BF2S Forums The Riddle Thread

SplinterStrike wrote:

1.) A man lives in an apartment. There are 50 floors in all. The man lives on the 50th floor. Every day, the man takes his umbrella with him and gets on the elevator and goes to the 1st floor where he works. Then, at the end of the day, the man gets back on the elevator and goes back to the 50th floor where he lives. One day, the man went to work but did not take his umbrella and when it was time to go home he gets on the elevator and presses the "25" button and then walks on the stairs 25 more floors up to where he lives. Why?
(Yes, it's easy, but we dont want to go über-riddles yet now do we?)

The man is a midget, and he is only tall enough to reach the "25" button on the elevator without the umbrella

2.) (Another umbrella riddle )      3 big men are standing under a small umbrella, but they are not getting wet. Why not?

It's not raining

3.) How many apples can you fit into an empty bag?

________

4.) A man's head travelled more than 30ft. more than his feet but he was unharmed. How come?

The man is standing up in a plane that is traveling around the world

5.) A group of people at a New Year's Day concert in 1900 couldn't get out of the concert hall doors. The doors were not locked and opened easily. After all, the crowd had entered by them. What was the difficulty?

The doors opened inward, and the people panicked and pressed up against the doors, trying to push them open

6.) What can you hold in your right hand but not in your left?

Your left hand

7.) Fred assembled a device containing thousands of moving parts, yet it only took hima few minutes. What is it?

An Hour glass

8.) Legend has it that the Greek poet Homer died of frustration at not being able to solve this riddle, posed by fishermen of the island of Ios. See if you can do better.

    What we caught, we threw away,
    What we couldn't catch, we kept.

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9.) A director of a large company asks the security guard working the night shift to call him a cab, because he needs to take a red-eye flight to New York. The guard tells him not to board the plane, because he just had a dream that the director would have an accident. To be safe, the director decides to wait until the next morning. During the trip, he reads in the paper that the red-eye flight crashed. When he returns from his trip, he thanks the guard and gives him a bonus. Then he fires him. Why did he fire him?

If the guard was sleeping and had that dream it meant that he wasn't keeping guard at night

10.) A man is hanging in a middle of an empty room, where no else has ever been . There is a puddle of water in the room. There is one door in the room, which is no where near the hanged man.

How did the man kill himself ?

Stood on an ice cube

Enjoy, and feel free to contribute

Last edited by SplinterStrike (2007-11-29 14:21:10)

SplinterStrike wrote:

Ok, numbers Four and Eight survive.

Number 4 is incorrect, cause you're not really moving your head more than your body in a plane. Think of it as being in a car. Technically, by driving two hundred miles, my feet have gone a little further than my body, but realistically, they havent. It's one of those funky riddles.

SplinterStrike wrote:

Number 6 could also have been your left elbow.

SplinterStrike wrote:

Number ten is kinda of a gimmick. I'm asking how he killed himself. If you stood on an ice cube outside, you wouldn't die. The answer would be he hung himself.

Ty wrote:

The answer to Homer's Ionian riddle is "Lice". I learned the answer to that through Classical Studies at school although I never really did understand it.
Here are some from me you're welcome to try and solve:
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1) My sides are firmly lac'd about,
Yet nothing is within;
You'll think my head is strange indeed,
Being nothing else but skin.

TGMaverick wrote:

Here's one:

What can you hold in your right hand but not in your left?

Ty wrote:

2) In Youth exalted high in Air,
Or bathing in the Waters fair;
Nature to form me took Delight,
And clad my Body all in White:
My Person tall, and slender Waste,
On either Side with Fringes grac'd;
Till me that Tyrant Man espy'd,
And drag'd me from my Mother's side:
No Wonder now I look so thin;
The Tyrant strip't me to the Skin:
My Skin he flay'd, my Hair he cropt;
At Head and Foot my Body lopt:
And then, with Heart more hard than Stone,
He pick't my Marrow from the Bone.
To vex me more, he took a Freak,
To slit my Tongue, and made me speak:
But, that which wonderful appears,
I speak to Eyes and not to Ears.
He oft employs me in Disguise,
And makes me tell a Thousand Lyes:
To me he chiefly gives in Trust
To please his Malice, or his Lust.
From me no Secret he can hide;
I see his Vanity and Pride:
And my Delight is to expose
His Follies to his greatest Foes.
All languages I can command,
Yet not a Word I understand.
Without my Aid, the best Divine
In Learning would not know a Line:
The Lawyer must forget his Pleading,
The Scholar could not shew his Reading.
Nay; Man, my Master, is my Slave:
I give Command to kill or save.
Can grant ten Thousand Pounds a Year,
And make a Beggar's Brat a Peer.
But, while I thus my Life relate,
I only hasten on my Fate.
My Tongue is black, my Mouth is furr'd,
I hardly now can force a Word.
I dye unpity'd and forgot;
And on some Dunghill left to rot.

SplinterStrike wrote:

4.) A man's head travelled more than 30ft. more than his feet but he was unharmed. How come?

SplinterStrike wrote:

13.)  I am as light as a feather, yet no man can hold me for long. What am I?[/color]

Last edited by Sup3r_Dr4gon (2007-11-30 06:07:48)