A dead man is found in his house, lying on the floor. He was certainly murdered, but it seems there were no clues left behind. All that remains is a puddle of water. What happened?
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This is cheesy, but what the heck:
What’s black and white and red all over? (Hint: Think word play.)
This is a classic.
So it goes like this: A farmer is walking along with his chicken, his dog, and a bag of seeds. The man comes to a river, which he must cross, with an old, rickety boat sitting in it. He can use the boat to cross with his three things, but there’s one problem: the boat can only carry two things at a time, and one of those things must ALWAYS be the farmer himself, since he needs to steer the boat. Now, if he leaves the chicken alone with the seeds, the chicken will eat the seeds. If he leaves the dog alone with the chicken, the dog will attack the chicken. However, if he leaves the dog alone with the seeds, the dog will just ignore them.
How can the farmer cross the river like this?
You have a 5 gallon container and a 3 gallon container, and an endless supply of water from a faucet. You need exactly 4 gallons of water measured out but can use nothing but the other containers.
How can you do this?
This is actually straight from my game, “Cryptic”, although it’s just a variant of a classic riddle.
A teacher in an elementary school likes to hold a sort of ‘olympics’ style event at the end of the year, with events like the long jump, rope climbing, and other such activities.
The final event splits the students into two teams, a red team, and a blue team. It is to be a wheelbarrow race. There is of course, a red wheelbarrow and a blue wheelbarrow.The teacher stops to tell the kids there is a twist to this race:
“The wheelbarrow of the team that crosses LAST will be the winner.”
The kids are confused at first, but soon hop in the wheelbarrows and take off after some clever ideas are exchanged.
What did the kids do that made them WANT to finish the race?
(The answer does not involve any sort of compromise between the teams.)
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They simply need to switch wheelbarrows! Whichever team’s wheelbarrow crossed last was the winner. If they each had each other’s wheelbarrow, they would WANT to cross first to guarantee the other team gets across with their wheelbarrow last!
So as you know if you’ve ever played my game, Cryptic I’m a huge fan of riddles. Starting today, I think it would be fun to start throwing some of them up on the site! I’ll try to get one a day, but I can’t promise anything. This one is a classic (and was also recently featured on the AGS forums…) but it’s a good one.
If within a week nobody has commented with the correct answer, I’ll post it.
A young man is traveling the country side, looking for the path to town, when he comes to a fork in the road. At this fork there is only a sign, and an old man standing next to it.
The sign reads:
“One of these paths leads to civilization, while one leads into a labyrinth from which none have managed to escape. This man is the gatekeeper. He only allows those who are worthy to know for certain which path to take. Every other day, he lies, and he tells the truth on the rest of the days. You may only ask him one question.”
There is a question he can ask in order to know which path is correct. What is it?