Riddle of the Day

[Gizmokid2005]

A young man tried to elope with a princess, but the king found out and offered him a sporting chance. The king would put two slips of paper in a box, one marked 'DEATH', the other marked 'PRINCESS.' To decide his fate, the young man was to be blindfolded and choose one paper. The young man knew the king would mark both papers 'DEATH', but he managed to win the princess despite this. HOW did he do it?

ANSWER (Congrats acoustikarl and TL): He picked one paper, and ate it. The king wouldn't admit to cheating so it leads that he picked the paper that said Princess.

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NEXT RIDDLE:

If it takes 6 florist's assistants 3 hours to pack 12 boxes of flowers, how fast can 16 assistants pack 16 boxes?

[acoustikarl]

NEXT RIDDLE:

If it takes 6 florist's assistants 3 hours to pack 12 boxes of flowers, how fast can 16 assistants pack 16 boxes?

1.5 hours

[TurcoLoco]

6 employee can do 4 boxes per hour = 1.5 hours per employee per box = 16 box-16 employees so each has to do just one box and each box per employee would take 90 minutes.

PP would say his eyes were bothering him so asked Judy to help him, then forget about the whole thing, go to a baseball game and have Judy and her grandkids do the whole thing by themselves.

Mathster would use his engineering skills to design a system that would help him achieve the result in 10 minutes but designing the system would take days (plus the cost of beer).

Cauz, would claim there is some evil plot behind the seemingly innocent and simple projects and refuse to do it from the start.

Gizmo would take the $$ for the job then remember that he had some homework to finish so he would flake and call-in sick .

Blank would say he will be re-designing the boxes and a few days later, he would come up with a different box design but all the flowers would be missing by then.

I would end up passin' them around to pretty girls in my office or neigborhood in hopes of hooking up with one of them...

[Mathster]

Mathster would use his engineering skills to design a system that would help him achieve the result in 10 minutes but designing the system would take days (plus the cost of beer).

I have no beer so Im not doing any free engineering work...

Lets just go with 1-3/4 hours since state law requires a 15 minute break for up to two hours of work.

[Gizmokid2005]

If it takes 6 florist's assistants 3 hours to pack 12 boxes of flowers, how fast can 16 assistants pack 16 boxes?

ANSWER (Congrats acoustikarl and TL): 1.5 hours.

LMFAO @ TL. That was a good one.

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NEXT RIDDLE:

Place the letter 'S' in front of a metal container and get a word meaning "to glance at". What is the word?

[acoustikarl]

NEXT RIDDLE:

Place the letter 'S' in front of a metal container and get a word meaning "to glance at". What is the word?

Is skeg a word?

[Gizmokid2005]

And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Place the letter 'S' in front of a metal container and get a word meaning "to glance at". What is the word?

ANSWER (Congrats Cauzomb and Mathster): Scan.

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NEXT RIDDLE:


In your library class today, the librarian issued a challenge. She said that in one of the books in the library was a $100 bill placed between pages 75 and 76. If found today by anyone in class, he or she could keep the $100! All of the classmates began to look for the book; you, however, decided not to bother and logged on the internet till the end of class. Why didn't you look for the money?

[Gizmokid2005]

In your library class today, the librarian issued a challenge. She said that in one of the books in the library was a $100 bill placed between pages 75 and 76. If found today by anyone in class, he or she could keep the $100! All of the classmates began to look for the book; you, however, decided not to bother and logged on the internet till the end of class. Why didn't you look for the money?

ANSWER (Congrat Mathster): You, unlike your classmates know that the odd page numbers of books are always on the right and even numbers are always on the left. Therefore, pages 75 and 76 could not be facing each other and further, the $100 bill could not be placed between pages 75 and 76.

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NEXT RIDDLE:

What does this sentence mean?:


"There’s no value to be derived from demanding attention by loud screeches over fallen white liquid derived from the lactic glands of a female bovine."

[cauzomb]

ANSWER (Congrat Mathster): You, unlike your classmates know that the odd page numbers of books are always on the right and even numbers are always on the left. Therefore, pages 75 and 76 could not be facing each other and further, the $100 bill could not be placed between pages 75 and 76.

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NEXT RIDDLE:

What does this sentence mean?:


"There’s no value to be derived from demanding attention by loud screeches over fallen white liquid derived from the lactic glands of a female bovine."

howabout one more, it would be considered unbecoming behaviour to allow liquids derived of airborne strain of brettanomyces lambicus to mistakenly fall from it's containing vessel due to misshaptual encounters with solid objects, or other members of a group of individuals while attempting to transport the laden vessel.

It would also be considered unbecoming behaviour to consume large quantities of derived liquids... But don't ___ over ____ milk.

[TurcoLoco]

What does this sentence mean?:


"There’s no value to be derived from demanding attention by loud screeches over fallen white liquid derived from the lactic glands of a female bovine."

You don't have to cry over spilt milk?