Riddles

Riddles

1.29.11 Riddle: That’s Confusing

478 days

The answer I give is yes, but what I mean is no.

What was the question?

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Do you mind?

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1.28.11 Riddle: Make up your Mind

479 days

by monibrown in Riddles

Whoever makes it, tells it not.

Whoever takes it, knows it not,

And whoever knows it, wants it not

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Counterfeit money.

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1.27.11 Riddle: What Word

480 days

by monibrown in Riddles

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word – from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

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The base word is Startling – starting – staring – string – sting – sing – sin – in – I

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1.26.11 Riddle: The 2 Doors

481 days

by monibrown in Riddles

You approach two talking doors. One door leads to the City of Truth, while the other door leads to the City of Liars. You do not know which door is which. You are able to ask only one question to determine which door is which. The door that leads to the City of Liars always speaks lies, while the door that leads to the City of Truth always speaks the truth. You want to go to the City of Truth. What question do you ask to determine which door leads to the City of Truth?

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Answer(1): Ask a door – “If I were to ask the other door which door leads to the city of truth, what would he say”. And then you pick the opposite door of what he tells you.

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Answer(2): Ask the door – “If I asked you which door leads to the city of truth before, which door would you have told me?” (negative and negative = positive, positive and positive = positive). and you choose the door that it directs you to.

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Answer(3): Ask a a door – “Do both doors lead to the city of truth?” If the answer is no, it’s the truth door. if the answer is yes, it’s the liars’ door.

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1.25.11 Riddle: Horse

482 days

by monibrown in Riddles

There was a racing horse who won every single race it had entered. The owner hired a guard to watch the horse every single night. One day the guard comes to work early exclaiming to have a dream last night where the horse gets hit by a train. The owner fires him…why?

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If you look closely you will see he had the dream last NIGHT and he was supposed to be working during the night, not sleeping.

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1.24.11 Riddle: Tales of Journey

483 days

by monibrown in Riddles

I have a key used upon me to unlock the tales and a legend on which I have gone I can show you most. I let you hold the world within your hands though you can never truly own it. Who or what am I?

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A map

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1.22.11 Riddle: The Answer is Right in Front of You…

485 days

by monibrown in Riddles

The Answer is Right in Front of You…

The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place

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The letter ‘e’

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1.21.11 Riddle

486 days

by monibrown in Riddles

Eat or Drink

I can eat everything. No matter if anyone hits me, I’m fine. But when I drink water, I’ll die. What am I?

The credit again goes to Tricky Riddles.

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Fire

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1.20.11 Riddle: The Missing Dollar

486 days

by monibrown in Riddles

The Missing Dollar

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????

I have to give credit to Tricky Riddles for this one. No cheating, try to figure it out first.

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The facts in this riddle are clear: There is an initial $30 charge. It should have been $25, so $5 must be returned and accounted for. $3 is given to the 3 friends, $2 is kept by the bellhop – there you have the $5. The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking – and quite successfully for most. Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay $9, not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid $27 for the night. But we know that the clerk will tell us that they were charged only $25 and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by the bellhop, you come up with $30.

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