Tricky Puzzles

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:02 pm

YES! You've got it!

The same movement in the opposite direction physically counteracts the original movement, which means you're right.

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:21 pm

I'm seriously in shock!!! Woohooo for me!

Ok, I'm going to post a tricky puzzle that is so simple and logical, that neither you, nor Marinus can get it!

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:52 pm

Let me guess beforehand: something related to paradoxes and beauty?

(That was a joke, it'll be even more funny, if I'm actually right)

tyteen4a03 · Post by **tyteen4a03** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:18 am

Muzozavr wrote:Let me guess beforehand: something related to paradoxes and beauty?
(That was a joke, it'll be even more funny, if I'm actually right)[/quote

They both have a and e.LOL

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:18 pm

Muzozavr wrote:Let me guess beforehand: something related to paradoxes and beauty?
(That was a joke, it'll be even more funny, if I'm actually right)

I couldn't think of one...or I would've!

This is for anyone; not only for you and Marinus.

(I actually can't think of anything you two wouldn't be able to guess.)

Riddle:
There is a barrel with no lid and some wine in it. "This barrel of wine is more than half full," said Curly. "No it's not," says Mo. "It's less than half full."

Without any measuring implements and without removing any wine from the barrel, how can they easily determine who is correct?

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:24 pm

Actually I couldn't guess this when I first encountered it, so I'm simply in the know, sorry. I guess I'll skip my turn.
However, as a way to point out that I do know, I'll have to say that such a solution will not work if the barrel has an irregular shape.

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:47 pm

Yes, you know it and you are right about the shape. Go ahead and guess it, because then you will post another really cool puzzle?

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:04 pm

If so you ask.
You sloooooowly tilt the barrel until the wine just touches the top of barrel, if the other end of the wine JUST touches the bottom of the barrel, it's exactly half full, if it doesn't reach the bottom, then it's less than half, and if it actually covers some of the bottom, then it's more.

Not going to go nuts with a yet ANOTHER "opposite" -- that's simply too evil! Here's a selfmade riddle with a deliberate giveaway to make it easier:

I can devour everything I touch
For me a forest isn't much
I can be harnessed, but I can kill
And only you know, if I will

But if you see that things go bad
You only have one thing to add
Give me drink... and I will die:
Dare you say it: WHO AM I?!

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:11 pm

Muzozavr wrote:If so you ask.
You sloooooowly tilt the barrel until the wine just touches the top of barrel, if the other end of the wine JUST touches the bottom of the barrel, it's exactly half full, if it doesn't reach the bottom, then it's less than half, and if it actually covers some of the bottom, then it's more.

Correct!

Is the answer to yours:

1. Are you a fire?

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:16 pm

Fire, yes.
Did you guess it from the line "Give me drink"? Yeah, I know it.
If I'd give you the first verse only, it would be much harder. That's because I created this riddle specially for an online-riddle-game-in-the-making, and reaching a "brick wall" at level 7 doesn't make sense, so I added the second verse to make it easier. It worked, didn't it?

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:23 pm

The big hints for me were: Devour, Forest, (edit) Drink.
But yes, the 'drink' really made it easier.

Ok, here's one!

Complete the last two in this sequence: 1=3, 2=3, 3=5, 4=4, 5=4, 6=3, 7=5, 8=5, 9=4, 10=3, 11=?, 12=?

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:56 pm

11=6, 12=6.
Only since the memory of Lucky-Luc's riddle was still fresh.

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:59 pm

Correct! Your turn.

Yes, Lutz's guess on Lucky Luc's previous puzzle was solved the same way.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:13 pm

You have 27 marbles and 4 cups. Put an odd number of marbles into each cup.
For the cup-in-cup-trick-lovers: sorry, the cups are bolted to the table.

Sorry, dlcs, it was incorrect before.

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:15 pm

Muzozavr wrote:11=6, 12=6

Awwww Muz! You should have let me seen that post first so I could be the one to claim the answer! I knew the answer the instant I looked at it.

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:15 pm

Muzozavr wrote:You have 27 marbles. Put an odd number of marbles into each cup.
For the cup-in-cup-trick-lovers: sorry, the cups are bolted to the table.

Ok I will put 3 marbles in each of the cups

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:21 pm

You may want to recheck the riddle, I was typing in a hurry and did a stupid mistake.
(You're close though)

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:26 pm

Put 6 marbles and three quarters in each of them!!

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:05 pm

The marbles are too durable to be broken.

Lucky-Luc · Post by **Lucky-Luc** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:24 pm

Go to the next toy store and buy one more marble?

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:50 pm

It's looooong time future and marbles are out of fashion. In fact, these 27 marbles are the last remaining marbles in the world.

Lutz · Post by **Lutz** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:57 pm

I put 5 marbles in each cup and give the remaining 7 to a good friend

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:28 pm

Yeppie!
Nobody said you had to use ALL of the marbles. Nanana.

Your turn, Lutz.

Lutz · Post by **Lutz** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:31 pm

I appear once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:56 pm

mmmmmmmmm, I think I know it but I don't say, for I don't know another riddle now.

Lutz · Post by **Lutz** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:08 pm

Mmmmmmmmmmmarinus, it's your turn

Marinus · Post by **Marinus** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:51 pm

Actually I don't know a good riddle yet, but Juliet has one.

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:54 pm

Dank je!

A man had twelve toothpicks in front of him. He took one away. Now he had nine in front of him. How is this possible?

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:02 pm

The remaining 11 toothpicks were arranged to spell NINE

(Not counting the small horizontal lines at the top and bottom of the I)

Dizzy1 · Post by **Dizzy1** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:04 pm

Correct!

Your turn now.