OT: Help with a riddle

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Flyin' V

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OT: Help with a riddle

This riddle has been bugging me for a long time, and I'm sure there are members here that are a lot smarter than me, so maybe someone can help me out. Now I do not know the answer to this one, so I'm sorry if we all get stumped and I end up frustrating a lot more people. Anyway, here it is.

One you can buy, the other can't unless its cheap. One has pits the other
wouldn't want. One makes you nervous, the other helps you loosen up. What are they?

Any ideas?

P.S.

Perhaps to make everyone feel better, I'll also put up a riddle that I did figure out, so someone should get the answer.

A man leaves home, goes straight for a little while then takes 3 lefts and is
on his way back home. When he gets there, he sees 2 guys wearing masks! Who are they?
 
The second one seems to be a baseball reference. Catcher and umpire?

The first one's tough, though. Seems to have too few clues to home in on. Or maybe it just seems that way since i don't have it figured out. Will give it some more thought later. Good luck!

-FF
 
its a word puzzle

first word:
you can buy
has pits
makes you nervous

second word:
can't unless its cheap - add cheap to the beginning of the word to get something you can buy
wouldnt want the first words pits
lossens you up

I dont have an answer but have some thoughts the first is a noun like say women - you can buy them (hookers), they have arm pits, and they make you nervous
and the second word is a verb like
labor - you cant buy labor but cheap labor you could buy, labor wouldnt want pits, and labor loosens you up.
 
No I meant my post was stupid and that's why I edited it away. It's sometimes hard to put my thoughts into English.
 
AdunaCCDanimoth said:
Don't like the thread? Don't post in it. Not a hard concept.
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Don't like the post? Don't reply to it. ;)

That's why that sentence never, ever works... ;)

About the riddle though... errrrrrr... i'm tired or i'd try. :p
 
Well, thanks for trying. Now you know how I've felt.
The best I've come up with so far is Love and Money. Not sure though. Usually with riddles, you hear the answer and think, "of course, how could I be so stupid".

V
 
Flyin' V said:
One you can buy, the other can't unless its cheap. One has pits the other wouldn't want. One makes you nervous, the other helps you loosen up. What are they?
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I don't even understand the English in that first sentence. The second sentence isn't much clearer.
"One you can buy": OK, that's clear enough.
"The other can't": The other can't buy? Buy what? The first thing?
"Unless it's cheap": If the other object is cheap (as in "unwilling to spend money") it will buy the first?
"Pits the other wouldn't want": The second thing is something that wouldn't want the pits in the first? Or is it you that wouldn't want to see pits in the second thing, although they are in the first?

The grammar is all messed up. Can you rewrite this riddle to make it clearer, or is this the form it came to you in? Could it be something like:

"One you can buy; but you can't buy the other unless it's cheap. One has pits, but you don't want to see pits in the other. One makes you nervous, the other makes you loosen up. What are they?"
 
Maybe the nervous and the loosen up have to do something with drugs or medication...?? :scratch:

Drugs could loosen you up i guess and it might make some people nervous?


My head hurts
 
Ohhh.....Dates, definitely, it would almost make sense to have both answers be dates, but I'm having a tough time with why they wouldn't want pits.


Can I mini-hijack here? While searching for inspiration on this riddle, I came across another one that I can't figure out:
Cut and paste here in its entirety:


A man walks up to you offering you a chance to be named one of the three smartest people in the world. You, of course, agree, and he brings to to a small forest clearing where two other people are tried to their chairs, with their chairs tied to a tree. He offers you a chair, which is also tied to a tree. You sit down and he ties you up as well. You are sitting in one corner of the triangle, so you can see both of the other people and they can see you. Next the man blindfolds all three of you.

"I am going to paint a red or green dot on each of your foreheads. If you see at least one green dot, raise your hand. You must guess which color dot is on your forehead. If you guess right, I will let you go and give you the title of smartest person on earth. If your wrong, I'm not going to untie you."

The man paints a dot on each of your foreheads and takes the blindfolds off. You see a green dot on both peoples' foreheads, so you raise your hand. They see at least one green dot and raise their hands as well.

After a long silence, you say, "Sir, I know which color dot I have."

Which color dot do you have and how do you know?


Hints:

You cannot see any paint, paintbrushes or paintcans

You cannot tell which way the other people are looking.

You cannot see the reflection in thier eyes
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I looked into the woods behind me and there was a beagle who mouthed the word 'green' to me in a very discreet manner. So the answer is clearly green.
 
I just don't get it. My first instinct was to say that you are clearly not going to be voted smartest person if you follow a strange man into the woods and let him tie you to a tree, but that didn't help me get the answer.

If it said there had to be at least one of each color, that would be easy (not much of a riddle though, I guess), but since it doesn't, you could all be green, or you could be red and the other two could be looking at each other.


@Neely022 I'm going to assume that was a joke unless you can back it up with something other than talking dogs. :lol:
 
you're in the middle of a forest, tied to a tree. there are no painting supplies around. thus, the only easily obtainable color is...green.

EDIT: strike that, the forest has nothing to do with it.


also, those other two guys are in cahoots. they've been tied up for who knows how long, they just wanna get untied, they'd raise their hands even if it was a lie, which explains their long silence. so you cannot base your decision on their input.

EDIT: it also has nothing to do with the fact they've been tied up. It's simply logic, nothing to do with the environment at all.

I've got it, but now it's easy enough that I'll give someone else a chance.


GG
 
Your dot is green. Long silence => the other two don't know what colour they are. If you had a red dot, they would both know straight away that they both had green.
 
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