A Riddle

A man and the sheriff walk into the jail to indentify a prisoner. The man looks into the cell and looks at the prisoner. He then looks at the sheriff and says, "Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man's father is my father's son." What relationship are the two men? (the prinsoner and the man outside the jail cell talking to the sheriff)

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Originally Posted by RetiredJedi

A man and the sheriff walk into the jail to indentify a prisoner. The man looks into the cell and looks at the prisoner. He then looks at the sheriff and says, "Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man's father is my father's son." What relationship are the two men? (the prinsoner and the man outside the jail cell talking to the sheriff)

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His son?


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Originally Posted by Gomojoe

His son?


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You got it. Very nice.

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Originally Posted by RetiredJedi

He should have replied with "three" since the reply is the number of letters in the doorman's challenge number. TWELVE has six letters, SIX has three letters, and TEN is three letters.

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Winner!

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Originally Posted by RetiredJedi

You got it. Very nice.

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How?

this is probably none too clever given that the membership here is more likely than not very familiar with the source material, but I enjoy this kind of thread:

"this thing all things devours; birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
bites iron and gnaws steel, and grinds hard stone to meal;
slays kings and ruins towns, and beats high mountains down"

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Originally Posted by wwmjkd

this is probably none too clever given that the membership here is more likely than not very familiar with the source material, but I enjoy this kind of thread:

"this thing all things devours; birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
bites iron and gnaws steel, and grinds hard stone to meal;
slays kings and ruins towns, and beats high mountains down"

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Water?

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You're in a room with nothing in it except two robots. One robot always tells the truth, the other always lies. You don't know which is which. There are two doors leading out of the room. One leads to certain death, the other leads to freedom. You don't know which is which. You can ask either robot one question which will help you get out of the room. What is that question?

(Remember, you don't know which robot is which!)

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Originally Posted by MasonC2K

You're in a room with nothing in it except two robots. One robot always tells the truth, the other always lies. You don't know which is which. There are two doors leading out of the room. One leads to certain death, the other leads to freedom. You don't know which is which. You can ask either robot one question which will help you get out of the room. What is that question?

(Remember, you don't know which robot is which!)

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I think i figured this one out but i cant explain it well. You ask what the other robot will say but do the opposite?

ask one robot if it/ you are a robot. Ask the other which door

Scrap that just re read

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

I think i figured this one out but i cant explain it well. You ask what the other robot will say but do the opposite?

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Oh yeah. Cuz they will both say the wrong door.

I think you guys got the gist of it.

You ask either of the robots "What would the other robot say if I asked it which is the door to freedom?"

If you ask it this question, you will get the same answer from either robot. If you asked the liar robot this question, because the truth robot tells the truth, he would lie and tell you the wrong door. The truth robot will tell you what the liar robot would say, which is also the wrong door.

So if you asked either robot that question, they would both point to the door to certain death.

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Originally Posted by Solarsoldier001

How?

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Ok, I'll try to explain it but I do better face to face. Break down the whole thing like this:

Brothers and sisters I have none--- He is an only child
My fathers son---that is him especially since hes an only child as indicated above. So we use word association:

Brothers and sisters I have none (I am an only child) but this man's father (the prisoners dad) is my father's son (me).

Hope I explained that right.

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Originally Posted by jbean7916

Water?

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close, but no.

This one is silly and a play on words:

Your completely encased in a concrete room with no windows or doors. The only things in the room are a wooden chair and a mirror. How do you get out of the room?

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Originally Posted by wwmjkd

close, but no.

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wind?

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Originally Posted by RetiredJedi

This one is silly and a play on words:

Your completely encased in a concrete room with no windows or doors. The only things in the room are a wooden chair and a mirror. How do you get out of the room?

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Look in the mirror to see what you saw.
Take the saw and cut the table in half.
two halves make a "w"hole which you use to escape.

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Originally Posted by tonkatoyman

Look in the mirror to see what you saw.
Take the saw and cut the table in half.
two halves make a "w"hole which you use to escape.

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hahahaha...you got it except its a chair and not a table but I know what you meant...that's awesome :gj::gj:

the riddle is silly though.

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Originally Posted by RetiredJedi

This one is silly and a play on words:

Your completely encased in a concrete room with no windows or doors. The only things in the room are a wooden chair and a mirror. How do you get out of the room?

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To me this isnt a riddle because its pretty much made up crap lol. Ive heard it before though and still cant remember the silly solution lol

Lengthy but difficult and interesting...
A certain king in a certain country portioned out an amount of gold to his goldsmith who was instructed to make goblets. 100 total. The goldsmith portioned the gold equally to each of his ten apprentices with the instructions they were to make ten goblets each. Each goblet was to be identical in every respect including the amount of material used.
The plot: The king discovered one apprentice was shorting his goblets by one ounce of gold each, and pocketing the stolen gold himself. It so infuriated him that he set his goldsmith before him and gave him a set of scales with the instruction that he was to discover the culprit. However because the goldsmith had hired such a man, as punishment, he was only allowed to use the scale once. Get it wrong and he would loose his life. Get it right and he would be forgiven. I have told you all you need to know. How did the goldsmith discover the thief?

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

To me this isnt a riddle because its pretty much made up crap lol. Ive heard it before though and still cant remember the silly solution lol

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your right Mike it is made up crap...hahahahaha

Here's one I was actually asked in a job interview, because I couldn't get it right I will never forget the answer. :P

You are in a room with 3 light switches. In the room next to it there are three light bulbs. You can open the connecting door only once. How do you determine which light switch goes to which light bulb?

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Originally Posted by tonkatoyman

Lengthy but difficult and interesting...
A certain king in a certain country portioned out an amount of gold to his goldsmith who was instructed to make goblets. 100 total. The goldsmith portioned the gold equally to each of his ten apprentices with the instructions they were to make ten goblets each. Each goblet was to be identical in every respect including the amount of material used.
The plot: The king discovered one apprentice was shorting his goblets by one ounce of gold each, and pocketing the stolen gold himself. It so infuriated him that he set his goldsmith before him and gave him a set of scales with the instruction that he was to discover the culprit. However because the goldsmith had hired such a man, as punishment, he was only allowed to use the scale once. Get it wrong and he would loose his life. Get it right and he would be forgiven. I have told you all you need to know. How did the goldsmith discover the thief?

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Take a goblet from the first and then increase by one for each additional apprentice. Making 55 goblets on the scale. Since each should weigh a certain amount (say 10 ounces since it was not specified) the number of ounces below 550 will give you the culprit. It you have 549 ounces on the scale then the first one is the thief and so on.

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Originally Posted by Kinra

Here's one I was actually asked in a job interview, because I couldn't get it right I will never forget the answer. :P

You are in a room with 3 light switches. In the room next to it there are three light bulbs. You can open the connecting door only once. How do you determine which light switch goes to which light bulb?

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You open the door and leave it open or hold it open. And look at which lights go on when you flip each switch

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

You open the door and leave it open or hold it open. And look at which lights go on when you flip each switch

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Sounds good to me, but I bet the switches aren't near the door.

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Originally Posted by wwmjkd

this is probably none too clever given that the membership here is more likely than not very familiar with the source material, but I enjoy this kind of thread:

"this thing all things devours; birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
bites iron and gnaws steel, and grinds hard stone to meal;
slays kings and ruins towns, and beats high mountains down"

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Originally Posted by RetiredJedi

wind?

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also in the neighborhood, but no.

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Originally Posted by wwmjkd

also in the neighborhood, but no.

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death

Time is the answer

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Originally Posted by DrDooLittle

Sounds good to me, but I bet the switches aren't near the door.

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Well if that isnt the answer then you turn on 1 light but dont use the door. Then turn it off. Then turn on a 2nd light and go into the room. The light that is warm was the 1st one and the 2nd one is on and the third one is cold. I dont think thats the answer though bc that wouldnt work if you cant reach the lights or if theyre fluorescent which dont make alot of heat. I think my 1st one was right... Just leave the door open.

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Originally Posted by Rylmad

Time is the answer

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glad to see someone else read Tolkien too much as a kid

as long as I'm ripping off pop culture, here's a second:

you have two empty plastic water jugs, the kind used for water dispensers, one of which holds five gallons, the other holds three. assuming you have an unlimited supply of water on hand, how can you get exactly four gallons of water to fit inside the five-gallon jug?

(granted this is a mathematics problem via George Polya, but most people know the movie reference).

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Originally Posted by wwmjkd

glad to see someone else read Tolkien too much as a kid

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I KNEW i recognized that from somewhere! It was one of smeagols riddles to Bilbo in the cave right? From the Hobbit? I was gunna google it but i love riddles and wouldnt wanna cheat on one.

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Originally Posted by wwmjkd

as long as I'm ripping off pop culture, here's a second:

you have two empty plastic water jugs, the kind used for water dispensers, one of which holds five gallons, the other holds three. assuming you have an unlimited supply of water on hand, how can you get exactly four gallons of water to fit inside the five-gallon jug?

(granted this is a mathematics problem via George Polya, but most people know the movie reference).

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Pour 3 gallons into the empty 5 gallon jug. Do this again but only 2 gallons will fit. Now empty the 5 gallon and put the leftover 1 gallon in it. Then refill the 3 gallon again and pour all of it into the 5 gallon jug. Leaving you with 4 gallons in the 5 gallon jug. I love playing Simon Says! lol

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Originally Posted by wwmjkd

as long as I'm ripping off pop culture, here's a second:

you have two empty plastic water jugs, the kind used for water dispensers, one of which holds five gallons, the other holds three. assuming you have an unlimited supply of water on hand, how can you get exactly four gallons of water to fit inside the five-gallon jug?

(granted this is a mathematics problem via George Polya, but most people know the movie reference).

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Fill the 5g and pour into the 3g then dump the 3g. Pour the 2g remaining in the 5g into the 3g, then fill the 5g and fill the remainder of the 3g. What is left in the 5g is 4g.


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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Well if that isnt the answer then you turn on 1 light but dont use the door. Then turn it off. Then turn on a 2nd light and go into the room. The light that is warm was the 1st one and the 2nd one is on and the third one is cold. I dont think thats the answer though bc that wouldnt work if you cant reach the lights or if theyre fluorescent which dont make alot of heat. I think my 1st one was right... Just leave the door open.

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Nope, that's the answer. I do like leaving the door open though. :P

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Originally Posted by Rylmad

Take a goblet from the first and then increase by one for each additional apprentice. Making 55 goblets on the scale. Since each should weigh a certain amount (say 10 ounces since it was not specified) the number of ounces below 550 will give you the culprit. It you have 549 ounces on the scale then the first one is the thief and so on.

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Excellent deduction sir.

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Originally Posted by Rylmad

Take a goblet from the first and then increase by one for each additional apprentice. Making 55 goblets on the scale. Since each should weigh a certain amount (say 10 ounces since it was not specified) the number of ounces below 550 will give you the culprit. It you have 549 ounces on the scale then the first one is the thief and so on.

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I thought you were only allowed to use the scale once? How does this work? Do you mean you take one goblet from each apprentice and place it on the scale one at a time and watch as the ounces raise by 100. Then when you find the one goblet that only raises 90 ounces you know who the culprit is? I hate riddles I don't know why I bother trying to understand -_-

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Originally Posted by RetiredJedi

Ok, I'll try to explain it but I do better face to face. Break down the whole thing like this:

Brothers and sisters I have none--- He is an only child
My fathers son---that is him especially since hes an only child as indicated above. So we use word association:

Brothers and sisters I have none (I am an only child) but this man's father (the prisoners dad) is my father's son (me).

Hope I explained that right.

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I see. I thought so. I just thought it was weird how he responded to the guard.

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Pour 3 gallons into the empty 5 gallon jug. Do this again but only 2 gallons will fit. Now empty the 5 gallon and put the leftover 1 gallon in it. Then refill the 3 gallon again and pour all of it into the 5 gallon jug. Leaving you with 4 gallons in the 5 gallon jug. I love playing Simon Says! lol

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Originally Posted by Gomojoe

Fill the 5g and pour into the 3g then dump the 3g. Pour the 2g remaining in the 5g into the 3g, then fill the 5g and fill the remainder of the 3g. What is left in the 5g is 4g.


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you're both close, and granted I could be missing another solution, but since you both have avatars that I wholeheartedly approve of, I'll go ahead and give it to you.

This is a psychological test riddle that I had to answer in order to get a job working security at a national laboratory. We were told there is technically only one correct answer but if you get it right, you have psychopathic/serial killer tendencies and those people would not be hired. Luckily I didn't get it right!

~While attending her own mothers funeral, a woman met a man she had never seen before. She thought he was amazing in every way and they hit it off immediately but they never got each others phone numbers and the woman couldn't find him afterwards..

Not long after that she killed her own sister..

What was her motive?






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She wanted to meet him again and thought she could meet him at another funeral plus she obviously really needed his number .
( I wonder if I'll get strange looks if I get that right lol)

Haha, I just thought that too, she wanted to see him again.

Lol I'm going to give it a little time to see what others come up with. ;)


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Originally Posted by kyote19

She wanted to meet him again and thought she could meet him at another funeral plus she obviously really needed his number .
( I wonder if I'll get strange looks if I get that right lol)

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My first thought was the similar. She had to create another funeral within her family to see him again...
Idk why the strange man would show up at the mother and daughters funeral though?

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Originally Posted by Solarsoldier001

I see. I thought so. I just thought it was weird how he responded to the guard.

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Yea just a play on words.

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Originally Posted by Foschi Exotic Serpents

This is a psychological test riddle that I had to answer in order to get a job working security at a national laboratory. We were told there is technically only one correct answer but if you get it right, you have psychopathic/serial killer tendencies and those people would not be hired. Luckily I didn't get it right!

~While attending her own mothers funeral, a woman met a man she had never seen before. She thought he was amazing in every way and they hit it off immediately but they never got each others phone numbers and the woman couldn't find him afterwards..

Not long after that she killed her own sister..

What was her motive?

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She just freaking hated her sister. LOL.

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Originally Posted by Solarsoldier001

I thought you were only allowed to use the scale once? How does this work? Do you mean you take one goblet from each apprentice and place it on the scale one at a time and watch as the ounces raise by 100. Then when you find the one goblet that only raises 90 ounces you know who the culprit is? I hate riddles I don't know why I bother trying to understand -_-

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Each goblet made by the apprentice who is stealing is one ounce off and there are ten apprentices. So if you pick one goblet from the first, two from the second, etc... until you get to number ten where you select all ten of his. Then place the 55 selected goblets on the scale at one time. You know how much they all should weigh. By picking a different number from each apprentice the amount of gold that is missing will determine who is the thief. If one ounce it is number one, two ounces for number two etc...:D Hope this helps

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Originally Posted by tonkatoyman

Each goblet made by the apprentice who is stealing is one ounce off and there are ten apprentices. So if you pick one goblet from the first, two from the second, etc... until you get to number ten where you select all ten of his. Then place the 55 selected goblets on the scale at one time. You know how much they all should weigh. By picking a different number from each apprentice the amount of gold that is missing will determine who is the thief. If one ounce it is number one, two ounces for number two etc...:D Hope this helps

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That helps! My brain was aching trying to figure out how that worked!

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Originally Posted by Foschi Exotic Serpents

Lol I'm going to give it a little time to see what others come up with. ;)


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The suspense is killing me....