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Libervurto
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Posted: 19th May 2009 04:47 Edited at: 21st May 2009 06:24
I'm sure there are others who like riddles on here.
Post good ones you find or even write your own.

Riddles I've Found
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? Answer

Riddles I've Written
There is a common English word, eight letters long. You can insert a letter into it or remove a letter from it but its meaning will remain the same. Answer

What is the beggining of the end,
The end of the beginning,
And the start of every generation?


When I'm good you'd fail without me,
When I'm bad I'll make you fail,
When you're youthful you may doubt me,
When you're old you'll tell my tale.


[aarrgh]
Damn it I ran out of space! Why does the PS3 have a character limit!?

There is an eight letter word. You can insert a letter into it or remove a letter from it without changing its meaning. Answer
flashing snall
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Posted: 19th May 2009 05:14
I dont think its meaning will remain the same...


What is the start of etertinty
and the end of the Universe?
It is the end of time
but the start of everything.
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You are a bus driver on the daily bus route. At the first stop, 3 people get on. At the second stop, 2 people get on, and 1 gets off. At the third stop, 5 people get on and 1 gets off. At the fourth stop, 1 person gets on, carrying 2 large suitcases, and nobody gets off. At the fifth stop, 4 people get on, and 1 gets off.
What is the bus drivers name?

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Libervurto
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Posted: 19th May 2009 05:50 Edited at: 19th May 2009 05:53
Flashing Snall just gave me an idea for one that works in two ways.

What is the beggining of the end,
The end of the beginning,
And the start of every generation?
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Posted: 19th May 2009 05:55
What get s bigger the more you take away?

what gets wetter the more it dries?


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Posted: 19th May 2009 06:44
I had five mothers, but it was my warm-hearted father who raised me.
When I died I fell to the ground, as my body turned cold.
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Posted: 19th May 2009 07:51
What is cold and never hot, solid as a rock, and will burn you on the spot.



Hmm... let me think of a better one.


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Posted: 19th May 2009 10:07
What's fat?
What's round?
What bounces on the ground?







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Posted: 19th May 2009 11:56 Edited at: 19th May 2009 11:58
Here's a really tricky one that took me ages to figure out.

You are in a desert and find yourself at a fork in the road. One path leads to a town of truth-tellers, and the other to a town of liars. The truth-tellers only tell the truth, the liars only ever lie.

At the junction you see a man standing there. You don't know which town he's from, but he's definitely from one of them. Your job is to ask him one yes-or-no question to figure out which town is which way.

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Posted: 19th May 2009 15:34
That had me laughing for a while little bill, playground jokes are always the funniest =)

Ever read the hobbit? That has a few good riddles...

This thing all things devours
Birds, Beasts, Trees, Flowers
Gnaws Iron, Bites Steel
Grinds hard stones to meal
Slays King, Ruins town
And beats high mountain down




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Posted: 19th May 2009 16:20 Edited at: 19th May 2009 16:20
I always liked this one ...

There are three light bulbs in a room. There are three light switches outside the room. Each switch operates one light bulb. You can't see the bulbs when you're at the switches. You are allowed to flick the switches in any combination you like, and then move inside the room and close the door. From there, you can't go out again, or operate the switches at all. You have to determine which switch operates which bulb.

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Posted: 19th May 2009 17:13 Edited at: 19th May 2009 17:24
I can be felt but never held,
I can be seen or heard,
I know the sick and wounded well,
And fly on heated word.

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I'm getting quite good at these

@Fallout
I quite like that one. I was pretty close: my idea was to flick one of the switches on and off until the fuse blew so that would expose one of them and the other two like you said.

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Posted: 19th May 2009 17:19
Dude, I'm not sure you are completely infallible! Sorry!

Quote: "The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they"


One is footsteps, and one is footprints. They're not the same thing.

Envelope is good! (I'll give you that! )

You need to change your second line typo on the last one, and I don't get the "fly on heated word" bit.

Mind you riddles, are tricky to come up with, so you're doing better than anyone else at least.
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Posted: 19th May 2009 17:33 Edited at: 19th May 2009 17:54
I didn't write the footsteps one (but I did all the others).
Yes the answer is footsteps not footprints (you can't take footprints), I didn't think about prints but oh well, it's a nice photo

The "fly on heated word" means you can cause someone emotional pain by saying nasty things to them.

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Posted: 19th May 2009 17:40
My bad actually. I meant the "I can be seen or heard" line. I thought it was supposed to be "I can't be seen or heard", but I guess you can argue that you can hear someones pain, and see someones pain.

Also I would argue the insult flies on heated word, rather than the pain itself. But this you can argue the opposite of too!

I think this is a problem inherent in riddles. They're supposed to be cryptic and you are supposed to interpret them incorrectly sometimes. I think I'll just shut up! Picking a hole in a riddle is like picking a hole in swiss cheese.
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Posted: 19th May 2009 17:48
Quote: "Also I would argue the insult flies on heated word, rather than the pain itself."

My meaning was the heated word is the insult and pain is its "payload".

Quote: " I think I'll just shut up! Picking a hole in a riddle is like picking a hole in swiss cheese. "

No, it's good to test them out on hole-pickers like yourself .

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Posted: 19th May 2009 17:57
I can't believe you just called me a hole picker! MODS! MODS! Where are they when you need them!
Omega gamer 89
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Posted: 19th May 2009 21:00
What do you...
throw away the outside,
cook the inside,
eat the outside,
and then throw away the inside?



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Quote: "Ever read the hobbit?"

Only about 14 times

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Posted: 19th May 2009 22:29
I have many, many of these riddles.

1/. What's so special about this group of numbers?

6 7 4 3 7
2 5 4 9 1
7 6 5 2 8
4 3 6 7 3
5 8 3 4 6



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@Nick
That is so hard to guess!
I was adding diagonals and rows and multiplying and everything but didn't think of that, just gave up in the end.

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Posted: 20th May 2009 01:16
I got one that no one will get! *don't blurt it if you know the answer that's lame *

What can destroy mountains, burn the cities of man, and even destroy the universe. Although it can create birds, animals and all other life. It can build a new world, but it has nothing. No legs, arms, month, lungs!

What am I?

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Quote: "@Nick: That is so hard to guess!"


How about this one?

2/. On my way to St. Ives, I met a man with 7 wives, each of the wives had 7 brothers and each of the brothers had 7 sons. Sons, bothers, man and wives, how many where going to St. Ives?



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Quote: "2/. On my way to St. Ives, I met a man with 7 wives, each of the wives had 7 brothers and each of the brothers had 7 sons. Sons, bothers, man and wives, how many where going to St. Ives?"


I know I've heard that in a movie once....Gah, can't think of it. Guy had a British accent.

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Posted: 20th May 2009 02:23 Edited at: 20th May 2009 02:24
I thought that St.Ives one had no answer, the code snippet took ages to load in because my poor desktop is 1600mb into its pagefile thanks to UnrealEd3.

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here's a good one...

LOOK! COUNT DRACULA!

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Posted: 20th May 2009 03:31
Oh! I've got one!

Figure out missing number:

3, __


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i like orange
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@AndrewT: I don't get it.

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3 and 393050634124102232869567034555427371542904833 are the first two Cullen primes! How did you not get that?!?

i like orange
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Posted: 20th May 2009 04:21
I'm not huge on math. I prefer cottage cheese.
Also:
A man and his son are in a terrible car accident.
They are both rushed to separate hospitals.
When the son is taken into surgery, the surgeon says, "I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son."
How is this possible?

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Quote: "A man and his son are in a terrible car accident.
They are both rushed to separate hospitals.
When the son is taken into surgery, the surgeon says, "I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son."
How is this possible?"


I hear that all the time, and to be honest I don't even understand how it's a riddle. Isn't it like common sense? And why can't she operate on him? Does she want him to die?

i like orange
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Posted: 20th May 2009 05:40 Edited at: 20th May 2009 05:41
A man rides into town on Tuesday, stays for three days, then rides out of town on Tuesday. How is this possible?

Quote: "Ever read the hobbit? That has a few good riddles..."

Yes, those are good ones. Which brings me to another one...

What have I got in my pocket?



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Posted: 20th May 2009 06:21
Quote: "A man rides into town on Tuesday, stays for three days, then rides out of town on Tuesday. How is this possible?"


Who names a horse Tuesday, anyway?

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A man, apparently



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Rick Riddles (a famous detective), Slick Shifty (a notoriously shady character who has a large criminal record), Carl Cashmore (a multimillionaire who is legendary for his gambling), Lenard Loafy (a local baker who owes Slick Shifty a small amount of money), Ken Coldson (a man who repairs industrial freezers and ice machines), and Ben Bladely (a local butcher, who recently went through a devorce) were all golfing at the local country club.
After they finished golfing, the six men all went into the sauna.
Rick Riddles brought in a rubix cube he likes to solve repeatedly, Slick Shifty brought in a flask of brandy, Lenard Loafy brought in a waterproof radio, Ken Coldson brought in a Thermos full of tea, and Ben Bladely brought in a pocket knife and a piece of wood which he used to whittle. Carl chose to simply enjoy the steam.
Rick Riddles came out first, got dressed and waited for the others, as they were all planning on going to a local bar.
Six minutes later, Ben Bladely exits the sauna, gets dressed, and goes to his car to get something.
Twelve minutes after that, Lenard Loafy exits the sauna, puts on his clothes, and heads off to the restroom. At this point, Ben returns from his car.
One and a half minutes later, Slick Shifty and Ken Coldson exit the Sauna, get dressed and wait for the others with Rick.
Two minutes after that, Lenard returns from the restroom.
After waiting for Carl for a full twenty five minutes, Rick, Ben, Lenard, Slick, and Ken all go into the sauna to see what is taking Carl so long, only to find Carl has been murdered. They look closer and see that he was stabbed to death, with a very large, deep stab wound.
After calling the police and making sure no one leaves the premises, Rick Riddles searches the entire country club, only to find no evidence of a murder weapon. Neither Rick nor the police are able to determine what the weapon was based on the wound on the victims body.
However, Rick soon declares that he knows who did it and how, and also what the murder weapon was.
What did rick deduce?

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Quote: "A man and his son are in a terrible car accident.
They are both rushed to separate hospitals.
When the son is taken into surgery, the surgeon says, "I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son."
How is this possible?"


I heard this on the Cosby Show, which was filmed in 1985. Have anything a bit more current?

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An airplane was on its way to Canada but crashed on the border of the United States and Canada. Where would you bury the survivors?



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Ive got a good one.Rickroller and who walk on a bridge,rickroller falls in the river,which person stays on the bridge?



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3/. I am a fire. Change one letter and I am a knife. Change another letter and I am a clearing. Change another letter and I am a rank. Change one final letter and I am a fruit. What was I and what did I become?



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Posted: 20th May 2009 15:15
Quote: "What have I got in my pocket?"


If they're anything like mine, sweet wrappers =)

A box without hinges, key or lid
Yet Golden treasure inside is hid....



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Quote: "What did rick deduce?"





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Quote: "An airplane was on its way to Canada but crashed on the border of the United States and Canada. Where would you bury the survivors?"


Haha! You might think I'm joking but this riddle was in the same Cosby Show episode from 1985. Dude.

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10 + 10 = ??

GoodLuck!



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Posted: 20th May 2009 18:39 Edited at: 20th May 2009 18:39
Quote: "Haha! You might think I'm joking but this riddle was in the same Cosby Show episode from 1985. Dude."


Silly Jeku. You and your crazy Cosby theories (I've never seen fyi).

That was just a joke I've heard around the place.


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I like this one.

Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totalling $27. The bellboy has $2, totalling $29. Where is the missing $1?



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Posted: 20th May 2009 23:04
It is a simple maths question:



30 -5 = 25

5 - 2 = 3
3/3 = 1

25 (cost)+3 (refund) +2 (tip) = 30...but 9x3 is the wrong sum.

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Posted: 21st May 2009 00:15 Edited at: 21st May 2009 00:20
Yes, indeed, it would seem that the missing $1 is in the manager's pocket. The correct price for each person is $8.33 recurring - which is quite impossible.

Each person had $10, they now have $1. The bellboy had $0, he now has $2. The manager had $0, he now has $25.

$1 + $1 + $1 + $2 + $25 = $30; what missing dollar?

There's probably some hidden clever wording in there.

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How do you drop an egg three feet without breaking it?

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Pete and repeat were sitting on a bench. Pete left. Who was left?



U see what I did thar?

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@Monk
That egg one is rubbish and beehive is a better answer anyway.
How is egg yolk gold? And it's not much of a treasure, I think honey is more of a treasure, and it's gold too.
A wild beehive that is; indeed man-made ones have lids.

I love the reaction to the hotel one. Post math based riddles at your own risk!

I've been struggling to write another one but finally here it is...

When I'm good you'd fail without me,
When I'm bad I'll make you fail,
When you're youthful you may doubt me,
When you're old you'll tell my tale.


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