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)

  • Sunstream@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 years ago

    'Tis a silly one, but it’s hilarious when it stumps people. Best used verbally:

    There are thirty cows in a field, and twenty-eight chickens. How many didn’t?

    Answer

    Ten. Ten didn’t eat chickens!

    • Jay K@lemmy.ml
      8·
      2 years ago

      My 8 year old daughter got me with this one just yesterday. She was so proud of herself.

    • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi
      4·
      2 years ago

      We have similar one in Czechia. John Doe bought twenty mice. The next day, he bought twenty-one mice. How many mice does he have? The solution is zero, because in czech, you can say twenty-one mice the same way as poison for twenty mice (jednadvacet myší - jed na dvacet myší). Just thought it’s interesting that this works in other languages too.

      • Interesting_Test_814@jlai.lu
        2·
        2 years ago

        In French we have “Vingt cent mille ânes dans un pré et cent vingt dans l’autre. Combien de pattes au total ?” = “Twenty hundred thousand donkeys in a meadow and a hundred twenty in the other. How many legs total ?” Answer is six, because it can also be read as “Vincent mit l’âne dans un pré et s’en vint dans l’autre” = “Vincent put the donkey in the meadow and went to the other.” So two legs for Vincent and four for the donkey.

        We also have “The wheat, or the sheep ?” Answer is “at the mill”, because “or the sheep” is pronounced the same as “where does one mill it” (ou le mouton - où le moud-on).

  • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world
    28·
    2 years ago

    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?

  • Dukeofdummies@kbin.social
    21·
    2 years ago

    What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place?

    E, it’s a really mean one when delivered verbally

  • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 years ago

    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!<

  • tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de
    10·
    2 years ago

    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

  • gezepi@lemmyunchained.net
    9·
    2 years ago

    It doesn’t lead to a destination, and maybe isn’t even a riddle, but a sentence I like is:

    Is your answer to this question the same as if I had asked you to give me a dollar?

  • Elise@beehaw.org
    9·
    2 years ago

    I fly without wings, I cry without eyes, whenever I go, darkness flies.

    Edit: Another one: The more you take the more you leave behind.

  • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi
    8·
    2 years ago

    You are in a room with two doors. Each door has one guard. One door leads to heaven and the other leads to hell. You have to choose one door and once you choose it, you have to go there. Before you choose, you can ask one of the guards one question. One of them always lie and the other always tell the truth. You don’t know which guard is the liar/truth teller and you don’t know which door leads to hell/heaven. What’s the question you ask the guard?

  • _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyzEnglish
    71·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyzEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        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.

      • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        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… :/

  • octoperson@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    2 years ago

    -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?