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Title: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 12, 2008, 03:08:29 AM
Saw this done on another site with everyone testing each other out working out riddles and brain teasers over the preseason break. Here's one to start off with....

I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner or later everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to let me help them. Who am I?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 12, 2008, 04:43:35 AM
You could add that just about everyone says they hate this person.  :D
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 12, 2008, 11:10:34 AM
You could add that just about everyone says they hate this person.  :D
They also have the highest suicide rate apparently  :o
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: the_boy_jake on November 12, 2008, 12:02:20 PM
Dentists.

I didn't have much of an idea until I read FIshfinger's post..  :thumbsup
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Ox on November 12, 2008, 12:37:06 PM
You could add that just about everyone says they hate this person.  :D

err....Jewish Dentist ? ?   :o
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 12, 2008, 03:39:42 PM
An electric train is traveling at 62 km/h heading north and there’s a 24 km/h south-easterly breeze.
Which direction is the smoke blowing and how fast?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Chuck17 on November 12, 2008, 03:41:17 PM
Cmon FF electric!!!!
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 12, 2008, 03:46:42 PM
2 minutes. Had you stumped, hey?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Chuck17 on November 12, 2008, 03:49:48 PM
2 minutes. Had you stumped, hey?

LOL I go with the slow internet theory

Here's one

Three women each have two daughters.
They are having lunch at a restaurant .
There are only seven chairs in the restaurant.
All the women are seated.

Question: How is this possible?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 12, 2008, 03:55:46 PM
Grandma with her 2 daughters and the 2 daughters of each of grandma's daughters.

Should we do this via pm, Chuckie?  :D
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Chuck17 on November 12, 2008, 03:57:57 PM
Grandma with her 2 daughters and the 2 daughters of each of grandma's daughters.

Should we do this via pm, Chuckie?


I would lose plus ur packing a gun by the looks of it ;D
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Hes My Hero on November 12, 2008, 04:02:12 PM
2 minutes. Had you stumped, hey?

LOL I go with the slow internet theory

Here's one

Three women each have two daughters.
They are having lunch at a restaurant .
There are only seven chairs in the restaurant.


All the women are seated.

Question: How is this possible?


Grandmother - Daughter + 2 Daughters
                  - Daughter + 2 Daughters = 7
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 12, 2008, 04:10:15 PM

I would lose plus ur packing a gun by the looks of it ;D
Get me the name of Ox's Jewish dentist. I took a bite.

I've got a trivia question that I don't know the answer to.
Why would a CD be released called Shannon Noll's Greatest Hits? Have I missed something?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 12, 2008, 10:34:16 PM
I've got a trivia question that I don't know the answer to.
Why would a CD be released called Shannon Noll's Greatest Hits? Have I missed something?
He's retiring to become a dentist lol.



Four men were in a boat on the lake. The boat turns over, and all four men sink to the bottom of the lake, yet not a single man got wet! Why?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 13, 2008, 03:25:50 PM
Are they still in the turned over boat when they sink to the bottom?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Chuck17 on November 13, 2008, 03:31:31 PM
Or are they all married and therefore not single?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 13, 2008, 05:32:30 PM
Very good.

That's a bit like the one about the plane load of homeless that crashed exactly on the US/Canadian border.
 Which side of the border would they bury the survivors?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 13, 2008, 07:33:10 PM
Well done Chuck  :thumbsup. Yep they were all married.

FF's one -  you don't bury survivors  ;)



A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 13, 2008, 08:16:06 PM
I'd take the lions.  ;D

Emaciated pussies. Even better, long dead ones.
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 13, 2008, 10:04:17 PM
Correct FF  :)



Once upon a time a farmer went to market and purchased a fox, a goose, and a bag of beans. On his way home, the farmer came to the bank of a river and hired a boat. But in crossing the river by boat, the farmer could carry only himself and a single one of his purchases - the fox, the goose, or the bag of the beans.

If left alone, the fox would eat the goose, and the goose would eat the beans.

The farmer's challenge was to carry himself and his purchases to the far bank of the river, leaving each purchase intact. How did he do it?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 14, 2008, 05:04:00 PM
Took the goose across first.
Went back and got the fox.
Took the goose back with him.
Left the goose and took the beans across.
Went back for the goose.
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 15, 2008, 04:57:38 AM
Too good FF  :clapping  :thumbsup


No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 16, 2008, 09:46:21 AM

No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

Impatience.  ;)  I'm back to the sty.  :D
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 17, 2008, 03:31:46 AM

No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

Impatience.  ;)  I'm back to the sty.  :D
Bzzzz  ;).

Clue: the answer starts with 's'
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 17, 2008, 04:37:02 AM
Ahh, that was a question. I thought you were ribbing me about my pm.  :help

Secret.
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 17, 2008, 06:20:13 AM
Ahh, that was a question. I thought you were ribbing me about my pm.  :help

Secret.
lol

Nup not secret. It's si....
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Chuck17 on November 17, 2008, 09:14:06 AM
That would be silence



A group of ten people are being photographed.

The photographer places them into ten different positions.

He continues to shuffle them until he has taken pictures of the ten persons in all possible groupings.

Question : How many pictures will he take?   

Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 17, 2008, 07:07:01 PM
Assuming each person is distinguishable  ;)

10 x 9 x 8 x 7 ..... x 2 x 1 = 10! = 3628800 pictures






Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Chuck17 on November 17, 2008, 08:55:24 PM
Very Good MT  :thumbsup
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 17, 2008, 08:59:18 PM
Q. What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 17, 2008, 09:01:06 PM
Carpet?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 17, 2008, 09:08:29 PM
Carpet?
Well done FF  :clapping



Q. I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on November 17, 2008, 09:11:24 PM
Carpet?
Well done FF  :clapping

My next guess was clown shoes.
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: cub on November 18, 2008, 01:44:38 PM
Carpet?
Well done FF  :clapping



Q. I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?


Its shadow

Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 18, 2008, 05:46:48 PM
Its shadow
Correct CUB  :thumbsup



Q. A man travels from Darwin to Adelaide on horseback, the journey takes five days but he leaves on Wednesday and he arrives on the same Wednesday. How?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Jacosh on November 19, 2008, 09:37:23 PM
Wednesday is the name of his horse.
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 20, 2008, 07:17:31 PM
Wednesday is the name of his horse.
Too good Jacosh  :thumbsup


Q. What is it that when
you take away the whole,
you still have some left over?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Hes My Hero on November 20, 2008, 07:27:24 PM
Wednesday is the name of his horse.
Too good Jacosh  :thumbsup


Q. What is it that when
you take away the whole,
you still have some left over?


Doughnut ?

( Whole or Hole ? )
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 20, 2008, 07:30:45 PM
Wednesday is the name of his horse.
Too good Jacosh  :thumbsup


Q. What is it that when
you take away the whole,
you still have some left over?


Doughnut ?

( Whole or Hole ? )
Nup.
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Chuck17 on November 21, 2008, 09:16:25 AM
Wednesday is the name of his horse.

Q. What is it that when
you take away the whole,
you still have some left over?


Good wordplay that one; wholesome
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 21, 2008, 04:45:03 PM
Wednesday is the name of his horse.

Q. What is it that when
you take away the whole,
you still have some left over?


Good wordplay that one; wholesome
Well done Chuck  :thumbsup



Q. A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Jacosh on November 22, 2008, 09:13:51 AM
Wednesday is the name of his horse.

Q. What is it that when
you take away the whole,
you still have some left over?


Good wordplay that one; wholesome
Well done Chuck  :thumbsup



Q. A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?


He wrote "Your exact weight" on the paper
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on November 22, 2008, 10:56:40 PM
He wrote "Your exact weight" on the paper
Correct Jacosh  :thumbsup.


Q. A large truck is crossing a bridge 1 mile long. The bridge can only hold 14000 lbs, which is the exact weight of the truck. The truck makes it half way across the bridge and stops. A bird lands on the truck. Does the bridge collapse? Give a reason.
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Bene Boy on December 06, 2008, 11:24:56 PM
 not if the weight of the bird is less than the weight of the fuel used to travel the 1/2 mile over the bridge
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on December 07, 2008, 06:13:03 PM
not if the weight of the bird is less than the weight of the fuel used to travel the 1/2 mile over the bridge
Great stuff bene  :thumbsup




Q. It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Jacosh on December 07, 2008, 06:29:15 PM
Q. It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it?

A. Beetle
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on December 07, 2008, 08:51:40 PM
Too good Jacosh  :clapping



Q. What's the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of every place?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Chuck17 on December 07, 2008, 09:32:34 PM
Too good Jacosh  :clapping



Q. What's the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of every place?


That would be "E"?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on December 08, 2008, 12:02:08 PM
Q. What's the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of every place?


That would be "E"?
Got it in one Chuck  :clapping


Q. Students at Monty High with a class size under 30 took a math test. One third of the class got a "B", one quarter a "B-", one sixth a "C", and one eighth failed. The remainder of the students got an "A" How many students got an "A"?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on December 08, 2008, 01:23:33 PM
3.

Common denominator of 3, 4, 6 & 8 is 24 = 24 in the class.

8 got B
6 got B-
4 got C
3 failed
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on December 09, 2008, 02:29:04 PM
Correct FF  :thumbsup


Q. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: tiga on January 09, 2009, 11:25:07 PM
A stamp?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on January 10, 2009, 07:56:47 PM
A stamp?

That one had you stumped for a bit tiga lol ;D. Correct btw  :thumbsup.




Q. I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: Fishfinger on January 11, 2009, 10:05:54 AM
A sponge.
Title: Re: Brain Teasers and Riddles
Post by: mightytiges on January 12, 2009, 05:08:35 AM
A sponge.
Spot on FF  :thumbsup



Q. I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. What is it?