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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?

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????

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?

Feb-8-2005 09:01

for the 2nd one, How about:

What is the opposite of yes?

Feb-8-2005 09:02

...that would make it possible answer number 3!!

Feb-8-2005 09:03

And for all you great minds out there...
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The owners drink a certain
type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand
of cigar, or drink the same beverage.

The question is: Who owns the fish?

HINTS:

The brit lives in the red house
The Swede keeps dogs as pets
The Dane drinks tea
The green house is on the left of the white house
The green homeowner drinks coffee
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
The man living in the center house drinks milk
The Norwegian lives in the first house
The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats
The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes
Dunhill
The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer
The German smokes Prince
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water

Feb-8-2005 09:13

If someone just simply knows it please allow the other to figure it out and send me a msg..

Feb-8-2005 11:58

"What question can you never answer 'yes' to?"

My answer: On what date were you born?

Feb-8-2005 12:15

on the 3 guys in the hotel. The $2 the bellhop kept has nothing to do with the $30 they originally spent. It is the difference between the $25 that the hotel kept and the $27 the men actually spent. Relating it back to the original $30 is a red herring.

Feb-8-2005 17:35

My vote is the German owns the fish

Feb-9-2005 02:42

Bryola...i mean a question that the answer could theoretically be yes to but for whatever reason someone couldnt actually say yes. the question "on what date where you born" and other similar ones like "what's the time?" dont count

Arne...i am impressed!

Casa Nova...well done!