Riddles

[50!]

I really like riddles both solving and telling them so i thought i would make a riddle thread. If u want to post a riddle attach the answer so whoever wants to look at it can.

I will start with one....

There is a father and son. They both go to different hospitals. When the son is on th operating table the doctor says "i cant operate on this person he is my son".

How does this work

P.S I started with a really easy one just to get your brains goin i will post harder ones later ;)

[Gary G]

You obviously watched Tin Cup last night.

The doctor is the sons mother

[Amar90]

50! - That was such a easy riddle, surely you can do better than that.

[DARK JAK]

he did say he was going to start off with easy ones :)

[Gary G]

Also, don't attach the answer, wait until someone gets it right.

[50!]

o sorry gaz and yes i was watching tin cup ;)
Ayone can post it if they want but i will post another soon ;)

[50!]

Next one its another easy one ;) Not as easy as the last one!!

Q:I come in different shapes and sizes. Part of me are curves, others are straight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one right place for me.
What am I?

[ashmufc]

One from me, I'm not sure its a riddle, but a thinking question :)

There are six eggs in a box, and there are six people. Each person takes one egg from the same box. At the end, there is one egg left in the box. How is that?

[hitmanuk2k]

ashmufc - its not specified that the people are taking eggs from the box with six in.

[50!]

Next one its another easy one ;) Not as easy as the last one!!

Q:I come in different shapes and sizes. Part of me are curves, others are straight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one right place for me.
What am I?

No-one got any ideas?
I will put a time limit of midnight today and then i will give the answer away ;)
Get those thinking caps on ;)
P.S Its not anything rude

[DARK JAK]

i'm not good at riddles but i have tried i'm just to dumb :D

[Kevthedrummer]

Erm... a sock??

[DARK JAK]

a picture frame
no damn

[Kevthedrummer]

I did ponder on a picture frame but then its not curvy? Hmmmm what about a Piece of paper?

[DARK JAK]

yeah but you can get some with curves
and paper good idea

[50!]

I did ponder on a picture frame but then its not curvy? Hmmmm what about a Piece of paper?

Man that is really close.

I will give another 5 minutes coz u r really hot now

Keep goin u r on the right track ;)

[DARK JAK]

paper clip maybe

[Kevthedrummer]

U got it u jammy bastard - yeah must be paperclip :confused: :rolleyes:

Well u wunta got it without me lol

[50!]

paper clip maybe

WRONG

The correct answer was......

A jigsaw puzzle piece

IT WAS EASY

Someone else can post some in now ;)

[DARK JAK]

damnit i thought i was right as well ,all my hopes just dashed away by a single post :(

[Kevthedrummer]

Sorry for getting your hopes up DJ.

Ok here's the worst one I've ever had done to me.... It was by a total geek!

What is the largest possible number you can write using only 2 digits - just 2 digits, nothing else? I will post the answer at 1am unless i get no replies in which case I will do it sometime 2morrow

[DARK JAK]

kev mate leave it up tommorow and i'l answer it as i'am going sleep now :)

[50!]

Ive got another

What Question can you never answer "yes" to?

There are a lot of posibilities but the real answer has the best meaning

[Kevthedrummer]

"Wanna play fifa again?"

By the way my riddle is seriously not worth waitning for DJ, But have a good sleep

[DARK JAK]

is it a stupid answer
forget the sleep

[Kevthedrummer]

crap... I can't actually write it... erm..... its 9 to the power of 9, so big 9 with a little 9 in the top right corner.
See - you'd have felt silly waiting til tomorrow for that right?

What's the answer 50! I wanna know what I can never say yes to

[DARK JAK]

thats what i was going to say but didn't know if it was right
damn it!!!!!!!

[50!]

What's the answer 50! I wanna know what I can never say yes to

Are u asleep?

[Kevthedrummer]

That's pretty damn clever... but some people do sleep light enough that they can reply. I've had whole conversations with my bro while he was asleep and he couldn't remember another word of it the next day! I aint tryin 2 prove ya wrong but people do ask that when you're half asleep and you say "yes" cos your rather annoyed and trying 2 get 2 sleep

[Original?]

Here's one you'll need your lateral thinking caps on.

There is a house, with four walls connected in a square, there is a window in each wall, each wall faces south. A Bear walk by one of the windows... what colour is the bear?

[Kevthedrummer]

I'm gonna have 2 sleep on that one! thats solid!

It doesn't even make sense? How can it be a square house and all the windows on each wall face south and what has that got 2 do with the colour of the bear walking past?

Brown?

[50!]

Here's one you'll need your lateral thinking caps on.

There is a house, with four walls connected in a square, there is a window in each wall, each wall faces south. A Bear walk by one of the windows... what colour is the bear?

It's something to do with white polar bears and the south pole

[Kevthedrummer]

Good thinking Batman... I thought it may be one of those ones like "i didn't say it had 2 be a specific colour" haha not funny riddles... But you've opened a door there

[Original?]

Good thinking Batman... I thought it may be one of those ones like "i didn't say it had 2 be a specific colour" haha not funny riddles... But you've opened a door there

He has that is the key, there is only one place on earth that all four walls could face south yet be a square. That is the NORTH pole, hence the bear is white.

[50!]

He has that is the key, there is only one place on earth that all four walls could face south yet be a square. That is the NORTH pole, hence the bear is white.

So close yet so far.

Try this....

A petshop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be?

[Original?]

So close yet so far.

Try this....

A petshop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be?

The parrot is deaf.

[50!]

The parrot is deaf.

Man u r good! Thats like the quickest riddle ive ever seen solved! :eek: :eek:

Try this......


A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?

[Original?]

Man u r good! Thats like the quickest riddle ive ever seen solved! :eek: :eek:

Try this......


A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?

He was walking not driving.

[Kevthedrummer]

By the way that deaf parrot one... was sooo obvious. I knew as soon as I'd read it, no thinking required haha

As for this bus one erm, is it because he's not in his bus?

HAHAHA I GOT IT!

[50!]

He was walking not driving.

I give up u r just too good ;)
U give the rest of us one

[Kevthedrummer]

BUMMER we answered 1 min appart

[Original?]

A farmer has three field in a row, in the first field there are 7 hay bails, the second holds 5, and the last 3. The farmer stacks them all in the central field, how many does he have?

[Kevthedrummer]

There could be many answers for this because of how you've written it...

The farmer stacks them all in the central field, how many does he have?
How many what? The answer could be 3 because you could be asking how many fields there are?

You also said that the 2nd field holds 5 and the last 3. This doesn't mean there ARE this number of bails in the field?

Am I being picky?

[L . F . C]

If you look upon my face you wont find 13 anyplace, what am i?

[Travis Bickle]

If you look upon my face you wont find 13 anyplace, what am i?

A clock.

[Kevthedrummer]

A clock

Its from Batman Forever - a movie ive seen millions of times

[ashmufc]

ashmufc - its not specified that the people are taking eggs from the box with six in.

Yeah, they are taking eggs from that box of six.

[Original?]

There could be many answers for this because of how you've written it...


How many what? The answer could be 3 because you could be asking how many fields there are?

You also said that the 2nd field holds 5 and the last 3. This doesn't mean there ARE this number of bails in the field?

Am I being picky?

A farmer owns 3 fields. In the first he has 7 hay bails. In the second he has 5 hay bails. In the third field he has 3 hay bails. He stacks all bails in the centre field, how many bails of hay does he have?

[Original?]

A kind man comes across a dirty sock, a voice says to him "Coconuts, $5 a dozen" With his lightning quick arithmatic he calculates that if he sold those same coconuts to the coconut air assault team for the accepted rate of $3 per dozen that in no time at all he would be a millionare.
What's with this guy, assuming his math is accurate?

[Kevthedrummer]

U can't post a new one! What the answer to the bails of hay one? Cheers for correcting yourself haha

[Billy Minof]

A farmer owns 3 fields. In the first he has 7 hay bails. In the second he has 5 hay bails. In the third field he has 3 hay bails. He stacks all bails in the centre field, how many bails of hay does he have?

1 Bail.

[Kevthedrummer]

oh i get it now! They form together to make one..... Im thick... I will delete the last post so I don't look as thick

[Original?]

A kind man comes across a dirty sock, a voice says to him "Coconuts, $5 a dozen" With his lightning quick arithmatic he calculates that if he sold those same coconuts to the coconut air assault team for the accepted rate of $3 per dozen that in no time at all he would be a millionare.
What's with this guy, assuming his math is accurate?

Anyone?

[Kevthedrummer]

Cos he just came across a dirty sock and he's a bit weird?

Could you give us a clue?

[Original?]

No :p

Well think about it he's definitely not making money...

[Kevthedrummer]

I really don't know! If he's not making money then he's loosing it... thats as far as I can think.

Also, I'm curious... are you copying and pasting these from somewhere because your spellings look terribly American and your using $?

[Original?]

I really don't know! If he's not making money then he's loosing it... thats as far as I can think.

Also, I'm curious... are you copying and pasting these from somewhere because your spellings look terribly American and your using $?

Yes that is copied from a site. No one that I particularly go to i just got it in an e-mail and thought it was a decent riddle.

I'm sorry if you don't know but I can say little else less I spoil the riddle.

[Dundon's]

Wtf a Dirty sock????? :confused:

P.S. He just take em all coz the sock can't stop him.lol :D

[Original?]

Wtf a Dirty sock????? :confused:

P.S. He just take em all coz the sock can't stop him.lol :D

Wow... you're so nearly there... but the sock? No idea but has nothing to do with the answer.

[50!]

Ive got a good one buts its quite easy. Original will get it in under a minute

Q:Your in a place called Bobby's world and there is only one Law. There is a mirror, but no reflection. There is pizza with cheese, but not sausage. There is pepper, but no salt. There is a door, yet no entrance or exit. What is the law?

[Gary G]

Something to do with double letters in words?

[Original?]

Something to do with double letters in words?

Agreed, thats the only thing I can see, though it is 2.30 AM :p

[50!]

Yeah u r both right! Again!
Mine are far too easy so here is the last from me...

Two brothers were talking. One said, "I am fed up with living in Birmingham because I have to drive all the time. Why don't we move to London?" His brother replied, "But that would mean that I would have to drive all the time."
How can this work?

P.S Original- Ive been trying at yours for ages and i just cant get it

[Original?]

Yeah u r both right! Again!
Mine are far too easy so here is the last from me...

Two brothers were talking. One said, "I am fed up with living in Birmingham because I have to drive all the time. Why don't we move to London?" His brother replied, "But that would mean that I would have to drive all the time."
How can this work?

P.S Original- Ive been trying at yours for ages and i just cant get it

This is a long shot, one brother has an american driving license and the other has a british driving license, the one that must drive in birmingham is the one with the american license as we are talking about Birmingham Alabama not in the UK. Am I right?

P.S. I'll pm you the answer if you want to give up :eek:

[50!]

This is a long shot, one brother has an american driving license and the other has a british driving license, the one that must drive in birmingham is the one with the american license as we are talking about Birmingham Alabama not in the UK. Am I right?

P.S. I'll pm you the answer if you want to give up :eek:

Man you are so close! Birmingham Alabama great call! Your explanation make sa lot of sense only the answer contains one key fact you forgot. I will keep you guessing.

[Original?]

Man you are so close! Birmingham Alabama great call! Your explanation make sa lot of sense only the answer contains one key fact you forgot. I will keep you guessing.

You may not drive in the other country without a license of that country?

[Kevthedrummer]

I have remembered an easy one from a few years ago... Hope you haven't heard it before:

You arrive at the gate of heaven and hell. Two guardians are here. None of them is seating in front of a particular gate, they are just walking around. One of the gate leads to heaven, the other to hell, and as you might have guessed, you have to find which one. The only thing you know is that one of the guardian is always lying and the other always telling the truth. You can ask one question to one of them.

[Original?]

I have remembered an easy one from a few years ago... Hope you haven't heard it before:

You arrive at the gate of heaven and hell. Two guardians are here. None of them is seating in front of a particular gate, they are just walking around. One of the gate leads to heaven, the other to hell, and as you might have guessed, you have to find which one. The only thing you know is that one of the guardian is always lying and the other always telling the truth. You can ask one question to one of them.

You ask: What would the other guardian say if I asked them 'Which door leads to heaven?'?

[Kevthedrummer]

Well done 100% correcto in no time at all

Here's another nice one!

You are in a cold house in the winter. It is dark. You have one match. There is a candle and there is a wood burning stove. Which do you light first?

[Nifty1Pound50]

The "kind man" is the coconut salesman. The "Coconut Air Assault team" will buy plenty of coconuts, enough to make him a millionaire even at $3 per coconut.

The fact that a dirty sock tells him "$5 per coconut" is completely irrelevant.

[Original?]

Well done 100% correcto in no time at all

Here's another nice one!

You are in a cold house in the winter. It is dark. You have one match. There is a candle and there is a wood burning stove. Which do you light first?


The match.

[Original?]

The "kind man" is the coconut salesman. The "Coconut Air Assault team" will buy plenty of coconuts, enough to make him a millionaire even at $3 per coconut.

The fact that a dirty sock tells him "$5 per coconut" is completely irrelevant.

No, I assure he DOES buys them for $5 and sells them for $3.

[Travis Bickle]

A kind man comes across a dirty sock, a voice says to him "Coconuts, $5 a dozen" With his lightning quick arithmatic he calculates that if he sold those same coconuts to the coconut air assault team for the accepted rate of $3 per dozen that in no time at all he would be a millionare.
What's with this guy, assuming his math is accurate?

I worked this out with my massive brain. I think basically the guy is losing money every time so he has to be an eccentric billionare or he's got shares in coconut distribution or he's some how connected to the "cocnut air assault team" so that he gets money for their training ???

I'm going with he'll lose money until he's only got millions rather than billions.

[Original?]

I worked this out with my massive brain. I think basically the guy is losing money every time so he has to be an eccentric billionare or he's got shares in coconut distribution or he's some how connected to the "cocnut air assault team" so that he gets money for their training ???

I'm going with he'll lose money until he's only got millions rather than billions.

Finally! well done Travis.

[Travis Bickle]

Finally! well done Travis.

You can't fool me.....heres one

A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, "twelve." The member replied, "six " and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, "six." The member replied, "three" and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,"ten" and the man replied, "five." But he was not let in.

What should he have said?

[Nifty1Pound50]

Travis, you've stumped me for the time being on that one. I'll have a proper think about it over a cigarette.

An alternative answer hit me for the Coconut riddle.

If he is actually poor, and buys the coconuts for $5 per dozen, that's fine. No-one specified which "Dollars" they were. He could've bought them abroad for cheaper Dollars, Australian for example, and then sold them in US Dollars at $3 per dozen, and he would make profit.

Granted, that isn't the answer you were after, but it's correct nonetheless.

Now, let's see:

From 12 to 6
From 6 to 3
From 10 to ?

I would assume it's something to do with the clock-face, but I can't put my finger on it right now...

EDIT: First attempt: I'd say he should have said "10." Twelve to Six, that's six hours. Six to three, that's nine hours. So the next one would be twelve hours, ten to ten.

I'm clearly way off the mark. Points for imagination and creativity?

[-BreaL-]

haha nifty you got mine..
i have no idea to be honest

[Travis Bickle]

This was in my DangerMouse puzzle book, so it ain't that hard, come on, laterel thinking !!!!!

[Nifty1Pound50]

I'm getting overly frustrated with this.

I'm on the brink of getting an A-Level grade A in Maths and I can't solve a simple number puzzle...

[Original?]

Travis I can't fool you eh?

Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

(Though yours has me stumped. :()

[50!]

Travis I can't fool you eh?

Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

(Though yours has me stumped. :()

"Language" is the 3rd word. 1st and 2nd sentences mean absolutely nothing.

What is the 3rd word in "The English Language"

C'mon Original i know it you birthday but you can do better than that!

P.S Happy B'day

[Original?]

P.S Happy B'day

Cheers man.

Try this one:
If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?

[DARK JAK]

Cheers man.

Try this one:
If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?

your virginity maybe

[50!]

Cheers man.

Try this one:
If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?

Luck?

[Original?]

First one LOL

But neither are correct.

[DARK JAK]

damnnit ur..... can't think of a answer

[50!]

Peace
Happiness
Anger
Money
Greed
Wealth

?

[Original?]

wow that's a lot of answers you'd think one of them would be right... but it's not.

[Highway Penguin]

Are you kidding? Can you give a clue?

[Original?]

Are you kidding? Can you give a clue?

That'd be giving the secret away.

[50!]

That'd be giving the secret away.

Man u should be some cryptic code maker! I stared at that one sentence for 2 minutes and then it hit me! *smacks head off desk* how could i be so stupid A Secret!!!!!!!

[Highway Penguin]

Wow you are right, it makes perfect sense, nice job 50!.

[Original?]

Man u should be some cryptic code maker! I stared at that one sentence for 2 minutes and then it hit me! *smacks head off desk* how could i be so stupid A Secret!!!!!!!

'Twas not all that spectacular. But well done.

[Travis Bickle]

You can't fool me.....heres one

A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, "twelve." The member replied, "six " and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, "six." The member replied, "three" and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,"ten" and the man replied, "five." But he was not let in.

What should he have said?


Hhhhhmmmmmm :rolleyes: :smug:

[Highway Penguin]

Does one of the men say 3 and another say 1.5?

[LiamK]

A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, "twelve." The member replied, "six " and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, "six." The member replied, "three" and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,"ten" and the man replied, "five." But he was not let in.

What should he have said?

Three!

Damn it, that was so simple yet took me an entire day!

[7RONALDO7]

Three!

Damn it, that was so simple yet took me an entire day!

Damn You LiamK LOL I was just about to post the answer!!!! I knew it all along and I read the post to see if anyone has answered it...and the last post was the answer LOL!

[Nifty1Pound50]

At least explain it for me, I've been struggling with this for over a day now...

[LiamK]

Six letters in the word Twelve
Three letters in the word Six
Three letters in the word Ten.

[50!]

This is a long shot, one brother has an american driving license and the other has a british driving license, the one that must drive in birmingham is the one with the american license as we are talking about Birmingham Alabama not in the UK. Am I right?

P.S. I'll pm you the answer if you want to give up :eek:

The part you have missed is that they are Siamese Twins.

EDIT: Anyone got any good ones? Mine are all far too easy.

[Original?]

If it takes six men six days to dig six holes, how long will it take one man to dig half a hole?

[50!]

If it takes six men six days to dig six holes, how long will it take one man to dig half a hole?

Well it depends on the size of the hole dosent it? It could take anything from one second to 7 days!

[-=[101st]=-]

the answer is 3 days... because it still takes 6 men 1/2 a day to dig 1/2 a hole.. so multiply that by 6 to work out how long it would take 1/6th the men to dig the same amount gets you 3 days...

so my answer is 3 DAYS

it is more of a maths question than a riddle...

[Martinho_88]

Her is one for ya.

Whoever makes it, tells it not.
Whoever takes it, knows it not.
And whoever knows it wants it not.

What is it???

[Travis Bickle]

50! and 101st, you pair of mugs !! You can't dig half a hole its just a hole or nothing.

[50!]

Oops. Damn it i knew i should not have been trying to solve riddles at 2am!

[Original?]

=-']the answer is 3 days... because it still takes 6 men 1/2 a day to dig 1/2 a hole.. so multiply that by 6 to work out how long it would take 1/6th the men to dig the same amount gets you 3 days...

so my answer is 3 DAYS

it is more of a maths question than a riddle...

Not really, there is no suh thing as a half a hole, it's always just a hole. ;)

[-=[101st]=-]

well i interupted it to mean a hole half the size...