Riddles

[kyektulu]

Good answer bendoran, I was going to say the same thing, u got there b4 me!

[kyektulu]

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

[Adasunshine]

A river??

xx

[kyektulu]

Correct Ada!

Heres another:

I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will,
And yet I am the confidence of all.
To live and to breathe on this terrestrial
ball.
What am I?

[Adasunshine]

Tomorrow!

xx

[Adasunshine]

Here's one

Stealthy as a shadow in the dead of night,
Cunning but affectionate if given a bite.
Never owned but often loved.
At my sport considered cruel,
But that's because you never know me at all.

What am I?

[kyektulu]

Some sort of animal, a big cat?

Im unsure...

I need another think.

[Adasunshine]

oooh, you were almost there - just a cat!

xx

Another one for you to chew on

I make you weak at the worst of all times.
I keep you safe, I keep you fine.
I make your hands sweat, and your heart grow cold,
I visit the weak, but seldom the bold.

What am I?

xx

[chrispenycate]

Originally Posted by Adasunshine

oooh, you were almost there - just a cat!

xx

Another one for you to chew on

I make you weak at the worst of all times.
I keep you safe, I keep you fine.
I make your hands sweat, and your heart grow cold,
I visit the weak, but seldom the bold.

What am I?

xx

fear

[Adasunshine]

You're right Chris - how'd you get to be so good at these, I'm awful and know only a few!!!

Your turn

xx

[dwndrgn]

Originally Posted by chrispenycate

Double negative: suppose you ask the one who is incorrigibly truthful. He tells you the truth, that the other guy would tell you the wrong door, so you go through the other one.

Now suppose you choose the other one - he'll lie to you, and tell you the wrong door, not the one the truthful guy would have said, and you go through the other door, and you're still right. See?

Nope. Still makes no sense to me. How do you know which one is the truthful one?

[weaveworld]

Originally Posted by dwndrgn

Nope. Still makes no sense to me. How do you know which one is the truthful one?

it doesn't matter which one is the truthful one lets for example say it is man A and man B and door 1 and door 2. lets say for example Door 1 is the correct door you ask man A which door man B will say, if man A tells the truth and man B lies man A will say man Bs answer will be door 2 because man B is a liar.
Now if man A is a liar he will say man Bs answer will be door 2 the oppisite of what man B will say so you go through the other door.

Hope this makes it a little clearer for you.

[chrispenycate]

Originally Posted by dwndrgn

Nope. Still makes no sense to me. How do you know which one is the truthful one?

you gon't care, because as long as one is truthful and the other the inverse (not just dishonest or untruthful, but anti truthful, you get the same answer. The wrong one, so you do the other thing. but the same ( this is probably going to be intensely annoying)
A tells truth, true answer is x, B tells only lies, false answer is y
ask A "what would B say?" and A tells you the truth, that B would lie, and say y.
Ask B what A would say, and he will lie. A would have told the truth and said x. So B must say y. If people existed who were so absolute, you'd always get the answer y, the wrong answer, and so you know the right one - clear?
*I think I'll go back to demonstrating how the universe can be limitless and unbounded and non-infinite, with just one little dimension added*

is cross posting algebra X-posting?

[Cosmo]

well done guys the one ages ago could be the law or rules.

[Omega]

So no one know's the answer to mine?