shit, i have to solve this fucking riddle for philosophy class tomorow. And since im stupid i cant get it done.

Your on a road, you can go left or right, but you dont know wich way is the one to your destination. But there are 2 men and one is always lying, but you dont know wich one. Since they are grumpy you only get to ask em one question.
what is it gonna be?!

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ask one of them if you can only ask one question, then you'll figure out who's lying and who's not...

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wait a sec, dont you ask each of them what the other guy would tell you? ]

e.g 1 tells you that the other man would tell you to go left
2 tells you that the other man would tell you to go left

does that sound right?
i'm confused

edit: wouldnt that mean you cant ask them any more questions, so they wouldnt be able to tell you which way to go?

ok i've heard this before
assuming you can only ask one question, and one bloke always lies and the other always speaks the truth. but you dont know which is which.

you ask one bloke
"if i were to ask the other man which way is my destination, what would he tell me?"
then you take the opposite direction to the one your told.
(because the liar would lie to you about what the truth bloke would say, and the truth bloke would tell you truthfully what the liar would say. so the answer would be a lie either way.)

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ok, your answers sound much better than mine

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Yes thats the answer:

"What way would the other guy pick?"

Both would pick the wrong way because one is allways lying and the other one will tell you what the lier would say. I heard about this one a time ago but then it was about a guy that would either get his freedom or death sentence .

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Firstly learn how to spell 'Which'

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I assume that was directed at The Doctor else i would hunt you down and slit your throat

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hehe, thanks manowar

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hah

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walk up the street to the K-mart, get two crates of heineken, sit down with those fuckers.

drink beer with them and the lying guy should now be telling the truth. (and the non-lying guy will probably be talking immense ammounts of shit)

hah i like the icelandic man-of-war's answer very logical

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Haha yes, it was directed at The Doctor, you dont see any 'Which's' in your post do you!?!?

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haha! who gives a shit wether you've got to where you're going, as long as you've got a cold beer in your hand!

If we're on the topic of thinking and stuff:

4 boats/ships are located at equal distances from eachother. One is a rowing boat, one is a sailing boat, and one is a big ass oil tanker ship thingy... What type of boat is the fourth one?

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a khiake(SP?!) why the fuck does it matter

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exactly, fuck finding your way home, finish up those crates and talk shit all night long!

actually im gonna guess a battle ship or something else with ship in the name

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ok heres a logical problem for you guys
find the patterns

1=3
2=3
3=5
4=5
5=4
6=3
7=5
8=5
9=4
10=3

what would 11,12,13 equal?

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11=3
12=5
13=5

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not even close

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youd ask "which way would the other man tell me to go" (lets assume that left is the right way) the liar would then tell you "the other man would say "go to the right" because he is lying about the truthful dudes answer. The truthful man would say "the other guy would tell you to go to the right because the truthful man is telling the truth about his lying frined. So whatever answer they both give you go the other way.
yeah... this riddle was in a terrible moveie from the 80's called the Labyrinth. Dont go see it

sorry if the answers too late

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Theres a new crack in the case!

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ohh damn, then I don't get it

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you gotta think "outside the box"

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I dont get that question

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what question?

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11=eleven=6
12=twelve=6
13=thirteen=8

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damn the icelandic man-of-war owns you all now bow down before his mighty brain power!

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someone post another riddle please. these are fun

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that would have been easier, but you said that four had five letters in it.

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Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic
(absorbs heat)?

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i'd think it's endothermic.

Well the most correct answer ever found for this question was from a kid and he said.

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So
we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the
rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume
that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no
souls are leaving.

As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different
religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions
state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to
Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since
people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that
all souls go to Hell.

With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of
souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of
change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in
order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the
volume of
Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which
souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will
increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls
in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell
freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman
year that, " it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,
and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night,
then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is
exothermic and has already frozen
over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it
follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore,
extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a
divine being which explains why last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh
my God."

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Words are a Sword.
In Evil we Live.
As a User are you Sure?
Hate the ____?

What goes there?

That was fucking brilliant! lmao.

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DeMANU, I think I'll print that out and post it on my wall.....haha.

Infinity, ......the answer is "heat."



Although broken, they will always exist and surround us. We don't like being confined in them and they will outlive us all. What are "they"?---this an an unsolved riddle from some site....

What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?
----this one's a little easier..

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Correct, Powers.

Man, I'm thinking of yours about "They" now...

I think I might know that answer. Is it Laws/Rules? If not I'll keep thinking.

Hmm, now that seems wrong anyway

Date reads the same when turned upside down. Won't happen again until 6009. Right?

Yeh powers a teacher at the school i just graduated from gave everybody that question on the first day of school this year, we then had all year to think of somethin decent. I couldnt come to the conclusion but he showed me that answer because i thought there wasnt one. I havent laughed soo much for awhile when i seen the answer.

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whoops...wrong one

edit: cat-guy's quote formatting

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somewhat on the lines of cat-guy's riddle : whats special about the number 4?

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Real - Coin
Line - Orca
Alien - Orc
Nail - _____ ?

Core

take n,a,i,l out from the 8 available letters, and core is what you get

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Nice!

Both people got my riddles right, each get a cookie.

another riddle:
four mates are caught in the desert by a tribe of cannibals,
these cannibals are going to eat them, but hey have one chance.
they are made to stand wearing hats.
if two of them can correctly shout out which color hat they are wearing, they will be set free. they know that there are two white and two black hats.

http://members.aol.com/celadoreuk/riddle.jpg

usual pointless rules apply:
they can only look forward
they cannot communicate in any way.
they cannot see their own hat.

which two figure it out, and how?

edit: oh and the bloke behind the wall (number 4 ) cant see anything

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lots.
its the only one with its own number of letters.
its the lowest non prime number
its the number of fingers on my left hand.
its a major third in semitones.
X + X = X^2 = 4 (thats unique)
its an upside down h
its the smallest number of colors sufficient to color all planar maps

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Here's one for John.....

SEND + MORE = MONEY:
Each letter in the above equation stands for a different number, and each time the same letter appears, it is the same number. What is the only set of numbers that makes this equation correct?

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#include <ilsolver/ctint.h>

CtInt dummy = CtInit();
CtIntVar S(1, 9), E(0, 9), N(0, 9), D(0, 9),
M(1, 9), O(0, 9), R(0, 9), Y(0, 9);
CtIntVar* AllVars[]=
{&S, &E, &N, &D, &M, &O, &R, &Y};

int main(int, char**) {
CtAllNeq(8, AllVars);
CtEq( 1000*S + 100*E + 10*N + D
+ 1000*M + 100*O + 10*R + E,
10000*M + 1000*O + 100*N + 10*E + Y);
CtSolve(CtGenerate(8, AllVars));

PrintSol(CtInt, AllVars);

CtEnd();
return 0;
}

9567 + 1085 = 10652. That should be it. Constraint-based problem solving. Programming =)

Ok this is a piss easy riddle:

There are 2 guys running next to each other,they both started at the same time, one has run the distance of 4 miles the other has run 2 miles, however there still next to each other.

How is this possible?

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Pshhh. You cheated

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Black hats will get fucking hot in the desert, so the guys with black hats shout because of the pain.



That's easy.
Have you ever been totally drunk? You will at least walk twice as much as the sober guy. So one guy is fucking drunk an the other is sober.

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Haha, wrong.. sorry poldi, good try though. thats not a logical answer.

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Theyre running on a joggingband! In a gym room! Aww fuck I'm lost...

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Either that, or one of the guys ran faster. Slow guy finishes his first mile, while the fast one finishes his third mile. Then he turns around and runs another mile back, right when the slow guy finishes his two miles...

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Correct, they were running on a treadmill

see, it was easy..

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Turns out I wasnt lost. Now heres a riddle:

What is it that is black, has a crack in the finish, and Im trying to fix it!?

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A guitar?

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Yah that was too easy...

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Hahaha, wahey!

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Have a cookie...

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no.

can you tell the color of your hat based on its heat?

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ok there are four 100 page books next to each other in a library (a series of books in a row from #1-#4)if each page is 1cm thick and each cover is 7cm thick, how far would a book worm go if he ate from the first page of the first book to the last page of the fourth book?

oh and sorry about the mistake in the last one i gave

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214 cm's?

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nope your within 50 cm from the right answer though

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what he said

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correction, 221 cm.

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getting closer

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220?

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higher

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are we to take into account for the page glued to the inside of the cover on the front and back, the title page, the contents, and the blank page typically between the glued pages and the title page and the last page?

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what? no glues pages and no blank pages, you gotta picture how they would be on the shelve

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right next to eachother, correct?
cus if they are, then each book is 114 cm thick, the first book gives you 114 cm, the second book, minus the back cover gives you 107, but he ate to the last page, not thru, so you get 106
114+106=220 cm

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nah
here it is when, you put books next to each other, the front is at the end of the one to the right of it so...
1st book, first page and front cover=8cm
2nd book back+front and all pages=114cm
3rd book back+front and all pages=114cm
4th book back and last page=8cm

8+8+114+114=244cm

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ahh, it said second book, so that totally threw me off.

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A dragon and knight live on an island. This island has seven poisoned wells, numbered 1 to 7. If you drink from a well, you can only save yourself by drinking from a higher numbered well. Well 7 is located at the top of a high mountain, so only the dragon can reach it.

One day they decide that the island isn't big enough for the two of them, and they have a duel. Each of them brings a glass of water to the duel, they exchange glasses, and drink. After the duel, the knight lives and the dragon dies.

Why did the knight live? Why did the dragon die?

i got this from some website it took me a while but its pretty good

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Didn't need to cheat. That riddle is a classic, I done it years ago for homework.

Ok, there is like 3 or 4 riddles going on at once here, please post one then everyone together try to solve it.

And as for the black hat riddle: man 3 says man two is wearing a white hat, and man 2 says man 1 is wearing a black hat.

I got a good one about subways, two girlfriends, and a cheating boyfriend Jeremy! Actually I have lots from my Critical thinking textbook, they WILL fuck with your brain. I'll post'em one all the others are solved.

:Edit:
Ok, i re - read the puzzle and my answer is wrong. What is the answer?

Shit guitar_demon, you need to re-read your posts after you post them. You've only posted 2 and both of them were worded wrong so nobody could possibly get them right.

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yea....i type to damn fast

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An old Arabian mathematical riddle that some of you may have seen before:

An Arabian camel farmer has 21 camels. He suddenly dies and in his will he leaves his three sons a share of the camels. He leaves his first son half of the camels, his second son a third of the camels and his third son a seventh of the camels. The sons, however, are unable to allocate the camels accordingly and ask their neighbour, himself a camel farmer, for advice. What was the neighbour's solution that satisfied the father's will?

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dragon vs. knight riddle:
The knight took the water from well 6 and the dragon from another well, max well 4.
Let's say the poison needs one day to take effect.
So the next day the dragon can reach well 7 and survives. The knight takes water from well 5. The next day the dragon can't reach a higher well, but the knight can. The knight survives and the dragon dies, although the knight will die one day later.

arabian riddle:
I think it's to easy, if:
1. son - 11 camels (nearly the half)
2. son - 7 camels
3. son - 3 camels.
A friend asked me some weeks ago a riddle in the same style, but i wasn't able to solve it. Maybe i'll post it, if i can find it.

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That the Arabian camel farmer's sons should kill themselves and give the camels to someone else in a will.

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i was actually thinking kill the camels so none of them get any

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you misunderstood the riddle once you drink from a higher well its cured until you drink from a well again. so both would live acording to you answer. I worded the question badly sorry.

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i think i got this but im not sure,

the second son takes one third which is 7 of his fathers camels. that leaves 14 of the fathers camels

the first son takes half of his fathers camel which is 7 that leaves 7 of fathers camels

the second son takes one seventh of his fathers camels which is 1 that leaves 6

the neighbour takes the 6 and laughs at the farmers sons because he just got free camels? or maybe thoes crazy arabians ate the camels mmmmm camel

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They should just bang the camels in a big arab-style orgy. One hump or two?

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haha reminds me of def's pic where he's "playing" lightning-fast

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Keep trying. It can't be assumed that 11 is equivalent to half of 21, but you're nearly there.



Again, keep trying. Look to MetalPoldi's post for inspiration!

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Damn this arab-riddle fucked up my whole afternoon and i don't have the solution.
May Magret Thatcher rape you, John!!!

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That dune coon riddle is strange.

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Hah, I really doubt this is it, but I'll post it anyway.....
son#1 = 8
son#2 = 9
son#3 = 4

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the knight goes and drinks from the first well himself,
then gives the dragon a glass of water from the ocean surrounding the island.
the dragon gives the Knight water from 6 or seven, which cures the knight, and then drinks from 7 thinking it will cure him but instead the knight has a pair of dragon skin sandles.

one of he camels was a baby so equals a half a camel?
or they chop them up and have camel stew

as for the hat riddle keep guessing.

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a baby camel is still a full camel

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Rock On!
you got it

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There should have been more emphasis about the ocean. But yeah, I'll pay that.

Jeremy is a two timing mofo. Each sunday he visits one of them but he can't choose which one to see. He notices that both live on the same subway line but in opposite directions (North, and south). He uses the train to pick whom he sees. If he arrives at the station and the south train is waiting He visits Sarah, but if the Northbound train is waiting then he visits Nancy. There is AN EQUAL number of trains going north and south bound with the same freaquency. After a few months he realizes that he is visiting Nancy 4 times more often then Sarah. Why, and what is his mistake?