Reading Ideas

My thought today was to put riddles on this website to see if any of you guys can solve the riddles. I know this idea isn't orignal, but I know Iv'e heard almost every riddle/puzzling question known to man. Fine, mabye not that much, but still a considerable amount, anyways, here are the rules to this post:

1)Anyone can post a riddle, but only one riddle is allowed at a time until it is solved. If the riddle on the board isn't solved within two days then the person who gave the riddle either has to withdraw their riddle or give the answer, their choice. After two days a person or the same person can post another riddle.

2)The same person can't post three riddles/questions in consecutive order, others have to have a chance.

3)No studpid riddles. You should know what I mean: that stupid chicken crossing the road or something one would find in a children's riddle book. The riddle has to have a reasonable answer.

4)It doesn't necessarily have to be a riddle, it could be an interesting question like the one I am going to start this idea with...

*Of course this post has to become at least semi-popular to work so lets hope it does. Also, if anyone else has some rules that should be added just post them so I can ok it.

Here's the first question:
There are a few answers; this is a question one might here at a job interview. Why are manhole covers round?

Hope you have fun with this idea!

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Why are manhole covers round?

Ummmm...i'm not intentionally trying to sound dumb, but is it because the holes are??

that would seem logical to me...

-mel :S

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As I can remember, we had this question on NAO yet but I don't remember the topic...

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Yup, right here. :-)

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Sorry, I didn't even realize there were any other riddles on this website. Anyways I saw almost all of those, except the last one. Yes the main answer was so the manhole cover doesn't fall through because the diameter is bigger then the hole's diameter. Another solution would be that it is easier to roll around to places when needed. Also it doesn't have any sharp edges.

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Why are manhole covers round?

Manhole covers are round because a circlular cover will not fall through a circular hole. For example, a square cover would fall through a square hole (diagonally); a triangular cover would fall through a triangular hole, etc. But a circle is the only shape that cannot fall through its hole, and therefore, manholes and manhole covers are circular.

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This post was edited by Anduril on May 06, 2003.

Ok, here is another one:

- In the basement of a house there are three switches.
- Each of them switches on and off a light bulb in one of the three upper floors.
- From the basement it is impossible to see if any lights are on.

You enter the basement.
- You are allowed to push as many switches as often as you want.
- However, you are allowed to leave the basement only once.

How can you find out which switch toggles which light bulb?

-marc

You leave one of the lights on, the other one off, and the last one on for awhile to warm the bulb up and turn it off. Go upstairs to see each lightbulb, and feel the two off lightbulbs for warmth.

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Nothing to add. Correct.

-marc

OK, this one is easy:

--------------LOOK
----------LOOK U LOOK
--------------LOOK

What does it say?
Ignore the dashes, the system won't let me make spaces on my post.

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This post was edited by Demiurgic on May 06, 2003.

Is it "Look around you"?

Thbbbbt

Why, yes it is!

Here's a new one:
Joe climbed up a ladder from the concrete street. He dropped an egg 25 feet and yet it did not break. There was no padding on the egg or nets on the bottom. Joe had no tricks up his sleeve. What happened?

It is better to be pissed off than pissed on.

Well... you said yet. Perhaps the egg is still flying...

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

No, it has nothing to do with me saying "yet."

It is better to be pissed off than pissed on.

Demi, this is an easy riddle.

The egg obviously didn't break because, before the egg could hit the ground, a group of evil aliens reversed the effects of Earth's gravity for all eggs in an attempt to confuse us all so that they could invade our planet and proliferate every continent with evil clones of Till Lindeman, Carrot Top, and Richard Simmons. Duh! ^_^

Thbbbbt

I like your answer better than the real one. Your answer will be the new answer, which makes the old answer non-exsistent. But if you were curious, the old answer was that the guy drop the egg 25 feet but climbed up 100 feet; therefore, the egg was still in mid-flight before it hit the ground.

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This isnt quite a riddle, but it's a good one to ponder:

Two cats are walking through the village in which they (and their master) live. One is an English cat named Onetwothree, the other is a French cat named Undeuxtrois. The two cats reach the stream in the middle of their little town, and decide that it'll be more fun to have to cross if they have a swim race to the other side. The two cats are physical equals. Which cat wins?

Thbbbbt

Two cats are walking through the village in which they (and their master) live. One is an English cat named Onetwothree, the other is a French cat named Undeuxtrois. The two cats reach the stream in the middle of their little town, and decide that it'll be more fun to have to cross if they have a swim race to the other side. The two cats are physical equals. Which cat wins?

Kinda forgot to answer this one. . .

Anyways, Onetwothree wins. Know why?

Because the Undeux trois cat sank! (Un deux trois quatre cinq)
Badump-psh!

Thbbbbt

What makes flamingos turn pink? (not a riddle, just a question)

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What makes flamingos turn pink?

Shrimps! Their color is a direct result of their diet, for instance certain sorts of shrimps and algae that contain a lot of carotene.

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Ok, entry level riddle for from a new entry.

A landlord has a father & a daughter as tenants. He comes to the father & says "I'm going to throw you off the land unless your daughter marries me. But I'll give you a chance: I'm goint to put a white stone & a black stone in a bag & if your daughter picks out the white stone, she can go free." But the daughter observes him putting in 2 black stones into the bag. What can she do? (without exposing him)

Pressure makes diamonds.

What can she do? Nothing.

Nothing is the best option - the landlord gets nothing, except for a permanent vacancy. Meanwhile, the family does a planned relocation to another address (which was planned for a few months, given the relations beetween the landlord and tenant are already quire strained for this to occurr.)

In fact, the landlord can get in trouble of his own - it's known as reputation. The instant he attempts to pull something like this off, stories appear stating that the landlord demands that his tenants marry him.

The nice thing about this forum is that NEW solutions to old problems come out. I like ur answer & it too will be a new answer to this riddle. The old answer was that she merely has to take out a stone (black) & hold it in her hand for no-one to see & then shake out the bag to reveal a black stone. The landlord can do nothing unless he is willing to admit that he cheated. (There was supposed to be a policemen somewhere in this riddle... anywayz).

Pressure makes diamonds.

I just wanna ask this prob my teacher gave us..
Here goes nothin'!

Ther are 8 diamonds, all of which are exactly the same except for 1. The objective is to balance the 8 diamonds in a platform balance with only just 2 tries...

Have you read about a problem similar to that a one?

;P

Hmmmmm, it would depend how much you could infer from the appearance of the diamond wouldn't it? By lookinbg at quality and size you could determine whether it was heavier or lighter than the others.

Not exactly sure what you mean by platform balance...Is it one of those see-saw like things? If so, then put one of the regular diamonds withe different one in the very centre and place the others evenly along the ends?

I dont know...Just brainstorming....
-Mel

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Three on the left, three on the right, two aside.

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Well aahhh, writing in for the first time in the riddle post.
Here mine goes:
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50."

The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less.

In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

Is reading in the bathroom considered Multi-Tasking? :)

The guy wrote numbers 1-300 on the page? :)

Nah he wrote the statement
"your exact weight" on a sheet of paper as he promised to write your exact weight..... hehe.

The trick was old as once I read in a book when I was a kid. Its says that I have a pen and I can write any color using this pen on your wish. If you say red, I would have written "red" on a sheet of paper and if you say orange, I would have written "Orange" on a sheet of paper and so on.
Anyway good shot mace :)

Is reading in the bathroom considered Multi-Tasking? :)

This post was edited by fatalerror on Oct 16, 2003.