The Official Riddle Thread

[pro.Graveface]

what is there, but cant be seen?
ICHI

[billyanalogue]

Which number is visually more than half of 8 but numerically less than 5?

3

[Fatal Guillotine]

What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?

[pro.Graveface]

What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?

Soul?

[brock]

your shadow

[pro.Graveface]

your shadow

thought of that 1 2

[Fatal Guillotine]

What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

[joshua]

Queue.

[diggy]

A man is riding an automobile with his son inside. They have a vehicular accident. The father is morbidly wounded. His son is alive but is in critical condition. He is brought to the hospital and prepared for surgery. The surgeon is about to operate, but then looks at the boy and says, “I can’t operate on this boy. He’s my son.”

?

[grt05]

the surgeon is the boys mother.

[Fatal Guillotine]

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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[Fatal Guillotine]

up

[joe@itagain]

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?

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.

[Fatal Guillotine]

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 ?

[Fatal Guillotine]

what number comes next

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