The Official Riddle Thread

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The Key to Life and Death is everywhere to be found, but if you do not find it in yourself, you
will find it nowhere. Yet, it is before everyone's eyes. No one can live without it. Everyone has used
it. The poor usually possess it more than the rich. Children play with it in the streets. The meek and
uneducated esteem it highly, but the privileged and learned often throw it away. It is the only thing
from which the Philosopher's Stone can be prepared, and without it, nothing noble can be created.

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Originally Posted by WARPATH

You are trapped in the center of a quick sand pool with 4 ft. radius. The more you struggle the more you sink. You have 1 ft long stick. Your reach is maybe 2 1/2 feet at the most. How do you get out?

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The human body has a density of 62.4 pounds per cubic foot (1 g/cm3) and is able to float on water. Quicksand is denser than water -- it has a density of about 125 pounds per cubic foot (2 g/cm3) -- which means you can float more easily on quicksand than on water. The key is to not panic. Most people who drown in quicksand, or any liquid for that matter, are usually those who panic and begin flailing their arms and legs.

The answer is to lay on your back and paddle to safety. Or have somebody pull you out with that stick. Or most times you can just walk out.

3 friends found a pot of gold coins. They agreed to play a game of chance.

Each one toss a coin : wise kid, skillful kid, lucky kid consecutively.
The wise kid schemed : if all the faces of the toss are the same then "skillful kid" lose his share

but if only two faces are the same then "lucky kid" lose his share but
if none of the faces are the same then "wise kid & skillful kid" lose their shares.

The skillful kid agreed because he can make a toss of head or tail as he wants it after the first toss of wise kid.

The lucky kid who was first to found the treasure also agreed because he just lucky.

Which of them lost a share ?

what number comes next

1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, 13112221, 1113213211, ????

what is big, yet is small?

Where can you see something but at the same time see nothing?

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, then how the fuck did you know the tree fell?

What is wet, yet is also dry?

What is bright, yet is dark?

How many rainbow marshmallows are in a box of lucky charms and is there a pot of gold at the end of the last one?

A will specifies that several diamonds, to be found in a safety deposit box, are to be distributed to the deceased's children as follows: half of them to the eldest, one quarter of them to the middle child, and one fifth to the youngest. The executor is puzzled about what to do when it turns out that there are nineteen identically sized diamonds in the box. You can't give out half, one quarter, or one fifth of this collection without cutting some diamonds into pieces, and cutting a diamond would ruin its value. What can the executor do?

The executor hits on this ingenious plan: he borrows another diamonod of the same size from a jeweller friend, and adds it to the nineteen. He takes half of the twenty-ten of them- and gives them to the eldest child; then one quarter of the twentry-five-to the middle child; and one fifth of the twenty- four-to the youngest. He has distributed nineteen diamonds; one remains-the one he borrowed from the jeweller-which he now returns. The eldest child is delighted, reasoning that she was entitled to only nine and a half diamonds (one half of the nineteen) but has received ten instead; the ther two think they have received a similar bonus.

A QUESTION TO THINK ABOUT: Something is peculiar about this very nifty solution. Do you see what has gone wrong? (Hint: there's something wrong in the terms of the will.)