Thread "Post your riddles here" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 2:09PM, Sep. 9, 2009

There are 2 rooms, one with 3 light bulbs mounted on the wall, one with 3 switches. Your goal: to figure out which switch goes to which light bulb.

These 2 rooms are separate and once inside one, you cannot see inside the other. The room with the 3 switches has 1 switch connected to 1 light bulb in the other room. There are no tricks to the wiring, each individual switch goes to exactly 1 light bulb, and vice versa.

You start out in the room with the switches. You can only go into the room with the light bulbs once. How do you find out which switch goes to which light bulb?

Turn on two switches, wait a minute, then turn off one of them. Then, go to the room with the bulbs. The lit bulb will be from the switch you left on, the unlit bulb that feels warm will be from the switch you left on for a minute then turned off, and the last bulb will be from the switch you didn't touch.

Perfect. Crocty's idea works too if you want to wait until one breaks/wear out :D

Posted at 9:09AM, Sep. 10, 2009

Anybody got mine yet?

I'll give you a hint:

Alaskans should know!

Posted at 6:02PM, Feb. 24, 2010

Anybody got mine yet?

I'll give you a hint:

Alaskans should know!

Xtremely hard D:

I went to Alaska, and nobody knows it.

Posted at 3:02AM, Feb. 25, 2010

Where can you see a plough inside of a bear that points towards the North.

The plough (or the big dipper) is in the bear constellation and points to the North star.

Posted at 3:02AM, Feb. 25, 2010

The chupacabra and the fridge:
How do you stuff a chupacabra into a fridge?

The goat and the fridge:
How do you stuff a goat into a fridge?

The father and his son:
A father and his son are driving a car, suddenly a manbearpig walks onto the road. The father saw the manbearpig too late and hit a tree, the father was dead on impact but the boy was rushed to the hospital. At the hospital the boy was rushed into an operating room. in the operating room the doctor suddenly walked out, one of the nurses walked after the doctor and asked what was wrong. This is what the doctor said:
I cannot operate on this boy because he is my son!
How can this be?

The bucket and the politician:
What's the difference between a bucket filled with shit and a politician?

Posted at 3:02AM, Feb. 25, 2010

Sigh… the good old oldies.

How do you stuff a chupacabra into a fridge?
You open the fridge, put the chupacabra in and close it.

How do you stuff a goat into a fridge?
You open the fridge, take the chupacabra out, put the goat in and close.

I cannot operate on this boy because he is my son!
How can this be?
It's his mother.

What's the difference between a bucket filled with shit and a politician?
The bucket.

Posted at 5:02AM, Feb. 25, 2010

Yay…
those where really the oldies. I miss those.
I do have more…

It's green:
It's green, big and not a tank.

Fathers and sons
Two fathers and two sons went to a fancy restaurant. Each of them ordered a plate of eggs and some orange juice. The waitress came back with their order and put three plates of eggs and three glasses of orange juice on the table.
Did the make a mistake?

Eggs:
an orange is as big as two eggs. A basket has enough room for 12 oranges. how many eggs can you put in an empty basket?

Who am I:
I am weightless but you can see me, put me in a bucket and I'll make the bucket lighter.

What am I:
When you have me you want to share me, when you share me you won't have me anymore.

Divers:
Why do divers fall backwards into the water?

Posted at 8:02AM, Feb. 25, 2010

It's green:
It's green, big and not a tank.

It is a building which is painted green for some absurd reason

Fathers and sons
Two fathers and two sons went to a fancy restaurant. Each of them ordered a plate of eggs and some orange juice. The waitress came back with their order and put three plates of eggs and three glasses of orange juice on the table.
Did the make a mistake?

Why yes, the two fathers are two sons to someone, meaning they should've brought two plates, that silly French bastard.

Eggs:
an orange is as big as two eggs. A basket has enough room for 12 oranges. how many eggs can you put in an empty basket?

I'd say 24, but no one puts eggs in a basket empty, that would be hapharzardous! So….12? idk

Who am I:
I am weightless but you can see me, put me in a bucket and I'll make the bucket lighter.

Light

What am I:
When you have me you want to share me, when you share me you won't have me anymore.

Agh I dunno. Some abstract concept, like a story, or something.

Divers:
Why do divers fall backwards into the water?

Because they fell off the diving board with their back pointing towards the water.

Posted at 11:02AM, Feb. 25, 2010

I only knew these ones.

Fathers and sons
It's a grandfather, father and son.

Eggs:
How many eggs can you put in an empty basket?
Only one. It's no longer empty after that.

Who am I:
A hole.

It's a shame, I knew few that I could throw out but most of them are in a different language and won't translate well into English, since most of them were play on words.

Here are couple of silly joke questions I remembered, that I could translate. I'll try to remember more serious ones later.

Q:What alternates between black and white as it rolls down the stairs?

Q:Why did the idiot sneak past the pharmacy?

And this one is originally from English:

Q:When is door not a door.

Posted at 2:02PM, Feb. 25, 2010

Fathers and sons
It's a grandfather, father and son.

The grandfather must have had a father at one point too, making all of them sons!

YOU'RE ALL SONS/DAUGHTERS! D=< ADMIT IT.

Posted at 2:02PM, Feb. 25, 2010

It's green:
It's green, big and not a tank.

Nope, not a building…

It's really a tank… haha I made a funny!

Fathers and sons
Two fathers and two sons went to a fancy restaurant. Each of them ordered a plate of eggs and some orange juice. The waitress came back with their order and put three plates of eggs and three glasses of orange juice on the table.
Did the make a mistake?

Yep, grandfather father and son, the waitress didn't make a mistake.

Eggs:
an orange is as big as two eggs. A basket has enough room for 12 oranges. how many eggs can you put in an empty basket?

Yep only one, the whole oranges thing is a distraction!

Who am I:
I am weightless but you can see me, put me in a bucket and I'll make the bucket lighter.

Yep, two answers are possible. Light and a hole!

What am I:
When you have me you want to share me, when you share me you won't have me anymore.

Nope not a story… a secret!

Divers:
Why do divers fall backwards into the water?

Because if they fall forward they hit their face on the deck!

Now onto PP's riddles…

A: No clue…
A: He didn't want to wake the sleeping tablets?
A: When it's ajar!

Posted at 4:02PM, Feb. 25, 2010

Now onto PP's riddles…

A: No clue…
A: He didn't want to wake the sleeping tablets?
A: When it's ajar!

You're right and right.

And the answer to the first question is a clumsy nun.

Posted at 10:02AM, Feb. 26, 2010

Heh, I was thinking my avatar but that would be a very bad one.

Here's some more:
Question:
Which question can never be answered with yes?

Up:
What goes up and never down?

Barrel:
A barrel weighs 40 kg. what needs to be added to make it weigh 15 kg?

Posted at 12:02PM, Feb. 26, 2010

Agh a secret, I thought it'd be something abstract!

Question:
Which question can never be answered with yes?

^This one.
(If that's not the right answer, I propose the answer is "yes" )

Up:
What goes up and never down?

Age

Barrel:
A barrel weighs 40 kg. what needs to be added to make it weigh 15 kg?

it already weighs 15kg, adding anything else would be pointless!

Posted at 4:02PM, Feb. 26, 2010

Going to throw a little philosophy at you guys.

Is this a question?

There's no right or wrong to this but I happen to know what I consider to be the ultimate answer to it. I'll post it once I've seen some reaction from you guys.

Posted at 5:02PM, Feb. 26, 2010

Going to throw a little philosophy at you guys.

Is this a question?

That's a question if this is an answer.

Posted at 5:02PM, Feb. 26, 2010

Pretty much. TouchÃ© Hippie Van. TouchÃ©.

Posted at 7:02AM, Feb. 27, 2010

Here are my correct answer:

Question:
Which question can never be answered with yes?
Are you dead?

Up:
What goes up and never down?
Age.

Barrel:
A barrel weighs 40 kg. what needs to be added to make it weigh 15 kg?
Holes…

Here's some new riddles:

Mom:
A mom has seven children, half of the children are boys. How is this possible?

Fish:
Where can you find the most fish?

Food:
Give me food and I shall live, give me water and I shall die, Who am I?

Who am I:
You can find me on a summersday,
But when night comes I go away,
If you stare me in the eye,
Say to sight goodbye.
Who am I?

Posted at 7:02AM, Feb. 27, 2010

Mom:
A mom has seven children, half of the children are boys. How is this possible?

I'm going to skip the obvious transsexual answer and go for saying that there are 4 boys, and 3 girls. And the mother is clearly underage.

Food:
Give me food and I shall live, give me water and I shall die, Who am I?

Oh let's see….Perhaps some form of illness that gets worse with food…
Uhh, no wait…..Maybe…Jesus!
Yes. Jesus.

Who am I:
You can find me on a summersday,
But when night comes I go away,
If you stare me in the eye,
Say to sight goodbye.
Who am I?

The sun

Incidentally:
Person 1: Oh I'm playing this video game and–Oh no!
Person 2: Are you dead?
Person 1: Yes :(

Posted at 8:02AM, Feb. 27, 2010

Mom is wrong….
Food is wrong….
Fish is wrong…

1 out of 4 isn't bad…

Posted at 8:02AM, Feb. 27, 2010

Okay okay, even though I didn't answer the fish riddle I guess that's okay.

Figured this out:
Food:
Give me food and I shall live, give me water and I shall die, Who am I?

A starving gentleman, who does not need a glass of water, but instead needs food, or he will die in seventeen seconds. Failure to give him food will result in him dying. Giving him water will also cause him to die anyway, as he is still starving to death.

Posted at 9:02AM, Feb. 27, 2010

Correct!
or maybe it's just a fire…

Posted at 6:02PM, Feb. 27, 2010

Correct!
or maybe it's just a fire…

A fire would work…
But I stand by my previous answer.

Posted at 6:02PM, Feb. 27, 2010

Mom:
A mom has seven children, half of the children are boys. How is this possible?

The other ones are boys as well?
(assuming this is like that 28 days in a month riddle)

Fish:
Where can you find the most fish?

A book…about…fish?
I need a hint for this one!

Posted at 8:02PM, Feb. 27, 2010

Alright I've got one.

The buyer doesn't want it. The maker doesn't use it. and the user it doesn't know they're using it. What is it?