Riddles
 

Ive been tellin some riddles all today, and i decided to see how good the Cdrive peeps are at geting riddles.

You awake to find yourself in a small room. You don’t know how, or when you got there, and your confused. You see 3 wooden boxes in the center of the room. You look into each one of the boxes but you cant seem to see what’s inside. All the sudden you hear a voice over a speaker system. It tells you that one box is filled with apples, one box is filled with oranges, and one box is filled with both. Puzzled you look back down to the boxes to find that they now have labels hanging down from them. The voice comes back on and tells you that each box is labeled incorrectly, and that in order to leave alive you must arrange the labels correctly. You may reach into ONE box of your choice, and you may pull out ONE fruit of that box. You may not do anything besides pull a fruit out of a box, and arrange the labels. If you do anything else, or fail to correctly label the boxes the first time, you die.

How do you get the labels correct? (hint its helpful to draw a pucture)


answerr this then post you own.

boxes are made of glass... easy :D shame he said wood... maybie tracing paper thin? and see siluettes? :D

pull one fruit out of the box labeled both, because you know its wrong so its one or the other.. then put the right label on that one.. put the label for both fruits on the box that you didnt take the right label off of.. then put that label on the box you 1st took the label off of..

lol not a very good explanation i guess

say you reach into the doublefruit label box.. you get an apple.. so you take the apple label put that on that box... then you take the one labeled orange.. and put that label on the box you took the apple label off.. while putting the dbl fruit label on the box that originally was labeled oranges

well your smarter than 99% of the people i tell that to.

thats why i got all the cdrive power lmao

ooooh I got one!!! an airplane crashed directly onthe border of canada and the us.. the bodies are so horribly disfigured you cant tell the passengers apart... on which side of the border do u bury the survivors?

You dont bury the survivors.

Two electric trains are coming at each other, which way does the smoke blow?

there is no smoke. Their electric trains.

just cause they're electric.. doesnt mean theres no smoke.. lmao


when i was little i had a little electric train set.. and even tho they were electric.. they made little puffs of smoke..

so HAH!

lol

Thats steam ;) .

REAL electric trains dont burn anything in order to propell themselves so there is no smoke.

how was it steam if there was no water?????????????????

and no one said 2 REAL trains

Here's a riddle.

There's a table with an infinate amount of quarters. 100 of those quarters are tails-side up, the rest are heads-side up. You're blind and you have mittens on (you can't feel the faces of the quarters). How can you seperate the quarters into two piles so that both piles have the same amount of quarters tails-side up (the two piles do NOT need the same amount of quarters, just the same amount of quarters with the tails-side up)?

lick the quarters to feel which side is which :P

or just take the dumb mittens off.. what fool (even if your blind) attempts to handle change with mittens on..

and who the hell wears mittens anymore to begin with...

tho since theres an infinite number of quarters.. youll be making 2 piles for infinity anyways

it doesn't matter if there're infinate quarters, all that matters is how many quarters are tails up in each pile. duh.

just flip all the quarters over... the 100 tails will turn to heads, but the rest will be tails.. i forgot where i was going with this...

well then i must ask...

why would a blind person care if his change is heads up or tails up

close, but then you'd have a pile w/ 100 heads, and a pile w/ infinate tails.

and blind people like riddles too.

This is not a good way to phrase this riddle. First of all, you're taking the abstract concept of infinity and applying it to the concrete example of quarters on a table. That doesn't make any sense, so of course you're going to lead to confusion like diamond's (who did present a valid point). Instead, pick an arbitrary large number. Here's an easier-to-use version of the riddle:

Frozen Fingers Problem:

You are lost on the Arctic Tundra. And, unfortunately, you have been stricken blind. You meet a stranger who says he will help you find your way home if you can solve this problem. There are 100 quarters lined up on the frozen ground. Twenty of those quarters are "heads" up. The rest are "tails" up. You have to figure out how to make 2 groups of quarters that both have the same number of up turned "heads". But remember you cannot see the quarters because you are blind. And you cannot feel the quarters because your fingers are frozen.

There are still some logical issues with this one though. For example, if you're blind and numb, how do you pick up the quarters to begin with. Still, it's a little easier to wrap your head around. The answer that the riddle is looking for (barring balancing them sideways or anything like that) is a certain flipping pattern that I won't describe in case someone else wants to solve it.

wow good job reviving a thread thats 4 years old hahaha

Y U DO DIS?

I want the 4 minutes of my life back after going through this dinosaur.