Riddles thread

[endless_akatsuki]

Spoiler...

1...yup......

 

[JTW2007]

As I was going to St Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
each wife had seven sacks,
each sack had seven cats,
each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives.

How many people went to St. Ives.

Spoiler: One. You.

 

[pcharles93]

1 and fire

 

[Deleted member 2864]

You guys are right... but I edited in more... MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

 

[JTW2007]

what occurs once in a minute,twice in a moment, but never in an hour?

Spoiler: "M."

 

[Deleted member 2864]

what occurs once in a minute,twice in a moment, but never in an hour?

Spoiler: "M."

right... I need to think of harder riddles...

 

[d4m4s74]

There was a guy who was being judged for a crime. The judge said that tomorow, the man would have to make a statement. If it was true, he would get 4 years in prison and if it was false, then he would get 6 years. The next day, the judge released him of all charges with no sentence. What did he say?

spoiler:
"this statement is false"

though personally I'd give an unverifiable statement like "there is a god", so even if I'd get sent to prison I'd have some fun with the reaction

edit:
how bout "I will get 6 years"?

 

[byu]

You have 8 balls in your hand. All of them look alike. But one of the 8 balls is heavier then the other 7. You have a weight scale. What is the least number of times you can use the scale to figure out the answer?

 

[Aub227]

You have 8 balls in your hand. All of them look alike. But one of the 8 balls is heavier then the other 7. You have a weight scale. What is the least number of times you can use the scale to figure out the answer?

I'm not good at these, but I'll give it a shot. I'm assuming you are trying to find out the weight of the heaviest ball? If the other 7 balls are of equal weight, then I'll guess 2. If the other 7 balls are of various weights, then I'll guess 8. how did I do ?

 

[Deleted member 2864]

There was a guy who was being judged for a crime. The judge said that tomorow, the man would have to make a statement. If it was true, he would get 4 years in prison and if it was false, then he would get 6 years. The next day, the judge released him of all charges with no sentence. What did he say?

spoiler:
"this statement is false"

though personally I'd give an unverifiable statement like "there is a god", so even if I'd get sent to prison I'd have some fun with the reaction

edit:
how bout "I will get 6 years"?

Your edit was correct

 

[byu]

You have 8 balls in your hand. All of them look alike. But one of the 8 balls is heavier then the other 7. You have a weight scale. What is the least number of times you can use the scale to figure out the answer?

I'm not good at these, but I'll give it a shot. I'm assuming you are trying to find out the weight of the heaviest ball? If the other 7 balls are of equal weight, then I'll guess 2. If the other 7 balls are of various weights, then I'll guess 8. how did I do ?

You are correct in saying 2. The question is why?

 

[Robert-Y]

Spoiler for byu's riddle:



Place 3 balls on the left side of the scale and 3 balls on the right. If they balance out,
you know that the heavier ball is not one of those 6. If one side is heavier, you know that
the heavier ball is one of those 3.
Now for your second use of the scale, place one of the remaining 2 or 3 balls on the left and one on the right.
If they are equal, then it is the ball that was left out that is heavier. If either side is heavier,
then that is the heavier ball.

I looked it up

 

[daeyoungyoon]

I don't think anyone done this one yet. Pretty simple.

"A man leaves home. He runs around making three left turns and returns to home. There is a man with a mask waiting waiting for him at home."

argg I don't even know if I wrote this clearly enough. I really suck at these things.

 

[Ethan Rosen]

He's playing baseball

 

[daeyoungyoon]

He's playing baseball

Yup. Too easy

 

[RampageCuber]

It goes up, but at the same time goes down. Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground. It's present tense and past tense too, come for a ride, just me and you. What is it?

Not sure if this is too easy...



Edit: Okay

Rich People need me
Poor People have me
I am greater than God
I am worse than the devil
If you eat me, you will die

What am I?

 

[Sa967St]

Rich People need me
Poor People have me
I am greater than God
I am worse than the devil
If you eat me, you will die

What am I?

Spoiler

nothing

rich people need nothing
poor people have nothing
nothing is greater than God
nothing is worse than the devil
If you eat nothing, you will die of hunger

You feed it, it lives, you give it something to drink, it dies. What is it?

Spoiler

fire

that was kinda easy

Here's a nice one:


I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.

Can you guess the answer?


hint: 97% of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out, but 84% of kindergarten students were able to figure this out in 6 minutes or less.

 

[Deleted member 2864]

It goes up, but at the same time goes down. Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground. It's present tense and past tense too, come for a ride, just me and you. What is it?

SPOILER BELOW
A see-saw?????

 

[gpt_kibutz]

I have one.
A couple is in a car, in a highway; just in the middle of the desert. There's nothing around them for at least 10 km. Suddenly the car wrecks. The man tells the woman: "I will go to the nearest town for gas, so stay here until I return. Don't ask for help nor let anyone in, because if you open the doors or the windows, they can steal you." The man closed very well the vehicle, so that it could not be opened neither from the outside nor from the inside.
The man goes to the town and returns, but when he arrives to the car, the woman is dead and there is a stranger inside the car, even though the woman followed the man's instructions.
How could this have happened?

 

[byu]

I have one.
A couple is in a car, in a highway; just in the middle of the desert. There's nothing around them for at least 10 km. Suddenly the car wrecks. The man tells the woman: "I will go to the nearest town for gas, so stay here until I return. Don't ask for help nor let anyone in, because if you open the doors or the windows, they can steal you." The man closed very well the vehicle, so that it could not be opened neither from the outside nor from the inside.
The man goes to the town and returns, but when he arrives to the car, the woman is dead and there is a stranger inside the car, even though the woman followed the man's instructions.
How could this have happened?

How could there be nothing around them for 10 km if they're on a highway?