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I'm bored on a train and want some brain teasers - things like the "While on my way to St Ives" and "A cowboy rides into town on Friday", rather than maths ones.
What have you got?
A bear leaves its lair and travels south. It finds an old abandoned hut, which it ransacks but doesn't find any food. It then travels east for an hour to its favourite resting stop and relaxes there for the afternoon. It then travels north for an hour and gets back to its lair before dark. What tyres for a pointless wandering bear?
Man lives in a tower block, goes out to the lift, waits for it to arrive, gets in at his floor (12), goes to the ground floor, gets out and goes about his day.
On returning, presses the lift button, waits, gets in when the doors open, presses for floor 9, gets out, walks upto the 12 th floor and goes into his flat.
Why?
Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
What travels around the world but stays in the corner?
Tower block: it's either he's a short arse or something more subtle
Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
Sandra?
Just as wrong a Nunu, which a lot people say.Sandra?
Tower block: it's either he's a short arse or something more subtle
Yep, short arse
A bike is on a set of rollers angled upwards. Do you use the same power as riding up a hill at the same angle...
Edit : bollocks, we're not allowed maths ones 🙁
Fith daughter is mary.....
its a wandering polar bear
im tall when im young...... candle?
Travelling the world - an umbrella?
A bomber in flight opens the bomb bay doors, but the bombs do not fall. Why?
(Nothing wrong with the mechanism and there are bombs)
no. Smaller than thatan umbrella?
What travels around the world but stays in the corner?
It's certainly not a baby.
Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
stamp
bomber is flying upside down
I'm riddled as to why this is in the bike forum
Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
Isnt that the lyrics to Saturday night by Wigfield?
the daughters one is only answerable if you assume Mary is a girl
There were three men in a boat. They had four cigarettes but no lighter. How did they manage to smoke?
DO they have any matches with them ?
they threw one cigarette out of the boat, the boat was then a cigarette lighter, and they used that?
Gold star for Lester
why thank you, its taken 63 years to get my first gold star,
its the
sort of riddle i would make up and get slagged off by my mates 🙂
i woke up this morning and i had lots of gold colour small wheat disks on me, why?
actually its not a riddle its a bad joke, the answer was...... ebola cornflakes
There are 3 cups upside down on a table
Hidden under 1 cup is a £20 note
You take a cup but don’t look underneath
One of the remaining cups is removed at random
You are given the option to either stick with your first choice or to switch cups
Should you make the switch?
Switch though i dont understand the maths I do know the answer 😳
its the sort of riddle i would make up and get slagged off by my mates
I nicked it from a Fingathing album
Switch though i dont understand the maths I do know the answer
Boo...bad form
The answer requires explanation
What have I got in my pocket?
Dirty boy
on the cups you had a one in three on the first selection and a 50/50 on the switch? (EDIT Nah, that's bollox)
Poor people have it- nothing
What have I got in my pocket- get away from me you pervert
If you decide to switch cups the only way you can lose is if you picked the winning cup with your initial selection. The odds of this are 1/3 so the odds of winning if you make the switch are 1–1/3 = 2/3. So your odds improve from 1/3 to 2/3.
If you decide to switch cups the only way you can lose is if you picked the winning cup with your initial selection. The odds of this are 1/3 so the odds of winning if you make the switch are 1–1/3 = 2/3. So your odds improve from 1/3 to 2/3.
Huh? What if the winning cup was the one removed?
only if you assume that 'removed at random' didn't mean it could have the £20 in it surely
Edit: Beaten to it
Doh! said the question wrong - well spotted
That should have said....
"One of the remaining empty cups is removed"
Apologies 😳 😳 😳
the cup one is the same a the Monty Hall problem - see wiki/youtube
What Regie said, there's always a 1/2 chance once one of the incorrect ones has been removed, which is better than the 1/3 you had when you made the first decision.
In ndthornton's version you should stick, as you had a 1in3 chance, but if you swap it's I think 2 in 9 (might be 1 in 9).
I make it if you swap you have 2/3 chance, versus 1/3 if you stick.
Man and Son in a car accident, father dies son is rushed to hospital.
Upon entering the operating theatre the surgeon exclaims "that's my son"
It's the mother gypsumfantastic 🙂
Pertinent to STW....
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it, but almost nobody takes it. What is it?
advice 🙂
It's the mother gypsumfantastic
Top marks (or you're reading the same book as I am)
Back at you with - Advice
😀
What's the answer to the tower block riddle?
Oh, fireman. There's been a fire. Got it!
Eh? No, it's that he's short innit?
What has forests but no trees, mountains but no snow, and rivers but no water?
You're stuck in a room with a choice of three escapes...Behind one is a grenade linked to the door, behind another is an axe wielding maniac, behind the third is a tiger which hasn't eaten in months. Which is the door to survival?
The one with the dead tiger behind it.
njee20 - the first is "a map".
Metaphorical gold stars to you both.
A man is unable to sleep in his hotel room. He makes a phone call. The recipient doesn't answer, but upon hanging up the man is able to fall instantly asleep. Who does he ring?
Best riddle ever.
Ah, yes, the guy can't reach the button for floor 12. Got it.
The guy rings his home phone number because he's worried about being burgled
I have eyes that cannot see and a jacket you cannot wear
Poh-tayto
How many burglers would answer the freaking phone?
You are in a room with two doors. One leads to freedom, the other to instant death. There are two guards - one always tells the truth the other always lies. You are allowed to ask one guard a single question. What do you ask?
'If I ask the other guard which door is safe, what will he say?'
Then choose the other door.
You are in a room with two doors. One leads to freedom, the other to instant death. There are two guards - one always tells the truth the other always lies. You are allowed to ask one guard a single question. What do you ask?
What tyres for, etc etc.
Top marks to muzzle!
A man is unable to sleep in his hotel room. He makes a phone call. The recipient doesn't answer, but upon hanging up the man is able to fall instantly asleep. Who does he ring?
I'm sure there's a proper answer to this but it came up in a game we played once where you had to come up with an end to the story. We decided he was in the hotel because he'd ordered a hit on his wife. When he phoned her and she didn't answer he knew she was dead so he was able to sleep.
Ha, yes, I must say I've not heard that, nor the burgling answer, but must say I thought the 'proper' answer was weak.
Ha, yes, I must say I've not heard that, nor the burgling answer, but must say I thought the 'proper' answer was weak.
Someone snoring next door and he wakes them up then hangs up?
A man is looking at a portrait, and turns to a passerby and says
"brothers and sisters have i none, but that man's father, is my father's son".
a - who is the man in the portrait
b - why is the onlooker such a weirdo
DrP
a - he's looking at a portrait of his son
b - because he partakes in taekwondo and has been hit in the head a few too many times
Surely its a self-portrait?
The guy in the portrait is his son, right?
Someone snoring next door and he wakes them up then hangs up?
Well done skipper! My mother, who is a management trainer, used to 'test' me on all of these back in the day!
Pencil.
The man in the portrait is himself.
Jonathon Always.
The portrait is his son..well done!
DrP
What's the answer to the bombers riddle on page one?