GREETINGS TRAVELLER I am in the mood for a bit of sport GIVE

>>53707631
Why is a raven like a writing desk?

What goes up a hill on four legs, and comes down the hill on three legs?

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>>53707631
Who's got two thumbs and a vore fetish?

>>53707675
They were both used by Edgar Alan Poe

When is a door not a door?

>>53707631
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

>>53707764
6

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>>53707716
Ha, good answer. Well then, down the hatch I go.

>>53707631
How big is Batista's dick?

>>53707631
Is it necessary for you to eat, or is it just for fun?
Why the hell do you have tits?
Why is the ability to become a cute girl still impossible?

>>53707706
You have stumped the mighty Sphinx.
Who is it?

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>>53707862
Oh, god dammit.

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
cannot be heard, cannot be smelled.

It hides behind stars and under hills,
and empty holes it fills.

It comes first and follows after;
ends life, kills laughter.

>>53707892
death

>>53707996
You can smell death.
>>53707892
Nothing.

>>53707631
How obvious is it that you're using Google?

>>53707892
darkness/blackness

>>53708002
you cannot smell death lol.

>>53708055
Death has a definite stank.

What walks on 8 legs in the morning, 4 legs before noon, 2 legs after noon, and 3 legs in the evening?

>>53708055
Tell that to my friend the mortician.

>>53707996
>>53708002
Bzzt! It's one of the riddles in 'The Hobbit.' I just posted it because its my favorite riddle. I love how all of Gollum's riddles were a reflection of his environment, and were all very grim and violent, as opposed to the happy, fun riddles Bilbo knew. Damn that part was so good.

Answer was the dark, by the way.

>>53708096
things dying do.

Just like "life" would smell like trees and rain and verdant stuff.

But to say you can smell "life" or "death" isn't true.

I can smell pencils and protractors and rulers, but I cannot smell "geometry".

>>53708113
You're being too literal.

>>53708122
in real life I would agree, but being autistic about language often helps in riddles, which is my point.

>>53707675
There is a B in both but an N in neither.

>>53707761
When it's ajar.

>>53707764
Angels don't dance.

So none.

>>53708113
I can smell geometry.

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>>53707631
Well??

>>53707631
Who won Simon says last week?

>>53708130
Riddles are all about figures of speech.
"Smelling of death" is definitely a figure of speech.

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>>53707631
if it's not moss
and neither gloss
to what does the fifth is doomed to fall?

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>>53707631
What can you open, shake, lend, take, raise, break, give, and hold?

>>53708783
A Hand.

>>53708783
A hand.

>>53708834
>>53708835
Or two hands, it seems :^)

>>53708783
Children

What has no hinged but is a box with a golden treasure inside

What is in my pocket?

>>53708097
One of those new pokemon probably, you can't expect me to remember all of them

>>53708854
a box with gold in it but the box is nailed shut and has no hinges.

>>53708854
and egg, and you told it wrong

>>53707631
Will you answer no to this question?

Now that that's out of the way, are you familiar with motorboating?

>>53708912
of course; no

>>53708866
String or nothing!

>>53708854
A child with a heart of gold?

>>53707716
I've heard the answer phrased as "Poe wrote on both."

>>53708230
Well Kurt, tell us, we didn't all get to go to GUDGER COLLEGE.

>>53707631
There is the most basic bitch blue creepazoid with no friends and no life, who threatens travelers with death if they don't throw riddles in her beggar tray like she was some kind of monstrous hobo. The only possible eemotion one could have for her is pity. Who is she? You are required to spend at least twenty minutes reflecting on your answer before you give it or you void the riddle. Think very carefully how you want to answer.

>>53709248
Same. Is this riddle not common knowledge?

Anyway, what herb cures all wounds?

To keep it, you first must give it. What is it?

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Why did Asuka said "kimochi warui" in End of Evangelion. Know that I DID get the ending and that's why I'm asking that precisely.

>>53707631
What is?

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>>53707631
The riddle is as follows: There are five houses, with five occupants, each with a different color house, different beverage of choice, different favorite brand of cigarette, and a unique pet. The goal is to figure out who owns the fish.

1) The Englishman lives in the red house.
2) The Swede keeps dogs.
3) The Dane drinks tea.
4) The green house is just to the left of the white one.
5) The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
6) The Pall Mall smoker keeps birds.
7) The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8) The man in the center house drinks milk.
9) The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10) The Blend smoker has a neighbor who keeps cats.
11) The man who smokes Blue Masters drinks bier.
12) The man who keeps horses lives next to the Dunhill smoker.
13) The German smokes Prince.
14) The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15) The Blend smoker has a neighbor who drinks water.

Who owns the fish?

You are a brainlet if you resort to google

>>53710737
>using the fastest way to get the solution of an already solved problem is "brainlet"
How many times do you say bazinga a day? Do not answer.

>>53710801
>This is the type of person who uses the calculator for math class.

>>53707631
What has a heart of light and a name of darkness?

>>53710841
>I can do what a cheap calculator made by slave chinese children can do!
Amazing anon, amazing!

>>53708096
It's time, you ninny. It's from The Hobbit.

This sentence is false.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

>>53710888
The point of not having the calculator is to push your thinking limits to make you sharper in the future. Actually getting the questions right as fast as possible is only part of the learning here.

Getting a brainache is what you want to have happen to you.

Also even the most simple of calculators can do some pretty big number crunching.

>>53708783
Is it Bread

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>>53710737
>The German smokes Prince
Goodnight, everybody.

>>53707631
What is big hard and will make you scream when I put it inside you?

>>53707631
What's red and green and goes round and round and round?

>>53711036
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR4H76SCCzY

>>53711095
BAZINGA

>>53711095
>Teach childrenmath = doing fractions and square roots with the help of your fingers
>Children hate maths/do not understand advanced maths cause they spend more time learning the derivatives tables than getting the concept behind it

Well done, anon. Well done.

>>53710737
The German should have the fish

>>53710858
Goodbane Evilskull

Do you shave yourself? If not, come in and I'll shave you! I shave anyone who does not shave himself, and noone else.

Does the set of all those sets that do not contain themselves contain itself?

If God knows in advance how we will decide, how can there be free will?

>>53711568
He only know, he won't stop you from being stupid.

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>>53707631
>"I resemble only half the things I say I don't. The other half resemble me."
>"Half the places I have been to, never were. Half the things I say are there cannot be found."
>"I can find a thing I cannot see and see a thing I cannot find. I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel."
>"What am I and what I am not?"
By the way, this riddle has a definite, single answer. Good luck solving it.

>>53707675
They are both low and produce very few notes and one is nevar placed around the wong way.

A slim crocodile living in the Nile took a child. His mother begged to have him back. The crocodile could not only talk, but was also a great sophist and stated, "If you guess correctly what I will do with him, I will return him. However, if you don't predict his fate correctly, I'll eat him."

What statement should the mother make to save her child?

>>53711699
"You'll either eat him, or return him."
Your move, crocodile.

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>>53710737
took me a while to write it all out and restart twice, but I got pic related

>>53711568
Why do you assume that there is free will? You might as well ask "If God knows that the barrel is empty, why can it be filled with cheese?"

>>53711620
Fictional characters people might not have read about is considered cheating in riddle games, mortal. Not everyone has read The 13 Clocks.

>>53710737
I swear, if the trick here is that the Blend smoker's neighbour who drinks water is the fish..

>>53711699
"You will eat the child"

>>53707631
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

>>53707631
"What is "yawyna stitxnihps ym no pmuj tsuj nac uoy, dnim ym degnahc I" backwards?

>>53708912
It's not a riddle, but I guess you could impress your classmates with it. Assuming you're in kindergarten.

>>53712249
Anon, you do understand that just because says they consent doesn't mean they actually consent, right?

You're basically trying to commit rape here.

>>53711699
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater

>>53712146
Now that's the riddle.

>>53712329
I was actually hoping she'd find it amusing more than anything.

Plus, I doubt she'd make the offer if she wasn't planning on losing, or winning in a more "creative" way.

>>53711036
I feel embarassment for you, anon

>>53711750
>Fictional characters people might not have read about is considered cheating in riddle games, mortal
What am I and what I am not?

>>53710674
? or question mark is a literary artifact created by monk scribes when copying old latin texts, where questions were identified by context alone, but they felt the need to underline when a sentence was a "questio" by writing it right after it, with time it got shortened to a Q on top of an O and then distorted into a scribble over a point.

>>53712445
ur a faget and ur not smart

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>>53710737
>says it's a riddle
>is literally just a chart you have to fill in

What did he mean by this.

>>53710188
Time, and you are a bad person.

>>53707631
I am that, which all recieve
But when I'm lost, you won't grieve
Without me, there is no pain
Taken from another, I am not attained

>>53707631
It comes in the morning and then in the afternoon it has become withheld then after not noon then finally when evening faces decide egressingly affluent retires into a

>>53714681
virginity?

>>53711362
False

>>53710858
A knight

>>53710549
Their word.

>>53707631
LoL you have a nigger head. You can't be that smart.

>>53707631
I walk on 4 legs
But I have 5
I'm not in heat
what am I?

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This one is a two parter. First, why did the chicken cross the road?

>>53714811

i was going to say Life, but your answer might be better

>>53714969
black holes have crushed stars (and starlight) in the center. but Knight is poetic and i'm assuming is the classic answer

>>53711620
you sound like a damn liar. given the other response to your riddle i guess i need to go read the book

Why is the night sky dark if there is an infinity of stars, covering every part of the celestial sphere?

>>53716016
because your assumption is wrong
the universe is limited

>>53711036
I disagree with.

>>53710737
The German. Fun problem, thanks.

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>>53710737
The German owns the fish. Charted it out in MS Paint. It all fell into place once I figured out the order of the houses. If I'm dumb for doing it that way so be it, I wasn't about to memorize all that minutiae and arrange it all just in my head. Fuck that noise.

Oh, and if I'm wrong... Meh!

>>53714681
life

>>53716016

some em radiation is redshifted into the infrared portion of the spectrum and beyond by the expansion of the universe. leftover photons from the end of the opaque phase of the universe are now microwaves.

also some (many) stars are so far away their light has not reached us yet because c (and, accordingly, the size of the *observable* universe) is finite.

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>>53711035
This thing, all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers.
It gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to meal.
It slays kings, ruins towns, and beats high mountains down!

>>53716040
>>53716259

Neither you nor the Sphinx are modern astrophysicists.

>>53707675
Because a writing desk is a rest for pens and a raven is a pest for wrens

>>53707675
Inky black quills

>>53711620
The two headed megalope.

>>53711699
Kill the crocodile. Until she guesses, he won't eat the child.

>>53707631
You are in a labyrinth. You duck your head, and enter a massive room. Two giants stand in front of two doorways which stand side by side. You are allowed to ask one question which they will answer. "One of us always tells the truth," says one, "one of us always lies," says the other. "Death lies behind one of these doorways, and freedom is behind the other. Ask your question, make your choice." How can you survive?

>>53716299
Time.

What's in my pocket?

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>>53710737
>It's the German.
That was fun, anon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2nPysfmt0U

>>53716322
you don't need to be to get that, but what if she's an astrosphinx?

>>53716434
I squat down for a moment and draw a truth table in the dust, before pointing to an arbitrary doorway and asking an arbitrary giant whether his answers to "do you tell the truth" and "does this doorway lead to freedom" would be the same.

>>53711699
"You'll return him."

Also in my version the mother has a gun.

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>>53714811
Oh, you.

>>53716881
Wouldn't it be twenty percent?

>>53714681
Nerve?

>>53707631
Why is a duck when it spins?

>>53716881
50%

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>>53716440
That's not a riddle, hobbit, but that's okay, I planned on eating you anyway. It's your hand, by the way. Dammit, so close. Lint? String or nothing. You know what? I'll be right back.

Alive without breath, as cold as death, never thirsty, ever drinking, all in mail never clinking.

>>53716917
>>53717005
Better start lubing up those sphinxtits.

>>53716434
Come on. Even if she weren't an expert in classic riddles, the Sphinx is clearly nerdy enough to have seen Labyrint.

Also, that riddle doesn't make much sense. If by the giant's own admission one of them always lies, the riddle itself might be false.

>>53716881
50/50. The box I just got the gold ball from can't be the box with only silver balls, which only leaves the box with two gold and the box with a gold and a silver.

>>53717176
Actually, I believe that pulling out a ball of a given metal would be more likely from a box that contains two balls of that metals, so conversely pulling out a golden ball makes it more likely that the box you picked contains two golden balls. But I'm not sure how to math this.

>>53717243
>>53717176
>>53716881

>>>/b/

This and the monty hall question are asinine at best.

>>53707631
Why do you look like a West African Bantu tribeswoman when you are an Egyptian mythological creature from Northeastern Africa?

>>53716881
oh lord why do these things always work? So in my shitty opinion: there are 3 golden balls, so each one has a 33% chance it was the first one you picked. Two are in the same box, so 66% chance the second one is gold too.
>>53716917
??
>>53717005
>>53717176
i don't claim to be definitely right here, but aren't you forgetting that since the mixed box has fewer golden balls in it it is less likely the first ball came from there?

>>53707631
I thinks she's lying, it's called a [s]bounce house[/s]

>>53707690
skeleton horse with brittle leg

>>53707690
A skier

>>53711617
but all-benevolent thing...

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>>53707631
Oh oh, I gotta good one! Who played... The Joker?

>>53717347
When it comes to shitty probability questions, you have to properly establish the criteria first.
You already have a golden ball pulled out. Calculating the chance that this happened is no longer relevant. You know that you pulled this from box 1 or box 2. The remaining possibilities are that "there's one gold left" or "there's one silver left".
How you reached the stated criteria don't matter, if you start mistakenly including it in your calculations, you're stirring Gambler's fallacy into it.

>>53717838
>How you reached the stated criteria don't matter
it does matter though that's the question, the question is basically "where did the golden ball come from?", gambler's fallacy has nothing to do with it. To know the answer we need to know where the ball came from, the ball can be one of the three, of the three 2 have a golden companion, one doesn't , so 33% of the ball i drew not having a golden companion.

>>53717477

Riddler. Give it up, we all know it's you.

>>53717838
It is relevant, because the question says you did so _randomly_. It's one trial in which you happened to get this result; in what proportion of such trials will you then pick another golden ball?
It's not a shitty question just because you got it wrong.

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How many roads must a man walk down?

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>>53718406
The Riddler didn't play the Joker.

>>53719708
This one sounds good but we still have to cut your head open.

>>53719708
42?

>>53718951
But it said same box. You're not picking again at random. That box can either have no more gold, or gold. There are only two things that remaining box can still be. It can't be only silver so that's eliminated.

>>53707631
What have I got in my pocket?

>>53710660
She's pregnant with Shinji's tang child

>>53720118
The box with two gold balls is twice as likely to have produced the current circumstance; i.e. you are twice as likely to have picked the box with two gold balls; i.e. it is twice as likely to pick up another gold ball than a silver ball.

>>53717243
There are three options when you pick a gold ball: gold, gold, and silver. Two of these three options results in a second gold, so the answer is 66%.

>>53707631
What does tg actually like?

>>53720461
Dorfs? Arguing? Disliking things?

>>53720310
Incorrect. When you pick a gold ball, it eliminates the possibility of the box with two silvers. You have then either picked from the box with two golds or from the box with one gold and one silver. The image specifies you are picking from the same box, so take one gold ball from those boxes. There are two possibilities, a silver or gold ball remaining. 50/50

>>53707631
Kern of Hed, i had the dubious fortune of being pursued one day by a Thing without a name. Perhaps it was the effects of Herun wine. The Thing called his name over and over. He ran from it, going into his house of seven rooms and seven doors, and locking each door behind him until he came to the inmost chamber, where he could run no farther. And he heard the sound of one door after another being torn open, and his name called each time. He counted six doors opened, his name called six times. Then, outside the seventh door, his name was called again; but the Thing did not touch the door. He waited in despair for it to enter, but it did not. Then he grew impatient, longing for it to enter, but it did not. Finally he reached out, opened the door himself. The Thing was gone. And he was left to wonder, all the days of his life, what it was that had called out to him.”:
what was it?

>>53716881
2/3 obviously, I'm sure this will spawn endless debate though.

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>>53720553
Brainlet detected.

>>53720553
>it either happens or it doesn't so the probability is 1/2
literally your logic here

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>>53716881
It's funny how people keep arguing about that when you can just run simulation and see whether your logic is correct or not.

>>53721023
first-year CS student–tier implementation desu

>>53720759
Kern was already a Thing, obviously.

>>53721080
Jokes on you, I dropped out at 2nd year ;_;

>>53707631
What has three cups in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and four tables in the evening?

>>53707631
How do you kill a sphinx?

>>53722026
In one version of the legend, she killed herself after hero solved her riddle.
Otherwise you just hit 'em really hard.

>>53722082
Wait, the sphinx is supposed to be riddling then?
Instead of the other way around?

Maybe some people want to be eaten by a Sphinx, did you consider that?

>>53722137
I actually forgot what this thread was about, so I thought you just asked how do you kill a sphinx [in your game].
But yes, normally sphinx is the one who asks question.
>>53722187
See >>53707706 >>53707862

>>53716434
What if they're both lying to begin with and merely enjoy fucking with people?

>>53716434
Ask them a question that has an objective truth, see which one lies, then go through the door the one that told the truth said leads to freedom.

>>53716987
The higher the lower, the fewer the more. Hope you like vore.

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>>53722303
That's why we shouldn't play their stupid game. Kill them both and open both doors! Sheer brute force and dumb luck is the answer.

>>53722389
Assuming what guy before said is true, it's not that difficult to stop the sphinx from eating you via brute force.

>>53712329
Assault, actually.

A slave I have been and shall remain
To a cruel mistress I'm tied with invisible chains
Yet always I put on the same brave face
She keeps me her prisoner, but leaves me some space.

>>53720157
FILTHY, NASTY, TRICKSY BAGGINSES, IT HAS THE PRECIOUS, DOESN'T IT?

>>53709447
Do you want me to show this to the cat and have the CAT tell you what it is? Cause the cat's going to get it!

>>53711117
A spear?

here is a riddle you cannot solve
A tron player, a legacy dredge player and adolf hitler are sitting in a room

Who is the worst person there

>>53716881
Its 50% and anybody that says otherwise is a filthy contrarian.

>>53722806
It depends on whether or not you're a /pol/ack or a neo-nazi.

>>53722814
It won't fly, though, even if you color it in white and gold.

>>53716195
ding!

>>53722814
Here's a way to show it's 66%.
Look at the image.
How many ways could you pick a gold ball? 3 ways, for 3 gold balls.
Now, cover the leftmost gold ball. That's one way to have chosen a gold ball. You can see that if you had picked that one, the next ball you choose will be gold as well. So that's one way in which you'll end up picking a second gold ball.
Uncover the covered ball, repeat with the next. See the same thing - this is a second way of picking up a second gold ball.
Repeat with the final gold ball, and observe that the remaining ball in this box is silver. That is one way in which the second ball would be silver.
Note that you have exhausted all possible ways to have picked a gold ball first.
2 of these possibilities yield gold balls on the second draw, while the remaining one yields a silver. Ergo 2/3 chance. QED

>>53709248
Didn't have an answer originally. It was first posited in Alice in Wonderland, and the group was interrupted before the riddle could be answered. Think it was during the Tea Party.

>>53711517
If I meet you on the streets, I will slap you.

>>53709248
Given that it's from Alice in Wonderland and doesn't get a canonical answer in the book, another answer that more fits with that theme is "Because there's a B in both and and N in neither."

>>53710841
this is the type of person who does math so simple it's considered cheating to use a calculator

>>53723054
The question does not fucking work like that.

>>53723450
It's valid assuming equal numbers of balls in the boxes that contain at least one gold ball, which is the case here.

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>>53710660
She finds it disgusting that Shinji is crying over her like a big fucking baby.

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>>53707706
>>53707862
>>53707879
>Knight wants to be swallowed by a giant monster with big tits.
>Repeatedly puts himself in certain death situations.
>Somehow keeps failing to be eaten due to dumb luck.

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>>53707631
On a ship there's 3 Nobles, 4 Pipes, but no tinderbox.
How do they manage to smoke?

>>53723138
>>53723210
The answer that >>53711660 gave is one Lewis gave at the start of "Alice through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there" in the author notes.

>>53724301
Hardly.

>>53708230
IT'S A JACKAL

>>53724428
Try again.

>>53707631
What is love?

>>53724301
steam ship?

>>53724502
friendship set to music

>>53724366
>>53711660
Close, it's 'Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!'

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>>53724547
>>53724428
Because I might not be here in a while, and this is one of the only times a riddle stumped even the Dark Knight, I give you the answer:
Holy Pipe Smoking Batman!
It's so simple!
They were 3 Nobles, but had 4 Pipes!
Since they only needed 3 Pipes, they threw one overboard, and made themselves a pipe lighter!

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>>53707631
>GIVE ME A RIDDLE
Pic related.

I have eyes, but cannot see, I have ears but cannot hear, I have a mouth but cannot speak. What am I?

>>53724645
A blind deafmute.

>>53724648
Nope

>>53722495
Is that a riddle or a song lyric?

>>53724645
3 monkeys.

>>53724645
A registered voter

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>>53724746
Fuck, that's good.

>>53707631
Alright

Men are sinning in bed (having sex)
Two are sinning and two are being sinned against.
How many men are in the bed?

>>53724773
Two

>>53724735
>>53724746
Funny, but not the answer

>>53724782
wrong

>>53724301
They throw a pipe overboard, and the entire ship becomes a pipe lighter.

Works better with cigars or cigarettes.

>>53724773
3?

>>53724808
If that answer is correct, then 4 should also be correct.

>>53724808
correct, the one in the middle is both sinning and being sinned against.

It's a good riddle to use as you can say it is two, three, or four. But the true answer is three. It's an old Roman riddle I found in an old book if anyone wanted to know.

>>53724821
Two separate pairs, each of one sinning and one being sinned also meets the criteria of the riddle.
So saying that 3 is the proper answer l, when you didn't give enough information to disregard 4, makes it a somewhat flawed riddle.

>>53724833
kek
it was more of a dirty joke then a riddle. I just like to bet people if they can answer it or not. Made about $250 over the years with it.

I'd suggest using it next time your DM challenges you to a riddle contest or your players are pissing you off and you need a good reason to send something at them.

No matter how far man falls I still sink below
I bring power to war and warmth for the poor
To return what I've eaten is all I'm good for
Yet no matter what's taken from me still I shall grow.
What am I?

>>53724645
a doll

>>53724857
Greed

>>53724806
On a purely association level, maybe.
But Pipe Lighters are an actual thing, that mainly differ in that the fire shoots away from the thumb, thus comfortably lighting a pipe if you hold it horizontally. (It basically shoots down if you do this)

>>53707631
Is this a rhetorical question?

>>53724860
Good answer, but not the one I was looking for, it was reflection, partly my fault I wasn't specific enough

>>53724865
Deep, but Nah.

>>53724934
Oh man, a mirror?
The witcher should've prepared me for this.

>>53724857
Sun?

>>53724951
Two down.
One more and I'm claiming me some giant tiddies.

>>53707631
If a man in a butcher's stall
stands 5' 9" tall
what does he weigh?

>>53724989
meat

>>53725003
Fuck you
I'm gonna go strip and roll in the seasoning

>>53707631
What *are* birds?

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>>53725025

>>53707631
without me being eaten, what happens to me at the end of my life?

>>53707631
On the surface I lie, but look deeper there's more.
I describe without truth, trapped in literal flaw.
What am I?

>>53725118
Regret

>>53707631
How is it possible to write something only by reading?

>>53725169
By living just north of the M4

>>53724621
Looks a bit familiar. What game?

>>53725169
Writing history

>>53724645
Idols of silver and gold, the work of man's hands.

What is the meaning of 'same' in the context online communities currently use it in?

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>>53724857

>>53724857
Pride?

>>53707631
Do all the non-trivial roots of the Riemann zeta function have real part 1/2?

>>53724865
>>53724951
>>53725575
Prepare to get mad
Because the answer is a hole

>>53725675
You. I like you.

>>53723450
Yes it does, go take a probability class.

>>53707631
Don't you mean moon bounce?

>>53725967
Was this hole made for you?

>>53725967
How does hole give power to war?

>>53710660
"You creep me out"
I guess because for the brief time her and shinji's body were molden together she knew his feelings towards her?
And that he wanked over her comatose body?

I dunno, my understanding of Eva is that it's the acid fuelled dream of a shintoist trying to read the torah

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>>53726364
You idiots still arguing?

>>53726674
It can be allegory for trenches.

>>53726738
There's 6 ways you can pick a chest at random and then pick a ball from it at random.
3 of these ways net you a silver ball, 3 of them net you a golden ball.
In one of those cases, the other ball is silver.
In 2 of those cases, the other ball is gold.

>>53726881
>only one box with 2 gold balls
>In 2 of those cases, the other ball is gold.
What's your computing process here?
Do you think that you drop the gold ball back in the box after picking it?

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>>53712330
10/10 post anon

>>53726738
Nah. Not how it works. And I was the guy who said 50/50 earlier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s_box_paradox

This one is also pretty interesting:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

Apparently this is one of those kinds of things that is somewhat counterintuitive, enough so that it aggravates lots of people from a variety of education levels. So we can take a little comfort in that we're not alone in our initial assumption, but in the face of clear evidence we gotta let go of what at first seemed like common sense. Friggin' probability problems, man...

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>>53726946
There are three gold balls. We number these 1, 2 and 3. Having picked a gold ball, we know you have one of them.

If you picked #1, then the other ball in your box is also gold.
If you picked #1, then the other ball in your box is also gold.
If you picked #2, then the other ball in your box is also gold.
If you picked #3, then the other ball in your box is silver.

Picking ball #1 and ball #2 are separate cases.

>>53726946
In order to decide what the other ball is going to be, because there's only one ball left to pick, you need to figure out how many possible situations exist where you randomly picked a gold ball first.
There's the chance that you picked the second box, and picked the only gold ball in it, leaving a silver ball.
There's the chance that you picked the first box, and picked the "first" gold ball in it, leaving the "second" gold ball in it.
And there's the chance that you picked the first box, and picked the "second" gold ball in it, leaving the "first" gold ball in it.

>>53727046
>>53727045
overthinking

>>53727045
>If you picked #1, then the other ball in your box is also gold.
>If you picked #1, then the other ball in your box is also gold.

And if I get a bit overzealous with copy-paste we get the same line repeated.

If you picked #1, then the other ball in your box is also gold.
If you picked #2, then the other ball in your box is also gold.
If you picked #3, then the other ball in your box is silver.

Nothing more.

>>53727064
In your case it's clearly underthinking, though.

>>53727094
He could possibly be overtrolling, given that all these explainations have highlighted the basic logic behind the 66% answer I initially thought was missing. The latest example is especially clear cut I think, but they've all been convincing. So at this point either its extreme stubbornness or folks are having a giggle at making people endlessly explain.

Reminds me of the 0.999 (repeating) = 1 thing from a while back. Although I don't think I ever saw an explanation for that as satisfying as the ones used to demonstrate this box problem.

>>53727064
Think of it like this.
You tell a computer to do a shit ton of simulations with the same parameters, picking a random box, and then picking a random ball from it.
You then tell it, to throw out every time the ball it picked was silver, you only want to see the cases where it picked gold.

Due to probability, if you go far enough with a computer that can do near infinite simulations, you'll find the following results:
Every time (33% of all simulations) where the first box was picked, the simulation was not deleted.
Every time (33% of all simulations) where the last box was picked, the simulation was deleted.
Half the time (16.6666% of all simulations) where the middle box was picked was deleted.

You now have twice as many simulations where the chosen box has a gold ball left in it, than simulations where the chosen box has a silver ball in it.


>>53727209
Math Major here: It's a bit of an iffy thing to explain, but here's the best way to explain it:
0.9999 (repeating)'s distance from 1 is x.
x has to be 0 for the following:
>Distance cannot be negative.
>You can divide any non-negative number with some other non-negative number to get a non-negative number smaller than it, unless it is 0. If it is 0, it will just remain 0.
>x is a distance, so it is not-negative, but nothing can have a smaller than x distance to 1 from 0.999 (repeating)'s direction than x, therefore, no matter what you divide x with, you cannot get a number smaller than x.
>Because of this, since x is so small that it is impossible to divide it up into further segments, it's 0.
>Therefore, if 1-x=0.999 (repeating) then 1-0=0.999 (repeating)
>Therefore 1=0.999 (repeating)

What needs to be taken away from this, is that numbers are not soverign entities. They are only units of measurement, defined by their distances from each other.
If the distance of two numbers is 0, even if you can closer imagine them as two bricks resting perfectly against each other, then they are the same number.

>>53716881
(1/3 × 1) + (1/3 × 1/2) + (1/3 × 0) = 3/6 = 1/2 = 50%

>>53727580
Except that's wrong, for the reasons described above.

You really are persistent. Have you considered picking up a mathematics textbook? I do honestly believe that statistics should be mandatory, it gets misused far too often.

>>53727580
That's the probability of the first ball you pick, completely at random, being gold.

>>53727699
Nuh huh, my first crack at It and it's p.much a textbook example of trees 'n shit, just missed the second part of the riddle, for which the answer would still be 50%, because you couldn't possibly have picked a gold ball from the silver/silver box

>>53727778
(1/2 × 1) + (1/2 × 0) = 1/2 = 50%

>>53725675
Yes, and everyone knows it.

>>53727816
>there is already link to wiki with explanation why and how
>"nuh huh me smarta!"
You aren't even trying anymore.

>>53727868
Cool
1 - I refuse to believe a easily user editable source
2 - said user editable source even got the explanation wrong

>>53728042
You can test this.

Take four MTG cards, one of which is a land.

Shuffle them up, put them into two piles of two.

Draw a card from one of the piles. If it's the land, junk everything and restart without counting it.

When the first draw is a nonland, note down whether the second card you draw is a land or a nonland.

After a decent number of runs, nonland should outnumber land 2:1

>>53708097
Fred and George Weasley. Asshole.

>>53708866
A rocket? :)

>>53707631
I lay beneath civilisation, I cleanse the world of filth. What am I?

>>53728664
sewers

>>53716372
correct answer

>>53728664
Moleman Hitler

>>53707631
What has four wheels and flies?

>>53707631
>Out of the eater came something to eat
>and out of the strong came something sweet

>>53728804
Garbage truck

>>53726674
>>53726745
I assumed foxholes

>>53728854
A lion got killed by samson and bees were in it and he took the honey.
Anybody who went to sunday school would know this one.

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>>53728804
flying wartrukk

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>>53728664
>>53728786

>>53725307
The Fool and His Money. Probably one of the best puzzle games in existence, along with 3 in Three and Fool's Errand.

>>53724683
Riddle, but rhymes make it better.
A song too, but the second verse makes it obvious.

>>53727209
Let us create a sequence by following a series of steps enumerated by the natural numbers (1,2,3,4…).
At the first step, calculate 1 - 0.9 = 0.1.
At the second step, calculate 1 - 0.99 = 0.01.
At the third step, calculate 1 - 0.999 = 0.001.
At the n-th step, calculate 1 - 0.99…9 = 10^-n.

0.99…9 denotes the number 0 followed by 9 in the first n decimal places and then 0s. For example: if n = 4, 0.99…9 stands for 0.9999. 10 to the (-n)-th power is 1 divided by 10 to the n-th power, or 0 followed by 0 in the first n-1 first decimal places, then 1 then 0s. For example, for n = 4, 10^-4 = 0.0001.

The larger the n you take, the smaller 10^-n gets. Further more, the larger the n you take, the closer 0.99…9 is to 0.999… (9 repeated forever). Thus, as 0.99…9 gets closer to 0.999… so does it get closer to 1.

In fact, choose a small positives number. Do it. Let's call that number ε (epsilon). Regardless of how small you chose ε, there's a step of that sequence in which the number we obtain is smaller than ε, as well as all the numbers we obtain after it. Thus, that sequence can get arbitrarily as small as we want. Therefore 0.99…9 can be as close to 1 as we choose n. Therefore, after an infinite amount of steps, 1 - 0.999… = 0.

There are formal ways to denote all of this, but they'd probably be harder for you to read, especially without proper formatting (such as LaTeX).

>>53720759
There are no riddles of Hed!

[Spoiler] the wolf dude.

>>53711035
But you can smell thyme.

I am one but live in three, these three give birth to a double D. This D shall bring both love and strife, to those who live without a life. Thousands shall love it and thousands shall mock it and here I sit in a hobbits pocket. What am I?

>>53731672
The dick.

>>53731672
l-l-lewd

>>53731672
Um...
Pokemon?

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>>53729547
Is there any significance to the arrangement of the letters? I've been thinking about this for an hour and I'm stuck on trying to use all the A's.

>>53731851
It's a word magic square. Arrange letters, so that all rows and colums contain four-letter word. The shadowed "VAAG" letters are confined to that little 2x2 square, and you can't swap them with letters outside it.

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>>53731902
S A G A
O V A L
D O L L
A W A Y

>>53726881
Yes, there are six ways. But the question states that you already picked a gold ball so you only calculate the probability of further actions, which leaves you with two options, because no matter which ball you grab from double gold box it's still one box.

>>53733165
You're more likely to have picked double gold box, having two options does not mean they're equally likely.

>>53727699
Ok, so by your logic:
>you have a 50% chance to survive being shot
>you could have been shot by a black man, a white man or not be shot at all
>you have been shot
>black men are twice more likely to shoot you
>therefore you die 2 out of 3 times

>>53733229
I know it doesn't. But in probability if a previous outcome is given it's chance does not affect further calculations. If you must have picked a gold, then you either picked the gold one in box 2 or picked box 1.

I am a snake that doesn't hiss
and my poison cannot take a life
But when I'm not using it to piss
it's getting sucked hard by my wife
What am I?

>>53733456
That's the thing.
Anything you know happened is a given, or rather is treated with a probability of a 1.
But as you said, you *either* picked box 1 or box 2.
You don't know which one you actually picked, therefore, it is not yet a known element. You won't know which box you picked until you pulled the second ball, and as such the probability of you owning one box or the other can differ.

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>>53733146
Good for you, anon, you solved the puzzle!

Just kidding, it's just the first out of four parts.

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>>53733559
Consider this. If you have box one there is a hundred percent chance of gettinf gold. Box 2 - 100% for silver. If you pulled gold, you have box 1, if silver - 2. You could only have picked box 1 or 2. So there is a 50% chance.

>>53710737
I'll tip my hat in recognition of the best post in the thread.

I'm thinking of a number between 2, 8 and 14. What is it?

>>53733724
But you are not picking boxes. You are picking balls. And there are 3 ways to get a gold ball. Two of which are from the same box.

>>53734107
Yes, but who gives a fuck, you've already picked your first ball, it's probability shouldn't affect that of the second

>>53734093
3

>>53734168
But it does, as it determines the likelihood of the box you chose from. The two are intrinsically. Linked.

But irrespective, it has been explained, quite clearly how and why the correct answer is not 50%. So at this point, you are either innumerate, or a troll. Either way, it is people like you that make me wish that a basic understanding of statistics was mandatory in order to be allowed to function in society. That we lived in a meritocracy, such that people like you would drown.

>>53734229
It's cool that it does. Could be of use if the question asked for what's the likelihood you chose a box with two golds if you picked a gold. But as you already said the likelihood of something that is a given is treated as 1. So when you have a gold in your hand the potential boxes in front of you are nothing and silver or nothing and gold, not nothing and silver, nothing and gold1, nothing and gold2.

>>53734204
Not so, my boy. You can have another roll at it though

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>>53707631
I love sphinxes. I remember someone here told a story about how his wizard character started romancing a sphinx after answering her riddle and he played as their half-sphinx offspring in a later campaign.

>>53734093
6

>>53734093
8

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>>53731672

>>53707631
What does a rich man keep that a poor man throws away?

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>>53716881
The question clearly states the first ball you've drawn is golden, so the two silver balled chest is thrown out, and you are left with only two chests. while the question says "you Choose a box at random", a new fact is thrown in, "the first ball you drew is golden. this new fact of the question overrides the previously stated one.

t.Lawyer

>>53716881
>3 box's
>stick hand in box, get gold

>now repeat
>if first box; get gold
>if second; get silver
50/50

mathematicians no fool me with number magic

>>53735514
money

>>53734553
>either it happens or it didn't so it's 50%
Literally you
Do the experiment at home with whatever crap you have lying around, you will get 66%, this is literally how the real world works

>>53707631
What is blue, has four legs, and is fun to bounce on, but is still somewhat dangerous?

>>53736876
you can't recreate the experiment to full. because you have to always draw the gold ball as the first one, and it's impossible to do without rigging the boxes.

>>53707675
"I have no idea."