Riddle of the Day

[Mathster]

I have noticed, some of these riddles lately, you either have to have heard them before to know the answer or build a mathcad spreadsheet to figure them out.

[Gizmokid2005]

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?

ANSWER (Congrats Knight, Mathster, and TL): A pencil

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NEXT RIDDLE:

I started 2 watches at the same time, It turned out that one of them went two minutes per hour too slow, and the other went one minute per hour too fast. When I looked at them again, the faster one was exactly one hour ahead of the other. How long had the watches been running?



--You guys whine cause they are too easy, so I give you a harder one...then you whine again. Bunch of whiners you all are :-P THIS one should be easy, it took me all of 15 seconds to figure it out, and I've been sick since Monday....--

[acoustikarl]

I started 2 watches at the same time, It turned out that one of them went two minutes per hour too slow, and the other went one minute per hour too fast. When I looked at them again, the faster one was exactly one hour ahead of the other. How long had the watches been running?

20 hours

--You guys whine cause they are too easy, so I give you a harder one...then you whine again. Bunch of whiners you all are :-P THIS one should be easy, it took me all of 15 seconds to figure it out, and I've been sick since Monday....--

It must be the illness, as I've sick since yesterday and figured it out in about the same amount of time.

[TurcoLoco]

15 seconds to figure out what the result of dividing 60(mins) by 3(mins)?

Either this is indeed a very simple math based riddle (I seriously doubt it would be that easy) or if I am gussing right, there is more to this and you two are couple of bragging nitwitts!!

[Gizmokid2005]

That's for us to know and you to find out

[TurcoLoco]

Hmm...I can't seem to find a catch in this mathematical riddle so perhaps it is that easy but then again how could this be a riddle?

Do I need to take some NyQuil to make sense of this one Quizmo?

[Gizmokid2005]

No, no Nyquil. Stick with Sucrets, or actually be sick then get back to me

[mrweasel]

Zicam FTW!

I was gonna say 20 hrs, but with Giz, there's always a catch :|

[Gizmokid2005]

LMAO!!! No catch to this one guys.

[Mathster]

Im not even going to answer this one... besides, my calculator is in my backpack.