Riddle time

ahochaude wrote:
Glad you guys liked it.

I'll post another one tonight. I've got a lot of these in my e-mails.

K.T.Tran wrote:Will be waiting :mrgreen:

@Enna: you got great eyes if you were able to score perfect :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

@Doc: I'll make a note of that :mrgreen:

Thanks K.T. Tran. I only recognized one serial killer from his pic. The rest I guessed strictly by vibes. :headscratch: To quote James Earl Jones in Bull Durham...."OMG You're from the Sixties!!!" :omg: :hehe:

Yeah that was a fun. More quizzes and riddles please. :applaud:

What extremely rare event occured on May 6, 1978 at approximately 34 minutes into the beginning of the day?

shoujo22 wrote:What extremely rare event occured on May 6, 1978 at approximately 34 minutes into the beginning of the day?

Digital clocks displayed:
12:34 5-6-78

But it happened again 34 past noon (assuming the 12-hr time). :D

dochira wrote:
Digital clocks displayed:
12:34 5-6-78

But it happened again 34 past noon (assuming the 12-hr time). :D

Absolutely right ;). I figured that someone would get it right off the bat. Oh well.

How 'bout these:

1.) One cold, rainy night night your car dies on you. The only shelter nearby is a run down shack of a house. You go in the house and see that the only items there are a large candle and a large piece of wood. Pulling out your last match you look at the wood then the candle and realize that they both have the potential to keep you warm. Which one do you light first?

2.) A lady stood nearby a secret club door. Although the lady really wanted to get in, she didn't know how. By chance another lady walked up to the door and knocked. The guard whispered "12" and the lady replied "six". She was then allowed to come in. A man then walked up to the door and the guard whispered "six" and man replied "three". Thinking that she'd caught on, the lady approached the door and the guard whispered "ten". The lady replied "five" but was immediately asked to leave. Why?

3.) If someone walks up to you and says "Its a lie", are they telling the truth or lying?

shoujo22 wrote:
1.) One cold, rainy night night your car dies on you. The only shelter nearby is a run down shack of a house. You go in the house and see that the only items there are a large candle and a large piece of wood. Pulling out your last match you look at the wood then the candle and realize that they both have the potential to keep you warm. Which one do you light first?

You have to light the match before anything else. ;)

shoujo22 wrote:
2.) A lady stood nearby a secret club door. Although the lady really wanted to get in, she didn't know how. By chance another lady walked up to the door and knocked. The guard whispered "12" and the lady replied "six". She was then allowed to come in. A man then walked up to the door and the guard whispered "six" and man replied "three". Thinking that she'd caught on, the lady approached the door and the guard whispered "ten". The lady replied "five" but was immediately asked to leave. Why?

She should have said "three". (letters in the word)

shoujo22 wrote:
3.) If someone walks up to you and says "Its a lie", are they telling the truth or lying?

I need more time on this one.

Its actually easier than you think :thumbsup:.

my guess....they're lieing :mrgreen:

K.T.Tran wrote:my guess....they're lieing :mrgreen:

Then, it's the truth. Did I just confuse myself? :nut:

dochira wrote:
Then, it's the truth. Did I just confuse myself? :nut:

i don't know....but this is one tricky question...at least it seems it :sweat:

I swear its not hard. Well, actually :sweat:. I could give the answer if you guys want me to. Out of all three riddles I thought that this one would be the easiest.

Sometimes the easiest one is the toughest one to answer. I know I start to second guess myself, and end up confusing it more.

shoujo22 wrote:3.) If someone walks up to you and says "Its a lie", are they telling the truth or lying?

How can they say "it's a lie" when nothing was said to begin with? :crazy:

Aren't they telling you both? :nut: :hehe:

shoujo22 wrote:3.) If someone walks up to you and says "Its a lie", are they telling the truth or lying?

The way this riddle usually goes is: A man walks up to you and says, "Everything I say is a lie". Is he telling the truth or lying?

But you used the word "Its", which is the possessive of "it", which doesn't make sense grammatically. Could you clarify if you really meant to say "its", or "it's" or, "everything I say"?

Silly quibble edited...

shoujo22 wrote:

It really doesn't matter whether or not someone comes up to you and says "Everything is a lie" or "Its a lie". It more or less has to do with the fact that somone says that something is a lie. A riddle does not have to be grammatically correct (It has to make sense though) so there's no need to clariy anything; because saying either "Its" or "Everything" will neither change the meaning of nor the answer to the riddle....and you still don't know exactly what "it" or "everything" is regardless. I'm no English major, but I am a scientist and I do understand the power of words and the fact that the way you arrange them can make all the difference in the world ;).

If the man had walked up to a person and said "Everything is a lie" then everything in that instance could be anything. For example: everything in your life is a lie; everything in my life is a lie, everything that a loved one said to you is a lie, everything in the world is a lie. See what I mean? Saying "Everything" is just as just as confusing as saying "its" beacuse either way you have no idea what it is. But that's not the focal point of the riddle. What you should focus on trying to figure out whether the person is telling the truth or not. Interpret it as what ever you'd like it to be. It's going to mean the same thing either way. There no harm in changing a few words around as long as the core meaning of the phrase/riddle/sentence doesn't change. If that were the case then we wouldn't have more than one way to say the same thing :hehe:.


P.S. I'm not being a smart @$$ or anything so please don't get the wrong idea :bow:.

Well, I have to disagree with almost everything you said. At least, I did not say that the man's statement was "Everything is a lie", but rather "Everything I say is a lie", which makes the problem a simple logic puzzle. If the statement were the former, it's just obviously false by example, because there are things that are true.

Dito on the disagreement:

wrote:If the statement were the former, it's just obviously false by example, because there are things that are true.

Not exactly. If the guy actually believes that everything is a lie then that's his opinion. To the man, you saying that there are things that are true would be seen as false. Since opinions can't actually be false, then that statement wouldn't be false by example ;). Anyways, I'm done. Don't want to dispute this anymore. Disputes make me uneasy :beaten:. Can we call it a truce?

Having said that the answer is: There is not enough information given to decide whether or not what the man said is true or false.

See loris. Two completely different riddles :lol:.

Good job Dochira!!!!!! You just read it for what it was :hehe:.

shoujo22 wrote:
Good job Dochira!!!!!! You just read it for what it was :hehe:.

Woohoo?? Do I win a prize? :looks confused: :D

Yep. Here you go :thumbsup:.

Anyways, I'm done. Don't want to dispute this anymore. Disputes make me uneasy :beaten:. Can we call it a truce?

Wasn't trying to make you feel uneasy. Just trying to understand what your riddle was. I don't agree with you on how statements of fact are differentiated from opinion, but it's not that important to argue about.

Rhetoric my dear friend. Its all about rhetoric. Try reading some Plato some time ;). Maybe even some Galileo.....but you'd be bored to death.....either that or confused as hell :hehe:.


Someone put another riddle up here. I'm ready to get my mind geared up again :metaldevil:.