No, this is not a Batman thread and no, The Riddler is not the villain for the new movie. This a thread for riddles, brain teasers, and the like. No real rules here other than if you're going to answer someone's riddle, quote them then put the answer in spoilers. I'll start it off.
A man is at a graveyard crying over a grave. A priest comes up to him and says 'What bereaves you?' This is the response the crying man gave. 'Brothers and sisters, I have none. For this man's father is my father's only son'
How are the dead man and crying man related?
Next riddle:
You have a liter and two pieces of string – that’s all. These two pieces of string will burn for 1 hour each, although the strings burn at different speeds at different times in the rope.
So if you were to light one end of the string it would take an hour to burn through the rope; however, the half way mark on the rope won’t necessarily be ½ hr (it may burn quickly initially, then slowly burn near the end).
Your goal is to time 45 minutes using the lighter and the two pieces of rope
Final riddle:
Three brothers in an endless race.
A family Marathon.
The first is short and fat and trudges slowly on.
The seond is tall and thin and keeps a steady pace.
The third is like the wind, speeding through the race.
"For though he's surely number 1." the other brothers say, "He's second in a way."
Why?
Try and answer (without googling the first couple words of each riddle).
#2: Light one rope from both ends and the other rope from one end at the same time. When the first rope is done burning, 30 minutes will have gone past and the other rope will be halfway through its burn. At that point, light the other end of the second rope. It will take 15 minutes to burn the rest of that rope away (half the time of half the rope). 30+15=45.
For the third one I want to say that since the race is endless, the fastest brother catches up on his slowest one and ends up second behind him. Since it's endless, he doesn't have any real advantage over him and the slowest brother is first from his own point of view.
But that's probably not the answer.
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FramlingFaceHeadGeebs has bad ideas.Registered Userregular
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#2: I have a liter of what?
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you're = you are
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
I sought my first in starry skies, where shines the April sun
My second came before my eyes, and warned me to be done
'tis very hard to lose one's sight, I'm blind as bat or mole
Once hills and fields were my delight, now I'm no more my whole
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Ubikoh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by thenRegistered Userregular
For the third one I want to say that since the race is endless, the fastest brother catches up on his slowest one and ends up second behind him. Since it's endless, he doesn't have any real advantage over him and the slowest brother is first from his own point of view.
As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives, each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits, kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St Ives?
Also you have 30 seconds to answer this or I'm blowing up a busy intersection in New York.
For the third one I want to say that since the race is endless, the fastest brother catches up on his slowest one and ends up second behind him. Since it's endless, he doesn't have any real advantage over him and the slowest brother is first from his own point of view.
As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives, each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits, kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St Ives?
Also you have 30 seconds to answer this or I'm blowing up a busy intersection in New York.
You have a liter and two pieces of string – that’s all. These two pieces of string will burn for 1 hour each, although the strings burn at different speeds at different times in the rope.
So if you were to light one end of the string it would take an hour to burn through the rope; however, the half way mark on the rope won’t necessarily be ½ hr (it may burn quickly initially, then slowly burn near the end).
Your goal is to time 45 minutes using the lighter and the two pieces of rope
This riddle would have made more sense when Day9 told it if he had explained initially that the string burns at different rates on different parts of the strings, and thus the point on the string the flames are at is totally unpredictable except right when you first light it and when it reaches the end.
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As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives, each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits, kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St Ives?
Also you have 30 seconds to answer this or I'm blowing up a busy intersection in New York.
ONE, IT'S THE GUY!
I'm afraid you're too late.
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Ubikoh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by thenRegistered Userregular
As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives, each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits, kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St Ives?
Also you have 30 seconds to answer this or I'm blowing up a busy intersection in New York.
Riddling is one step in the traditional method of making Champagne or sparkling wine, that helps to consolidate sediment prior to removal.
Madame Nicole-Barbe Clicquot objected to the often cloudy appearance of Champagnes of the early 1800s. Upon her husband's untimely death, the young widow became head of Champagne Clicquot. Determined to improve the appearance of her product, she found that shaking the bottles loosed sediment stuck to their sides. The sediment would eventually settle to the bottom if the bottles were left upright. To get the deposits closer to the neck, she used gravity, cutting holes in her kitchen table to place the bottles upside down. In 1810, she employed Anton Muller to improve and refine the process that came to be called riddling.
Instead of using remodeled kitchen tables, bottles are placed at a forty-five degree angle, necks-down, in specially built "A-frame" racks, called pupitres. A worker grabs the bottom of each bottle, giving it a small shake, an abrupt back and forth twist, and while slightly increasing the tilt, drops it back in the rack. This action recurs every one to three days over a period of several weeks. The shaking and twist is intended dislodge particles that have clung to the glass and prevent the sediments from caking in one spot; the tilt and drop encourage the particles, assisted by gravity, to move ever more downward; the time in between riddlings allows the particles to settle out of solution again.
As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives, each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits, kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St Ives?
Also you have 30 seconds to answer this or I'm blowing up a busy intersection in New York.
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Also I always laugh at the mental image of this polygamist dragging his 7 wives around who are each carrying 392 meowing, hissing, clawing cats in 7 sacks.
That guy's a fucking sociopath someone call the authorities.
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very good
I need more riddles and spoilers
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hey guys how many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb
edit t:Yaya: Yeah sure
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that logic puzzle thread we had a while ago (i think viv made it?) was rad
i remember marsh solved this ballin-ass riddle that had given me a lot of trouble
Light the other string at one end
When first string burns out light the other string at the other end
Edit: Damnit, so close!
as many sisters as she has brothers
but each of her brothers
has twice as many sisters as brothers.
how many children do I have?
"A baby" is the answer to all three, depending on how many limbs you cut off
But that's probably not the answer.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
My second came before my eyes, and warned me to be done
'tis very hard to lose one's sight, I'm blind as bat or mole
Once hills and fields were my delight, now I'm no more my whole
7, 4 girls 3 boys
(it's a clock)
Also you have 30 seconds to answer this or I'm blowing up a busy intersection in New York.
oh goddammit
ONE, IT'S THE GUY!
This riddle would have made more sense when Day9 told it if he had explained initially that the string burns at different rates on different parts of the strings, and thus the point on the string the flames are at is totally unpredictable except right when you first light it and when it reaches the end.
I'm afraid you're too late.
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the answer is always semen
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I want to punch it
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Punching is the best way of solving riddles.
Some goddamn magic door giving you trouble when you wanna loot the tomb?
Hit it some.
Also I always laugh at the mental image of this polygamist dragging his 7 wives around who are each carrying 392 meowing, hissing, clawing cats in 7 sacks.
That guy's a fucking sociopath someone call the authorities.
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