The Riddle Thread

[xjohnieboyx]

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for the number sequences that haven't been solved, I got:

5) R
7) 14
10) 1080

can't seem to figure out 2 :/

[Vishnal]

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Good job guys. A lot of good answers.

I think the sequences are a bit easier than the analogies. I tried to make them hard, but alas I can only make sequences so hard without relying on nonsense or ambiguities. It's easier to make really hard analogies.

A hint though, for the analogies:

I've noticed a lot of you arn't paying enough attention to the left side of the analogy. It's there for a reason. If it wasn't I would just ask for another word for such and such. Most of them arn't just 'what is another word for this' (a couple are, the easier ones). You have to use logic to deduce the reasoning behind the analogy itself, which is why a lot of you are turning up lots of 0.5 point answers that only logically follow the right side of the analogy ;p

Specifically 3, 9, 11, 13, 14 appear to be the hardest because they involve a lot of logic along with vocabulary.

But on 9, because TEACHER:MENTOR::BULLY

Should the answer not be TORMENTOR, because it has the same word at the end, except a different beginning?

12 is AILUROPHILE because an ailurophile is one who adores cats, just as a xenophobe fears strangers.

11 is NORTH AMERICA because the ancestors of the horse, ass, and zebra all originated from this area in the Paleocine Epoch, just as India, Australia, Africa, South America, and Antarctica originated from the single land mass known as Gondowanaland.

14 is DEFECTION because its definition is betrayal (turning one's back on), just as genuflection is bending the knee to the ground religiously. You can defect from your church, so both can be used religiously.

[Reach]

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Tormentor is absolutely the correct answer. It's a better answer than Hector, IMO, but Hector is also acceptable. It's a hard question because many words fit the right side but not the left.

You got 11 and 14 wrong. You are close when you say North America though. (Hint: Gondowanaland doesn't exist anymore)

And is 11 Equidae?

No

Zodiac age isn't #5 either. #5 is interesting...the analogy itself is very basic but few know the answer.

Or just have a decent vocabulary

I suppose, though decent is an understatement. I have a rather large vocabulary but have to rely extensively on a dictionary to solve these, particularily because they're just not common enough for me to have them on the tip of my tongue.

That and the majority of my vocabulary is words I would use while writing, where as this tests a lot of obscure name knowledge (and thus is probably the most 'riddle' like thing I've posted here so far ).

[Vishnal]

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Tormentor is absolutely the correct answer. It's a better answer than Hector, IMO, but Hector is also acceptable. It's a hard question because many words fit the right side but not the left.

You got 11 and 14 wrong.



No

Zodiac age isn't #5 either. #5 is interesting...the analogy itself is very basic but few know the answer.



I suppose, though decent is an understatement. I have a rather large vocabulary but have to rely extensively on a dictionary to solve these, particularily because they're just not common enough for me to have them on the tip of my tongue.

11: My next guess would be EOHIPPUS/HYRACOTHERIUM, the earliest ancestor of the horse, ass, and zebra. Just as Gondowanaland (Now called Gondowana) was the basis of the listed countries/continents, or the "ancestor" of their modern formations.

[Reach]

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EOHIPPUS is correct. North America did not diverge to give a horse, ass, ect >__>. Also, North america still exists. Two reasons why it is a bad answer.

[Vishnal]

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EOHIPPUS is correct. North America did not diverge to give a horse, ass, ect >__>. Also, North america still exists. Two reasons why it is a bad answer.

LOL... I couldn't think of much else.

Also, is #5 "MILANKOVITCH CYCLE?"

[Reach]

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0.5 point answer.

If you google --> define it the answer is in the definition, though

Not very many more left to solve now. Has anyone figured out the spatial problem (Other guy got it wrong)? What a cranium crusher that is.

[Vishnal]

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5: "CYCLE OF PRECESSION"

Original Brain Pain:

Ten.

The cube can be cut by the tetrahedron so that there are four pieces of the tetra visible: the three corner parts and the apex.

If the tetra is large enough, it can cut deeply enough into the cube so that the cube is sliced into six volumes.

I think.

[GuidoHunter]

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Tetrahedrons only have four points; pyramids have four bases and an apex.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Vishnal]

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Guido- Whoops. Pyramids are pentahedrons, LOL.

Guess changed to ten solids.

Formula: Hopefully a+b
Where a is the number of faces on the first 3-D solid,
And B the number of faces on the second.

~Vishnal~

[1M_4_N008]

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More Brain Pain: Analogies

Here are some ridiculously hard analogies. You are free to use a dictionary or other resources if you want. Generally there is only one correct answer. I will accept more than one for some. Anyone with an average vocabulary won't get any of these right, so cookies to anyone that can get some of them. Maybe 1/2 points if you're close but not exact.

Oh yea, and if you can help it avoid other peoples answers.

1. FALL : AUTUMNAL :: SPRING : ?

2. ONE : MONO :: FEW : ?

3. LIFE : VITAL :: BIRTH : ?

4. X^2+Y^2=Z^2 : PYTHAGORAS :: X^n+Y^n = Z^n : ?

5. 24 HOURS : ROTATION :: 26,000 YEARS : ?

6. WATER : SWIMMER :: CAVE : ?

7. TAUGHT BY ANOTHER : PUPIL :: TAUGHT BY ONESELF : ?

8. GENERALIZED : LOCALIZED :: ANEMIA : ?

9. TEACHER : MENTOR :: BULLY : ?

10. * : ASTERISK :: 'e'ROTATED180DEGREES :

11. INDIA, AUSTRALIA, AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA, ANTARCTICA : GONDWANALAND :: HORSE, ASS, ZEBRA : ?

12. FEAR OF STRANGERS : XENOPHOBE :: LOVE OF CATS : ?

13. TINTINNABULATION : ONOMATOPOEA :: BITTERSWEET : ?

14. BEND ONE'S KNEE TO : GENUFLECTION :: TURN ONE'S BACK ON : ?

Have any of these not been answered or been incorrectly answered so far? If so, which ones? I'm losing track...

[Reach]

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I don't think these have been correctly answered

2. ONE : MONO :: FEW : ?
7. TAUGHT BY ANOTHER : PUPIL :: TAUGHT BY ONESELF : ?
13. TINTINNABULATION : ONOMATOPOEA :: BITTERSWEET : ?
14. BEND ONE'S KNEE TO : GENUFLECTION :: TURN ONE'S BACK ON : ?

[RandomPscho]

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2. Poly
7.Autodidact
13.EDIT: Oxymoron?
14...

[slipstrike0159]

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2. Its not poly, thats too simple plus i think that means many. So is it pauci? or maybe oligo?

[GuidoHunter]

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I'm guessing Poly isn't right, since that was posted before.

And I also guess that poly's wrong because many =\= few.

What a prefix for few is I can't think, unless it's tri or something.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com