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Here's two riddles:

1) Because cigars cannot be entirely smoked, a hobo who collects cigar butts can make a cigar to smoke out of every 5 butts that he finds. Today, he has collected 25 cigar butts. How many cigars will he be able to smoke?

2) A train leaves St. Louis at 13:00 GMT, and another train leaves Los Angeles at 12:30 GMT. Assuming that the trains serve food almost immediately after departing, what meal do both trains serve?
 
1) Six. Five from the 25 buts, then these five make five butts, giving him a sixth cigar.

2) I want to say Breakfast, but that's almost too easy.
 
Originally posted by Turner_727
1) Six. Five from the 25 buts, then these five make five butts, giving him a sixth cigar.

2) I want to say Breakfast, but that's almost too easy.
:goodjob: on both. Yeah, the second one was easy. I guess the only reason someone might get it wrong is if they think by "meal" I mean specific meal (pancakes, pizza, etc.).

Another one, that's probably also too easy:

A woman has a drawer with five pairs of blue gloves and six pairs of black gloves. How many gloves must she randomly pick so that she has at least one matching pair?
 
Actually, the 13:00 GMT & 12:30 GMT almost threw me. I saw the 13:00, and locked onto that. It wasn't unitl I started to reply and saw the GMT that I realized it would be breakfast. I thought it was some kind of trick question. Wait, what am I saying? We don't have those in this thread! **cough** D&G **cough**

Oh. .. three gloves to be assured of a matching pair.

Edit: Now that I think of it, if she's acutally looking in the drawer, she should be able to see the gloves, and pull just two out that match. . . . you never said she wasn't able to see in the drawer. . .
 
12 gloves. She could pick 5 blue gloves for the same hand, 6 black gloves for the same hand, and still not have a pair. But then the next one will have to be either a blue or black glove, of the opposite hand.
 
Originally posted by Turner_727
Oh. .. three gloves to be assured of a matching pair.

Edit: Now that I think of it, if she's acutally looking in the drawer, she should be able to see the gloves, and pull just two out that match. . . . you never said she wasn't able to see in the drawer. . .
Your original answer is incorrect, and I said she randomly picked the gloves.

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Originally posted by DiamondzAndGunz
12 gloves. She could pick 5 blue gloves for the same hand, 6 black gloves for the same hand, and still not have a pair. But then the next one will have to be either a blue or black glove, of the opposite hand.
:goodjob:
 
Originally posted by TNG
There was a woman who shot her husband, drowned him, and then finally she hung him. Later that evening they enjoyed a lovely dinner. How is that possible?
She shot his picture, developed it, then hung it up.
 
A man visiting Japan decided to buy an 111 cm long katana as a souvenier. Upon travelling to catch his flight home, however, he tried to board a train. Unfortunately, being from abroad he did not know of the Japanese rail systems' rule of "no items measuring >1m in length can be brought aboard".

How did he catch the train with his sword without breaking the rule or the sword?
 
here's one for you, it might be easy, but maybe not.

Three mathematicians were hunting. The first one shot at a deer and missed two feet to the left. The second one shot at the deer and missed 2 feet to the right. What did the third mathematician do?
 
He told the first two mathematicians they were useless and used his machine gun to riddle the deer with holes. :ar15:
 
Originally posted by KingWilly
He told the first two mathematicians they were useless and used his machine gun to riddle the deer with holes. :ar15:

:eek: YOU VIOLENT PERSON, NO, INCORRECT!
 
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