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Post by
Kristopher
There was a green house.
Inside the green house there was a white house
Inside the white house there was a red house.
Inside the red house there were lots of babies.
What am I?
There's no "I am" specified?
No, there is. The riddle is describing something.
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468304
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Post by
Worldflayer
All nine, the tide lifts the ship too.
Only one color, but not one size,
Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.
Present in sun, but not in rain,
Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.
What am I?
Post by
552706
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Post by
Kristopher
A shadow?
Mine is: There were 5 men going to church and it started to rain, the 4 that ran stayed wet, the 1 that stayed still was perfectly dry. How is that possible?
Your answer is correct, and the answer to yours is that the four men were coffin bearers and the fifth man was in the coffin.
Its too early in the morning, I got nothin to share.
Post by
Kristopher
'Kay got one. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Post by
EpicDragon
'Kay got one. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow?
Sorry I haven't got any riddle.
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221
What comes next?
Post by
L33tsauce
1113213211
If a bottomless top is too, then what's a bottomless pit?
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
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There are 5 houses in 5 different colours in a row. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage. Clues:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house’s owner drinks coffee.
6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The owner living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.
Post by
lordlundar
Dear god I can't believe I forgot about this thread!
You wake up in the middle of an island that is 10 miles long and 1 mile thick. There is a fire on one end of the island which has already burned 1 mile of land and is moving towards you due to a wind at a rate of 2 miles per hour and in the direction of the other side of the island. Assuming it is impossible to escape the island itself how could one escape being incinerated?
Seeing as no one answered this one properly, I will.
You escape being incinerated by jumping in the water that surrounds the island.
By being unable to escape the island it is assumed that getting into the water is impossible as that would be escaping the island
The answer that I've always taken as correct (although some do vary) is that the optimal way to survive would be to use
back burning
. So, by taking some of the flame, carrying it a decent distance (think 1 mile from the end) setting the forest there on fire the wind carries it to the end of the island and you can safely follow behind, that way when the main fire reaches the already burnt area it dies from lack of fuel
I can't accept that. A proper riddle is supposed to be universal and has to have all relevant but one piece of information available. There is no mention that the water is not accessible, instead relying on an assumption that the person you are telling the riddle to knows your exact definition in this context. Your riddle answer also requires that the person knows what a back burn is and how to do it (which requires a means of preventing the control fire from spreading, also a factor not mentioned)
Besides, unless there's two winds coming from opposite ends of the island (also not mentioned), then with your answer both fires will go in the same direction, either causing the fire to snuff itself out before it reaches you, or speed up your getting incinerated.
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
There is no mention that the water is not accessible
it is impossible to escape the island itself
^
Also, the answer makes perfect logical sense. The only piece of information you need to know ahead of time is that a fire needs fuel to burn.
Post by
L33tsauce
The answer makes sense, sure, but it's not in the spirit of a riddle.
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
The answer makes sense, sure, but it's not in the spirit of a riddle.
How is it not?
Post by
L33tsauce
Well, it's just a quiz on fire-fighting knowledge. It doesn't require anylization of the question or anything.
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
It's called a lateral thinking puzzle. You need to analyze a situation and find out what best fits.
That it's used to fight real fires is irrelevant.
Post by
665124
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Post by
Hyperspacerebel
Well, it's just a quiz on fire-fighting knowledge. It doesn't require analysis of the question or anything.
(fix't a typo)
Also, I agree. It's not a brain-teaser; it's just fire safety trivia.
It's not trivia though. I answered it quite well without even knowing there was an actual firefighting method revolving around it.
Take this:
A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.
Is that all of a sudden a trivia question because you need to know what the elevator button set-up usually looks like? No. It's a lateral thinking puzzle that requires you to think creatively about a situation.
Post by
L33tsauce
It's called a lateral thinking puzzle. You need to analyze a situation and find out what best fits.
Really? Is that what those are?
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
It's called a lateral thinking puzzle. You need to analyze a situation and find out what best fits.
Really? Is that what those are?
I've never heard the term situation puzzle, but that puzzle on that page does involve lateral thinking. You need to know that scaring people is one method for removing hiccups. That doesn't make it physiological trivia.
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ateral thinking
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