Riddles
Riddles!
This topic is about short riddles, because not everyone likes to do the larger logical puzzles. If you do like those, then click here.
If you've guessed the riddle, you can immediately post another one yourself. Let's keep it going.
I will start with this riddle:
What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?
You carry this everywhere, yet it never gets heavy. What is it?
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
Your name?
@DarkWolf
Name is correct!
Where is the ONLY place that you walk forward & backward at the same time?
@KLM3278
A treadmill? (or something of the sort)
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
Good answer, but not what I'm looking for 😃
@KLM3278
Nice riddle, I don't think I've heard it before.
Could it be in a mirror? If you walk away from a mirror, your reflection would go the other way, therefore it would look like you're walking forwards and backwards at the same time. Might be a bit far-fetched though
@DarkWolf
Thank you!!! No, your answer isn't what I'm looking for 😃
@KLM3278
If it's not in a mirror, my last guess would be that it is when walking in a circle. Technically you are moving forward, but you're also moving back to the point you started at the same time.
@DarkWolf
NO! 😃
@KLM3278
A moving bus, or perhaps an airplane in flight?
@observeroflife
Good guess but no 😃
@KLM3278
I'm out of serious answers (maybe a hint? ) , but maybe it's while doing the moonwalk?
@DarkWolf
Here is the answer then 😃
"Where is the ONLY place that you walk forward & backward at the same time?"
Answer: In the snow!!! ❄️❄️🌨 When you walk forward you leave your tracks behind you ☃️
How many bricks does it take to complete a building made entirely of bricks?
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
Just ONE 😃
@KLM3278
Absolutely!
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
How's it supposed to be one?, this is totally bonkers!, I mean you can't make a building with just one brick can you?, if it was it wouldn't be called a building
@observeroflife
Here's a quick explanation: the riddle asks how many bricks you need to COMPLETE a building made entirely of bricks. The building will only be complete once you place the last brick. Any bricks placed before that does not complete the building, but adds to it - it will only be complete with the last brick, the one you place right at the end. Hope this helps, this riddle is pretty tricky to understand at first
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
Yeah I got it.
A chemist was found murdered in his home. The police have narrowed it down to six suspects, and know that two of the suspects worked together. The suspects are: Felice, Maxwell, Archibald, Nicolas, Jordan and Xavier. A note was also found with the body, which read: 26-3-58/28-27-57-16.
Who are the murderers?
@TrulyMadlyDeeply Felice and Nicolas?
@PhoenixAsh
Yes! The numbers are all atomic numbers from the Periodic Table of Elements.
What does this message say?
G T Y O R J O T E O U I A B G T
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
Does it say
@IndecisiveClementine186
Yes, good job!
For anyone wondering, the letters are arranged in something that's called a Caeser cipher. Arrange the letters into groups of 4, and read them downwards to decipher it.
You're a prisoner in a room with 2 doors. Each door has a guard. One of the doors will guide you to freedom, while the other door means certain death - you don't know which one's which. One of the guards always tells the truth while the other always lies - again, you don't know which one's which.
You must choose and open one of the doors, but you can only ask one question to one guard to help you pick the correct door.
What question do you ask so you can pick the door to freedom?
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
You ask "Which door would the other guard is the door to escape?" and then you take the opposite door.
@stuckintime92
Correct!
You draw a line. Without touching it in any way, how do you make the line longer?
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
Do you draw a smaller line near it, then it is the longer line?
@IndecisiveClementine186
Yes
A simple math question:
a + b + c = 30
Find the values of a, b and c using only the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. You can only use each number once in the equation, and you must add them to receive 30 - no brackets, multiplication, division, subtraction or anything like that is permitted.
Can you find the values of a, b and c?
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
a = 25 b = 4 c = 1?
@PhoenixAsh
Good try, but not correct. You're not allowed to put digits together to create new numbers (should've clarified that, sorry).
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
Would this be allowed?
5^2 (5 to the power 2) + 4 + 1?
@DarkWolf
Not allowed (I really should've clarified it in the post since the original question had a list of things not allowed, but I just got lazy lol - but that's kinda what I meant to say by "anything like that")
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
Just so it's clear, you're ONLY allowed to ADD the digits as they are PRESENTED in the question to get 30.
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
Any more tries?
@TrulyMadlyDeeply
The suspense is killin me. GIVE US THE ANSWER PLEASE
Haha okay, here's the answer: the question asks, "Can you solve the values of a, b and c?", not "Solve the values of a,b and c" or "What are the values of a, b and c?". The answer is no. You can't solve the values of a, b and c AND satisfy all the needs in the question.
(Here in the UK, to study medicine at uni, we had to do an extra exam and do well in that to get in. This was one of the questions when I did it, and only 6 people out of over 15000 entrants got it right.)
@TrulyMadlyDeeply omg :')))
I have 2 heads, 6 feet, 8 hands and one mouth. What am I?
@DarkWolf
An anatomically inaccurate doll
@SuperAwesomeDragon
There might very well be one that excists, but it's not the answer.
@DarkWolf
Fictional?
This one's really annoying me. I can't work it out.
@stuckintime92
I have known this riddle for quite a long time. And because I knew this one, I should really have known the math riddle from @TrulyMadlyDeeply too. But I took that one too serious, more like a logical puzzle. You all are doing the same to this riddle.
The riddle asks what I am. Well, after saying I have 2 heads, 6 feet, 8 hands and one mouth, I'm definitely a liar. That's the answer.. what am I? a liar.
@DarkWolf
Ah, good one
@DarkWolf
Ahhh, I see... I really should've gotten it since I posted the math riddle lol