The Daily Riddle Thread

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

Oh my! I looked in the mirror, and it was me!

Nope.

Just transpose/simplify. My father’s son must be me as I have no brother’s and sisters. Therefore it becomes this man’s father is me. Therefore the picture must be of his son.

As it turns out I had a dispute about this long ago and phoned MENSA. They got it wrong (Amazing). It was only after I suggested they transpose/simplify that they agreed it has to be his son.

Your logic is, how do you say it….very logical. As we say here in the colonies, you da man. :slight_smile:

I was going to argue… until I put a pen to paper. It is indeed the riddler’s son. Tough one to figure in the head.

This man….let’s say this is me…his father (my father) has a son. (Me again) My father’s son (Me again)

It cannot be this man’s son, as the man in question (This man in the this man’s father equation) is the son of my father. The brothers and sisters I have none part merely indicates there are no options for other kids being the answer. My father has a son. Me. My father’s son is me. period. end of story. And truly, my father has one natural born son. So, who is my father’s son? Me.

The question doesn’t ask “Who am I?” The identity of the speaker, or riddler if you will, is of no importance. “The picture must be of his son” makes no sense in relation to the question, as there was no “picture” in the question.

If it walks like a duck

And talks like a duck ,

You sir , are drunk .

ducks can't talk .

If you study the question as posed you will note the term ‘this man’. Plainly the riddler is referring or pointing to someone. OK it could be a real person but usually in this riddle it refers to a picture. However, the big clue is that the riddle is being spoken by someone and at the end the riddle is asking who is this man rather than who am I. I suppose riddler might be pointing to himself and talking of himself in the third person but that is so unlikely a possibility that we must logically ignore it.

Let’s say we have a photograph/picture (Brit-speak for conceptualized image) of 3 men, grandfather on the left, father center, and grandson on the right.

The father, explaining the relationship to a third party, points to the son and says “this man’s father (himself) is my father’s (grandfather) son.

I value the community we have here to discuss POV’s as we do.

Make it into a math problem. Here it is:

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

This man’s father = my father’s son

If my father had no other children than me, then the following must be true:

This man’s father = my father’s son = me

So, then this man’s father = me

So then, this man = son of me