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Riddles

1966kelso — Tue, 13 May 2014 03:08:03 GMT

What is it that no man ever yet did see, which never was, but always is to be?

A:tomorrow

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twyngwyn — Tue, 13 May 2014 04:43:57 GMT

tomorrow?

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1966kelso — Tue, 13 May 2014 05:36:57 GMT

Mary's mum has four children.
The first child is called April.
The second May.
The third June.
What is the name of the fourth child?

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twyngwyn — Tue, 13 May 2014 05:38:29 GMT

Mary

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1966kelso — Tue, 13 May 2014 06:05:33 GMT

too easy huh

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1966kelso — Tue, 13 May 2014 06:08:51 GMT

If you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp.

You only have one match, so what do you light first?

the match

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1966kelso — Tue, 13 May 2014 06:09:57 GMT

Einsteins Riddle

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks chocolate.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

A:the german

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imastawka — Tue, 13 May 2014 07:34:35 GMT

@1966kelso wrote:
If you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp.

You only have one match, so what do you light first?

the match

Gas lamp. The other two could go out.

Re: Riddles

twyngwyn — Tue, 13 May 2014 07:38:25 GMT

the match

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imastawka — Tue, 13 May 2014 07:46:42 GMT

course it is. AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH

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1966kelso — Tue, 13 May 2014 08:36:56 GMT

And I thought that one would be too easy

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1966kelso — Wed, 14 May 2014 04:21:10 GMT

Each of the following sets of letters can be made into a real word by adding three letters to the beginning, and the same three letters in the same order to the end.

For example, ANGLEM can have ENT added at the start and the end to become ENT + ANGLEM + ENT = ENTANGLEMENT.

ERTAINM
ISCOVE
ROW
IOXID
ROCOS

ENT + ERTAINM + ENT = ENTERTAINMENT
RED + ISCOVE  + RED = REDISCOVERED
ING + ROW     + ING = INGROWING
ANT + IOXID   + ANT = ANTIOXIDANT
MIC + ROCOS   + MIC = MICROCOSMIC

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cq_tech — Wed, 14 May 2014 05:52:49 GMT

ENTERTAINMENT
REDISCOVERED
INGROWING
ANTIOXIDANT
MICROCOSMIC

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book-of-hezekiah — Sat, 17 May 2014 04:30:34 GMT

I think the owner of the fish is the German (who also lives in the green house, drinks coffee and smokes Prince.)

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cq_tech — Sun, 18 May 2014 15:30:44 GMT

There are only 2 words in the English language which use all 5 vowels only once, and in alphabetical order.

What are they?

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book-of-hezekiah — Sun, 18 May 2014 17:30:42 GMT

facetious and abstemious

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book-of-hezekiah — Sun, 18 May 2014 17:48:10 GMT

An old school riddle from when I was a child:

What goes up a chimney down but not down a chimney up?

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cq_tech — Sun, 18 May 2014 18:10:51 GMT

An umbrella

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book-of-hezekiah — Sun, 18 May 2014 23:14:22 GMT

yes yes!

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cq_tech — Sun, 18 May 2014 23:17:55 GMT

Just paying you back for solving mine so easily.