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Father and son are riding in one car.They have a car accident and are taken in to different hospitals.They need to operate on the child.In the operating room the child is lying on the table motionless.The doctor that's supposed to operate him looks at the child and says: "i just can't operate him - he is my son." so how can this be?

The "father" the boy rode with in the car wasn't his father.

or

The father he rode with was in fact a grandfather.

no

That doctor is the Christian god.

no

The child in question is in fact a child in a totally different car that the car which held the father and son wrecked into.

no

The doctor's infected gorilla toe made an impact on the Colombian drug trade, effectively bringing Infinium Lab's stock down 27 percent.

no

The doctor that's supposed to operate him looks at the child and says: "i just can't operate him"

and

so how can this be?

The doctor isn't a doctor? (and thus, doesn't know how to operate..)

The doctor is his mother

THAT'S TIGHT

Tyrsis is the winner!

ok , then let's say that the doctor
says "oh my god- that's my son!"

Sensible, but you can't deny the Deep Thought that went into my answers. Well, excluding the one about Infinium Labs. And maybe the one about the Christian god.

How about this you stand in a hallway at the end are two identicle brothers one can only lie the other can only tell the trueth there are two doors one is to safety the other a trap. What one question can you ask them to detemin which door leads to safety?

What color shirt am I wearing?

Rainbow colored

Which door will your brother say the money is behind?

You are in a village where half the villagers lie and the other half tell the truth. They can only answer with a "yes" or a "no". You want to leave the village but come to a fork in the road. One way goes to a village of vicious cannibals, the other to safety. A lone villager stands at the fork. What is the one question you can ask the villager?

Which direction am I facing?

"yes" is a direction?

Er, it's close enough to "yeast" to me.

lol. Merlin, that was good.

Benjamins riddle is totaly ripped off, of that 80s moive with david bowie in called the "labyrinth" and a episode of samurai jack.I don't remeber the answer but it is complexed

You ask the Villager, "Are you a villager?" That way you can easily tell whether he's lying or not.

But how does that tell you which path to pick? Desertgrl limited it to one question.

Ah, in that case, I'm have no idea

EDIT: riddlenut.com is a great place for brain teasers

"Does the left road lead to safety?" and trust your luck.

Um... You don't ask him any questions. You tell him to lead you to saftey, and you make him walk 30 paces ahead. That way, if he lies, you get revenge.

That would propably work...

This riddle can bust your brain so I will make it easier. Ask the villager 2 questions. Now anybody can get it. The original question goes like this:
"If I were to ask you if this is the road that leads to the cannibals, what would you tell me?" If he answered YES, whether liar or not, the cannibals are down that road. If NO, it is safe.
If you need more clarification, suppose there are two identical twin brothers, one who always lies and the other who always tells the truth. The truth teller is totally accurate in all his beliefs; all true propositions he believes to be true and all false propositions be believes to be false. The lying brother is totally inaccurate in his beliefs; all true propositions he believes to be false, and all false propositions he believes to be true. The interesting thing is that each brother will give the same answer to the same question. For example, suppose you ask whether two plus two equals four. The accurate truth teller knows that it is and will truthfully answer yes. The inaccurate liar will believe that two plus two does not equal four (since he is inaccurate) and will then lie and say that it does; he will also answer yes.

I heard this riddle a long time ago and it stumped me for ages. I also heard the previous 2 riddles and fortunately got the correct answers.Most of the "yes' "no" riddles involving liars and truth-tellers are based on the above explanation.

Just curious, what if you were to ask him:

"Does the natural log of five approximately equal 1.60943791?"

And he doesn't know the answer?

He must be punished by hanging him upside down and feeding him exlax. He will never forget the answer again.

Here's another:
Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

Language.

Uh?
I didn't get this one...

I see two answers:

Here are some 'gry' words: aggry, puggry, anhungry, and gry.

And, if you didn't put that question mark in the third sentence, the answer would be 'what'.

Silly rabbits, Trix are for kids.

Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

Yup. Redink got it.

If you want to go that route, the answer is that there is no answer. There is NO common word ending in -gry besides angry and hungry.

Another more-valid answer is 'words':

Think of words...

Oh my good gods, I hate these things.

Dude, I'm right. And heck, even the Riddle Giver sided with me.

Plus I have +5 Font Text of Higher Purpose.

Eh? Not in Mozilla with my Accessibility Features turned on (I hate crazy sites with different-sized text).

Merlin is sort-of-right, too. But your answer is better.

Here's another stupid, nonsense riddle for all of you: I have a stick up my ass. Who's your daddy?

Are you my daddy? Nooooo, I've been lied to my entire life

The stick. Geeze, at least make the riddle a little hard.
Speaking of sticks and dads, if you didn't like that riddle you'll hate this one: 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?
From the last one, everyone can get this one.

he was a god, or then he had miraculous luck.

He wrote "your exact weight".

Correct by Merlin.

Redink is right. Merlin is left of center.

A man is at home. He goes to bed switches the light off, and goes to sleep. The next morning upon arising, he sees something and then commits suicide. Why?

Labyrinth is a cool movie, but david bowie is really fabulous. By the way, I think that riddle is even older that Labyrinth, but I don't know for sure. Anyway, it has been copied very much times, there's always someone who comes up with it.

It was me

He lives in a lighthouse.

Correct.
Tyris, Redink, Merlin, and Weido get a $100 in monopoly money and a gold star.

The man saw the ships that had crashed during the nite.

My turn.

Suppose you want to make a rectangular garden with an area of 200 square feet. You want to use the side of your house for one side of the garden and use fencing for the other three sides. What are the dimensions of the garden that minimize the length of fencing needed?

Simple math or trick question?

Just math.

The smallest lenght I can come up with is 40' of fencing. 10x20 I'm sure a math whiz will figure it.

Nice guess.

Kerry loves dumplings. He can eat 32 of them in an hour. His brother Pete needs 3 hours to eat the same amount. How long will it take them both together to eat 32 dumplings?

Kerry = 32/h --> 96/3h
Pete = 32/3h

Together in 3h they eat 96+32=128 dumplings.

128/3 = 32/x --> 128x = 3*32 = 96

x=3/4 hour = 45 minutes

EDIT: Yeah, I know... waaay too long calculation

Yep.

What is the largest possible number you can write using only 2 digits - just 2 digits, nothing else?

umm. That sounds good! I'm going to make chicken and dumplings for dinner. Yum.

Kerry eats one dumpling every 1.88 minutes. His brother eats one dumpling every 5.63 minutes. Wow, I'm having kerry's brother over for dinner. He won't eat my dumplings all gone 'fore I get to finish like my boys do.

99

No.

you can write 00 and say it's the infinite-mark.

no and no.

That depends on the number base. If you are talking about say, hexadecimal numbers, it would be FF I think.

Uh, FYI, the letter 'F' is not a digit. And it's base 10.

Ok how about this riddle?!

If you met the Budha on the side of the road you would have to kill him! Why?

Not necicerily the Budha but like Christ, Muhamed, Seth Robinson pretty much any soul you believe to be inlightened.
*)*) E-ISLAM (*(*

Hmm, I have some guesses but they're likely not right. I have a good riddle:

Imagine you are in a steel box without any openings, windows or doors,
completely sealed. How do you get out?

Imagine yourself out.

Call your friend and tell him to get a blow torch and a doughnut.

Actually, unless there was a phone line running to the box, you would be unable to call (on a cell phone) your friend - it's a simple principle of EMI shielding.

Merlin, are you sure of your answer? You didn't say a digit couldn't be used twice nor did you specify base numbers. Wouldn't the largest two digit base number be 16? *shrugs*

The answer is 387,420,489, which can be represented as 9^9.

ah! I see where you're going. 99, this is 9x9x9x9x9x9x9x9x9 or 387,420,489 or 9^9.
BUT, Your question was:

What is the largest possible number you can write using only 2 digits - just 2 digits, nothing else?

You've added a symbol. I may be wrong but imho, me, that makes scratcher right.

A caret is a not a digit.

My point exactly. So I think we're going two different directions in how you wrote the question versus how I read it.

But it is something else

Yea that steal box one the answear is. Get in tour boat and row away. or something like that right.

Oh god, I hate this one. Is their a mirror?

I don't like carrots. I want a banana.

I got one 20 crows on roof you shoot one,what color are my eyes?

Bloodred, those were your pet crows and you want to kill me now.

Correct..There usually brown though.