Riddles thread

[pcharles93]

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.

No, no I cannot.

 

[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?

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

Oh, come one, just use your imagination! This is a highway that connects 2 far away cities through a desert.

 

[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?

SPOILER BELOW
A see-saw?????

Yep, i thought that one was really hard, I guess im just bad at riddles

 

[edd5190]

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?

Oh, come one, just use your imagination! This is a highway that connects 2 far away cities through a desert.

SPOILER

The woman was pregnant, she died giving birth, the stranger was the baby

 

[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?

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

Oh, come one, just use your imagination! This is a highway that connects 2 far away cities through a desert.

SPOILER

The woman was pregnant, she died giving birth, the stranger was the baby

CORRECT I think it was too easy

 

[imaghost]

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?

Oh, come one, just use your imagination! This is a highway that connects 2 far away cities through a desert.

SPOILER

The woman was pregnant, she died giving birth, the stranger was the baby

CORRECT I think it was too easy

someone could have been in the car the whole time and nobody knew it o.o

 

[mark3]

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.

The way this is worded makes me think that it is some trick. Normally these things go "what am I" but this one doesn't. If I am reading into it too much, then no, I have no clue. But if I am on the right track, I would say the answer is nothing.

 

[edd5190]

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.

SPOILER
The question was not, "What am I?", the question was "Can you guess the answer?" So the answer is "No."

 

[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 ?

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

I say 2 because you put all 8 balls on the scale at once and take the weight. That's your first time using the scale. Remove one ball and take the weight. That's your second time using the scale. Now you can calculate the difference. Rememer... 7 of the balls have the same weight. I don't think I need to explain the rest... Do I? I'm too lazy to type.

 

[Aub227]

Sorry for double posting... That should be "leave one ball on the scale." Then do the math.

 

[justin may]

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.

the answer is time

polar bears are born pink
everyone cries
every celebrity looks stupid
every person is a celebrity at one point, in some way (with their family, at school, etc.)
pancakes take time to cook
I don't know much about champagne, but I know it bubbles
I don't know the last two lines

 

[imaghost]

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.

the answer is time

polar bears are born pink
everyone cries
every celebrity looks stupid
every person is a celebrity at one point, in some way (with their family, at school, etc.)
pancakes take time to cook
I don't know much about champagne, but I know it bubbles
I don't know the last two lines

No the answer is not time. The answer is no because the question wasn't about polar bears or anything else, but the question was can you guess the answer.

 

[Sa967St]

the answer is time

polar bears are born pink
everyone cries
every celebrity looks stupid
every person is a celebrity at one point, in some way (with their family, at school, etc.)
pancakes take time to cook
I don't know much about champagne, but I know it bubbles
I don't know the last two lines

No the answer is not time. The answer is no because the question wasn't about polar bears or anything else, but the question was can you guess the answer.

The answer could also be yes, if you knew that 'time' fits the description.

 

[AndyRoo789]

Bump.

I have one

A man is sentenced to death. He has to choose between 3 rooms, the first room is full of fire, the second room has assassins with loaded guns, the third room has lions that haven't eaten in 6 months.

Which room is safest?

 

[Sa967St]

Bump.

I have one

A man is sentenced to death. He has to choose between 3 rooms, the first room is full of fire, the second room has assassins with loaded guns, the third room has lions that haven't eaten in 6 months.

Which room is safest?

Spoiler

third room, the lions are dead since they haven't eaten in six months

 

[IamWEB]

Bump.

I have one

A man is sentenced to death. He has to choose between 3 rooms, the first room is full of fire, the second room has assassins with loaded guns, the third room has lions that haven't eaten in 6 months.

Which room is safest?

I've heard this one, but...

The room with the lions is the safest. If they haven't eaten in 6 months, they're dead.

EDIT: WHY SARAH WHY?

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

Te Li-ans.

 

[AndyRoo789]

Bump.

I have one

A man is sentenced to death. He has to choose between 3 rooms, the first room is full of fire, the second room has assassins with loaded guns, the third room has lions that haven't eaten in 6 months.

Which room is safest?

Spoiler

third room, the lions are dead since they haven't eaten in six months

Ding ding ding ding ding.

We have a winner.

 

[cmhardw]

I always liked this one. Lemme see if I can phrase it well, and some of you may have heard this before.
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A small company realizes that they can no longer pay all of their bills. They decide that something must change, but rather than fire anyone they decide to move their office to a cheaper location. Considering that all of their employees live in different parts of the town they decide to try to be as fair as possible and move to a new location that doesn't significantly increase any one employee's commute time to and from work. After many days of searching they finally settle on a solution that shortens the commute time of every single employee within the company.

How is this possible?

Chris

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

I always liked this one. Lemme see if I can phrase it well, and some of you may have heard this before.
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A small company realizes that they can no longer pay all of their bills. They decide that something must change, but rather than fire anyone they decide to move their office to a cheaper location. Considering that all of their employees live in different parts of the town they decide to try to be as fair as possible and move to a new location that doesn't significantly increase any one employee's commute time to and from work. After many days of searching they finally settle on a solution that shortens the commute time of every single employee within the company.

How is this possible?

Chris

Spoiler

Employees now work from home.