Conquer Club

_sabotage_ wrote:Your avatar is a bit like a blood thirsty imp ; ).

Well I would put my avatar up from my other site but I'm afraid with my user name it would cause some confusion and wouldn't be very fitting....

rishaed wrote:The imp also lost the bet b/c if you told the truth you would be beheaded, and if you lied you would beheaded, therefor you made a statement in which neither was possible.

There would be no need for me to lie, despite my reputation I actually tell the truth quite often really... and I did tell the truth.... however you are right there was a bit of word play on my part, I did tell a statement that made my beheading an impossibility... because my statement was quite valid no one could dispute it... what was my statement

1) I bet you will cut off my head
2) I am a Hydra
3) I am the Headless Horseman

nàme wrote:1) I bet you will cut off my head
2) I am a Hydra
3) I am the Headless Horseman

What the bet was over had nothing do with the wager (my head), I simply wagered my head because I knew I could talk my way out of losing it should I lose the bet ... I am not the headless horseman or Hydra.

Invdr_zim wrote:In a foul bet against a blood thirsty imp I wagered my head.
Much to my dismay I lost the bet. Yet I didn't lose my head.

What did I do to prevent the loss of my head?

Hint: I did not kill the imp and for those who will ask no the
imp didn't have a sudden change of heart, he was actually
very upset about not getting a chance at beheading me.

I know who it is, and I know how he managed to save his neck.

you wagered heads will fall on a coin.

MeDeFe wrote:

Invdr_zim wrote:In a foul bet against a blood thirsty imp I wagered my head.
Much to my dismay I lost the bet. Yet I didn't lose my head.

What did I do to prevent the loss of my head?

Hint: I did not kill the imp and for those who will ask no the
imp didn't have a sudden change of heart, he was actually
very upset about not getting a chance at beheading me.

I know who it is, and I know how he managed to save his neck.

Ok I'll take your word for it, do you want to say the answer now or do you want to wait and have fun with more guesses? Your call

Bombersftw wrote:you wagered heads will fall on a coin.

Nope, the bet its self had nothing to do with heads... good guess though

i bet bombers' answer is more clever than the actual answer...

medefe, why don't you tell us?

john9blue wrote:i bet bombers' answer is more clever than the actual answer...

medefe, why don't you tell us?

Without saying much there is a solid answer and no other can possibly do (I will explain why once the answer is revealed, though I'm sure the answer will explain all) as I am sure MeDeFe knows... were I betting real money than my money says that he knows what the real answer is...

I have a new found love for this riddle as it will debunk the "there is always more then one possible answer for every riddle" arguement.

Here's one

I am one of very few, perhaps the only one, to look like what I represent. What am I?

maybe ∞?

For the bloody imp, I'll go with something along the lines of the Merchant of Venice and for the second, a constellation, I can't remember which one actually looks like the thing it represents.

_sabotage_ wrote:For the bloody imp, I'll go with something along the lines of the Merchant of Venice and for the second, a constellation, I can't remember which one actually looks like the thing it represents.

Nope...

and as for what looks like the thing it represents... my hint is you (should) use it every day

Invdr_zim wrote:Here's one

I am one of very few, perhaps the only one, to look like what I represent. What am I?

Not the only one (unless you use a submarine every day)

The tail on the b is the periscope

crispybits wrote:

Invdr_zim wrote:Here's one

I am one of very few, perhaps the only one, to look like what I represent. What am I?

Not the only one (unless you use a submarine every day)

The tail on the b is the periscope

clever idea as always but not quite...

here's a hint... its a word that, when spelled out, looks like what it is... (I wrote this w/o caffeine so hopefully that makes enough gramatical sense )

Indeed - and that's what I gave you - just not the one you were asking for - now go back to your word and come back when you're rested

crispybits wrote:Indeed - and that's what I gave you - just not the one you were asking for - now go back to your word and come back when you're rested

I'm back from a long rest on my word and I will have another riddle for you soon after I see if I'm working today or not

A king decided to let a prisoner try to escape the prison with his life.
The king placed 2 marbles in a jar that was glued to a table.
One of the marbles was supposed to be black, and one was supposed
to be blue. If the prisoner could pick the blue marble,
he would escape the prison with his life. If he picked the black marble,
he would be executed. However, the king was very mean,
and he wickedly placed 2 black marbles in the jars and no blue marbles.
The prisoner witnessed the king only putting 2 black marbles
in the jars. If the jar was not see-through and the jar was glued to the
table and that the prisoner was mute so he could not say anything,
how did he escape with his life?

i've heard this one before i think, but just to clarify, there are two jars with one marble each, right?

john9blue wrote:i've heard this one before i think, but just to clarify, there are two jars with one marble each, right?

I'm back, sorry for the long absences and yes each jar has one marble

Does he say something along the lines of "I choose jar A, and to prove I should not die I will take the death marble from jar B, therefore as there is one blue and one black and I chose the one that is not this black one here from jar B, the one I chose must be blue and I don't need to take it out of jar A to prove it"?

Edit - meh forget that he's mute - back to the drawing board

john9blue wrote:i bet bombers' answer is more clever than the actual answer...

medefe, why don't you tell us?

I kinda forgot about this thread and didn't think I'd have to spell it out. Besides, I sort of did say how the person in question managed to save himself.

"I know who it is, and I know how he managed to save his neck."

It really boils down to "ok, you can have the head, but you're not allowed to damage my neck." After much debate the other gods decided that he had a point and since no way of removing the head without damaging the neck could be devised, Loki got away with it.

IIRC it was after shaved Thor's wife's head while she was asleep (for the lulz) and had to get some damn nice presents to apologize. He got them but on his way back he came across some dwarf who was working and just had to go "I bet you can't make anything better than what I've got here".
You can pretty much figure out the rest from what's been said so far.

Invdr_zim wrote:how did he escape with his life?

omnomnom

MeDeFe wrote:I kinda forgot about this thread and didn't think I'd have to spell it out. Besides, I sort of did say how the person in question managed to save himself.

"I know who it is, and I know how he managed to save his neck."

It really boils down to "ok, you can have the head, but you're not allowed to damage my neck." After much debate the other gods decided that he had a point and since no way of removing the head without damaging the neck could be devised, Loki got away with it.

IIRC it was after shaved Thor's wife's head while she was asleep (for the lulz) and had to get some damn nice presents to apologize. He got them but on his way back he came across some dwarf who was working and just had to go "I bet you can't make anything better than what I've got here".
You can pretty much figure out the rest from what's been said so far.

so he wagered his head on the condition that his neck not be damaged?

could've just frozen him and removed the head via laser or something