Puzzle Corner

[Rookie64]

Tim and Tom are natural brothers, (neither adopted). They have the same parents and the exact same birthday, but they are not twins...how is this possible?

They share the same birthday - not the same birth year.

They were born on the same day but not in the same year.

[adam]

I guess I'm not telling these right cause there are too many holes. They have the exact same birthday, both day and year. Sifaga got it right, they are triples, or quadruplets, etc...

[Devanshu]

Here's one that made me think...

What comes in the next row?

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

[daamon]

The way it's written you could ask the one who tells the truth "Does you door lead outside?" If he says yes, choose his door, if he says no, choose the other door.

Yeah, kinda screwed that one up didn't I? On reflection, all you need to know is the guards either always lie or tell the truth, but you don't know which is which. D'Oh! Sorry... It was late...

[daamon]

Ask the guard that you select, "Which door would the other guard tell me to take?"

Right - Did you whip out your VHS of "Labyrinth" (with David Bowie) and get the answer? That's where I got the question from many years ago...

[daamon]

could jesus microwave a burrito so hot he himself could not eat it?

No, coz to get a burrito that hot, it would vapourise and so can't be eaten. On a similar note:

"Can <enter name of any supreme deity> create a rock so heavy that he/she themselves cannot lift it?"

[daamon]

Here's one that made me think...

What comes in the next row?

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

Each row is decsribing the previous row. So "11" reads as "One 1", "13112221" reads as "One 3, One 1, Two 2's, Two 1's" - the row above. So the next row is "1113213211" = "One 1, One 3, Two 1's, Three 2's, One 1"

[daamon]

"Simple...?"

Riddle: What goes up a chimney down, but won't go down a chimney up?

[Rookie64]

could jesus microwave a burrito so hot he himself could not eat it?

No, coz to get a burrito that hot, it would vapourise and so can't be eaten.

Or...if jeex was referring to Christ - no, 'cause microwaves didn't exist in biblical times


However, Jesus could be any person with that name...such as Jesús Salvador Treviño (a director of the show, NYPD Blue) or Jesus Osorio (Artist for the movie, Titanic), etc...and the answer would be yes to any of them, including Christ, because they were/are all human.

[northcat_8]

i'll continue driving, anyway i'm driving a sixteen wheeler truck.

My wife would too...

[Ripper2860]

I'm more powerful than god, more evil than the devil, rich people want me, poor people have me, and if you eat me, you die. What am I?

Nothing !!

Nothing is more powerful than God
Nothing is more evil than the Devil
Rich people want Nothing
Poor People have Nothing
If you eat Nothing -- you will die !!


Riddle me this: A snail is at the bottom of a 15 meter tree. He tries to reach the top. Each day, he manages to climb 4 meters, but during night, while he sleeps, he slips back 3 meters. How many days will he need to reach the top?[[/b]

[daamon]

Riddle me this: A snail is at the bottom of a 15 meter tree. He tries to reach the top. Each day, he manages to climb 4 meters, but during night, while he sleeps, he slips back 3 meters. How many days will he need to reach the top?

According to my calculations, the snale would reach the 15 metres during the day of the 12th day.

"Marbles in a bath"

How many 1 cm diameter marbles can you put into an empty 1 cubic metre bath?

[northcat_8]

The story was told a little different than I have heard it...I heard a hole instead of a tree and the question is how long will it take him to climb out. I am assuming it is looking for the same answer but you can never actually get on "top" of a tree, getting to the top is 15m in this case.

Which most people reply 12 but alas they forget that on the 12th day the snail only reaches 15 m, to get out of the hole it would take him 13 days.

So as the question is stated, he would reach 15m in 12 days.

[Guest]

could jesus microwave a burrito so hot he himself could not eat it?

I think the devil might work better with this one

[tgpo]

"Simple...?"

Riddle: What goes up a chimney down, but won't go down a chimney up?

Umbrella

[stiltman]

"Simple...?"

Riddle: What goes up a chimney down, but won't go down a chimney up?

Umbrella

Who would put an umbrella in their chimney?

[Guest]

"Simple...?"

Riddle: What goes up a chimney down, but won't go down a chimney up?

Umbrella

Who would put an umbrella in their chimney?

Santa Poppins and Mary Clause

[northcat_8]

I'd put a umbrella in Mary Poppin's "chimney" alright....

[daamon]

Umbrella

Yep.

@northcat_8 As she was then, or as she is now...?

[offline]

ewwwwww

[thecoalman]

You have 5 squares, make 4 squares. You can only move 2 sticks, no loose ends inside or outside the squares, you must use all the sticks, no rectangles and no crossing them.


Not sure if anyone answered the 3 guys go to a hotel riddle at the beggining of this thread but they paid $27 dollars for the room minus the two dollars tip for the bell hop eqauls 25 plus the 3 dollars they got back is 28 plus the 2 dollars they gave bell hop is $30

My father told me that when I was about 8.

[daamon]

There's 5 squares by sharing match-sticks between squares. Counting all the match-sticks gives 16. From there, just a case of four separate squares, each of four match-sticks:

[daamon]

"Fairground Worker"

The main merry-go-round at a fairground needs a fresh lick of paint on the decking that people walk on. This decking is effectively a larger circle with a smaller concentric circle cut out (see diagram).

A fairground worker is given a ball of string and told that by using the string as in the diagram - a straight line from one edge of the circle, just touching the edge of the "hole" and over to the other side - he can figure out how much paint is needed to repaint the decking for the merry-go-round.

How is this done?

[thecoalman]

Ummmmm, you can only move 2 sticks. Says that. I other words you can only move two from there current positions and you have to use them and there has to be no loose ends and they have to be squares.

[daamon]

Oh yeah... The excitement of thinking I'd got it got the better of me! Back to the drawing board...

[northcat_8]

I don't think that would qualify as loose ends inside?

[thecoalman]

Guess it is four squares, but thats not it. Four seperate squares,sorry I should have benn a little clearer on that. This is great bar gag....I've seen drunks look at it for hours. Wait til you see the solution. Has to be four squares no other shapes.

[flaninacupboard]

i also don't think it would qualify as square!

[tgpo]

[thecoalman]

Daamon almost had it, he just had to connect them correctly.

I have another one but can't make a visual aid and might be tough to explain. Place your hands toghether like your clapping with your thumbs sticking up. Put a pencil between the crooks of your thumbs, clamp the pencil with both thumbs. Now you have to manipulate the pencil so that both your hands are flat with you thumbs underneath and the pencil is still in the crook of your thumbs. In other words if the pencil was a pull-up bar for exercising you would start by hanging from your thumbs which would be on top of the bar, you would end as if you were hanging from it regularly with your fingers on top and your thumbs wrapping around the bottom.

At no time can the pencil leave the crooks of your thumbs, it would be really hard to show you exactly without making a vid.