Brain Teasers

This should be easy enough, but you never know how people think.

You are camping in the mountains, and return to your camper at nearly dark almost frozen, nearly starved, and with the battery in your flashlight (torch) on it's last legs. A storm is coming in that will keep you confined to the camper at least three days. No problem. You have a kerosene (paraffin) space heater with plenty of fuel, a propane cook stove and enough food, and a Coleman ™ lantern for light. However, you can only find one match. What do you light first, given that if you fail you could freeze, starve, or have to stay in the dark a good bit of the time? http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/konfus/a015.gif

The match!! :D

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Originally Posted by RobinHood3000

The match!! :D

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Too easy, mon ami! But good eyes to see through the dust in the eyes! :thumbs_up

They feed the fish and worms alike

...assassinated mobsters? :confused: :p

planktan??
cant spell t a type of algea?

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Originally Posted by RobinHood3000

...assassinated mobsters? :confused: :p

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Ah, yes. Robin remembers that I write mysteries concerning 30's and 40's era mobsters. Concrete shoes-- feed the fish. Bump off and dump in the woods-- feed the worms. They disposed of their enemies very well! http://www.websmileys.com/sm/violent/sterb003.gif

Though there are none as fast as me,
I can be stopped: And that quite easily.
I know the whole Earth from dust to spire,
Yet there are places I may not enter uninvited, like some vampire.
Formost and Firstborn, that is what some say--
See the answer on a Sundail; Shadow points the way...

What is it?

Light.

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Yeah, this is surely light. :D

Even I think its Light.

Nothing faster, is there mes amis? Yet you can block out light with walls and binds, and in places like caves, you must take it with you (invite it.) Good! Tal, Pensy, Maddie! http://smilies.vidahost.com/otn/wink/thumb.gif

Someone else make one up. I'm rusty or something... :lol:

One man shows another, the portrait of a gentleman and tells him: "I have neither brothers nor sisters, but this man's father is the son of my father."

Who is the man in the painting?

The speaker's son. :D

Exactly! :P

One passes through and forms seven, but if the seven pass back through they form one. Name of object, one, and seven, please. :)

Is it a symbol??

No. Three things. The one that breaks into seven and returns to one, the seven the one becomes, and the object that causes this. ;)

White light, prism, spectrum ?

I thought of that too, but the spectrum of white light does not consists of 7 distinct colors.

It's a good one Pen, you got me stoomped.

"but the spectrum of white light does not consists of 7 distinct colors"

True, but nominally or traditionally it does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_spectrum

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Originally Posted by Whifflingpin

White light, prism, spectrum ?

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Quite right. As Wiff says, Aimus "True, but nominally or traditionally it does." The white light passes into a prism, breaks into the seven colors of the spectrum which if they pass though a second prism, return to white light again. There may be more colors there, due to blending of colors, but seven: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet are the traditional colors. Good catch, Wiff. http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/sportlich/a040.gif Aimus, you must learn to listen to your instinct! ;) :p (When you come right down to it, only Red, Blue, and Yellow are the primary colors anyway, any others are blends!) :idea:

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Originally Posted by Pendragon

Quite right. As Wiff says, Aimus "True, but nominally or traditionally it does." The white light passes into a prism, breaks into the seven colors of the spectrum which if they pass though a second prism, return to white light again. There may be more colors there, due to blending of colors, but seven: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet are the traditional colors. Good catch, Wiff. http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/sportlich/a040.gif Aimus, you must learn to listen to your instinct! ;) :p (When you come right down to it, only Red, Blue, and Yellow are the primary colors anyway, any others are blends!) :idea:

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Darn my scientific mind. :lol: When I thought of the prism I jumped right to photons and refractions. :) That's why I'm just no good at riddles. :D

It is said these hares grow only under the full moon

Were hares? like werewolves, only with longer ears and a bit jumpy?

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Originally Posted by AimusSage

Were hares? like werewolves, only with longer ears and a bit jumpy?

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You almost have it-- think about puns.

Well, if it's the 'hairs' that come out at full moon, it could be the furry bits on a werewolf.

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Originally Posted by AimusSage

Well, if it's the 'hairs' that come out at full moon, it could be the furry bits on a werewolf.

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Oh, yeah. Those hares "hairs" only grow under the full moon, it is said! Then again, some say you get to where you can control the araguhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............:thumbs_up :)

Hihi. silly me, I love werewolves, I always go out to bars with them, somehow their furry bits are very, uhm... disturbing :p

This fetch is not a game
And to meet yours would be a shame
Like as two peas within a pod--
But the sight of yours prepare to meet thy God...



With people from many cultures here, this should be easy enough...:)

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Originally Posted by Pendragon

This fetch is not a game
And to meet yours would be a shame
Like as two peas within a pod--
But the sight of yours prepare to meet thy God...



With people from many cultures here, this should be easy enough...:)

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Not even a nibble? Hummmm. http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/...ythescream.gif

Sleepy should have got it anyway. It is a doppelganger. The ghost of a living person. It is never visible to that person, but if it ever is, legend says that person will die.

From the unabridged dictionary: fetch2 /fɛtʃ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fech] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun wraith (def. 1).

[Origin: 1780–90; perh. short for fetch-life one sent to fetch the soul of a dying person]

New Riddle


If I were the "early bird", what would that make YOU? :D

the worm that sleeps in.

I may run rings around you
Or escape your clutching grip
Or leave a treacherous trail
That gives a sudden slip.
(If you're not careful!)

You always end up winning,
While I shrink with each new meet:
Our bouts will be my ruin,
But you'll come out smelling sweet.

What am I?

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Originally Posted by The Bookinator

the worm that sleeps in.

I may run rings around you
Or escape your clutching grip
Or leave a treacherous trail
That gives a sudden slip.
(If you're not careful!)

You always end up winning,
While I shrink with each new meet:
Our bouts will be my ruin,
But you'll come out smelling sweet.

What am I?

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Well, to start, that not the right answer to my riddle. :p

I think you might be thinking of roll-on deodorant.

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Originally Posted by Pendragon

Well, to start, that not the right answer to my riddle. :p

I think you might be thinking of roll-on deodorant.

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lol........

You wrote:


I may run rings around you
Or escape your clutching grip
Or leave a treacherous trail
That gives a sudden slip.
(If you're not careful!)

You always end up winning,
While I shrink with each new meet:
Our bouts will be my ruin,
But you'll come out smelling sweet.

What am I?
__________________
You're a snail

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Originally Posted by Pendragon

Well, to start, that not the right answer to my riddle. :p

I think you might be thinking of roll-on deodorant.

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close, but no chocolate... (thats better than cigars anyway...:p )

but you are close, cosmetics wise. if that makes any sense... *thinks*

nor is it a snail guys, Bwa ha ha ha! ^_^

as for yours pen...

hmmm...


:yawnb: am i the bird who sleeps in and still doesnt get the riddle? cuz i still dont. Wish I were smarter, than I could be all intelligent sounding like Madhuri or Kathy or Pendragon. *is in awe* O.O

I may run rings around you
Or escape your clutching grip
Or leave a treacherous trail
That gives a sudden slip.
(If you're not careful!)

You always end up winning,
While I shrink with each new meet:
Our bouts will be my ruin,
But you'll come out smelling sweet.

What am I?
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My 14 year old son says: you are a BAR OF SOAP

alright! you rock, genius son of cap'n P!

Now he's going around swell headed! (My kid I mean,, who by the way, was the guy I was asking for a good book for) Great, now only 90 Posts left to go!