riddles

[John B.]

Thought we could use some riddles.

A man goes to a hardware store, when he get home his wife says "did you get them?" He said "yes for 500 it was $6." "Oh so they were $2 each" said the wife.

What did the Man Buy? first to get it rights wins the prize down below


PRIZE: A BIG GOOD JOB!!!

[Victoria]

HOUSE NUMBERS. BOOYAH.

[John B.]

GOOD JOB. also how did you know that one? dont like that it happen that fast.

[Victoria]

Haha I'm just a riddle master I suppose

[John B.]

Haha I'm just a riddle master I suppose

i feel like calling bs on that but untill i have proof i will believe you.

[sinsandman]

3 men get a hotel room for $30. Each man pays $10. Upon getting to their room the cashier realizes the room should have only been $25, so he sends the bellhop to take them back $5. The bellhop thinks to himself "3 men cannot split $5" so he kept $2 and gave the men back $3. So each man now only paid $9 each...which totals to $27...plus the $2 the bellhop kept...that equals $29...where is the other dollar?

[Puffy]

3 men get a hotel room for $30. Each man pays $10. Upon getting to their room the cashier realizes the room should have only been $25, so he sends the bellhop to take them back $5. The bellhop thinks to himself "3 men cannot split $5" so he kept $2 and gave the men back $3. So each man now only paid $9 each...which totals to $27...plus the $2 the bellhop kept...that equals $29...where is the other dollar?

That's not so much a riddle as it is poor maths, trying to add numbers together in a way that makes no sense to the actual problem. Yes each man paid $9, but that includes the $2 that the bellhop kept, you can't just add it again. So $27 in total that they paid ($25 for the room + $2 for the bellhop) and each man got $1 back. So that accounts for the entire $30.

[sinsandman]

Ok puffy...didn't mean to interrupt your physics class with my poor math problem. It is meant to be played out as I explained it, not some math problem to be solved for a grade...take it easy

[Puffy]

Ok puffy...didn't mean to interrupt your physics class with my poor math problem. It is meant to be played out as I explained it, not some math problem to be solved for a grade...take it easy

Sorry, didn't mean to come across all prissy Was just trying to answer the riddle, and the answer really is that the question is wrong It's a neat little bit of narrative that tends to throw people for a loop initially.

[sinsandman]

There ya go that be the correct answer! Point for the Puff

[Puffy]

A young girl tells you, "I was seven years old two days ago, but I'll be ten next year." How is this possible?

[John B.]

dark matter, she was 7 went into space for 2 yeas but reversed how travel normally works and only was gone for 2 days.

[Puffy]

dark matter, she was 7 went into space for 2 yeas but reversed how travel normally works and only was gone for 2 days.

Lol, that's an interesting take on it And actually, with a bit of reworking, it could work. If the little girl was staying on earth and you travelled in a space ship at relativistic speed, then time would pass more slowly for you relative to the earth. So when you returned after a year, more time would have passed on the earth. Provided the young girl knew the speed you'd been travelling at (and had a crazy knowledge of relativity for a 7 year old) she could have calculated the relative times you would both experience.

However, there's a more mundane example that doesn't require accelerating you to significant fractions of the speed of light

[John B.]

yea i know what it is but dont want to give it away.

[Kanped]

She was seven 2 days ago, so she is now 8... next year by calendar i.e. she'll be 9 before the year ends, and 10 before the next year ends.  Would it have to be New Years Eve and pass midnight during the sentence?

[Puffy]

Would it have to be New Years Eve and pass midnight during the sentence?

Very close, but not quite No need for the day to change during the sentence.

[Victoria]

Is her bday Dec 31st and it's New Years day when she tells you this? Because that would make her 8 now, and next December 31st she'll be 9, but it's still the same year as this New Years Day. Then next year on New Years Day she'll be 10.

I'm telling you, if I think long enough I can usually get em.

[john]

IF there is a TABLE and there is a book, the only possibilities are that the book is on the table or off the table. to get the right answer to the riddle you have to tell me a third possibility.

Think very hard, it took me a while to figure out.

[John B.]

the table is a book.

[Kanped]

It could be IN the table.  Probably not right but it is another possibility.

[Victoria]

What if it's not a physical table? What if it's a table of something? Like a table of numbers. It could be a table in a book.

[john]

Damn shes right, it was a table in a book, like a periodic table in a science book.

Hmm next riddle:  How many letters are in "the alphabet"?

[John B.]

the answer is 8. tricky but very easy.

[sinsandman]

I count 11 letters

[Kanped]

Just curious...

what is X

2 + 2 x 2 = X