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Here we can post our riddles and see if we can outsmart every Ahtonaut here. I'll start.

 

A man is ship-wrecked on a desert island. The only things he has in his possession are a flint, a can of lighter fuel, a penknife and a packet of cigarettes. How could he make a cigarette lighter?

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Well...the answer is a coffin, but generally it goes "The person who makes it doesn't want it, the person who buys it doesn't use it, and the person that uses it doesn't know it." Or something to that affect.

 

I've no riddles off the top of my head, though almost any riddle one can come up with these days is actually an old riddle that most people know...so riddle threads always seem futile.

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I was never good at math so I would have to go with 12 but I am not sure about that answer. I do have a riddle for you guys though...

 

Why DIDN'T the chicken cross the road?

 

See if you can answer that one.

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A man is ship-wrecked on a desert island. The only things he has in his possession are a flint, a can of lighter fuel, a penknife and a packet of cigarettes. How could he make a cigarette lighter?

How ever it would be done it will not work. The penknife will more than likely be made of stainless steel and if so, flint and stainless steel can not produce a spark. It must be plain steel to work.

 

What do you get if you divide 40 by a half and add 10 to the result?

1.) 40/0.5+10= 90

2.) 0.5/40+10= 10.0125

 

RIDDLE

Investigators are at a crime scene. A woman was found dead on her bed with a pair of scissors next to her. The reports showed that the body did not have any cuts, stab wounds, marks, or bruises any where. How did she die?

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Heh, movie buffs should get this one:

 

As I was going to St. Ives,

I met a man with seven wives

every wife had seven sacks

every sack had seven cats

every cat had seven kittens

kittens cats sacks and wives

how many went to St. Ives?

 

Bonus if you name the movie it came from.

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As I was going to St. Ives,

I met a man with seven wives

every wife had seven sacks

every sack had seven cats

every cat had seven kittens

kittens cats sacks and wives

how many went to St. Ives?

 

One. Only I went to St. Ives.

 

However, I do not consider the riddle sequence in KOTOR1 (in the Mysterious Box) to be part of a movie. But I have heard it before, so I assume it is quite common. [since KOTOR is not a movie, I do not get the bonus, sorry...]

 

Can't think of any riddles right now, but I will later.

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I don't know what movie it came from, but one person was going to St. Ives, the one who's telling the riddle. The people he met were going away from St. Ives. Or, you could say none, assuming that the speaker isn't a kitten, cat, sack, or wife.

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Investigators are at a crime scene. A woman was found dead on her bed with a pair of scissors next to her. The reports showed that the body did not have any cuts, stab wounds, marks, or bruises any where. How did she die?

 

spontaneous combustion

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Investigators are at a crime scene. A woman was found dead on her bed with a pair of scissors next to her. The reports showed that the body did not have any cuts' date=' stab wounds, marks, or bruises any where. How did she die?[/quote']

Drowned. Water bed.

 

Here's one that I just remebered from when I was ten:

Railroad crossings without any cars. Can you spell that without any r's?

t - h - a - t.

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It has a head but never weeps,

has a bed but never sleeps.

It has a mouth but never talks

Always runs but never walks...

 

What is it? (should be fairly easy I think, I just like this one)

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A River.

 

You are in a car. To the left of you there is a drop, to the right is a helicopter moving at the same level as you. Behind you is a fire engine and infront of you is an elephant. What do you do to get out of this precarious situation.

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get out of ur car and climb onto the roof while someone else is driving jump onto the fire engine extended the ladder and climb that then jump in the heliciopter and shoot the elephant and u can fly away.

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A River.

 

You are in a car. To the left of you there is a drop, to the right is a helicopter moving at the same level as you. Behind you is a fire engine and infront of you is an elephant. What do you do to get out of this precarious situation.

A: Get off the carousel :lol:

 

Q: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

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