SYM Riddle Thread

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:43 pm

Correct

Two men are in a desert. They both have packs on. One of the guys is dead. The guy who is alive has his pack open, the guy who is dead has his pack closed.
What is in the pack?

Hill-Shatar · Post by **Hill-Shatar** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:44 pm

Water

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:47 pm

No, it's not the obvious answer

roug3l3ad3r · Post by **roug3l3ad3r** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:53 pm

A dragon and knight live on an island. This island has seven poisoned wells, numbered 1 to 7. If you drink from a well, you can only save yourself by drinking from a higher numbered well. Well 7 is located at the top of a high mountain, so only the dragon can reach it.

One day they decide that the island isn't big enough for the two of them, and they have a duel. Each of them brings a glass of water to the duel, they exchange glasses, and drink. After the duel, the knight lives and the dragon dies.

Why did the knight live? Why did the dragon die?

Answer to ravager's riddle

poisen

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:58 pm

Wrong on my riddle.

The knight slipped something in the glass he gave to the dragon that sapped it's strength so it couldn't get beyond the 1st well?

Hill-Shatar · Post by **Hill-Shatar** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:06 pm

The knight had been drinking out of the well numbered 6. The dragon out of seven. When they exchanged water, the knight, who had drunk out of number 6, got the lifesaving 7th well water, while the fragon, who drunk the seventh, got one from 1 through 6, which was not the antidote and killed him.

Chimaera182 · Post by **Chimaera182** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:22 pm

[QUOTE=Ravager]Close enough.

The wizard brought the rosebush to her home at night and returned her to the garden in the morning. Therefore, she was the only plant without dew.

[/QUOTE]
Fah, I slept through this and I knew the answer.

Hill-Shatar · Post by **Hill-Shatar** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:24 pm

[QUOTE=Chimaera182]Fah, I slept through this and I knew the answer.[/QUOTE]

*waves hand*

Evil incarnate!

BAH!

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:26 pm

Please don't just spam the thread unless you have a riddle or answer to one. Thanks

Hill-Shatar · Post by **Hill-Shatar** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:28 pm

I've answered you riddle.

Chimaera was merely saying that it was easy for her/him, and I was pointing out that I take minor offence to such a thing.

Now do you have an extra riddle, and is mine right or not?

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:30 pm

I already told you your answer was wrong. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Hill-Shatar · Post by **Hill-Shatar** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:34 pm

OOps, sorry, I thought that you were rougleander.

roug3l3ad3r · Post by **roug3l3ad3r** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:45 pm

Sorry

My new bindings just came and i just mounted them on my skis so sorry for the delay. Yeah thats the right answer Hill1

roug3l3ad3r · Post by **roug3l3ad3r** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:58 pm

Here is my new riddle The three wisest sages in the land were brought before the king to see which of them were worthy to become the king's advisor. After passing many tests of cunning and invention, they were pitted against each other in a final battle of the wits.

Led blind-folded into a small room, the sages were seated around a small wooden table as the king described the test for them.

"Upon each of your heads I have placed a hat. Now you are either wearing a blue hat or a white hat. All I will tell you is this- at least one of you is wearing a blue hat. There may be only one blue hat and two white hats, there may be two blue hats and one white hat, or there may be three blue hats. But you may be certain that there are not three white hats."

"I will shortly remove your blind folds, and the test will begin. The first to correctly announce the colour of his hat shall be my advisor. Be warned however, he who guesses wrongly shall be beheaded. If not one of you answers within the hour, you will be sent home and I will seek elsewhere for wisdom."

With that, the king uncovered the sages' eyes and sat in the corner and waited. One sage looked around and saw that his competitors each were wearing blue hats. From the look in their eyes he could see their thoughts were the same as his, "What is the colour of my hat?"

What color is his hat

Hill-Shatar · Post by **Hill-Shatar** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 4:12 pm

FireLighter · Post by **FireLighter** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 5:01 pm

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 5:09 pm

To be different...white.

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:10 am

To start with, I'll answer Ravager's because everyone seems to have forgotten about him... the packs were parachutes...

And the other one I say blue too

TheAmazingOopah · Post by **TheAmazingOopah** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 1:58 am

[QUOTE=Ravager]Correct

Two men are in a desert. They both have packs on. One of the guys is dead. The guy who is alive has his pack open, the guy who is dead has his pack closed.
What is in the pack?[/QUOTE]
Parachutes. Weird that only Dj and I got that one, since it seems such an obvious riddle

About the hat riddle:

I don't know. Seems to me like it could be either blue or white. To create a bit more diversity, let's pick white

Brynn · Post by **Brynn** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:08 am

--> Hm, let's nr the sages for easier identification.

Sage1: blue
Sage2: blue
Sage3: ?

Sage 1 and 2 sees the same combination of hats, a blue and Sage3's which we don't know yet. None of them is sure what color his own hat is.

I can't get any further than this... b/c either they see blue and white or blue and blue, that doesn't exclude nor white nor blue as their own hat color...

I can only assume that the combintion of both sage's confusion helped Sage3 to conclude what color his own hat is..

Say
Sage1 sees blue and blue -> can't decide
Sage2 sees blue and white --> can't decide, his hat can be of any color...

Same if both sees blue and blue, which is the case now... I ca n't get any further than this, yet

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