The official Riddle thread

[BALLAHOLLIC]

Simple game. Just throw some riddles out there.There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

 

[jhowardfan]

startlingI have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head, but I'm not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I'm never thrown. What am I?

 

[kingjamez]

STARTLING

 

[LAZY]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jhowardfan @ May 31 2006, 12:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>startlingI have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head, but I'm not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I'm never thrown. What am I?</div> I've herd this before, a bow and arrowThis topic will bust quick, anyone can google this stuff...I am never the first to speak, but I am always the last to be heard. Who am I?

 

[7Goat]

An echk here's one.The maker doesn't use it for themselves. The buyer doesn't want it for themselves. And the user doesnt see it.Not worded exact but what is it?

 

[jonesboyz]

coffin i think this is a riddleThree friends went to a hotel. The bill was 75 dollars Each one contributed 25 dollars.The waiter took the bill to the cashier.The cashier was happy & decided to give them a discount of 5 dollars & asked the waiter to return them 5 dollars.Now the waiter was confused. How to distribute 5 dollars among 3 persons?He kept 2 dollars in his pocket & gave one dollar to each one of the 3 persons.So initially each one had contributed 25 dollars. Now as they are given 1 dollar back, their contribution reduces to 24 dollars. They all contributed 24 dollars -- that is 24x3=72 & 2 dollars are in the waiters pocket. The total becomes 74. But they had paid 75 dollars.Where is the remaining 1 dollar?.

 

[7Goat]

Holy sh*t I have no idea. That is confusing

 

[chainkilla]

Wouldn't it be with the cashier since he gave an odd number back to the waiter?

 

[jonesboyz]

Yep

 

[chainkilla]

One day, you woke up in a place you havent seen before. There, you saw three rooms, all bring you to the exit. But, on those rooms, there were notes. It said: 1: room is filled with poison gas 2: room has more than 15 lions that havent eaten for 5 years 3: room is fiiled with snipers that would kill anyone who steps in You have no other choice, but to choose one of the three. Which room would be the way that could get you out without being harmed?

 

[arya202]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (chainkilla @ Jul 7 2006, 03:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>One day, you woke up in a place you havent seen before. There, you saw three rooms, all bring you to the exit. But, on those rooms, there were notes. It said: 1: room is filled with poison gas 2: room has more than 15 lions that havent eaten for 5 years 3: room is fiiled with snipers that would kill anyone who steps in You have no other choice, but to choose one of the three. Which room would be the way that could get you out without being harmed?</div>Uhhh the gas because you haven't seen it before? What's the answer?

 

[jonesboyz]

room twoif those lions haven't eaten in 5 YEARS, they're either too weak to kill you, or they're dead, or they have eaten each other and only one is alive, and you could probably take him on.

 

[chainkilla]

Yeah it's 2. Even if they did eat each other they couldn't survive for those 5 years and be healthy.

 

[fearthefro085]

A man walks up to you and says - "everything I say to you is a lie."Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?

 

[Something-To-Say]

what's he mean by everything i say? everything he says after that statement or everything he has ever said or what?

 

[7Goat]

hmm... Since he says that everything to YOU is a lie he tells the truth to everyone else?? dont really know

 

[iFR3SHi]

Its LIE..he just said a lie. to him

 

[bbwMax]

Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I'm double, I'm single,
I'm black, blue, and gray,
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way.
What am I?

 

[Denny Crane]

<font face="Arial"><font color="#783896"><font size="3">Three men went to a motel. The motel manager said a room cost $30, so each man put up $10 and went to their room. A little while later the manager realized the room was only $25, so he sent the bellhop back to the three guys' room with $5. On the way to the room the bellhop couldn't figure out how to split the $5 between the 3 men, so he gave each one of them $1 and he kept the other $2.</font></font></font></p>

<font face="Arial"><font color="#783896"><font size="3">This meant that the 3 men paid $9 each for the room for a total of $27. Add the $2 that the bellhop kept = $29. </font></font></font></p>

<font face="Arial"><font color="#783896"><font size="3">Where did the other dollar go?</font></font></font></p>

 

[lukewarmplay]

30 = 10 + 10 + 10</p>

30 - 5 = 10 + 10 + 10 - 3 - 2</p>

What extra dollar? </p>

I wish I could do the word problems.</p>

 

[GMJ]

To tip the bellhop, obvi

 

[lukewarmplay]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Max)</div><div class='quotemain'>Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray, I'm read from both ends, And the same either way. What am I?</div></p>

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My guess so far is eye, which seems to square with everything but double & grey.</p>

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[pegs]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (fearthefro085)</div><div class='quotemain'>A man walks up to you and says - "everything I say to you is a lie."
Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?</div>

</p> uuummmm...what?!