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 Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:38 pm
Kazenge Kazenge They drove it across during the winter when the lake was frozen solid. Thwarted. I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:39 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:01 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:39 pm
Hmmm. A piano?
A large truck is crossing a bridge 1 mile long. The bridge can only hold 14000 lbs, which is the exact weight of the truck. The truck makes it half way across the bridge and stops. A bird lands on the truck. Does the bridge collapse? Give a reason.
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:26 pm
No, because it drove half a mile, thus some of the gas was used up, making it weigh less.
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:12 pm
How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't hit anything, there is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it?
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:34 pm
Throw it up in the air.
Here's a toughy
100 prisoners are locked up in prison. Each prisoner in his own cell. They cannot communicate with each other, except for the one afternoon when they all arrived in prison.
Every day, the warden picks one prisoner at random and brings him to a
room with a lightbulb and a lightswitch. The lightbulb is in whatever
state it was left the day before. The prisoner can now choose from 3
things:
1) he leaves things as it is
2) he toggles the lightswitch
3) he states that all 100 prisoners have been in this room at least
once.
After option 1 or 2, the prisoner is brought back to his cell. If the
prisoner decided to go for option 3, but he is wrong, they are all
executed. If he is right, they all go free.
Given that the prisoners are aware of this evil game that the warden is
going to play with them, what is the strategy they should decide on the
day they arrived in prison, when they could still talk to each other?
Assume the prisoners know the bulb is initially at the off position.
Note: random means random. It may happen that the same prisoner is
chosen 2, 3, or more days in a row.
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:13 pm
One of them is chosen to be the "counter" and they agree that whenever someone goes in the room for their first time only, they turn the light off, if the are picked again they leave it on.The counter turns it on every time he is in the room.
Therefore every time he has to turn it back on means that a different prisoner has been in the room.
When he counts up to 99 he knows that all of them have been in the room...counting himself makes the hundred......it could take a long time though using this method as the counter would have to be picked many times.
There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks.
There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks.
There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks.
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:26 pm
*cough* I think you left out a part of the riddle. Assuming it means how many ducks are there I am going to say 4.
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:18 pm
okay...try this on for size.
you are captured by a tribe of canabals
the chief is a logical sort and says to you
"you will make a prediction of the next couple days. if it comes true you will be thrown off a cliff. if it is false you will be eaten by lions."
you think for a minute and give the chief a answer that forces him to let you go.
what was the statement?
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:55 pm
You tell him "you will not let me go."
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:07 am
wrong
if you say you will not let me go that becomes true
so you would be thrown off a cliff
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:22 am
fire axel 08 okay...try this on for size. you are captured by a tribe of canabals the chief is a logical sort and says to you "you will make a prediction of the next couple days. if it comes true you will be thrown off a cliff. if it is false you will be eaten by lions." you think for a minute and give the chief a answer that forces him to let you go. what was the statement?
I'm pretty sure it should be:
"I will be eaten by lions"
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:53 am
Kazenge *cough* I think you left out a part of the riddle. Assuming it means how many ducks are there I am going to say 4. You haven't said whether or not Lightwater's answer is correct.
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:53 pm
Well, Kazenge is correct for my last riddle, thus I will assume I'm right for the one you're referring to, Symbolism.
I tremble at each breath of air, and yet can the heaviest burdens bear. What am I?
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