OT: Help with a riddle

as in a mathmatical question there is not enough information to answer the question 100%. for if you look at the other 2 and they both have a green then they look at one another and you so they are going to raise their hand becuase they see eachothers green dot. so in essance your dot doesnt matter, in in realizing that you already become the smartest person and go and have lunch with Confusious and Einstein. THus making 3

mwha ha ha ha :clap:
 
Of course, thank you for the hint there, I think I get it now too.

I actually had that thought about the forest being green too, but then I decided that was too deceptive, since he actually says he will paint the dot.

*Edit* Yeah, what Tren said

You are good at these riddles, GG
 
Hate to hijack the thread, but I've got a riddle for you guys. This one had me (and my entire ninth grade biology class, and my father, and many of my friends... etc) stumped for the better part of a school year, so I'll give you more information than I got to begin with :p



A man, recently returned from a sea voyage, walks into a small restaurant along the coast. He notices that there is an item on the menu called "albatross soup". He orders it, and when it arrives, he takes several small bites. He sits in silence for a few minutes, then he pays his bill and leaves (without finishing his soup). A short time later, he kills himself.
Why did he kill himself?



This riddle pretty much requires the solvers to ask me a series of yes or no questions, so if anyone is interested and tries I'll answer your questions with "Yes", "No", "Yes and no", or "irrelevant" (or whatever response I find appropriate :p)
 
Hmm...I do know that according to Naval tradition, it is considered a grevious offense to kill an albatross. Is this relevant?
 
I know the answer to Wonko's riddle . . . it's a good one. Definitely needs to be done as a twenty-questions-type thing, though.
 
is this one of those things where the guy dreamed of albatross soup and after finally having some has nothing left to live for?
 
Kremtok: nope, good guess though.
HBB: Way off :p
Durf: PM me the answer you have, if you would; I'd be interested to see if our versions of the riddle differ.
 
god i hate riddles when i cant figure them out, wonko, you must PM me the answer or i will go insane until somebody figures it out
 
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?

Any ideas?

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I'm thinking a women and a prune.

The one you can buy is prune the other you can only buy if cheap. (Meaning cheap women prostitute)
One has pits the other wouldn't want= armpit vs. pit of fruit.
One makes you nervous=women, one loosens you up=prune.

That is my best guess.

edit:Brain shutting down in 3...2...1 Ok now this post makes sense.


-chase
 
Wonko the Sane said:
Hate to hijack the thread, but I've got a riddle for you guys. This one had me (and my entire ninth grade biology class, and my father, and many of my friends... etc) stumped for the better part of a school year, so I'll give you more information than I got to begin with :p



A man, recently returned from a sea voyage, walks into a small restaurant along the coast. He notices that there is an item on the menu called "albatross soup". He orders it, and when it arrives, he takes several small bites. He sits in silence for a few minutes, then he pays his bill and leaves (without finishing his soup). A short time later, he kills himself.
Why did he kill himself?



This riddle pretty much requires the solvers to ask me a series of yes or no questions, so if anyone is interested and tries I'll answer your questions with "Yes", "No", "Yes and no", or "irrelevant" (or whatever response I find appropriate :p)
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Are albatross's native to that coast?

did he know the waitress?
 
TrenShadow said:
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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You clever son o..... :lol:

That truly is correct!
 
In answer to the original posted riddle, how about putting together GG and chase_encode's answers? Dates and prunes?

Prunes you can buy, but not dates (referring to women) unless for cheap.
They both have pits (now dates refer to the fruit), but you wouldn't want to switch them around.
Dates (back to women again) make you nervous, prunes loosen you up.

It's the fact that dates can mean multiple things (fruit thingie, or women) that makes it all hang together. Dates (in the fruit sense) and prunes fit together thematically too.

-FF
 
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?"
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Sorry, Durf, I copied and pasted the riddle as I received it.



In answer to the original posted riddle, how about putting together GG and chase_encode's answers? Dates and prunes? Prunes you can buy, but not dates (referring to women) unless for cheap.
They both have pits (now dates refer to the fruit), but you wouldn't want to switch them around.
Dates (back to women again) make you nervous, prunes loosen you up.

It's the fact that dates can mean multiple things (fruit thingie, or women) that makes it all hang together. Dates (in the fruit sense) and prunes fit together thematically too.
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I think you may have it, Frolf. Makes the most sense of any answer I've heard yet.

As for Wanko's riddle, yeah, I've heard it before. I do like those kinds of 20 question riddles. I've got a couple more of those...

1. There's a dead man and 53 bicycles on the floor. What happened?


2. There are 3 dead naked females, glass, and water on the ground. What happened?


V
 
Flyin' V said:
1. There's a dead man and 53 bicycles on the floor. What happened?
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The guy was killed after someone caught him cheating at poker, putting an extra card in the deck.

I knew that one in the mid-1970s. :)

I think I know the "three females" one too but I'll leave it unanswered for the other posters!
 
Flyin' V said:
1. There's a dead man and 53 bicycles on the floor. What happened?


2. There are 3 dead naked females, glass, and water on the ground. What happened?
V
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I know the answer to #2 and I have part of an idea about #1, but I can't seem be able to PM you, V :scratch:
I don't want to spoil the riddles for everyone else by posting the answers.

EDIT: D'oh! Sound like Durf answered #1. I figured that the 53 bicycles were a deck of cards (I was thinking 52 +1 joker or something), but I hadn't figured out how he died. I blame Durf for ... :scratch: ... well ... SOMETHING! :uhhuh:
 
Howitzer Al said:
You want another classic 20 questions riddle?

2 men are dead in a cabin on a mountain. How did they die?
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I am SEVERELY tempted to post the answer to this, but since I've heard it before I won't.


Uzziah: the answer to both your questions is "irrelevant"
 
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