Solve this riddle

[liamkp]

I'm a software engineer. Figuring out possible causes from limited pieces of evidence is a necessary job skill. We call it "debugging".

I also used a problem-solving technique on the "baseball and bat" one: read it backwards. Not literally every word backwards, but read the conditions or constraints in reverse order. So given "How do you get out with a baseball and bat", then "three strikes" is the obvious wordplay, ignoring the "metallic dome" contrivance.


Plausible reasons:
1. The four men were divers, wearing dry suits.
2. The four men were dead, and sealed in waterproof coffins.
3. Ziploc storage bags! Keeps moisture out, and freshness in!
4. It's a dry lake bed.

Ahhh....

Nope.

They were all married.

And happy to have drowned.

Yes! Not a SINGLE man drowned. They were all married.

The boat has water-proof/sealed doors, so when the boat sank they went down with it, but stayed inside a water-tight part of the boat?

You guys are thinking about this way too hard.

Ill try and find some more...

-I have feathers but no wings and when I hit you it will sting. What am i?

 

[chown33]

Ahhh....
-I have feathers but no wings and when I hit you it will sting. What am i?

An arrow, or a dart, or a shuttlecock.

 

[ethical]

Yes! Not a SINGLE man drowned. They were all married.

You guys are thinking about this way too hard.

Haha, well I never have been very good at thinking outside the box

 

[kolax]

I clean them. They are see through. 90% of the world use them in technology or to get natural light in. They can crash. They can go blue.

What am I talking about?

 

[anjinha]

I clean them. They are see through. 90% of the world use them in technology or to get natural light in. They can crash. They can go blue.

What am I talking about?

Windows.

 

[chown33]

Yes! Not a SINGLE man drowned. ...

You never said anyone drowned. You said they sank to the bottom of the lake.

 

[liamkp]

An arrow, or a dart, or a shuttlecock.

Dang it! Arrow.

Haha, well I never have been very good at thinking outside the box

Dont worry, i wouldnt have gotten it either.

Can somebody post an easy one so i can solve it?

 

[renewed]

Can somebody post an easy one so i can solve it?

There was a plumber and an electrician standing in line to get into a Home Show. One of them was the father of the others son. How is this possible?

 

[benflick]

There was a plumber and an electrician standing in line to get into a Home Show. One of them was the father of the others son. How is this possible?

They are married.
Sorry liamkp.

 

[chown33]

They are married.

It could also be adoption, or surrogate parentage, or out-of-wedlock conventionally-practiced parentage.

 

[ethical]

There was a plumber and an electrician standing in line to get into a Home Show. One of them was the father of the others son. How is this possible?

The son has been adopted by the second guy?

 

[Melrose]

Four spies in trench coats sat in four facing seats
as they traveled the Peking Express,
with two by the window and two by the aisle,
the arrangement was strange - as you guessed.
The English spy sat on Mr. B's left.
Mr. A had a coat colored tan.
The spy dressed in olive was on the German spy's right.
Mr. C was the only cigar smoking man.
Mr. D was across from the American spy.
The Russian, in Khaki, had a scarf around his throat
The English spy stared out the window on his left.
...so who was the spy in the rust colored coat?

Okay, I've got one. You're trapped in a metal room with no windows...

...

The answer will surprise and shock you in ways unimaginable.

Yellow cake?

 

[liamkp]

They are married.
Sorry liamkp.

And i might have been able to get that one!

Four spies in trench coats sat in four facing seats
as they traveled the Peking Express,
with two by the window and two by the aisle,
the arrangement was strange - as you guessed.
The English spy sat on Mr. B's left.
Mr. A had a coat colored tan.
The spy dressed in olive was on the German spy's right.
Mr. C was the only cigar smoking man.
Mr. D was across from the American spy.
The Russian, in Khaki, had a scarf around his throat
The English spy stared out the window on his left.
...so who was the spy in the rust colored coat?

Is this supposed to be easy?

 

[anjinha]

Four spies in trench coats sat in four facing seats
as they traveled the Peking Express,
with two by the window and two by the aisle,
the arrangement was strange - as you guessed.
The English spy sat on Mr. B's left.
Mr. A had a coat colored tan.
The spy dressed in olive was on the German spy's right.
Mr. C was the only cigar smoking man.
Mr. D was across from the American spy.
The Russian, in Khaki, had a scarf around his throat
The English spy stared out the window on his left.
...so who was the spy in the rust colored coat?

I got it!

(answer below, in white)

The spy in the rust coloured coat was Mr. D, the English spy.

Is this supposed to be easy?

It is if you draw it.

 

[liamkp]

I got it!

(answer below, in white)

The spy in the rust coloured coat was Mr. D, the English spy.

I dont know why i couldnt solve that im usually really good at those riddles.



Heres an easy one:

-I get wetter and wetter the more i dry... What am i?

Easy enough:

-You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

 

[lbro]

I dont know why i couldnt solve that im usually really good at those riddles.



Heres an easy one:

-I get wetter and wetter the more i dry... What am i?

A towel, heard that one a million times.

 

[liamkp]

A towel, heard that one a million times.

Thats part of the reason i said it was easy.

 

[Melrose]

I got it!

(answer below, in white)

I was going to switch "The English spy sat on Mr. B's left" for "...Mr. B's right" just to mess with you guys.

 

[liamkp]

I was going to switch "The English spy sat on Mr. B's left" for "...Mr. B's right" just to mess with you guys.

Oh. Thanks.

 

[anjinha]

I was going to switch "The English spy sat on Mr. B's left" for "...Mr. B's right" just to mess with you guys.

*throws shoe*

 

[liamkp]

*throws shoe*

Lol.

 

[StephenCampbell]

A man is walking down a forest path, and comes to a split. The trail goes off in two directions, and there is a guard at the head of each trail.

The man knows that one trail will lead to a village of cannibals who will eat him, and that the other trail will lead to a good village of nice people, but he doesn't know which is which.

The man knows that one of the guards will always lie, and that one of them will always tell the truth, but he doesn't know which is which.

The man is allowed to ask one of the guards one question. What can he ask that will reliably give him the information he needs to go down the path to the nice village?

 

[liamkp]

A man is walking down a forest path, and comes to a split. The trail goes off in two directions, and there is a guard at the head of each trail.

The man knows that one trail will lead to a village of cannibals who will eat him, and that the other trail will lead to a good village of nice people, but he doesn't know which is which.

The man knows that one of the guards will always lie, and that one of them will always tell the truth, but he doesn't know which is which.

The man is allowed to ask one of the guards one question. What can he ask that will reliably give him the information he needs to go down the path to the nice village?

Uhhmmmm... Uhhmmmm... Are you a guard?

 

[Melrose]

A man is walking down a forest path, and comes to a split. The trail goes off in two directions, and there is a guard at the head of each trail.

The man knows that one trail will lead to a village of cannibals who will eat him, and that the other trail will lead to a good village of nice people, but he doesn't know which is which.

The man knows that one of the guards will always lie, and that one of them will always tell the truth, but he doesn't know which is which.

The man is allowed to ask one of the guards one question. What can he ask that will reliably give him the information he needs to go down the path to the nice village?

"If I was to asked you which path leads to the good Village, which path would you point to?"

 

[liamkp]

"If I was to asked you which path leads to the good Village, which path would you point to?"

What? How does that help?