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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 10 Oct 02 - 06:59 PM O.k. we've had no answer to Joe F's riddle about the lights, so I'll post the answer to stop the thread 'dropping out'. The question was: Well, since we're now doing puzzles as well as riddles, here's another one that has to do with lights: A room has three lamps in it, each with its own switch -- but the switches are outside the room, next to the door, which is shut. The switches are all off. You may manipulate the switches in any way you like, and then are to enter the room and tell which switch goes with which lamp, without leaving the room. SPACE LEFT FOR THOSE SEING THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME: CARE!!! SOLUTION FOLLOWS! SOLUTION FOLLOWS! Solution follows. In the first room, switch on two of the three light switches. After a couple of minutes, switch one of the two off. Enter the other room. The illuminated light matches the switch switched on and left on. Of the two non illuminated lights, the one which matches the switch which was 'on' for a couple of minutes will be warmer than the one which has not been switched on at all. Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: GUEST,Bilbo Baggins Date: 10 Oct 02 - 05:39 AM What have I got in my pocket? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie Date: 07 Oct 02 - 05:13 AM JoeF & Nigel Parsons, I think I'm warm on the switches one too, but Fluorescent tubes would complicate matters!
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: GUEST,Nigel Parsons Date: 06 Oct 02 - 09:35 AM Joe F: good one that, about the three lights, I'm not sure, but I think I'm warm. Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: GUEST,Nigel Parsons Date: 06 Oct 02 - 09:33 AM My earlier ones (already partially answered)
You are in a remote cottage, with a wood fire built up, but not lit. You also have a kerosene lamp which needs lighting, and a gas burning stove. Unfortunately, you have only one match. Which do you light first ? The Match
You are stranded on a small desert island, and your only hope of rescue is to light an oil lamp. Unfortunately there is insufficient oil in the lamp to reach the lower end of the wick (which is short from overtrimming) how do you manage to light the lamp ? add water until the oil reaches the wick. the oil floats on the water
Four men in a lifeboat find that all they have left is a full packet of cigarettes, but no matches. How do they manage to get a smoke ? Open the cigarettes, throw one overboard. The boat is now a cigarette lighter! Use this Nigel
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: GUEST,CapriUni, sans cookie Date: 06 Oct 02 - 12:12 AM (though I had some for dessert today -- Yum!) and '.... a human man.' Is there any other sort?! Sure, wolfman, spiderman, man o'war, ... etc. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: GUEST,Schantieman Date: 05 Oct 02 - 06:37 AM and '.... a human man.' Is there any other sort?! (reversion to pedantry thread!) S |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Gurney Date: 05 Oct 02 - 06:26 AM No-one answered Mark Cohen. what is the difference between a Swiss Admiral and a Stomach Pump/Good Vacuum Cleaner? A good Vacuum Cleaner sucks and never fails. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: CapriUni Date: 04 Oct 02 - 08:47 PM From Schantieman: ... or give birth to her baby - or conceive it in the first place. Add a hole! You're right! How could I have missed that one? I can't honestly blame lack of morning coffee, this time... It will have to go down to a plain and simple brain stall. As for adding a hole: Simple, same way you add negative numbers. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Joe_F Date: 04 Oct 02 - 06:33 PM Well, since we're now doing puzzles as well as riddles, here's another one that has to do with lights: A room has three lamps in it, each with its own switch -- but the switches are outside the room, next to the door, which is shut. The switches are all off. You may manipulate the switches in any way you like, and then are to enter the room and tell which switch goes with which lamp, without leaving the room. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Schantieman Date: 04 Oct 02 - 12:01 PM ... or give birth to her baby - or conceive it in the first place. Add a hole! Now there's another one - how can you add a hole?.. S |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: CapriUni Date: 04 Oct 02 - 11:44 AM Guest -- Re: 9 holes: Ooops, I miscounted! I was combining Joe F.'s riddle (Which doesn't count the belly button) with a version of the same riddle that does -- and in that version, there are 10 holes... Of course, by this logic, you know the answer to the riddle isn't human being -- it's a human man. Otherwise, a woman would not be able to breast feed her baby -- so we get the full compliment of a dozen. And now that I'm talking about it, I'm remembering that the metaphor of the original was "a house with 10 doors"... It's a more vibrant image -- there's generally more energy going on with a house than a log. Even today, we use the house metaphor to talk about people, as in: "The lights are on, but nobody's home." and "He has a lot going on upstairs." But we "sleep like a log." Sorry, I'm rambling... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: GUEST Date: 04 Oct 02 - 09:00 AM A human being: The 9 holes are: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, a mouth, a belly button and an anus. When the human is in the womb, the ears, eyes, nose mouth and anus are closed, and the belly button (one end of the ubilical chord, at least is open. After birth, the situation is reversed... So, how does this strange individual urinate? Through a nostril?
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 04 Oct 02 - 06:03 AM You are in a remote cottage, with a wood fire built up, but not lit. You also have a kerosene lamp which needs lighting, and a gas burning stove. Unfortunately, you have only one match. Which do you light first ? You are stranded on a small desert island, and your only hope of rescue is to light an oil lamp. Unfortunately there is insufficient oil in the lamp to reach the lower end of the wick (which is short from overtrimming) how do you manage to light the lamp ? Four men in a lifeboat find that all they have left is a full packet of cigarettes, but no matches. How do they manage to get a smoke ? Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: CapriUni Date: 04 Oct 02 - 01:50 AM So I was right, Joe F -- you and I were thinking the same riddle (sorta) What has nine holes that when 8 is sealed, 1 is unsealed, and then when 1 is sealed the other 8 are open, or at least openable? A human being: The 9 holes are: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, a mouth, a belly button and an anus. When the human is in the womb, the ears, eyes, nose mouth and anus are closed, and the belly button (one end of the ubilical chord, at least is open. After birth, the situation is reversed... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Joe_F Date: 03 Oct 02 - 07:54 PM One log has nine holes: a human being. How many guacas in a guacamole: Avocadro's number. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: GUEST,joshua Date: 03 Oct 02 - 05:09 PM What's the difference between a full grown bull and the James Last Orchestra? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: CapriUni Date: 03 Oct 02 - 01:51 PM Pneumony wrote: JOE F: What do you mean, One log has nine Holes????? I don't know what he means by it, but it reminds me of a riddle that I read about in a folklore dictionary once, that, if I recall correctly, came from ancient Greece: What has nine holes, that when eight holes are sealed, one is open, and whe the eight are open, the one is sealed? Hint: it's a cousin to the Sphinx's riddle... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: GUEST Date: 03 Oct 02 - 10:06 AM Rubs his hands together till they're sore. Use the saw to cut the table in half. Put the two halves together to make a whole. Climb through the hole and run away. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie Date: 03 Oct 02 - 09:21 AM Capri Uni, your first is one of the riddle in "The Hobbit" that I mentioned earlier in the thread. Gollum guessed it, but i won't spoil it for everyone. Is the third one a cold?
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Pneumony Date: 03 Oct 02 - 09:05 AM JOE F: What do you mean, One log has nine Holes????? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Pneumony Date: 03 Oct 02 - 09:00 AM A man is in a room on his own with just a table. How does he escape bearing in mind there is no door or windows???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Mr Red Date: 03 Oct 02 - 08:45 AM Nigel Parsons Non-English teams winning the FA cup? answers - A) who cares B) sweet FA c) Arsenal came close with 9 foreign passport holders. Pedants may now point out it was Chelsea or Aston Vanilla (easily licked) or Preston Both Ends to which I would refer them to answer A) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 03 Oct 02 - 07:57 AM Is number three a flea? BJ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 03 Oct 02 - 06:56 AM 3rd one could be Poison Ivy/ poison oak Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Nevada Date: 03 Oct 02 - 04:24 AM Hi Everyone! Thanks so much for your help. All my friends are finding the riddles difficult, but fun. CapriUni - I havnt got a clue what the 1st and 3rd ones are, but is the 2nd one a needle? Luv AAA x |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: CapriUni Date: 03 Oct 02 - 12:58 AM A few of my favorites (as much because they're fun to say as diffecult to solve): Marble walls as white as milk, and skin covering all as soft as silk. In a fountain, crystal clear, a a golden apple doth appear. No doors are there to this stronghold Yet thieves broke in and stole the gold. --- Old mother Snitchet-Snatchet had but one eye And a long tail, which she let fly And every time she leapt over the gap, She left a bit of her tail in the trap. --- I went to the woods and caught it. I sat me down and sought it. Because I could not find it, Home with me I brought it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Joe_F Date: 02 Oct 02 - 07:15 PM Right. Also, Dry: Twelfth Night Wet: A Midsummer Night's Dream. How many guacas are there in a guacamole? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Abby Sale Date: 02 Oct 02 - 01:55 PM Joe_F: Definately "hark." A wife should hark unto her husband and all will be well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 02 Oct 02 - 08:20 AM A minority interest? Think back to the lengthy threads during the World Cup! And if you were to ask that question, which of course you didn't, I'd say Cardiff. BJ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 02 Oct 02 - 04:47 AM Bullfrog: soccer questions are unfair, it's such a minority interest. I could just as easily ask if any non-English team has ever won the FA cup, and you would think it a catch question. Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 02 Oct 02 - 04:43 AM Sorry -- I meant pronounce Ricky Villa's name! BJ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 02 Oct 02 - 04:42 AM Yep Nigel - Trevor Brooking. You saw through my cunning ruse, which is why that one works better written than spoken (assuming you know how to spell Ricky Villa's name). BJ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Raedwulf Date: 01 Oct 02 - 06:23 PM Mr Red - I did say they were from the Exeter Book of Riddles when I posted 'em. If you (or anyone else) really wants 'em in A/S, refer to the link that IanC put up near the beginning of the thread - that site's got just about all of the Book, I think. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 01 Oct 02 - 05:09 AM Bullfrog: are the two mentioned the only players to have scored the 'winning' goal in an FA Cup Final that share their names with a football team ? The scorer in 1980 was Trevor Brooking Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Sep 02 - 08:40 PM Joe F: (assuming the " is the UK abbreviation for 'inches') 3" "Much ado about nothing" 6" "As you like it" 9" "A midsummer night's dream" Bullfrog: That one's nasty, the assumption will be that they are team name!!! Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: tremodt Date: 30 Sep 02 - 07:17 PM Why do Jewish women order "Won Ton" soup most of the time because of what it spells back wards ron |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Mr Red Date: 30 Sep 02 - 07:05 PM Q What do you call a colony of goats A A Billy Colony Raedwulf three gold star for the most traditional riddle - that one has a lineage back to Saxon times. Now do you have it in Anglo-Saxon? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Joe_F Date: 30 Sep 02 - 04:27 PM Talk. What plays by Shakespeare might be abbreviated as follows? Dry Wet 3" 6" 9" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Raedwulf Date: 30 Sep 02 - 01:12 PM Since everyone seems to have given up on mine. Nigel - you've got a mucky mind. How you could have imagined that the answers were anything other than 'a key' & 'an onion' respectively, I do not know... *BG* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:11 AM One for football (soccer) fans: Sunderland did it in 1979, Villa did it in 1981. Who did it in 1980? BJ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: GUEST,Boab Date: 30 Sep 02 - 02:09 AM Joe F---Wedlock? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Helen Date: 29 Sep 02 - 07:51 PM Clever Nigel! Knows the answers to my riddles and fools everyone with his double-entendres. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Joe_F Date: 29 Sep 02 - 06:36 PM What four-letter word, ending in K, signifies the most important form of marital intercourse? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 29 Sep 02 - 08:44 AM Craig S: The fisherman Baits his hooks; whilst the schoolboy hates his books. The new penny is shiney bright; whilst the Mersey is Briney (salty)! Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 29 Sep 02 - 08:37 AM Craig S: (c) One's for cunning stunts! Helen: A goldfish mucks about in the fountains!
My three were not a risqué as they possibly appeared,: Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: GUEST,Boab Date: 29 Sep 02 - 02:48 AM "Saw a fight today between a rabbit and a pofer" "What the hell's a pofer?" "Pissing in!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Joe_F Date: 29 Sep 02 - 01:02 AM One log has nine holes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: Helen Date: 28 Sep 02 - 08:32 PM I can't remember this one exactly, but: What's the difference between a goldfish(?) and a goat? Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Does anybody know good riddles? From: CraigS Date: 28 Sep 02 - 07:27 PM Let's see who knows the difference between a) A new penny and the river Mersey b) a fisherman and a lazy schoolboy c) a trapeze and a policeman's truncheon? |