Riddles ...

[Katie]

Ok, no doubt loads of people have heard this loads of times and know the answer. So whoever gets the answer, include a riddle of thier own in thier post, and then the next one and so on ....

Heard this quite a while ago, and it took me ages to figure it out, but I did in the end. It's quite a well known one but I drove my friends crazy with it last weekend.

Three men are having a meal in a restaurant. Although they have different meals, they decide to split the cost evenly. The waiter comes over and gives them the bill of 60 pounds. Each man pays a 20 pound note.

When he waiter gets to the till he realises he has over charged them, so he takes 5 pound coins back out the till. As he is walking over to thier table, he decides to keep 2 pounds for himself, as the 3 men don't realise they have been overcharged, and slips 2 pound coins in his pocket. He then gives each man a pound coin back each.

Which means they have paid 19 pounds each.

19 x 3 = 57. Plus the 2 pounds in the waiters pocket = 59.

So, where has the other pound gone?

If you want to google the answer, keep it to yourself so you don't ruin it for people who want to work it out on thier own.
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[Suzuki]

The trick to this is looking at the circumstances.

The £19 each has paid is money GONE.
The £2 in the waiter's pocked it money ARRIVED.

Answer is this.
£19*3 is £57, plus £1*3 which is in their pockets. £60 in relation to the men paying.

OR
£20*3 in the till then £5 out, so £55 there. £2 with the waiter, and £3 with the men paying.

A riddle for you... hmm

Monty Hall?
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[Katie]

God not that again!

Okay then ...

A man is driving in his car with his son beside him in the passenger seat. They have a crash and the Father is killed instantly, while the son is rushed to hospital. The surgeons are called and told an emergency operation is needed to save the boys life. The surgeon walks into the operating theatre, sees the boy and say's "I can't do it, that's my son." .....
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[veeeffarr]

[colin1]

[WR450_geezer]

[Katie]

As much as it pains me to say it ... Toby's right.

C'mon then lets hear someone else's. Toby, got any up up your clever 'rolly eyed' sleeve?
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[Katie]

[Walloper]

How would you get four elephants into a mini?






















Two in the front two in the back.
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[colin1]

[Katie]

Well yes it does hon, that's how it works. It's a riddle, so the things that are mentioned are the only things involved.
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[phantomtek]

Colin, look what happened last time you challenged the way a riddle works.

[Suzuki]

That wasn't a riddle.

First it was a mathematical question. Then I gave him the answer. When he still didn't believe me, he paid me to show him.
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[phantomtek]

[Katie]

Was this the doors thing? I know I understood what you were saying Suzuki and got it after reading it a few times, but I can't remember what it was exactly.

Ahh you also enlightened me on understanding the whole, if you are constantly slowing down you'll never get to the certain point thing. I shall now call you, O Wise One.
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[Suzuki]

LMAO. Everybody else just calls me a geek, and Ann says I'm pedantic.

And yeah Jeff - just coincidence!
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[veeeffarr]

[Katie]

Because you rolled your eyes at my riddle.
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[veeeffarr]

[colin1]

[Suzuki]

[RobB]

[Suzuki]

[Katie]

Yes because who the surgeon is, is the riddle. I think people would be a bit pissed off if they were like "Ok, we can't get it, tell us the answer!"

Ok, there were 3 people in the car! .. (and an elephant and an Oompa Loompa.)

You have to say everything involved thats necessary or no one will ever get it will they.
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[WR450_geezer]

hmm
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