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DuDeR MaN

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« Reply #165 on: February 16, 2004, 07:00:00 AM »
QUOTE (muggs @ Feb 16 2004, 12:52 AM)
Nope didn't say that one wrong at all.

actually you worded it a bit wrong.  It still works, I'm just saying.   Believe me, I know my riddles.
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muggs

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« Reply #166 on: February 16, 2004, 10:14:00 AM »
QUOTE (DuDeR MaN @ Feb 16 2004, 12:00 PM)
QUOTE (muggs @ Feb 16 2004, 12:52 AM)
Nope didn't say that one wrong at all.

actually you worded it a bit wrong.  It still works, I'm just saying.   Believe me, I know my riddles.

Not to be an asshole but watch Nemesis Game. I got it from there word for word.
dazdastardly is probably right there may be several variations to some riddles.

Anyway what has an answer but has no question?



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« Reply #167 on: February 16, 2004, 12:51:00 PM »
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You are given two pieces of identical string, each exactly 1 meter long, along with a box of matches. Each piece of string, burns for exactly one hour, albeit not constantly (ie one section of each string burns longer then another). You are then removed of any devices that enable you to tell the time. Your task, is to figure out how to measure 45 minutes, using just the two pieces of string!


The answers to this were both wrong.  If you burn the strings at opposite ends, then you will have two different pieces of string after they have "crossed".  You can't measure 15 minutes with different strings.

Also, if you make a makeshift sundial, 45 minutes will have already passed and you're really taking 1:45 to do it.  Besides, it's not exact.

Here's the solution:

Burn string A at both ends, and at the same time, burn string B at one end.  String A will completely burn out in 30 minutes.  At this time, light the other end of string B (which still has 30 minutes left).  Now, the string will completely burn out in 15 minutes, for a grand total of 45 minutes.
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« Reply #168 on: February 17, 2004, 05:55:00 AM »
QUOTE (muggs @ Feb 16 2004, 04:32 AM)
Poor people have it, rich people want it and god fears it.

What is it?




muggs

Its happiness!

Poor have it because you dont need money to be happy

The rich cant buy it

God fears happiness...why else would he have placed me on this god forsaken planet??? Because he doesnt want me to be happy!
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« Reply #169 on: February 17, 2004, 09:50:00 AM »
QUOTE (Tobison @ Feb 17 2004, 10:55 AM)
QUOTE (muggs @ Feb 16 2004, 04:32 AM)
Poor people have it, rich people want it and god fears it.

What is it?




muggs

Its happiness!

Poor have it because you dont need money to be happy

The rich cant buy it

God fears happiness...why else would he have placed me on this god forsaken planet??? Because he doesnt want me to be happy!

Good thinking but no.




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« Reply #170 on: February 17, 2004, 01:21:00 PM »
is the answer to that one "NOTHING" ?  there have been a few similar riddles with "nothing" as the solution.  i think it went something like "what is greater than god, more evil than the devil, the rich need it, the poor have it, and if you eat it you die?"

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muggs

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« Reply #171 on: February 18, 2004, 10:03:00 AM »
Correct it is nothing.

No guesses on this one?:

what has an answer but has no question?



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DuDeR MaN

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« Reply #172 on: February 18, 2004, 08:13:00 PM »
uh... a phone or a phone call or an answering machine or something along those lines?
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« Reply #173 on: February 19, 2004, 09:52:00 AM »
Correct a phone.




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« Reply #174 on: February 20, 2004, 08:57:00 AM »
Another riddle:

"I'm a strange creature, for I satisfy women,
a service to the neighbours!
No one suffers at my hand except for my slayer.
I grow very tall, erect in a bed, I'm hairy underneath.
From time to time a good-looking girl, the doughty
daughter of some churl dare to hold me, grips my russet
skin, robs me of my head and puts me in the pantry.
At once that girl with plaited hair who has confined
me remembers our meeting. Her eye moistens."

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« Reply #175 on: February 20, 2004, 10:16:00 AM »
heh.. sounds a little suggestive..but i'd say.. an onion.
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« Reply #176 on: February 20, 2004, 10:29:00 AM »
QUOTE (romeoso @ Feb 20 2004, 01:16 PM)
heh.. sounds a little suggestive..but i'd say.. an onion.

Yeah, that was too suggestive. If I didnt have my mind in the gutter I mighta thought of that.
Good job  beerchug.gif
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Grospolina

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« Reply #177 on: February 20, 2004, 01:57:00 PM »
QUOTE (IVoLtAgEI @ Feb 20 2004, 06:54 AM)
alright heres one that took me a while to figure out:

You have one golden bar segmented into seven pieces.  There is a man that will work for you for one week, and every day you must pay him one piece of the bar, but you can only make two breaks in the bar.  Where or how do you make the two breaks?

It's binary!

You break it into pieces of length 1, 2 and 4.  You trade the pieces back and forth with him each day (we are assuming he still has the gold each day).

Day 1: 1
Day 2: 2
Day 3: 1 + 2
Day 4: 4
Day 5: 4 + 1
Day 6: 4 + 2
Day 7: 4 + 2 + 1

Edit: What's the point of getting paid every day if you can't spend it until the end of the week? dry.gif
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« Reply #178 on: March 08, 2004, 02:21:00 AM »
bobby dazzler has held the title of strongest man in the world for 3 consecutive years yet there is one thing-that weighs virtually nothing-that he finds impossible to hold for more that a couple of minuets what is it?
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« Reply #179 on: March 08, 2004, 06:57:00 PM »
his breath?
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