Riddles

[rabbit]

*golf clap*
Technicalities are fun

[Sidoh]

Yeah, some guy in my WoW guild is still banging his head on his desk because I fooled him with that one lol.

[Sidoh]

I added a few more, all of the new ones came from Miffsex.

http://sidoh.dark-wire.net/?fuseaction=modules.riddles&a=list

[iago]

There's an old homless lady who collects cigarette butts.  She's been doing it for so long, she has it down to a science: exactly 8 butts provides enough tobacco to make one new cigarette.  One day, she finds 64 butts.  How many cigarettes can she make?

[trust]

The soldier one isn't funny, and applies to any cemetary. It may just not be funny to me because I've heard it a ton of times. My mom always (ever since I was little, when she did it like everytime, but now it's less frequent) says it when we go by the cemetary that's near our house.

[Sidoh]

There's an old homless lady who collects cigarette butts.  She's been doing it for so long, she has it down to a science: exactly 8 butts provides enough tobacco to make one new cigarette.  One day, she finds 64 butts.  How many cigarettes can she make?

Umm... 8?

And yeah, I phrased that question wrong, kinda. It's supposed to be:

How many of the soldiers in Alrlington Cemetary are buried there?

[rabbit]

What about the ones doing 21-gun salutes at funerals while several other soldiers attend?

[Newby]

There's an old homless lady who collects cigarette butts.  She's been doing it for so long, she has it down to a science: exactly 8 butts provides enough tobacco to make one new cigarette.  One day, she finds 64 butts.  How many cigarettes can she make?

None. She doesn't make them, she just collects them?

[iago]

You're both wrong. 

The answer is 9 -- 8 for the ones she finds.  Then she smokes the 8, and makes 1 more.  Aha!

[Sidoh]

You're both wrong. 

The answer is 9 -- 8 for the ones she finds.  Then she smokes the 8, and makes 1 more.  Aha!

That's pretty good, lol

I added a few more this afternoon, they're all really good.

River Crossing (A Classic)
Apples & Oranges
Gold Coins
Wise Men

There's two in particular I want to add, but their answers are going to require me to do some HTML formatting since they contain tables (they're both pretty long answers).

[trust]

Those really are more word problemish than riddleish.

[Sidoh]

Riddles are word problems.

[trust]

A riddle is a form of literature designed to test the reader/listeners ingenuity (ability to think creatively.)

I was referring to a world problem in the sense of a word problem in math class. I seem to consider them similar, but certainly different things. Riddles, in my opinion, are more of a play on words type of thing, not something you should have to work out with paper and pencil.

[Sidoh]

A riddle is a problem that involves words. Riddles are world problems. Kthxbai.

I just added another really good one.

http://sidoh.dark-wire.net/?fuseaction=modules.riddles&a=show&id=18

[trust]

Your 'riddles' suck then and aren't worth doing. Kthxbai.

Edit:

I don't get that last riddle. If I was put in this situation I would have asked him which one he went down, since he obviously didn't get rich or famous.