riddles galore

[Kim]

Originally posted by syzygy
i once said that if the man could get into the room, then surely he can get out the same way, hence the door.

it turns out that the man used the saw to cut a hole in the table, and he climbed through the hole to get out of the room.

My version is this.

Damn, i accidently said he had a saw. I'm sorry, he's supposed to have a mirror and a table.

The answer would be, he looked in the mirror, he sees what he saw, he took the saw, sawed the table into two halves. Two halves make a (w)hole. He took the whole threw it at the wall and climbed out.

[syzygy]

u just solved ur own riddle...no comment

now that i think of it, that is how i've heard it.

Originally posted by Sleepy Weasel
1. They -> There
2. errers -> errors
3. There are only 2 errors in the puzzle, not 3.

u realize that if u just solved the puzzle, then u have an extra error.

Originally posted by Kim Eugene
Give me an x, I'll stand to face you.
Give me a cross, I'll turn my back on you.
What am I?

Originally posted by MaGi kOz
9

is that right or not, i'm confused

[MaGi kOz]

Originally posted by syzygy

is that right or not, i'm confused

i don't know but it sounds right... doesn't it?

[syzygy]

to me, it doesn't sound right...that's what confuses me

[Kim]

it is right

9 + 9 = 18

9 x 9 = 81

[syzygy]

ohhhhhhhhhhh...

and my mathematical mind didn't think of that..i'm ashamed to call myself smart, even if the rest of my class is below me

[syzygy]

besides the obvious, why don't blind people like to skydive?

[Kim]

I think that's a joke instead of a riddle, because the answer is it scares the shit out of the dog.

[Troll King]

We place inside a box 13 white marbles and 15 black marbles. We also have 28 black marbles outside the box.

We remove two marbles from the box. If they have a different colour, we put the white one back in the box. If they have the same colour, we put a black marble in the box. We continue doing this until there is only one marble left inside the box. What colour is it?



EDIT: Changed the wording slightly. A small change, but it affected the answer.

[Troll King]

You are given 10 sacks, each containing an unknown number of balls. (Yes, they are ball sacks, so get the giggles out of the way first.) All of the balls weigh 10 ounces each, except for the balls in 1 particular sack which weigh 9 ounces each. Unlike similar puzzles, you have a scale that actually gives weight measurements (Honestly, why would anyone use a balance scale for a job like this?) What is the minimum number of weighings needed to be sure which sack contains the 9 ounce balls?

(And by "to be sure", I mean not having to luck out and pulling out a 9 ounce ball on your first try.)

[Project]

Given these 8 chalk lines, where "=" is equivalent to 2 chalk lines:

\ / | | = |

Move just one chalk line to create a true equation.

[Kim]

Originally posted by Troll King
We place inside a box 13 white marbles and 15 black marbles. We also have 28 black marbles outside the box.

We remove two marbles from the box. If they have a different colour, we put the white one back in the box. If they have the same colour, we put a black marble in the box. We continue doing this until there is only one marble left inside the box. What colour is it?



EDIT: Changed the wording slightly. A small change, but it affected the answer.

1) Keep drawing 2 black marbles until you only have 1 black marble left inside the box. RECAP: 13 white -- 1 black

2) Do the same thing for the whites until you have only 1 white marble left inside the box. This will of course add 6 more black marbles into the box. RECAP: 1 white -- 7 black

3) Now remove 1 white and 1 black, seven times. Each time you remove, you will be minusing one black marble, as a new white marble will be replenished into the box. Eventually only the white marble remains

I BETTA Be right for typing this much o.O

[Kim]

Originally posted by Troll King
You are given 10 sacks, each containing an unknown number of balls. (Yes, they are ball sacks, so get the giggles out of the way first.) All of the balls weigh 10 ounces each, except for the balls in 1 particular sack which weigh 9 ounces each. Unlike similar puzzles, you have a scale that actually gives weight measurements (Honestly, why would anyone use a balance scale for a job like this?) What is the minimum number of weighings needed to be sure which sack contains the 9 ounce balls?

(And by "to be sure", I mean not having to luck out and pulling out a 9 ounce ball on your first try.)

wait, do the sacks have the same unknkown number of balls?

[Kim]

Originally posted by Project
Given these 8 chalk lines, where "=" is equivalent to 2 chalk lines:

\ / | | = |

Move just one chalk line to create a true equation.

Proj, you're missing a line somewhere. Unless what you say is false, that there are not 8 chalk lines.

[Troll King]

Originally posted by Kim Eugene
wait, do the sacks have the same unknkown number of balls?

No. It's irrelevant anyway, as you are allowed to take balls out of their sacks to measure them. The only thing you need to know is that each sack contains lots of balls and that all the balls in each individual sack is identical to the others in that same sack.

(In other words, the solution involves weighing the balls, not the sacks.)