Riddle, Because I'm Bored

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

You're in a room.
There's two doors.
There's two guards.

One door leads to certain death, one door leads to your freedom.
You don't know which is which.

One guard always tells the truth, the other guard always tells lies.
You don't know which is which.

You have only one question you can ask and you can ask either guard.

What is the question?

[Binky]

You're in a room.
There's two doors.
There's two guards.

One door leads to certain death, one door leads to your freedom.
You don't know which is which.

One guard always tells the truth, the other guard always tells lies.
You don't know which is which.

You have only one question you can ask and you can ask either guard.

What is the question?


Which one leads to the bathroom cuz once I get in there I can climb out the window and be :lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2: gone......

[Mr, gone]

You're in a room.
There's two doors.
There's two guards.

One door leads to certain death, one door leads to your freedom.
You don't know which is which.

One guard always tells the truth, the other guard always tells lies.
You don't know which is which.

You have only one question you can ask and you can ask either guard.

What is the question?

Ask: "Which door would the other guy tell me is the safe way out?" Then go through the opposite door.

Here is one for you straight out of an IQ test I have taken (I slightly modified it for extra flavor):

You are in a hallway and there are three light switches grouped together that are turned off. One of the switches controls the light in a room at the end of the hall. You cannot see into this room, but you are allowed to go into that room exactly once. How can you figure out which switch controls that room's light bulb?:D

[MarkMiller]

Ask: "Which door would the other guy tell me is the safe way out?" Then go through the opposite door.

Here is one for you straight out of an IQ test I have taken (I slightly modified it for extra flavor):

You are in a hallway and there are three light switches grouped together that are turned off. One of the switches controls the light in a room at the end of the hall. You cannot see into this room, but you are allowed to go into that room exactly once. How can you figure out which switch controls that room's light bulb?:D
Turn on all three switches. You did not say that we could not use the switches.

[MarkMiller]

Many-manned scud-thumper,
Maker of worn wood,
Shrub-ruster,
Sky-mocker,
Rave!
Portly pusher,
Wind-slave.



What am I?

[Mr, gone]

Turn on all three switches. You did not say that we could not use the switches.

Fine I'll clarify... Which ONE switch... :doh: Of course you can "use " the switches...

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

Ask: "Which door would the other guy tell me is the safe way out?" Then go through the opposite door.


Very good. Took me over an hour back in college.

Now I'm working on yours.

[Pat]

Ask: "Which door would the other guy tell me is the safe way out?" Then go through the opposite door.

Here is one for you straight out of an IQ test I have taken (I slightly modified it for extra flavor):

You are in a hallway and there are three light switches grouped together that are turned off. One of the switches controls the light in a room at the end of the hall. You cannot see into this room, but you are allowed to go into that room exactly once. How can you figure out which switch controls that room's light bulb?:D
Open the door to the room and leave it open.
Turn off the lights in the hallway.
When you flip the switch that controls the light for that room, you will be able to see the light at the end of the hallway coming out the doorway.


What walks uphill on 4 legs and downhill on 3 legs?

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

Open the door to the room and leave it open.
Turn off the lights in the hallway.
When you flip the switch that controls the light for that room, you will be able to see the light at the end of the hallway coming out the doorway.


What walks uphill on 4 legs and downhill on 3 legs?

I was under the impression you could only flip one switch.:confused:

Now working on yours.

[Pat]

I was under the impression you could only flip one switch.:confused:

Now working on yours.
You were just supposed to figure out which "one switch" controlled the light.

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

You were just supposed to figure out which "one switch" controlled the light.

Ah. I was still kinda stuck on my riddle's limitations and read into it.
Doh!

I remembered yours from school and if it's the same answer I won't ruin it for those who haven't heard it before. It came back to me after I posted, I'll pm you to see.

[Pat]

Ah. I was still kinda stuck on my riddle's limitations and read into it.
Doh!

I remembered yours from school and if it's the same answer I won't ruin it for those who haven't heard it before. It came back to me after I posted, I'll pm you to see.
I got your PM and replied.
Obviously you used your gray matter to come to that decision, but it wasn't the answer. :thumbsup:

[Mr, gone]

Open the door to the room and leave it open.
Turn off the lights in the hallway.
When you flip the switch that controls the light for that room, you will be able to see the light at the end of the hallway coming out the doorway.


What walks uphill on 4 legs and downhill on 3 legs?

Look... You cannot open the door to the room until after you have (Clue) 'manipulated' the light switches. Then enter the room; at which point the answer to the riddle can be solved. Now that I have walked you through most of the puzzle - figure the rest out if you can.:D

[Pat]

Look... You cannot open the door to the room until after you have (Clue) 'manipulated' the light switches. Then enter the room; at which point the answer to the riddle can be solved. Now that I have walked you through most of the puzzle - figure the rest out if you can.:D
Now you are changing the rules.
According to the original question as it was spelled out, my answer works.
I said it on another thread, that for most of my working life, my jobs have entailed figuring things out. Just because I gave you an answer that you didn't think of doesn't make my answer wrong (until you change the rules). :)

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

Look... You cannot open the door to the room until after you have (Clue) 'manipulated' the light switches. Then enter the room; at which point the answer to the riddle can be solved. Now that I have walked you through most of the puzzle - figure the rest out if you can.:D

That's what I thought.

Okay to be sure on this.
I can enter the room but once.
And I have to be IN the room to see the light on or off.

I can only switch one switch.
Or each switch once one at a time?

[Pat]

Look... You cannot open the door to the room until after you have (Clue) 'manipulated' the light switches. Then enter the room; at which point the answer to the riddle can be solved. Now that I have walked you through most of the puzzle - figure the rest out if you can.:D
Oh, and I can also do the reverse of my original answer.
Since you now want me to manipulate the switches up front, I would turn on all the switches, then go to the room and open the door and leave it open.
I then turn off all the lights in the hallway so that I can see the light coming out of the room. I flip switches until I find the one that turns the light off.
I have again solved the riddle and met all your additional requirements.

[Mr, gone]

Pat, why don't you just have one of your friends yell (or better yet call your cell) from inside the room when the light comes on! :p The rules are simple and have not changed.

Here, maybe this will help:

There is a room with a light bulb hanging from the ceiling! There is nothing else in the room!There is three light switches outside the room of which ONE belongs to the room! You can only enter the room once! You can not see into the room at all not underneath door through the keyhole or over the door there are no windows! Which light switch belongs to the room?

[Moby]

Turn on switch 1 and 2.
Wait a few minutes.
Turn off switch 1.
Walk into the room.
If the light bulb is on than it's switch 2.
If the light bulb is off but is warm to the touch, it's switch 1.
If the light bulb is off and the bulb is not warm than it's switch 3. :)

Light is not the only thing that a light bulb generates.

[Moby]

What walks uphill on 4 legs and downhill on 3 legs?
People. We crawl on all fours at the beginning. Then later when we're "Over The Hill" we walk on 2 legs with the help of a cane :)

[Moby]

From a popular movie.

You have a 3 gallon bucket, a 5 gallon bucket and a pool of water. You need exactly 4 gallons of water. How do you measure it?

No, you don't have anything else and a guess isn't close enough.

[Pat]

People. We crawl on all fours at the beginning. Then later when we're "Over The Hill" we walk on 2 legs with the help of a cane :)
Nope.
People walk on 4, then 2, then 3.
You are confusing an old riddle with my new riddle.

[Pat]

Pat, why don't you just have one of your friends yell (or better yet call your cell) from inside the room when the light comes on! :p The rules are simple and have not changed.

Here, maybe this will help:

There is a room with a light bulb hanging from the ceiling! There is nothing else in the room!There is three light switches outside the room of which ONE belongs to the room! You can only enter the room once! You can not see into the room at all not underneath door through the keyhole or over the door there are no windows! Which light switch belongs to the room?
Sorry, Mr Gone, but my answers still work. They just weren't the answer you were expecting. I've discovered in life that there is usually more than one answer to a problem. Try not to limit yourself by believing that only one solution exists.

[Pat]

Turn on switch 1 and 2.
Wait a few minutes.
Turn off switch 1.
Walk into the room.
If the light bulb is on than it's switch 2.
If the light bulb is off but is warm to the touch, it's switch 1.
If the light bulb is off and the bulb is not warm than it's switch 3. :)

Light is not the only thing that a light bulb generates.
That works also, but I didn't put myself at risk of burning my fingers. :)

[Mr, gone]

Sorry, Mr Gone, but my answers still work. They just weren't the answer you were expecting. I've discovered in life that there is usually more than one answer to a problem. Try not to limit yourself by believing that only one solution exists.

Try using your brain within the rules of the puzzle. Any ignorant slob can invent a solution to a problem. It's obvious that you had no clue to the answer following the preset guidelines, so you made up a solution on the mental level of a 10 year old.:taunt:

[Mr, gone]

Turn on switch 1 and 2.
Wait a few minutes.
Turn off switch 1.
Walk into the room.
If the light bulb is on than it's switch 2.
If the light bulb is off but is warm to the touch, it's switch 1.
If the light bulb is off and the bulb is not warm than it's switch 3. :)

Light is not the only thing that a light bulb generates.

Good job Moby... Either your a very 'bright' man, or you cheated using Google.

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

From a popular movie.

You have a 3 gallon bucket, a 5 gallon bucket and a pool of water. You need exactly 4 gallons of water. How do you measure it?

No, you don't have anything else and a guess isn't close enough.

You put the three gallon bucket upside down inside the five gallon bucket.

Foul on Mr. Gone (tho good riddle) as I still say it was worded to intimate that you could only use one switch.
Probably still stuck on mine in the back of my head, but I cry foul. Or just cry. :o

[Pat]

Try using your brain within the rules of the puzzle. Any ignorant slob can invent a solution to a problem. It's obvious that you had no clue to the answer following the preset guidelines, so you made up a solution on the mental level of a 10 year old.:taunt:
What rule within your question did I violate?
You seem hyper-sensitive. Try to calm down. It's not my fault you ask questions that a ten year old can figure out. :taunt:

P.S.
The answer to my question can be discovered using google, but not the way most people might think.

[Mr, gone]

Whatever... Moby seemed to have no problem figuring the light switch riddle out out. Their are also thousands of people who have above average deductive reasoning skills who have answered this correctly also. I'm not saying you have an average IQ, but if the shoe fits.:hi:

[Pat]

Whatever... Moby seemed to have no problem figuring the light switch riddle out out. Their are also thousands of people who have above average deductive reasoning skills who have answered this correctly also. I'm not saying you have an average IQ, but if the shoe fits.:hi:
I guess the fact that I figured out a different solution makes me anything but average. Perhaps even smarter than the average Joe that can only come up with the average answer that you expected.

By the way, I notice that nobody has managed to figure out the answer to the riddle I asked. Perhaps the google searches are providing them with nothing to use.

[Mr, gone]

What walks uphill on 4 legs and downhill on 3 legs?

A dog who broke one leg while walking uphill!:lmao2: :p This shit is easy (albeit boring) when the solution uses Pat's philosophy.

MO4E_iOfq24

[MarkMiller]

Turn on switch 1 and 2.
Wait a few minutes.
Turn off switch 1.
Walk into the room.
If the light bulb is on than it's switch 2.
If the light bulb is off but is warm to the touch, it's switch 1.
If the light bulb is off and the bulb is not warm than it's switch 3. :)

Light is not the only thing that a light bulb generates.
I hate to be a bugger here....but the lack of limits set in the question do not clarify how many switches may be turned on. It does not state that the switches must be off when you enter the room.

While the complicated answer may be the correct IQ anser, the question was not pose correctly to recieve that answer. I'm being an ass,,,,I know, but my answer stands and is still correct. Here is the question;
You are in a hallway and there are three light switches grouped together that are turned off.
One of the switches controls the light in a room at the end of the hall.
You cannot see into this room, but you are allowed to go into that room exactly once.
How can you figure out which switch controls that room's light bulb?

Pat's answer as well as mine were correct. We cannot help it if the question was fucked up. Seriously.

[MarkMiller]

Whatever... Moby seemed to have no problem figuring the light switch riddle out out. Their are also thousands of people who have above average deductive reasoning skills who have answered this correctly also. I'm not saying you have an average IQ, but if the shoe fits.:hi:
You asked an IQ question to a relatively intelligent person who probably understood what you were trying to ask, because he either knew the question or listened to the myriad of explanations you added after the fact.

I wouldn't ask any more IQ questions without cut and paste if I were you. Wording is EVERYTHING in a logic question. You gave no context in reference to physical limitations in the quandary and then became very combative with the truly logical answer given to the actual question.

This was supposed to be a light hearted thread and you have belittled two people with your aggressive backpedaling with information. Jesus.....couldn't you just admit you fucked up the question and move on? Why did you have to be such a huge dick over this stupid question that you didn't get right.

There.....now I feel better.....and yes....I defended Pat goddammit.....sue me.

[Mr, gone]

I wouldn't ask any more IQ questions without cut and paste if I were you.
I apologize if I hurt any one's fragile egos. I slightly altered the original question to deter people from using Google to cheat. And I DID cut and paste this question to clarify after Pat got lost on page two. Sometimes people in this forum.:banghead:

There is a room with a light bulb hanging from the ceiling! There is nothing else in the room!There is three light switches outside the room which one belongs to the room! You can only enter the room once! You can not see into the room at all not underneath door through the keyhole or over the door there are no windows! Which light switch belongs to the room?

http://www.thinkriddles.com/which-light-switch-is-it-riddle-1803.html#

[MarkMiller]

I apologize if I hurt any one's fragile egos. I slightly altered the original question to deter people from using Google to cheat. And I DID cut and paste this question to clarify after Pat got lost on page two. Sometimes people in this forum.:banghead:



http://www.thinkriddles.com/which-light-switch-is-it-riddle-1803.html#
Well your choice sucked. Period. I am not apologising for your getting your panties twisted because your question failed and then you had to spin it into our problem.

Jesus...I mean "There is three light switches..." LOL! If that's the quality of an IQ question in American schools...were fucking doomed.

[MarkMiller]

Here is the question properly posed by someone from Yahoo asnwers;

There is a room.
The room has no windows, and it has exactly one door with cracks not large enough to see *anything* though. (We're talking theoretically here, people)
The room has exactly one light bulb hanging on the ceiling, and it has no switch in the room.

In fact, the switch is outside the room.
Don't ask me why, it just is.

In the hall (which is outside the room, in case you hadn't realized), there are three switches.

You need to figure out which switch is the one that controls the light bulb in the room, and which two don't.

You can only enter the room once, and you can't flip switches while the door is open.

[MarkMiller]

I just have to ask....what was so important about your riddle that you had to shit all over this thread and and make it about you while others who played in good faith had their contributions pushed aside while you to spent hours figuring out how to ask your question and arguing with those with enough brains to figure out it made no sense.

Classy!:thumbsup:

[Mr, gone]

I just have to ask....what was so important about your riddle that you had to shit all over this thread and and make it about you while others who played in good faith had their contributions pushed aside while you to spent hours figuring out how to ask your question and arguing with those with enough brains to figure out it made no sense.

Classy!:thumbsup:

As I stated, fragile egos. I apologized; you continue your banter. At this point Mark, further conversation regarding this matter is pointless.

[Pat]

A dog who broke one leg while walking uphill!:lmao2: :p This shit is easy (albeit boring) when the solution uses Pat's philosophy.

MO4E_iOfq24
Maybe I should change the question.

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

Only on DC would a harmless thread for riddles devolve into a shit slinging match!!:banghead: and a little :lmao2:

Since it's my thread I'm going to apologize profusely.:D

Mr. Gone, you fugged up the question.
Everyone else, he did it from memory and while the wording sucked its just a riddle.
I also point out that the 'answers' given didn't really match the original premise IMO anyway.

So lets go onto the next riddle and leave the trenches, WWI is long dead.

Anybody go another one? If I have to, I'll go google up one.

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

You put the three gallon bucket upside down inside the five gallon bucket.

Foul on Mr. Gone (tho good riddle) as I still say it was worded to intimate that you could only use one switch.
Probably still stuck on mine in the back of my head, but I cry foul. Or just cry. :o

Speaking of one of our 'solvers', and Mr. Moby also gave a riddle but hasn't told me if I got it.

[Pat]

You asked an IQ question to a relatively intelligent person who probably understood what you were trying to ask, because he either knew the question or listened to the myriad of explanations you added after the fact.

I wouldn't ask any more IQ questions without cut and paste if I were you. Wording is EVERYTHING in a logic question. You gave no context in reference to physical limitations in the quandary and then became very combative with the truly logical answer given to the actual question.

This was supposed to be a light hearted thread and you have belittled two people with your aggressive backpedaling with information. Jesus.....couldn't you just admit you fucked up the question and move on? Why did you have to be such a huge dick over this stupid question that you didn't get right.

There.....now I feel better.....and yes....I defended Pat goddammit.....sue me.
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then. :thumbsup:

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

With pointed fangs I sit and wait,
With piercing force I dole out fate,
Over bloodless victims proclaiming my might,
Eternally joining in a single bite.
What am I?

[Pat]

With pointed fangs I sit and wait,
With piercing force I dole out fate,
Over bloodless victims proclaiming my might,
Eternally joining in a single bite.
What am I?
A Senator.

[Mr, gone]

With pointed fangs I sit and wait,
With piercing force I dole out fate,
Over bloodless victims proclaiming my might,
Eternally joining in a single bite.
What am I?

My guess is a vampire, though Pat's answer is just as fitting.:D

Ok I'm wrong...

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

Pat and Mr. Gone.
Well done.
:lmao2:

Wrong, but I likey.

[Pat]

Pat and Mr. Gone.
Well done.
:lmao2:

Wrong, but I likey.
It was the first thing that popped into my head.

[Moby]

With pointed fangs I sit and wait,
With piercing force I dole out fate,
Over bloodless victims proclaiming my might,
Eternally joining in a single bite.
What am I?
Spider? Stapler?

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

Spider? Stapler?

Insects have blood
Eternally binding (kinda over-stating it) but YES
ding ding we have a winner

Stapler

[Cactus]

Another one, please.

[Pat]

you have 100 coins in a room,
10 coins are heads up and 90 coins are tails up (heads and tails are different),
there is no light and you cannot provide any light, so the task must be performed in total total darkness.
You cannot tell by the feel of the coins if they are heads up or tails up.
Your task is divide the coins into 2 separate groups and each group must have the same number of coins that are heads up.
How do you do that?

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

you have 100 coins in a room,
10 coins are heads up and 90 coins are tails up (heads and tails are different),
there is no light and you cannot provide any light, so the task must be performed in total total darkness.
You cannot tell by the feel of the coins if they are heads up or tails up.
Your task is divide the coins into 2 separate groups and each group must have the same number of coins that are heads up.
How do you do that?

If the head up coins are quarters and the tails down are dimes. You can tell by the size?

[Pat]

If the head up coins are quarters and the tails down are dimes. You can tell by the size?
Good question, but Identical coins.