The Riddle Game. (Test Your Wits)

[Raven]

3 Men Go Into A Motel. The Man Behind The Desk Said The Room Is $30, So Each Man Paid $10 And Went To The Room.

A While Later The Man Behind The Desk Realized The Room Was Only $25, So He Sent
The Bellboy To The 3 Guys' Room With $5.

On The Way, The Bellboy Couldn't Figure Out How To Split $5 Evenly Between 3 Men, So He Gave Each Man A $1 And Kept The Other $2 For Himself.

This Meant That The 3 Men Each Paid $9 For The Room, Which Is A Total Of $27, Add The $2 That The Bellboy Kept = $29.

Where Is The Other Dollar?

[Bluemouth]

I love a good riddle.

Here's my guess:

The men only had to pay a total of $25, but they paid $27. The extra $2 went to the bellboy so therefore there never was a $1.

Post some more I love to think.

Was I right though?

[Bluemouth]

Ok. I'll post one. This isn't too hard. No cheating anyone!

This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!

Just what is so unusual?

[Onoria Westhrop]

Dollars have.
1) Men 30, desk 0, bellboy 0.
2) Men 0, desk 30, bell 0.
3) Men 3, desk 25, bell 2.
Dollars paid.
1) Men, 27.
2) desk, 5,
3) bell -2
Still 30.

You added the bellboy's money when you should have minused it from the total. Duh!

Here's a good one I read in "The curious inicident of the dog in the night." stop if you know it already.

A man is on a quiz show. There are 3 doors. Behind 2 of the doors is a goat, behind 1 door a car. He choses a door. The host stops him, and reveals that behind one of the other doors ( a door he didn't chose) there is a goat.
The host asks - do you want to stick or change doors?

In terms of the probability of selecting the right answer, as a purely mathematical proposition, what she he do?

[Onoria Westhrop]

No 'e' despite the fact that Sherlock Holmes informs us that 'e' is the most common letter in the English alphabet. I found it hard - had to paste it into word to really see it - kept thinking the answer might be that it lacks the word 'that' - in fact the grammar sucks...

[RobYoung]

A man is on a quiz show. There are 3 doors. Behind 2 of the doors is a goat, behind 1 door a car. He choses a door. The host stops him, and reveals that behind one of the other doors ( a door he didn't chose) there is a goat.
The host asks - do you want to stick or change doors?

In terms of the probability of selecting the right answer, as a purely mathematical proposition, what she he do?

Ok - I will try to give it a shot.

When the man first makes his guess, he has a one third chance of being correct. The host removes one third of the choices. Therefore, If the man picks again he has a 50 percent chance of getting the correct door. Therefore, to choose again will increase the oppritunity of selecting the correct door by 16.5%.

Just my .02
Rob

[Raven]

Dollars have.
1) Men 30, desk 0, bellboy 0.
2) Men 0, desk 30, bell 0.
3) Men 3, desk 25, bell 2.
Dollars paid.
1) Men, 27.
2) desk, 5,
3) bell -2
Still 30.



You are correct.
That was the answer.
Well Done.

[Onoria Westhrop]

Correct! The man should change his answer! Well done!

[HellOnEarth]

Ok. I'll post one. This isn't too hard. No cheating anyone!

This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!

Just what is so unusual?

Heh, all exclamation marks!

[Bluemouth]

Dollars have.
1) Men 30, desk 0, bellboy 0.
2) Men 0, desk 30, bell 0.
3) Men 3, desk 25, bell 2.
Dollars paid.
1) Men, 27.
2) desk, 5,
3) bell -2
Still 30.
This is a famous riddle and unless my observing skills have been obliterated this isn't the actual answer.

Follow this link and see if I've misread your reply:

http://256.com/gray/teasers/answer.cgi?question=missing_dollar&referer=%23dollar&guess=&doublecheat=yes

Perhaps there are two answers?

[Bluemouth]

Onoria was correct with the answer that there are no 'e's present.

[Raven]

The Next Riddle.
Riddle me this.

A dog is tied to a leash 15 feet long. The dog wants to get to a bone that is 20 feet away. How will he get to the bone. :)

[Bluemouth]

I guess he'd be hoping that the leash isn't attached to anything but his collar, therefore he can run up to that bone and happily chew on it.

[Raven]

Correct

[Bluemouth]

A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

[Bluemouth]

When is a door not a door?

[SeaBreeze]

When it is a window of opertunity??? I dunno... my head hurts... I think it has something to do with your head or something.... :(

[Bluemouth]

Haha.

No.

When is a door not a door?

When it's ajar.

:D :p

[SeaBreeze]

Oh, very funny.

[HeinleinFan]

The carnival fellow wins the bet by writing down the answer, folding it or pocketing it or handing it (folded) to the boy, and making the boy tell him the answer BEFORE letting the boy read the paper to check.

Alternately, the man could write a large number of weights. (He never said he'd put just one number down . . . ) If he writes enough numbers, one of them will have to be correct.

[Sf Gr3y]

Haha.

No.

When is a door not a door?

When it's ajar.

:D :p

Badum tish.

[Bluemouth]

The answer to the carnival riddle:

The man did exactly what he said he would, he wrote "your exact weight" on the piece of paper.

Badum tish.

:D :p

[ItalianStallion]

Wow thats cool

[Mcarpenter]

This is a special year for three siblings. This year, the oldest sibling is twice as old as the middle sibling while the middle is also twice as old as the youngest sibling.

How old are all three?

[Mcarpenter]

Is this so hard or are writers just really bad at Math? LOL.

[MiwAuturu]

There's too many possibilities to know, it could be 1,2,4 or 2,4,8 or 3,6,12 and I could just go on.

[Toxic.Ox]

There is a black dog, sleeping in the middle of a black road. There are no streetlamps on and there is no moon out. A car with its lights off is driving towards the dog, the driver sees the dog nd goes around it. How does the driver see the dog?

[Xeno]

Is it the middle of the day? Therefore, the moon still wouldn't be out, the lights would all be off etc.

[Toxic.Ox]

Yes you got it.
Okay i have another one.
There is a man and his wife driving in the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. The man gets out of the checks the boot to see if anyone is inside, checks the inside of the car, then locks his wife in with windows shut. He then goes to find help. When he comes back his wife is dead and there is a stranger in the car. There is no damage to the car, or any signs of forced entry. How did the wife die and who is the stranger?

[Zovc]

^ The man's wife gave birth to a baby while he was gone, and the baby miraculously grew up really fast and killed its mother.

[MiwAuturu]

Hah, i know that one, and that's quite an interesting take on it.

[Toxic.Ox]

You actually only got it half right, the wife did give birth and the baby is the stranger but he doesnt grow up quickly and kill his mother=)
The wife dies while in labour.
:p

[Doug J]

This puzzler is a bit of a regional (U.S.) kind of thing - and pretty old - but still fun:

A man is found dead behind a tavern - with a bullet hole right between eyes. Surrounding the man are 53 bicycles.

Why did this man die?

[MiwAuturu]

Bar fight with hell's angels?

[Doug J]

Hmm - could be - but why??? Hint why are there: 53 bicycles.

[Cogito]

Easy. He was cheating at cards - the deck was Bicycle brand.

[Doug J]

Excellent - Cog - excellent!

[Shadow Reeves]

ok, here is one of my favourites.

a man is leaving his house for a holiday, and so he packed his bags, watered his flowers, turns out the lights and locks the door, gets in his car and drives away.
through direct fault of these actions 7 men drown and another 12 get wet.
why?

[MiwAuturu]

He's a lighthouse keeper, when he turns off the light ships can hit the rocks and sink, thus drowning people (and getting others wet).

[Shadow Reeves]

10 points to MiwAuturu

an easy one.
a man has two coins in his pocket making 30 cents. one of the coins is not a 20c.
what are the coins.

(this is based on australian coinage, 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, $1, $2,)

[Cogito]

A 10c and a 20c. One of them is not a 20c, but the other one is.

[Lesander Arnaut]

This is a riddle I heard a long time ago when computers were huge. No such thing as a laptop.


There are these two computers in a room lets call them computer a and computer b. One computer always lies and one always tells the truth. IN this room there are two doors, lets call them door 1 and door 2. One door is certain death the other door is freedom. You only get to ask two yes or no questions.

Your in the room how do you get out?

[Cogito]

Ask computer A if Computer B would declare Door 1 safe.
If Yes, take door 2, otherwise take door 1.

Don't need a second question.

[Mercurial]

A man walks into a pub and sits down at the bar, and simply orders a water. The bartender looks at the man, and then, quickly pulls out a shotgun and points it at the man. The man says "Thank you," and leaves. Why did they behave this way?

[MiwAuturu]

the guy had the hiccups

[Mercurial]

Correct. :)