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Riddleland!
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Lyra Cornwallis
Lucky Stiff
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Mar-12-2010 10:38
The game's very simple. You just have to post a riddle, and the person who posts next should try answering it, and should post their own riddle.
Example:
Why do birds fly South in winter?
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tibboh
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Jul-24-2011 12:16
Cordelia the answer is:
Hold on to your nuts, I'm about to give you the biggest blow of your life.
( now all of you who will jump to a certain conclusion...shame on you!)
What has a mouth but can't chew?
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Vulkie3
Haynes
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Jul-24-2011 17:05
The answer to tibboh (and it has been a while since I've heard this word on this board) - RIVER xD.
Three ladies check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $60, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $20 and go to their room.
A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $10. He asks the bellhop to return $10 to the 3 ladies who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $4 as he reasons that the three ladies would have a tough time dividing $10 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $6, giving $2 back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $4 and goes home for the day!
Now, each of the three ladies gets $2 back, thus they each paid $18 for the room which is a total of $54 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $4 and adding that to the $54, you get $58, not $60 which was originally spent. Where did the other 2 dollars go????
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Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe
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Jul-25-2011 02:22
Nice question! It's been a while since I came across this one, so I had to think about different ways of putting it.
One way to think about it is to look at the original $60. The clerk has $50, the ladies have $2 each and the bellhop has $4, making $60.
Alternatively, you can look at the correct cost for the rooms, which is $50. The ladies should have paid $16.66 each but they've actually handed over $18. $18 times three is $54, and the bellhop has the extra $4.
The reason it doesn't add up in the question is because the total shouldn't be $60 anyway, if you're looking at how much they paid for the room. It should be $50, plus the $4 the bellhop pinched. Three times $18 is $54, which is the right amount. The fact that some of the $54 dollars is with the clerk and some is with the bellhop is what's confusing.
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Vulkie3
Haynes
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Jul-25-2011 04:41
Gj anyways Cordelia!
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Summer Daze
Freedom Fighter
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Aug-27-2011 15:18
Two men are travelling on an old-fashioned steam train. They are seated opposite each other and the carriage window, between them, is open. Suddenly another train passes and a blast of dirty smoke pours in through the window - leaving a trail of soot on one of the men's faces. However , he remains seated while the other man gets up to go and wash his face. Why?
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Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe
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Aug-28-2011 08:04
I've not seen this one before! Is it because they're both going by what they can see of the other one's face? So the one who's looking at a sooty face goes to wash, and the other one didn't see any dirt?
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Summer Daze
Freedom Fighter
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Aug-29-2011 06:35
Correct Cordelia ...actually that was too easy a riddle for seasoned detectives to solve! Will try to come up with something more challenging ;)
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Summer Daze
Freedom Fighter
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Sep-1-2011 07:16
There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?
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Ebony Villanueva
Nomad
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Jun-17-2016 04:41
Startling
Starting
Staring
String
Sting
Sing
Sin
In
I
What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
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Autumnsprings
Con Artist
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Jun-17-2016 13:51
You could also say
Startling
Starling (type of bird)
Staring
String
Sting
Sing
Sin
In
I
I know Ebony's riddle but I'm not good at finding riddles so I'm not going to answer. I just wanted to point out there are two possible answers to Summer Daze's riddle. Unless I'm making a stupid mistake.
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