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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 #176 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hmmmm .... Avalanche???

Is 2) a Wave???

Okay.. here's another...It is a part of us, and then replaced. It escapes our bodies, to a better place. The world becomes its sizable home; its passions unrestraint, the planet it roams. What is it?

Reply #177 from JoeUser Forums Top
2) is indeed a wave.

You're a little farther away with Avalanche than you were with Iceberg.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #178 from JoeUser Forums Top
Trina p,
Yes ...soul it is!

Okay.. here's another...It is a part of us, and then replaced. It escapes our bodies, to a better place. The world becomes its sizable home; its passions unrestraint, the planet it roams. What is it?

Lengirl, Is this one ..space??
Reply #179 from JoeUser Forums Top
1) My step is slow the snow's my breath I give the ground a grinding death My marching makes an end of me Slain by sun or drowned in sea.
Citahellion - Okay...I've had a think and is it Glacier?? The Crusaders - Sorry no, not space....
Reply #180 from JoeUser Forums Top

oh wow !. hehe. i have been away a few days. two things:

1/ i love you guys !. and hi lengirl, nice to meet you, thanks for stopping by

2/ it's 2.17am. i'll be here as soon as i get up tomorow to read all this stuff. i am too daft to keep up with my own thread


vanessa/mig XXX
Reply #181 from JoeUser Forums Top
Glacier it is, Lengirl!

For yours, I'll guess "breath".

I've got a few more puzzlers at home that I'll try to remember to post tonight, too.
Reply #182 from JoeUser Forums Top
Gooden morning everyone!!
Do you know this one?

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?
Reply #183 from JoeUser Forums Top
Startling

Starling

Staring

string

sting

sing

sin

in

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Reply #184 from JoeUser Forums Top
A variation on that theme from Lewis Carroll's puzzle collection is a game called Doublets. It's not really a riddle per se, but it's interesting.

The object of the game is to convert one word into another word, changing only one letter at a time to make a valid "intermediate word", until the target word is reached.

So for instance you can turn "HEAD" into "TAIL" by going
HEAD
HEAL
TEAL
TELL
TALL
TAIL

Now an ideal doublet requires only as many steps as there are letters, so an ideal solution for the HEAD->TAIL doublet would take only 4 steps instead of the 5 that we took. Can you find an ideal doublet solution?

Also try these:
Drive "PIG" into "STY"
Raise "FOUR" to "FIVE"
Cover "EYE" with "LID"
Turn "POOR" into "RICH"
Make "BREAD" into "TOAST"
Make "WINTER" into "SUMMER"
Reply #185 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oooh they do that in the Woman's weekly magazine every month

and I usually suck

and today is no exception

(here's a riddle with no answer -- Why do they call the Australian Woman's Weekly magazine that when it comes out monthy and Why do they call the Woman's Day magazine that when it comes out weekly?!?!?! - and just so we're clear I only ever buy and read AWW)
Reply #186 from JoeUser Forums Top

Why do they call the Australian Woman's Weekly magazine that when it comes out monthy


trina, at last something i know. it does have an answer !. thw 'AWW' used to come out weekly (i'm showing my age here hehe), and when it was changed to a monthly format, they decided that calling the magazine 'the womens' monthly' sounded too much like a period !!!.


i'm working on the others. you guys are too fast for me !


mig XX

Reply #187 from JoeUser Forums Top
Arh yes I knew that (about it being previously a weekly taller, stapled and short magazine -- my Grandma had a few from the 40's and 50's - I still find it odd though

and the womans day? "I can't wait for my day?" (former ad jingle)
Reply #188 from JoeUser Forums Top
Mignuna - Thanks for the welcome! Nice to meet you also, nice to know that even in the UK contact with fellow Aussies is plentiful!!

Citahellion - VERY VERY CLOSE, you're on the right track with breath....

Here's another little one I found.... What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?

Reply #189 from JoeUser Forums Top
Lengirl, your new one is easy: The number of the year (as represented in the Gregorian calendar, at least) looks the same when you turn it over. Next time that will happen is, I believe, in the year 6119.

No new guess for your old one yet, though.... Hmm.
Reply #190 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yeah...thought it might be a bit easy...you're close with the year, it's 6009.

Try this one -- You approach two talking doors. One door leads to the City of Truth, while the other door leads to the City of Liars. You do not know which door is which. You are able to ask only one question to determine which door is which. The door that leads to the City of Liars always speaks lies, while the door that leads to the City of Truth always speaks the truth. You want to go to the City of Truth. What question do you ask to determine which door leads to the City of Truth

Reply #191 from JoeUser Forums Top
Argh! Can't believe I skipped the 0's.

I know your next one too, but I'll give somebody else a crack at it first.

Here's one from Lewis Carroll:

A monument--men all agree--
Am I in all sincerity,
 half cat, half hindrance made.
If head and tail removed should be,
Then most of all you strengthen me;
Replace my head, the stand you see
 On which my tail is laid.
Reply #192 from JoeUser Forums Top
Citahellion -- the answer to above... Tablet??
Reply #193 from JoeUser Forums Top
You got it, Lengirl!

So I guess I want to guess a couple more for your older one ("a part of us, and then replaced")... air? oxygen? spit? a fart?

And since nobody's taken a whack at the City of Truth, let me see if I can walk through the construction of the question, with the further restriction that you can only ask YES/NO questions.

Obviously you can't just ask "Is this the door to the City of Truth?" If you ask the truthful door that, it'll say yes. If you ask the lying door that, it'll also say yes (since it lies). In fact, no matter what question you ask them about themselves (or each other) directly, both doors are going to answer the same thing. e.g. "Does the other door lie?" Truthful door truthfully says yes; lying door lies and also says yes. So you need a question about them that they will answer differently.
Now if you ask the truthful door about what the lying door will answer to a question, you know that the door will answer truthfully with the lying door's lie. Whereas if you ask the lying door about the truthful door's answer to a question, you know that the door will lie about the truthful door's truthful answer. So in either case you'll get a lie back. "Would the other door say that it tells the truth?", for example: the truthful door will say Yes, because it knows the lying door would claim to be the truthful door. The lying door, on the other hand, would say No, because it knows the truthful door would correctly claim to be truthful. So that question would identify which door told the truth; If you get a YES answer, you're speaking to the truthful door. And therefore you can open it to go to the City of Truth.

Now if the city planners were bastards and occasionally swapped the doors around, you'd still be SOL because you only know what door is which, not which road is which. In that case, you'd have to get slightly more devious. Fortunately the previous question is easily adapted: "If I asked the other door if its road led to the City of Truth, would it say YES?"

Let's walk through this:

  • If the truthful door leads to the city of truth and you ask it this question, then the lying door would claim to lead to the city, so the door will say YES.
  • If the lying door leads to the city of truth and you ask the truthful door this question, then the lying door would not claim to lead to the city, so the door will say NO.
  • If the truthful door leads to the city of truth and you ask the lying door this question, the lying door will lie about the truthful door's truthful Yes answer and say NO.
  • If the lying door leads to the city of truth and you ask it this question, it will lie about the truthful door's truthful No answer and say YES.

That may look pretty unhelpful, but what it comes down to is this: If the door you ask leads to the city of truth, it will answer YES to your question. If the other door leads to the city of truth, the door you asked will answer NO. Thus you can divine which door to take to get to the City of Truth.
Reply #194 from JoeUser Forums Top
Brilliant!!! I've heard it explained before but never quite so eloquently!!

You're pretty close, think more about what you also put into your body.... (clue:- You should have a prescribed amount every day.....)
Reply #195 from JoeUser Forums Top
Okay, I'm gonna go with:

Water.

And if you like logic puzzles such as the City of Truth one there, I should break out my Raymond Smullyan books and post a few real posers....
Reply #196 from JoeUser Forums Top

i have so lost control of this thread. i am so sorry. and so slack !. and soooo grateful.


i will do better this week, i promise.


mig XXX

Reply #197 from JoeUser Forums Top
Citahellion -- YOU GOT IT !!!!! Water it is...

I would be very interested in more logic puzzles... I love a good brain workout!!

try this:-
I give you a group of three.
One is sitting down and will never get up.
The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry.
The third goes away and never returns.

What are they?


Ciao
Reply #198 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't have an answer for your new one yet, Lengirl, but in looking at the City of Truth one, I realized that as long as the Truthful door leads to the City of truth, a perfectly serviceable question would be "Is my shirt red?" If the door gets the answer right, go through it.
Reply #199 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm taking a wild stab at your latest one here...

Is it a fire? (A pile of wood "sitting down" which will never get up; a flame that consumes everything; and a column of smoke)
Reply #200 from JoeUser Forums Top
Citahellion -- WELL DONE!! you are correct You could also substitute a stove as the pile of wood but YEAH !!!

Have you got anymore brain teasers? I could do with some mental aerobics...

Ciao