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WindWip
10-27-2006, 01:49 PM
Got a good question, puzzle or riddle? Throw it here.


Here's a couple of my favorites -

1.

2
12
1112
3112
132112

Whats the next number in the sequence?


2. An 8 letter word, one vowel, one syllable and every living thing has it (to one degree or another).


3. Here's an easier one:
30 white horses on a red hill, first they chomp, then they stomp then they stand still.

LionelHutz
10-27-2006, 09:52 PM
1: Honestly, I've got two possible answers for this one:

1113122112 or 312213, although my money's on the first one.

3: Is there a question that I'm missing?

WindWip
10-28-2006, 02:24 PM
Well, the first one was right - it's usually written like this:

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
etc...

What was your reasoning for the second possibility?

Oh, and the third one was a riddle from The Hobbit. It's a description of something.

LionelHutz
10-31-2006, 12:32 PM
What was your reasoning for the second possibility?

The second possibility is just adding up the number of ones, twos, and threes.

es347fan
10-31-2006, 06:42 PM
What am I?
First…

Twenty small white horses on a red hill,
They chomp, stamp, stomp,
Then they all stand still.

Later…

Thirty big white horses on a red hill,
They munch, crunch, lunch,
Then they all stand still.
What are they?

Teeth (http://tom-cat.myweb.hinet.net/page6.htm)

:drinktoth

es347fan
11-07-2006, 09:18 PM
Go to the stockyard and purchase some animals for the farm. You're given $100.00 and may buy any combination of animals sold. You must come home with 100 animals and have spent exactly $100.

Cows: $10.
Sheep: $ 5.
Pigs: $0.50

Have at it.

MacKenzie
11-09-2006, 02:59 PM
5 Cows
5 sheep
50 pigs

es347fan
11-09-2006, 05:12 PM
5 Cows
5 sheep
50 pigs

You spent $100 and only came back with 60 critters. Spend $100, bring 100 home.

Ride4Life
11-09-2006, 06:27 PM
Bought 200 pigs, which cleaned out the pen. Found a buyer for a hundred of them at a buck a head, sold them at a profit, then blew the profits at the local cat house

100 bucks
100 pigs
and one happy farmer

WindWip
11-09-2006, 06:34 PM
Go to the stockyard and purchase some animals for the farm. You're given $100.00 and may buy any combination of animals sold. You must come home with 100 animals and have spent exactly $100.

Cows: $10.
Sheep: $ 5.
Pigs: $0.50

Have at it.


1 cow
9 sheep
90 pigs

:thumbs:

WindWip
11-09-2006, 06:35 PM
8 letters
1 syllable
1 vowel
Every living thing has it, what is it?

WindWip
11-09-2006, 06:38 PM
What is broken every time it's spoken?

If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?

MacKenzie
11-09-2006, 07:17 PM
You spent $100 and only came back with 60 critters. Spend $100, bring 100 home.

Oh, yes, I see now. {slaps forehead} :)

LionelHutz
11-09-2006, 09:28 PM
What is broken every time it's spoken?

Silence.

If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?

A lie.

sedan
11-09-2006, 09:57 PM
What's Irish and sits out in the sun?

es347fan
11-09-2006, 10:18 PM
What's Irish and sits out in the sun?

My father

Jenny_92808
04-15-2007, 07:19 PM
What's Irish and sits out in the sun?

Paddy O'Furniture

Here on earth it is true, yesterday is always before today; but there is a place where yesterday always follows today. Where?

Jenny_92808
04-20-2007, 09:23 PM
In the dictionary.

What is black and white and red all over?

Imagineer
04-21-2007, 01:06 AM
It used to be the newspaper, but since the internet is killing them now it's a sunburned zebra.

Jenny_92808
04-21-2007, 11:08 AM
Betting

Question
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).