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Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:08 pm
by ender516
Okay, here goes:

A man goes into a restaurant. The waiter asks for his order, and he replies, "H I J K L M N O". What does he want?

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:11 am
by jonesthecurl
A small subset of alphabetti spagetti?

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:31 am
by ender516
jonesthecurl wrote:A small subset of alphabetti spagetti?

:lol: ,but no, sorry, :(

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:58 am
by YoursFalsey
Where the bathroom is? (Shortly to P)...

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:06 pm
by ender516
YoursFalsey wrote:Where the bathroom is? (Shortly to P)...

Ehhhh, you're gettin' warmer, Doc. *chews carrots noisily*

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:53 pm
by xelabale
A glass of distilled mineral water from the highest mountain steppes of Russia

What's black and white and red all over?

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:58 pm
by jonesthecurl
xelabale wrote:A glass of distilled mineral water from the highest mountain steppes of Russia

What's black and white and red all over?



A communist penguin. But it's not your go.

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:21 pm
by ender516
jonesthecurl wrote:
xelabale wrote:A glass of distilled mineral water from the highest mountain steppes of Russia

What's black and white and red all over?



A communist penguin. But it's not your go.

Well, he did jump the gun a bit, but his answer is essentially correct. "H I J K L M N O" are the letters H to O
:arrow: H2O :arrow: water. Of course, "distilled mineral" water is a bit of an oxymoron, since distilled water has no mineral impurities in it, and a steppe is an arid treeless grassland plain, not typically found in a mountainous area, but why nitpick? Since [player]xelabale[/player] rushed in, and you have a pretty good answer for his question (I might have said an embarassed nun), why don't you pose the next problem, [player]jonesthecurl[/player]?

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:38 pm
by jonesthecurl
OK, what's red and green and blue and yellow, and black and white and black, and red and green and blue and yellow?

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:01 pm
by anonymus
jonesthecurl wrote:OK, what's red and green and blue and yellow, and black and white and black, and red and green and blue and yellow?

what field are we looking for here?

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:32 pm
by jonesthecurl
Not so much a field but we are outdoors.

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:33 am
by YoursFalsey
Butterflies on Acid? (Personal decison whether the acid is for the butterflies or the viewer...)

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 1:48 pm
by jonesthecurl
No, but the summery feel is good.

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:53 am
by anonymus
jonesthecurl wrote:OK, what's red and green and blue and yellow, and black and white and black, and red and green and blue and yellow?


ok id say a barbecue with some copper impurities in the coal so you also get the green flame.. all of the other colours you would find in it..
black for coal white for ashes and red/green/blue/yellow for flames..

Edit; so how about it the curl? yes/no/close ?

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:34 am
by jonesthecurl
OK, that's the most logical answer so far, so you can have a go.
[dons kevlar armour and takes cover before revealing answer]

The answer is:
What's red and green and blue and yellow and black and white and black and red and blah blah blah?

A penguin in a deck-chair.

[ducks]

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:57 pm
by anonymus
ok, so lwta try a word-puzzle.. it works like this.. you have to find 2 letters who are missing in 2 places in a word to make it complete..
for example in b__kp__k you add ac to get backpack

since its kind of easy especially for native speakers.. but on the other hand the riddles has been kind of abstract (i'd point at [player]jonesthecurl[/player] but he is hiding) lately so ill just post 3 words..
__da__ted
__at__
s__ur__e

/ :?:

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:25 pm
by Simon Viavant
Is it the same two letter for all of those words?

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:55 pm
by anonymus
Simon Viavant wrote:Is it the same two letter for all of those words?

oh,, i was unclear there.. no its 3 separate words wit 3 separate 2letter combinations..

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:41 am
by ender516
anonymus wrote:ok, so lwta try a word-puzzle.. it works like this.. you have to find 2 letters who are missing in 2 places in a word to make it complete..
for example in b__kp__k you add ac to get backpack

since its kind of easy especially for native speakers.. but on the other hand the riddles has been kind of abstract (i'd point at [player]jonesthecurl[/player] but he is hiding) lately so ill just post 3 words..
__da__ted
__at__
s__ur__e

/ :?:

undaunted
orator
saturate

I'm too tired to think of a puzzle just now, so if I don't come back within 24 hours with something, somebody jump in.

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:16 pm
by trinicardinal
I guess its more than 24 hours now...

A homeless man collects cigarette butts from which he makes whole cigarettes. One day he collects 64 butts. Assuming he smokes all the cigarettes he made how many cigarettes did he smoke?

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:31 pm
by xelabale
one fatty

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:48 pm
by slowreactor
trinicardinal wrote:I guess its more than 24 hours now...

A homeless man collects cigarette butts from which he makes whole cigarettes. One day he collects 64 butts. Assuming he smokes all the cigarettes he made how many cigarettes did he smoke?


You need to clarify. How many cigarette butts does it take to make 1 cigarette?

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:38 pm
by ender516
trinicardinal wrote:I guess its more than 24 hours now...

A homeless man collects cigarette butts from which he makes whole cigarettes. One day he collects 64 butts. Assuming he smokes all the cigarettes he made how many cigarettes did he smoke?

I think you at least need to tell us how many butts it takes to make a whole cigarette.

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:07 am
by Masli
trinicardinal wrote:I guess its more than 24 hours now...

A homeless man collects cigarette butts from which he makes whole cigarettes. One day he collects 64 butts. Assuming he smokes all the cigarettes he made how many cigarettes did he smoke?


64

Re: Riddles and Puzzles

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:03 am
by ender516
ender516 wrote:
trinicardinal wrote:I guess its more than 24 hours now...

A homeless man collects cigarette butts from which he makes whole cigarettes. One day he collects 64 butts. Assuming he smokes all the cigarettes he made how many cigarettes did he smoke?

I think you at least need to tell us how many butts it takes to make a whole cigarette.

My reasoning is that if, say, he needs four butts to make one cigarette, then 64 butts becomes 16 cigarettes, which become 16 butts when he smokes them, which then become four cigarettes, which become four butts when he smokes those, which become one final cigarette, which he smokes down to a butt which he will have to save till tomorrow (if he lives that long). Therefore, that day, he smoked 16 + 4 + 1 cigarettes for a total of 21.