quickly with a wrong answer when I tried to do it myself. I have not used Google or any other search engine for any other riddle in this thread, however.

And thanks for the compliment...actually, stop sucking up to the mods! ;)

Originally posted by BorgHunter
actually, stop sucking up to the mods! ;)
Fine...cock. :)

Originally posted by Jester
There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water
Ah, Einstein's Riddle! I remember this one. It took me the better part of an hour to get it when I originally did it. Assuming this is unchanged from the one I did about a month ago, it's the German who has the fish.

Really complicated to figure out. Lots of little grid things...

Originally posted by The Praetorian
Fine...cock. :)

calling him "cock" is still sucking up dammit :p

Originally posted by BorgHunter
Ah, Einstein's Riddle! I remember this one. It took me the better part of an hour to get it when I originally did it. Assuming this is unchanged from the one I did about a month ago, it's the German who has the fish.

Really complicated to figure out. Lots of little grid things...
Yeah, you make a table and fill it out using the clues. You're right, the German has the fish... and surprisingly isn't the one who drinks beer.

that was my POW in 5th grade. I always loved doing those.

here's a teaser:

You are on a game show. The final round is a guessing game. There are 3 doors. One door has a car, the other 2 have gag prizes. You pick one of the three doors. After which, the host reveals one of the other doors which has a gag prize. He now gives you the option to switch doors or to stay w/ the original choice. What do you do and why?

You could do either because it's still a matter of chance. Your odds simply went from 1/3 to 1/2. Unless I misunderstood the question.

Originally posted by BorgHunter
Just having a bit of fun with you. No offense intended.

Boredom...

As for the rest of your post, I obviously did something to offend you...I don't exactly know what it was, but I apologize. I really was just having a bit of fun, and you, being the person posing the riddle, was the nearest person to include in my little anecdote. I could have used a number of other people...I was considering Vile or Astrapol...but I chose you. Really, lighten up...

I don't know if that was really an apology, but I forgive you. I must have went a bit out of line myself, but I've had a bad week all last week, so please forgive me too...

Originally posted by Evil Homer
that was my POW in 5th grade. I always loved doing those.

here's a teaser:

You are on a game show. The final round is a guessing game. There are 3 doors. One door has a car, the other 2 have gag prizes. You pick one of the three doors. After which, the host reveals one of the other doors which has a gag prize. He now gives you the option to switch doors or to stay w/ the original choice. What do you do and why?
If you stay with your original guess, you have a one in three chance of getting the right door. If you switch, you have a two in three chance. Confused, you say? I'll try to explain...

The host ALWAYS opens a gag prize door. If you picked a gag prize door originally (you have a 2 in 3 chance of doing so), then the host HAS to open the other gag prize. Thus, switching gives you a 2 in 3 probability of being right, because of the simple fact that it was a 2 in 3 chance of picking the gag prize originally.

If you're still confused, I'll try another tack. You had a 1 in 3 chance of picking the prize right the first time. Because you have the choice of either switching or staying (when the host has eliminated one of the gags), the probability of winning when switching HAS to be 2 in 3, because the total probability has to equal 1.

Originally posted by BorgHunter
The host ALWAYS opens a gag prize door. If you picked a gag prize door originally (you have a 2 in 3 chance of doing so), then the host HAS to open the other gag prize. Thus, switching gives you a 2 in 3 probability of being right, because of the simple fact that it was a 2 in 3 chance of picking the gag prize originally.

???????

Originally posted by BorgHunter
If you're still confused, I'll try another tack. You had a 1 in 3 chance of picking the prize right the first time. Because you have the choice of either switching or staying (when the host has eliminated one of the gags), the probability of winning when switching HAS to be 2 in 3, because the total probability has to equal 1.

But the second time you're allowed to make a choice (stay or switch) you have a 50/50 shot at being correct. You can't use the 1 in 3 chance to describe the second decision because you only have 2 things to choose between.

Or if you look at it this way - you basically have a 50/50 chance from the beginning, if you know ahead of time that he's going to give you a door. However you look at it, nothing has changed at all between the two times you were asked.

Exactly - thank you, Lionel. I read that about 15 minutes ago, and thought the exact same thing.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
But the second time you're allowed to make a choice (stay or switch) you have a 50/50 shot at being correct. You can't use the 1 in 3 chance to describe the second decision because you only have 2 things to choose between.

Or if you look at it this way - you basically have a 50/50 chance from the beginning, if you know ahead of time that he's going to give you a door. However you look at it, nothing has changed at all between the two times you were asked.
Okay, I am going to demonstrate how it is, indeed, a 2/3 chance for switching.

For these, a # is a new car, and a @ is a gag prize. You ALWAYS pick 1 the first time. Door 3 is always opened, except if the car is there, is which case 2 is chosen.

1 2 3
# @ @

The host opens Door 3.

1 2
# @

If we switch, we lose. If we stay, we win.

Switch: 0/1

1 2 3
@ # @

The host opens Door 3.

1 2
@ #

If we switch, we win. If we stay, we lose.

Switch: 1/2

1 2 3
@ @ #

The host opens Door 2.

1 3
@ #

If we switch, we win. If we stay, we lose.

Switch: 2/3

Those are the only possible possibilities. Final probability for switching is 2/3.

I created a little Java applet to prove this to myself, available at http://www.sys-rq.net/LetsMakeADeal.shtml. The results seem to match what I predicted...

The source is there too, in case anyone wants to look at it, compile it themselves, and whatnot...

I'll try once more to explain this...if you don't believe me, Google it. Here I was explaining it to my friend over MSNIM:
BorgHunter: Because it's tilted. 2/3 of the time, you pick a wrong answer first, right?
Maur: yes
BorgHunter: And then, there's only one gag prize left from the two remaining, right?
Maur: yes
BorgHunter: So the host HAS to eliminate that gag prize. He has no choice.
BorgHunter: Meaning, the cool prize is left. And because there was a 2/3 probability of getting the wrong answer first, then switching = 2/3 probability of getting the car.

It's a hard concept to explain...

Originally posted by LionelHutz
But the second time you're allowed to make a choice (stay or switch) you have a 50/50 shot at being correct. You can't use the 1 in 3 chance to describe the second decision because you only have 2 things to choose between.

Or if you look at it this way - you basically have a 50/50 chance from the beginning, if you know ahead of time that he's going to give you a door. However you look at it, nothing has changed at all between the two times you were asked.

I looked at this thread and I agreed with you...Borg's solution seems wrong, but it works out in practice.

I think the problem is that we perceive the "second choice" as being a 50/50 choice between two objects when in reality we're still choosing between three items, and one of the items, a gag gift, has already been revealed.

Actually, I'm not sure what the problem is...my brain hurts.

Originally posted by Vilepagan
I looked at this thread and I agreed with you...Borg's solution seems wrong, but it works out in practice.

Yeah, dammit, that does seem to be the case. There's a 1 in 1 change that I hate probability.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty%20Hall%20problem) has a good explanation...

I think it's a nice illusion...

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/images/trigrid.gif

The red and teal triangles don't have the same angles, thus the "hypotenuse" of the big "triangle" is really two separate segments. The red and teal triangles aren't proportional...one is 2 x 5, so the bigger should be 3 x 7.5...but it's 3 x 8. So the two hypotenuses DON'T have the same slope.

You can see this on both pictures, where the two hypotenuses intersect. If they were the same, you'd see the point being the same on both pictures. But you can see that they're not. Because the four figures don't make a triangle in either case, the hole is just a peculiarity in the makeup of this particular polygon.

My worst enemy or in other words my boss, made me a bet that if I get it right then I can have his job and be rich for the rest of my life, but if I get it wrong then I lose my job and I give him all the money I have. He told me that it is a game of cards and there will be 7 cards (8 through ace) face down in a certain order. He will give me 6 clues on the order of them. If I can get the order right then I when the bet. I accepted the bet thinking it would be really easy but I was wrong. Can you help me. What is the order?

1. The "ace" is two cards away from the "9" card. (1 between)

2. The "8" card is between the "10" card and the "king".

3. The "king" is four cards away from the ace. (3 between)

4. The "jack" is directly right of the "ace".

5. The "Queen" is in the middle.

6. The "jack" is somewhere right of the "10" card.

2. The "8" card is between the "10" card and the "king".

3. The "king" is four cards away from the ace. (3 between)

4. The "jack" is directly right of the "ace".

5. The "Queen" is in the middle.

6. The "jack" is somewhere right of the "10" card.

Here you go Drac:

K 8 10 Q A J 9

Here's an interesting riddle...

Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it.

Hows about this one:

I display things neatly in rows,
Things common, exotic and some rarely known.

Many of these things there can be,
A few, a dozen or a hundred and three.

By combining my wares one can make cakes,
One can make forests, or one can make lakes.

I can be found color coded,
Black and white, or diligently noted.

I organize ingredients from light to heavy
The selection of which there is a bevy.

Although my order occurs naturally,
It also makes sense to organize factually.

500lb's is the Periodic Table. Drac's has me stumped...is it air, perhaps?

Sorry, it's not air...

It's a casket.

How far can you get into the woods?

To the center...

That wasn't a very good riddle... sorry Borg, too easy for you... here's an interesting one.

I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?

Originally posted by DracRomin
That wasn't a very good riddle... sorry Borg, too easy for you... here's an interesting one.

I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?

A shoe.

Or a nympho-druid with an ass fetish...

The shoe is the right answer...

You go in one hole and come out three. You are then properly inside. What is it?

T-Shirt?

Yup.

Here's another riddle...

You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?

An onion?

Yes, you are right Borg.

Here's another interesting riddle...

All about, but cannot be seen,
Can be captured, cannot be held,
No throat, but can be heard.
What is it?