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    *Google it if your a cheater*

    Okay, lets start out with an easy one.

    What gets wetter as it dries?

    You can either reply with an answer or another riddle. I don't plan on posting a new riddle every time someone gets it right. lol I'm just not that smart.

    **UPDATE**

    For those of you who want just one really hard Riddle to solve, here you go, knock yourselves out. +rep for the person who gets it right!

    Einstein's Riddle

    The story behind Einstein's riddle is that Albert Einstein created it in the late 1800s, and claimed that 98% of the world population couldn't solve it. I am not sure of the true origin, but I have seen this one floating around the internet, and it is a good brain exercise. Here it is:

    - In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.

    - In each house lives a person of different nationality

    - These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

    Einstein's riddle is: Who owns the fish?

    Necessary clues:

    1. The British man lives in a red house.
    2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
    3. The Danish man drinks tea.
    4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
    5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
    6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
    7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
    8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
    9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
    10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
    11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
    12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
    13. The German smokes Prince.
    14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
    15. The Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.
    People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

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    a towel?
    "At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost..." -Dante Alighieri

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    Quote Originally Posted by jdbnsn View Post
    a towel?
    NO... oh wait, yep. lol Told you that it was going to be an easy one.

    Okay, now for a slightly harder one.

    What row of numbers comes next?

    1
    11
    21
    1211
    111221
    312221
    13112221

    Heres another one if nobody can figure out the one above.

    There is a town in Texas where 5% of all the people living there have unlisted phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the town's phone directory, on average, how
    many of these people would have unlisted phone numbers?
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    People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

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    There is a town in Texas where 5% of all the people living there have unlisted phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the town's phone directory, on average, how
    many of these people would have unlisted phone numbers?
    zero. They are not listed in the directory.
    "At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost..." -Dante Alighieri

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    I think I know how the number thing works, but it's a bit of a mind screw... Is this right?

    1
    11
    21
    1211
    111221
    312221
    13112221


    1113213211


    I think this was on the mensa test
    "At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost..." -Dante Alighieri

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    I think this was on the mensa test
    I hate menza. No offence intended to anyone here who's a member. I think the books are great, for example. But the idea of an elitist group of people who consider themselves better for having a superior intellect, based on a test which most people consider fatally flawed, just irritates me to my core.

    My dad is a member of Menza, and although I qualify their entry conditions, I refuse to join their `ranks'. Much to the chagrin of my father. The sooner we stop breaking ourselves up into elitist groups the better.

    (Sorry for the rant. Menza really irritates me!)

    To make up for the rant, here's a riddle based on a popular urban legend.

    A forest fire is being put out by the fire brigade. When they finally manage to put it out, they start to assess the damage. While exploring, they find the body of a dead man. He is wearing swimming trunks and is unburned. The nearest body of water is 6 miles away.

    How did he get there?

    -Dave
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    Well I flunked the mensa test anyway, so I am not worthy of joining the ranks if I wanted to.

    As for the fire, did he get sucked into the water tank that the fire fighters filled to put it out?
    "At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost..." -Dante Alighieri

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    Quote Originally Posted by jdbnsn View Post
    As for the fire, did he get sucked into the water tank that the fire fighters filled to put it out?
    Gah! You totally took my answer! lol

    By the way, you have gotten all of my riddles right so far, I don't know about Dave's though. I hope you are, because it means that I am too. :p

    When I lived on the lake, we had a forest fire somewhat near by, so these HUGE planes would come down and basically skim across the lake on their bellies, scooping up tons of water. It was AWESOME, since they flew right over my house, making it vibrate a little from the roar of the engines.

    But since that hasn't happened at our lake before (we've had helicopters with buckets on rope) people saw the planes and thought they were crash landing, so there was like 5 boats racing towards the plane before it pulled up. It was pretty funny, but I can understand. I was about to run down to my boat to help too. lol

    Coeur d'Alene lake in the Summer time can be pretty busy, and that includes divers. So if someone was diving far from their boat for some reason, or the airplane just didn't see them, I would only imagine that they would scoop up the person on accident.

    **BTW**

    What is broken every time it's spoken?

    And/or

    What has a mouth but can't chew?
    People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

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    Zephik: Here's my stab at Einstein's riddle.

    The Norwegian.

    *please be right...*
    RIP Bucko

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    Quote Originally Posted by .Maleficus. View Post
    Zephik: Here's my stab at Einstein's riddle.

    The Norwegian.

    *please be right...*
    Nope, sorry. Please try again!

    *Insert Quarter to Continue*

    *30*

    *29*

    *28*
    People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

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