Riddle

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  1. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    Right!




    Here's a paradox:
    Sentance A: Sentance B is false.
    Sentance B: Sentance A is true.
    Which is true and which is false?




    Bob and Betty were in their bedroom. Bob was watching movies, and Betty was reading. The power went out, and they experienced a blackout. Bob decided to go to sleep right away. Without any power, betty continued to read. She did not use any battery flashlight, candle, or any other artificial light source. How did she manage to continue reading?
     
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  3. grazzhoppa yawwn Valued Senior Member

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    She reads in Braille
     
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  5. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    It was daytime and the sun was shinning through the windows!

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  7. DarkEyedBeauty Pirate. Registered Senior Member

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    Did you want an answer to this? They're logically inconsistent.
     
  8. Ozymandias Unregistered User Registered Senior Member

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    presuming that Bob is not nocturnal, I would also go with braille.
     
  9. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    I am greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have me, the rich need me, and if you eat me you will die.
    What am I?
     
  10. DarkEyedBeauty Pirate. Registered Senior Member

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    They could live in Alaska. Bob would still be sleeping at night, but Betty could read with the light of the sun.
     
  11. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    I have not found an answer to that. It's just a paradox.
     
  12. DarkEyedBeauty Pirate. Registered Senior Member

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    Nothing
     
  13. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    Right.




    You stand in front of door A and door B. One of them leads to a room with a billion dollars behind it. The other one leads to an empty room. You cannot see inside, so you do not know which door has the money. You may only pick one door, and get what is behind it. Nearby are 2 clowns. Clown A and Clown B. One of them can only make true statements, and the other can only make false statements. You do not know which clown abides by which personality. They both know each other’s personality. They both also know which door has the billion dollars behind it. The object is to get the billion dollars.

    You have a 50% chance of choosing the right door.
    You may ask only one question to one of the clowns to help you make a decision about which door to go through.
    What do you do?
     
  14. Ozymandias Unregistered User Registered Senior Member

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    ask: Which way would the other clown tell me to go to get a billion dollars?

    Then, go the other way (presuming that you want the billion dollars).

    Either clown will tell you the wrong path: the truthful one would truthfully say that the lying one would tell you to go the wrong way. The lying one would lie and say that the truthful one would tell you to go the wrong way.
     
  15. DarkEyedBeauty Pirate. Registered Senior Member

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    I have a mouth, but do not speak;
    I have 4 eyes, but cannot see;
    I have a bed, yet do not sleep;
    Who am I?
     
  16. Ozymandias Unregistered User Registered Senior Member

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    I would guess river (river mouth, riverbed), but I don't know how to tie eyes in with it.
     
  17. Jinoda Registered Senior Member

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    Mississippi River? (four "i"'s - all I can think of)
     
  18. DarkEyedBeauty Pirate. Registered Senior Member

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    Yep. I guess it's better when it's spoken...because then you're not thrown off with the spelling of 'eyes'.

    Here's another...

    I'm sometimes white, and always wrong,
    I can break a heart, and hurt the strong,
    I can build love, then tear it down,
    I can make a smile, but more often, a frown...
     
  19. Ozymandias Unregistered User Registered Senior Member

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    I've heard this one before (so, I won't give away the answer) ... I don't like it too much.
     
  20. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    I think the first statement gives it away. The rest of them confirm it.
    There is only one thing that can be sometimes white and always wrong.




    Mystery:
    There was a rich man and his wife living in a large 2-story house. They lived with a cook, a gardener, a butler, a maid, a driver, and a priest. The house had a library upstairs. Sunday morning, the rich man found his wife dead in the library with a candlestick in her head. The rich man immediately called the police, and the police arrived. They found nothing in the area, and questioned the household.

    The rich man said that they all woke up early that morning. Everybody in the household had green tea together before starting their duties. The green tea came out brown, and the wife yelled at everybody. After having tea, everybody went to do their duties. The wife’s duty every morning was to read romance novels in the library. An hour after this was when the rich man called the police. Everybody in the house confirmed this story. They all claimed that tea time was the last time anybody saw the wife.

    The rich man said that his duty every morning was to read the newspaper for an hour in his bed. He was reading the news paper.
    The cook said that her duty every morning was to cook breakfast in the kitchen. She was cooking breakfast.
    The gardener said that his duty every morning was to water the plants in the back. He was watering plants.
    The butler said that his duty every morning was to post messages on the online forums at the computer. He was posting messages.
    The maid said that her duty every morning was to check and send mail at the mailbox. She was handling the mail.
    The driver said that his duty every morning was to wash the car in the garage. He was washing the car.
    The priest said that his duty every morning was to pray at the alter. He was praying.

    The police instantly arrested the prime suspect. Who did the police arrest?
     
  21. Jinoda Registered Senior Member

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    They arrested the Priest. It's a Sunday morning but he's not at church. I dunno, my first guess.

    Or maybe the cook, because she's still cooking after an hour? Or did they log on to the Butler's sciforums account and see what he had posted in the last hour?
     
  22. Ozymandias Unregistered User Registered Senior Member

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    I would guess the priest ... he was praying, but not at the altar?
     
  23. curioucity Unbelievable and odd Registered Senior Member

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    Candlestick? And the suspects?

    Gosh, I'm bad at riddles and mysteries like these.... I'll say the butler....
     

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