The worlds first riddle!

I dunno about a "hoedown", although the final scene in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" was positively transcendant. I suppose if I could sing Mr. Stanley's song in a final concert I'd go to my grave content, then that would be "A-Ok" in my book.

Big Al wrote rather alarmingly, "I suppose if I could sing Mr. Stanley's song in a final concert I'd go to my grave content"


Listen buddy, I know what you are going thru, a visit to the riddle forum can have that effect on folks, and while it was nice of you'll to call on by, if I hear you sing Mr. Stanley's goosebump-raising 1950 recording of "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow." I will dig my own grave.

"Oh! Death" sung by Ralph Stanley

"I See George is on one of his ups again--Eliot"--the fiddle player leading George to the jail in OBWAT is John Hartford. Ralph Stanley sang at his funeral.

BTW OBWAT is my second favorite Coen brother movie.

Rap

Rap

[size=7]CONTAINERS
54, 56, 58, 59, 62

NICKELS
2 each by 13 members = 26

CLOCK
60*12 = 720

A & B
(40*39) / (40-39) = 1560[/size]

No casket for me. Cremate me, then dispose of me as you wish.

This thread's become morbid.

Rap wrote, "BTW OBWAT is my second favorite Coen brother movie."

This begs the question, what is your favourite?


Mark wrote, "Cremate me, then dispose of me as you wish."

And what, his friend asked, "do you want me to do with your ashes?"

Just put them in an envelope and mail them to the Internal Revenue Service and write on the envelope, "Now you have everything."

Mental math riddles:

CONTAINERS
54, 56, 58, 59, 62

NICKELS
2 each by 13 members = 26

CLOCK
60*12 = 720

A & B
(40*39) / (40-39) = 1560

Mark is the Mental winner.


"This thread's become morbid."

Morbid! This thread is as dead as the Dodo. I have seen more life in a medical exhibit.


There are 125 juniors participating in the Junior-Day Olympics: 59 played football, 49 played baseball, 42 participated in the races, 20 participated in the races and played baseball, 29 participated in the races and played foot-ball, 31 played both football and baseball, and 12 entered all three events.

Those who did not participate in any of these three events went swimming. How many went swimming


During a school year, a student was given an award of 25 cents for each math test he passed and was fined 50 cents for each math test he failed. At the end of the school year, the student had passed 7 times as many tests as he had failed, and received $3.75.

How many tests did he fail


A total of fifteen pennies are put into four piles so that each pile has a different number of pennies. What is the smallest possible number of pennies that could be in the largest pile


Suppose five days before the day after tomorrow was Wednesday. What day of the week was yesterday

Recycle Containers (or for the morbid caskets)
54.5, 55.5, 57.5, 58.5, and 62.5
Olympic Team
169=13*13 13 team mambers gave two nickels (total 26) and 3 pennies (total 39)
Two integers are 40 and 39. 40*39/(40-39)=40*39
Clock will be right in 12 hours and a little more than 47 minutes
Rap

Rap's right about the clock.

[size=7]OLYMPICS
43

TESTS
3

PENNIES
6

DAYS
Friday[/size]

Junior Olympics
[size=7]Playing Football, baseball, or racing
T=FUBUR=F+B+R-F∩B-F∩R-B∩R+F∩B∩R=59+49+42-29-31-20+12=82
S=125-T=125-82=43
43 went swimming[/size]

Failed Tests
[size=7]p/4-f/2=15/4
p-2f=15
p=7f
f=3
Failed 3 tests[/size]

Stacks of pennies
[size=7]15/3=5 get thy mean to five?-but none equal
stacks are 4,5,6
tallest stack is 6[/size]

Yesterday is just a day ayay
[size=7]T+2-5=T-3=wednasday
T is Saturday and yesterday is Friday[/size]

My Favorite is "Raising Arizona"

Rap

Rap:

Recycle Containers (or for the morbid caskets)
54.5, 55.5, 57.5, 58.5, and 62.5
Olympic Team
169=13*13 13 team members gave two nickels (total 26) and 3 pennies (total 39)
Two integers are 40 and 39. 40*39/(40-39)=40*39
Clock will be right in 12 hours and a little more than 47 minutes

Mark:
"Rap's right about the clock."

Holey tomalley Could that have anything to do with the fact that I had already posted the ?'answers' ?

Rap: (before the answers) :wink:
Junior Olympics
Playing Football, baseball, or racing
T=FUBUR=F+B+R-F∩B-F∩R-B∩R+F∩B∩R=59+49+42-29-31-20+12=82
S=125-T=125-82=43
43 went swimming

Failed Tests
p/4-f/2=15/4
p-2f=15
p=7f
f=3
Failed 3 tests

Stacks of pennies
15/3=5 get thy mean to five?-but none equal
stacks are 4,5,6
tallest stack is 6

Yesterday is just a day ayay
T+2-5=T-3=wednasday
T is Saturday and yesterday is Friday

They are the freekin answers.

My Favorite is "Raising Arizona"

Very good choice. Now if only they could do that for the gulf states.


Mark:

OLYMPICS
43

TESTS
3

PENNIES
6

DAYS
Friday



Tweedledum and Tweedledee look alike, but Tweedledum lies on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, whereas Tweedledee lies on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. They both tell the truth on Sunday. You come upon the two of them, and they make the following statements. In each case, determine who is who, and what day it is

1.

A: I will lie tomorrow.
B: I lied yesterday, and I will lie tomorrow


2.
A: Today is not Sunday.
B: Today is not Monday.



Can you combine the three numbers in each group to get the same result in each of the three groups. You can use addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation.

Here's an example of a solved puzzle:

Question:
Group 1: 15, 19, 24
Group 2: 11, 30, 36
Group 3: 20, 22, 36

Answer:
Group 1: 24 / (19 - 15) = 6
Group 2: (30 + 36) / 11 = 6
Group 3: 20 + 22 - 36 = 6








World-renowned chemist Dr. Dweeb owned a 12-gallon jug full of sulfuric acid, and another smaller jug. He liked to make up his favorite 25% strength solution (with a quarter of the solution being H2SO4, and the rest good old H2O) with a curious procedure: first, he poured acid from the 12-gallon jug to fill the smaller jug, and then he topped off the big jug with water. After the acid and water had been thoroughly mixed in the big jug, he drew off another small jugful, and again topped off the large jug with more water, arriving at his 25% solution.

What is the capacity of the smaller jug

Come on, the answer is there.

[size=7]JUG
6 gallons[/size]

[size=7]TWEEDLES
1. Wednesday, A is Dee, B is Dum

2. Monday, A is Dum, B is Dee

This took me so long because I misunderstood the problem. I thought it was a single problem where one of them made the first two statements, and the other made the last two. Then I thought one of them made both A statements and the other made both B statements. I finally realized that it was two problems.[/size]

[size=7]LEFT GROUPS
1 * 6 * 11 = 66
13 + 20 + 33 = 66
40 * 33 / 20 = 66

MIDDLE GROUPS
18 - (15 / 3) = 13
36 - 13 - 10 = 13
39 / (27 - 24) = 13[/size]

RIGHT GROUPS
24 + 9 - 28 = 5
24 + 13 - 32 = 5
25 ^ (24 / 48) = 5

Mark:

JUG
6 gallons. Very clever.


TWEEDLES


This took me so long because I misunderstood the problem. I thought it was a single problem where one of them made the first two statements, and the other made the last two. Then I thought one of them made both A statements and the other made both B statements. I finally realized that it was two problems.

(That was part of the riddle, I think not)


1. Wednesday, A is Dee, B is Dum

A: I will lie tomorrow.
B: I lied yesterday, and I will lie tomorrow


B is obviously lying, since neither person lies, tells the truth, and lies on three consecutive days.
Therefore A is telling the truth when he says that he lies tomorrow.
The only days on which someone tells the truth one day and lies the following day are Sunday and Wednesday.
Since it is not Sunday (since B is lying), it can only be Wednesday.
This means A is Tweedledee and B is Tweedledum.



A: Today is not Sunday.
B: Today is not Monday.

2. Monday, A is Dum, B is Dee


If it were Sunday, A would not make the statement he did.
Therefore, it is not Sunday, and A is telling the truth.
One of them is lying since it is not Sunday, so B is lying, and it is Monday.
That means A is Tweedledee and B is Tweedledum.

LEFT GROUPS
1 * 6 * 11 = 66
13 + 20 + 33 = 66
40 * 33 / 20 = 66

MIDDLE GROUPS
18 - (15 / 3) = 13
36 - 13 - 10 = 13
39 / (27 - 24) = 13

RIGHT GROUPS
24 + 9 - 28 = 5
24 + 13 - 32 = 5
25 ^ (24 / 48) = 5

Mark, your ability is above and beyond. Super




The ?'Revenge of the Tweedles' rules as before:

A: Today is Sunday.
B: Today is Tuesday.


A: Today is Monday or Wednesday.
B: Today is Monday or Sunday.





One day, a person went to horse racing area, Instead of counting the number of human and horses, he instead counted 74 heads and 196 legs. Yet he knew the number of humans and horses there. How did he do it, and how many humans and horses are there

[size=7]TWEEDLES
1. Tuesday, A is Dum, B is Dee
2. Wednesday, A is Dee, B is Dum

HEADS & LEGS
50 humans, 24 horses[/size]

[size=7]LEFT GROUPS
(8 + 16) * 15 = 360
(14 * 23) + 38 = 360
(36 - 21) * 24 = 360

MIDDLE GROUPS
6 / (20 - 18) = 3
27 / (30 - 21) = 3
45 / (46 - 31) = 3

RIGHT GROUPS
18 + (25 / 5) = 23
23 * (15 - 14) = 23
30 + 42 - 49 = 23[/size]

markr...it's ookaaa...we still love you~

Love you too! :wink:

Welcome back. Where've you been?

I have been residing,...over the committe,.. of the itty-bitty-titty... uhhh.. what i thought just now.
I'm not just a member ...-I'm the president, and chairman, of the broads and babes etc..let's not forget ...slaves... sea Mario Cantone...we're not sure how he became so friction funny

Breaking news just in -.......> there<i....... here ^ @~ (hands breaking news to the next poor sap ~ ahem here is a new product comming soon to an inconvenience store that is nowhere near you because its raining and you have no money to buy the latest and greatest product i was just about to tell you all about but forgot what i was talking about because i am absent minded like the dumb professor on Gilligans island who is so smart he could make a dentist drill out of coconuts and vines but he couldn't fix a three foot hole in the boat,... you might say he was like Leslie Lemke .... in other words ... an idiot savant,,,, also described as ... someone having an island of genious in a sea of idiocy , ..licke me. Paula J. Yannalfo + company Craven does Care ..~soo there...markr

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