Daft Riddles?

[ManuelsMum]

[ManuelsMum]

It's a song, you'll remember eve ntually.

[stato_1]

Tempted, Peter Frampton

[millidonk]

Each week my company magazine has a load of riddles in it. If anyone is bored like me here you go:

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in a year. Which room is safest for him?

2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away ?

4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday?

5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching

[Claw75]

first four are pretty obv imo.

i don't understand the last one - should there be a photo? (edit - duh, that would be because i read 'paragraph' as 'photograph' first time round!)  that one's gonna take some thinking.  2nd edit: gottit

[millidonk]

Yea first 4 were fine, although I thought 2 was good I also liked 5 and didn't actually get it myself which is quite bad. No the answer now tho obv.

[Beaver808]

Yea first 4 were fine, although I thought 2 was good I also liked 5 and didn't actually get it myself which is quite bad. No the answer now tho obv.

Argument in the office needs settling for number 4...

Google obv has an answer but is

Christmas Eve - Christmas Day - Boxing Day <-------- Minimized in the name of fair play...

Acceptable as an answer??

[Claw75]

Yea first 4 were fine, although I thought 2 was good I also liked 5 and didn't actually get it myself which is quite bad. No the answer now tho obv.

Argument in the office needs settling for number 4...

Google obv has an answer but is

Christmas Eve - Christmas Day - Boxing Day <-------- Minimized in the name of fair play...

Acceptable as an answer??

that wasn't what I was thinking, but looks like a perfectly correct answer to me

[millidonk]

Yea first 4 were fine, although I thought 2 was good I also liked 5 and didn't actually get it myself which is quite bad. No the answer now tho obv.

Argument in the office needs settling for number 4...

Google obv has an answer but is

Christmas Eve - Christmas Day - Boxing Day <-------- Minimized in the name of fair play...

Acceptable as an answer??

that wasn't what I was thinking, but looks like a perfectly correct answer to me

[gatso]

Yea first 4 were fine, although I thought 2 was good I also liked 5 and didn't actually get it myself which is quite bad. No the answer now tho obv.

Argument in the office needs settling for number 4...

Google obv has an answer but is

Christmas Eve - Christmas Day - Boxing Day <-------- Minimized in the name of fair play...

Acceptable as an answer??

that wasn't what I was thinking, but looks like a perfectly correct answer to me

depends. it would've been debatable in 2010, 2004, 1999, 1982 etc but I reckon the answer should probably be allowed

[Beaver808]

***Update***

It was allowed - I won - YAY ME!!!!


(yes, it's a slow day in the office...)

[millidonk]

Couple of riddles from office mag this week:

1 - I am used to bat with, yet I never get a hit. I am near a ball, yet I am never thrown. What am I?

2- If you like solving puzzles, periodically,
Then this may suit your particular body chemistry.
One is partly controversial but makes hard teeth with just a trace,
Two is notoriously poisonous and sometimes seen with old lace.
Three made the Hindenburg rise and fall disastrously from the sky,
Four is most essential, without Thyroxin you would surely die.
Five is up in the air and to life it is very dear.
Six is like your favourite pub, a lot to do with atmosphere.
Put us all together and we wield economic power, A magazine? ; a dress ? ; a trend? ; I change by the hour.
What am I?

[henrik777]

1 is a glove.

Sandy

[millidonk]

1 is a glove.

Sandy

nope

Don't really bat with gloves, and people are always throwing gloves.

[jackinbeat]

1. Crease?