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Riddle me this, Batman.
2006-02-11, 6:01 PM #41
darkness

the hobbit ftw
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2006-02-11, 6:23 PM #42
Correct.

Out of the eater came forth meat, out of the strong came sweetness.
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2006-02-11, 6:28 PM #43
Where are you getting these from?
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2006-02-11, 6:33 PM #44
I've been reading Book IV of Stephen King's Dark Tower series (Also known as the Gunslinger series). There's a portion where they are riddling a crazy sentient suicidal train for their lives.

There's lots of good riddles in that section.

And a few are ones I've heard throughout the years.
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2006-02-11, 6:39 PM #45
Darkness doesn't even make sense as an answer to that riddle.
2006-02-11, 6:39 PM #46
Sampson in the Bible said that, but I never figured it out. :(
2006-02-11, 6:39 PM #47
Originally posted by happydud:
I've been reading Book IV of Stephen King's Dark Tower series (Also known as the Gunslinger series). There's a portion where they are riddling a crazy sentient suicidal train for their lives.

There's lots of good riddles in that section.

And a few are ones I've heard throughout the years.


I just read that!! I'm looking now.
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2006-02-11, 6:47 PM #48
Cheater! But on another note: I'm having trouble getting through the Susannah sidestory. It's not bad, per say. I just don't think it's that great. I'm on 240 or so. It goes until at least 350.

But I'm pushing through! The first three were /astounding/.
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2006-02-11, 6:48 PM #49
I finished the fifth book and couldn't start the sixth. I have trouble keeping on reading for a while. Plus, I heard from a friend who read them all that the ending of the series is just awful and will make you want to kill yourself, so I'm passing. :)

[EDIT: Which means that horrible things happen to the good guys, apparently. Not that it's an actual bad ending.]
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2006-02-11, 6:57 PM #50
I was afraid of that. Is the fifth any good?
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2006-02-11, 6:59 PM #51
Yes. They defend a village from mechanical wolves, Magnificent Seven-style.
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2006-02-11, 6:59 PM #52
Originally posted by happydud:
Not bad.

Here's another:

Where can you find a forest without trees, roads without cars, and cities without houses?

A map?
2006-02-11, 7:00 PM #53
If anyone else wants to post some riddles, you may. I'm heading to bed soon. (And out of good riddles)
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2006-02-11, 7:01 PM #54
Originally posted by Tiberium_Empire:
A map?

Brilliant response.

-I understand there's references to pretty much every Stephen King book ever written, including ones not yet published. True?
2006-02-11, 7:04 PM #55
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a head but never weeps?
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2006-02-11, 7:08 PM #56
Small rocks?

(teeheehee)
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2006-02-11, 7:13 PM #57
Oh a river.

-Or a creek? Dunno, never heard of either having a head.
2006-02-11, 7:16 PM #58
Yeah, river.
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2006-02-11, 7:24 PM #59
The head of a river is where the river originates, the foot? I think, is where it spills into a larger body of water (i.e. a bay, an ocean.)

Another:

Three people go to a hotel and get a room for $30. They each pay $10. After they go to their room the manager realizes that he overcharged them, and that the room was supposed to cost $25. He gives $5 to the bellboy to return to the three people.

The bellboy realizes that $5 is difficult to split among three people, so he pockets $2 and then gives $1 to each of the three people.

So now each person has paid $9 (the original $10 minus the $1 that was returned). That means they've paid a total of $27, plus the $2 for the tip, is $29. Where's the extra dollar?
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2006-02-11, 7:25 PM #60
A riddle... a riddle...
What...
Er...
What do...
I have in my pocket?
...
...
Just kidding.

-Born at the same time as the world, destined to live as long as the world, and yet never five weeks old. What is it?
2006-02-11, 7:28 PM #61
Originally posted by happydud:
The head of a river is where the river originates, the foot? I think, is where it spills into a larger body of water (i.e. a bay, an ocean.)

Another:

Three people go to a hotel and get a room for $30. They each pay $10. After they go to their room the manager realizes that he overcharged them, and that the room was supposed to cost $25. He gives $5 to the bellboy to return to the three people.

The bellboy realizes that $5 is difficult to split among three people, so he pockets $2 and then gives $1 to each of the three people.

So now each person has paid $9 (the original $10 minus the $1 that was returned). That means they've paid a total of $27, plus the $2 for the tip, is $29. Where's the extra dollar?

Trick Question?
2006-02-11, 7:34 PM #62
Originally posted by happydud:
The bellboy realizes that $5 is difficult to split among three people, so he pockets $2 and then gives $1 to each of the three people.
So now each person has paid $9 (the original $10 minus the $1 that was returned). That means they've paid a total of $27, plus the $2 for the tip, is $29. Where's the extra dollar?

30-5=25 (What the room really costs)
5-2=3 (What the guys got)
25+3=28 (What they got+what they paid)
28+2=30 (What they got+what they paid+what the bellboy got)
Just math the dollar back into existence if you have to.

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2006-02-11, 7:36 PM #63
Very good.
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2006-02-11, 7:37 PM #64
Can you think of a system where the following selection of numbers are properly sorted?

10
20
50
100
110
80
130
99
150
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2006-02-11, 8:57 PM #65
Originally posted by happydud:
Correct.

Out of the eater came forth meat, out of the strong came sweetness.


Something to do with honey?
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2006-02-12, 4:40 PM #66
Originally posted by happydud:
Can you think of a system where the following selection of numbers are properly sorted?

10
20
50
100
110
80
130
99
150


(am I thinking to easily?)
10
20
50
80
99
100
110
130
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2006-02-12, 4:48 PM #67
Originally posted by happydud:

Cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind the stars and beneath the hills. Ends life and kills laughter. What is it?


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2006-02-12, 5:44 PM #68
if you can get thrugh Wizard and Glass, the rest will be a breeze. i had so much trouble with DT IV. not entirely sure why, but even on the multiple re-reads it was the toughest to get through.
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2006-02-12, 5:48 PM #69
Originally posted by happydud:
Correct.

Out of the eater came forth meat, out of the strong came sweetness.



something about killing a lion and bees making honey in its head. cant remember exactly.
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2006-02-12, 8:15 PM #70
Just found this on google while trying to find a riddle:
The following night two friends check into the same motel. Once again the clerk charges them $30, or $15 per person. After the clerk remembers the total rate is only $25 he sends the bellhop upstairs with five $1 bills to pay the two friends back. The bellhop knows he got away with larceny once so he tries it again. But this time he pockets $3 and returns $2 to the hotel guests ($1 per guest). So each of the two guests got $1 back from their original $15. Therefore each paid $14 which is a total payment of $28 for the room. Now the bellhop has $3, the guests paid $28, for a total of $31....THERE'S THE MISSING DOLLAR!!!!

-I dunno about the others.
2006-02-12, 8:25 PM #71
... that's the same one you just answered, but worded differently?

An easy way to think of that one anyways is that you're supposed to SUBTRACT three from $28, not ADD $3 .. that would make 25, which is what the room SHOULD cost (except the bellhop has that 3)
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2006-02-12, 8:48 PM #72
[QUOTE=Numenor King](am I thinking to easily?)
10
20
50
80
99
100
110
130[/QUOTE]

What sort of system is that?
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2006-02-12, 9:04 PM #73
No, the numbers are in order. How are they in order? Using what <noun>.

I can't hint much more than that. Think about the order they are in, and then think about what would use something like that.
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2006-02-12, 9:59 PM #74
looks to me kinda like some sort of accounting system, but then i've had accounting on the brain cause of all these damn classes.
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2006-02-13, 8:32 PM #75
Originally posted by Pommy:
... that's the same one you just answered, but worded differently?


I beleive it's supposed to be a humorous answer to the riddle that turns the same fiddly addition and subtraction back on it.

-Nobody answered my earlier one.
2006-02-13, 8:54 PM #76
Originally posted by happydud:
Can you think of a system where the following selection of numbers are properly sorted?

10
20
50
100
110
80
130
99
150


If it weren't for the 99 I'd say you have a MIN heap, but the 99 is screwing that up. I'm stumped.
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2006-02-13, 9:22 PM #77
Originally posted by happydud:
Can you think of a system where the following selection of numbers are properly sorted?

10
20
50
100
110
80
130
99
150


No.

(Is that the right answer?)

2006-02-14, 4:49 AM #78
Part of my brain says in Roman numerals, but I know it's wrong.

X
XX
L
C
CX
... get stuck :(
2006-02-14, 8:09 AM #79
ok I though it was put the numbers in order not how are they already in order.
now I get it, and consiqently I dont get it.
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2006-02-14, 8:56 AM #80
Originally posted by bearded_jarl:
-Born at the same time as the world, destined to live as long as the world, and yet never five weeks old. What is it?

The moon?
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