the BIG riddle topic [part IX]

Good job on the wholesome one.

@Sandra

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I’m thinking a unit of currency?

I have a joke-ish kind of one:

I do not observe Hanukkah. Even if I looked up the date it started on, I still would not be able to know when it started on. Why is this?

You won’t get this one unless you know your quantum physics.

Sandra:[spoiler]He’s buying candles for a cake, so each digit is 25c.[/spoiler]
Mew:[spoiler]I can’t figure out the exact joke, but maybe by looking up the date, you would change it?[/spoiler]

The mother is 21 years older than the child. In 6 years from now, the mother will be 5 times as old as the child. Question: Where’s the father?

Hint:[spoiler]When you get the solution right, you will laugh. :wink:[/spoiler]

I get a negative number as solution, so the child must not be born yet? The father is hopefully with the mother! :cool_raz:

Yeah, but the exact solution tells a lot more :rofl:

The mother, the father, and their child.

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Like Siiw said, the father is indeed with the mother, inside the mother to be precise, cause you will end up with the age of -0.75 which is - 9 months :wink:

A hint for this one How can you get by removing one thing get one more?

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Think in paper

Mew:

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I think I saw this pun on XKDC. If you’re a physicist, then it can’t have a definite location if you can’t observe it? :tongue:

TosxyChor:

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But Siiw did get it right, right? The father is most definitely with the mother… in a fun way.

Three backpackers arrive at an inn with only one vacant room. The room is $30 a night, but only has two single beds. They’ll have to put an extra cot in, and it’ll be cramped. The backpackers pay, anyway.
The manager, hearing of this situation, graciously gives them a $5 discount. He gives it to an intern to pass on to the backpackers. But who wants to split $5 three ways? The intern gives each of the backpackers $1 and keeps the $2 for now.

The backpackers paid $27, the intern has their $2. That makes $29 when the original price of the room was $30. Where did the $1 go?

Another variation, with the same answer:
Abe wants to buy a $7 shirt, but she’s spent all her allowance already. Her two shopping buddies generously lend her $5 because the shirt looks cute on her. The cashier gives Abe $3. Abe gives $1 to each of her two friends and keeps $1 for herself because she doesn’t have any smaller change.
“Wait,” says one of her buddies, “You owe us both $8 in total, right? But we have $3 between us… that, plus $8 makes $11. Where did that extra dollar come from?”

Oooh that’s an old one. About the hotel room.

[spoiler]It basically comes down to the fact you make a wrong calculation.
I am usually not good at explaining this but I think this works…

When you say: The backpackers paid $27, the intern has their $2. That makes $29 when the original price of the room was $30. Where did the $1 go?

It should be. The backpackers paid $27, the intern has their $2. So this 2 dollars are included in the price the backpackers pay, so rather than + 2, you should have done -2. That makes $25 (and if you then wonder but now 5 dollars disappeared, no they all got one dollar back plus two dollars to the intern)
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Abe borrows money for a T-shirt.

[spoiler]Here again, wrong calculation of course.
The 3 dollar includes two dollars that are not borrowed anymore and one dollar that she still needs to return. So one of the three dollars is already in the 8 dollar because she needs to return it to her friends. [/spoiler]

My answer’s the same as Sandra’s.

A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays only three days, and rides out on Friday. How is this possible?

Easy, but its all I can think of XD

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The horse’s name is Friday.

This one is also easy. What always ends everything?

P.S: I’ve typed this for 3 times now, I guess because of the Internet Explorer. Now I’m smart enough to Copy and Paste if anything happens again.

@EllyEve
Answers:

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Incorrect calculations!

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You’re right! An object has no definite location unless it has been observed.

No one has still answered my other riddle about the man being frozen alive.
Here’s another one:
A man comes home and sees his friend Henry dead on the ground, along with broken glass and water everywhere. What happened?

@ Sandra, Splinter, Mew

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Yup! Though, as my angry economist friend said, it’s apparently not an old enough riddle that bankers would’ve known how not to add to their coffers by buying debt. ((0_o)) A kinder friend calls it creative accounting.

@Puce

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The letter “g”?

@Mew

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He rented room 1408? Tsunami? His friend tried to drink out of a shotglass?

Aah, I already remembered an old Riddle topic, this explains it :content:

No need to repeat the already good answers given that I thought of too =p

Mew151, (We used to have what happened? in the playground too. Was always nice)

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Henry is a fish.

I was just thinking and perhaps I have an answer to this one too. A man was frozen alive but was able to keep on fighting after being unfrozen. How can this be?

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Frozen = put the dvd/video/whatever on hold! So after being unfrozen, hit play again, the man can continue to fight.

New riddle…

Which grasshopper can jump higher than the Eiffel tower?

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Really any grasshopper can jump higher than the Eiffel Tower, that can’t.

(True story) Scientific studies have shown that there is a direct, positive correlation between foot size and performance in spelling bees / spelling tests. how can you explain this correlation?

Hint:[spoiler]It’s for the most obvious reason.[/spoiler]

@Sandra:

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Clever, but there’s a better answer than that!

What’s the sound of one hand clapping?
Answer:

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The sound that occurs when one hand claps… I didn’t ask for specifics! :puh:

tosxyChor, Spelling thing. [spoiler]When people are older they get better in spelling? =p [/spoiler]

How do you call a smart blonde?

How far does a blind dog walk into a forest?

Halfway. After that it’s walking out of the forest. :tongue:

:eek: Man, the bots are getting smarter. They actually added a signature!

Anyways, what has four wheels and flies?

Okay, ressing this topic because I think it’s totally awesome. And I hope it doesn’t fill with spam, and if it does it can get moved the pg or wherever. So:

To Mew’s riddle, a garbage truck :happy: (someone else told me that. XD)

A man and his son were in a truck driving accident. The father died in the accident and the son was rushed to the hospital. Upon seeing the patient, the surgon said, “I can’t operate, that’s my son.” How is this possible?

(I didn’t know whether or not to post the answer in spoilers but meh, someone will answer soon enough) :razz:

Ive heard that one before and this is the answer…

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The surgeon is his mother :tongue:

A man lives in a high building and when he takes the elevator to work he goes all the way down, but when going back home he only takes the elevator to few floors below his and takes stairs rest of the way. Why does he do this?

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Because he’s too short to reach up on the highest floors’ buttons. But of course it’s no problem when going to ground floor, because those buttons are the lowest.

Don’t know any off the top of my hat and don’t want to check all topics if they were posted already^^ But maybe I’ll post something later.