Topic: THE FIVE RIDDLES
tigerman1956's photo
Thu 08/27/09 04:00 AM
I GOT 4 RIGHT, DO NOT CHEAT, ANSWER THE RIDDLES FIRST, THEN SEE THE ANSWERS.

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three
rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?


2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over
5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?


3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it
away?


4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words
Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday?



5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can
find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!




THE ANSWERS TO
THE FIVE RIDDLES









Answers:


1 The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.
That one was easy, right?

2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband,
developed it, and hung it up to dry (shot; held under water; an hung).

3. Charcoal, as it is used in barbecuing.

4. Sure you can name three consecutive days, yesterday, today, and
tomorrow!

5. The letter e, which is the most common letter used in the English
language, does not appear even once in the paragraph.


How did you do?



14shadesOfgray's photo
Thu 08/27/09 04:55 AM
Dude

I got one of them...the 2nd one

Boo!

Cuz the others were just...Boo! lol...

No that was friggin cool, do it again!

no photo
Thu 08/27/09 06:59 AM
gotem all!drinks :banana: :banana: drinks

tigerman1956's photo
Thu 08/27/09 08:07 AM

gotem all!drinks :banana: :banana: drinks





OHHHHHHH SURE YOU DID.....laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh

Miniv12's photo
Thu 08/27/09 09:14 PM
i got the first one right!!!

other than that...psh

no photo
Thu 08/27/09 09:17 PM
W00T!! Got them all. :banana:

sad2 but it did take me 6 hours to figure out the charcoal