Brain training (riddles and codes)

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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby c-square » January 5th, 2010, 4:16 pm

Okay, here's one:

What the mayor said after she found out that Valentine's Day was canceled.

Answer:

_ _ _ ' _  _ _ _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _ _ _  _ _ _ ?

(Hint, the answer is a palindrome)
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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby Umandsf » January 5th, 2010, 6:28 pm

Spoiler:
Won't lovers revolt now?


Wow, I can't believe I spent over 20 minutes trying to figure this out.
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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby Callid » January 5th, 2010, 6:58 pm

sstimson wrote:If you know the story you know the answer.

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If it were from the Silmarrilion ("What does Turambar mean"?), OK, but it's actually from LotR...
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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby c-square » January 5th, 2010, 11:51 pm

Umandsf wrote:
Spoiler:
Won't lovers revolt now?


Wow, I can't believe I spent over 20 minutes trying to figure this out.


Pin pon!  Very nicely done.
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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby bluekaitou1412 » January 6th, 2010, 3:25 am

I don't know if these were asked before. I'm too lazy to check.

They're from Stephen King's Dark Tower Volume IV, Magician and Glass, some are fairly easy, though:

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What is the difference between a grandmother and a granary? What is the difference between a cat and a complex sentence?

What has four wheels and flies?

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a head but never weeps?

What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs at night?

No sooner than broken, What is it?

Give me to drink and I die. What am I?

I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?

As light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long. What is it?

If you break me, I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?

What may go up a chimney down but cannot go down a chimney up?

One of us in glass is set; one of us you'll find in jet. Another you may see in tin, and a fourth is boxed within. Id the fifth you should pursue, it can never fly from you. What are we?

I have a hundred legs but cannot stand, a long neck but no head; I ease the maid's life. What am I?

Cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind the stars and beneath the hills. Ends life and kills laughter. What is it?

The thing runs but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face. What is it?

What build up castles, tears down mountains, makes some blind, helps others to see?

What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward?

Man walks over; man walks under; in time of war he burns asunder?

What has eyes yet cannot see?

In a tunnel of darkness lies a beast of iron. It can only attack when pulled back. What is it?

Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble. What are they?

I am emeralds and diamonds, lost by the moon. I am found by the sun and picked up soon. What am I?

With no wings, I fly. With no eyes I see. With no arms I climb. More frightening than any beast, stronger than any foe. I am cunning, ruthless, and tall; in the end I rule all. What am I?

JUST 4 FUN:

When is a door not a door?

Why do people go to bed?

Why did the dead baby cross the road?


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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby c-square » January 6th, 2010, 6:14 am

bluekaitou1412 wrote:What has four wheels and flies?


Spoiler:
A garbage truck?


bluekaitou1412 wrote:What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a head but never weeps?


Spoiler:
A river?


bluekaitou1412 wrote:I have a hundred legs but cannot stand, a long neck but no head; I ease the maid's life. What am I?


Spoiler:
A mop?


bluekaitou1412 wrote:The thing runs but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face. What is it?


Spoiler:
A clock?


bluekaitou1412 wrote:What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward?


Spoiler:
Stalagmites?
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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby bluekaitou1412 » January 6th, 2010, 6:17 am

All right except the last one, c-square ;)

Although your answer is a bit similar.
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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby c-square » January 6th, 2010, 6:18 am

bluekaitou1412 wrote:All right except the last one, c-square ;)

Although your answer is a bit similar.


Oops, if the roots grow upwards, then it must be

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Icicles!
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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby bluekaitou1412 » January 6th, 2010, 6:22 am

c-square wrote:
bluekaitou1412 wrote:All right except the last one, c-square ;)

Although your answer is a bit similar.


Oops, if the roots grow upwards, then it must be

Spoiler:
Icicles!



Right you are!
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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby bankterminator » January 6th, 2010, 7:02 am

Give me to drink and I die. What am I?


Spoiler:
fire?


As light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long. What is it?


Spoiler:
Breath(it was mentioned before)


What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs at night?


Spoiler:
a human ( i think it was: he crawls out of bed, walks in the afternoon, uses a (stick?) to walk


What has eyes yet cannot see?


Spoiler:
i have two answers: potatoes and go eyes( in german when a player has two eyes in go his stones are safe( sorry for the bad explanation)


I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?


Spoiler:
wind?
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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby sstimson » January 6th, 2010, 2:08 pm

c-square wrote:
bluekaitou1412 wrote:
I have a hundred legs but cannot stand, a long neck but no head; I ease the maid's life. What am I?


Spoiler:
A mop?


Might the answer also be a
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Broom
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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby Rellik » January 6th, 2010, 2:45 pm

bluekaitou1412 wrote:Cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind the stars and beneath the hills. Ends life and kills laughter. What is it?


Spoiler:
darkness?
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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby bluekaitou1412 » January 6th, 2010, 9:45 pm

bankterminator wrote:
Give me to drink and I die. What am I?


Spoiler:
fire?


As light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long. What is it?


Spoiler:
Breath(it was mentioned before)


What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs at night?


Spoiler:
a human ( i think it was: he crawls out of bed, walks in the afternoon, uses a (stick?) to walk


What has eyes yet cannot see?


Spoiler:
i have two answers: potatoes and go eyes( in german when a player has two eyes in go his stones are safe( sorry for the bad explanation)


I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?


Spoiler:
wind?




All correct. btw, the fourth one you answered have more than 5 correct answers, I think.


sstimson and Rellik are also right with their answers.
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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby c-square » January 7th, 2010, 5:16 am

MouriRann wrote:SORRY! I cannot make a spoiler, something's wrong with my computer!


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Re: Brain training (riddles and codes)

Postby MouriRann » January 7th, 2010, 7:37 am

bluekaitou1412 wrote:If you break me, I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?
What has eyes yet cannot see?

Spoiler:
a heart

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a needle, a popato or a hurricane
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