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John Hale
John Hale
Yarn Weaver

Dec-8-2004 01:45

Hello all.
I'm fairly new to Sleuth and I thought I might share a little hobby of mine with you all. Here's something for that sad moment when the mysteries of the day are all done.

Thousands lay up gold within this house,
but no man made it.
Spears past counting guard this house,
but no man wards it.
What is it?

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Sila
Sila

Feb-2-2005 07:21

Wow...that was fast Stiletta...I was hoping it would take longer than that..well done!

U369
U369

Feb-4-2005 03:32

digdoc was right about mine. sorry about taking so long.

lauraandgabriel
lauraandgabriel

Feb-4-2005 04:51

There was a big crowd in this theatre. They were all milling around. Shady and his friends were there. They were watching a scary movie and suddenly, some lady screamed. There was a fire! Confusion and panic everywhere. The crowds were pushing at the doors which were heavy and made of metal. But the doors refused to budge. Shady and his friends went to the doors, pushing their way thruogh the crowd. After a few seconds after they got there, the doors were opened. How did Shady and his friends do it?


pls. forgive me if there was something like this posted before.

dragonfly132004
dragonfly132004

Feb-4-2005 06:22

You had to pull the doors not push them

lauraandgabriel
lauraandgabriel

Feb-4-2005 06:28

shucks! I knew this would be too easy.


Vic Sage
Vic Sage

Feb-6-2005 16:11

To jojo, part deux: "Nothing." I love that one!

Vic Sage
Vic Sage

Feb-6-2005 16:13

sigh... My apologies on not seeing the pages and pages of replies!

I'll try harder next time!

Sila
Sila

Feb-8-2005 07:46

Not really a riddle but i good brainteaser!
Try your hand on this...
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????




Sila
Sila

Feb-8-2005 07:57

...and just for good measure ne proper one(this has two possible answers)
What question can you never answer 'yes' to?


Reverend
Reverend

Feb-8-2005 09:01

for the 2nd one, How about:

What is the opposite of yes?

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