The worlds first riddle!

Thought there had to be a trick to the clock one but didn't have time to go through it. Will never get that number square, don't like math ones much and I hate sequences.

The world record is currently held by the man who answered this;

I am the amount of time it will take you to answer this riddle.

The answer was 3 seconds but I can't work out the reasoning he used.

Well, Barbie me a dingo, down at the old billabong!

I am the amount of time it will take you to answer this riddle.
The answer was 3 seconds but I can't work out the reasoning he used.

How about, that was the time it took him to read the question? :wink:


Quote. "Will never get that number square"
The answer is in the question.

"Don't like math ones much and I hate sequences." What the crock is left?

However, as Australia Day is fast approaching, this one is for you and any other Automotive genius.

A new six-cylinder diesel engine is being designed. It will have a 1.2 litre capacity. The average speed of use is 2,000 revolutions per minute. However, the engine can only work at temperatures of up to 500 degrees Celsius.

How many spark plugs would an experienced engineer recommend, be fitted to the engine

Diesel engines don't have spark plugs. Heh heh.

Too damn smart, if you ask me! Have a 4 xxxx

Question. What so special about these letters of the alphabet

C O S V W X

No thanks XXXX is almost as bad as seppo beer!



In the words of Georg Cantor, "I see it, but I do not believe it."

I have been asked, that I explain the following previous post.
This was of cause a reference to one of these boards most famous posters. Not only on this thread, but also on numerous topics across the community. If you found an answer, well done. It was abstract, even for me.

So good, so good, they mentioned the name twice times two. There is an anagram of the name mentioned four times, within the quotes. . Who is it?

Location, a local boat yard.

"Never a redneck, whose nerve creaked at the thought of a cracked veneer that required a deck to be re-veneered."

Any connection between any name and any persons living or otherwise is purely coincidental.


Oldies but goodies. Who am I

a) There was a green house.
Inside the green house, there was a white house.
Inside the white house, there was a red house.
Inside the red house, there were many babies.

b) I know a word of letters three.
Add two, and fewer there will be.

c) Whoever makes it, tells it not.
Whoever takes it, knows it not.
Moreover, whoever knows it wants it not

d) Two words, my answer is only two words.
To keep me, you must give me.

a) Watermelon.

b) Few.

c) Counterfiet money.

d) Your word.

Still thinking about the outstanding ones from further back but am too busy right now to put much effort in.

Four out of four. Wow, that is better than 80%. If that's what you do when you don't have the time, I will have to crank up the standard.

a) To unravel me
you need a simple key.
No key that was made
by locksmith's hand.
But a key that only I
will understand.

b) With thieves, I consort.
With the vilest, in short,
I'm quite at ease in depravity.
Yet all divines use me,
and savants can't lose me.
For I am the centre of gravity.

Really annoying, if you have not come across then before. :wink:

1) Scientists have proven that cats have more hair on one side then their other side. Some people believe that this is because when cats lay on their side they need insulation from the cold on the floor or ground. Which side of a cat has more hair?

2) Why can't you take a picture of a Native American woman with hair curlers?

3) If, having only one match, on a freezing winter's day, you entered a room, which contained a lamp, a kerosene heater, and a wood burning stove, which should you, light first.

a) Is this in code?

b) Very vexing this one but I think the answer is 5... or something like that.

1) The outside, although I've seen some bloody big hairballs come out of cats so mabye the scientists are wrong.

2) Hair curlers only take polaroid film and they've stopped making it.

3) Um... the match perhaps?

Oh hell, I thought you had gone to Queensland Roo counting. :wink:

a) Sort of.
b) No
Yes, yes and yes.

Riddleish.
A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. His wife immediately called the police. The police questioned the wife and staff and got these alibis:
The Wife said she was sleeping.
The Cook was cooking breakfast.
The Gardener was picking vegetables.
The Maid was getting the mail.
The Butler was cleaning the closet.

The police instantly arrested the murdered. Who did it and how did they know

So you've missed my cunning and riddlish answers... Oh well someone out there will get it.

As for the murderer, I would say that due to a lack of mail on weekends it must have been the maid.

Sorry Adrian, I now see the first two are also correct. (In seven minutes) it takes me longer to type them! Anyway, isn't it time you headed for the bunkhouse?

At a party, you overhear another guest asking the age of the hosts' three children.
The host gives the following information to the guest:
• Assume each kid's age is a whole number.
• The product of their ages is 72
• The sum of their ages is the same as the guest's house number
The guest obviously knows her own house number but, after thinking for a bit, she is forced to ask the host for additional information. The host then says:
• Well, my oldest child likes strawberry ice cream.

You now have all the information you need to determine the ages. How old is his oldest child In addition for Adrian, what is the house number

( I posted this in the Science/Maths section but, nobody has been able to answer it)

I offered an answer over there -- and you never indicated if I was correct or not.

Hmmm, I needed pen and paper for this one.
Oldest child is 8
House number is 14
Give us a yell if you want an explanation.

Frank, the oldest can't be 9 because the person needed more info.

I WANT AN EXPLANATION!!!

Aha...and since the info given indicates that there were no twins -- the oldest child has to be 8.

Now I see.

Nope -- just re-read the problem -- and I'm still screwed up.

I gotta reconstruct my original solution.

Gimme a minute.

Just gonna think out loud for a bit...

We do not know what the guest's house number is...so...

...if the kids are 1, 8, and 9 -- that would satisfy the product of 72...and the house number would be 18.

...if the kids are 2, 4, and 9 -- that would satisfy the product of 72...and the house number would be 15.

Either way -- the oldest kid would be 9.

...if the kids are 3, 3 (twins) and 8 -- that would satisfy the product of 72...and the house number would be 14.

Now the guest knows her house number...but needs more info.

Hummmm....

Perhaps, instead of shouting in ignorance, if you were to ask in a manner consistent with your intelligence, it would be a pleasure to supply an explanation.

The full answer is as follows:
This is much like Student Ages question although a bit easier. You first must factor 72 which breaks down into 1x2x2x2x3x3. Combining these numbers to make 3 ages reveals 11 combinations: (1 2 36), (1 3 24), (1 4 18), (1 6 12), (1 8 9), (2 2 18), (2 3 12), (2 4 9), (2 6 6), (3 3 8), and (3 4 6).
The host says that their sum is equal to the house number of the guest. If the guest has to ask for more information then some of the combinations must add up to the same number. By adding up all of the combinations, we find that (2 6 6) and (3 3 8) both add up to 14 so the house number must be 14 and one of the combinations must be correct.

Then the host says that the oldest likes strawberry ice-cream which tells you that there is an oldest. Since (2 6 6) implies that two of his children have the same age, the answer must be (3 3 8).
So his oldest child is 8.


Now I am seriously impressed. Award yourself a Gold Star and the title of
Witch Finder General. However, before doing so the second part of the puzzle must be answered, and this is;

Four people are on one side of a bridge that they need to cross. It is dark, there are holes in the bridge surface, and they only have one flashlight which must travel with them as they cross. To add to their troubles, the bridge will only support two people at a time.

• Now person #1 can walk cross in 1 minute.
• Person #2 has a limp and can cross in 2 minutes.
• Person #3 has a sprained ankle can cross in 5 minutes.
• Person #4 has a cast on his leg and takes 10 minutes to cross.
No matter how fast a person can cross, he must wait for his companion. If #1 goes with #2, it takes 2 minutes for them to cross. If number #2 goes with #4, it takes them 10 minutes. The flashlight cannot be thrown, instead it must be carried and delivered from person to person. The 4 people are trying to make it across in the fastest possible time to make an important appointment in the next town.

What is the fastest time in minutes for them to cross the bridge

Have I asked this before?

There is a ship floating at anchor at low tide with a ladder over the side. The ladder has 10 rungs, each 1m apart. If at low tide 5 rungs are below the surface of the water, and the water rises at 1.5m per hour, then how many rungs of the ladder will be visible 2 1/2 hours later