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Don't know if you know this - but a teacher told it to me 7 years ago. So it's probably ancient. So here goes:
(it was another currency but in order not to confuse too much, let's use dollars)
The riddle:
+ Show Spoiler +3 men enter a bar. They order 3 beers that all cost 10$, so the men give the waitress 30$.
However when she goes up to the bartender and tells him to get 3 beers and hands over the 30$ he says: Oh no, we have a special offer with 3 beers for 25$. So now the waitress has to go back with 5$. But you can't split 5$ into 3. So she takes 2$ for herself and hands the gentlemen their beers and 1$ each.
So this adds up. Doesn't it? Or wait... Now they all paid 9$ - so 9$ * 3 = 27$... And the waitress took 2$ for herself. That's 29$. Where did the last dollar go?
The hint:
+ Show Spoiler +Pay attention to who are paying for what and the actual prices
The solution:
+ Show Spoiler +There is no missing dollar. The men were to pay 25$ and the waitress took 2$ for herself. Meaning the men paying 27$ is the correct amount. It's a common deception to just add up all the money instead of realizing the actual numbers are from different points of view.
Hope you liked it 
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I can be full, but I will never overflow. What am I?
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A family inherit 6 million dollars from a friend of the family who has passed away. The family consist of two fathers and two sons. The family decides to spilt the money so that they each get 2 millions. How is that possible?
+ Show Spoiler +There is only 3 people in the family, a grandfather, his son and his grandson.
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3 men enter a bar. They order 3 beers that all cost 10$, so the men give the waitress 30$.
However when she goes up to the bartender and tells him to get 3 beers and hands over the 30$ he says: Oh no, we have a special offer with 3 beers for 25$. So now the waitress has to go back with 5$. But you can't split 5$ into 3. So she takes 2$ for herself and hands the gentlemen their beers and 1$ each.
This seemd easy, but I might be wrong. Here is my solution:
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30=25+2+1+1+1
30 = The original ammount
25 = They cost
2 = She keept
1 = First guy
1 = Second guy
1 = Third guy
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On April 19 2012 00:08 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Here's a riddle: How do you know when someone cheats and looks online for the solution to a riddle? + Show Spoiler +On April 18 2012 23:33 sc2system wrote:you are presented with 2 doors. one has millions of dollars behind it and the other has a lion that will eat you behind it. there are 2 guards in front of the doors that know what is behind the doors. one of them always tells the truth and one of them always lies, but you don't know which is which. You can only ask one question. What do you ask? Took me like 2 minutes. Solution: + Show Spoiler + You ask "What would your brother say if I asked him behind which door the million dollars are?".
You will get the door where the dragon is.
Eh the first time I heard it I solved it in about 10-15 minutes or so. I didn't think it was a hard riddle but I had trouble thinking of the perfect question to ask. I'm not the brightest guy around it's not hard to believe someone else figured it out in 2 minutes.
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For the question of counting I must confess it was rather fast.
The 2 guards question is in pretty much in every fantasy/archaelogy children movie/series on the planet.
The answer should be:
+ Show Spoiler +Ask to a guard what the other guard would say if I asked him which door will lead to my death. And just enter the other door.
The explanation to the answer above is:+ Show Spoiler +If I ask the truth guard and the door on the right was the money one, he would say its the left one, if the money door was on the left he would say the right one. If I asked the Lie guard and the money door was on the right he would say the left one, if the money door was on the right he would say the left one. In all these cases they all point towards the Lion Door, which means the other one is the good one.
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On April 19 2012 00:41 Sephy90 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 19 2012 00:08 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Here's a riddle: How do you know when someone cheats and looks online for the solution to a riddle? + Show Spoiler +On April 18 2012 23:33 sc2system wrote:you are presented with 2 doors. one has millions of dollars behind it and the other has a lion that will eat you behind it. there are 2 guards in front of the doors that know what is behind the doors. one of them always tells the truth and one of them always lies, but you don't know which is which. You can only ask one question. What do you ask? Took me like 2 minutes. Solution: + Show Spoiler + You ask "What would your brother say if I asked him behind which door the million dollars are?".
You will get the door where the dragon is.
Eh the first time I heard it I solved it in about 10-15 minutes or so. I didn't think it was a hard riddle but I had trouble thinking of the perfect question to ask. I'm not the brightest guy around it's not hard to believe someone else figured it out in 2 minutes.
Check the riddle and then his answer, guards magically switched to brothers and lion turned into a dragon?
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A family inherit 6 million dollars from a friend of the family who has passed away. The family consist of two fathers and two sons. The family decides to spilt the money so that they each get 2 millions. How is that possible?
Figured this out.
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Solution:
inspiration: song named I am my own grand pa
Ok, here I go pay carefull atention.
I mary a widdow with a grown up daugher so I have a daugher in law. My grown up daughter marries my father so she is my mother in law. I am the father of my daugher in law so I am my fathers father in law. Becuase I am my fathers father I am my own grand pa. And my wife and daugher in law die.
So there are acctully only 2 of them so they split the 6 million dollars in two and they each get 3 million dollars.
So this is how i solved it.
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On April 19 2012 00:24 WarEagle wrote:I remember these from the Dark Tower 3: The Waste Lands What has a mouth but cannot talk, has legs but cannot walk, has a head but cannot think, has a bed but never sleeps. + Show Spoiler +A loose translation: It's more powerful than God. It's more evil than the Devil. The poor have it. The rich need it. If you eat it you will die. + Show Spoiler +
+ Show Spoiler +Couldnt figure out the first one, I didnt get the leg part. Whats a "rivers leg" can't figure it out ?
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On April 19 2012 00:50 Cocacooh wrote:Show nested quote +On April 19 2012 00:24 WarEagle wrote:I remember these from the Dark Tower 3: The Waste Lands What has a mouth but cannot talk, has legs but cannot walk, has a head but cannot think, has a bed but never sleeps. + Show Spoiler +A loose translation: It's more powerful than God. It's more evil than the Devil. The poor have it. The rich need it. If you eat it you will die. + Show Spoiler + + Show Spoiler +Couldnt figure out the first one, I didnt get the leg part. Whats a "rivers leg" can't figure it out ?
I always heard it as "I bend but have no legs", so I just disregarded that line. Does that make more sense?
+ Show Spoiler +Just around the riverbend!!!
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On April 18 2012 23:42 mentallyafk wrote:Show nested quote +On April 18 2012 23:33 sc2system wrote:you are presented with 2 doors. one has millions of dollars behind it and the other has a lion that will eat you behind it. there are 2 guards in front of the doors that know what is behind the doors. one of them always tells the truth and one of them always lies, but you don't know which is which. You can only ask one question. What do you ask? Took me like 2 minutes. Solution: + Show Spoiler + You ask "What would your brother say if I asked him behind which door the million dollars are?".
You will get the door where the dragon is.
you are presented with 3 doors and 3 gaurds. same story, 1 door has money, other 2 dont. 1 guard always tells the truth and the other 2 always lie. what do you ask?
Solution:
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For reference sake the doors are labeled 1-3 and the million dollars is behind door 1.
You ask them what door the person to their right would go through. The truthful person and 1 liar will say "They would go through either door 2 or 3". 1 liar would say door 1. Believe the person that lists only a single door.
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On April 19 2012 00:41 sc2system wrote:3 men enter a bar. They order 3 beers that all cost 10$, so the men give the waitress 30$.
However when she goes up to the bartender and tells him to get 3 beers and hands over the 30$ he says: Oh no, we have a special offer with 3 beers for 25$. So now the waitress has to go back with 5$. But you can't split 5$ into 3. So she takes 2$ for herself and hands the gentlemen their beers and 1$ each. This seemd easy, but I might be wrong. Here is my solution: + Show Spoiler +
30=25+2+1+1+1
30 = The original ammount
25 = They cost
2 = She keept
1 = First guy
1 = Second guy
1 = Third guy
Well yes and no.
Obviously you're right. But + Show Spoiler +the point is you shouldn't actually calculate anything with 30. You should say: Actual price = 25 Their price = 27 Waitress = 2 Basicly 25+2 is all there is to say. I'm not saying you're wrong at all. You're obviously not. But you pretty much just summed it up Alternatively you could say 27 (the 30 - the three they god back) - the 2 she took would be 25. However this is where alot of people get confused. That's the tricky part. When you have 27 but the waitress has 2 in her pockets. Doesn't that add up to 29? + Show Spoiler +
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On April 19 2012 00:33 sc2system wrote:Show nested quote +On April 19 2012 00:27 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On April 19 2012 00:24 sc2system wrote:What is the next line of numbers?
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****1***2***1***1****
1***1***1***2***2***1 I saw this one in the blog section a few days ago. I read the solution but I still dont get it. Seeing as how I just posted that one with the answer, feel free to check it I dont get the solution, probably my bad english.
Read aloud what you see, as the solution describes and write down what you are saying, you'll get it ^_^
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Riddle: You are in a room with three light switches, each of which connects to a lightbulb in an adjacent room that you cannot see into. You do not know which switch goes with which bulb. You may only leave the switch room and can never re-enter it. How do you tell which switch controls which bulb?
Non-spoilered kinda hint: This puzzle involves no clever wordplay in it's description that is indicative of the solution. So don't try to solve it by reading too much into it.
Will post solution after seeing some guesses.
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Ok new riddle:
WARNING! This Riddle might be NSFW!
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Vv01y.jpg) Ok you work in a gay bar, then 4 new gays come to the bar but you have only one chair left. How do you sit them on the chair makng sure that all of them are happy. Solution: + Show Spoiler +
You turn the chair upside down and make them sit on the legs, they should enjoy it.
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On April 19 2012 01:01 Rob28 wrote:
Riddle: You are in a room with three light switches, each of which connects to a lightbulb in an adjacent room that you cannot see into. You do not know which switch goes with which bulb. You may only leave the switch room and can never re-enter it. How do you tell which switch controls which bulb?
Non-spoilered kinda hint: This puzzle involves no clever wordplay in it's description that is indicative of the solution. So don't try to solve it by reading too much into it.
Will post solution after seeing some guesses.
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You switch on switch #1. You wait for 10 minutes. You switch it off and switch on switch #2. You never touch switch #3.
You enter the room. The lit bulb is switch #2. You touch the remaining bulbs. The hot one is switch #1, the cold one is switch #3.
edit : wtf post above
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On April 19 2012 01:01 Rob28 wrote:
Riddle: You are in a room with three light switches, each of which connects to a lightbulb in an adjacent room that you cannot see into. You do not know which switch goes with which bulb. You may only leave the switch room and can never re-enter it. How do you tell which switch controls which bulb?
Non-spoilered kinda hint: This puzzle involves no clever wordplay in it's description that is indicative of the solution. So don't try to solve it by reading too much into it.
Will post solution after seeing some guesses.
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Turn on switch 1 for 30 mins, then turn off.
Turn on switch 2
Enter room
The light bulb that is on is from switch 2, the off one is either switch 1 or 3, the one that is hot to the touch is from switch 1.
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On April 19 2012 00:50 sc2system wrote:A family inherit 6 million dollars from a friend of the family who has passed away. The family consist of two fathers and two sons. The family decides to spilt the money so that they each get 2 millions. How is that possible?
Sorry if this is a doublepost
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Solution: Easier solution - the family consists of three people; a grandfather, a father, and a son. The grandfather and father are both fathers, while the son is not. The son and father are both sons, while the grandfather is not. 6 million divided by 3 is 2 million.
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On April 19 2012 01:01 Rob28 wrote:
Riddle: You are in a room with three light switches, each of which connects to a lightbulb in an adjacent room that you cannot see into. You do not know which switch goes with which bulb. You may only leave the switch room and can never re-enter it. How do you tell which switch controls which bulb?
Non-spoilered kinda hint: This puzzle involves no clever wordplay in it's description that is indicative of the solution. So don't try to solve it by reading too much into it.
Will post solution after seeing some guesses.
This one's not too tough:
+ Show Spoiler +Leave one switch off for the whole time, and turn two on. After a long time, turn one of the two "on" switches off. Then leave and check out the bulbs. One will be off and cool (corresponding to the switch you never touched), one will be off and warm (corresponding to the switch you left on for a while and recently turned off), and one will still be on
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On April 19 2012 01:03 sc2system wrote:Ok new riddle: WARNING! This Riddle might be NSFW!+ Show Spoiler +Ok you work in a gay bar, then 4 new gays come to the bar but you have only one chair left. How do you sit them on the chair makng sure that all of them are happy. Solution: + Show Spoiler +
You turn the chair upside down and make them sit on the legs, they should enjoy it.
Not entirely sure if this is an appropriate riddle.
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Riddle: You are in a room with three light switches, each of which connects to a lightbulb in an adjacent room that you cannot see into. You do not know which switch goes with which bulb. You may only leave the switch room and can never re-enter it. How do you tell which switch controls which bulb?
What year are you in. If around 2000 this is my guess:
+ Show Spoiler + You take on switch and repidetly turn it on and off. In my experience this would cuase teh light builbs to explode. Then you turn on one other light and go into the other room. The one that is on is the one that you turned on, if you did well there should be on that is smelly and black thats the one you exploded, if you are lucky the glass might of have even shattered.
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