Anyone in a mood for a Riddle?

by SamirRastogi

Posted: 12 years ago 23 replies

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Let's see who is the first to get the correct answer to the following riddle:

A box came to the Smith's house. All four kids guessed what was in the box. Only one kid was right. Johnny guessed pizza. Karen guessed a camera. Louis guessed a camera or a picture frame and Lizzy guessed a picture frame. Who was right?

Jonathan 2.0 Banned 12 years ago

Johnny ...?
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SamirRastogi 12 years ago

Why Johnny...please explain.
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- Jonathan 2.0 Banned 12 years ago
  
  Because if it was one of the other kids, more than one of them would have guessed right.
  
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SamirRastogi 12 years ago

Ok...Jonathan...that was an easy one

Here's another one...let's see how you do this time. This one has more than one answer:

The one who invented it does not want it.
The one who bought it does not need it.
The one who needs it does not know it.
What is it?
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- Jonathan 2.0 Banned 12 years ago
  
  The latest greatest “IM” software product?
  
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  Jonathan 2.0 Banned 12 years ago
  
  (Haha) Seriously though - no idea. Good riddle.
  
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  SamirRastogi 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Jonathan 2.0
  
  The latest greatest "IM" software product?
  
  Funny...and a good one but incorrect :p
  
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Sunfyre7896 12 years ago

I was going to go with time, but then time inventor doesn't make sense, despite me seeing the new movie "In time" about time as currency, so I'm going with .................................................. ......................................... A coffin.
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Johnny GotPaid 12 years ago

I was going to say a coffin as well, except recently my step dad passed, and we bought the coffin so that kind of screws that up. But I think it works for most people.
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Johnny GotPaid 12 years ago

1.Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible?
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- Johnny GotPaid 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Johnny GotPaid
  
  1.Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible?
  
  He was born in 2000 b. c.
  
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  Sunfyre7896 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Johnny GotPaid
  
  He was born in 2000 b. c.
  
  I like this version best. I've heard another riddle similar to this where the answer was that it was two different people, but most people don't get it because they're trying so hard to do math when it's really such a simple answer after all. Good riddle.
  
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Johnny GotPaid

12 years ago

2.What's black when you get it, Red when you use it, And white when you're all through with it

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SamirRastogi

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Sunfyre7896

I was going to go with time, but then time inventor doesn't make sense, despite me seeing the new movie "In time" about time as currency, so I'm going with .................................................. ......................................... A coffin.

Coffin is right! There are other answers as well if anyone else wants to take another stab...

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2.What's black when you get it, Red when you use it, And white when you're all through with it

Charcoal?

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Jonathan 2.0 Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by SamirRastogi

There are other answers as well if anyone else wants to take another stab...

Grave stone?
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Johnny GotPaid 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Johnny GotPaid

2.What's black when you get it, Red when you use it, And white when you're all through with it

yep, Charcoal
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Johnny GotPaid 12 years ago

3.I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?
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Sunfyre7896 12 years ago

1) Because Paul is two different people(?)
3) I think it's a fingernail but maybe something else.

What's gets wet as it dries?
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- Jonathan 2.0 Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Sunfyre7896
  
  What's gets wet as it dries?
  
  Think it could be ... Umbrella?
  
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- Johnny GotPaid 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Sunfyre7896
  
  1) Because Paul is two different people(?)
  3) I think it's a fingernail but maybe something else.
  
  What's gets wet as it dries?
  
  I'm going to go with what seems like an obvious answer....a towel? But maybe that is too obvious, I don't know.
  
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Sunfyre7896 12 years ago

Not quite. But good guess.
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Johnny GotPaid 12 years ago

3.I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?

Some one guessed it, it was a fingernail
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Sunfyre7896 12 years ago

Yep, it was a towel. My friend asked me that and I went all scientific and started thinking about drying properties. The funny thing is I overlooked that most riddles and jokes are a bit more simple unless they're supposed to be within a certain community like math jokes, etc. Sometimes the simplest answer is the correct one like Occam's Razor.
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