Author Topic: Duuuuna na na, na nu, na na: RIDDLE TIME! (Read 44458 times)

oohhboy · « **Reply #50 on:** June 17, 2007, 04:44:00 PM »

Bout bloody time mate. I was getting impatient there.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #51 on:** June 18, 2007, 03:16:27 AM »

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
I have one...

You've just sat down.

You see a small one, and you get nervous, but then you see a big one, and you know everything will be ok.

What is it?

Rolls of toilet paper.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #52 on:** June 18, 2007, 05:02:16 AM »

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Originally posted by: PartyBear
Rolls of toilet paper.

Correct.

But if Requiem's answer is correct for some, see a doctor immediately.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #53 on:** June 21, 2007, 06:39:50 AM »

Alright, I have a riddle.

There is a garage with three light bulbs on the ceiling inside, outside of the garage in a separate room are three light switches but you do not know which switch turns on which light bulb in the garage.
How do you figure out what switches turn on each light?
You are only allowed to leave the switch room to goto the garage once and you cannot see inside the garage from where the switches are positioned.

Remember you can only goto and enter the garage one time, so use your noggin!

Sir_Stabbalot · « **Reply #54 on:** June 21, 2007, 06:41:46 AM »

Follow the wires?

that Baby guy · « **Reply #55 on:** June 21, 2007, 06:48:44 AM »

Aren't Nixons afraid of wires?

There are some technical answers that would work, but I don't know if you'd accept them. One such answer: Turn on a single light, go to the garage, see which light correlates to the switch, then remove a different light bulb, then go back to the switches, and turning off the first, while turning on another. Then take a glance at your power meter to see how much electricity is being used, then turn on the last one, and if the meter goes up, the last one controls the last light bulb that is plugged in, while if it stays the same, the last switch is the for the light you took out. I doubt that's the answer, though.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #56 on:** June 21, 2007, 06:57:09 AM »

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You are only allowed to leave the switch room to goto the garage once and you cannot see inside the garage from where the switches are positioned.

From the switch room to the garage, that is as far as you need to go, but you can only go once. You will not be tearing out walls to follow wires either. Its alot more simple that you might think, and I didn't get it at first cause I thought there was some sort of trick answer or something, but there wasn't

ShyGuy · « **Reply #57 on:** June 21, 2007, 07:05:04 AM »

Go into the garage, unscrew a lightbulb, go into the room, flip two switches and hope the odds are in your favor.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #58 on:** June 21, 2007, 07:30:46 AM »

but how would you know? you can only go into the garage once. If you went in there first, you couldn't find out which is which afterwards.

Sir_Stabbalot · « **Reply #59 on:** June 21, 2007, 08:01:07 AM »

Um, set up a system of mirrors so you can see the outside from inside?

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #60 on:** June 21, 2007, 08:17:52 AM »

Ask whoever's being a jerk and not letting you go into the garage multiple times to flip the switches for you while you go in to look at the lights.

Zach · « **Reply #61 on:** June 21, 2007, 07:48:25 PM »

Oooh I know I know!!!

(spoilered incase anyone else still wants to figure it out)
Turn one switch on, wait 5 minutes

turn second switch on, go immediately to garage

feel the bulbs. the one that is on and hot goes to the first switch you turned on. The one that is on but cool goes to the second switch you turn on. The one that is off goes to the switch you did not touch.

new riddle
When does 11 + 2 = 1

ShyGuy · « **Reply #62 on:** June 21, 2007, 08:29:12 PM »

Good job Zach, that sounds good to me. Of course, other think outside the box answers like tracing the wiring weren't allowed, so who knows?

Zach · « **Reply #63 on:** June 21, 2007, 08:38:25 PM »

Well even if it is not "the answer" its what Im sticking with. It fits the paramaters of the question. no need for any major construction, or destruction, and all it uses is normal human senses. Uses nothing that is not given in the question.

It actually didnt take me very long to figure out (only about 5-10 minutes, if that); BNM just happened to stumble into my area of expertise. I have an engineer's mind, all of the abstract questions in this thread so far have left me absolutely clueless, but I excel in concrete questions where I am given a problem with certain rules, and I have to find a solution.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #64 on:** June 22, 2007, 04:30:25 AM »

that answer works, its not the exact answer that i was given, but it the exact same process. The only difference is that they only allowed one light to be on, but I guess I didn't actually type that into the riddle. But anyway, good job.

btw, my guess at your riddle is:

when its a bakers dozen?

Requiem · « **Reply #65 on:** June 22, 2007, 05:43:32 AM »

Zach, how would that work?

I think you should revise yours. For instance, you turn on a bulb for 5 minutes then turn it off, then flick another switch and head into the garage. It's alot easier to tell which is hot and which is cool when they are both off.

Light bulbs heat up quick.

P.S. I agree with BnM

Zach · « **Reply #66 on:** June 22, 2007, 07:06:21 AM »

I guess something like that probably would work better requiem. But assuming the garage is not far away, it is still pretty easy to compare and find out which one is hotter.

Anyway, not a bakers dozen. My teacher gave us this riddle in high school and it left us absolutely stumped, I'll give a hint later today. Apparantly, Kindergarden age children are more likely to answer this riddle correctly.

vudu · « **Reply #67 on:** June 22, 2007, 07:50:54 AM »

Answer to Zach's riddle: When it's on a clock.

stevey · « **Reply #68 on:** June 22, 2007, 08:54:18 AM »

"When does 11 + 2 = 1 "

When at the firing range, or dividing by zero

Zach · « **Reply #69 on:** June 22, 2007, 09:07:49 AM »

Vudu got it.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #70 on:** June 22, 2007, 09:49:45 AM »

I have a riddle:

Why is Silks afraid of Svevan?

Khushrenada · « **Reply #71 on:** June 22, 2007, 04:40:31 PM »

Because Svevan ate Nine!!! Oh wait, that, that's just kind of wierd.

blackfootsteps · « **Reply #72 on:** June 22, 2007, 05:18:30 PM »

I have a little riddle:

There is a small green lily pad in a pond full of fish. Every day the small green lily pad doubles in size. It takes 30 days for the (formerly) small green lily pad to completely cover the pond full of (dead?) fish. On which day did the lily pad cover half of the pond?

vudu · « **Reply #73 on:** June 22, 2007, 06:00:42 PM »

Day 29.

nickmitch · « **Reply #74 on:** June 22, 2007, 07:19:44 PM »

Either that's a huge pond or that lily pad started off microscopic. 1/(2^30) of the pond.

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