The Riddles Thread

[Phrossack]

Right, so maybe this is better suited for H&J, or the Forum Games, or something, but those places are dead compared to OT, and OT needs more fun threads anyway.

Rules: Write your own riddle. Or copy one down, but if it's easily Googled, then there's no challenge. Everyone else tries to guess the answer. Whoever gets it right gets to pose the next riddle.

I wrote one of my own, but it's pretty obvious, so I think I'll go with an old classic, the words modified a bit so it isn't as easy to Google. Wait for others to guess if you are already familiar with the riddle and its answer.


"I am a wonderful thing; many love to have me inside. I stand tall, erect in bed, and am hairy below. Sometimes a fine woman grabs me by my reddish head and gets to work on me. Part of her body becomes wet. What am I?"

 

[warpus]

A Jolly Roger?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

You have a two ropes and a lighter. You know that if you light one of the ropes on fire, it takes 30 minutes to burn through completely from end to end. The burn rate is not constant, that is to say, you know nothing about how long a segment will take to burn through, only that the whole thing will burn through in 30 minutes.

Given these two ropes and a lighter, how would you measure 45 minutes of time?

 

[onejayhawk]

What is the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom?

J

 

[onejayhawk]

You have a two ropes and a lighter. You know that if you light one of the ropes on fire, it takes 30 minutes to burn through completely from end to end. The burn rate is not constant, that is to say, you know nothing about how long a segment will take to burn through, only that the whole thing will burn through in 30 minutes.

Given these two ropes and a lighter, how would you measure 45 minutes of time?

For 15 minutes, light both ends.

J

 

[Valka D'Ur]

You have a two ropes and a lighter. You know that if you light one of the ropes on fire, it takes 30 minutes to burn through completely from end to end. The burn rate is not constant, that is to say, you know nothing about how long a segment will take to burn through, only that the whole thing will burn through in 30 minutes.

Given these two ropes and a lighter, how would you measure 45 minutes of time?

I'd look at a clock.

 

[Phrossack]

A Jolly Roger?

Nope.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

"I am a wonderful thing; many love to have me inside. I stand tall, erect in bed, and am hairy below. Sometimes a fine woman grabs me by my reddish head and gets to work on me. Part of her body becomes wet. What am I?"

A cigarette ?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

For 15 minutes, light both ends.

J

Basically yes. Light one rope on one end, let it burn down; then light the other from both ends.

 

[peter grimes]

What weighs more on the moon than it does on earth?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

What weighs more on the moon than it does on earth?

The moon ?

 

[Phrossack]

A cigarette ?

Negative.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Is it a penis ? Is the answer penis, and the only reason this is considered a riddle is that people don't want to ask if it is a penis ?

 

[classical_hero]

Link to video.

@ Peter. A helium balloon.

 

[El_Machinae]

It's a carrot. But I don't have my own riddle.

 

[Phrossack]

Is it a penis ? Is the answer penis, and the only reason this is considered a riddle is that people don't want to ask if it is a penis ?

Good lord, no, you naughty person.

I should have written, "I grow tall, erect in bed."

 

[peter grimes]

The moon ?

Incorrect.

I hadn't heard that answer ever before, but I don't thinks it's correct in any case. Since gravitational attraction follows the inverse square relation to distance, the moon would weigh more the closer it was to earth.

 

[Phrossack]

Is it a penis ? Is the answer penis, and the only reason this is considered a riddle is that people don't want to ask if it is a penis ?

Good lord, no, you naughty person.

I should have written, "I grow tall, erect in bed."

It's a carrot. But I don't have my own riddle.

You are very close.

 

[Borachio]

Is it a carrot used as a penis? Or is it a penis used as a carrot? I've a feeling it's one or the other.

 

[peter grimes]

A BEET!