Riddle me this!

  1. 9 years ago
    Edited 9 years ago by QuietSheep

    Alright riddle thread! I will post a riddle and you will answer it! The one who wins gets the prize of *drumroll* Posting the next riddle.
    Do not post a riddle if you have not won.

    Also, you can google to look up questions but do not google to look up answers.

    If you google I won't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you close the search tab right now that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will raid you.

    Good luck XD here's the riddle, its my favorite of all time and also very difficult, you must explain how you got the answer:

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    You find yourself inside a treacherous labyrinth when you come across two identical doors to the left and right. One leads to the castle at the center, and the other leads to certain death!

    There are two men guarding the doors. They tell you you may only ask one question to only one of the guards. One guard always tells the truth and the other always lies.

    What question can you ask to ensure you know which is the door to the castle?

  2. Choose carefully David Bowie is watching you

  3. When there is fire in me then I am still cold; When I own your true love's face then you will not see me; To all things I give no more than I am given; In time I may have all things and yet I may keep nothing.

  4. @Eberk91 Choose carefully David Bowie is watching you

    Was that a Labyrinth reference
    if so
    ily

  5. @Beedobi Was that a Labyrinth reference
    if so
    ily

    100%

  6. hey i remember this!

    i would say
    "what would the other guard tell me if i asked him which door leads to the castle?"

  7. @Cileklim hey i remember this!

    i would say
    "what would the other guard tell me if i asked him which door leads to the castle?"

    Why?

  8. @QuietSheep Why?

    if he is the one that lies, he will tell the opposite of the other guard

    if he is the one that tells the truth, he will tell what the lying guard would say

    in either way, you find out which door leads to the castle

  9. @Beedobi Was that a Labyrinth reference
    if so
    ily

    The entire 1st post is from Labyrinth xD

  10. @Cileklim if he is the one that lies, he will tell the opposite of the other guard

    if he is the one that tells the truth, he will tell what the lying guard would say

    in either way, you find out which door leads to the castle

    Yep pretty much good job, well done! XD your turn to riddle!

  11. Edited 8 years ago by Cileklim

    Here we go:

    Your clock is not working properly, it jumps 36 minutes every hour. Besides, it stopped a hour ago, in 8:24. All you know is that it used to show the right time in 02:00

    Edit: I'll try explaining it again, then

    Clocks are supposed to go 60 minutes every hour, but this faulty clock goes 60 + 36 instead,
    and the same clock stops at 8:24 am, precisely a hour ago.
    You know that it was telling the right time at 02:00 am.

    can you tell the time?

  12. Edited 9 years ago by NutjobBob

    @Cileklim It's 7am, time to get up and buy a new clock!

    Someone give sknup some love :P

  13. Cileklim, can you reword that? It's really hard to understand.

  14. Yeah... I'm confused

  15. @Cileklim Here we go:
    can you tell the time?

    Its either 6 a.m. or its time to get a new clock

  16. I think its 7am also

  17. Yes i can tell The Time to start working correctly ^^

  18. @NutjobBob @QuietSheep Can you guys explain why?

  19. I just added 96 minutes to the time starting at 2.00 until i got to 8.24 which was done by adding it 4 times (which means it was only 4 hours in reality), that means the time was 6 when the clock stopped, an hour afterwards would be 7. Idk did I explain that right?

  20. Oh now that you've edited it, I thought you meant the clock stopped working then every hour, it would jump 36 minutes.

  21. 9 years ago

    @QuietSheep I just added 96 minutes to the time starting at 2.00 until i got to 8.24 which was done by adding it 4 times (which means it was only 4 hours in reality), that means the time was 6 when the clock stopped, an hour afterwards would be 7. Idk did I explain that right?

    Correct!

  22. Sweet next one XD

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    You draw a line, without altering the line at all, how do you make it longer?

  23. Hmm, can I just add a bit to the line?

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    Or... I draw the line on a piece of paper, and then stick the two ends of the paper together to get an INFINITE line??

  24. good thinking XD but both methods would be altering the line

  25. Putting a second line next to it and calling it longer :)

  26. @sknup When there is fire in me then I am still cold; When I own your true love's face then you will not see me; To all things I give no more than I am given; In time I may have all things and yet I may keep nothing.

    Anyone have an answer?

  27. @sknup is it a mirror?

  28. criaotic

    24 Jun 2016 Suspended

    @NutjobBob @sknup is it a mirror?

    ^same^

  29. @QuietSheep Sweet next one XD

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    You draw a line, without altering the line at all, how do you make it longer?

    would it be altering the line to draw arrows at the end of it
    Because arrows indicate that the line goes on longer than what shows but thats just my guess

  30. Edited 9 years ago by Cileklim

    @QuietSheep Sweet next one XD

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    You draw a line, without altering the line at all, how do you make it longer?

    pointing a magnifying glass on the line would make it look longer lol

    or i can just draw it on a large paper, and cut some of the paper (not the line),

    so the paper will be shorter but the line will be longer

  31. @Cileklim pointing a magnifying glass on the line would make it look longer lol

    Inspired genius!

  32. @Beedobi would it be altering the line to draw arrows at the end of it
    Because arrows indicate that the line goes on longer than what shows but thats just my guess

    It would be altering. It is a relatively difficult riddle. You have to think outside the box.

  33. @Cileklim pointing a magnifying glass on the line would make it look longer lol

    or i can just draw it on a large paper, and cut some of the paper (not the line),

    so the paper will be shorter but the line will be longer

    Magnifying the line would be altering it, however. Your solution of cutting the paper is pretty much it XD. Longer is a relative term. The solution I had was drawing a smaller line beside the line so that the original would be longer.

  34. @QuietSheep Sweet next one XD

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    You draw a line, without altering the line at all, how do you make it longer?

    Well, If we take the line as a collection of molecules that simply absorb more light than the rest of the paper then that is our hypothetical line. What you do then is take the piece of paper, with said line and put it in an room that allows no light to enter it. As there would no longer be any light to create the line, it becomes both infinite and non existent at the same time without actually altering the line.

  35. @TheDunmerRaven Shit just got deep....

  36. @TheDunmerRaven Well, If we take the line as a collection of molecules that simply absorb more light than the rest of the paper then that is our hypothetical line.

    Just because there's no light it doesn't mean the molecules disappear. Things don't stop existing because you can't see them...or do they... (something something matrix cat something something)

    The solution I had was drawing a smaller line beside the line so that the original would be longer.

    @_Confederacy_ got that, your turn.

  37. @NutjobBob Just because there's no light it doesn't mean the molecules disappear. Things don't stop existing because you can't see them...or do they... (something something matrix cat something something) .

    Yeah, I picked up on that a about ten minutes ago xD

    However, if we take the line as simply a perceived line, such as the results already suggested (As if we're dealing with a singular grouping of molecules that we are trying to make longer without altering them, it's impossible.), Thus, in a room without lighting, the perceived line disappears and to a viewer it would appear that the line doesn't exists, an extension of this of course is that the line becomes all consuming due to the lack of lighting itself.

  38. Make the = into --, thus making it longer.

  39. Is it in the word itself, to make it longer?

    To be longer it needs to be relative to something else. Usually we'd think of making something longer *to itself* but how about just drawing another line that's not quite as long next to it?

    =================== and then just draw =====

    That'd definitely make it longer with an extra line and not messing with the original one.

  40. That's it @Valgys you can do a riddle now or cileklim as he got it firtst but hasn't said anything XD

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