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from JoeUser Forums


i have the strength of sixty men, i'm over ten feet tall
i'm footed, though i never move, it's said that i can fall

in grand ballrooms i can be seen holding up affairs
and i can bring the house down if i crack up near the stairs

... what am i ?


if you know the solution to this riddle, please make me very happy by posting it :) ... but if you do post the answer, you must post the next riddle to be guessed by the next successful person, and so on. or so i hope.

course, the whole thing could get ignored, too. how embarrasing that would be. hehe. oh, well ... the risks one will take in order to achieve linguistic banter these days apparently know no bounds !!!. somebody guess, dammit ;)
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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
apparently i am dumb !

bwaaaaa hhaaaaa ! hehe. well, i thought it was hard. hehe. captain ... get me another difficult one, please !!!! .... and gene, i have to go to sleep, it's 2am .... you're in charge of the riddle thread. see you in 8 hours ... don't do anything i wouldn't do

you guys are cool. even if you're all so much smarter than me hehe


sleepy mig XXX


ps gene, i'm sorry, yours just sounds dirty !. is it my lack of sleep, or is innuendo back in fashion ? ...

mig XX
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
is innuendo back in fashion ?


It's called misdirection. Like a magic trick, the answer isn't what you think but is obvious once you know what it is. (Don't blame me, I just opened the rogue email. )

and gene, i have to go to sleep, it's 2am .... you're in charge of the riddle thread. see you in 8 hours


It's almost 9 A.M. here and I haven't been to sleep yet, so they'll have to handle it on their own.
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
The answer to Smartaz' riddle is:
A Last Name.

Another math-based puzzle:

There are 4 women who want to cross a bridge. They all begin on the same side. You have 17 minutes to get all of them across to the other side. It is night. There is one flashlight. A maximum of two people can cross at one time. Any party who crosses, either 1 or 2 people, must have the flashlight with them. The flashlight must be walked back and forth, it cannot be thrown, etc. Each woman walks at a different speed. A pair must walk together at the rate of the slower woman's pace.

Woman 1: 1 minute to cross
Woman 2: 2 minutes to cross
Woman 3: 5 minutes to cross
Woman 4: 10 minutes to cross

For example if Woman 1 and Woman 4 walk across first, 10 minutes have elapsed when they get to the other side of the bridge. If Woman 4 then returns with the flashlight, a total of 20 minutes have passed and you have failed the mission.
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oh, umm, by the way, yes zoo was right on mine.

Capt. over and out!
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
For a true riddle, try this one:

A hundred and one
divided by fifty, followed by nothing:
one of nine.
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
There are 4 women who want to cross a bridge. They all begin on the same side. You have 17 minutes to get all of them across to the other side. It is night. There is one flashlight. A maximum of two people can cross at one time. Any party who crosses, either 1 or 2 people, must have the flashlight with them. The flashlight must be walked back and forth, it cannot be thrown, etc. Each woman walks at a different speed. A pair must walk together at the rate of the slower woman's pace.Woman 1: 1 minute to crossWoman 2: 2 minutes to crossWoman 3: 5 minutes to crossWoman 4: 10 minutes to crossFor example if Woman 1 and Woman 4 walk across first, 10 minutes have elapsed when they get to the other side of the bridge. If Woman 4 then returns with the flashlight, a total of 20 minutes have passed and you have failed the mission.


Woman 1 takes woman 2 across(2 min) Woman 1 comes back(1 min) Woman 3 and 4 cross(10 min) Woman 2 comes back over(2 min) and takes Woman 1 over(2 min)...so, lets see if I did that right 2+1+10+2+2=17...Ahhh...finally, that took a bit of work, that was good...now my head hurts....lol

Great riddle citahellion,
~Zoo
Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's called misdirection. Like a magic trick, the answer isn't what you think but is obvious once you know what it is.




It's almost 9 A.M. here and I haven't been to sleep yet, so they'll have to handle it on their own


lets' see how they did on their own then, hmm .....


Reply By: citahellionPosted: Wednesday, June 23, 2004The answer to Smartaz' riddle is:A Last Name


ok, it's no longer 2am and i feel majorly daft over that island/rooster/fox thing. my brain is as logical as a birck. that's why i need a riddle thread. hehe. thank goodness citahellion is here to make sense of things

Reply By: CaptainCornbreadPosted: Wednesday, June 23, 2004Oh, umm, by the way, yes zoo was right on mine.


i asked ! . i did !. way back there in the comments. i said "is zoo right" .. in the awful "fox" post. but it got lost in all the flurry hehe

Great riddle citahellion,~Zoo


i'm with zoo. i'm sorry i slept through that one. citahellion, you have the most amazing imagination.

Reply By: citahellionPosted: Wednesday, June 23, 2004For a true riddle, try this one:A hundred and onedivided by fifty, followed by nothing:one of nine.


...goiing to shake brain awake to solve this

mig XX
Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
desperate attempt to redeem myself ... i hope:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


i have too many feet to count but not even one toe... i do not have a mouth yet i can tell you how things grow... i cannot move yet always do, i am both large and small... i myself am nothing though i give meaning to all...

what am i ?


please be stumped. even for a few seconds


mig XX
Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, I'll play along mig. I'm stumped. Then again, it's 11:00 p.m. and my eye hurts so bad I can't think straight. Maybe tomorrow, I'll get it.

Capt. over and out!
Reply #35 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply By: CaptainCornbreadPosted: Wednesday, June 23, 2004Well, I'll play along mig. I'm stumped. Then again, it's 11:00 p.m. and my eye hurts so bad I can't think straight. Maybe tomorrow, I'll get it.Capt. over and out!


hooray. thanks. have a good sleep, capt. see you in the morning ! hehe ... bright and early with your answer

mig XX
Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top
are you a ruler or tape measure mig - you know feet, inches, centimetres etc
Reply #37 from JoeUser Forums Top
A hundred and one
divided by fifty, followed by nothing:
one of nine.


I'll have to recuse myself. I know the answer.
Reply #38 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply #36 By: trina_p - 6/24/2004 4:25:52 AM
are you a ruler or tape measure mig - you know feet, inches, centimetres etc


yes, trina, you're exactly right : ) ... you can post your own now if you like


I'll have to recuse myself. I know the answer.


gene, you're allowed to say so if you know the answer !. please do !. then can you please post the next riddle ?


mig XX
Reply #39 from JoeUser Forums Top
A hundred and one
divided by fifty, followed by nothing:
one of nine.


The answer is Clio, the Muse of history.

Start with roman numerals...

101 = CI
"divided by fifty" means physically shove them apart with L (50), not perform math. Hence, CLI
Nothing is zero, or 0. So, to follow CLI with 0 gives us CLI0, or Clio, the Muse of history.

There are nine Muses of which Clio is one.

Bingo.

Let me go poke around for another riddle.
Reply #40 from JoeUser Forums Top
A man comes to a bridge that crosses a large ravine. The bridge has a maximum capacity of 200 lbs. The man weighs 190 lbs. and he is carrying three 5 lb. bowling balls. The ravine is too far to throw, roll, or float the balls across, yet he crosses the bridge with all three balls in a single trip. How?
Reply #41 from JoeUser Forums Top
Here, let me make one up:

When Riddle becomes a riddle, you'll never know where but you might know who.
Reply #42 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply #40 By: smartaz - A man comes to a bridge that crosses a large ravine. The bridge has a maximum capacity of 200 lbs. The man weighs 190 lbs. and he is carrying three 5 lb. bowling balls. The ravine is too far to throw, roll, or float the balls across, yet he crosses the bridge with all three balls in a single trip. How?


ok, i think i have it ... literally, the the highlighted text means that the man weighs 190 pounds already laden with the 3 x 5-pound balls ? (ie: the man weighs 190 pounds and he is carrying three 5-pound bowling balls) ... which would mean the man himself only actually weighed 175 pounds, making him still under the bridge limit.

i hope you're not laughing at me. hehe.

did i get it gene ? did i ? did i ?


mig XX

Reply #43 from JoeUser Forums Top
gene, try this one out while i sleep hehe:


this is a "who am i" ... (in four syllables)

my first is on behalf of you
my second sealess one
my third and fourth together
and your speaker i become


.. who am i ?

hint: one name only.


mig XX
Reply #44 from JoeUser Forums Top
Bobbie is facetious. She is also abstemious. She gets pneumonia. Given those clues, what is the only American tree she will like?

Capt. over and out!
Reply #45 from JoeUser Forums Top
Bobbie is facetious. She is also abstemious. She gets pneumonia. Given those clues, what is the only American tree she will like?


The Sequoia....She likes things choked full of vowels...all of them infact...or so this is my guess.....am I right?

~Zoo
Reply #46 from JoeUser Forums Top
(Let me just say that Capt. and I agree that this blog is superb....just riddles and brainteasers, nice to keep the brain busy...for awhile...)
Reply #47 from JoeUser Forums Top
mig: No, you didn't get the bowling-ball/bridge puzzle. Nice try, though.
The standard answer is that he juggled the bowling balls, which would mean that only two were in his hands at any given time, thereby achieving the 200-pound restriction.
Of course that wouldn't actually work because the amount of energy you have to impart to the balls to juggle them would effectively make you weigh more than 200 again, but that's still the standard answer.
By the way, bowling balls bottom out (here in the US, anyway) at 8 pounds. Any lighter and they're not effective enough at knocking things over.

Here's a classic...
Thirty white horses upon a red hill;
First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.
Reply #48 from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply #48 By: citahellion - 6/24/2004 11:26:04 AM
mig: No, you didn't get the bowling-ball/bridge puzzle. Nice try, though.


you know what citahellion, i was going to say "juggling" and i thought ... that's silly, no way, too easy ... hehe



and there are still three unanswered riddles on here:


mine ...
my first is on behalf of you
my second sealess one
my third and fourth together
and your speaker i become


.. who am i ?


little_whips' ...
Rich men want it
Poor men have it
And it you eat it you die slow.


citahellions' ...
Here's a classic...
Thirty white horses upon a red hill;
First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.



get in here and solve some stuff, kiddies ... hehe, i made this thread 'cause i suck at logic. and i actually thought it might help me !!!! ... roflmao ... d'uh


mig XXXX
Reply #49 from JoeUser Forums Top
Little whips is EASY --- the answer is Nothing (but uncomplete because the way I've always seen it written like this

The Poor have lots of it
The Rich don't need it
More evil then the Devil
Better then God
and if you eat it you die

ie nothing - there's nothing more evil then Satan, the poor have nothing, the rich don't want for anything and if you eat nothing you die.

And that my friends was pretty much the only riddle i ever knew -- except the one about St Ives (and the ones in Batman Forever)
Reply #50 from JoeUser Forums Top
As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with 7 wives
Each wife had 7 sacks
Each sack had seven cats
Each cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks & wives
how many were going to St Ives??