Riddles

[CrackedCrystal]

Looks like we can't stump each other Diamondz

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

btw, you didn't really solve the previous one.

A man and his son were on a tour of an atomic power plant. In the control room, the boy asked if he could see the controls for the reactor core. The head physicist said yes, and explained how the controls worked. After the boy left, the head physicist turned to an assistant and said, "That was my son."
How could that be?

 

[CrackedCrystal]

The physicist was the boy's mother.

To be fair, I heard that one with a few differences. A man brings his son to the hospital after a car wrek. The surgen says I cannot opperate on this boy, he is my son.

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

Yes, I heard several version of it as well.

A white horse jumped over a tower and landed on a priest, who immediately disappeared. Where did this take place?

Two trains are coming in opposite directions on the same track at the same time. How come they don't collide?

Cmon, I've got a billion of em. The hard part is, trying to remember any of the really good ones.

 

[CrackedCrystal]

Originally posted by DiamondzAndGunz
A white horse jumped over a tower and landed on a priest, who immediately disappeared. Where did this take place?

A dream.

I'm still thinking on the other one.

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

Nope, not a dream. Something in real life.

 

[CrackedCrystal]

Originally posted by DiamondzAndGunz
Two trains are coming in opposite directions on the same track at the same time. How come they don't collide?

They are coming FROM the same direction but they are facing IN opposite directions (one train is in reverse)

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

They are coming FROM the same direction but they are facing IN opposite directions (one train is in reverse)

Nah, that's not right. Lemme rephrase that.

Two trains are coming from opposite directions on the same track at the same time. How come they don't collide?

 

[CrackedCrystal]

Still thinking on the horse, but here is one for you....

A boy is at a carnival and a carnie claims he will write the boy's exact weight on a piece of paper.

If he can, the boy pays $20. If he can't the boy is paid $20.

The boy sees there is no scale and figures no matter what number the carnie writes, he can claim either higher or lower so agrees to the bet.

The boy has to pay $20 to the carnie. How did this happen?


EDIT: fixed some mispelled words

 

[Illustrious]

Originally posted by DaveMcW
Here's a slightly more complicated one. There are three students sitting at a table, with a box containing 3 black stickers and 2 white stickers. Their logic teacher comes by, takes the box away, and places a black sticker on each student's forehead (without letting the students see their own sticker). The teacher promises an 'A' to the first student to deduce what color their own sticker is.

The students stare at each other for 2 minutes, without talking or otherwise communicating with each other. Then one student stands up and says, "My sticker is black." How did the student figure it out?

No-one really answered this before.

Let's label the three students A, B and me.

Now if my sticker is white, A can see one black and one white (since I know B is black). Seeing a black and a white is not enough to tell him his own colour, and so A must be indecisive.

B, seeing that A is indecisive, would know for certain that his own sticker was not white (since if it were, A would see two whites, and any student who saw two whites would know for certain that his own sticker was black...).

However, B himself is indecisive, which must mean that I am not wearing a white sticker. If I am not wearing a white sticker, I must be wearing black. Simple.

A white horse jumped over a tower and landed on a priest, who immediately disappeared. Where did this take place?

Two trains are coming in opposite directions on the same track at the same time. How come they don't collide?

Hope nobody minds if I jump in here:

(1) A game of chess.

(2) They are travelling away from one another.

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

A boy is at a carnival and a carnie claims he will write the boy's exact weight on a piece of paper.

If he can, the boy pays $20. If he can't the boy is paid $20.

The boy sees there is no scale and figures no matter what number the carnie writes, he can claim either higher or lower so agrees to the bet.

The boy has to pay $20 to the carnie. How did this happen?

The carnie wrote the words "the boy's exact weight" on the piece of paper.

 

[CrackedCrystal]

No problem jumping in Illustrious. It makes it more fun.

Here is another. What is the next number in the series:
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

 

[CrackedCrystal]

@ Diamondz

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

@ illustrious on the horse, but I rewrote the second in another post. Try that one.
Here it is:
Two trains are coming from opposite directions on the same track at the same time. How come they don't collide?

 

[CrackedCrystal]

Hooo hoo, how about this. They are still coming at each other so they could not have collided yet. Otherwise, one of the trains would no longer be coming, but going.

 

[CrackedCrystal]

How far can a dog run into the woods?

 

[Illustrious]

How about if they're not moving?

 

[Illustrious]

Originally posted by CrackedCrystal
How far can a dog run into the woods?

Halfway. After that he's running out....

 

[CrackedCrystal]

@Illustrious

Shot in the dark here about the Boston riddle. Is MA short for another country with a city named Boston?

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

The trains are moving. When they reach the same spot, they do not collide. They do not stop. They keep going. How is it possible?

last one, then i gotta finish hw

There is a cow behind a curtain that you cannot see, it is either all black or all white. There are two guards that can see the cow and still see you. However, one of them always tells the truth and one of them always lies. You may ask only one question to only one guard, one question only. What question do you ask to find out the color of the cow?

@crackedcrystal: MA is Massachusetts, the state.