Riddle me this, Riddle me that:

On February 21 2009 09:33 CharlieMurphy wrote:


correct.

On February 21 2009 09:36 CharlieMurphy wrote:
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correct.

Q3: It was a major league baseball game that a pitcher faced only 27 batters. Every batter he faced, he struck out. He allowed no hits and no runs. His team lost 4-0. How could this be possible?

On February 21 2009 09:39 CharlieMurphy wrote:
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close enough.


Q4: Rachel was sun bathing at a nude beach because she heard it was the best way to acquire an overall tab. Day after day she was out lying in the sun, yet couldn't manage the complete tan. What could she have done wrong to prevent her from receiving the even tones she so desired?

On February 21 2009 09:57 Kau wrote:
Isn't a pawn ticket just a receipt? Doesn't Duncan lose out on $1.50 for buying something worthless?

On February 21 2009 10:57 Rekrul wrote:
These are from Mindtrap aren't they lol

On February 21 2009 11:22 Naib wrote:
Because he needed to look at his watch to know what time he was supposed to start working (if what he said was true). If he really was working since 2:30 PM, then he didn't have to look at his watch.

On February 21 2009 10:58 CharlieMurphy wrote:

Thread solved.

lol I'm off work so I will post more tomorrow as I work all day.

On February 21 2009 11:15 JeeJee wrote:
if fraiser taught me one thing is that wine tasters spit out the wine ;( he wouldn't be drunk

On February 21 2009 09:35 pheer wrote:

I'm not liking this quiz card game already... if you stand the log up and make 5 equally placed cuts along the diameter you have 10 equal pieces.... argh...

On February 21 2009 12:06 travis wrote:


he forgot to mention that the log isn't circular but rather an oval

On February 21 2009 12:55 Chuiu wrote:



Without specifying how the log pieces should be shaped or cut 5 would be the most logical answer.

On February 21 2009 11:05 CharlieMurphy wrote:
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I'll leave with one last question though:

Q11: Shadow approached Sid Shady and said, "I have reason to believe you are the man responsible for the holdup at the 'Salty Dog Tavern' two hours ago. You fit the description given by several witnesses. They described a man who had been drinking heavily before robbing several customers and fleeing the scene." "Of course I'm drunk. I happen to be a professional wine taster and I've been plying my trade for the last five hours." Shadow studied Shady and questioned, "What time is it now?" Shady replied "It happens to be 7:30 p.m." Shadow continued, "Tell me then, what time was it when you started working?" Shady looked at his watch and replied "2:30 p.m." "You're obviously lying," accused Shadow. Why?

On February 21 2009 13:19 SearingShadow wrote:


This can only be achieved by stacking different pieces of log on top of each other.

For example, if you made the 1, 2, 3 and 4 cuts, there would be 5 pieces of log. The 5th cut would require the 5 pieces of log to be stacked on top of each other. Would you consider 'cut 5' one cut or five different cuts because you are cutting 5 different pieces of log?

I consider it 5 different cuts, therefore, a total of 9 cuts are required.

On February 21 2009 12:55 Chuiu wrote:



Without specifying how the log pieces should be shaped or cut 5 would be the most logical answer.

On February 21 2009 12:55 Chuiu wrote:



Without specifying how the log pieces should be shaped or cut 5 would be the most logical answer.

On February 22 2009 07:49 pheer wrote:

This doesn't even work if you conside that for each cut to take a minute, the fifth cut would take longer. My 5 cuts across the diameter (log standing up) would at least make every cut the same distance.

What I don't like about this question is how it does not specify what orientation the log has to be cut.

On February 22 2009 07:55 CDRdude wrote:
Because the lobsters were orange. Edit: I really have to stop trying to answer these, I'll waste my 3k post

On February 22 2009 08:57 x89titan wrote:
where did those people die?

On February 22 2009 08:44 CharlieMurphy wrote:
lol one of these easy riddles says; "it is estimated that the earth weighs 6 sextillion tons. how much would the earth weigh if you took 1 sextillion tons of concrete and stone and built a large wall?"
Didn't know that was how much it weighed.

On February 22 2009 08:58 Juicyfruit wrote:


Unless you got the concrete from space, I'd say it would weight exactly the same.

On February 22 2009 09:17 Juicyfruit wrote:
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lol, wow

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On February 22 2009 09:49 pyrogenetix wrote:
so what was the answer to the cigarettes empty bottle kerosene lamp thing?

On February 22 2009 10:14 CharlieMurphy wrote:

you really don't even wanna know. It's ludicrous

On February 22 2009 10:39 LTT wrote:
It's outside back. The act of turning the shirt inside out reverses the sleeves relative to the tag.

On February 22 2009 10:39 SonuvBob wrote:

Post it anyway

On February 22 2009 10:42 CharlieMurphy wrote:

The man was a partial cripple who worked for a circus (which we can easily deduce from the tent reference). He was known as the world's shortest living adult (duh). Someone was cutting short pieces from the end of his walking cane (which we don't even know he used). Consequently, he thought he was starting to grow and would eventually lose not only his notoriety but also his job (so not only can this guy read but he can't tell if he's short in comparison to every other thing in his life).

On February 22 2009 10:45 SonuvBob wrote:

loool that is pretty stupid

On February 22 2009 10:41 x89titan wrote:

so ur saying the right sleeve is now the left sleeve? that doesnt make sense. the sleeves should stay the same

On February 22 2009 10:42 CharlieMurphy wrote:

The man was a partial cripple who worked for a circus (which we can easily deduce from the tent reference). He was known as the world's shortest living adult (duh). Someone was cutting short pieces from the end of his walking cane (which we don't even know he used). Consequently, he thought he was starting to grow and would eventually lose not only his notoriety but also his job (so not only can this guy not read, but he can't tell if he's short in comparison to every other thing in his life).

On February 22 2009 11:02 x89titan wrote:
i knew it was the right side

On February 22 2009 11:03 CharlieMurphy wrote:

lol but then u would be wrong in any case. its over 1 billion on the left..

On February 22 2009 11:04 x89titan wrote:

u tricked me. u dint put commas

On February 23 2009 02:03 Murlox wrote:


Same value.

They omitted the "0" in an effort to make it clearer for non mathematicians, resulting in making it stupid for mathematicians though.

On February 23 2009 05:13 Cpt Obvious wrote:
wtf? those sums are so not the same value...

each number apart from the 1 is bigger on the left side. If I take a bunch of numbers where every single one is bigger than the corresponding number on the other side, and add them up, I know the left sum will be bigger without even calculating. When will people stop taking maths as a game and start taking it seriously? Those guys make a failing grade school student seem smart...

On February 23 2009 05:29 FragKrag wrote:



That's like saying 1 = 10 because there's an invisible zero behind the 1

On February 23 2009 05:13 Cpt Obvious wrote:
wtf? those sums are so not the same value...

each number apart from the 1 is bigger on the left side. If I take a bunch of numbers where every single one is bigger than the corresponding number on the other side, and add them up, I know the left sum will be bigger without even calculating.

On February 23 2009 05:54 SonuvBob wrote:

Thank you, Captain Obv- oh, it is you, welcome back.

On February 23 2009 05:54 SonuvBob wrote:

Thank you, Captain Obv- oh, it is you, welcome back.

On February 23 2009 07:37 terr13 wrote:
I think it is meant to be followed by 0's, using just a bit of common sense. There is no way that riddle would ask you that question otherwise, and if you complain about it, you should complain about the other riddles as well. They even lined up all the digits for you like it's supposed to be added. The answer should be that they are the same, since 9 1's is the same as 1 9.

On February 21 2009 09:33 CharlieMurphy wrote:
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correct.

use 4 cuts to cut log into 5 pieces, use 5th cut to cut horizontally, turns 5 into 10

Q2: Duncan Drivel was asked how many ducks he had. "well," he said. "they just walked down the path and I didn't actually count them, but I remember one duck in front of two ducks, another duck behind two ducks and another duck between two ducks." how many ducks does Duncan have?

On February 26 2009 08:10 antiq wrote:
May I join in? This is not a riddle per se, but a mathematical problem my bro had to cope with in some obscure programming class.

Say .. Jimmy walks into the classroom and sees a set of numbers on the blackboard:

1,2,3,4,5, .. etc .. N

Now, he is a bit goofy, think Rainman, so he starts to play with the numbers:

He picks a number, say R - then adds together the first R numbers from the set in his head, deletes them and writes their sum at the end of the whole set (after the initial N).

(If there are no more R numbers in the set, he just takes all that are left)

And he decides to do this K-times .. so, what is the last number in the set now (the K-th number which he writes)?

If you have N=5 (that means 1,2,3,4,5); R=2, K=3, it's obvious, you get

1,2,3,4,5
3,4,5,3
5,3,7
7,8 -> so the answer is 8

But say you have a range of numbers 1-1^9 (1-billion) for N,R and K ...
How would you get the answer if the input was N=92312386, R=432765 and K=87397?

Write a computer program that does the whole procedure fast, yes.. but no, not really the hard way you would expect. The thing is, the numbers get too huge even for normal computers - and the limit for this program was set at 64MB used and 1sec time anyway.

Any mathematically gifted among the TL-netters? Btw, I don't know the answer and the number doesn't interest me that much, the interesting thing is the algorithm, how did you get the result (I don't know the algorithm either :3)