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Random shot...it does that if it's the little car in Monopoly?

PB78

You got it pandabear :-)


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"That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!"

There lives a guy (let's give him a name at random, like "Pandabear") who is an absolute fiend for cigars. Not being overly concerned with issues of sanitation, he likes to scour the alleys to find discarded cigar butts. Pandabear has determined that for every 5 cigar butts he recovers, he can combine them to make one whole cigar. Yesterday, he got lucky and found 75 cigar butts. How many cigars can he enjoy from that batch?

PB78

15?

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Lou: There's a couple of guys fighting down at the aquarium, Chief.
Wiggum: Do they still sell those frozen bananas?
Lou: I think so.
Wiggum: Let's roll.

Negative.

PB78

There seems to be some sort of trick in the wording to the question if 15 isn't the answer.


Either

A) There is none he can enjoy from that batch he found, and he needs to make some before he can enjoy them. So 0 from those butts alone

He doesn't smoke them at all.... Maybe he sells them on the black market.... or maybe he is a janitor? So again, 0....

C) No where does it say he smokes them. Maybe he CAN make 1 out of every 5 butts he finds, but it doesn't mean he DOES. Back to the last part of B, maybe it is his job to just clean them up. I'm going with 0 on this one....

*shrugs*

This post has been edited by Fadien on 20th April 2004 05:30

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"And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped” -Sir Bedevere the Wise

Heh, I apologize if the wording seemed ambiguous or tricky, that was not my intention. Let me clarify:

1. "Enjoying" a cigar means smoking it, in this context.

2. Let's assume he's compulsive. If he's got 5 cigar butts, he can't help but make one whole cigar out of them and then smoke it.

PB78

in this case, 75-5 = 71. ^^

18
He can make 15 whole new cigars, and then with the butts of these, he can make 3 more. Then he's screwed, and have a bad breath for about a week, I guess

Tag! Mr. Thou is it.

Here's a little riddle :

I have no begining.
I have no end.
Like every member of my kind, if I stand,
I can beat some, and get beaten by all the others.
But if by chance I ever lie down,
None then can beat me

Who am I?

Quote (Mr Thou @ 22nd April 2004 10:09)

Who am I?

This is a wild guess, but is it a domino? When you put them in a line, it knockes some down and gets knocked down by all the others, and if you put it down flat on the table, it can't be knocked over. No idea about the "no end" bit.

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"Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad." - Rincewind

You can be as self-assertive as you like, just so long as you do what you’re told.” - Granny Weatherwax

"When Mr. Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend" - Sam Vimes to Detritus

Put the dominoes in a closed-curve chain. Then the chain has neither beginning nor end.

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Not a domino. But it could fit, with a little stretch.

A little hint : the first and second phrases are about the shape of it.

A wheel?

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"That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!"

Any loop would do. Hula hoop, jewelry ring, steel ring, O-ring, etc....

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Last hint : it's on GMH previous post...but it's not anything he described.

a chain?

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

Since no one guessed it for 3 days now, I'll answer it : it's the number 8.
When you write it, no beggining and no end ; like any whole number, it is higher than some and lower than others. If you lay it down (turn it 90°), it becomes the symbol of infinity, thus cannot be matched by any number.
Maybe the translation, and the fact that I was told this riddle many years ago (I may have forgotten a bit of it...), made it difficult to guess. Anyway, next riddle is open.

This post has been edited by Mr Thou on 28th May 2004 13:43

I know that this post may be not really on topic, but I have to praise you, Mr Thou, for that riddle. That's one of the best riddles I've ever heard, and it just flows so perfectly--that it's so simple, and it makes perfect sense, yet it's also so ambiguous in its words that it's quite difficult to tell what the answer is.

I'll be telling this to friends soon. Despite my sounding like a Buy Owner commercial, thanks, Mr Thou!

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An easy one (the only one that I can translate correctly)

I have no brother nor sister
But this father's son is this man's son
Who he is?

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«À l'aventure compagnons, je suis parti vers l'horizon! J'aurais mieux fait de rester au lit, ce donjon, il est pourri!» - Pen of Chaos

Drat! Hard one. At least it is for me. Uhhhhhhhhhhh.....

Jesus? The father is God and the man is Joseph?

Or, two homosexuals who adopted a child??

This post has been edited by FallingHeart on 26th April 2004 14:02

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"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting... fighting was the only thing I was ever good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in." - Frank Yeager (a.k.a. Grey Fox)

The father?

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Little miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet,
Eating her curds and...
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Goobers is right!

If the man's son is the fathqr's son, the man isathe father.

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«À l'aventure compagnons, je suis parti vers l'horizon! J'aurais mieux fait de rester au lit, ce donjon, il est pourri!» - Pen of Chaos

Ugh, I'm so out of riddles.

How about this one?

There's a right cylindrical glass of water in an empty room, and it looks half full (go away, pessimists), but you're not sure. How can you determine if it's half full or not, using no tools?

I hope this riddle hasn't been asked. Gridlock is sucking up all of my time, so I'm too lazy to go back and check.

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Little miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet,
Eating her curds and...
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Pick it up, and throw it in someone's eyes. Measure the length of scream and how long it takes them to see properly again.

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"Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad." - Rincewind

You can be as self-assertive as you like, just so long as you do what you’re told.” - Granny Weatherwax

"When Mr. Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend" - Sam Vimes to Detritus

Tilt the glass so that the water is just touching one of the bottom edges of the glass. If the water either spills out of the glass, or dows not reach the opposite edge on top, it is not exactly half. If it just reaches the opposite edge, and does NOT spill out, it is half full.

Goooooooooooooo Spoony!

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Little miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet,
Eating her curds and...
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Feh, I'm all out, someone else can have it....