RIDDLE GAME!!!

DoctorJay · Post by **DoctorJay** » 03 Feb 2005 01:52

the last riddle should not count! --- it was no riddle who fits in this competition.

of course it is ok if anybody will earn their points but a riddle should be need a permission by you Brad.

to make a good riddle should be worth many points - that is very important

nice thread btw

P.S.: i started the same thread at a German board - let's see what riddles they will set.

The next riddle will be mine

Iain · Post by **Iain** » 03 Feb 2005 12:36

if they have to send the riddles to brad for review, then brad can't play.

brian relly · Post by **brian relly** » 03 Feb 2005 14:07

Sorry, I was in school. Yes, Cameron was right.

junkyardjew · Post by **junkyardjew** » 03 Feb 2005 14:07

Yeah, that's not a good rule... Just try and find good riddles. I'm sure the internet has MANY.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 03 Feb 2005 14:28

It's 2005, and your leader has gotten you into a war your country cannot afford to fight. Amour is being scraped from junked vehicles and carcasses left on the battle field.
Bomber planes are returning from the sorties damaged from anti-aircraft fire.
So the airforce has you investigating the best way to insure the safe return of the pilots and you find they have only have enough scrap metal to reinforce one section of the planes.
The decision has to be made was where to place the armour, they could add extra armour to one of the following sections of the plane without adding too much weight, and staying on a shoe string budget while billions of dollars are diverted to the private sector.

The sections of the plane that make the most sense to the engineers to reinforce were determined to be the wingtips, inner section of wings ,fuel tank, and the tail and nose

So a detailed investigation of the planes that returned from bombing missions was completed.
They found that half of them had damage to the inner section of the wings but none a
great deal of damage to the wingtips. About 30% of the planes they studied had
damage to the tail and nose, and 20% damage to the fuel tank area.

Where would you put the extra armour?

HG · Post by HG » 03 Feb 2005 14:50

I would put it on the american soldiers.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 03 Feb 2005 15:00

While that is one valid answer, the army has conducted an analysis of the situation and has determined the population is willing to reproduce for free. This brings the value of a soldier down to around $0.17, while the aircraft has a cost of several million dollars each.

Nice thinking, but your job was to protect the planes, not the pilot.

HG · Post by HG » 03 Feb 2005 15:02

so is it right or not?

junkyardjew · Post by **junkyardjew** » 03 Feb 2005 15:05

ooh ooh! You armor all the parts that don't have any damage, because you know that the planes will still fly with the damaged parts damaged, but you never know what will knock the plane out of the sky...

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 03 Feb 2005 15:20

Jared is right.

junkyardjew · Post by **junkyardjew** » 03 Feb 2005 15:30

Okay, here's one of my favourite riddles:

John gave his brother James a box:
About it there were many locks.

James woke and said it gave him pain;
So gave it back to John again.

The box was not with lid supplied,
Yet caused two lids to open wide:

And all these lock had never a key--
What kind of box, then, could it be?

brian relly · Post by **brian relly** » 03 Feb 2005 15:41

A box on the head!

Splint · Post by **Splint** » 03 Feb 2005 15:43

John boxed James' ears.
"Locks" of hair and "eye" lids

crazydwarf · Post by **crazydwarf** » 03 Feb 2005 15:45

Not a guess here, but I looked up the question on google after I couldn't figure it out, don't worry I wasn't planning on submitting it or anything... that's probably not allowed, but I was just wondering if we just plan on people staying honest, or if we're supposed to invent new riddles?

junkyardjew · Post by **junkyardjew** » 03 Feb 2005 16:23

Aw Splint, Stephen beat you by two minutes!!

And crazydwarf: inventing riddles is HARD. Mine was written by Lewis Carroll (so i'm actually surprised you couldn't find it on the net... I know it's out there...) So I'm not sure that's really a viable option...

Oh, and here's Carroll's answer:

As curly-headed Jemmy was sleeping in bed,
His brother John gave him a blow to the head;
James opened his eyelids, and spying his brother,
Doubled his fist, and gave him another.
This kind of box then is not so rare;
The lids are the eyelids, the locks are the hair,
And so every schoolboy can tell to his cost,
The key to the tangles is constantly lost.

brian relly · Post by **brian relly** » 03 Feb 2005 16:47

A man is found lying face down dead in the middle of the desert, naked. Directly to his east, in 100 yard increments are a large pile of clothes, then a pile of backpacks, then a pile of camping equipment. A hundred yards to the west of him is the huge flat face of a mountain (well, cliff).

What happened?

HG · Post by HG » 03 Feb 2005 16:51

they were in a hot air balloon, throwing things off to lessen the weight of it to avoid the mountain. They were so heavy they would hit the mountain face.
all the stuff they threw wasnt enough so they decided he would jump off.

I WIN

brian relly · Post by **brian relly** » 03 Feb 2005 17:13

HG · Post by HG » 03 Feb 2005 17:13

A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose; a hundred eyes and never a nose! What is it?

haha youll never get this.

brian relly · Post by **brian relly** » 03 Feb 2005 17:20

I do, but I won't say. I've been dominating too much.

edit: The answer isn't rice.