I am in urgent need to help in improving on my colleagues riddles – it’s our new lunchtime entertainment. Todays had three of us covering sheets of paper with equations trying to prove someone wrong (rather annoyingly we all failed).

So please, if you know any good riddles please post them (with answers) for me to use… Preferably not word-play ones as they will be translated into German!

There was a young lady from Fife
Who was actually quite keen on knitting, which is generally seen as a more ‘elderly’ pastime.

I have a pint of lager in one glass and a pint of real ale in another glass. Neither glass is full to the rim. I take a teaspoon of lager from the first glass and add it to the real ale mixing thoroughly. I then take a teaspoon of this mixture and put it back in the lager glass.
Is there more lager in the beer, or beer in the lager?

A plane is sat on a conveyor..

Is there more lager in the beer, or beer in the lager?

Is the answer smash one of the glasses and jab you in the throat for spoiling real ale?

That’s a bit much! 😯

which came first the chicken or the egg?

The egg, birds never come first

That’s a bit much!
Depends on the beer really.

IanMunro – that’s the one we had today. I need something to beat it! And do I know you Rudeboy?

And do I know you Rudeboy?

Hmm… c’est possible,c’est possible…

I have a pint of lager in one glass and a pint of real ale in another glass. Neither glass is full to the rim. I take a teaspoon of lager from the first glass and add it to the real ale mixing thoroughly. I then take a teaspoon of this mixture and put it back in the lager glass.
Is there more lager in the beer, or beer in the lager?

Same amount of lager in beer as there is beer in lager (as long as mixed perfectly).

Start with 100 units of beer in glass 1 and 100 of lager in glass 2, and say your spoon is 5 units

Decant step gives 100 of beer and 5 of lager in glass 1 = 105 units total volume, and 95 units of lager in glass 2

Mix up and decant back – you’ll be moving 5 units back and that will be (100/105) beer and (5/105) lager back into glass 2

At end glass 1 contains 100 units which is 100*(100/105) units beer and 100*(5/105) units lager so 95.238 units beer and 4.762 units lager.

Glass 2 contains 100 units which is 95 + (5*5/105) units of lager and (5*100/105) units of beer so 95.238 lager and 4.762 beer.

Police officers find a dead man in a wetsuit and scuba equipment in a burnt out area of Australia. Why / how is he there?

jimmy… didn’t they do that one on CSI one time? 😀

He put on the suit to protect himself from flames, and used the gas tank to breathe, in the smoke?

Isn’t that answer he was picked up by a helicopter collecting seawater or something?
I don’t think I know anyone in London, so I am very confused Rudeboy (and it’s not Fife anyway…)

Zahada!

Consider yourself warned.. if you click on that link, large portions of your life will vanish.

I’m on level 36 :o)

Dave

Is the 1st riddle how to get started?!

mudshark, yes! ;o)

Dave

Is the 1st riddle how to get started?!

Sooooo easy to get to level one!

oh no, i did a riddle like that zahada one a while back. addictive 🙁

I’m on level 7 of zahada now.

3 light bulbs in one room, 3 switches in another room, you don’t know which switch operates which light bulb. You can’t see into the lightbulb room from where the switches are. How do you figure out which switch operates which bulb? You’re not allowed to keep flicking switches and running back and forth to see!

Does that make sense? I’m a bit tired and not sure, I know what the answer is though!

Try The Crimson Room

Now bored of zahada

where bored == stuck ?

Dave

where bored == stuck ?

Where bored = can’t be arsed with a puzzle where solving it means you have to realise that some of the text is an image and then look at the properties of that image to find the answer.

If I want to waste my time on pointless minutia, I’ll start a thread on here 🙂

annannaabannabana

Turn on switch 1 and 2 for a minute then turn off switch 2 and enter the room.
The light that is on is switch one the light that is WARM is switch two and the light that is off and cold is switch three. Tah Dah!

very good muddy bum top marks for lateral thinking!

Name ten parts of the human body that have only three letters in the name.
ear, eye, lip, gum, jaw, arm, leg, toe, hip,rib.

nob, bum, t!t, ****t

if it takes two men one day to dig a hole, how long would it take one man to dig half a hole?

how far can a dog chase a fox into a forest?

In an attempt to distract myself from work, I clicked on the Zahada link. Realising it was either taking the p*ss or required more effort than wondering where the link was, I went back to my work, suddenly finding its own difficulties so much more interesting.

I think that means that working has officially made me more stupid.

you can’t dig half a hole.

xxxxx-xxxx = 33333

You can only use 123456789 and only use each number once!
What are the two numbers? (replace the x’s with numbers)

number 17 of zahada isn’t the pub :p

41286 – 7953 = 33333
or 41268 – 7935 = 33333

ein man klopft an einer tür.
er sagt “darf ich ein glass wasser haben., bitte”
der man in dem haus holt sein gewehr und schiesst in der luft.
der man bei der tür sagt “danke” und geht weg….

was war los mit dem man?

er hatte schluckaufe.

12786 — 9453 = 3333
12768 — 9435 = 3333
12876 – 9543 = 3333
12867 – 9534 = 3333
12678 – 9345 = 3333
12687 – 9354 = 3333