The Daily Riddle Thread

Wherever the family chooses to bury them after they finally pass away some day.

The gold brick ....because me and 22 other people are jumping in after it

smart guy

It can split granite, yet a child can break it up easily.
You can’t breathe it, yet your lungs wouldn’t work without it.
It exists pretty much everywhere, yet people die for lack of it.

What is it?

Water. :slight_smile:

Well, I was actually thinking about Dihydrogen Monoxide, but I guess water will work too. :wink:

Why, David, you are right! What was I thinking? :slight_smile:

I reread the iron and gold brick one, and the answer is:

both of them.

A man is fishing from a boat on a lake. He hooks an old metal anchor. He hauls it aboard. Will the water level in the lake rise or fall?

I would say rise.

While in the water, the anchor takes up a certain volume, regardless of weight.

Once the anchor is brought into the boat, the boat will settle, displacing the amount of water equivalent to the weight of the anchor. Whereas the density of the anchor is greater than water, this displacement will be greater than that of the anchor itself.

However- would it actually be noticeable? Or, measurable? I would say probably not.

Spot on.

Take away my first letter, and I still sound the same. Take away my last letter, I still sound the same. Even take away my letter in the middle, I will still sound the same. I am a five letter word. What am I?

Actually only the gold block will end up increasing the water level because the iron block will rust and dissolve into the water itself where the gold block will remain in it's original volume.

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour.
When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?

One hour and 20 minutes!

If I understand the situation, the answer is never.

Or at least until it starts raining. :p

Raccoon City’s got it! The tide is rising, which means that since the ship is floating on the water, it will rise along with the tide, and the water will never go above that first rung. :bigsmile:

How do you make the number one disappear?

Well, you did say the ship was anchored, so if the tide continues to rise indefinitely, they will eventually run out of chain, and the water will begin to rise in relation to the ship! J) Yes, I’m just being a sore loser! :_(

Add the letter 'n' to make 'none'?

Why is six afraid of seven?