Tomorrow is a big event at my university. I’d like to make a fun thing where the people of the Board Game society I am in can try to find me for a riddle, kind of a Where is Waldo in a place where there is a crap tone of people to find the NPC that’ll give them a Riddle (Maybe something to win? No idea how I could do that detail)
Okay, so if I build a bridge from X to Y, it’s a great bridge.
If I build a bridge from A to B it’s a terrible bridge.
Do you want to build a bridge?
(If the person says Okay as a part of their bridge proposal, it is good. If not, then the bridge is bad)
This is a great way to make everyone at a gathering hate you.
Okay, so the correctness of the bridge is there because there is okay at the beginning of the sentence am I right?
I know a similar one where you say some kind of finger counting verse, in the end you put your arms akimbo and request the other person(s) repeat it. It doesn’t matter if they get the finger counting right, because it only counts if they also get the akimbo correct.
It’s fun to do in a group of slightly drunk people, until all got it but one. Then it feels like bullying… :/
My sister drives me crazy with these kind of “riddles”!
I don’t get it. What’s happening here?
It’s a prank riddle. Basically you make two statements about building bridges. They can be from anywhere and to anywhere else. My nose to your forehead, Baltimore to Seattle, it makes no difference. In one sentence, you use the word “okay” and in the other you don’t. The sentence with “okay” in it produces a good bridge. The sentence that doesn’t, doesn’t.
When you ask a person to build their own bridge, if they say “okay” in the sentence, it’s a good bridge. If they don’t, it’s a bad bridge and it falls down. This setup is built to make people frustrated because “okay” is one of those filler words that people don’t really pay attention to in sentences.
I’ve also heard of a similar setup where a person hands an object to another person (again, the object doesn’t matter) and says “This is a bean, okay?” And if the recipient says “okay” then they have done the task correctly and can pass it along to another person, declaring the object is something else. If the receiver doesn’t say “okay,” then something went wrong and one of the people who is in on the joke interrupts and starts the process again. with a new object.
Great explanation
You’re in a square room with a window in each wall. All the windows face south. Thru one of the windows you can see a bear. What colour is the bear?
Red?
White!
Wow makes so much sense!
How tf all windows face south if it’s a square room ?
North pole is in the middle of the room. That also indicates the color of the the bear, because polar bears actually live only on north pole if I’m not mistaken.
TF North Pole bro
Time Flies like an Arrow
Fruit Flies like Banana
But there is not like an Answer to find in that
That’s called a “garden path sentence”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence Has more examples.
What can run but never walks,
Has a mouth but never talks,
Has a bed but never sleeps,
Has a head but never weeps?
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A river
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What usually has 4 letters, sometimes 9 letters, but never 5 letters.
!It’s not a question, it’s a statement: “what”=4, “sometimes”=9, “never”=5!<
-I cannot allow you before Théoden-King so armed, Gandalf Greyhame. By order of Gríma Wormtongue. Your staff.
-Hmm? Oh. You would not part an old man from his walking stick?
-It is not by my choosing. Your staff I judge to be five feet, yet no object greater than four feet in length may be brought before the King.
-Then I must speak with the town carpenter.
Later that day, Gandalf brings his staff to the meeting with Théoden. He has not broken any rules, and the staff is unaltered. How did he manage it?
The Carpenter made the door bigger?
Winner winner chicken dinner! The ‘official’ answer is 4x3, but who says wizards prefer Pythagorean triples to squares?
Pythagondalf
He got it measured and the other guy’s judgement was simply wrong
Guys will tell you this is five feet
What runs faster uphill than down?
(Fire)
Hole?
Notes?
I think my answer was good enough even if not the intended one. I’m not guessing further.
Edit: I think mine is better than the conventional one I found online so I’m satisfied. The reason I prefer mine is
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What you leace behind footsteps is better called footprints
That’s a nice one Wooden Apple!
Laxatives?
Edit: for the latter
Or possibly footsteps
Clouds?
I like this one
They couldn’t do this in Rome
Today I’m working from Home
This one is kinda hard to describe, so I’m including an image. Four people are standing in a row and all are looking to the right (EDIT: On the image, the fourthperson is looking left. That doesn’t matter, because nobody can see through the wall). First and third person have blue hat, second and fourth have red hat. There’s a wall between third and fourth person. Nobody knows what color is their hat. Everybody can only see hats of people on their right side (left/right sides are from the perspective of us, seeing them from the side). Nobody can see through the wall. For example first person can see the second and the third person. The second can only see the third person. They know that two of them have red hat and two of them have blue hat. They are told that if anybody says aloud the color of their hat, they are free to go. (They are captives or something). If anybody says the wrong color, they are all gonna be killed. They can’t obviously turn around, talk to each other or something like that. They can’t guess. Are any of them going to tell his hat’s color?
Let’s number the dudes in your image form left to right: 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Dudes 3 and 4 have no useful information. They stay silent.
Dude 1 can see one of each hat colour on the dudes in front, but cannot determine their own colour without knowing the hat colour of dude 4. They stay silent.
Dude 2 can see the hat colour of dude 3. They can determine that either they themself or the dude behind must have a different hat colour. The dude behind - dude 1 - can see both of the hat colours in front, but stays silent. This lets dude 2 know that they and dude 3 must be different colours (otherwise dude 1 would have known their own hat colour).
Therefore, dude 2 knows their own hat colour must be different to the dude in front and announces the colour of their own hat.
That’s correct!
How easy should it be to solve?
My favorite longer puzzle is “there’s a naked man lying dead in a field with a stick in his hand. Asking me only yes/no questions, tell me why he is in the field and how did he die?”
I love Black Stories, this was the first one I have solved/played years ago.
I won’t give away the answer, that would not be f air
I love them as well! I only know a couple, but I first heard them at a summer camp and they’re a great way to pass time with new friends while traveling.
I’m ok with having some hards! It’s a Board Game Society some of them can like a bit of challenge!
Hmmmm Did you have to fight sir?
No :)
Are you waiting for something?
No, I am dead. I can no longer wait :)
Say, dead sir, can you answer yes to a question?
Can you be somewhere else?
No, I was not murdered :)
No, it wasn’t an accident that killed him.
**Edit: I want to clarify here that he didn’t intend to die, but death was certainly a possibility of the actions he was involved in before his death.
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Shall I give a hint? ;)
*Edit 1: I did not enter the field by land.
*Edit 2: I fell into the field and this caused my death. Why did I fall, and from where?
Lighting strike?
Good guess! but no :)
Did he die right where he’s lying now0?
Yes, he did!
Was his death from natural causes?
No. It was sudden :)
Was his death an accident?
In a way, yes.
Did he die from a fall?
Was he in water at some point recently?
Seeing the Proposition from RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com I’ve got a similar one I know in French that can be translated:
I am a king, taking presents from strangers to get into my kingdom. Propose me Gifts and I will tell you if you can enter my Kingdom
Do you accept my balloon? ;)
I do accept your Balloon! Such a Wonderful Balloon wow!
I have no care for your medicine
Fool! I would not care for a Diamond from you! Nor less a Wooden Apple no matter the way you present it to me!
How about I show you an ancient pond in the silent forest that forever holds the reflection of your constellation. Beside it there’s a tomb from your ancestors with engravings telling ancient stories of valor and virtue. Here I offer you a place of introspection and the gift of time. It will refresh your spirit and new opportunities will become clear.
My dear Elise! I do have to say those are some of the most detailed and exquisite presents I have received to this day and I would like to applaud you for that, yet none of those presents interest me. Nore This Ancient Pond, Nor the Tomb near it, nor a Place of Introspection.
I wish you find something that will suit the difficult tastes I have dear Elise
- The King
Oh great king! Will you accept my gift of a balloon?
Not at all! I do not care for it
Would you accept my heavy machinery?
I would accept your Heavy Machinery:)
how about my heavy machinery?!
Nope, no care for your Heavy Machinery
Hehe :)
please forgive me your highness. instead i bring you this 2007 Ford Mustang
So would a Balloon work?
A Balloon would not work
I only have some creamy nougat chocolate. Are you interested?
I do accept Creamy Nougat Chocolate, if it is Creamy
There is a riddles sublemmy, just fyi!
Oh? Could you send a link, I could not seem to find it
An ancient device for looking through walls?
Window.
