The Riddle Game

OK, I realise that for some of you English is not your first language so I shall explain what I said before a little better.
White horses means the waves, and I think that the answer to your riddle is the waves, or at least the tides, resulting from the moon's acting on the sea.
Maybe this isn't right either, but I hope you understand what I meant. If you did, and it wasn't right anyway I apologise for being patronising. :D
 
Gee, I always thought that Stanford was in California, thus making them "yanks" too as you put it. The distinction is not between US and international, but between college students and grade school kids. The grade school kids got the answer more often. It highlights the open mind of youth. An open mind would be not jumping to already formed opinions without carefully reading what is presented, in case you were unclear on this point.
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Actually, I'm not quite certain the greater number of grade school children correct answers was a result of their open-mindedness. It could be the opposite.

The reason I specified the grade school children as being American was because the United States is often viewed as a nation with a substantial devoted religious population. Now, of course, there are many other nations that have a high percentage of religious citizens, but I chose the United States simply because it is probably the most recognized by those who take part in these forum discussions.

Most children who are raised in whichever religious sects that believe in a bipolar afterlife (Heaven & Hell) are taught that God is the supreme entity of the universe and that NOTHING is greater than He. On the other side, there is the devil, who is illustrated as being the greatest of evils, thus nothing is more evil than the devil.

I suppose what I should have done is said that the children who were given the riddle were from a Christian grade school (FL2 is going to blast me for this), rendering their nationalities irrelevant.

What would be interesting would be the results of the riddle were it to be stated with the first two lines omitted:

What is it that rich people need
Poor people have
And if you eat, will die?

Anyhow, I've gone way off-topic and have probably aided in the destruction of this thread. Sorry :(

Here's a childhood riddle, since I'm on the theme:

What is black and white and red all over? (Hint: This one is meant to be spoken rather than written) You've probably all heard it as well ;)

-Maj
 
yeah its the waves :)
 
Actually, I'm not quite certain the greater number of grade school children correct answers was a result of their open-mindedness. It could be the opposite.
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You may be correct, though grade school children often view problems with less of the filters provided by age. I have heard this one before, and figured that the children were Americans, because the study was done in America. After all, Stanford is an American university. Which is actually what irritated me about darkchild's response. He or she seemed to automatically assume that the "yanks" must have known less than the Stanford students. Considering that the Stanford studunts are "yanks" too, I found it rather Ironic, especially since the children got the answer correct more often. The open mind part I added because assuming that the "yanks" know less, and that there is a nationality distinction between Stanford University and America seemed not to reflect open-mindedness.

A: A Newspaper
 
look what i started... im ruining my own thread...:lol:

heres a new riddle:

One day a father and son's car stalls on the tracks. The train comes and kills the dad and injures the son. The son is on the hospital bed when the surgeon walks in and says "I can't work on him, he's my son."

(pretty easy):lol:
 
The surgeon was the son's mother.


This riddle is one of the easiest, but I don't think a riddle thread would be complete without it:

What walks on four legs in the morning, Two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening?
 
Ha ha!

Try this:

Einstein's riddle.

There are 5 houses in five different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These five owners drink a certain drink, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. None of them have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

THE QUESTION IS: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

Hints:

the Brit lives in the red house

the Swede keeps dogs as pets

The Dane drinks tea

the green house is on the left of the white house

the green house owner drinks coffee

the person who smokes Pall Mal has birds

the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill

the man living in the house in the center drinks milk

the Norwegian lives in the first house

the man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats

the man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill

the owner who smokes Blue Master drinks Beer

the German smokes Prince

the Norwegian lives next to the blue house

the man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water


Since I don't think you could get this unless you already know the answer, I'll let one stand, and give this one instead:

A hollow wood house with four singing voices,
I am the highest sounding one among all the choices.
What am I?
 
i saw that long one online, but wasnt brave enough to post it... :D i thought it was a bit too complicated...

and to the small one, is it the smallest reed on a 4 reed set of pan pipes?
 
a bird in a bird house?
 
Herr Schmidt was relaxing one day in his green house 4th from the left on International Lane. While watching some programing from his native Germany he drank his daily coffee and looked forward to his afternoon smoke. He had just recieved some Prince Cigars from his Swedish neighbor who prefered a different brand. Just then there was a knock on the door. He answered it and to his delight it was the deliveryman with the rare lionfish he had ordered to round out his aquarium.


Does that answer the question Sixchan?
 
Well I had worked it out by using one of those grid things they give you in logic problem books, but he beat me to posting the answer. I was wondering if it would make any difference on which side of the street the houses were. If the numbers count up (re: the Norwegian lived in the first house) from left to right or from right to left. Can someone else think about this for me because I'm lazy? :D

Is the answer to yours a viola 6?
 
I used the grid thing. I don't think it would matter on the side of the street. I made the assumption of facing the houses, but I don't think even that would matter. As long as you are consistant, the German will always be 4th on the left because of the way the clues are given. I think.;)
 
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