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Here are some riddles I know. Some are classic some are just plain weird. Have fun!
Whose Picture Am I looking At?
A man was looking at a portrait. Someone asked him, "Whose picture are you looking at?" He replied: "Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man's father is my father's son." Whose picture was the man looking at?
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Socks
Twenty-four red socks and twenty-four blue socks are lying in a drawer in a dark room. What is the minimum number of socks I must take out of the drawer which will guarantee that I have at least two socks of the same color?
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Hairs
In the town of Podunk the following facts are true: a) No two inhabitants have exactly the same number of hairs. b) No inhabitant has exactly 518 hairs. c) There are more inhabitants than there are haris on the head of any one inhabitant. What is the largest possible number of inhabitants of Podunk?
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Ty's Riddle
(This riddle was told to me by my friend Ty) Okay, you are in a room. In this room are 20 bags of gold, in each bag is 20 gold coins. The gold coins each weigh 1lb. There is one bag of coins that is not real. Fake gold coins look exactly the same and are the same size as real ones, however the fake coins each weigh 1lb 1oz. You are allowed to take with you as many bags of gold as you like, provided you do not take the bag with the fake gold coins. If you do, you do not recieve any gold. In the room is a scale; it measuers weight exactly, not comparitavely. In order to operate the scale you place the item you want weighed on a platform and put a quarter in it. It then prints out a card with the weight on it. You only have one quarter and the gold coins do not fit. How do you get out of the room with all of the real gold?
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A Legal Puzzle
Two men were being tried for a murder. The jury found one of them guilty and the other one innocent. The judge turned to the guilty one and said, "This is the strangest case I have ever come across! Though your guilt has been established beyond any reasonable doubts, the law compels me to set you free." How do you explain this?
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The Clock That Stopped
A man owned no watch, but he had an accurate clock which, however, he sometimes forgot to wind. Once when this happened he went to the house of a friend, passed the evening with him, went back home, and set his clock. How could he do this without knowing beforehand the length of the trip?
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Whose Picture Am I looking at?--A picture of his son
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Socks--3
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Hairs--518
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Ty's Riddle--Take all of the bags and line them up against a wall. Take one coin from the first, two from the second, three from the third, etc. Place them in piles of 1, 2, 3 coins etc. Place all the piles on the scale and get the wieght. If it reads out 210lbs 5oz then there are an extra 5oz. So the 5 fake coins are from bag number 5, if it reads out 211lbs 2oz, then there are 18 fake coins, from the 18th bag. You get the picture.
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A Legal Puzzle--the two men were Siamese twins.
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The Clock That Stopped--When the man left his house he started the clock and jotted down the time it then showed. When he got to his friend's house he noted the time when he arrived and the time when he left. Thus he knew how many hours he was away from home. Subtracting from the total hours the hours he was at his friend's house gave him how long the trip back and forth had been. Adding half of this time to the time he left his friend's house, he then knew what time it really was now.
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