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No wonder how he ended like this....

Wish I was even at his position though.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

For those who haven't played Planescape: Torment (spick please abstain <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ), here's a nice one:

"Think of words that end in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are three words in the common tongue. Which one is the third word? If thou hast listened carefully, I have already told thee what it is."

Hah, got it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> And I didn't play the game! *proud look* [color:"#3A495A"]-> tongue <-[/color]
I intend to play it though, some day <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> Does it have more riddles?
Oh, and if you read very, very carefully, I've included my answer in this reply <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> Now let's hope I'm right and don't make a total fool of myself <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

Nope, you didn't make a fool of yourself! You're right. Congratulations! Did it take you a long time? I never figured it out, but my Nameless One was intelligent enough to solve the riddle for me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

You should definitely play PS:T. In my humble opinion, it's the best game ever made, FFVII and Fallout 2 following closely behind.

Want another one? This one isn't from PS:T, but from BG2. It's always been one I liked:

The rich need it
The poor have it
But if either of them were to eat it
They would surely die

It took me about half a minute <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> Pure dumb luck though, I usually suck at them myself <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

This second riddle I already know <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> -- So I'll just answer nothing and keep the ones who don't know it guessing <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Don't know it from BG2 though, but I intend to play that game too, one day <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> (AND it's prequel). Guess what, I've always been more an adventurer than an rpg'er <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

*Harumphs* then I'll just have to give you another riddle, eh? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

It is as light as air, yet no man can hold it for long. What is it?

Guess: [color:"#3A495A"]-> your breath <-[/color]

Although I'm not sure it's technically as light as air <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

I know another one myself, one of my favorites, but it's kinda long (and a whole lot more complicated than the above ones, take my word for it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ) but I wanna go to sleep now, so it'll be for tomorrow <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

You're right! Very good. Sleepwell. I'm goin' to bed too (you live in Belgium too, right?) ... it's getting late...

here's one that i've always liked:

a farmer has a fox, a chicken, and a bag of grain. he needs to cross a river, and his boat will only hold him plus one item. if he leaves the fox alone with the chicken, the fox will eat the chicken, and likewise the chicken and grain. assume that none of the items will float or swim. everything must cross in the boat. and no, he can't leave anything behind.

make the chicken swim....it'll float.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> .....maybe.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

he swimms himself <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

[color:"#3A495A"]First he takes the chicken across, leaving him with the fox and the bag of grain. Then he goes back to pick up the fox. When he deposits the fox on the land, he takes the chicken back with him. Now you have the fox on the other bank, the grain on the first bank, and the chicken in the boat. Then he picks up the bag of grain and leaves the chicken back on the first bank. He sails across again and leaves the bag on the second bank with the fox. Then he goes back to collect the chicky. Is that right? [/color]

Couldn't he do it in an easier way? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Yeah, he could buy a bigger boat <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

very good, stormrider!! you got it.

Yup just some common sense does it every time <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

My turn:

One from the Dark Tower series by Stephen King (you should definitely read it if you get the chance):

What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward?

[color:"#3A495A"]Icicle[/color]?

There's a variation on this riddle in Broken Sword 3 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
This original riddle, I've also played a long time ago on an Apple Macintosh Classic II - you could actually SEE the boat and the chicken and the fox and the grain... Amazing!

Right, I said I'd post this one. However, I'm warning everybody that this is one of the most difficult riddles to grasp that I know of, EVEN when you know the answer. But I've told this riddle a couple of times now, and every time I've spent about half an hour explaining the answer and examening the answer from many different angles -- What I'm saying is: I'm convinced the answer is completely correct. And I'm afraid most people won't believe me at first <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> I didn't believe it at first <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> Anyway, here I go (please skip this riddle if you get easily frustrated <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />)




There is a Tibetan monastery filled with a number of monks. The number of monks is more than one, and not unreasonably large.

God visits the monks one night and tells them that he is planning on destroying the world unless they can solve a puzzle. He puts a red dot on the foreheads of a certain number of monks, X. X is greater than zero.

Then he takes away all means of communication between the monks, and all means by which the monks can see themselves. No mirrors, no hand signals, no nothing. Each monk can see all the other monks, and see if another monk has a dot on his head or not, but he cannot see himself, and he cannot communicate in any way with any other monk.

God then says that all of the monks with dots, and only those monks with dots, must jump off of the cliff next to the monastery and sacrifice themselves to save the world, at EXACTLY the same moment, on EXACTLY the same day.

The next morning, all of the monks from the monastery walk out to the edge of the cliff. They pause and look around, and then walk quickly back to the monastery.

The second morning, all of the monks from the monastery walk to the edge of the cliff. They pause, look, and walk back to the monastery.

The third morning, all of the monks walk to the edge of the cliff. And then all of the monks with dots, and only those monks with dots walk to the cliff edge and jump off at the exact same moment.

The question: how many monks jumped, and how did they organize the jump?






This is the original version. It think however that you should replace the "EXACT same moment" with "12:00 p.m." -- so that the monks cannot choose the exact moment, but they can still choose the day -- to leave all doubt out of the answer. Not that it really matters a whole lot. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Enjoy <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Answer :[color:"#3A495A"]There is only one monk with a dot (one is greater than zero), it is the monk who can see the other ones.
He did not really know that he had a dot but he knew that the other monks had no dot.
Logically he found out that he was the one who had to jump.
The first day and the second day, he was too afraid to jump and the first day he finally decided to do it to save the world.
The other monks would had not jump anyway, they were just expecting that someone else would had jumped.[/color]