Riddles

[Legion]

Ok how this works is someone posts a riddle...then the first person to answer it correctly gets to post the next riddle......any one interested in this?

If so here is the first riddle....start it off easy...
You have to move a cow, a wolf and a bundle of hay from one side of the river to the other.....the problem is you can only take one of the three items over at once.  Now you can not leave the cow and the hay together because the cow will  eat it, and you can not leave the cow and the wolf together because the wolf will it the cow....so how do you do it?

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Take the hay, then the wolf, then the cow? Afterwards you wonder why you're bringing a wolf in the first place.

[House of Mustard]

Take the cow across and leave it at point B.
Take the wolf across and leave it at point B, and take the cow back to point A.
Leave the cow at A, and take the hay across to point B.
Then go back and get the cow and take it across.

I win.

Now, my riddle:  What do I have in my pocket?

[Fellfrosch]

Handses!

[Legion]

Take the cow across and leave it at point B.
Take the wolf across and leave it at point B, and take the cow back to point A.
Leave the cow at A, and take the hay across to point B.
Then go back and get the cow and take it across.

I win.

Now, my riddle:  What do I have in my pocket?

you got it now your turn to post one....lint?

[House of Mustard]

I'll let someone else post, because I'm not a big riddle fan.

[Firemeboy]

If you like the raft kind of riddle, then you might like this.

http://freeweb.siol.net/danej/riverIQGame.swf    

The instructions are in Japanese, but below are the rules.

1. Only 2 persons on the raft at a time

2. The father can not stay with any of the daughters without their mother's presence

3. The mother can not stay with any of the sons without their father's presence

4. The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family member if the Policeman is not there

5. Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft

6. To move the people click on them.

7. To move the raft click on the pole on the opposite side of the river.

To start, click on blue circle.

It's kind of fun, but not too difficult.

[Firemeboy]

Can I take your turn HOM?  I've always liked the following puzzle, not just because it's hard, but the answer is a bit surprising.

On Halloween, four kids, Allen, Brad, Charlie, and Diane, were dividing up the treats they had collected that night.  There were 100 candy bars, and they decided that they would use the following method to divide up the spoils.

In alphabetical order, each would propose some division of the candy. If a majority of the group agrees, the candy will be divided up that way. If the majority doesn't agree, then the one who made the proposal loses his or her vote and doesn't get anything.  They are out for the rest of the rounds.

So, assuming (and this is an important assumption) if all of the kids are selfish, but adept in logic, what division Allen propose?

[The Jade Knight]

If all of the kids are adept in Logic and Selfish, Allen should propose to give Charlie 2 candybars, Brad 0, Diane 1, and himself 97.

Reasoning:

If Allen's proposal is rejected by 2 of the others, he will be voted out.  In this case, you have a group of 3 children where any 2 form a majority.  So, the most logical thing to do would be for Brad to give himself 99 and Charlie 1, and Diane 0, seeing as if Charlie rejects the proposal, the group becomes 2 children, and a majority is impossible unless both people agree.  Seeing as how Diane, by disagreeing with Charlie, makes herself the majority (enabling herself to get 100 candybars), she will in no way agree with Charlie unless he gives her all 100.  Knowing this, Charlie understand that he has no option but to accept Anything Brad would give him (ie, 1 candybar), and if Allen were to offer him 2, this would be better yet.  Diane, knowing that if Charlie were to vote in a logical fashion betwixt him and Brad, she would get no candybars from them, and thus has an incentive to accept Allen's offer of 1.


And for the record, the other puzzle is in Chinese, not Japanese.

[Entsuropi]

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/cgi-bin/go_daily_game.pl?game_id=Cryptoquote&id=0

Game where you have to unscramble sentences. New one every day.

[Firemeboy]

Thats what I get, Jade.  Nicely done.

[The Jade Knight]

It breathes, but has no life.
Consumes, but cannot taste.
Man would count it both foe and friend.


And that's my original riddle.  Actually the first I've ever come up with.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

fire! can you see the fire!

and for my next trick i'm going to steal one off the break room wall

[Firemeboy]

I was going to guess Congress, but fire works better...

[Legion]

Jade are you going to post if he is correct or not....if not then we should move on and someone post a new one.....