Thread: Riddles Time!

heres a few riddles i found, do any of you have the smarts to solve them?

1.Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?

Originally Posted by amiredah

1. both the gold and feathers weigh the same i.e one pound.

2.Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name?

Originally Posted by amiredah

2. Johnny

3.If, having only one match, on a freezing winter day, you entered a room which contained a lamp, a kerosene heater, and a wood burning stove, which should you light first

Originally Posted by amiredah

3. the match

4.What is the largest possible number you can write using only 2 digits - just 2 digits, nothing else?

Originally Posted by 1cor1313

4. 9^9

5.What English word can have 4 of its 5 letters removed and still retain it's original pronunciation?

Originally Posted by 98abaile

5. Queue

6.12 people say the following statements one after another: 1: There are no honest people in this room; 2: There is at most one honest person in this room; 3: There are at most two honest people in this room . . . . . . . . . . 12: There are no more than 11 honest people in this room. How many honest people are in the room?

Originally Posted by 98abaile

6. 6
reason: If what one person says is true, then everyone after him also has to be honest. So if person 6 ("At most there are 5 honest people in this room") is honest, then bothe he and the 6 people after him are honest which makes 7 honest people, which is more than 5; therefore person 6 is wrong. If person 7 ("At most there are 6 honest people in this room") is honest, then he and the 5 people after him are honest, this meanes there are 6 honest people.

7.What starts with "e" ends with "e" and contains only one letter?

Originally Posted by 98abaile

7. eye? (y being the letter that the 2 Es contain)

that one works, but i was looking for something else what i was looking for was "envelope" haha...

8.Born at the same time as the world, destined to live as long as the world, and yet never five weeks old. What is it?

Originally Posted by 1cor1313

8. The moon? It goes through phases like that maybe...

9.1 door closes, 9 open. When 9 close, 1 door opens. What is it?

Originally Posted by 1cor1313

9. I have to say that I cheated on the last one. I found the answer though. Man. XD. Basically man has 10 "doors" Eyes, ears, nose, navel, mouth, ass, and the peepee place (*giggles* peepee). When you are inside the womb, all 9 "doors" are closed except for your navel and when you are born, you open all nine, and your navel closes.

10. Solve.
a.

Originally Posted by XP_OMG11

I dont know if anybody solved this, but is it...
He came out of nowhere.

b.

Originally Posted by 1cor1313

10. Walk in the park?

c.

Originally Posted by 98abaile

10c. barbershop quartet.

11.While driving home after a hard day's work, I came upon the following problem. An entire town had been painted black; the roads, pavements, buildings, hedges, and everything that did not move had been painted black. In addition, my vehicle's headlights were not working, no moon was visible, and power was off in the area, so there were no street or house lights around. At that moment, I entered a curve where a solid black dog (deaf, and thus unaware of the approaching car) was sitting in the road. He had his back to me, so there was not even a glint in his eye, yet I was able to swerve round him quite easily and without danger. How was this achieved?

Originally Posted by kazechrno

It was during the day.

12.Good at math? Try this one.... 1=3
2=3
3=5
4=4
5=4
6=3
7=5
8=5
9=4
10=3

So what does
11=?
12=?

Originally Posted by avidd

11=6
12=6? i dunno.

Originally Posted by 1cor1313

It's the number of letters in the name...

13.What occurs once in a second, once in a minute, twice in a millennium, but never in the course of a lifetime?

Originally Posted by kazechrno

13. The letter 'n'

14.What 3-letter word in English has an odd start, an even finish and an infinitely long middle? (i dont know what this one is )

15."Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is." (this one should be easy, its like the most famous riddle out there. I hear it a least once a day ,i swear )

Originally Posted by avidd

i got it. language.

feel free to post any riddles you come across as well

...blahz...

1. both the gold and feathers weigh the same i.e one pound.

2. Johnny

3. the match

never heard of no. 4 and 5 before..

Those aren't what I would call riddles.

4. Pi (two digit word, very long number i.e. 1 whole number and an infinite number of decimal places)

5. Queue

6. 6
reason: If what one person says is true, then everyone after him also has to be honest. So if person 6 ("At most there are 5 honest people in this room") is honest, then bothe he and the 6 people after him are honest which makes 7 honest people, which is more than 5; therefore person 6 is wrong. If person 7 ("At most there are 6 honest people in this room") is honest, then he and the 5 people after him are honest, this meanes there are 6 honest people.

7. eye? (y being the letter that the 2 Es contain)

4. 9^9

8. The moon? It goes through phases like that maybe...

9. I have to say that I cheated on the last one. I found the answer though. Man. XD. Basically man has 10 "doors" Eyes, ears, nose, navel, mouth, ass, and the peepee place (*giggles* peepee). When you are inside the womb, all 9 "doors" are closed except for your navel and when you are born, you open all nine, and your navel closes.

Originally Posted by bamboozler

7.What starts with "e" ends with "e" and contains only one letter?

Originally Posted by 98abaile

7. eye? (y being the letter that the 2 Es contain)

that one works, but i was looking for something else

'E'

10. Walk in the park?

10a. Middle of nowhere.

10c. barbershop quartet.

Originally Posted by bamboozler

11.While driving home after a hard day's work, I came upon the following problem. An entire town had been painted black; the roads, pavements, buildings, hedges, and everything that did not move had been painted black. In addition, my vehicle's headlights were not working, no moon was visible, and power was off in the area, so there were no street or house lights around. At that moment, I entered a curve where a solid black dog (deaf, and thus unaware of the approaching car) was sitting in the road. He had his back to me, so there was not even a glint in his eye, yet I was able to swerve round him quite easily and without danger. How was this achieved?

It was during the day.

for 7.... e?


for 12...

11=6
12=6? i dunno.

im not very good at riddles, but they are fun.