The Daily Riddle Thread

That’s the sphinx’s riddle, right? I’ve heard it before so I won’t give it away. :wink:

Human being.

A riddle given by my daughter: It has 1 entrance but has 3 exits. What is it?

Life?
Edit: How old is your daughter?

What is red .....and smells like Blue Paint ?

Red Paint

I saw this on Kathie Lee and Hoda within the past week, just so you know.

Seven is an odd number. How do you make it even?

This is a classic and kinda mindblowing.

A guy sets off to work. The trip is two miles. The traffic is heavy and he only averages 30mph for the first mile. He then hits open road. What speed must he average for the second half of the trip in order to have averaged 60mph for the total journey?

what's brown and sticky ?

a stick

90 MPH? The question mark stems from the fact that these riddles can be tricky (and “sticky”).

He would have to be Einsteins dream if I figured it right… 120 seconds for the first mile and in order to make the next mile within 120 seconds. :slight_smile:

Ok here’s a riddle:

Not man nor beast met his demise
(To thee I’m sure ’tis no suprise);
A cruel fate ended it’s trek;
Now thou stand’st ’neath a great _

Some may know right off the tops of their heads!

Absolutely correct fellfromtree. Even if he travels the second mile at a billion miles an hour he still cannot average 60mph for the total trip.

Because to average 60mph over two miles you must complete the trip in two minutes. But it took the guy two minutes to do the first mile. So no matter how fast he goes on the second mile the total trip will take longer than two minutes.

Yeah VF done a lot of traveling and figure the times out in my head a lot. :slight_smile: GPS spoils people nowdays though.

Oh well noone wants to guess on the riddle… It’s from Alternate Reality, The Dungeon (Atari 8-bit 800xl 130xe). The gargoyle on level 3 asks the question. Answer is Shipwreck!

Here’s another of my favorites;

A woman tries to board a bus carrying a 6ft 2in long curtain pole. The driver won’t let her on because the rules are that nothing can be carried on the bus which is over 6 foot long.

She goes back to the shop buys something extra and then boards the next bus and takes the curtain rod with her without a problem.

What did she buy?

A 6 foot long, 17 inch wide box. The 6ft 2in pole will fit diagonally inside the box (serves as the hypotenuse)

How about this one:

3 business men walk into a motel and ask for a room for the night. The front desk asks them if they want separate rooms, or just one large one. All of them men agree to get one room to save money. The price of the room was $30. Each man paid $10 apiece and they went to their room.

Later, the front desk manager realized that there was a special going on which made the room cost only $25 dollars and he had overcharged them by $5. So, the manager took 5 $1 dollar bills and proceeded to the business men’s room. He handed each one of the men a single $1 dollar bill and kept the remainder, the $2 remaining. Therefor, each man had only spent $9 for the room.

$9 x 3= $27
Plus the $2 the manager kept (self tipping)
Equals $29.

Where did the missing $1 go to?

Get rid of the “s”! :wink:

Tricky, Yourrid! The $2 should be subtracted from the $27 to make $25. The manager initially receives $30. He then gives $3 back, $1 to each man. He now has $27 because he kept the extra $2 that he should have given them, but didn’t because of uneven/awkward distribution.
:stuck_out_tongue: :beer:

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Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man’s father is my father’s son. Who is the man?