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Well... me. I think it's fun to ask people to slove riddles(and laugh at them when they can't ). If you like riddles too, you can try to slove my riddle:

There are five apples in a basket, and you have to divide them to 5 kids, every kid should pick an apple, but there should remain one apple in the basket.

This was an easy one. If you like riddles, I can post some really difficult ones.

Ok, I'm stumped. X_X

Anyways, more riddles:

If you try to fail and you succeed, have you failed or have you succeeded?

Two sons and two fathers go fishing. They caught one fish each, but there was only 3 fish caught.

If you try to fail and you succeed, have you failed or have you succeeded?
You have succeeded in failing

Two sons and two fathers go fishing. They caught one fish each, but there was only 3 fish caught

Granfather, father and grandson/son each caught a fish

One kid keeps the basket.

There are five apples in a basket, and you have to divide them to 5 kids, every kid should pick an apple, but there should remain one apple in the basket.

One kid keeps his in the basket to take home

EDIT - ah, that'll teach me to get distracted and not hit reply sooner - beaten by Milo's bones

Oh, wouldn't you love to be beaten with Milo's bone?

*squeal* I love riddles!

i *HATE* riddles...

My next riddle is:

A fater has two sons. Every son has a horse. When the father dies, he sais that the children should make a horse race, and the one with the loser horse, would get all his fortune. The cildren was very sad, because they couldn't race and win. Someone gave them an advice, by 3 words: ... ... ...


If this is simple too, I'll give you a real hard one.

They only had one horse Between them

I don't know three words for it, but it's something along the lines of:

Ride your brother's horse.

Just missed it by 1 word

Magicman was right. The answer was Change the horses

You're pretty good. Try this one:

I'm at a cross and I don't know wich is the right way. There is a house where lives two brothers. One of them always tells the trouth, and the other always lies. I found only one of them home, I don't know wich one of them is, and I can ask him only one question. What should I ask him, so I can find wich is the right way?

Ask a question with an immediately verifiable answer, like "Is it cloudy at the moment?". If he says yes and it's indeed cloudy weather, he tells the truth all the time and he'll tell you the correct path. If he says no, and it's cloudy, he lies and you should take the opposite path.

You can only ask on question Simeon, and asking "Is it cloudly?" counts as one.

I can't answer it because I heard this one which goes: there are two roads, one leads to a village of turthtellers, one to a buch of liers. A man is at the cross road. He is either a truth teller or a lier. You can only ask one question.

And the answer is "Ask him which village he is from." If he's a truthteller he point you in the right direction adn if he's a lier he'll have to point away from his twon to the right way.

Your doesn't make sense, well at least to me.

I think it does make sense, unless my English is to bad to be understood.

Ah yeah, only one But your answer makes sense

Mwahaha. There was another riddle thread here before...

In my riddle, it's really important that there were two brothers.

No, not really.

Ok, I'm waiting for an answer to my riddle...

Since nobody answered to this riddle, I'll tell ya the answer:
The question should be: What would your brother tell me if I asked him which is the wrong way?

But you could ask them something like "are you two brothers?" and then you'll know which is which.

But you can only ask one question and that would waste your one question

I don't get it, if you ask them something like that, then you'll know which is which, and then take the path next to the one who tells the truth.

Or do you have to ask them something and then take the path they direct you?

EDIT: Gah, stupid me, I think I get it now. The brothers arent gaurding the path, so if you find out which is which, you still don't know which way to go.

good riddles...
ask some more

Here comes an easy one:
I see an apple tree with apples in it. I shake the tree. I look on the tree and I don't see apples in it. I look down and I don't see apples there. I didn't took any apple. Where are the apples?

Stuck in the branches? At the other side of the tree? "Apple Tree" is just a name or something and doesn't mean it has apples in it?

Apple tree is a tree that apples grow in it(sorry for my bad english ). If apples would be stuck in branches, I would have seen them when I looked in the tree. If they would be at the other side, I would have seen them when I looked down. But I didn't see apples.

When they hit the ground they burst open in pieces, and aren't apples anymore, but pieces of apples. Meh...

Not really... but you're close.

Sir Isaac Newton ate them all while he was sitting underneath it...

I see an apple tree with apples in it. I shake the tree. I look on the tree and I don't see apples in it. I look down and I don't see apples there. I didn't took any apple. Where are the apples?

Down the hill?

Compote?

EDIT: Or they fell on you and stayed there, so they're neither in the tree nor on the ground. (or they're still falling, which isn't really realistic).

Let me give you a hint:
I didn't see apples. I think now is too obvious.

You where just shaking too hard...

The whole ground is covered with leaves...

Yes, it's silly

There were two apples before shaking, and only one apple fell of. There aren't any apples on the ground, just one apple. Same case in the tree.

magicman was right. My next one:
Is it possible that a man from Iceland to get married with his widow's sisters?

Well, that man has a widow, so that implies he's dead. The dead guy can't say "Yes.", so it's impossible.

Guess that was too easy. If you're agree, I want to try a new type of riddle: I tell you a short story, and you have to figure out what happend. You can ask me questions that I can answer only with YES, NO or DOESN'T MATTER. If you're agree, here it comes:
A women buy some shoes with 12 cm heels. Then she goes to work wearing them. Her colleague doesn't notice the shoes so he kills her.

Her new found height has something to do with it... either the coworker opened a filing cabinet drawer that she could previously pass under, or the coworker swung an axe that would have passed over her head before her new shoes.

I can't really think of any questions though.

Her new found height has something to do with it
Answer: YES
coworker opened a filing cabinet drawer that she could previously pass under
Answer:NO
the coworker swung an axe that would have passed over her head before her new shoes
Answer:NO, but you're close
You're pretty good, redink1!

Is she wearing the shoes on her feet?
Did she put them on her ears?
Did her co-worker kill her because he thought she was crazy?
*giggle*

I'm at a cross and I don't know wich is the right way. There is a house where lives two brothers. One of them always tells the truth, and the other always lies. I found only one of them home, I don't know wich one of them it is, and I can ask him only one question. What should I ask him, so I can find wich is the right way?
This was basically the same riddle they used in the movie 'Labyrinth' with Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie.It was a cool movie.
Don't mind me.I'm just way behind in this thread.*sigh*

YaY for Labyrinth! Luuuudoooooo...

Was the co-worker playing darts?

Were they doing a magic trick?

Were they working in a circus?

They decided to play "catch the axe"?

EDIT: The collegue saw how tall she was and didn't notice the shoes, so he thought she was a witch and killed her.

@carrie2004:
Is she wearing the shoes on her feet?
Answer: YES
Did she put them on her ears?
Answer: NO, of course not.
Did her co-worker kill her because he thought she was crazy?
Answer: NO

@magicman:
Was the co-worker playing darts?
Answer: NO

@scratcher:
Were they doing a magic trick?
Answer: NO
Were they working in a circus?
Answer: YES

@chaotic
They decided to play "catch the axe"?
Answer: Of course... NOT
The collegue saw how tall she was and didn't notice the shoes, so he thought she was a witch and killed her.
Answer: NO

A knife throwing act gone wrong?

YES
Edit: It's 00:55 here and I'm sleepy. I'll post the next one tommorow. Hope you'll enjoy it.

Thanks to redink1 with the axes and scratcher with the circus

If you don't mind, I'm posting mine now.

On a street there's a telephone booth with a broken window. In it lies a heavily bleeding, unconsious man with the phone still in his hand. Next to the booth, there's a bike with a package on it. What has happened here?

It's a rather silly one, but at least it's better than the diver in the burnt-down forest.

The man was cut, or hit?
Somebody did this to him?
The person(s) that did that to him noticed the bike?
The bike belongs to him?

The man was cut, or hit?: Yes
Somebody did this to him?: Assuming you meant someone other than the man himself: No
The person(s) that did that to him noticed the bike?: Not Applicable
The bike belongs to him?: Yes

He rode his bike out of control and hit the booth slamming him though and into the booth

He rode his bike out of control and hit the booth slamming him though and into the booth.

No, nice guess, but no.

dang

Was the reason that he was in the booth that he was calling for help?

Or...

Was he simply parking his bike and had a stone thrown at him?

Was the reason that he was in the booth that he was calling for help?: No

Was he simply parking his bike and had a stone thrown at him?: No

Was the man calling someone?

Was he bleeding because he flew through the window?

Was there something heavy in the package?

Was the man calling someone?: Yes

Was he bleeding because he flew through the window?: No, but very close

Was there something heavy in the package?: No

He cut himself in the window?
Was there drogs in the package?
Was he calling about the content of the package?

He cut himself in the window?: Yes
Was there drogs in the package?: No
Was he calling about the content of the package?: Yes

Is the package empty?
Was the window broken from the inside?
Was the window broken to begin with?
Did the contents of the package fly through the window?

Did the package contain a bomb??

ALIENS! It was ALIENS I tell ya! Its a government conspiracy. I just KNOW it. Oh sure, there's no concrete evidence, and so maybe I had one too many dackeries that night, but so what? I remember. I saw it with my own seeing-eye-dog! You gotta believe. You gotta do something before it too late!...Dont just sit there, DO SOMETHING!

Is the package empty?: No
Was the window broken from the inside?: Yes
Was the window broken to begin with?: No
Did the contents of the package fly through the window?: No

EDIT: Whoops, didn't notice LadyValoveer's question. Blame nested view

Did the package contain a bomb??: No

@MrSpaztastic: No aliens involved, nor the government

Ok, we know he cut himself in the window.
Did he wanted to cut himself?
Was he scared of what he heard on the phone?
Was there something dangerous in the package?
The bike is important, or it could be a car or a motocycle?

Did he wanted to cut himself?: No
Was he scared of what he heard on the phone?: No
Was there something dangerous in the package?: No
it could be a car or a motocycle?: Yes

Did he agrred to transport the package for somebody?
Did he knew the content of the package from the begening?
Did he called because he found out that something is wrong with the package?
He cut himself by mistake?

Was he supposed to deliver the package somewhere?
Was the window broken purposedly?
Was he unconscious because of the window?

EDIT: dang me and my slow posting.

Let me sum up the important things we have right now:

- The man cut himself in the window
- The man was calling about the package

So he was probably just scared by what he heard so he fell backwards against the window. Or he was angry and smashed his head against the window in anger...

Cypry:
Did he agrred to transport the package for somebody?: No, it was for himself
Did he knew the content of the package from the begening?: Yes
Did he called because he found out that something is wrong with the package?: No
He cut himself by mistake?: Yes

Scratcher:
Was he supposed to deliver the package somewhere?: Not specifically
Was the window broken purposedly?: No
Was he unconscious because of the window?: Yes, he doesn't stand blood

Metatarasal:
- The man cut himself in the window: Yup
- The man was calling about the package: Yup
So he was probably just scared by what he heard so he fell backwards against the window.: No
Or he was angry and smashed his head against the window in anger...: No

The man was leaning for a coin on the floor and slammed his head through the window or something?

Was there a gift in the package?
Was there groceries in the package?
Was he calling to thank for the package?
Was the package given to him by someone?
Did he cut his hand in the window?

The man was leaning for a coin on the floor and slammed his head through the window or something? : If sillyness would be a measure of distance, you're very close.

Was there a gift in the package?: No
Was there groceries in the package?: Ah, yes, we're getting there
Was he calling to thank for the package?: No
Was the package given to him by someone?: No
Did he cut his hand in the window?: Yes

Sry for not being on for a while. Too into my membership in runescape.

So it has something to do with groceries huh.
Ummmmmm.......

Was the man taking the groceries home?
Did he decide to have a snack from the bag of groceries, and it was poisoned, and he fell and broke the glass?

(And i have a riddle or 3 to post)

Aside the man and the person in the phone, was anyone else involved?
Was the phone call the reason why the man had an accident?
This doesn't have anything to do with bananas, does it?

Ah... I've heard it before, but I just now remembered the answer. And yes, it is better than the diver in the forest fire. Or the frozen man in the middle of a muddy field with no tracks.

MegaMan:
Was the man taking the groceries home?: Yes
Did he decide to have a snack from the bag of groceries, and it was poisoned, and he fell and broke the glass?: No

Scratcher:
Aside the man and the person in the phone, was anyone else involved?: No
Was the phone call the reason why the man had an accident?: Yes
This doesn't have anything to do with bananas, does it?: No

theory 1: the man was riding home from the super market on his bike and decided to stop by a phone booth to make a call to his 9month pregnant wife to check on her and found out she was in labor. the news of it shocked the guy that he jumped up, banged his head on the window with such force that his skull cracked open spilling blood all over the place making him unconscious and breaking the window.

theory 2: a sniper from outside of the scene aimed at his head but missed and instead grazed a certain point in the head rendering the man unconscious, breaking the window, and causing alot of bleeding.

Did he hit the window?
He found out news on the phone?
If he found out news, were they good?
The person who was talking to was a relative?
Was there food in the package?

"Did he decide to have a snack from the bag of groceries, and it was poisoned, and he fell and broke the glass?"

I thought the answer was that (egakcap eht no sserda na rof gnikool saw eH) Which is pretty freaking close to what you said. But I could well have it wrong...

Did he hit the window?: Yes
He found out news on the phone?: No
[/i]If he found out news, were they good?[/i]: n/a
The person who was talking to was a relative?: Yes
Was there food in the package?: Yes

@Milo: No that wasn't it

So he hit the window by mistake, so hard that he cut himself real bad.
Was he surprised on what he heard on the phone?
The person on the phone was:
his wife
his child
his father
his mother
his cousin
a grandparent

So he hit the window by mistake, so hard that he cut himself real bad.: Indeed
Was he surprised on what he heard on the phone?: No
The person on the phone was: wife

Is the fact it was his wife relevant?
Except for the phone and the package are there any other small objects involved?

Okay, he's my idea: The guy was was taking groceries home or something, and he called his wife to confirm that he had the right stuff. She said something he didn't have, he went "What?" banged his head against the glass, broke it and cut himself. When he saw the blodd he fainted coz he was one of those people who are horribly scared of blodd or something.

What was that thing about a guy in the muddy field who was frozen?

Was the package going to the hospital?
Was he phoning to see if he could comandeer the package?
Are his injuries life threatining?

P.S, BeheadedDuck. Bikers don't get scared of blood as they bleed asphalt.

scratcher:
Is the fact it was his wife relevant?: Not really
Except for the phone and the package are there any other small objects involved?: No

chrispy:
Was the package going to the hospital?: No
Was he phoning to see if he could comandeer the package?: No
Are his injuries life threatining?: How harsh it may sound, it's not relevant to the story. It's about what has happened, not about what's going to happen
Bikers don't get scared of blood as they bleed asphalt.: Make this an exception...

YAY! I WIN! No really, do I?

If I have, here's a riddle:
A man wishes to go on holiday.
He leaves on Friday and stays at the hotel for 3 days.
He returns on Wednesday.
How can this be?

If I haven't won that thing please ignore this.

You weren't right, I also know the answer to your riddle, but I won't spoil it here. I was really stumped when I heard it for the first time

So, the man went to grocery, bought some food, returned home. On the way home, he stopped to call his wife.
Is it relevant why he called his wife?
He hit the window by mistake, when he heard something on the phone?
He hit the window by mistake when he saw something happening outside?

Is it relevant why he called his wife?: Yes!
He hit the window by mistake, when he heard something on the phone?: No
He hit the window by mistake when he saw something happening outside?: No

I've been really confused by the word "grocery". Does it imply being bought? Later I found a definition at dictionary.com:

grocery

n 1: a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market" [syn: grocery store, food market, market] 2: (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer [syn: foodstuff]

If being a grocery implies being bought, then I was confused with "foodstuff", being A substance that can be used or prepared for use as food.

Yes it's a freebee, I indeed just told that it hasn't been bought, which is an indirect "no" to a question by cypry anyway

He called his wife to tell her something about the package.
Was there something wrong with the package?
His wife sent him to bring the food?

He called his wife to tell her something about the package.: Yes!
Was there something wrong with the package?: No
His wife sent him to bring the food?: No

Was there something so important that he couldn't wait untill he get home?
He wanted to ask her something?

Was there something so important that he couldn't wait untill he get home?: "important" is an overstatement, but yes, he couldn't wait.
He wanted to ask her something?: No

He had been out picking mushrooms or berries?

Because you said "A man wishes to go on holiday" instead of just "A man goes on a holiday", my guess is
he was just wishing.

Though a simpler answer would be that he just spent the remaining time somewhere else.

...I think I missed something...
So, he had a package containing groceries, and he called his wife about the package. (Then i think his wife said he was missing something and he was suprised and fainted and broke the glass) <- is that correct?
Edit: Nvm, i did miss something...

And beheadedduck, that riddle goes:
A man rides into town on friday. He spends 3 days and 3 nights there and leaves on friday. How is this possible?

scratcher:
He had been out picking mushrooms or berries?: No

MegaMan:
So, he had a package containing groceries, and he called his wife about the package.: Yes
(Then i think his wife said he was missing something and he was suprised and fainted and broke the glass): His wife didn't tell him he was missing something.

Also, please note my interpretation of the word groceries. I was confused with foodstuff. The contents of the package weren't bought anywhere.

He called his wife because he had something really great for her to make food of, his wife asked where he is, he turned to check the street and hit his hand in the window?

This is the closest ever

He called his wife because he had something really great for her to make food of: Yup, literally.

his wife asked where he is: Could be, but it is not relevant. As a result:
"he turned to check the street and hit his hand in the window?" didn't happen.

@Magicman: He said "I've got your favourite food!" and his wife went "well hurry home!" so he went "Okay," turned around and banged his head againts the galss, making it bleed, and as I have saaid before, he's sacred of blood anf fainted.
Is he scared of blood?

@Scratcher: I was just trying to use fancy language. But it is real, not a dream, and he din't spent any time anywhere else. All he did was go to the holiday place on friday and stayed there for three days, then came home on friday (I changed it to Megaman's way, becuase it makes it easier).

He said "I've got your favourite food!" and his wife went "well hurry home!" so he went "Okay," turned around and banged his head againts the galss, making it bleed, and as I have saaid before, he's sacred of blood anf fainted.: No, except the bolded part.
He is scared of blood, yes, but we have already figured out that it was his hand that was cut in the window, not his head.

There was a reason he hit the window, or it was only a coincidence that he was talking on the phone?
So he had some food in the package, but he didn't bought it.
It was stolen?
It was meat, in the package?

There was a reason he hit the window, or it was only a coincidence that he was talking on the phone?: If you mean to ask if the phone conversation has anything to do with it: Yes. If not, please explain. He was talking on the phone for a reason. And the phone call resulted in the window-hit.
So he had some food in the package, but he didn't bought it.: Indeed
It was stolen?: No
It was meat, in the package?: Well, no, fish, but carry on. I'm getting tired. Someone should guess it, fast!

So the guy went fishing, cought some fish, and came back home. He stopped to call his wife and told her he cought some fish.
Did he told her anything else?
Did his wife told him something he didn't expeted to hear?

So the guy went fishing, cought some fish, and came back home. He stopped to call his wife and told her he cought some fish.: Yes
Did he told her anything else?: Yes
Did his wife told him something he didn't expeted to hear?: No

this riddle is pretty crazy. i think i know why no one can figure it out, the original question was too vague. how do u get "he went fishing and caught some fish" from the original question?

you are the only one who knows the answer, tell us now or esle!

It all depends on the questions, how would you guess the axes/knives from the earlier story with the shoes? None of that was given, while I even gave you the fact he had a package, of which the content could be easily guessed. But yeah, people always get conspicious with packages that it might contain a bomb or something... not my fault

And if the few persons (scratcher, BeheadedDuck and cypry, and occasionally some other people) who are actually guessing agree, I'll tell it. It's time for someone else anyway. But I think that if you interpret "something great to make food of" another way, you'll be a lot closer to the answer

He used his hands to show the height of the fish while telling about it to her wife, and because he was in the phone booth hit the window?

Ah, yes, after fishing, he was calling his wife to tell her about the fish. He also mentioned the size of it.

"It was THIS big!", and making the gesture all fishermen make when bragging about the size. His hand hit the window, making it bleed, and because he, indeed, was afraid of blood, he fainted.

Given the original riddle, there's little chance that someone would be able to deduce that. At the very least, the foodstuff/parcel should be changed to a dead fish.

As it is, I think it would be much cooler if everyone posted their own riddles in seperate threads from now on... that way we could have multiple riddles going at the same time, and it'd be easier to follow.

So I suppose this thread is officialy dead now?