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5 Riddles for you

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by SPEEDEAMON, Feb 22, 2010.

  1. SPEEDEAMON

    SPEEDEAMON Professional Car Nut

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    THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST FIVE RIDDLES I HAVE SEEN....THE ANSWERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM....RIDDLE #5 IS AMAZING...ENJOY...THIS SHARPENS THOSE GENES IN YOUR BRAIN AND STALLS ALZHEIMERS FOR YEARS.

    1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires. The second is full of assassins with loaded guns. The third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

    2. A woman shoots her husband.. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

    3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

    4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday?

    5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!

    THE ANSWERS TO ALL FIVE THE RIDDLES ARE BELOW:






    Answers:

    1. The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.. That one was easy, right?


    2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry (shot; held under water; and hung).


    3. Charcoal, as it is used in barbecuing.


    4. Sure you can name three consecutive days, yesterday, today, and tomorrow!


    5. The letter e, which is the most common letter used in the English language, does not appear even once in the paragraph.


    How did you do?
     
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  2. daniel

    daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb

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    Number 1 was easy.

    Number two is bogus: She does not hold him under, she holds the film under developing solution.

    Numbers 3, 4, and 5 are good.
     
  3. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    Nice ones! I like the last one.
     
  4. octavia

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    One and four were easy. The last one got me, good one!
     
  5. SPEEDEAMON

    SPEEDEAMON Professional Car Nut

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    I thought the answer to the last one was that there were not one "the" or "a" in the paragraph.
     
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    Good ones!
    is this what happens when we begin running out of names for the "Cars" game?
     
  7. octavia

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    My 8 year old son offered up one:

    What day does chicken get fried?
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    .Fridays. "Fry days"

    :)

    Luckiest mom in the world!!
     
  8. fuzzy1

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    Missed your answer. Instead I came up with Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day. There should be more answers of this type.
     
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    Darn..I missed #2.
     
  10. Radiant

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    I don't know a room full of dead Lions? I would think the smell alone would be fatal, not to mention the flies, maggots and possible bio-problems associtated with that much rotting meat. Or have the decayed already?

    Never mind I have been working in the safety field far too long, lol.
     
  11. daniel

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    Don't feel bad. As I said, #2 is bogus: In the supposed answer, she did not hold "HIM" under water, she held the FILM under developing solution, which is not water, though she may have rinsed the FILM afterwards in water, but probably not for five minutes. Number 2 is BOGUS.
     
  12. eagle33199

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    I got all of them except 2... but i had seen 5 before, so i guess that doesn't count :p
     
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    I got 1 and 4.

    For 5, I thought the word "unusual" appeared unusually often. :)