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#1
Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?
Final score:
21points
Ti May 4 years ago
If you cut it in half length ways couldn't one half become a 3
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#2
Here is a really bad one I made up: Sarah bought a dog to calm her anxiety. She killed it. She was happy. What was the dog’s name? Comment your answer.
Final score:
12points
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Um hi I was wondering how to report prem pimpale
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#3
A man lives on the 25 floor of an apartment. He can take the elevator all the way up to his apartment on rainy days or if there is someone else in the elevator. On sunny days he goes up on the elevator 10 floors and then takes the stairs the rest of the way up. Explain.
Final score:
12points
Zak Rasten 4 years ago
He's too short to reach higher than button 10, but if someone else is in the elevator he can ask them to press the button for 25 for him and on rainy days he can reach it with his umbrella
denzoren (Submission author) 4 years ago
A friend asked me this riddle years ago but the wording was from online...wanted to get it right.
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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago (edited)
He is short like me (don't downvote me I is actually very short like 4"11
denzoren (Submission author) 4 years ago
Bingo was his name-o! Well actually I don't know his name but you're correct!
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1). What word starts with E, ends with E, but only has one letter in it? 2). How can you drop an egg from the top of a 10 foot ladder onto concrete without it breaking? 3). What can you keep after giving it to someone?
Final score:
9points
Unnamed Hooman (Submission author) 4 years ago
Close! The answers may vary, but I was thinking broken heart
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Gene Hilgers 4 years ago
1) EYE 2) IF CONCRETE IS DRY & IN A TUB, BY LEANING LADDER & HOLDING ONTO EGG UNTIL IT COMES ABOUT 1 FOOT AWAY FROM CONCRETE, THEN DROPPING THE EGG. 3) YOR WORD!
Maria Schneider 4 years ago
Yeah, question asks about the concrete - which will not break!
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AhhhhHHHHHHHHHH 4 years ago
1)Envelope 2) put it in a pyramid of straws, and make each end longer, the straws at the edge will break on impact, b they’ll take the impact 3) a disease
BAN CAPITAL LETTERS 4 years ago
2) any way you want, the egg won't break the concrete
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#5
What was the first man-made object that broke the speed of sound?
Final score:
7points
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
A whip. The cracking sound a whip makes is a mini sonic boom and NOT the leather hitting off itself .
Steve Barnett (Submission author) 4 years ago
Thank you for your comment Aroace tiger (any pronouns), but silence isn't a man-made object.
Load More Replies... Steve Barnett (Submission author) 4 years ago
Be careful Paul, it's not always a fart ;O)
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Henrik Eriksson 4 years ago
Manhole cover is the first manmade object that possible reached space. From nuclear testing in the mojave desert or other us desert in Manhattan project.
Scagsy 4 years ago
I like your thinking Henrik. Why not? It's possible, I guess, but I'm no expert.
Load More Replies... Steve Barnett (Submission author) 4 years ago (edited)
Hi all. Yes, it's a whip! But I'm curious why two answers are manhole covers?
Crazy Meerkat Lady 4 years ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-object-robert-brownlee-2016-2?IR=T#by-the-1950s-the-us-government-and-the-public-were-concerned-with-the-radiation-that-nuclear-bombs-could-release-into-the-atmosphere-2
Load More Replies... cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
A simple rope? (I did a lot of kung fu whipchain, mostly because the sound is amazing, like hypnotizing)
#6
3 people go out on the town. Come night they decide to split the cost of a hotel room. The hotel room costs $30 to which they each kick in $10 ($10x3=$30). After they go to their room, the manager feels generous and decides to refund them $5. He rings the bellboy, hands him 5 $1 bills and asks him to take it up to them. On the way upstairs, the bellboy decides to pocket $2. He gives each of the people $1 back. They each have now paid $9 ($9x3 =$27) plus the $2 the bellboy kept is $29. What happened to the other dollar?
Final score:
6points
F-Dup 4 years ago
There is no other dollar! This is a good one though - it tricks you into thinking the initial $30 sum is still relevant, which it isn’t. The relevant figure is the $25 dollars which the room now costs. The three friends paid $27 between them - $25 to the hotel and $2 unknowingly to the bellboy. It all stacks up when you look at it that way.
littlesaresare 4 years ago
I remember hearing this as a little kid (but with pizzas, not hotel rooms) and telling it to my math teacher to 'prove' that maths could be wrong. Nothing she explained could penetrate my little head and convince me otherwise. :P (In hindsight I actually had discalculia so maths never made sense, but y'know, kids still be dumb sometimes.)
#7
You have been asked to take 3 gold balls from one village, to another which sits on the other side of a ravine. You approach the bridge and see a sign that tells you that the maximum weight of the bridge is 140kg. You weigh 130kg, the 3 gold balls each weigh 5kg. The ravine is too wide to throw them across and you cannot leave any behind as they will be stolen . How do you make the journey in a single crossing?
Final score:
5points
Taco Da Guinea Pig 4 years ago
Juggle them? Wait, no. That would still be more than 14okg. Uh... cut each one in half and then juggle them? No. That would still be more. And like how. Idk I’m so confused.
Donkey boi (Submission author) 4 years ago
Yes, Juggle! One ball is always in the air so you're hitting the max weight but not exceeding it!
Load More Replies... Bear Hall 4 years ago
Join the Weight Watchers first and attempt it later. If you weight 130 kg under 6 feet (183 cm) you're obese. Over that and you're "only" seriously overweight. You would have a heart attack before you reach the next village.
Unnamed Hooman 4 years ago
Gosh I’m so sorry I was about to unleash my inner trigger on you about how it isn’t that much weight, when I realized it was KG, not LBS! Triple sorry for almost having a full on rage on you!
Load More Replies... AhhhhHHHHHHHHHH 4 years ago
Cut your legs off and crawl to the other side. All seriousness, roll the balls across the bridge, take a note from the bowling handbook,
Les Izmore 4 years ago
Ratings have a safety margin. Walk across the bridge carrying the 3 balls
#8
In a year, there are 12 months. Seven months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days? Comment your answers :D
Final score:
4points
#9
1) 32 white horses upon a red hill. First they stomp, then they chomp and they they stand still. What are they? 2) If you have a bee in your hand, what do you have in your eye? 3) While I was travelling to St. Ives I met a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks, each sack had 7 cats, each cat had 7 kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks, wives how many were going to St. Ives? 4) A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?
Final score:
4points
cheers, cassidy 4 years ago
1) teeth 2) beauty (beauty is in the eye of the BEE-holder. hehe puns) 3) only him 4) grandson
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
1) teeth 2) tears 3) (I actually have no idea) 4) his grandson
Roadkill The Brave (Submission author) 4 years ago (edited)
1 out of 3. First one is correct. 3) is him the answers in the first line.
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Roadkill The Brave (Submission author) 4 years ago
It's in Die Hard but it's been around for awhile.
Load More Replies... Kika González 4 years ago
It's himself, not his son. My father's son is me BECAUSE I have no siblings. Sons father is me who is also my father's son
Niall Mac Iomera 4 years ago
The St Ives one is just stupid. "Met" has never meant going the opposite direction
#10
If a rooster lays an egg on the tippy top of a roof, which way does it roll off, the left or the right ?
Final score:
4points
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
If a rooster lays an egg I'm taking it to area 51. Roosters dont lay eggs 😀
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
The fact that there is an impossible antecedent doesn't invalidate an answer. (Who said the rooster laid its own egg?)
littlesaresare 4 years ago
Your answer is a good example of English semantics. Everyone knows the 'proper' punchline to this, but you are right - 'lay an egg' could mean both to lay it down, and to produce it.
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Angeline Shalyn (Submission author) 4 years ago
Lol yep! Everyone is too smart haha my dad told me this one when I was like 5, so I was like why not
#11
Red houses are made of red bricks. Blue houses are made of blue bricks. What are green houses made of?
Final score:
4points
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
* Greenhouses. Or at the very least, green-houses. If there's a space, it's a house that is green.
Zak Rasten 4 years ago
Greenhouses are made of glass, a green house could be built of green bricks or just painted
#12
What is 4-1?
Final score:
3points
Aroace tiger (any pronouns) 4 years ago
I'm not going to overthink this so I'm going to guess 3
WolfyDragon_82 (Submission author) 4 years ago
I missed this comment…tail_bite,you are a genius!4 corners,you cut off one,it becomes 5.
Load More Replies... Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
An easy subtraction problem? A low-scoring baseball game? A high-scoring soccer game? The odds the answer will be annoying?
Tina Smith 4 years ago
4 - 1 = 5 if you write it as IV - I = V and think of it as IV (Roman numeral 4) minus I (English letter I) then you get V or 5
WolfyDragon_82 (Submission author) 4 years ago
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Load More Replies... #13
20 men went to visit a castle. Before they arrived there was no-one else at the castle, and during their visit no-one else arrived. During their visit there was a murder at the castle. At the end of their visit all 20 men went home alive. How is this possible?
Final score:
3points
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
But there was 20 not 21, is this really the time?
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#14
You are trapped in a building with no escape but three doors. To get to one door you have to walk through a raging fire reaching 400°F (204.444°C). To get to the other, you have to go through a freezing cold chamber reaching -400°F (-240°C). To get to the last door, you have to escape a deadly serial killer who murdered 10 people in 1897. Which door do you choose?
Final score:
3points
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
The serial killer. Theres no way he survived! He was from 1897
#15
Was comes twice every moment, once every minute but never in a thousand years? This one is better if not written but told. ^^;
Final score:
3points
Jill Tremblay 4 years ago
oops got messed up from the first word typo. I literally read this like 5 times before realizing.
#16
You are a farmer. You need to bring a fox, a chicken, and a sack of grain across a river. You have a rowboat, but can only bring across you and one other thing. If the grain and chicken are left alone, the chicken will eat the grain. If the fox and the chicken are left alone, the fox will eat the chicken. How do you you get all three across?
Final score:
2points
Bethany Francis 4 years ago
Take the chicken first, go back and get the grain, take the chicken back with you, then take the fox across, then go back and get the chicken leaving the fox and grain behind.
Charlie B 4 years ago
Take the chicken over, then take the Fox, but bring the chicken back with you, leave the chicken and take the grain, then go back and get the chicken
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix (Submission author) 4 years ago
You need everything across the river
Load More Replies... Bear Hall 4 years ago
First it would cross my mind why would the chicken cross the river? And anyways I'm a farmer and not Animal Rescue , what will I do with a fox?
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix (Submission author) 4 years ago (edited)
It's just part of the riddle I found it online. My apologies
Load More Replies... Zak Rasten 4 years ago
Take across the grain and fox, leave the grain, take the fox back with you then bring the fox and chicken over
Sheila Stamey 4 years ago
Personally, I'd have a chicken and grain dinner, in my nice fox coat. 😂
Sky Render 4 years ago
Take the chicken across. Go back. Take the grain across. Leave the fox. Why do you have a fox?
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix (Submission author) 4 years ago
I have to get everything across
Load More Replies... #17
My first is foremost legally. My second circles outwardly. My third leads all in victory. My fourth twice ends a nominee. My whole is this riddle's key.
Final score:
2points
Sky Render (Submission author) 4 years ago
Correct! Bonus points to anyone who knows where this riddle came from.
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#18
What does the "ONION" in "Our Name Is ONION Now" mean?
Final score:
2points
littlesaresare 4 years ago
Our name is onion now. Our name is our name is onion now now. Our name is our name is our name is onion now now now. Our name is our name is our name is our name is onion now now now. Our name is our name is our name is our name is our name is onion now now now now. Ad infinitim...
BAN CAPITAL LETTERS 4 years ago
O.N.I.O.N. = Our Name Is Onion Now acronym? I don't know I'm just guessing
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1) A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. Why? 2) You are in a room that has three switches and a closed door. The switches control three light bulbs on the other side of the door. Once you open the door, you may never touch the switches again. How can you definitively tell which switch is connected to each of the light bulbs? 3) Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Michael J. Fox has a short one. Madonna does not use hers. Bill Clinton always uses his. The Pope never uses his. What is it? 4) What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? 5) The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?
Final score:
2points
BAN CAPITAL LETTERS 4 years ago
1) Monopoly 2) turn two switches on for a long time, then turn one of them off. When you in the lightbulb room one lightbulb will be one, one will be off and warm, and one will be off and cold 4) "short" 5) coffin
Load More Replies... Jill Tremblay 4 years ago
2) so it doesn't say that once you open the door you can't close it again. So I'm thinking, turn on a switch, open the door and look inside, close the door, try another switch and open the door again to see which one that is ???
Zak Rasten 4 years ago
1 playing monopoly 2 the door is made of glass so try all the switches 3 surname 4 short
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago (edited)
5 is a coffin 1) monopoly 2) Turn one on for a long time them turn them off open the door and touch them, one will be warm and the other cold. 3) last names 4) short Edited bc I added the other 4 answers as I figured them out
maryhadalittlelamb 4 years ago
2 - turn on the switches in sequence, leaving some duration in between. eg. turn on A, 10 min later turn on B. Open door and touch the hottest is A, the one that is off is C. The remaining one is B.
#20
Which is the most musical animal?
Final score:
2points
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago (edited)
Why tf was this downvoted? This one I've heard and is a wonderful little joke :3
#21
Two fathers and two sons go fishing. They all catch one fish each. When they get home they present their catches - three fish. How come?
Final score:
2points
Jean François Pernot 4 years ago
1 grand father + 1 father + 1 son = two fathers and two sons.
littlesaresare 4 years ago
Does that really work, though, since all the men are technically sons, even if not the son of someone who is there. So three men will always be three sons. So the joke should be two fathers and three sons, no?
Load More Replies... RandomX123 4 years ago
"Grandfather, father and son" is the answer that comes to mind first. However, what if there are 4 people and one of them threw the fish back or ate it or something? It doesn't say that "they ALL present their catches"
F-Dup (Submission author) 4 years ago
Good point. Maybe it would be better to simply say ‘ they each caught one fish and had three in total - how come?’
Load More Replies... F-Dup (Submission author) 4 years ago
Interesting fish transportation technique but no
Load More Replies... #22
4+11=3 6+2=8 9+9=6 3+7=10 What is 5+8?
Final score:
2points
Nubis Knight 4 years ago
Damn, no wonder I didn't find it cause we're counting not am/pm but up to 24 hours. @_@
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Jan Feline (Submission author) 4 years ago
F-Dup got it. He also gave a good clue :)
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Load More Replies... Maria Schneider 4 years ago
Please write me the solution! I can see that the first addition acutally is the result of 1) and 4). Same for 3) and 4)... AND NOW??
#23
A man walks into a bar, he asks for a glass of water and only that. The bartender takes out a rifle and shoots the ceiling. The man thanks the bartender and goes out the door. Why?
Final score:
2points
Dave van Es 4 years ago
The bartender saw that the man had a bad case of the hiccups. The shock of the barman firing a shotgun cured the hiccups
#24
What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes, and yet never grows?
Final score:
1point
Taco Da Guinea Pig 4 years ago
If it’s mountains, that’s technically off a bit because mountains actually do grow. Mt. Everest grows 2 centimeters per year. Which is cool.
littlesaresare 4 years ago
They are not grown but can grow in size. English semantics for you.
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A man has to take a fox , a hen and a bag of corn across a wide river. He has to get all three across safely or he won't get paid by the merchant who is buying them . His boat is small and he can only take one at a time. He knows if the leaves the fox and hen alone the fox will eat the hen and if he leaves the hen alone with the corn the hen will eat the corn. How will he get all three over to the other side with out one of them being eaten? He figures it out and gets all three over without incident. How does he do it?
Final score:
1point
IlovemydogShilo (Submission author) 4 years ago
My Apologies to Chloe *Leah* Pheonix I went down to the need to type this and didn't realise you had written this first. Mia culpa.😞
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
No it's ok you explained it better :) the best riddles are said more than once! 😄
Load More Replies... Paul Bucknall 4 years ago
Again… shoot the chicken and the fox and take one at a time. This time… have a barbecue at the other side of the river with some sort of grain based drink and bask in the majesty of your greatness.
Sandra Keith 4 years ago
Take the chicken across; go back and take fox across. Bring chicken back. Take grain across . Finally take chicken
Zak Rasten 4 years ago
Take hen and grain across, leave grain, go back across with the hen and get the fox,
#26
I have another! There is a little boy trapped in a room with 3 doors. (I read my feedback on my other one and I swear to God do not ask "why is the little boy here?" He is here because riddle so dont even try. Also, the answer is not "go back the way he came". Stop it.) there is also a skylight. It is very hot outside. One has a magnifying glass tunnel leading to a trap door to the outside. One has a Lion who is waiting on the other side of the door for him. Another holds back gas that will kill him. Theres no hazmat suits or gas masks. He already tried, theres no way out through the skylight. How does he get out?
Final score:
1point
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix (Submission author) 4 years ago
Ding ding ding ding!
Load More Replies... Dave van Es 4 years ago
Isn't this the one where the lion is supposed to be starving for 3 months?
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix (Submission author) 4 years ago
Nope. The lion is very much alive.
Load More Replies... Chloe *Leah* Pheonix (Submission author) 4 years ago
I have no idea where you got that from but no
Load More Replies... #27
What makes this number unique: 8,549,176,320?
Final score:
1point
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
My guess is that the OP intends the answer to be that each numeral occurs once and only once, but then there are 10!-1 other numbers for which this is also true, so it's at all unique.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
Each digit is only used once, but that's not really unique.
#28
Why is the number 42 vitally important to us?
Final score:
1point
Zak Rasten (Submission author) 4 years ago
It's the value of the nuclear decoupling constant, if it were not exactly 42 to many decimal places nuclear fusion would not happen, there would be no elements heavier than helium and therefore no life
Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago
... and THAT'S why it is the answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Load More Replies... Paul Bucknall 4 years ago
The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. That’s why.
#29
Two legs sits upon three legs, with one leg in his lap. In comes four legs, goes up to two legs, steals one leg, and runs off with one leg. Up jumps two legs, snatches up three legs, throws it after four legs, and makes him bring back one leg. What are each of the “legs” referred to in the riddle?
Final score:
1point
Jane Alexander 4 years ago
A man sits on a three-legged stool with a drumstick to eat, a dog grabs it, the man up and throws the stool at the dog and gets his food back.
Violet Olivia 4 years ago
So I was with you on the stool, man, and dog. I just imagined the one leg bit wrong.
#30
What is it that breaks, every time you say anything?
Final score:
1point
#31
But I always lie
Final score:
1point
AhhhhHHHHHHHHHH 4 years ago
OH NO NO NO IM NOT FALLING FOR THIS ONE AGAIN THAT NOSE BLEED WAS HELL AND MINNESOTA
#32
A man lies at the bottom of a building. The Detective in charge has to determine if the man jumped or was pushed. He throws a coin out of every window above the man and then he has his answer. How?
Final score:
1point
#33
I am everywhere but you can’t see me what am I
Final score:
1point
#34
I have legs, but I cant move, what am i?
Final score:
1point
#35
How often can you subtract 1 from 20?
Final score:
0points
Nubis Knight (Submission author) 4 years ago
No, after you subtract 1 from 20 you got 19. So you can't subtract 1 more than once from 20.
Load More Replies... #36
One door leads to safety, one door leads to a horrible death. You may ask me one question. B
Final score:
-1point
Desiree McKinnon (Submission author) 4 years ago
Read the last sentence in #35. The app wouldn't let me post the whole thing in one go. Then try again
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Anonymous Person 4 years ago
Sorry let me make that a question: Would you please go in one of the doors?
Load More Replies... Tina Smith 4 years ago
Which door would you go through? Then go through whichever one you don't point to as you always lie.
Desiree McKinnon (Submission author) 4 years ago
You are on the right track but on the wrong train
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you are on the top of a 200-foot cliff you have 150 feet of rope that you can cut however you want there is a ledge halfway down that you can tie on to. how do you get down?
Final score:
-1point
Zak Rasten 4 years ago
Go back and find a safe path down nearby, or jump if survival doesn't matter
Scotland's-Favorite-Gay (Submission author) 4 years ago
haha not quite its solution is mathematical
Load More Replies... Tina Smith 4 years ago
Cut the rope in lengths of 50 feet and 100 feet. Tie off the 50 foot rope at the top with a loop at the bottom. Thread the 100 foot length through the loop and climb down to the ledge. Pull loose the 100 foot rope, tie it off to the ledge and climb down.
THE GREAT PAPYRUS 4 years ago
Rope up to but when at half ledge yank down rope. Tie rope to ledge again and continue going down.
#38
8
Final score:
-3points
What do you think ?
Steve Barnett 4 years ago (edited)
Thought experiments are my favourite. My cat agrees, kinda. Yours, Schrödinger.
Nikki Reynolds 4 years ago
What is greater than God, more evil than Satan, the rich need it, the poor have it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
Steve Barnett 4 years ago (edited)
Thought experiments are my favourite. My cat agrees, kinda. Yours, Schrödinger.
Nikki Reynolds 4 years ago
What is greater than God, more evil than Satan, the rich need it, the poor have it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
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