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Title: My riddles ^_^


Hugh Tate - May 10, 2004 08:49 PM (GMT)
Heres a riddle that i found. Maybe you could try and solve it? :D

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 lots of babies."

Enjoy :D

Kaithar - May 11, 2004 01:16 PM (GMT)
err have you got that right. what is there to solve in that?

im probably being really stupid. it seems to be something i do regulally

CyanideWyrm - May 11, 2004 03:41 PM (GMT)
No, I'm pretty sure it's a riddle. It's got me stumped, but I think I know what the last two lines mean.

Kaithar - May 11, 2004 06:37 PM (GMT)
well at least somone knows what tey are looking for there, i still can't work that out

Hugh Tate - May 12, 2004 12:17 AM (GMT)
its an ancient riddle. i'll give you a hint: it's a fruit. And its exactly right, i copied it word for word ^_^

Kaithar - May 12, 2004 03:08 PM (GMT)
well then i'm stumped

Hugh Tate - May 12, 2004 10:25 PM (GMT)
its a watermelon :lol:


Kaithar - May 13, 2004 12:03 PM (GMT)
ahhh, very good, keep them coming :D

Hugh Tate - May 13, 2004 02:00 PM (GMT)
I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball

;)

Kaithar - May 13, 2004 02:14 PM (GMT)
the future

v.good

Hugh Tate - May 14, 2004 03:03 AM (GMT)
eh, tomorrow, the future, whatever ;) :lol:

k, next riddle:

Runs over fields and woods all day
Under the bed at night sits not alone,
With long tongue hanging out,
A-waiting for a bone.


This should be a little easy ;)

Smeghead - May 14, 2004 08:54 AM (GMT)
DOG piece of piss (mind demon help me a little) :D

Hugh Tate - May 15, 2004 10:07 PM (GMT)
actually, no ;)

DragonLady4 - May 19, 2004 02:19 PM (GMT)
a shoe??

Hugh Tate - May 19, 2004 09:04 PM (GMT)
hehe yes it is!!

alright, heres another:

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????


DragonLady4 - May 20, 2004 10:06 AM (GMT)
The three friends have $25, add $3, makes $28. Not sure exactly where the last dollar is...as my brain has truedn about 470 degrees just thinking about this.... :blink:

Hugh Tate - May 20, 2004 11:56 PM (GMT)
heres the answer, but look at it only if your stumped ;)


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The facts in this riddle are clear: There is an initial $30 charge. It should have been $25, so $5 must be returned and accounted for. $3 is given to the 3 friends, $2 is kept by the bellhop - there you have the $5. The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking - and quite successfully for most. Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay $9, not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid $27 for the night. But we know that the clerk will tell us that they were charged only $25 and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by the bellhop, you come up with $30.

DragonLady4 - May 29, 2004 08:06 PM (GMT)
so....its just confusing then. ooer.

DragonsDomain - June 14, 2004 02:26 PM (GMT)
hehe good riddle :D

DragonLady4 - June 18, 2004 10:27 AM (GMT)
are you just saying that because it hurt my brain? You are, aren't you? *cries* :(

Gemsykins - June 18, 2004 06:38 PM (GMT)
*pats DL's brain*

There there dear. If it makes you feel any better I was too confuzzled to post after reading it. I don't like riddles. Unless I make them up.... :wickedgrins:

Green Child - October 14, 2004 12:38 PM (GMT)
that doesnt make sense if he overcharged them by 5 then the mony they paid would be more than 30 wouldn't it?

Kaithar - October 14, 2004 07:37 PM (GMT)
no, i think that he asked for 30, then realised it should only have been 25




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