The Riddle Thread

[xjohnieboyx]

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the one coin that isn't a nickel is a quarter, and the other is a nickel

heard it b4


here's one:

A man rode into town on Friday. He stayed for 3 nights, and left on Friday as well.

How?

[Mirror_rorriM]

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A quarter and a nickel. One of them isn't a nickel but not both =P.

[Kilgamayan]

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A man rode into town on Friday. He stayed for 3 nights, and left on Friday as well.

How?

Horse's name was Friday.

[acknerr]

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I was afraid people had heard my riddle before, but I still like it. I'll find more.

[GuidoHunter]

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The only problem with riddle threads is that they're often just a regurgitation of common riddles that at least someone's heard before, so it's more of a storytelling/waiting game.

Try finding some more original ones to keep some real thought going.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[spyke252]

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spyke is hanging out on a heavily forested island that's really narrow: it's a narrow strip of land that's ten miles long. let's label one end of the strip A, and the other end B. a fire has started at A, and the fire is moving toward B at the rate of 1 mph. at the same time, there's a 2 mph wind blowing in the direction from A toward B. what can spyke do to save himself from burning to death?! assume that spyke can't swim and there are no boats, jetcopters, teleportation devices, etc.. (if he does nothing, spyke will be toast after at most 10 hours, since 10 miles / 1 mph = 10 hours)

Assume he knows basic survival skills, and that he doesn't want to die, i.e. the answer is not "Let him go drown to death so he won't burn to death"

[Tps222]

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Heh. This little riddle I made myself.

There was a man whose wife cheated on him. He got so angry that he pushed her down a cliff and ripped her body into pieces. Where is this man?

Hell?

[akuma696]

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well if its an island there will be a beach so all he would have to do is go as far into the water as he could without having to swim.

if this is right someone else can take the next one.

[spyke252]

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nope.

[acknerr]

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here's one:

A man rode into town on Friday. He stayed for 3 nights, and left on Friday as well.

How?

The only explination I can think of is that he didn't stay there three nights in a row.

[Tps222]

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It was already answered.

Friday was the name of the horse.

[DanWandin]

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Three men walk into a motel and ask for a room.

The desk clerk says a room is $30 so each man pays $10 towards the cost. Later, the clerk realizes he made a mistake, that the room should have been $25.

He calls the bell boy over and asks him to refund the other $5 to the three men. The bellboy, not wanting to mess with a lot of change dividing the $5 three ways, decides to lie about the price, refunding each man $1 and keeping the other $2 for himself.

Ultimately each man paid $9 towards the room and the bellboy got $2, totaling $29. But the original charge was $30, where did the extra $1 go?

//Dan

[spyke252]

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Three men walk into a motel and ask for a room.

The desk clerk says a room is $30 so each man pays $10 towards the cost. Later, the clerk realizes he made a mistake, that the room should have been $25.

He calls the bell boy over and asks him to refund the other $5 to the three men. The bellboy, not wanting to mess with a lot of change dividing the $5 three ways, decides to lie about the price, refunding each man $1 and keeping the other $2 for himself.

Ultimately each man paid $9 towards the room and the bellboy got $2, totaling $29. But the original charge was $30, where did the extra $1 go?

//Dan

The math is wrong, and that is really old.

[Tark]

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Yeah Fairly Old.

[DanWandin]

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Oh I didn't know, I'd only heard of it yesterday.

But I think it would tickle the brain more than some of the riddles in this thread don't you think?