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i've seen a few riddle threads goin around lately that havn't exactly lasted too long, so i'm gonna post my favourites and hope they take a little longer to solve.
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(SOLVED BY KBZ) 1. Egg, Fish, Foundation, Table, Bet. Which is the odd one out? (reasoning preferred)
(SOLVED BY GRAFF) 2. My _____ is _____ than my wallet. Which one word can fit both gaps? (there may be more than 1 answer with this one, we'll see what happens)
(SOLVED BY SERBZ) 3. Sheriff Tom Jones rode into town on Friday, stayed three nights, and left early Sunday morning. Explain.
(SOLVED BY GRAFF) 4. What object can you cut clean through, and be left with one object with two ends?
(SOLVED BY ZERO) 5. They are a dozen-strong gang, laden with jewels, weapons, internal organs and gardening equipment. Some of them are visually impaired, yet they have been sighted all over the place. Who or what are they?
(SOLVED BY PACE) 6. I bumped into my long-lost uncle from Alaska in the street. I'd never met him, seen his picture or heard him described, yet I recognised him immediately. How?
(SOLVED BY NEWTON) 7. My grandmother is one of the sweetest, politest and most generous people I know, so imagine my surprise when I found a book in her house called "Go to Hell". On closer inspection I realised my error. Explain.
(SOLVED BY DEFIANCE) 8. Dave looked under a table and saw a hand, completely detached from an arm. He looked over at Alan, and although all his fingers and thumbs were in place, and his hands were attached to his arms, he knew the hand beneath the table must be his. He stood up and punched him. Why?
(SOLVED BY SERBZ) 9. You can use three identical digits in a simple addition sum so that the total is 12. You cannot use the digit 4, so what is the answer?
(SOLVED BY XADIUM) 10. A completely naked man robs a newspaper kiosk, and then runs off into the crowd. The police are unable to find him, and all the witnesses have trouble describing him. Explain.
(SOLVED BY ENVY) 11. BCDFGHJL?VWXYZ. What is the only letter of the alphabet not represented here?
(SOLVED BY XADIUM) 12. A horse jumps over a tower and the tower disappears. It's not an illusion or a dream, so where could this happen?
(SOLVED BY PEKI) 13. Three switches outside a windowless room are connected to three light bulbs inside the room. How can you determine which switch is connected to which bulb if you are only allowed to enter the room once?
(SOLVED BY XADIUM) 14. When you complete the following brain jumble, it has LA on one side and NY on the other. What is it? _ _ _ / _ N _ _ E _ / _ _ A _ _ _
(SOLVED BY ZERO) 15. 1, 13, 16, 61, ?, 217. What is the missing number in this cryptic sequence?
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good luck & enjoy !
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2. My lighter is lighter than my wallet
4. A ring or hoop
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| LAST EDITED BY graff ON 22/10/08 09:41pm |
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12. He jumped over the world trade centre while it got planed.
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3. Friday is the name of his horse.
I remember that from many years ago lol..
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9. 11 + 1 = 12
PS. I believe I just owned you Nodz, a number is different to a digit, a digit is only one number. ie, 0-9.
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| LAST EDITED BY serbz ON 22/10/08 10:15pm |
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yeah, misread that... fail.
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6. I bumped into my long-lost uncle from Alaska in the street. I'd never met him, seen his picture or heard him described, yet I recognized him immediately. How?
Cose he was wearing a name tag?
You were with someone that had met him?
You planned to meat up with him via email?
He has the family birthmark on his face?
He was screaming his name out?
He was LOOONG... and he was lost in the area?
He was wearing a heap of winter clothes and it was summer cose his from Alaska?
His seen a picture of you before?
If its none of these ill commit suicide i swear
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| LAST EDITED BY NazenemY ON 22/10/08 11:42pm |
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keen #8, but no, none are correct
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i remember doing riddle 13 once in science back at school, if i still had my book, id have the answer :P
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8. it was his hand in a card game like poker or sumFing
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long-lost uncle is a place or somesort
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13.
Turn on 1 switch wait 1 min... then turn on the second switch and wait 5 secs....
turn em off and go in da room
- hot bulb belongs to switch 1
- warm bulb switch 2
- cold bulb switch 3
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#13, flip one switch on, flip another switch on but turn it off after a few mins, go inside 1 will be on, 1 will be warm but off, and the 3rd will be off
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close but no cigar pink_troll
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#14 wtf?
#15 no
#16 & #17 yea same idea, within 2 minutes of each other too
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#1 foundation, its the only one with more vowels than consonants
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#6 he was riding a polar bear
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yer u have a point
#20 fair enough but not what i'm after
#22 no
#23 WTF
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#10 he robbed it at night
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7 - It was a volume of a dictionary/encyclopaedia, the next volume was Hellebore to Krakatoa
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1 - bet is odd one because it is a verb
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6. I bumped into my long-lost uncle from Alaska in the street. I'd never met him, seen his picture or heard him described, yet I recognised him immediately. How?
its ur dads twin brother.. ur uncle is that right?
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wow nearly all solved, well done on all people who solved them, only Qs 1, 5, 10, 12 & 15 left... gl!
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12. Game of chess, horse piece jumps the tower and the tower is taken from the game.
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I'm confused by the naked man robbing a kiosk.
Only ideas i have had are naked march, nudist colony.. ;(
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on fire xadium, nudist colony/beach is right, anyway bedtime
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1. can't lay a fish
fish odd one out
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LOL #8
huge kick in the face in the end
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I thought bet was the odd one out - Egg is the foundation for a fish, table can be the foundation for whatever is put on it and foundation is the implication of them all.
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| LAST EDITED BY graff ON 23/10/08 12:14pm |
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