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(Message started by: anthonynow12 on Dec 20th, 2006, 12:32pm)
Title: Riddles
Post by anthonynow12 on Dec 20th, 2006, 12:32pm
You approach two talking doors. One door leads to the City of Truth, while the other door leads to the City of Liars. You do not know which door is which. You are able to ask only one question to determine which door is which. The door that leads to the City of Liars always speaks lies, while the door that leads to the City of Truth always speaks the truth. You want to go to the City of Truth. What question do you ask to determine which door leads to the City of Truth?

1. What row of numbers comes next in this series?


1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

2. A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, "You may make a statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?

3. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?

4. If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?

5. What is broken every time it's spoken?

6. How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?

7. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?

8. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

9. If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?

10. What work can a painter never quite finish?

11. Why wasn't Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people?

12. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?

13. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?

14. What has a mouth but can't chew?

15. How many letters are in the alphabet?

16. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

17. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

18. Food can help me survive, but water will kill me. What am I?

19. Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?

20. What stinks when living and smells good when dead?

21. When is it bad luck to meet a white cat?

22. If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?

And One More Hard Riddle
23. Which of the following statements are true?

1. At least one of these ten statements is false.
2. At least two of these ten statements are false.
3. At least three of these ten statements are false.
4. At least four of these ten statements are false.
5. At least five of these ten statements are false.
6. At least six of these ten statements are false.
7. At least seven of these ten statements are false.
8. At least eight of these ten statements are false.
9. At least nine of these ten statements are false.
10. At least ten of these ten statements are false.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by towr on Dec 20th, 2006, 2:37pm

on 12/20/06 at 12:32:59, anthonynow12 wrote:
You approach two talking doors. One door leads to the City of Truth, while the other door leads to the City of Liars. You do not know which door is which. You are able to ask only one question to determine which door is which. The door that leads to the City of Liars always speaks lies, while the door that leads to the City of Truth always speaks the truth. You want to go to the City of Truth. What question do you ask to determine which door leads to the City of Truth?

Am I a pizza?


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2. A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, "You may make a statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?
The goldbach conjecture is true.


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3. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?
If they're perfectly cylindrical, hold the 5 gallon container tilted, and fill it such that the surface divides the container diagonally in two. Then fill from the 5G container (with 2.5 G) the 3G container in the same way (it will then have 1.5G in it, and 1 G thus remains in the 5G one).


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4. If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?
It's never that dark in my room, unfortunately, and all my socks are white. But I can also grab a flashlight or put on the main light.
Having a matching pair distributed among numerous other socks I pulled out wouldn't help me anyway.
Besides which, if you're smart, you fold your socks up in pairs, so that you always get a matching pair in one grab.


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5. What is broken every time it's spoken?
'broken'


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6. How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?
It's 2098 and Islam conquered the US.


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7. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?
At least 7. But they might have pets that we could count, or cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc.


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9. If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?
No.


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10. What work can a painter never quite finish?
housework (ask any mother, there's always more to be done)


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11. Why wasn't Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people?
She was a cannon.


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12. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?
He was a kitten.


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13. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?
Depends on how many I already had; but at least one.


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14. What has a mouth but can't chew?
Ply


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15. How many letters are in the alphabet?
26, 11 or 7, or something else entirely, depending on the interpretation.


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17. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Anything that fits in a corner; the earth spins, after all.


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21. When is it bad luck to meet a white cat?
When you're violently allergic.


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22. If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?
None, I don't have pennies.


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And One More Hard Riddle
23. Which of the following statements are true?

1. At least one of these ten statements is false.
2. At least two of these ten statements are false.
3. At least three of these ten statements are false.
4. At least four of these ten statements are false.
5. At least five of these ten statements are false.
6. At least six of these ten statements are false.
7. At least seven of these ten statements are false.
8. At least eight of these ten statements are false.
9. At least nine of these ten statements are false.
10. At least ten of these ten statements are false.
None. And they're not false either. They have absolutely no bearing on reality and hence no truthvalue. There are no facts being described you could check them against.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Dec 20th, 2006, 3:04pm
Haha.  Funny, towr.  I'm surprised you went through all those, even if you did it flippantly.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by towr on Dec 20th, 2006, 3:08pm
Well, I skipped a few that were either new, or for which I could only think of the intended answer.

I liked my 2 container solution though, my memory is bad enough not to remember it being on here before (if it has).
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Sameer on Dec 20th, 2006, 4:22pm

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1. What row of numbers comes next in this series?


1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221


I have seen this one around here on forum somewhere..

Answer: 1113213211
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by flamingdragon on Dec 20th, 2006, 6:11pm
0. Which way leads to the city of truth tomorrow?

2. I will be sentenced to six years in prison.

3. Fill 3 gallon bucket, dump in 5 gallon bucket, fill 3 gallon bucket, dumb in 5 gallon bucket 'till is full. There is one gallon in the 3 gallon bucket.

4. None, u know at least two of the socks in there are matching already.

5. Silence

7. At least seven.

9. A lie

13. Three

16. Towel

21. Friday the 13th on Opposite day.  ::)
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by towr on Dec 21st, 2006, 1:37am

on 12/20/06 at 18:11:40, flamingdragon wrote:
0. Which way leads to the city of truth tomorrow?
How will this help? Each door may reply "this door".


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9. A lie
If he never said anything before, and promptly dies after uttering his sentence, how can this be a lie? It would become true if it were a lie, and a lie if it were true.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Miles on Dec 21st, 2006, 8:26am
2. "1000 years from now, a comet will hit the planet Neptune"

6. He officiated at 3 weddings

8. QUEUE or AITCH (that's how some of us say "H" in the UK, don't know about those of you in the colonies).

11. A hurricane

12. Because you take photos with a camera (groan)

14. River / cave / dead animal

17. News?

21. When you're a mouse.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Dec 21st, 2006, 8:55am
Green readers in favour of recycling should also see
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1053630445
and
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1049661852

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1120600713

:)
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by flamingdragon on Jan 1st, 2007, 12:12am

on 12/21/06 at 01:37:00, towr wrote:
How will this help? Each door may reply "this door".

If he never said anything before, and promptly dies after uttering his sentence, how can this be a lie? It would become true if it were a lie, and a lie if it were true.


No, the truthfull door would say "this door", and the lying one, knowing that tomorrow he would say "this door" must lie and say the correct door, "the other door".

And for the second one, if that is the only sentence he ever said then there is no answer to that riddle.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by towr on Jan 1st, 2007, 5:04am

on 01/01/07 at 00:12:23, flamingdragon wrote:
No, the truthfull door would say "this door", and the lying one, knowing that tomorrow he would say "this door" must lie and say the correct door, "the other door".
You didn't ask him what he'd say tomorrow, but only where it would lead tomorrow.
Besides which, even if you asked that, tomorrow he might have said "neither", in which case "this door" would still be a lie today.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by flamingdragon on Jan 1st, 2007, 10:52am
Oh oops!

That was totally wrong, must be an answer to some other path question.

You ask one of the doors if the other door would tell you if this path leads to the city of safety.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Locke64 on Jan 5th, 2007, 6:49pm
You approach two talking doors. One door leads to the City of Truth, while the other door leads to the City of Liars. You do not know which door is which. You are able to ask only one question to determine which door is which. The door that leads to the City of Liars always speaks lies, while the door that leads to the City of Truth always speaks the truth. You want to go to the City of Truth. What question do you ask to determine which door leads to the City of Truth?

[hide]I'd ask one of them "Which city would the other door say it leads to?", then I'd through the door that supposedly leads to the City of Liars.[/hide]
[e]or
[hide]"Which city would you say you lead to tomorrow?" and if it says the city of truth, go through that door.  If it says the city of liars, go through the other door.[/hide][/e]

1. What row of numbers comes next in this series?


1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

[hide]IDK[/hide]


2. A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, "You may make a statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?

lol this is just about the exact one that I have in my sig! XD [hide]"You will sentence me to six years in prison." -it's a paradox.[/hide]
[e]or
[hide]any other unprovable statement like "in 1532 years, a meteorite will hit the very spot that you were buried."[/hide][/e]

3. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?

Oh, I hate these ones. [hide]Fill the 3-gallon container, put that in the 5-gallon container, fill the 3-gallon container again, dump out what's left in the barrel, put the 5-gallon container (with 3 gallons of oil) above the barrel and pour the 3-gallon container's contents into the 5-gallon container.  The overflow that lands in the barrel is one gallon.[/hide]  -I know that's wrong. :P
[e]right: [hide]same as before, but instead of emptying out the barrel (that would be wasteful ;)) and letting the 5-gallon container overflow, just stop when it's filled and there will be 1 gallon left in the 3-gallon  container.[/hide][/e]


4. If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?

[hide]14[/hide]?


5. What is broken every time it's spoken?

[hide]The "Don't speak" rule lol[/hide]
[e]or
[hide]'broken'[/hide]
or
[hide]silence[/hide][/e]


6. How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?

[hide]He was a priest, marrying them to other men.[/hide]


7. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?

[hide]7[/hide]


8. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

[hide]queue, even though 'q' isn't technically a word?[/hide]


9. If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?

[hide]WTHeck?!?  Are you stealing all these things from me?!?  It's another paradox![/hide]
[e]The answer is [hide]yes. :P[/hide][/e]

10. What work can a painter never quite finish?

[hide]Now this could be anything.[/hide]


11. Why wasn't Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people?

[hide]She was an animal?[/hide]
[e]or
[hide]a tool used to kill dozens of ppl[/hide][/e]

12. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?

[hide]Because curlers can't take photos, duh! :P[/hide]


13. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?

[hide]One[/hide]


14. What has a mouth but can't chew?

[hide]A river[/hide]
[e]or
[hide]a cave[/hide]
or
[hide]anything that has a mouth and is dead (animal, human)[/hide][/e]


15. How many letters are in the alphabet?

[hide]Well, 26, but that' can't be it, so I'd have to say 11.  [e]Or just 8 if you aren't including 'the'.[/e][/hide]


16. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

[hide]A towel[/hide]


17. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

[hide]Anything that you put in a corner of a plane, etc.[/hide]


18. Food can help me survive, but water will kill me. What am I?

[hide]fire[/hide]


19. Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?

[hide]The word 'wholesome'.[/hide]


20. What stinks when living and smells good when dead?

[hide]A fish?[/hide]


21. When is it bad luck to meet a white cat?

[hide]IDK[/hide]
[e][hide]when you're a mouse[/hide][e]


22. If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?

[hide]None, because as soon as you put one in, it is empty again...[/hide]


And One More Hard Riddle
23. Which of the following statements are true?

1. At least one of these ten statements is false.
2. At least two of these ten statements are false.
3. At least three of these ten statements are false.
4. At least four of these ten statements are false.
5. At least five of these ten statements are false.
6. At least six of these ten statements are false.
7. At least seven of these ten statements are false.
8. At least eight of these ten statements are false.
9. At least nine of these ten statements are false.
10. At least ten of these ten statements are false.

[hide]If you're looking for the one that's always true, then it's one.  Otherwise it could be any of them but 10.[/hide]

How many did I get right?  I'm guessing somewhere around 13/24, looking on the bright side. :)


EDIT:  statements surrounded by [e] [/e] were added after reading all the replies.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Icarus on Jan 5th, 2007, 9:11pm

on 01/05/07 at 18:49:05, Locke64 wrote:
How many did I get right?  I'm guessing somewhere around 13/24, looking on the bright side. :)


Counting only your original answers,

Cities: You have one solution. I like towr's better.
1. Sameer has this one right. Just ask John Conway.
2. You answer is the traditional one for this old saw. Personally I favor towr's more creative approach.
3. Your original answer is an environmental disaster! I'm glad you've cleaned-up your dastardly ways with the edited answer... ;)
4. There are only 4 colors. Why in the world would you need 14 socks to get two of the same color?
5. Your original answer is nice, but doesn't apply universally (most places don't have such a rule), so I have to go with the intended answer of silence.
6. Unless Mark is a Justice of the Peace.
7. But what about little Kimmy, the hermaphrodite? (Okay - 7 is the intended answer).
8. I have to go with you on this one, since you have even included my objection to this riddle.
9. Sorry, but you are wrong. This statement is almost certainly nothing more than a lie. It would only be paradoxical if everything else that the speaker said was a lie.
10. Housework might even be the intended answer, but I'm not sure.
11. I believe towr's answer was the intended one.
12. There are so many answers to this one, it's hard to guess which one the author was after. I like towr's again.
13. Nah. Too much of a sweet tooth. I've already eaten it. (Yes, "one" is the correct answer.)
14. "River" is probably the intended answer, but "cave" also works quite well. Or Ply, if you don't mind  a pilgrimage.
15. I count only 7, even with the "the". Though "11" is probably the answer being looked for.
16. Another standard answer to an old saw.
17. "Stamp" is the intended answer.
18. yep.
19. "
20. Fish stink bad when they are dead. Not sure of the intended answer here, but "fish" isn't it.
21. Birds and baby rabbits also don't find the experience enjoyable.
22. I assume you meant "it is no longer empty". But your answer is still wrong: it should be one. The first penny goes into an empty bank. The remainder are put into banks that are not empty.
23. The truth values of all the statements are fully defined by the information at hand, so there is no difference between "true" and "always true". More than just the first are true.

For your original answers, I would say that 15 out of the 25 are correct.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Locke64 on Jan 5th, 2007, 9:19pm

on 01/05/07 at 21:11:06, Icarus wrote:
For your original answers, I would say that 15 out of the 25 are correct.

Yay!  More than I thought! :)
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by towr on Jan 6th, 2007, 3:32am

on 01/05/07 at 21:11:06, Icarus wrote:
10. Housework might even be the intended answer, but I'm not sure.
The one I thought was intended was a self portrait. (It'd have to be continually change as (s)he changes with aging)
His/her life's work might also fit. Although, I suppose dying finishes it.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by rmsgrey on Jan 6th, 2007, 6:45am

on 01/06/07 at 03:32:46, towr wrote:
The one I thought was intended was a self portrait. (It'd have to be continually change as (s)he changes with aging)
His/her life's work might also fit. Although, I suppose dying finishes it.

The Forth (Rail) Bridge in Scotland is popularly supposed to require continuous re-painting - having to start again at one end by the time you finish at the other...
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by hiyathere on Jan 6th, 2007, 10:50am

on 01/05/07 at 18:49:05, Locke64 wrote:
1. What row of numbers comes next in this series?


1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

[hide]IDK[/hide]


Say every digit of every number aloud to yourself. e.g. one, one one, two one, one two one, one, etc. if the answer doesn't make sense.

I still think it's funny that you became a JM in 2 days.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Locke64 on Jan 6th, 2007, 12:21pm

on 01/06/07 at 10:50:05, hiyathere wrote:
Say every digit of every number aloud to yourself. e.g. one, one one, two one, one two one, one, etc. if the answer doesn't make sense.

I still think it's funny that you became a JM in 2 days.

I still don't get it. :(
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Roy on Jan 6th, 2007, 1:49pm
Door riddle: What will the other one say if I ask it which door is the correct one?

1. 1113213211

2. I will be sentenced for six years

3. Fill 3, pour in 5, fill 3, pour in five until full, empty five and you are left with 1 gallon in the 3 gallon

4. 5

5.

6. He is the priest

7.

8.

9. Both/Neither. Infinite

12. Because you take pictures with a camera, not with curlers.

14. A tap

15. 11

16. a towel

23. #9
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by denis on Jan 6th, 2007, 4:20pm

The wording on the truth/Lie door riddle is flawed:

1) You do not know which door is which.

2) The door that leads to the City of Liars always speaks lies, while the door that leads to the City of Truth always speaks the truth.

1) contradicts 2)

It's also the reason Towr's answer (Am I a Pizza?) would lead you to the correct city since 2) implies you take the door that answers "no".
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Locke64 on Jan 6th, 2007, 4:26pm

on 01/06/07 at 16:20:34, denis wrote:
The wording on the truth/Lie door riddle is flawed:

1) You do not know which door is which.

2) The door that leads to the City of Liars always speaks lies, while the door that leads to the City of Truth always speaks the truth.

1) contradicts 2)

It's also the reason Towr's answer (Am I a Pizza?) would lead you to the correct city since 2) implies you take the door that answers "no".

You don't know which door speaks the truth and which door tells lies either.  He meant that you don't know if the door to the right leads to the city of truth or the door on the left, not the truth-telling one and the lie-telling one.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by towr on Jan 7th, 2007, 7:19am

on 01/06/07 at 16:20:34, denis wrote:
It's also the reason Towr's answer (Am I a Pizza?) would lead you to the correct city since 2) implies you take the door that answers "no".
I should perhaps caution, that if you are ever confronted with magic doors, joke answers like this (although they are a correct solution), might have unexpected consequences if the doors have an awkward sense of humour. For example, the truthfull door might turn you into a pizza, and then answer "yes".
After all, if a door can talk, who knows what other magic powers they have.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Icarus on Jan 7th, 2007, 8:47pm
Locke64 - the point of the "Am I a pizza" response is that the way this riddle is stated, all you need to know is which door lies and which one tells the truth. Therefore practically any question to which you know the answer will do: Ask "is 1 = 1?" If the door you ask says "yes", enter it. If it says "no", enter the other.

This is what happens when someone repeats a riddle from memory that they did not adequately understand themselves: they leave out or change critical parts with the result of rendering the puzzle trivial (as here), or unsolvable (as is usually done with the GRY puzzle). In this case, the puzzle was ruined by making the doors themselves the responders. In correct versions of this puzzle, there are two things you could find out: Which responder is the one telling the truth, and which door leads to the desired end. To know both requires gathering two bits of information. But you are allowed only one yes or no question - so you can only gain 1 bit of information. The trick to the puzzle is to realize that you don't actually need to know which responder is telling the truth, so you should just spend your question on finding out which door is the one you want. But in this version, by making the doors the responders, you have only one bit of information to track. Finding out which responder is which is the same as finding out which door is which. Thus the problem becomes trivial.

Probably, in the uncorrupted puzzle, it was not given that the truthtelling door was the desired one. Instead one door led somewhere you wanted to go (heaven is a common choice), while the other led somewhere you didn't (hell). Your question to the doors needed to find out which door led to heaven, without worrying about which was telling the truth.


Concerning #1, John Conway (a name you will become familiar with if you hang around here long enough, and are not familiar with it already) calls this the self-describing sequence. Each entry describes the entry before.
1
11 (the previous entry consists of one 1)
21 (the previous entry consists of two 1s)
1211 (the previous entry consists of one 2, and then one 1).
etc.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Locke64 on Jan 8th, 2007, 3:43am

on 01/07/07 at 20:47:07, Icarus wrote:
Locke64 - the point of the "Am I a pizza" response is that the way this riddle is stated, all you need to know is which door lies and which one tells the truth. Therefore practically any question to which you know the answer will do: Ask "is 1 = 1?" If the door you ask says "yes", enter it. If it says "no", enter the other.

This is what happens when someone repeats a riddle from memory that they did not adequately understand themselves: they leave out or change critical parts with the result of rendering the puzzle trivial (as here), or unsolvable (as is usually done with the GRY puzzle). In this case, the puzzle was ruined by making the doors themselves the responders. In correct versions of this puzzle, there are two things you could find out: Which responder is the one telling the truth, and which door leads to the desired end. To know both requires gathering two bits of information. But you are allowed only one yes or no question - so you can only gain 1 bit of information. The trick to the puzzle is to realize that you don't actually need to know which responder is telling the truth, so you should just spend your question on finding out which door is the one you want. But in this version, by making the doors the responders, you have only one bit of information to track. Finding out which responder is which is the same as finding out which door is which. Thus the problem becomes trivial.

Probably, in the uncorrupted puzzle, it was not given that the truthtelling door was the desired one. Instead one door led somewhere you wanted to go (heaven is a common choice), while the other led somewhere you didn't (hell). Your question to the doors needed to find out which door led to heaven, without worrying about which was telling the truth.


Concerning #1, John Conway (a name you will become familiar with if you hang around here long enough, and are not familiar with it already) calls this the self-describing sequence. Each entry describes the entry before.
1
11 (the previous entry consists of one 1)
21 (the previous entry consists of two 1s)
1211 (the previous entry consists of one 2, and then one 1).
etc.

Ah.  Now I understand both.  Thanks. ;)
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by SweetShotSugarBaby on Jan 15th, 2007, 9:19pm
I haven't looked at any of the other answers, i wanna try and answer some of them myself, so don't laugh if i get one wrong that's already been answered right  :P lol


1. What row of numbers comes next in this series?


1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221
[hide]1113213211[/hide]

2. A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, "You may make a statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?
[hide]He said "You'll sentence me to six years in prison"[/hide]

3. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?
[hide]Okay I have no idea[/hide]

4. If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?
[hide]Well there's two ways to go about this really. I'd say once, because if you had your socks paired, you'd only have to grab once in order to get two the right colour. I know this isn't right, but it still makes sense.[/hide]

5. What is broken every time it's spoken?
[hide]Silence[/hide]

6. How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?
[hide]He could be somekind of like pastor or something. He married two women, and got married himself
[/hide]
7. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?
[hide]7, Mom, Dad, the four daughters and one brother[/hide]

8. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
[hide]I dunno[/hide]

9. If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?
[hide]A lie [/hide]

10. What work can a painter never quite finish?
[hide]Uhm I dunno[/hide]

11. Why wasn't Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people?
[hide]Lol She's a hurricane[/hide]

12. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?
[hide]Uhm, because curlers are for your hair, they can't take photographs[/hide]

13. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?
[hide]One, the one that's in your hand that you took away, lol[/hide]

14. What has a mouth but can't chew?
[hide]A river [/hide]

15. How many letters are in the alphabet?
[hide]11[/hide]

16. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
[hide]A towel! ^-^[/hide]

17. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
[hide]Lol I can think of something bad, but I'm not gonna answer because I can't think of something that makes sense other than perhaps a stamp?[/hide]

18. Food can help me survive, but water will kill me. What am I?
[hide]Again I dunno[/hide]

19. Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?
[hide]Wholesome? [/hide]

20. What stinks when living and smells good when dead?
[hide]Dunno =P[/hide]

21. When is it bad luck to meet a white cat?
[hide]When you're a mousie!
[/hide]
22. If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?
[hide]1, after that it's not empty anymore[/hide]

And One More Hard Riddle
23. Which of the following statements are true?

1. At least one of these ten statements is false.
2. At least two of these ten statements are false.
3. At least three of these ten statements are false.
4. At least four of these ten statements are false.
5. At least five of these ten statements are false.
6. At least six of these ten statements are false.
7. At least seven of these ten statements are false.
8. At least eight of these ten statements are false.
9. At least nine of these ten statements are false.
10. At least ten of these ten statements are false.

[hide]Haha that's funny, lol[/hide]
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Grimbal on Jan 16th, 2007, 1:01am

on 12/20/06 at 12:32:59, anthonynow12 wrote:
1. At least one of these ten statements is false.
2. At least two of these ten statements are false.
3. At least three of these ten statements are false.
4. At least four of these ten statements are false.
5. At least five of these ten statements are false.
6. At least six of these ten statements are false.
7. At least seven of these ten statements are false.
8. At least eight of these ten statements are false.
9. At least nine of these ten statements are false.
10. At least ten of these ten statements are false.

[hideb]
10 can not be true because it would imply it is false, so 10 can only be false.
1 is therefore true.
If 9 were true, with 1 true, then 2-10 would be false, contradicting that 9 is true.  So, 9 is false.
2 is therefore true.
If 8 were  true, with 1-2 true, then 3-10 would be false, contradicting that 8 is true.  So, 8 is false.
And 3 is true.
etc, etc.

You end up with 1-5 true, 6-10 false, which gives 5 false statements, which is consistent with each statement's truth.
[/hideb]
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by metalcp on Jan 17th, 2007, 11:39am
okay starting with number one

1. [hide]ask them anything that you know the answer to.  for instance am i wearing a shirt[/hide]

2. [hide]i dont know the pattern if someone wants to explain be my guest[/hide]

3. [hide]you fill the three gallon and pour it into the 5 gallon fill the three gallon again n pour it into the 5 gallon until its full, what is left in the 3 gallon is 1 gallon[/hide]

4. [hide]5 socks...it is possible to pick one of each color but after that uyou have to pick somethng you already have[/hide]

5. [hide]silence...although i dont like that answer[/hide]

6. [hide]he was a priest and he married the women to other men[/hide]

7. 7...duh

8. queue bt i dont like that since "q" isnt a "word"

9. a lie it cant be a truth because then it is automatically a lie...it can be a lie because the lie does not mean that the opposite is true...sometimes he lies sometimes he tells the truth

10.  stuck on this one

11. bertha isnt a person it is an animal or object that was named...my favorite is a hurricane

12.  cause you need a cmera to take a photo not curlers

13. one

14. a river

15. 12

16. a towel

17. a stamp

18. only i can thin of is a fire...you feed it wood

19. wholesome

20. i have no idea

21. when your a mouse

22. one then its not empty

23. numbers 1-5 can be true

i have to go so i cant hide the rest sorry about that c ya and give feedback plese!!
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Jan 17th, 2007, 12:02pm
Might want to rethink your answer for 1.  I didn't read anymore after that.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Icarus on Jan 17th, 2007, 12:10pm

on 01/16/07 at 01:01:31, Grimbal wrote:
10 can not be true because it would imply it is false, so 10 can only be false.
1 is therefore true.
If 9 were true, with 1 true, then 2-10 would be false, contradicting that 9 is true.  So, 9 is false.
2 is therefore true.
If 8 were  true, with 1-2 true, then 3-10 would be false, contradicting that 8 is true.  So, 8 is false.
And 3 is true.
etc, etc.

You end up with 1-5 true, 6-10 false, which gives 5 false statements, which is consistent with each statement's truth.


While I agree with the conclusion, I can't entirely with the reasoning. Your approach assumes that the statements must be either true or false. But in fact they could be contradictory, or intrinsicly undecidable.

My approach is:
Assume that all ten are false. This means that #10 is true, in contradiction. Therefore at most 9 are false, and so, #10 is false, and #1 is true.
Similarly, assuming that at least 9 are false implies #9 is true in contradiction. So at most 8 are false, #9 is false, #2 is true.
Continue until you get that at most 5 are false, so #6 false, which means that at least 5 are false as well.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Icarus on Jan 17th, 2007, 12:18pm

on 01/17/07 at 12:02:56, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
Might want to rethink your answer for 1.  I didn't read anymore after that.


The only problem with his answer for #1 is that it is actually the answer for the un-numbered riddle at the start. #1 was John Conway's self-describing sequence.

For an answer to that un-numbered riddle it works fine, as the riddle was corrupted, making it trivial.

Similarly, his response for #2 is actually to #1, while the real #2 he missed. #3 and on are numbered correctly.

As for the rest, metalcp, you can find the answers to all but #20 by reading earlier posts. Nobody has come up with a good answer for #20 yet.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Jan 17th, 2007, 12:32pm
Ah yes, silly me.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Iceman on Jan 17th, 2007, 1:19pm

Quote:
4. If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?

None: you take the drawer with you.     8)
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Ulkesh on Jan 17th, 2007, 1:26pm

on 01/17/07 at 12:18:20, Icarus wrote:
Nobody has come up with a good answer for #20 yet.


I had a quick google search out of curiosity, and the generally accepted answer isn't particularly clever, and is defintely not unique. Personally, I hate the smell when dead (but like the taste!)
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by SweetShotSugarBaby on Jan 17th, 2007, 6:01pm
#20=A pig!
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Grimbal on Jan 18th, 2007, 4:18am

on 01/17/07 at 12:10:26, Icarus wrote:
While I agree with the conclusion, I can't entirely with the reasoning. Your approach assumes that the statements must be either true or false. But in fact they could be contradictory, or intrinsicly undecidable.

My approach is: ...

Right.  Your approach is more sound.


on 01/17/07 at 13:19:40, Iceman wrote:
None: you take the drawer with you.     8)

Does that count as "out-of-the-box"?  ;)

And for #11, Bertha was indeed a large cannon but a hurricane sounds better to me.  A cannon doesn't kill, except maybe if it explodes accidentally.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Roy on Aug 22nd, 2007, 7:32pm

on 01/17/07 at 18:01:20, SweetShotSugarBaby wrote:
#20=A pig!

They're great as ham hocks!
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by srn347 on Aug 28th, 2007, 7:51pm
Ask a door does 1+1=2.

1113213211

This sentence is a lie, or I will serve 6 years in prison.

Fill the three gallon container, put it in the 5 gallon container, start over, the 3 gallon container has 1 gallon.

5 socks.

An impossible promise.

By going to three different wedding places with none of the same people except for mark.

9 people.

working on it

lying and at least one thing you say is the truth

also working on it

because she died

she didn't have any or he didn't have a camera

1(or 3 if they were all mine)

I know it but I don't know it

11

a towel(or possibly dry ice)

a globe

a protist(one of the 6 kingdoms of classification)

two wholes

working on it

when it was black but got painted

quart capacity?

1-5 true 6-10 false
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Dammriddles on Oct 5th, 2007, 5:04am

Quote:
Ask a door does 1+1=2.

Yeah but noone said the door to safety was smart it might not know the answer.So the door to safety would say don't know and the door to darkness or whatever would lie(if he knew the answer)and say I don't know.
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by mikedagr8 on Oct 5th, 2007, 6:41am

on 10/05/07 at 05:04:01, Dammriddles wrote:
Yeah but noone said the door to safety was smart it might not know the answer.So the door to safety would say don't know and the door to darkness or whatever would lie(if he knew the answer)and say I don't know.

If the door to didn't know the answer, would he still say he didn't know?
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by ephyzy on Mar 24th, 2010, 7:46pm


1. What row of numbers comes next in this series?


1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

[hideb]
1113213211
(One 1, One 3, Two 1s, three 2s, One 1)
[/hideb]

2. A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, "You may make a statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?

[hideb]
["You will sentence me to six years in prison". Logically the judge can't do that.
:D This is one of my favorite riddles]
[/hideb]

3. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?
[hideb]
Fill the 3G, pour into the 5G. Fill the 3G again, pour into the 5G. Now you have a full 5G and 1G in the 3G. Voila!
[/hideb]

4. If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?
[hideb]
Fortunately, leftie socks can be worn on the right and vice versa. So, at worst, you get 4 various colors and you need a fifth to match one of them.

You need to blindly choose 5 socks.
[/hideb]

5. What is broken every time it's spoken?
[hideb][Silence, I guess][/hideb]

6. How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?
[hideb][Mark is a priest, and you marry (marry others to their spouses) as often as you please! :) ]
[/hideb]

7. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?
[hideb]
I dislike these ones. The answer may be 7 or 10, because it does not state if each daughter has ONLY one brother, or they have at least one brother.

if they have only one brother then they are 7.
i.e. Dad, Mom, D1, D2, D3, D4, S

if they each have only one brother, then
Dad, Mom, D1, D2, D3, D4, S1, S2, S3, S4

And if they each have at least one brother then it's more than 10, they may even be living in a shoe with their grandma who had so many (grand)kids and didn't know what to do. :P
[/hideb]


8. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
[hideb]Queue, pronounced like "Q"[/hideb]

9. If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?
[hideb]If it was the truth, then it would also be a lie (paradox). Thus, you are lying. :P[/hideb]

10. What work can a painter never quite finish?
[hideb]A painting of his/her own life, an autobiographical painting[/hideb]

11. Why wasn't Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people?
[hideb]
Bertha is either non-human (animal or natural disaster) or else Bertha is dead already.
[/hideb]

12. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?
[hideb]hahaha Nice play on words. 'Cos you can't take a photo with curlers, that's why![/hideb]

13. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?
[hideb]Only one. That's what you took, that's what you have (not what you have left i.e. 2)[/hideb]

14. What has a mouth but can't chew?
[hideb]Just like Bertha, this is a non-human agent or element that has an orifice called a mouth e.g. cave! Or else a dead animal.[/hideb]

15. How many letters are in the alphabet?
[hideb]Say what? Errr. .. 11?[/hideb]

16. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
[hideb]heard this one before. Mop or towel.[/hideb]

17. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
[hideb]I dunno. Maybe a ray of light?[/hideb]

18. Food can help me survive, but water will kill me. What am I?
[hideb]Fire[/hideb]

19. Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?
[hideb]haha. Wholesome![/hideb]

20. What stinks when living and smells good when dead?
[hideb]A reverse corpse? Like maybe a zombie? :P[/hideb]

21. When is it bad luck to meet a white cat?
[hideb]When you are its next meal![/hideb]

22. If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?
[hideb]Only one. Else it would not be empty anymore.[/hideb]

And One More Hard Riddle
23. Which of the following statements are true?

1. At least one of these ten statements is false.
2. At least two of these ten statements are false.
3. At least three of these ten statements are false.
4. At least four of these ten statements are false.
5. At least five of these ten statements are false.
6. At least six of these ten statements are false.
7. At least seven of these ten statements are false.
8. At least eight of these ten statements are false.
9. At least nine of these ten statements are false.
10. At least ten of these ten statements are false.

[hideb]Errr.... sorry I got tired like five questions ago. [/hideb]
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Noke Lieu on Mar 24th, 2010, 8:43pm
Hey there ephyzy.

Nice answers to a long dead thread.

You probably didn't need to hide them, especially answers such as "I don't know". Round the world and stays in the corner... the corner is local.

Either that or look at the previous answers.
::)
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by ephyzy on Mar 24th, 2010, 8:45pm
@Noke Lieu: Thanks. I'm quite new here, you see. :D
Title: Re: Riddles
Post by Noke Lieu on Mar 24th, 2010, 9:03pm
Yep- got that from your other posts.
Nice to have you around. Hope you continue to demonstrate the good skills you've shown so far.


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