I don't get this riddle...As I was going to St. Ives,I met a man with seven wives;Every wife had seven sacks,Every sack had seven cats,Every cat had seven kits:Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,How many were there going to St. Ives?Answer: One.
Only the man was going to St. Ives.Where were the wives? THE KITCHEN.
Actually wait, lol.YOU are going to St. Ives - the man is coming FROM St. Ives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_Was_Going_to_St_Ives
As *I* was going to St. Ives.
The answer is everyone. Because if you're not going to church, you're a heretic, and we know what happens to heretics.
NO RIDDLER, YOU ARE THE ONE
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>>814564And then the Riddler was Neo.
Every wife was carrying seven sacks, and each sack contained seven cats, so every wife was carrying 49 cats. Each cat had seven kits, so each wife was carrying 343 kits. An average cat weighs roughly ten pounds; this is an estimate, but it'll do. An average just-newborn kitten weighs about 3 pounds; the kittens in the sack were probably a bit older than that, but let's go with 3 pounds.The total weight of cats each wife was carry is 490 pounds, and the total weight of kittens is 1029 pounds, adding to an impressive 1519 pounds, or 466 kilograms. The current world mens' weightlifting record is only 266 kilograms, and that's for a clean-and-jerk, not for a continuous carrying of weight as the wives are impliedly doing.tl dr; -4 to STR has obviously been disproved.
>>814571this is why I love /tg/
>>814571All it said is that they had them.
A beggar's brother went out to sea and drowned.But the man who drowned had no brother.What was the relationship between the man who drowned and the beggar?
The beggar was the sister of the man who drowned.
What is it-That we love more than life,Fear more than death,The rich want it,The poor have it,The miser spends it,And the spend-rift saves it?
>>814595Nothing.
>>814595Lol, nothing. Everybody past the age of 8 should know that by heart.
Two fathers and there sons went fishing. Each man caught a fish, but at the end of the day they only had 3 fish in the keep net.how is this possible?(No fish were eaten or stolen, etc.)
>>814595Nothing
>>814602Grandfather, father, son - there were only 3 people
>>814602Grandfather, Father, Son.
WHAT CAN CHANGE THE NATURE OF A MAN?
>>814615When he realizes how fine the feeling of Cawk in Ass is.
I loved that game. Raping your immortality in the ass is cool.
>>814554I guess nobody here has seen 'Die Hard with a Vengeance'.
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.It lies behind stars and under hills,And empty holes it fills.It comes first and follows after,Ends life, kills laughter.
>>814717Your cock.
>>814717ZOMG I KNOW THIS ONE ITS FROM THE HOBBIT OH MAN WHATS THE ANSWER I KNOW IT
>>814717Darkness?
Shape without form, shade without color,Paralyzed force, gesture without motion
Whats in my pocket?
Eientei has 1,000 bunnies, all of whom are greedy, ruthless and perfectly rational (lol Lawful Evil). Each knows that all of the other bunnies share these same characteristics. They are ranked from 1 to 1,000, based on seniority. The bunnies discover a massive cache of carrots, but cannot agree on how to divide them up. They ultimately decide to hold a series of votes. At each iteration, the bunnies can vote either to kill the lowest-ranked bunny who is currently alive, or to divide the carrots up equally. A 50 percent or greater vote for dividing up the carrots will result in the split. Each rabbit will try to get as many carrots as it can for itself, but is logical enough to make sure it does not get killed. How many bunnies will remain when they decide to split up the carrots? Why?
I love these.
>>814733Hmm... I reckon all 1000 might survive - number 3 to number 999 know they're next to go once they start killing, which makes them not want to do so - therefore voting for splitting at once.
>>814581Brotha'* The guys were black duh. Nigras call everyone brother.
>>814741>Number 2Fix'dStill, 4 bunnys out of the 1000 wont earn them the 50%. About 250 bunnys would have to die befpre that to happen.
>>814742Sister, fuckwit.RTFT
>>814733All. They realize they are all in potential danger and vote for the split.
>>814733They'll split once they're down to 512. "Work backwards. Bunny 1, of course, can never die; neither can Bunny 2, who can vote to split when only she and Bunny 1 remain. Similarly, Bunnies 3 and 4 are safe; 3 will vote with 4 to split when only four are left, because she would rather have 1/4 of the carrots than be killed by 1 and 2 and get nothing. This reasoning can be extrapolated to when 8 bunnies remain, and in fact to any power of 2. Note, however, that the highest power of 2 below 1000 is 512. Thus, Bunnies 513-1000 will be unable to marshal a majority to save themselves and will all be killed, at which point 257-512 will vote to split 512 ways, saving their cotton tails."I read the site.
>>814746LEARN2SARCASM FUCKWITMY ANSWER IS VALID BECAUSE HE STILL HAS NO BLOOD BROTHER. WHEN NIGRAS CALL EACH OTHER BROTHER THEY DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO BE BROTHERS SO INDEED THE MAN STILL HAS NO BROTHER.Fucking internet rage jackass.
>>814745Number one and number two are never in danger of dying, and will, as such, always vote to kill the rest. (Until they're the only ones remaining, at which point Two will force a split)
>>814757Thing is, as >>814754 pointed out, you can extrapolate it to any power of two. If there are two of them left, #2 will call split because he doesn't want to get lynched. If there are four left, #3 and #4 will split because they know they'll get whacked if they don't. Repeat four 8 bunnies, 16, 32, etc.
>>814765Indeed. I posted >>814757 before reading that one.
Alive without breathAs cold as deathNever thirsty, ever drinkingAll in mail, never clinking
>>814774Fish.
>>814779is correcti have a giant fucking page of these somewhere, and that's the only good one i can remember off the top of my headgonna start looking for it
What is a man?
>>814810A MISERABLE PILE OF SUCRETS.
Alice has 12 dolls. Each of them weighs exactly 1 pound, but one of them is defective, weighing a slightly different amount than the other 11 (but otherwise identical), although Alice does not know whether it weighs less or more than 1 pound. Using just a balance, how can she identify the defective doll in just 3 weighings?
>>814853I've got some ideas. Most of them involve your ass.
>>814717this was "time"
>>814859Looks like Mr. "I don't want you posting Touhou pics in my ToB thread" is here.
>>814859S-so...tsundere...*swoon*
Screw the Hobbit, I has better riddles...What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a head but never weeps?
>>814853Desu!
>>814889River. Come on, you have to do better than that. We're all hooked on the classics in this thread.
>>814889RIVER BITCH
I LOVE DIE HARD 3
There was spy, and he wanted to get into a base, but the gate was guarded. He snuck as close as he could so that he might hear the password.Not long after, a man walks to the gate and hears a voice shout "Twelve"The man replies "Six." The gate opens, he goes inside.Soon another man walks up to the gate. A voice shouts "Six."The man answers, "Three." The gate opens, he walks in.By now the spy has figured out the code so he walks confidently up to the gate. A voice shouts "Ten." The spy answers with "Five" and is shot dead. What was the correct answer, and why?
>>815007"Twelve" has 6 letters. "Six" has 3 letters. For "Ten", the man should've said 3.
>>815028What?but "Six" has three letters and "Three" has five. Hows is this supposed to work?
>>815040disregard, cocks. I get it.
>>815040My own initial guess was that the number just had to start with the next letter of the alphabet. But that would require a number beginning with U.
There is a thing that nothing is, and yet it has a name; 'tis sometimes tall and sometimes short; It joins our walks, it joins our sport; and plays at every game.
A man is trapped in a room with no windows and no doors. The only things in the room is a bed and a calendar. How does he survive?
>>815060A shadow.
>>815061He eats the bed.
>>815067Close, but no.
>>815066Correct.As a whole, I am both safe and secure.Behead me, and I become a place of meeting.Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready.Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts.What am I?
>>815072forest?
>>815061How did he get in without doors and window...?
I have a heart that never beats,I have a home but I never sleep.I can take a man's house and build another's,And I love to play games with my many brothers.I am a king among fools.Who am I?
>>815075Well, if you really want to know, the guy pissed off one of the more inventive crimelords in his town, who's front was a construction company. Earlier that day the crimelord drugged the guy's drink, so when he went back to his house on the outskirts of town, the crimelord sent his guys in to brick up all the exits and stucco over that. The crimelord wasn't a very smart guy, as he realized later when the cops showed up at his doorstep saying that he was the only guy who had the resources to pull this stunt after the man he trapped survived and witnessed to them.But how did he survive for the week it took for the cops to investigate his house?
Sir, I bear a rhyme excellingIn mystic force and magic spellingCelestial sprites elucidateAll my own striving can't relate
My dress is silver, shimmering gray, spun with a blaze of garnets.I craze most men: rash fools I run on a road of rage, and cage quiet determined men.Why they love me-lured from mind, stripped of strength -- remains a riddle.If they still praise my sinuous power when they raise high the dearest treasure,They will find through reckless habit dark woe in the dregs of pleasure.
>>815085I had to google it. What a shitty riddle. Play on words ftl.
>>815085Is that seriously how it goes? Because my first guess as to how he got in there was 'he got drunk one night and passed out, asshole friends at a construction firm decided to fuck with him.'And as for how he broke out, it's just stucco, right? Can't he just bust out of the place?
>>815105Ugh, missed the part about bricking up the exits. I'm a retard.
>>815105Brick AND stucco. The guy who was after him was thorough (I don't know anything about construction, I'm just assuming that's what they use.)Anyway, answer the riddle!
>>815114Fine. He ate the fucking dates. And, once a week, had a Sundae.
>>815122You forgot the part where he drank water from the springs in the mattress, but you're mostly right besides that.
puns ftl
>>815085the drunk guy went home to the wrong house
It's interesting to dig up old riddles and then modify/add to them.I'm a strange creature shaped for battle.Kills with a whistle, yet remains chattel.Unwound I will not obey any man; Bound tight, I serve. Say what I am.
>>815138Steel toed boots?
>>815098Isn't that from Beowulf? Maybe I'm thinking of something else. But the answer is wine in a cup.>>815028Good job it usually takes people forever to get that one.
>>815072>>815079>>815098>>815138Still no answers to these. I could tell people the solution to one, if anyone's got a preference.
>>815138A bow.
>>815151Nicely done.
>>815097No answer to this one either.
>>814853Wasn't the start something like weighing the first set of 4 against the second set of 4. If they balance, then the discrepancy is in the third set of 4.
>>815155I looked it up. Gee, how silly of me not to have caught that.
Now, when Tweetle Beetles fight, it's called a Tweetle Beetle Battle. And when they battle in a puddle, it's a Tweetle Beetle Puddle Battle. AND when Tweetle Beetles battle with paddles in a puddle, they call it a Tweetle Beetle Puddle Paddle Battle. AND when Beetles battle Beetles in a Puddle Paddle Battle, and the beetle battle's puddle is a puddle in a bottle, they call this a Tweetle Beetle Bottle Puddle Paddle Battle Muddle. AND when Tweetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles, and the bottle's on a poodle, and the poodle's eating noodles, they call this a Muddle Puddle Tweetle Poodle Beetle Noodle Bottle Paddle Battle.
>>815138A Sentry
>>815168>>815151 has the correct answer, but damn if that's not a nice guess. I came up with the second line myself and that possibility never occurred to me.
>>815098Is my answer to this one correct - wine in a cup?
>>815180Yeah. That your answer or google's?
Here's a good one, if I can remember it correctly. Don't spoil it if you already know or look it up, jerks.On a secluded island in the middle of nowhere, there lives a group of perfectly rational, perfectly dutiful monks. These monks believe that possessing blue eyes is a sin, and so if any monk ever discovers this his eyes are blue, he must commit suicide that night. However, although the monks all see each other every day for meals in the great hall, they never communicate to one another (except insofar as it is necessary to prepare meals, etc.), and there are no reflective surfaces of any kind. So for many years, the monks live peacefully. One day, however, a visitor comes to their island and spends the day observing them. As he leaves, he remarks to the monks that he has never seen such striking blue eyes anywhere else in the world.What happens?
What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end and the end of every place?
"Runs over fields and woods all dayUnder the bed at night sits not alone,With long tongue hanging out,A-waiting for a bone."
>>815196Nothing? There's no way of knowing who in particular he was referring to.
>>815199a slut
>>815198"e"That's an easy one.
>>815198It's similar to something that happens twice in a moment, a single time each month, and once in a million years.
>>815199a dog?
>>815199...some sort of...shoes? Slutty shoes?
>>815195Neither. Wasn't that in Beowulf? Sorry for taking so long to reply, my baby is throwing a fit.
>>815212Could be, it hails back to the middle ages.
If the princess was as old as the prince was when the princess YOU MUST GATHER YOUR PARTY BEFORE VENTURING FORTH YOU MUST GATHER YOUR PARTY BEFORE VENTURING FORTH YOU MUST GATHER YOUR PARTY BEFORE VENTURING FORTH YOU MUST GATHER YOUR PARTY BEFORE VENTURING FORTH YOU MUST GATHER YOUR PARTY BEFORE >>815196This works out like the witch and gnomes riddle, right?
>>815200Oh, wait. I should clarify: If more than one monk has blue eyes, no one dies. If one monk has blue eyes, he will die. If no monk has blue eyes, they all die. Yes?
>>815198The letter "e">>814853Shit, this one is hard, I can only think of half of the solution. It's the whole "not knowing if it's more or less than 1 lb" that's the tricky part.Separate the dolls into three groups of four. measure two groups. If the two measured groups are equal, the third group contains the odd doll. Measure two dolls from one of the two normal groups, and two dolls from the odd doll group. If they are equal, the two dolls not measured contain the odd doll. If they are not equal, the two dolls measured contain the odd doll. Measure one doll from the correct group and one doll from whichever pair contains the odd doll. If they are equal, the doll not measured is the odd doll. If they are not, the doll measured is the odd doll.Still trying to figure out what to do if the two groups measured are not equal without wasting a use of the scale.
>>815222Nope. You got one part right though - if there's only one blue-eyed monk, he'll kill himself.Here's a hint: All the monks are perfectly rational, and they all know that each other monk is perfectly rational.
>>815222Wait... how do they all die if no one has blue eyes?
Similar to the bunnies. It is pirates!There are five rational pirates, A, B, C, D and E. They find 100 gold coins. They must decide how to distribute them.The Pirates have a strict order of seniority: A is superior to B, who is superior to C, who is superior to D, who is superior to E.The Pirate world's rules of distribution are thus: that the most senior pirate should propose a distribution of coins. The pirates should then vote on whether to accept this distribution; the proposer is able to vote, and has the casting vote in the event of a tie. If the proposed allocation is approved by vote, it happens. If not, the proposer is thrown overboard on the pirate ship and dies, and the next most senior pirate makes a new proposal to begin the system again.Pirates base their decisions on three factors. First of all, each pirate wants to survive. Secondly, each pirate wants to maximize the amount of gold coins they receive. Thirdly, each pirate would prefer to throw another overboard, if possible.What is the final distibution of the booty?(I'm lazy, so I copied the text from the wiki place).
>>815238I think you'll have to explain the thought process to me, there's some factor to the logic that I've missed.
>>815264Well, my answer is apparently incorrect, but my thinking was that they would each conclude that since none of their fellows have blue eyes the visitor was referring to them. This does mean they assume the visitor was telling the truth, of course.
>>815264Each monk assumes he is the one with blue eyes. "The stranger says one of us has blue eyes, but none of my brothers do, then it must be me!"
Monk solution:Because of the visitor, the monks know that at least one of them has blue eyes. So let's go through this case by case. If there's only one blue-eyed monk, he'll realize it immediately. Since he sees all the other monks, none of whom have blue eyes, he must the one to which the visitor refered. Consequently, he will kill himself on the first night. What if there's two blue-eyed monks? Each of those monks will see the other blue-eyed monk and expect him to commit suicide on the first night, since they know that the other monk would follow the rationale above. But when neither of them DOES commit suicide on the first night, each of the two will realize that it is because there is a second blue-eyed monk: himself. Consequently, those two monks will both kill themselves on the second night. Three monks works the same way. Each of them sees the other two blue-eyed monks, and expects them to commit suicide on the second night. When they don't, they realize it must be because there's yet another blue-eyed monk: himself. So all three will commit suicide on the third night.Clearly this goes on indefinitely. The end result is that if there are X number of blue-eyed monks, they will all kill themselves on the Xth night.
I turn polar bears whiteand I will make you cry.I make guys have to peeand girls comb their hair.I make celebrities look stupidand normal people look like celebrities.I turn pancakes brownand make your champane bubble.If you squeeze me, I'll pop.If you look at me, you'll pop.Can you guess the riddle?
>>815317some kinda air
The word has 7 letters, preceded by God, greater than God, more evil than the devil, and if you eat it, you will die.
>>815325Wrong.
>>815326Mary-Sue.
>>815326Nothing?
>>815326,meet >>814595.
>>815326nothing
>>815072Stable
Something that happened that shouldn't have/something that didn't happen that should have.Picture related, but not topic.
>>815097I remember reading this riddle somewhere before.And damned if I can't even figure what the fuck it's even trying to say, let alone crack it.
A man and his son are driving, and their car stalls out on some train tracks. They get out and try to move the car, but a train comes along and hits them. The man is instantly killed; the son, tossed dozens of feet, is critically injured. Paramedics come and rush the boy to a hospital and into the OR for emergency surgery. The resident surgeon takes one look at the boy and says, "I can't operate on him. He's my son."How?
>>815392surgeon's a chick
>>815397Well, it's his mother, yes.
>>815383Tron?
>>815269They all get drunk and have a shoot out, no survivors
>>815238ooc and if they all have blue eyes.
>>814554I'll riddle you with bullets I will ya green bastard!
