The official PCF riddles thread!

skunkymunky · Post by **skunkymunky** » 28 Jan 2004, 12:44

MOD NOTE: Since the guys in the English Spam Thread are full of riddles today, I've merged all the old riddles thread into one and resurrected it. This will now be the one and only thread to confuse your fellow forumite. -- Blue Lurker

thaught we cud start a riddles thread:

here is an easy one

Joe Bruin works for the owner of a small, remote berry farm. This
yearâ€™s
harvest consists of three thousand bushels of berries. Joe can carry
up
to one thousand bushels at a time. The market place where the berries
are
sold is one thousand miles away. Unfortunately, Joe eats one bushel
each
and every mile he walks.

Of the three thousand bushels harvested, what is the largest number of
bushels Joe can get to the market?

Answer and post yours

ICE-VaPa · Post by **ICE-VaPa** » 28 Jan 2004, 13:20

He cant get any bushels?

skunkymunky · Post by **skunkymunky** » 28 Jan 2004, 13:22

told you it was easy

ICE-VaPa · Post by **ICE-VaPa** » 28 Jan 2004, 13:27

Lol... I took ages looking in depth!

O-well here is one...

A person notices a boat on a river, he also notices that there are 10 people on board.
He looks away as the boat travles under a bridge, when it appears on the other side, he notices that there is not a single person!

Explain...

simmy · Post by **simmy** » 28 Jan 2004, 13:27

8O

the ppl got off.

Post by **wit_skapie** » 28 Jan 2004, 13:34

low bridge ?

ICE-VaPa · Post by **ICE-VaPa** » 28 Jan 2004, 13:34

They where all married!!!

Post by **wit_skapie** » 28 Jan 2004, 13:35

ha ha! good one!

Post by **wit_skapie** » 28 Jan 2004, 13:38

Here's a really stupid one:

How many letters are in "the alphabet"?

Post by **Thrall** » 28 Jan 2004, 14:56

Post by **wit_skapie** » 28 Jan 2004, 15:00

jip

Post by **Thrall** » 28 Jan 2004, 15:16

Ok, here's a classic for you:

"Alive without breath, as cold as death
Never thirsty, ever-drinking
Clad in mail, never clinking."

What is it?

simmy · Post by **simmy** » 28 Jan 2004, 15:56

NEMO! ><'>

Pregnant every time you see her,
yet she never will give birth.

Post by **Thrall** » 28 Jan 2004, 21:03

stewy_w · Post by **stewy_w** » 04 Mar 2004, 10:20

EINSTEINâ€™S RIDDLE

This is solvableâ€¦â€¦..I swear

1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.

2. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.

3. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

The question is â€œWho owns the fish?â€™

Facts:

The Brit lives in the red house
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green houseâ€™s owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

Einstein wrote this riddle this century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it.

It can be done! Be part of the 2% that COULD.

(I solved it, It took me abt an hour)

AngryRabbit · Post by **AngryRabbit** » 04 Mar 2004, 10:27

Einstein wrote that riddle you say? Who told you that?

stewy_w · Post by **stewy_w** » 04 Mar 2004, 10:31

Is that a trick question?

sean4e · Post by **sean4e** » 04 Mar 2004, 10:50

That riddle requires a pen and a piece of paper - way too long to solve, here is a nice one:

A guy takes his son out of town for a movie, on their way home they stop at the pub. The father has a couple and then they head off back home. On their way they have a terrible accident. Two different ambulances come from two different hospitals, from two different towns in two different directions. The son is in the emergency ward, when the doctor walks in. The doctor takes one look at him and says; "I cannot operate on this boy, this is my son."

How can this be? Explain?

skunkymunky · Post by **skunkymunky** » 04 Mar 2004, 10:59

The mother had an affair

sean4e · Post by **sean4e** » 04 Mar 2004, 11:02

Nope the father that was in the accident with him was his real father. And believe me - he is also in an emergency ward clinging on to life.

sean4e · Post by **sean4e** » 04 Mar 2004, 11:03

This riddle proves a very big point about males around the world.

simmy · Post by **simmy** » 04 Mar 2004, 11:10

The doctor is a woman and the mother?

sean4e · Post by **sean4e** » 04 Mar 2004, 11:15

Yes!

It's so funny asking that riddle, because it is always a female that answers it and always the males that are left stumped. I mean c'mon there are two parents, father and mother. This just shows how males automatically think that a doctor is male.

Interesting hey. Try it out on some of your male friends and see how long they take to answer.

Dr_Jung · Post by **Dr_Jung** » 04 Mar 2004, 11:36

Had a sex change Simmy? My couch beckons!

simmy · Post by **simmy** » 04 Mar 2004, 11:36

sean4e wrote:Yes!

stuff, because it is always a female that answers it and a stuff

When I went to the toilet now, I went in the Men's room, I used a urinal, and I stood upright...What am I????