Friday, 26 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
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Current topic: Puzzles and riddles
Date: November 1, 2008
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Ideas, Life, Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe, Things We like
I have a cool idea for a thread — puzzles and riddles! I think there was a thread way back, but it might be closed now. And besides, we just did factoids, which also used to have its own thread.
first post?
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How about easter eggs, homages, references and other secret things in media that we feel really smart for catching?
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1- That sounds cool!
A black dog stands in the middle of an intersecton in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?
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3–It was daylight
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Oooh, I like the riddles idea!!
3-The dog was in the middle of the intersection, and the car had to turn at the intersection.
Here’s some riddles. They’re kinda lame though.
I have an eye but cannot see. I am stronger and faster then any man alive but have no limbs. What am I?
I’m once in a second, twice in a week, and once in a year. What am I?
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5–the second riddle is an “e”
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5- A hurricane?
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5- For the second one, the letter “e”. Oh, wait, Luna already got it. For the first, a mutated cave fish. Or something.
One just like the “e” one: I appear once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a whole year. What am I?
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8- The letter ‘M’.
This is fun! But I can’t think of any good riddles right now…..
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8–the letter ‘m’.
Now, for lack of anything better (even though everyone here is sure to know the answer):
First think of the person who lives in disguies,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next tell me what’s always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end.
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard to find word.
Now, put them together and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
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An old one that everyone has probably heard before:
In the beginning, I have four legs, at the end I have three legs, and in the middle I have two legs. What am I?
Oh and another thing about this riddle is that it’s hard to get if you aren’t flexible with your definition of “leg”. Hee hee. I’ve never actually liked this one.
I can’t recall any more right now.
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Sorry for the double post, but this one wasn’t here before.
10 – The answer to that riddle is “a spider”. Obvious to those who have read the Harry Potter series.
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11-Not a good one to ask someone who’s leading a book club on greek myths this Monday….. I know the answer, but I’m not gonna say.
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I like the secret things in media idea.
If you Google “the answer to life, the universe, and everything” without the quotation marks, the Google Calculator says it’s 42. It’s a reference to a good book called The Hitchiker’s Guide To the Galaxy.
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11–that’s an easy one–well, for anyone who has ever read any mythology. But…..I think I’ll do like Armada and leave it for somebody who doesn’t know the answer by memory.
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11- Ooh, I know, I know! (May I?)
Here’s a real easy riddle:
A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
Another one:
When you stop and look, you can always see me. If you try to touch you cannot feel me. I cannot move, but as you near me, I will move away from you. What am I?
This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out.
My first is in water and also in tea. My second is in fish but not in the sea. My third is in mountains but not underground. My last is in strike but never in pound.
My whole crushes mountains, rivers, even civilizations. And all that live, fear my arrival.
What am I?
General Gasslefield, accused of high treason, is sentenced to death by the court-martial. He is allowed to make a final statement, after which he will be shot if the statement is false or will be hung if the statement is true. Gasslefield makes his final statement and is released.
The Question: What could he have said?
Hehe, and this is my favorite:
I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I’ll pop.
If you look at me, you’ll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?
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16–Hmm….
I would say the room with lions–if they haven’t eaten for three years, then surely they are dead?
your shadow?
the paragraph has no ‘e’s, the most used letter
time?
erm, not really sur eon the gasselfield one.
or the last one.
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14- Ummm, I think everyone here knows about HG2G. Hence, Life, the Universe, HPBs, and Everything at the top of the page and the “HG2MB.” 
11- Fine, I guess I’m the only one to answer this. It’s a person.
17- You’re SUPER good at this!
16- Luna’s already answered most of them and I have no idea on the ones she didn’t.
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13, 15 – Yeah, I figured everyone here would know it. I also changed it from morning, noon and evening, because I don’t like it that way.
16 – Okay, I’m going to figure this out, although Luna probably already has. She’s on more often than me and she’s good at these puzzles.
1. The room with the lions. They haven’t eaten in 3 years — they’re going to be dead.
2. Okay, the first two are characteristics of light. The third one isn’t though… *thinks really hard* I will move away from you… got it. It’s your shadow. Not a shadow, your shadow. I should have gotten that before, it’s such a common answer to riddles like that. Gah!
3. The only thing I can detect is that the writer of that paragraph is trying really hard to skirt around something. Not using the word “the”, phrasing sentences oddly sometimes. I’m not exactly sure what it is, but there’s probably a letter you’re not using or something. I don’t get how that’s unusual, but whatever.
4. Time. Easy.
But wait… fear my arrival? Time is always present… this is a tough one. I just assumed it was time because the “my whole” thing was clearly something like that and the letter thing fit. But now I’m not sure.
5. I think you mean hanged. He said, “I am going to be shot to death today.” ((or something like that)). If that statement was true, it would mean that he would be shot to death. But that was the sentence for a false statement — he was to be hanged for a true statement. And if he were hanged for a true statement, then he wouldn’t be shot to death. The court-marshal had no choice but to let him go. Well, kinda, but whatever.
6. Gee, I don’t know. I’m interested to find out what it is.
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Tom and his younger sister were fighting. Their mother was tired of the fighting, and decided to punish them by making them stand on the same piece of newspaper in such a way that they couldn’t touch each other.
How did she accomplish this?
(Think outside the box on this one.)
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20–oh, wait, I ahve an idea! slide the newspaper under the crack in a shut door, and have each kids stand on the same paper, on either side of the shut door.
Wow, and to think I always thought I was bad at puzzles/riddles…..I am on a roll (assuming my answers are right).
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For 16, it’s supposed to be “my passing”, not “my arrival”. And it is indeed “time”. And for the last one, the riddle asks if you can answer it, and you can’t, so the answer is “no”.
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20 – I know this one, it’s one of the riddles our dad told us when we were kids. Well Luna got it already, due to her magnetism to the blog, but you put the newspaper underneath a door, and put one kid on each side of the door.
I’ve never understood how that’s a punishment, though.
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21- Well, they all make sense!
Easy one, this one’s everywhere:
A bear walked a mile south, a mile east, and a mile north, and ended up where it started. What color was the bear?
Here’s one sorta like the getting shot one:
Mr. Mgee was known to be the wisest man in all the land. One day, the king of the land made a deal with Mr. Mgee: If Mgee could find something in three days the king had never seen before, he got a million bucks (or the equivalent). If he didn’t, Mgee’s reputation as being wise would be ruined. Mgee left quickly to start searching. The king, who wanted to get rid of Mgee, knew that he could just lie and say that anything Mgee showed to him he had seen before.
So, what did Mgee show the king?
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24–it’s be white.
not entirely srue on the second…..
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24 – I’ve actually never heard that one before. It’s kind of confusing… if the place was flat, the bear would theoretically be one mile east of where he/she/it began walking. (I’m assuming the miles are in consecutive order, without any weird zigzags or something — I don’t want to think about that). Wait no, that’s impossible. I have it. *lightbulb* (man, finally when that smiley would have been useful) He started at the north pole. The bear was a polar bear, and he was white.
*is proud of self*
And now I realize that since I already know the second one, I’ll let someone else get it.
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16- Glasselfield said “I will be shot”, creating a paradox.
14- Either Google or Yahoo (I can’t remember which) would give the coordinates for the Pyramids of Giza if you typed in “Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego” for a while, but not any more.
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6, 7-Yes and yes.
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Oooh, I just remembered a really good riddle that I made up about a year ago. I’ll give my piepoints to whoever solves it, because I’m sick of them anyway.
Here goes:
How do you divide zero in half, take something away, and be left with one hundred? (No, really one hundred. Not negative. Hint: you have to do some visualization to solve this one.)
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21- Cooooorrect!!!!!! ^.^
Okay, hmmmmmm…
For some I go fast
for others I’m slow.
To most people, I’m an obsession
relying on me is a well practiced lesson.
29- Do you have to draw the numbers out or something? *rips hair out* AG!
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30–erm, a car? (or truck, or whatever–an automobile?)
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30-You don’t have to, but it helps. Don’t worry if you don’t get it, I asked all my friends this one (my adult friends too), and the only person who got it works at MIT. I’d give you a hint, but the only one I can think of would give it away completely. So, I’ll just have to leave you to it. *sits in easy chair* *twiddles thumbs*
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26- You haven’t heard it before??? Weird. It’s in one of my favorite math books. You got it right.
Nobody’s doing the Mgee one yet!
29- Ummm you cut up the zero a lot and move the lines around…?
Just joking. I have no idea.
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33-Actually, you’re on the right track.
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29:
0/2 = 0
So, take away 2 and =, twist the slash up so it is like so: |
and you are left with |00, or 100
am i right?
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29 – Believe it or not, that puzzle is pretty vague. Really vague, actually. I don’t know how to go about solving that — you could be using mathematic ideas for these things (“divide”, “take away”), or you could be talking about taking a half off the numeral of zero. Which brings us to another problem. What numeral of zero? Are we talking about “0”, or “zero”, or two parallel lines at the top and bottom of a space on lined paper? Or what? And there are so many other overwhelming questions that I haven’t written! But anyway, look at the cool thing I discovered!:
If you divide the numeral zero (the oval, “0”) in half longways, you get a C-like shape. C happens to be the roman numeral for 100. What an interesting coincidence. Obviously not the solution to the puzzle, but still cool.
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30 – Time. Another one of those time riddles. It’s so overused, I’m beginning to realize, it’s crazy.
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This is my favorite riddle, because the answer’s a pun [hint alert]. It’s also told frequently, though.
You’re trapped in a 100-foot-tall stone tower with no windows and no doors. I suppose the ceiling can be glass, so that you can see, but it’s unbreakable, so that’s irrelevant. All you have in the room with you are a mirror and a table. How do you get out?
Another riddle:
There are 24 people in a cabin in the woods. They are in two straight lines, and they are all dead. All the trees around the cabin are down. How did the people die?
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29: does it have someething to do with drawigng a line in the middle of the 0?
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35-No. Sorry. Wait….. what? Huh?
36-Ummm…… how exactly do I say ‘you solved it’? Do you want the piepoints?
The answer to the riddle as I wrote it: You cut the 0 in half. What you have now is a C-like shape and a backwards C-like shape. You take away the backwards shape and are left with a C, which is the Roman numeral for 100. Good job, THF.
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38- Something blew up?
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40–mine works too, given the vague parameters, but I don’t really care.
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38 – Haha, no for both riddles.
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This is from the story I’m writing on the Books in Progress thread:
In the year of the eighteenth Games
Held in fair Edo.
The whole world marveled at
Its steel likeness in the Meadows.
A wish on the mirrored star
Will begin your quest.
Where on Earth should you go to find the next clue?
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42-True. I just didn’t quite get it, so…. sorry.
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Hi eryone! What a loverly topic! 
However, I am quite bad at riddles.
44) Where would I go? Ummmmmmm………… some sort of lake? No. I don’t know.
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45–no problem, it was a bit of an–odd–solution, wasn’t it?
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44 – The 18th modern Olympic games were in Tokyo. Edo is/was another name for Tokyo, I think… There are lakes in or at least Tokyo, which could potentially supply a mirrored star. Dunno about steel likeness, but Tokyo makes sense.
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Remember, you’re being pointed to the YEAR of the Games, not the Games itself.
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And yes, I admit I did search where the 18th Olympic games took place to double check. I apologize if that’s illegal.
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16: the 4th one is aims, I think.
49: 1964 was the year…
38: I don’t get either of those.
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No one got mine! It’s a clock, or time in general.
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52 – See post 37. Though I don’t see how that could be a clock…
49 – Oh, 1964, easy. But how are you being pointed to the year? The question is Where on Earth you would go. That kind of contradicts with the “in the year” thing. That riddle is kind of oddly constructed — if you’re asking where I would go, I would go to “fair Edo”. Oh, I just noticed something — “In the year of the eighteenth games held in fair Edo.” is a fragment. That actually helps me out.
But anyway, what exactly are you asking? Is the solution to the riddle a time, a place, or is the time necessary for finding the place, that isn’t Tokyo (apparently)?
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52- Actually, THF got it (Post 37). Sorry to burst your bubble!
I got Tokyo from Edo. I actually knew that, yay me.
I… don’t know the year. I think the modern games started in… 1946 or something like that. I know it was before 1954 becasue the 50th one was NOT held in Athens.
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Sorry to double post, but nobody got the Mgee one yet. It was long winded and confusing, sorry.
The answer: Mgee snuck into the castle, bribed the king’s secratary, and wrote an IOU for 1 million dollars and stamped the king’s official seal on it. If the king says that he’s seen it before, Mgee would get a million bucks from the IOU. If the king says he hasn’t seen it before, Mgee gets a million dollars from the bet.
And that’s it from me. I don’t know any more riddles.
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The thing you’re looking for is not in Tokyo, but it was built in 1964.
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And remember that Capitalization can be Important.
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Hmmm. I get “gem” from the capitalized letters not at the beginning of a line… maybe there’s a steel sculpture of a gem somewhere? I’m not sure about the meadow part.
Star… perhaps a star gem? I keep thinking of Eragon (star sapphire).
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Remember, its Meadows, not meadow.
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rEally? I didn’t know that Edo was another Word for Tokyo….Interesting…….
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Dang it. I gave up and googled it. I have the answer, I’m pretty sure. The answer to the 1964 one. Google ruins everything.
Since I cheated, though, (tee hee) I won’t post the answer.
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And now I feel stupid, because I actually did know what that was. Slash is.
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61- Tell me, though, is your answer FAIR?
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What type of cheese is made backwards?
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63 – If that’s supposed to be a clue for what my answer is, yes. If my answer is literally “FAIR”, no. I don’t know what you mean if your asking me if my answer is a fair (as in fair and just and legal) answer.
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65- Then I think you’ve got it correct. But check the BiP thread soon to find out if the heroes had the same idea as you.
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53- Oops, didn’t see that. Good job!
What is the easiest way to throw a ball, and have it stop, and completely reverse direction after traveling a short distance?
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67 – Throw the ball up in the air and let gravity bring it back to you.
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47, Yours, mine, or both?
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What has a mouth but does not speak, ears and does not hear, eyes and does not see, does not even draw a breath, and has makers that become like it in those ways?
It’s a bad riddle…
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67. throw it upwards?
here’s a paradox:
A man from Crete said to a Greek, “All Cretans are liars.” Did he tell the truth or did he lie?
This one’s easy:
You’re in a log cabin in a forest with the clothes on your back, a match, and in the cabin is a candle, a fireplace and an oil lamp. Which do you light first?
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59- Oh, yeah. Ummm, the only Meadows that I know of are the Mt. Hood meadows, and I don’t think it’s at a ski slope…
I’m not very good at geography or historical events at all.
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71-It’s a paradox. And the match.
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71 – You light the match first… ? What else would you light first?
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71 – Yeah that’s a famous one. It’s technically a paradox, even without the question on the end, but I always just say he’s lying. Just because he lies doesn’t mean that all Cretans are liars. If he were telling the truth, it would be an impossible thing. (aka he couldn’t have been telling the truth)
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The next riddle in the story:
“Got questions?
Go ask ATLAS!
01001000-01001001-01000111-01000111-01010011.”
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Fine. No one hurryin brainstorming about mine. hmph! 
Hee hee.
Wouldn’t you light the match first? Oh…. wait….. everyone else already said that…… nevermind…..
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You are in a jail with only a mirror. How do you get out?
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76 – I knew/know that ATLAS has something to do with the LHC, but I had to use an internet binary translator/decoder to decode the binary. Of course, now I don’t know what I’m supposed to do.
And yeah, the first riddle’s answer was the same as my answer. Yay for google!
77 – Yours sounds like either a pun-type puzzle or trivia, neither of which I really felt/feel like answering/solving.
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78 – Um… you just walk out? Unless you are locked in, which you didn’t say you were, there aren’t really any obstacles.
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80-Ok. You are in an underground jail. There is no way out. There is a magic light coming from the walls, so you can see.
Hint: The answer has a lot of puns.
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78-Break the mirror in half. Put the halves together. Two halves make a whole. Put the hole in the wall and walk out.
I might be wrong, though…..
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79- Man, you’re good!
81- You break the mirror in half and you have two halves. Then you put them together and you have a whole. You jump through the hole to freedom.
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81) Ummmmmmmmmmm…….. You step through the mirror? I don’t know. 
You the amazing energy of the magic light and the reflective properties of the mirror to teleport yourself out of your prison?
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81 – Tesseract, post 38, already gave that puzzle. Except there was an objective in that one. What are you asking us to do?
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81, 83 – That’s funny. I like it. I’m not good with thinking out of the box when it comes to puns, so when Tesseract mentioned it was a pun puzzle I didn’t even try. I love that, though… maybe I’ll use it somewhere else!
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Sorry Armada, I meant 81 to 83. Didn’t mean to leave you out of that.
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Little bit different..same idea
You look in the mirror, you see what you saw, you take the saw, you saw it in half, two halves make a whole, you climb out the whole.
You are 1000 miles away from the nearest city. You have 3000 bananas and a camel that eats one banana every mile and can only carry 1000 bananas. How many whole bananas can you get to the city?
Ignore technicalities. Math problem.
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16-Your riddle about Gasselfield has an interesting answer. Actually, in the usual answer he could not be let free.
If I am let free, I will die of cancer, and if I am hung, I will be hung.
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88–wouldn’t it just be 1000? The camel eats one banana/mile, and you need to go 1000 miles, so discard the 2000 extra, since the camel can’t carry them anyway……I’m confused, i hate extraneous numbers in math problems.
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88) I suppose all of the banas that you yourself can carry. Right?
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No. You can’t carry any. Strictly mathematical, not a trick question.
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92–you didn’t say, is my answer wrong?
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93. Sorry-yes. The camel would have used up the bananas by the time he got to the city.
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From The Hobbit.
A box without hinges, key or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
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88-zero. the camel carries 1000 bananas, eats one bpm (bananas per mile) so you would end up with zero. unless you have another camel that does not eat as much, but you said to ignore technicalities.
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95 – I have always been confused by that riddle’s answer, because I always think of a box as being square. It’s not really a box without any right angles! Still a great riddle though.
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94–oops, need to learn to read–I thought it asked how many bananas he could bring, as in how many he would start with, not how many he would have when he reached the city. Yeah, reading would help….. 
95–I have read that book three times, and I still don’t remember the answer. dang. hehe, just looked it up, and NOW, I remember the answer……and it sorta makes sense, if you kinda think outside the box.
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hehe, I just found a riddle page, and so shall post some here:
I cover cities and destory mountains,
I make men blind, yet help them see.
Of no use to one
Yet absolute bliss to two.
The small boy gets it for nothing.
The young man has to lie for it.
The old man has to buy it.
What runs around a city
but never moves?
Iron roof, glass walls
Burns and burns
And never falls.
It holds most knowledge that has ever been said;
But is not the brain, is not the head.
To feathers and their masters, ’tis both bane and boon. . .
One empty, and one full.
I have rivers without water,
Forests without trees,
Mountains without rocks
Towns without houses.
Ten Men’s Strength,
Ten Men’s Length,
Ten Men can’t break it,
Yet a young boy walks off with it
That’ll do for now….
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73- And because very few people know binary code by heart, feel free to post the answer to the second clue, Taiwan Hippo Fan.
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99 –
1. In the back of my mind, I remember hearing that riddle. *thinks*
I know the answer, but it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for the “helps them to see”. I never got that.
2. Dunno.
3. The only thing I can think of is the sun… And I doubt that’s right, because otherwise it wouldn’t have said “a city“.
4. I figure a lamp. The walls and roof don’t burn, but you can say “the lamp burns.”
5. Ugh! I think I could figure this one out if I thought about it… Kinda late for me to do that.
6. I feel really proud of myself for figuring this out — a map. Or a globe, or some sort of thing like that.
7. Huh. I’ll have to think that one through a bit and get back to you.
100 – Well I don’t actually know what the riddle is asking for — I can tell you that ATLAS is one of those particle research thingies for the Large Hadron Collider (The “L” stands for LHC). The code reads HIGGS — that is a particle the ATLAS is looking for. Basically. I don’t know where to go from there, though.
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101–4 and 7 are both right! Good job–I couldn’t figure ’em out, but then, it didn’t help that they had the answers directly after the riddles.
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100- I used Google Maps for my guess:
Bosön, Lidingö, Sweden?
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Okay, here are the answers to my riddles from post 38, because that was four days ago.
You’re trapped in a 100-foot-tall stone tower with no windows and no doors. I suppose the ceiling can be glass, so that you can see, but it’s unbreakable, so that’s irrelevant. All you have in the room with you are a mirror and a table. How do you get out?
You look in the mirror and see what you saw, you take the saw and cut the table in half, two halves make a whole and you climb out the (w)hole.
There are 24 people in a cabin in the woods. They are in two straight lines, and they are all dead. All the trees around the cabin are down. How did the people die?
It’s a plane cabin. The plane crashed.
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101- That’s right, it’s at the LHC.
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Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?
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106–The building is built against a hill–his window is on the side against the hill, and is only a “first” floor window. Or else all the 21 floors are all underground, but I’ll go wiht the former, as presumably they wouldn’t label it the 22 floor if the others are entirely subterranean.
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the answer it came with was ‘Brad was so sick and tired of window washing, he opened the window and jumped inside.’ but the hill answer makes sense too.
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106 – What Luna said.
104 – Ah, I get the cabin one now. That makes a lot of sense.
55 – You know, I knew that story/riddle from something else, so I didn’t answer, but where I got it, it was a document for the king’s death. I think.
Of course, I still don’t get how he couldn’t just say he’d seen it before, but that it wasn’t official or something, but whatever.
An old one that isn’t technically a riddle, I’ve adjusted it:
How do you cut twelve in half and get seven?
Back to Luna’s riddles:
1. What helps people see? Glasses. What were glasses made of before plastic was invented? Glass. What is glass made of? Sand.
2. Still have no idea.
3. I’ve been thinking about this, and I think I made some progress. “Around” can be “something moves around”, but it also means something like surround. A border runs around a piece of paper, and a messenger runs around a building.
Wait a second, I’ve got it. It’s a border. The city’s border runs all the way around the city, but it doesn’t move very often or very quickly.
5. I keep thinking about ink. I know that doesn’t make sense, but I keep coming back to it.
7. Is it one of those “idea” puzzles? Like time, or thought? Actually, a lot of them could make sense for that, but for now I’ll go with love.
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Here is a great riddle: A woman walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender suddenly pulls out a gun, points it at her, waits a second, then puts the gun away. The woman smiles, thanks the bartender, and leaves. What happened?
When are we going to get an official topic for this thread?
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95- an egg.
110- I know that one! She has the hiccups and needed the guy to scare her.
99- 5 is a book.
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110 – It’s okay. It doesn’t really matter whether there’s an “official” topic on the top of the thread, so long as we know what the topic is.
As to your riddle, I’ll have to think about that.
Let’s see. I hope this has nothing to do with bar customs, because I don’t know any.
Perhaps the asking for a glass of water is some sort of code, or maybe that’s not quite exactly what she said? No, that’s ridiculous.
He waits a second. She thanks him afterwards. He pulls the gun out and then puts it back.
Is the gun just like a hose or something? Are you just leaving some things out? Instead of saying, “He pours water for her,” you say, “He points the gun at her and leaves it there for a second.” Huh.
I’ll figure this out eventually…
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SFTDP, but I’ve got some really good ones. And no fair cheating, since the first 2 are from The Hobbit and the last 2 are from Dragonology.
Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face.
“That eye is like to this eye,”
Said the first eye,
“but in low place,
not in high place.”
What force and strength cannot get through
I with a gentle touch can do,
And many in the street would stand
Were I not a friend at hand.
Black we are and much admired
Men seek for us if they’re tired
We tire the horse, but comfort man,
Tell me this riddle if you can.
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99, 111 – I finally realized why I couldn’t get #5. I re-read it, and it says “most knowledge that has ever been said.” I thought it said “most knowledge that has never been said.”
Boy, does that clear things up.
111 – I would like to request that if you didn’t figure a puzzle out on your own, wait at least a day for someone else to figure it out. I was not even sort of on the right track, but I would liked to have had some more time to think about it before the answer was revealed, especially by someone who only knew it because she had heard it before.
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I apologize if this is a double post, but post 113 was not moderated when I posted my last one.
113 – I won’t give the Hobbit answers, but here are my thoughts on the other two.
I fear that #3 is another one of those time riddles, or something like that, but I’m not sure.
#4 seems like something along the lines of a carriage. The horse gets tired pulling it, but the man doesn’t need to work and stuff. I’m not sure that that’s right, but it makes sense…
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109–1 is correct, 3 is on the right track, 7 is going for a real physical thing.
111–well, that’s not the answer they gave, but it makes sense to me, so I’ll accept it. They were looking for paper.
113–on number two “an eye in a blue face…..” I know what the correct answer is supposed to be, but I’ve always been partial to the answer I came up with: The in the blue face is the sun. The eye in the green face is the sun’s reflection in a pool of water (water is often greenish in lakes/ponds), and the reflection is like the sun, except in a low place, not a high place. I’ve always been partial to this answer (probably because I thought of it myself).
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116 – Well my answer for 3 worked just fine. How old is this puzzle? It may be talking about a wall instead of a border, I guess. Probably not though… that wouldn’t really be any different.
Okay, something that’s long and strong. And can be carried easily. Wow do I feel stupid now — I didn’t look at the facts. If it can be about 60 feet long, and still be carried by a young boy, it’s probably pretty thin. If it’s that thin, then the combination of ten men’s strength won’t help — only one man can weaken any given point at a time. It’s still going to be light enough to be easily carried — I was thinking a knot, and then I modified it to make it a rope.
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Okay, so you went to the LHC and found an Astro Boy action figure with this note attached:
“My big brother’s not afraid to climb the stairs.
He remembers to end with a bow.
He can hold you hand and run at six km.
The doctor will see you now.â€
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OK, 99 again. #3- a road? #2- it’s on the tip of my tongue. I don’t know. Hmm.
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117—yeah, your answer did work, it just wasn’t exactly what it was going for. Wall is correct (and I have no idea how old it is, just found it online on a page with zillions of riddles). When you said border, I was thinking the imaginary line where the city ends, like state borders.
And yup, rope is the correct answer for the last one.
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Any guesses on my riddle on post 109? (How can you cut twelve in half and be left with seven?)
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12. Cut off the top and put the bottom parts together. That’s easy.
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96-Actually, for my riddle you can get 533.
mile 0->200 leave 600, back, repeat, and repeat but don’t go back. You have 2000. Do the same at mile 533. Go all the way, and you have 533.
Sam rode to town on Thursday. Three days later he rode out on Thursday. How is this possible?
What happened on February 29, 1800?
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122 – Whoa. That’s weird. That works pretty darn well, but it’s not the answer I had.
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(121) THF: Top half of Roman numeral XII is Roman numeral VII?
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There are 5 people on an island with brown eyes and 5 with blue. There is also a guard with red eyes and a guru with green. Only the guru can talk, except to the guard. Noone can see their eye color. Everyone wants to leave, and can leave if they prove the color of their eyes to the guard. All are master logicians. One day the guru says, “I see someone with blue eyes.” Who leaves and when?
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123- the second one is easy. Nothing, it wasn’t a leap year.
The first one: Thursday was the name of his horse. Jeez, these are so easy.
Here are a few more:
Three men registered at a hotel and paid $10 each for one room. After they had gone to their room, the manager discovered that the men should only have been charged $25, so he sent the bellboy to return $5. But the bellboy returned only $3 to the men, and kept the other $2 himself.
The men originally spent $30, but they got back $3, so in all they spent $27. The bellboy kept $2. This makes a total of $29, but the three men had originally paid $30. Where was the missing dollar?
A certain day was “yesterday” when the day before yesterday was “yesterday.” On that certain day, Kim’s parents told her, “We’ll go on a picnic the day after tomorrow if it doesn’t rain tomorrow.” It rained the day before yesterday, but not since. did the family go on the picnic?
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125–genius, Robert.
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125 – That’s what I was looking for. I was really surprised when Lady G discovered that other one.
126 – I will think about this one. Es muy intriguing.
However my brainstorming things haven’t gone very far because I still don’t quite understand the riddle.
Here are the facts that I think are most important:
1. The guard is, for these purposes, deaf. No one can use their voice to tell the guard anything.
2. Only one person (the guru), in the whole group of twelve, is able to talk.
3. No one knows their own eye color, and needs the guru to tell them what color their eyes are.
4. The objective of all of the people is to tell the guard their own eye color.
5. At some point, I am going to have to think about time, otherwise the riddle wouldn’t ask “when”.
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127–yes, they went on the picnic. As follows: “A certain day was “yesterdayâ€(let’s call this Friday for simplicity) when the day before yesterday was “yesterday.â€(Thursday) On that certain day(Friday, as established earlier), Kim’s parents told her, “We’ll go on a picnic the day after tomorrow (Sunday) if it doesn’t rain tomorrow.(Saturday)†It rained the day before yesterday(Thursday), but not since. did the family go on the picnic?” So, since it didnt rain on “tomorrow”, they went on the picnic.
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130- that’s a different way of solving it than I thought of, but yes.
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Lady G, please stop saying that riddles are easy. The answer may be ridiculously obvious to you, but it is polite to avoid saying things that could make someone feel inferior. Stating nothing more than the answer of the riddle is plenty.
127 – You screwed up the calculations. There is no missing dollar. Here’s how it works:
There are a total of $30 on the table. In the end, the manager/company kept $25, the bellboy has $2, and the men have $3. So really, the men spent $27, and got to keep $3 for other things.
And Luna got the other one, though I’m fearing that somehow that was a trick question.
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127- The “missing dollar” is in the calculations.
Subtracting 3 and then adding 2 doesn’t make sense according to most people, so the calculations in the riddle are wrong. Yeah, that was vague, but oh, well.
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(On the previous subject, Factiods) Okay, remember the fact that I posted that said that during menstruation a woman loses sensitivity in her middle finger? Well, I conducted an expiriment on that. One week ago I poked myself on my middle finger with a needle, and it hurt a lot. I poked myself today (my period started last night) and it hurt LESS. It was a very scary expirience. (Sorry, random).
Okay, riddle!
If three cats catch three mice in three minutes, how many cats would be needed to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?
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134 – If those rates are correct, three cats.
I think.
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134–100 cats
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No, wait scratch that–THF is closer……three cats catch a mouse every three minutes, so let’s say that each cat catches a mouse every three minutes. Yeah, three would work. I think. I dunno, I need to go study biology.
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134-At that rate…but they wouldn’t do it at that rate. Possibly.
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135- That sounds right to me. I think the riddle is trying to get you to say 100 cats, but that’s wrong.
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It’s three cats. ^^
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140–Oh yeah. Wow.
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
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141–a towel
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141- I have no idea. An annoying sarcastic person? (Wet being used in the English sense, meaning a prat, and dry being used as sarcastic…)
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129-no, anyone can speak to the guard.
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144 – I quote, from post 126, “Only the guru can talk, except to the guard.”
141, 142 – I’ve always loved the cleverness of that riddle.
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145–yeah, it is clever. I think I must’ve heard it somewhere before (although I don’t actually remember hearing it), otherwise I don’t think I would’ve known the answer (and known it without thinking about it).
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There must be other riddles that follow the same pattern, based on ambiguity between the transitive and intransitive meanings of a verb. For example, you could say of water in a car’s radiator that “the more it cools, the warmer it gets.”
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147 – The problem with that one is that it’s dealing with subjects now. You could argue that that’s bad grammar, because you don’t 1. Identify the subjects or 2. Specify which form of the subjects you’re using.
Definitely interesting though.
I found a decent site online. The riddles are all pretty simple and only require a slight twist in thought to solve, but here are a few of them anyway:
What goes around the world, yet stays in a corner?
What can you catch but not throw?
The man who invented it doesn’t want it. The man who bought it doesn’t need it. The man who needs it doesn’t know it. What is it?
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148–you can catch a cold, but can’t throw it. dunno if that’s what it’s going for, though
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148- is the first one a compass?
I agree with Luna on the second.
I have no idea about the third.
No one’s solved the ones from 113 yet.
132- I didn’t screw up the calculations. That was exactly how the riddle was worded. It was meant to trick you. And, sorry about the “easy” thing. 
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The second one is, indeed, a cold. The problem with all of the riddles on this page is that they stretch the truth a bit (they just aren’t good quality riddles). My issue with that riddle is this: Although people don’t say “I threw a cold”, and they do say “I caught a cold”, someone has to have “thrown” the cold for someone to catch it. Just because we don’t say that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
The third one is kind of weird, but after you go back you it you see that all three clues could make sense.
150 – Interesting path for the first one, but a compass is not the solution they were looking for.
And I assume you mean that my answer for #4 (as on post 115) is incorrect?
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151-Yes, it’s incorrect.
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145-I meant, except anyone can talk to the guard. Sorry ’bout that.
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You must eat one each of two kinds of pills to live. You have two of each kind in front of you, but you do not know which is which. How can you live?
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(All the pills look alike.)
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154 – Take all of the pills.
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154–oooh, I have an idea! ok, so, you have two of each kind. Break (or cut) each pill exactly in half (make sure not to mix them up) and eat exactly 1/2 of each of the four pills. By doing so, you will eat a total of one of each kind. I feels smart.
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154 – Break the pills into powder, dissolve it in water, and drink half the water.
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You guys think you’re so smart. You’ll find out that my answer was actually the most correct one. Just you wait. You’ll find out.
Actually, mine could potentially work, seeing as OB didn’t say that you had to have no more than one of each kind of pill.
Here’s a simple one that requires practical thought:
What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn’t fill it up?
Here’s a good one kind of like the third one from post 148:
He who has it doesn’t tell it. He who takes it doesn’t know it. He who knows it doesn’t want it. What is it?
An interesting one, though I’m not sure I agree with it completely:
There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first runs and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good. Who are they?
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159-maybe, maybe not. Mine works, too. And although OB didn’t specify only one of each, mine would match that requirement too! Actually, I’d say they are all arguably correct.
#1 A drain? Or maybe a black hole? I don’t know.
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159 – A round tub with a hole in the bottom.
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159- A hole.
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118- Ok, I’ve read Astro boy, I should be able to get this. Astro Boy doesn’t have a big brother, so I’m thinking it’s a big machine, probably Japanese. Stairs, hmmm. The bow part makes me think he preforms, but I have no idea. Is it supposed to be “hold your hand”, not “hold you hand”? The doctor could be either the man who made Astro, or the prof. with the big nose, but I’m thinking it’s more of a clue to the next location.
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THF-sorry about not being specific, so you’re right.
158-wrong.
157-right
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Ans. to 126-All blue-eyed people leave 4 days later.
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*crash lands* Dang, and that was my last rocket! *straightens helmet* *gathers scrap metal and tools*
So, a guy is trying to impress a girl. The girl really likes dogs, so he tells her this story-
“My grandfather lived by a train track with his dog, Scrappy. This train track was on a bridge, over a big river. Sometimes, this bridge would break, and he would go out with a red flag and stopped the train while he fixed the bridge. One day, a train came along, but the man was having a seizure. Suddenly, the bridge broke, and the train was speeding toward it. The dog courageously grabbed the man’s red shirt from his closet and ran in front of the train, saving the day!”
The girl stared at him She said, “You’re lying,” and walked away.
How did the girl know he was lying?
*fixes rocket* *flies away*
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Hmmm. The dog couldn’t have opened the closet? I don’t know.
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166- the guy couldn’t have gone on the bridge? I don’t know, it just sounds phony.
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Nope for both of you.
One fine day, the king called Sally Sue to his court. Sally Sue was to be sentenced to death if she didn’t find something no one had ever seen before. She survived. What did she bring?
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166–dogs are red-green colour blind. The dog wouldn’t’ve known the right shirt to grab.
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170- You got it! *claps*
Now, how about the other one, hm?
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169-someone used that already.
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169- A dust mite, or some other tiny organism not visible with the naked eye.
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169- Hey, that was my Mgee one!
The aswer is probably something like a release warrant. (if those exist)
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169) Ooooooooo. That’s hard. Perhaps a new painting? Or something like that?
No one answered my last riddel. 
Here it is again!
What type of cheese is made backwards?
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Who looks for holes and fills them in?
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176–erm, people repairing roads? They look for potholes and then fix ’em…..Probably not what you’re gong for, but….
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177-That makes sense, but not what I was looking for.
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176, 178–ooh, another idea, probably also not what you’re looking for. The people who bury dead people, or even the dead people themselves, I suppose. The holes are dug, and they “look for them” and fill them in with coffins and dirt. Or people who plant trees–they look for pre-dug holes to “fill in” with the trees.
And somehow I think I’m probably way off track! 
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Those people don’t look for premade holes.
Hint: A visit to one is dreaded.
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180–well, in a round about way they do. somebody digs a hole (themselves or someone else), and then they “find” them and fill them in…..Yeah, I know, that was stretching it a bit……
No good ideas off the top of my head right now, though!
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Maybe switch the topic to jokes??
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A dentist, perhaps?
If we’re going to switch the topic, I think it should be a different type of topic — the last two have not been discussions, but more random things and response. I agree that the topic is slowing down and we should change the topic, I just think we should have a discussion this time around, not something more like a list.
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183 (Hippo Fan) – I agree. Let’s discuss something.
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169- a death warrant for the king? I don’t really know.
Yes, let’s discuss something. How about theater/theatre? I’m in “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” It’s really fun.
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Howsabout… i dunno… small, fluffy, cute animals?
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Come on! Come on! What type of cheese is made backwards? What type of cheese is made backwards?!
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Let us discuss theater! Or opera! Or something like that!!!!!!!!!!
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Theater? I’m probably going to regret supporting this, as I really don’t know that much about any kind of theater other than improv theater……
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187 – Ha! I was right! It is a pun-like riddle!. ‘Edam’ is ‘made’ spelled backwards.
I’m cool with theatre/theater, but I think we should refine that topic a bit.
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Edam. XD I love that one.
Fluffy animals!
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My Sally Sue one- Actually, from the book I got it from, it was an egg. Just when the king was getting angry, the little bird came out, and… yeah. It’s a children’s book. “The Big Jump.”
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How about philosophy?
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CUTE. FUZZLY. ANIMALS. They pwn!
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MissCullen, are you an alter ego? I think you’re MissSwann for some reason, maybe just because the name is similar.
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195- Yeah, but I wasn’t really intending it to be an alter ego… I was more indicating that I am SO FLIPPITY FLAPPITY EXCITED FOR THE TWILIGHT MOVIE that I changed my name. And it says ‘temporary’, so yea… I’ll change it for everyone’s convenience…
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Philosophy’s a good topic, but again, I think we should probably narrow it down. Philosophy of life, philosophy of exploration, philosophy of sin, shave it down a bit.
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Free will? I don’t believe in it. Who does?
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198-Sorry, I did not mean that question as rhetorical.
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Fluzzly animals. (is stubborn)
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Okay, another riddle from my story that’s more like the first:
You find a picture of a space shuttle, a bag of red dirt, and the words “Infra Depth- mix it up”. Where in the world should you go next?
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201-To Cape Canaveral?
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201- Did you mix it up?
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203-Oh, I forgot about that. Hmm, an anagram? INFRA DEPTH……
I don’t know. I’m tired, and I have to get off the computer soon….. I’l take another look at it tomorrow.
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(193, 197, etc.) “Philosophy” in general is too broad. You’ll need to narrow it down to a particular branch of philosophy. I recommend phenomenology. Once you’ve learned a little about it, you can fling the word around at school and drive your teachers crazy.
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205–just looked up the definition…..sounds confusing, but could be interesting…..
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It’s probably impossible, but it certainly sounds impressive. So do epistemology and metaphysics. Ethics is probably the most approachable branch of philosophy, along with the philosophy of language.
The London Philosophy Study Guide gives a good idea of what philosophy involves (though not much in the way of details):
www . ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/LPSG/contents. htm
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How about paradoxes? I love paradoxes. They make you think.
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204- You’re on the right track.
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Sorry if someone posted this one already. Nobody I’ve asked has gotten this one first try, but it’s pretty vague so I can see why.
All right, here we go:
Little Nancy Etticoat
In a white petticoat
And a cherry red nose.
The longer she stands,
The shorter she grows.
What is she?
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201- Okay, this might have been cheating, but I went to a word unscrambler that I googled and infradepth is an anagram for pathfinder. The pathfinder rocket was launched at the university of cincinnati. The red dust is either rocket fuel or mars dust. You should probably go to the university of cincinnati.
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211- That answer’s so good it deserves to be right. You have the right anagram, but take the patch a tad more literally.
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210-She’s a candle.
Behind the Green Glass Doors, there are:
Trees, but no branches
Pebbles, but no dirt
Hurricanes, but no storms
Doors, but no windows.
I can come up with many more examples, but what rule am I using to figure out what there is and isn’t?
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212-To Cape Canaveral?….. To Cape Canaveral and then to Mars?…..
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198 – I believe that ultimately, you can do whatever you want to do. If you want to burn all your cash and run across the country, and then kill five random innocent people, you can do that if you want. Someone’s gonna come after you for killing those people, but it doesn’t mean you can’t do it. At least I think that’s what free will is…
210 – shadowfire already got this one, and I’ve heard it before. But it’s really only tricky because of the first part–I think it would be easier to solve if it was just “The longer she stands, the shorter she grows.”
211 – Aw man, I was so proud of myself for figuring out that anagram! Oh well.
Wait. The Great Pathfinder was some person after Louis and Clark or something, right? I’m probably just making this up in my head, but I keep thinking some girl, I don’t know, found a path through the US or something. No idea where you would go, and I doubt that’s right anyway, but hey–red dirt is found in the midwest, and stuff, right?
212 – Hey, how about you have your heroes use that, go to Cincinnati and discover that they miscalculated? That’d be a perfect red-herring-type-thing, and you know it’s realistic because a real person reached that conclusion!
213 – I’ve already heard this one, so I won’t answer.
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There was this one riddle I heard that went something like this:
What is greater than God,
More evil than the devil,
The poor have it,
The rich need it,
And if you eat it, you’ll die?
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213-I had so much fun telling that one to my friends and having them beg for me to tell them. They could just not figure it out. I tortured them for maybe 2 hours before I finally gave it up 
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217- I know what it is, although I’ve never heard it before. It’s double letters.
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216-Nothing. Yes, that is actually the answer, to the confused people.
217-I know, isn’t it fun?
The Jokes & Riddles thread is still alive, check it out.
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If you take the patch at face value and combine it with your anagram result, all will be revealed with a simple Google-search.
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220- Huntsville, Alabama?
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221- Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!
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222- Er, OK, so what do I find?
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223- If you’re wondering where you find the story, it’s in the Books in Progress thread. If you’re wondering where exactly in Huntsville you would go:
http:// en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Space_ Shuttle_ Pathfinder
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What do you call a fish without an eye?
What do you call a deer with no eyes?
What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?
What do yo call a girl with one leg?
What do you call a boy with no arms and no legs?
What month has 28 days?
Does England have the 4th of July?
How far can you walk into a forest?
You approach a fork in the road. One path leads to a village of people who always tell the truth, the other leads to a village of people who always tell lies. You want to go to the village of truth, but you don’t know how to get there. A native comes along. What can you ask him that will point you where you want to go, no matter which village he is from?
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224- I meant what’s the riddle I find.
Last riddle in Post 225: which way leads to the village you live in?
Does England have the 4th of July? Yes, but it’s not a holiday.
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.225 – Fsh?
No eye-deer.
Sill no eye-deer.
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All of them.
Yes, every country does.
Halfway. Then, you’re walking out of a forest.
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215_Free will is whether you can make decisions independent of experiences and heredity.
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226, 227- Correct! (To all the ones you answered, anyway. The ones you didn’t answer don’t count.)
My friends didn’t get the forest one. I had to draw a picture to show them!
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This is a double post, I believe, but who’s counting?
Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I’m double, I’m single,
I’m black, blue, and gray,
I’m read from both ends,
And the same either way.
What am I?
Why is an island like the letter T?
My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
What other letter fits in the following series:
B C D E I K O X?
Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats. Each female gets her own cat. How is this possible?
What has wheels and flies, but is not an aircraft?
Six glasses are in a row. The first three are full of juice; the second three are empty. By moving only one glass, can you arrange them so empty and full glasses alternate?
How much dirt is in a three foot hole?
Similar ones have been posted, but I like this one the best:
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?
A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains.
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230- A garbage truck has wheels and flies.
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230-One daughter is a mother.
A car with a dog in it.
Pick up the second cup, pour into the fifth.
None.
Twelve has six letters, so?
What looks like a horse, but sees just as well from both ends?
Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?
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232- President Grant.
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190-191) YAY! *gives cheese prize*
How much dirt is in a 3-ft hole? Uh…….. 3ft……… well…….. it depends on the shape of your hole. I suppose that you mean that the hole is 3 feet deep. Most holes tend to be round……. unless you were going to bury a coffin…… but……. yeah…… I’m supposing that the hole is round. Therefore, the hole would …… wait…………………………… whoah………………. OK. NEVERMIND!
The whole concept of a hole is that it is EMPTY! It contains no dirt at all! *slaps forehead* I shoulda had a V8.
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Here’s a riddle for you:
What we caught,
We left behind.
What we didn’t catch,
We brought with us.
A famous philosopher died from stress because he could not find an answer!
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236) Really? He died? 
Hmmmmm….. I think you’re pulling my leg…..
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Puzzles and riddles? Who thought that up?
There was this really good riddle on the board of my GT room, but I forgot it.
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238- Nice.
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What do you call a fish with 10 eyes? A fiiiiiiiiiish.
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I saw “FISH” on the recent comments sidebar and had to come.
239-I know, I was like “wow why did I click submit” right after I did.
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240) Heh heh.
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Riddles with slap yourself on the head answers.
A plane crashes on the border between Canada and the U.S. Where are the survivors buried?
When was the war of 1812?
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230-Sees? Pour juice from the second cup into the fifth cup. Dozens. M.
STFDP
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243- Survivors aren’t buried. They’re alive.
1812.
In Egypt, is a man allowed to marry his widow’s sister?
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244- sees is close… you have the right idea, wrong word
245- if he has a widow, then he can’t marry anyone! he’s dead!
If you’re in a race, and you overtake the second person, what position are you in?
What about if you overtake the last person?
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246- 2nd?
You can’t overtake the last person. That’s paradoxical.
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Hey, LadyG, you’re smart! I’ve asked those two questions to a whole bunch of my friends and they all said first and second-to-last. I love talking to smart people!
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248- So do I.
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Why do us MBers never feed cheese to our computor mice? We do`nt want to NEVER GO ON MuseBlog AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(*sniff*)
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250) i don’t get it.
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Take a famous phrase, rearrang it, and you will get completely something.
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It`s reararange it ,not rearang it. Besides,you forgot the“else in something else.
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253- You’re both wrong, it’s rearrange.
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254) exactly! I couldn’t have said it better myself!
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16- Way late, but I don’t think anyone has answered it. My guess is the sun.
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SFTDP-I just looked at 16 again and realized the sun couldn’t be the answer.
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What is colorful, yummy, seen all over the world, sometimes sharp, sometimes creamy, and sometiimes both?
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16 is a wall.
225- 4. Eileen
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1. the word eye
2. ?
3. M
4.A Grandmother, a mother, and a granddaughter.
the grandmother is the mother’s mother, the mother is the granddaugter’s mother and the grandmother’s daughter, and the mother is also the granddaughter’s mother, whereas the granddaughter is the mother’s daughter.
2 mothers, 2 daughters
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258- cheese
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3. it’s surrounded by water.
wa T er
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260) Exactly!
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262- this is kinda random (ok really random) but I like that name. I like to munch on kiwis, too.
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There’s really no topic anymore, have you noticed?
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253-No, I didn’t forget else. The quote was…should I say it?
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263) REally? They are quite scrumptious aren’t they? Especially with a thick slice of brie!
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266-Incredibly nutritious.
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