Riddles, puzzles, and things that make you scream 'sars'

[Peegee]

What's always dying, sometimes growing?
You can hold it in an open box,
But lose it if you close it;
And in the end, the box it holds.

What is it? If you get it right, ask a puzzle/riddle/brain teaser/math question/anything that isn't trivia.

Go!

[Misfit]

Babies!

I mean fire. 8-)

[Advent-Sepheroth]

hhmmm, a flower?

Those are dying and growing, and if you enclose it in a boc, it'll die...
and depending what type of plant it is, it'll grow over the box, and hold it.

[DMKA]

Man?

[Peegee]

Misfit got it. She has to give us a riddle now

[Misfit]

*rawks out*

'kay.

The man who made it doesn't want it.
The man who bought it doesn't need it.
The man who needs it doesn't know he has it.

What is it?

[Mikztsu]

A Coffin?

I loved riddles like these in Betrayal at Krondor.

[Misfit]

A Coffin?
*ding ding ding*

You win the priiiize! :D

[Mikztsu]

Okay. *ponders* I'm not in too creative mood, so this one will probably be too easy.

It used to fly, but no more.
It's smiling like never before.
It's laying on the road like a flat pancake.
It used to sing, but can't do that anymore.

[Misfit]

lolz omg roadkilled smiling bird!

[Mikztsu]

lolz omg roadkilled smiling bird!

*ding ding ding*

We r have the winner. =>]

[Misfit]

Yay! Alright, here's another one. 8-)

A man is found dead with a hole in his suit. There is no blood. How did he die?

[Peegee]

Um...it's a diving suit that sprung a leak?

[Psychotic]

If his suit had no holes, how the crap could he wear it? He died because his heart stopped. Duh.

[Misfit]

Yeah omg! Or Astronaut. >D

edit: That's for Immortal PG.

And Psy, it HAD a hole you dork. :D

[Peegee]

I can't imagine what it would be like for an astronaut to die due to a hole in his suit. Would he be sucked out of the suit into space or would he just freeze to death right away, or what?

Here's a math problem...of sorts

Let us suppose we have a chessboard (8x8 squares) where each square is one inch wide. We cut out the squares from the bottom left and top right corners. We now have 62 squares

Now, let us assume we have 31 dominoes (1x2"). How many ways can you place the 31 dominoes on the board? Explain your answer.

[Mikztsu]

Gah, no math-related stuff. I don't even wanna try to think of this and it ruins the fun. :-(

[Erdrick Holmes]

There's something you can put in a container
You can see it with the naked eye
When it's inside the container the container get's lighter.
What is it?

[Flying Mullet]

A helium filled balloon?

[ZeZipster]

JOEL SAYED NAKED!1

[Misfit]

LOLZ HENTAI!!1

Anyways, the correct answer is Flying Mullet. 8-)

[ZeZipster]

I think the answer is a hole.

[DocFrance]

A candle.

[Erdrick Holmes]

The talking cat got it right.

[ZeZipster]

r teh winz

[Flying Mullet]

So post a riddle cat. :p

[ZeZipster]

Who's your daddy?

[escobert]

Mike Howe
A man was killed in a cabin. There is snow on the ground but no foot prints on the ground (the snow is old like 38639586467 years old) several windows in this cabin. a couple doors but again no footprints. He did not die of natural causes or sickness or anything like that. How did he die? Feel free to ask questions about the arear or the cabin and such.

[Flying Mullet]

I'm gonna say that the cabin what dropped from an airplane 30,000 feet above the ground.

[escobert]

argh! yes

[Flying Mullet]

Seriously?

[escobert]

Yes.

[Flying Mullet]

Hah, how funny.

Anyways, my brain is fried so I'll do an easy one:

<i>What has four legs in the morning,
two legs in the afternoon,
and three legs in the evening?</i>

[escobert]

A human.

[Flying Mullet]

Yah. Go for it.

[escobert]

hmmmmm... this a stupid one since I can't think right now... or any time
A plane crashes on the canadian/american boarder who burries the survivors?

[Ki Ki]

uh...
Like no one. Everyone was eaten by a huge gigantic people eating monster!! :O_O:
Yep no survivors. What a tragedy..

[escobert]

huh?

[Ki Ki]

What "huh"?
Don't "huh" me mister. You know i know that you know that i know that you know I'm rite. Rite.

[ZeZipster]

You don't bury survivors.

Man I feel like I'm in middle school again!

[escobert]

ummm... Ok.

[Ki Ki]

Ok ZeZipster person. Your turn.

[ZeZipster]

Why does it have to be my turn?

[escobert]

because ki ki said so.
whats really annoying, stands about 5ft6 and lives in canada?

[sephxangel]

because ki ki said so.
whats really annoying, stands about 5ft6 and lives in canada?

i know this one!!! *thinks really hard*.......Bert?!!?

[sephxangel]

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?

[escobert]

No thats not right. I live in the USA... *looks at location thingy on side* and I'm 6'1".

[sephxangel]

Damn, oh well I was never good at these...their fun but I hardly ever get them.

[Misfit]

IMMORTAL!

[Peegee]

That's right! now it's your turn, you wacky child

[Misfit]

^_^

King Arthur sat at the Round Table on three successive evenings with his knights - Beleobus, Caradoc, Driam, Eric, Floll and Galahad - but on no occassion did any person have as his neighbor one who had sat next to him before.

On the first evening they sat in alphabetical order round the table. But afterwards King Arthur arranged the two next sittings so that he might have Beleobus as near to him as possible and Galahad as far away from him as could be managed.

How did he seat the knights to the best advantage, remembering the rule that no knight may have the same neighbor twice?

[Peegee]

Misfit, are you getting these puzzles from the same place I am?

[Misfit]

I don't know. o_o

Where are you getting them? x)

[Peegee]

phliosphy forums

2nd Night
Arthur, Driam, Floll, Caradoc, Galahad, Beleobus, Eric

3rd Night
Arthur, Caradoc, Eric, Galahad, Driam, Beleobus, Floll

A man walks into a bar and orders a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a gun and shoots the man. The man says "Thank you" and walks out without touching the water.

Explain.

[ZeZipster]

What am we explaining?

[Kirobaito]

Ooo! I've heard that one. He has the hiccups, and the gun scared the man and got rid of them.

Okay, only SERIOUS people can probably get this. It helps if you know the Bible fairly well.

Adam, God made from the dust,
But thought it best to make me first.

So I was made before the man,
A part of God's most holy plan.

A living "soul" I became,
But Adam failed to call my name.

I did my Maker's law obey,
Nor ever went from it astray.

Thousands of miles, I go in fear,
But seldom on earth do I appear.

For purpose wise, which God did see,
He put a living "soul" in me.

A "soul" from me God did claim,
And took from me the "soul" again.

So when from me the "soul" had fled,
I was the same as when first made.

Without hands or feet I go,
I travel on from pole to pole.

From my presence a rain does fly,
A cloud I form beneath the sky.

I labor hard by day, by night,
To fallen man I gave great light.

Thousands of people, young and old,
Did by my death great light behold.

No right or wrong can I conceive,
The Scripture I cannot believe.

Although my name therein is found,
They are to me an empty sound.

Now when these lines you slowly read,
Go search your Bible with all speed.

For that my name is written there,
I do honestly to you declare.

The answer is a five-letter word found 4 times in the Bible.

[Levian]

snake? :/

[Kirobaito]

Nope.

[Lord Xehanort]

Satan?
Devil?

[Peegee]

Fortunately the answer is found in the first chapter of Genesis: whale.

Though in the copy I read, it says 'whales', which is not exactly a 5 letter word :p

Now do my math puzzle!

Let us suppose we have a chessboard (8x8 squares) where each square is one inch wide. We cut out the squares from the bottom left and top right corners. We now have 62 squares

Now, let us assume we have 31 dominoes (1x2"). How many ways can you place the 31 dominoes on the board? Explain your answer.

Here's a hint: the answer is 0; but why?

[Denmark]

becuz PG = stupit lololz

actually, it's because the board is magical and rejects all matter put onto it unless they are chess pieces.

*screams 'sars'*

[Kirobaito]

I don't quite comprehend, PG...shouldn't there be 64 squares, not 62 (because 8x8=64)?

[Peegee]

Read it again. 64-2 = 62

[Levian]

math riddles suck. :)

[Lord Xehanort]

The answer is 0 because there is no more chessboard to place the dominoes on. A chessboard is always 8x8. This mutilated piece of wood doesn't match that. If the puzzle said 'How many ways can you place the 31 dominoes on what's left of the board.' then that would be a different story.

*is probably thinking WAAAY too logically*

[Peegee]

no you're just being annoying.

[Mikztsu]

There's simply not enough space for all those dominoes. *_*

[Peegee]

Why? 31 dominoes, 62 squares

need explain thx

[Mikztsu]

Ok, this is gonna be crappiest explanation ever since I'm in hurry to sleep. :)

I just stared at the chessboard and if you cut pieces from those corners, it'll make two 8 squares lines just 7 squares lines and you need AT LEAST 8 squares per line if you wanna place 4 dominoes on that line ( I assume they won't need to be on upright position since there would be plenty of space otherwise). So, if there's just 7 squares on one line, you can only place 3 dominoes on those line and there will be uneven squares on both ends unused. If you just look at the chessboard, you can see that those sawed off boards makes their former "side-squares" uneven and there has to be even amount for each line if you wanna place there dominoes so that every single square wuill be filled and even if ONE square will be unfilled, the answer will be zero in this puzzle. So, there's only space for...29 <s>squares</s> DOMINOES?

edit: silly typos of tiredness

[ChibiRinoa]

So to summarize what Mik said: There's just no way you can fit them on the board due to its shape.

[Ki Ki]

Why did the chicken cross the road?

[Peegee]

To go to the chicken bordello?

[Ki Ki]

Correct. (no really)
Your turn. :skull7:

[Peegee]

How many zeros are there at the end of 100! ?

[Ki Ki]

Infinate!
Cos there's the decimal thingy...
100,000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000etc.

[o_O]

There are no zeroes at the end of "100!" There is an exclamation mark.

EDIT: In case Peegee wanted the actual number of zeroes at the end of 100!, it's 141. I doubt it though. :p

[Ki Ki]

W_R-O-N-G.
I'm rite! Hahahaha! ( i think so ):skull3:

My turn.

There were 100 skinny men in a shower together.
But then there was no skinny men in the shower.
What happened to them all?

[Mikztsu]

They got sucked in that thing where the water goes? :eep: Or, they just randomly became non-skinny for no good reason at all.

[Ki Ki]

You mean the drain? If it's the drain you mean then you're rite.
But I'm guessing it's not so guess again!!
Wahahahaha.
(i think i jus gave away the answer, yea?) :Oo:

[Mikztsu]

You didn't give it, since that's what I meant anyway silly. And what's with that silly smiley? O.o

[Ki Ki]

*ahem* What silly smiley? :Oo:
Your turn. :skull7:

[Peegee]

We have a huge pile of 1x2' bricks. How many ways can you arrange them to make a 20 foot long path?

[Ki Ki]

Not YOUR turn silly Immortal guy. :skull7: