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Title: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on October 26, 2016, 07:26:04 PM
Kinda like the Word games one, this one should have harder riddles and more fun!! (No offense.)

The gist of the game is pretty simple: You solve my riddle, then put your own! if no one can solve the most recent riddle in 10 days, whoever posted it wins and we start again!

It's good if they're original, but they don't have to be! Make them hard, but not impossible. People 8 years or over should be able to solve them, with some difficulty.

They can involve math if you want, but brain teasers are great too.
I'll start!
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on October 26, 2016, 07:28:47 PM
Okee.

You have two unmarked pots. There are no markings on them, except you know one, when full, holds 5 litres and the other, when full, holds 3 litres.

You need to get 4 litres in a pot, without any other measurements. You have infinite water, and you can dump out water as you need.

No, you can't write measurements on the pots.

if you have anything other than four litres, you LOSE. How do you get 4 litres?

Remember ... 10 days!
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: ApolloMew on October 27, 2016, 08:33:22 AM
I think I worked it out.

1. Fill the 5 litre pot full of water.
2. Pour water from the 5 litre pot into the 3 litre pot until it is full.
3. Dump out the water from the 3 litre pot.
4. Pour the remaining 2 litres from the 5 litre pot into the 3 litre pot.
5. Fill the 5 litre pot full of water.
6. Pour water from the 5 litre pot into the 3 litre pot, which already has 2 litres.

If I'm correct, you would have 4 litres in the 5 litre pot now. Fun riddle :)
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: ApolloMew on October 27, 2016, 08:35:39 AM
Alright, my turn then.

I'm going to list six words. They may seem nothing alike, but there is one property that does connect them. It is your job to figure out what that property is.

Banana
Uneven
Revive
Assess
Potato
Dresser
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on October 27, 2016, 07:34:00 PM
I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure they all have the same letter more than once? Maybe? That's a good riddle!

Okee.

Imagine you're handcuffed in a straightjacket, tied upside-down with the strongest rope in the world, locked from the outside in an iron box, inside a maximum-security jail cell. How do you get out?
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on November 06, 2016, 07:35:26 PM
It's been ten days since I posted my riddle, so I won the challenge and we'll start over. The answer to the riddle was "Stop imagining." The riddle said "Imagine you're handcuffed in a ..." so you stop imagining!

The next riddle:

You're locked in a room. The room is empty except for a chocolate cake and a knife. How do you escape?

Remember ... ten days!
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: LightBulbasaur on November 09, 2016, 02:17:39 PM
I got dis. So, you cut the cake in half with the knife. Now, you have to halves, and two halves make a whole. Then you crawl through the hole to escape the room! Right ?  :-X

Here's my riddle:
How do you make the number 7 even without using math?
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on November 09, 2016, 07:56:54 PM
Take away the S!!!
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: ApolloMew on November 09, 2016, 08:04:08 PM
Ahh... beat me to it.

Edit:
Uhh, you didn't add a riddle yet, so, I guess I will? Sorry if this one is a bit too hard.

A man gives one of his sons fifteen cents, and he gives ten cents to his other son.
What time is it?

Edit 2:

You are correct Taslekio :D
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on November 10, 2016, 05:52:40 PM
Took me a while to figure this one out!!  ;D This is a really great riddle!! I collect riddles and memorize them. but I've never heard of this one or even a version of it!!

I went through a couple of possibilities: 10:15, because one son had ten and the other had 15, but that's too easy.

The second possibility was that the entire thing was a complete trick question, the money part had nothing to do with it, and the answer was simply the time at which I was reading the question (7:31 p.m.) But that wouldn't make sense.

I was fooling around with the numbers themselves. 10 + 15 is 25, and I was working that around, too. Then I realized: 25 is a quarter of 100 (or 1$, or 100 cents). The answer is 1:45 - "a quarter to two" because the two sons got a quarter in total.
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on November 11, 2016, 07:49:57 PM
Okay.

Three men decide to stay the night in a hotel. They get a room together and the receptionist tells them the room is 30$, so they each pay 10$. Once they get to their room, the receptionist realizes he made a mistake and that the room was only worth 25$, so he sends a bellman to give the men their 5$.
The bellman, who was greedy and selfish, took 2$ for himself and gave the men 1$ each. The men got one dollar back from their ten, meaning they each paid 9$. Together, that makes 27 dollars, plus the 2$ that the bellman took making it 29$. Where did the extra dollar go?

Good luck with this one!
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: ApolloMew on November 12, 2016, 08:48:01 AM
These kinds of riddles make my head hurt so much ;-; but I think I found the solution.

The three men each pay $10, totaling to $30.
The refund was for $5, meaning that the total was only $25.

So, the end result,
The three men have $3, the bellboy has $2, and the receptionist has the $25.

That totals to thirty dollars. :)
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: ApolloMew on November 12, 2016, 08:51:04 AM
Next riddle! As a hint, the answer is a play on words (commonly known as a pun :3)

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on November 12, 2016, 04:45:23 PM
That answer does work ApolloMew, but it is not the traditional answer  ;D! I asked "Where did the extra dollar go?" not where the 30$ was. The true answer is that there is no missing dollar. The men payed 27$, 25$ of which went to the room and the other 2$ was taking by the bellman. Therefore you can't add 2$ to the 27 because the 2$ was taken out of the 27. The 30$ really doesn't matter anymore.

For an explanation with more detail, imagine the room cost 3000$. The receptionist then  realized the room was only worth 25$, so he sent the bellman up with 2975$. The bellman couldn't figure out how to split 2975$ evenly among the three men so he gave them each 991$ and took 2$ for himself. No one would ever say "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 $2971?" That's just ridiculous! It's obvious that the money was simply shared among the men. It's the same with 27 as it is with 2971.

Also, the answer was ton. A ton is heavy, and backwards it spells not.
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on November 16, 2016, 08:01:07 PM
I forgot to post a riddle, so here goes!  8)

In a village, a man is famous for being a fool. If you offer him is choice of two different coins, he would always choose the coin of lesser value, whether it was the amount, the weight, the quality, etc. No matter what it was, he always chose the option that made him worse off. One man tested him many times, and finally figured out the fool's reasoning. If it isn't terrible luck, why does the fool always take the coin of lesser value?



Sorry of this one's too hard ...  :-X
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: BradBoy523 on November 17, 2016, 07:05:07 PM
Because if he takes the higher valued coin; the game is over, and he will stop receiving money. :P
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on November 21, 2016, 07:43:28 PM
You're right, good job!

This one might be a bit hard too...
What does man love more than life,
Fear more than death or mortal strife,
What the poor have the rich require,
And all contented men desire.
What misers spend and spendthrifts save
And all men carry to the grave?


Good luck!
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: ApolloMew on November 21, 2016, 07:50:57 PM
Ah, I've heard another riddle similar to this one, so I'm hoping I'm on the right train of thought.

If I'm correct, the answer is Nothing.

Side note, I like your new picture Taslekio :)
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on November 26, 2016, 07:53:16 PM
That's correct Apollo! Your turn to post a riddle! :-X
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: ApolloMew on November 27, 2016, 02:39:15 PM
Oh shoot! My bad. I have one.

If you take away my first letter, I still sound the same. Take away my last letter, I still sound the same. Even take away my letter in the middle, I will still sound the same.
I am a five letter word. What word am I?

Edit: Nope, Queue is not correct.
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on December 01, 2016, 07:42:10 PM
Hmmm

Is it "queue"?
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: NickApokalypse on December 02, 2016, 08:47:52 PM
Apollo, the answer is empty.

A man is six feet. He works for a butcher. He has size nine shows. What does he weigh?
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on December 03, 2016, 06:09:50 AM
He weighs meat, of course!
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: NickApokalypse on December 03, 2016, 07:44:27 AM
Correct! Post a riddle xD
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on January 11, 2017, 04:14:05 PM
Alright. I kinda forgot about this thread, to be honest, but I was scrolling through the forums looking for something to do and I found this again :D

A faraway kingdom is ruled by a cruel queen, and she is looking for someone to be her husband. She is looking for someone who is just as ruthless, clever, and cunning as her. So she makes every man in the kingdom line up at her palace to be tested.

You are fourth in line now. You can finally see what is happening in the Queen's Chamber. There is a crate on a table in the middle of the room. The crate contains two pieces of paper: On one reads "Never" and the other says "The Queen". The man next in line must choose a basket and draw the piece of paper. If he draws "Never", than he is kicked out of the palace never to return. If he chooses "The Queen", he gets to marry the Queen.

The man at the front closes his eyes and chooses a piece of paper. You cannot see what he picks, but two guards chase him out of the room. The next man goes up. A new piece of paper is placed in the crate and he reaches his hand in. Again, he is driven from the chamber. The same thing happens to the third man. Now you are next in line.

It's obvious that the draw is a little unfair. You want chance at marrying the Queen. How do you do so?



This is a modified version of a less-PG riddle. I didn't make this one up.
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: PlurbehGurbeh on July 06, 2017, 02:16:42 PM
 
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She is looking for someone who is just as ruthless, clever, and cunning as her.
You cheat!
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on July 06, 2017, 02:26:46 PM
What do you mean? How did I cheat?
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: vespamartio on July 06, 2017, 05:42:12 PM
I think he meant that you cheat at drawing a card in order to win.

my answer is that you simple draw a card. "You want a chance at marrying the queen." well, simply drawing a card is taking a chance :P
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Tas on July 07, 2017, 06:50:16 AM
Hehe - that's not quite it. I'm not sure if you completely understand the riddle - the draw is rigged. And yes, Plurb, you have to cheat .. but how?
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: Logic_Leader (Equine_Xpert) on August 10, 2017, 06:08:47 AM
So people keep coming up too him asking him to take their money? I mean one or two good coins isn't better than hundreds of bad ones.
Title: Re: Mind Games!
Post by: PurpleOcelot on October 07, 2020, 06:19:30 PM
So... I don't know the answer to the last one but it's been a long time so I guess Tas wins that one and we start over :)

When? Where? What?
What's the answer?

Hint: Replace the first with three from itself.

ps. I don't know who came up with this first -- but the idea was given to me by someone who told me a variation earlier today.