The worlds first riddle!

Well i am also back again in the land of the living :wink: i missed a few riddles so bring in the new ones

wb magnum - this last try's topic is with new riddles, I answered only about watch, will definitely not think about cat and mouse, and will later try to figure out third one.

MOU quote, "watches - stopped of course, this one shows correct time twice a day"
Answer: He would get the watch that was no longer working. This watch would show correct time twice a day. The watch that was falling behind one minute per day, on the other hand, would only show correct time once in every 720 days.

Quote magnum, "Well i am also back again in the land of the living"
Welcome back to the land of the un-dead, although in one or two cases I am not all that sure. :wink:


An officer posted three guards on each of the four sides of a castle. Whenever he wanted to check on the soldiers, the officer could just pop his head out of any of the four windows, and he was satisfied with the result of his inspections. Yet, reports came to him that people had seen his guards, usually three at a time, who should have been on duty, drinking beer at taverns in town.

The officer was puzzled: how could that be

With three candy-wrappers Harlie can trade for one candy. He has 24 candies. What's the total number of candies he'll get to eat

24 + 8 he will get for 24 wrappers + 2 he will get for 6 wrappers (2 remaining) + 1 he will get for three wrappers - 35 candies and one wrapper still remaining.

this Beatle is giving me headache - unless it's an old bug, spirit of John Lennon, or they simply turned back

I haven't thought about guards so much until now, but I have an idea if they can move. if they have to stay on exact spot then I don't see it so far. However, if they are allowed to move nine of them can make appearance of 12 - three of them can always be in a view - difference is that officer will see some of them (those at corners) twice.
E.g. if he looks north he sees G1 on left corner of view, G2 in the middle, and G3 on right side of view.
If he looks West, he sees G4 on left side, G5 in the middle, AND - G1 on right side of his view.

Hm, but that's probably not correct solution because now I see that only 8 of them are enough for that, and in that case four of them could go drinking instead of three.

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2.......1
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1------2


whim

yeah, that's it whimsical

mine was

111
101
111

but when you think about it, I should find those guards, maybe they'll pay me - I maybe missed correct solution, but I found how four of them can go to have a beer

Is there is room for two guards more at the drinking table?


2-----1
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1------2


whim

good work

Candy wrappers. = 35
With his 24 wrappers Charlie will get 8 candies, giving him a total of 32 candies.
With 6 wrappers from the 8 candies Charlie can then trade for 2 candies, giving him a total of 34 candies
Charlie now has 4 wrappers in his hand, 2 remaining from the previous 8 candies (8-6=2) and 2 from the 2 candies he's just taken in. With 3 of these 4 wrappers he can trade for 1 more candy, giving him a total of 35 candies.

But Charlie still has 2 wrappers, one remaining from the previous 4 candies (4-3=1)) and 1 from the 1 candy he's just acquired. If Charlie wants his candy really bad, he can now borrow a wrapper from someone else and with his 3 wrappers trade for 1 candy. He'll keep the content and return the wrapper to its rightful owner. 36 candies! Charlie is so happy.

Suffer no more, this was the answer I was given.

Well, the Beetle did not actually get by. The lakeside road was a loop, and since Mary and John's car travelled much faster than the Beetle, by the time John woke up, they had come full circle and was then trailing behind the Beetle.

Guards.
I have the same as MOU,
111
101
111
However, Whimsical has come up with perhaps a better answer.


These two caused me nightmares.
Where I am, tomorrow follows yesterday, and they both come after today.
The question is; where am I

The four walls as well as the ceiling and floor of a room are fully covered by mirrors. If you are in such a room, how many images of yourself will you see

Interesting Numbers
2 X 5 = 10
22 X 55 = 1210
222 X 555 = 123210
2,222 X 5, 555 = 12343210
222222222 X 555555555 =

123456789876543210 cool

Zero. Because all sides of the room are covered with mirrors, there are no windows, doors and is no light fitted, it must be totally dark.

Whim

You are in a backwards dictonairy.

yesterday
...
tomorrow
...
today <- hmm.. that's not right
...
day before yesterday
...
day after tomorrow


Whim

As this is World Peace week, I offer the riddle community the olive branch of a few very easy questions from the bottom of the bag. The answers however, may prove more difficult.

#Whim
"Zero. Because all sides of the room are covered with mirrors, there are no windows, doors and is no light fitted, it must be totally dark."
He is soooo good.

Today the present time or age; "the world of today"; "today we have computers" 2: the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow);
Webster's Dictionary
Its that Whim again.

80% of Kindergartners solved this riddle.
But only 5% of Stanford graduates figured it out!
Can you answer the following question?

Preceded God
Greater than God
More Evil than the devil
Poor people have it
Wealthy people need it
If you eat it, you will die!

What am I

You're driving a bus that is leaving on a trip from Pennsylvania and ending in New York. To start off with, there were 32 passengers on the bus. At the next bus stop, 11 people get off and 9 people get on. At the next bus stop, 2 people get off and 2 people get on. At the next bus stop, 12 people get on and 16 people get off. At the next bus stop, 5 people get on and 3 people get off.

Question: What color are the bus driver's eyes

What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it

How would you rearrange the letters in the words "new door" to make one word

color of bus driver's eyes are brown-green, it depends of weather, but since he is in the bus at the moment I suppose brown is more correct answer

80% of Kindergartners solved this riddle.
But only 5% of Stanford graduates figured it out!
Can you answer the following question?

Answer = Nothing!


Whim

From my point of view the busdriver has blue eyes. How strange..

Whim

Whim, you are far too smart for my poor efforts.

Quote, "brown is more correct answer"

Quote, "From my point of view the bus driver has blue eyes. How strange."

I am sorry to say this, but from where I stand, the bus driver definitely has green eyes. It is getting even stranger. :wink:

I am the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
What am I


To what question can you never answer "yes"

something like

1x11=11
11x11=121
111x111=12321

etc :wink: