Riddles

[K-Man]

Still thinking on those others, here's a couple more:

John and Peter took turns driving on a round trip, using the same route both ways. John drove the first 40 kilometers, and then Peter drove the rest of the way. John started to drive on the trip back, and then Peter drove the last 50 kilometers. Which of the two drove more kilometers, and how many more did he drive?

Tim was working for a large construction company that was very concerned with employee theft. Someone tipped the company security that Tim was the man to watch. Each night, he passed through security with a wheelbarrow full of scrap lumber, discarded electrical wires, and chunks of concrete. The security guards checked the contents daily, but could find nothing of value. What did he steal?

 

[Dell19]

The wheelbarrows...

Lets go simple and say Peter by 10 km

 

[Vraslosken]

The Peter/John driving thingy: Peter by 20 km.

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by Vraslosken
The Peter/John driving thingy: Peter by 20 km.

Yep, Peter by 20 km. I guess I'll explain it:

Say the distance was 60 km. John drove the first 40, Peter the last 20. Then John drove the first 10 (total: 50) and Peter the last 50 (total: 70). Now say the distance is 90 km. John drove the first 40, and Peter the last 50. Then John drove the first 40 km (total: 80), and Peter the last 50 (total: 100). Try any distance you like, and Peter always drives 20 km more than John.

Finally a riddle that I can successfuly (hopefully) think through...

 

[K-Man]

@Dell 19:
Wheelbarrows
Not 10 km (as explained by the next couple posts)

@Vraslosken, WillJ:

 

[K-Man]

A couple more:

Which one of the four following words does not belong in the group, and why?
Oriole
Orange
Oil
Month


What is the product of the following series? (for those who don't know, * means multiply)
(X-A)*(X-B)*(X-C)*...*(X-Z)=?


Four men sat down to play,
They played all night 'till the break of day.
They played for gold and not for fun
With separate scores for everyone.
When they came to square accounts,
They all had made quite fair amounts.
Can you the paradox explain,
If no one lost, how could all gain?

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

@K-Man: For the last one, they were musicians.

 

[K-Man]

@D&G:

Only two more...

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by K-Man
What is the product of the following series? (for those who don't know, * means multiply)
(X-A)*(X-B)*(X-C)*...*(X-Z)=?

0, because one of the factors is (X-X), which equals 0, and anything times 0 equals 0.

Edited to make a correction.

 

[Alex the Great]

I kinda cheated by looking it up (warning) but

Oil can rhyme with something else

But orange does rhyme with door hinge.

 

[K-Man]

@WillJ:

@Alex: for cheating, for the answer (Oil is the only one that rhymes with other words...multiple words don't count)

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

Ok, here's some more for ya. Not too hard.

Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all letters, the first of all numbers,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring,
Before you the name of an eminent king.

What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees.
Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows.
What is it?

There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors?

 

[CrackedCrystal]

Originally posted by DiamondzAndGunz
There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors? [/B]

The scissors cut the power cord to the life support he was on in the hospital bed.

 

[K-Man]

There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors?

Or, it was a water bed, and the scissors were used to cut open the water bed, and drown the victim.

Edit:

Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all letters, the first of all numbers,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring,
Before you the name of an eminent king.


King DAVID

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

@ K-Man: on both.

 

[Turner]

Originally posted by K-Man
@WillJ:

@Alex: for cheating, for the answer (Oil is the only one that rhymes with other words...multiple words don't count)

Oriole and Creole don't rhyme? Must be my accent. Wait a minute, I don't have an accent. Everyone else does.

For the Tomatoes/Avacodos one, you like stuff than starts with a preposition.

 

[WillJ]

D&G, can you please tell me if I got this right:

Chuck, a bestselling author of romantic fiction, had suspected for some time that his wife Eva was unfaithful, though he had no proof. One afternoon, while Chuck was working on his latest bodice-ripper, Eva mentioned that she intended to go to the movies and would be out for a few hours. As Eva went to the door, Chuck looked at her pensively, then resumed his work. Three hours later, Eva returned, took her coat off and asked Chuck weather he wanted some coffee. When she returned from the kitchen, Chuck asked her to sit down as he wanted to talk to her.
"Eva," he said, "I want a divorce."
Can you figure out how he knew?

My answer: He didn't see any ticket stubs. (Post # 917)

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

@ Turner:
@ WillJ: Nope, she could've, in theory, thrown the ticket stubs away if she had gone to the movies, so that wouldn't have proved anything. It's a hard one... it requires some... creative thinking .

 

[Alex the Great]

Again I cheated but I won't tell the answer

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

Here's some new ones, to add to the couple that still aren't answered

Squeeze it and it cries tears as red as its flesh,
but its heart is made of stone.

I am both Mother and Father.
I am seldom still
yet I never wander.
I never birth nor nurse.

Although I exist alone, I am often intertwined with others as the
threads of a spider web. When worn there's an expression that signifies
you shall not leave me. A man with a name meaning knowledgeable one
once said that I am part of a set of four and that I have less than ten
folds.