The Riddle Dude

Pizza Party

Dude — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:08:33 +0000

If Giuseppe can make one pizza in 15 minutes and Gaetanno can make one pizza in 12 minutes. How many pizzas will they accumulate in a day if they work together? Bearing in mind that Maximus takes 20 minutes to eat a pizza and he eats all day long!

Bonus Unsolved Riddle

Dude — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:17:16 +0000

Big Family

Originally published on January 23, 2010

I was looking through our family photo album with a friend recently. I pointed to a photo and said “brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.”

My friend (being no fool) immediately said “it’s your son, that’s an old one.”

”Then how about the fella in this picture,” I said. “He’s the only son of the only brother of the only aunt of my father’s only niece.”

My friend thought for a while then said “it’s you, and it was taken a good few years ago by the look of it.”

“All right then smarty, see this lady,” I said pointing to another picture, “she is the only niece of the father of the only cousin of the uncle of the only grandson of the brother of my cousin’s mother.”

Can you tell the RiddleDude who she is?

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Spoonerisms

Dude — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:07:23 +0000

A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse heart). There may sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone & stick the cone, king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following definitions, what are the spoonerisms?

1) punched when starting work & discussion about scaling a mountain
2) a container of fibs & a shortage of baked goods
3) hasty vacation & prank gibe
4) a mongoose & artificial precipitation

Finger Food

Dude — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:05:38 +0000

If you multiply together the number of fingers on one person’s right hand to another person’s to another person’s till you get the product of the fingers on the right hands of everyone in the world, what is the most likely product?

For instance, one person has 5 fingers, and his friend has 5 fingers. The product is 25. Another person with 5 fingers would make the product 125. This goes on till everyone’s finger number is multiplied.

What’s the answer?

Arrow Logic

Dude — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:03:56 +0000

Consider an arrow in flight towards a target.

At any given moment of time, a snapshot could be taken of this arrow. In this snapshot, the arrow would not be moving. Let us now take another snapshot, leaving a very small gap of time between them. Again, the arrow is stationary. We can keep taking snapshots for each moment of time, each of which shows the arrow to be stationary. Therefore the overall effect is that the arrow never moves, however it still hits the target!

Where lies the flaw in the logic?

Leader of Men Face

Dude — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:02:31 +0000

I wear the face of a leader of men. My financial worth is small and my
appearance not impressive, yet my presence is a passport to any country
and society. I have the entree alike to the boudoir and the armed; I
penetrate to royal palaces and to the far corners of the earth. In my
youth I am bright and fresh looking; later, my face is marred and
disfigured and I am cast aside as nothing; but when I am very old I am eagerly sought, and a safe refuge is provided for me, where I am exhibited to admiring visitors. What am I?

Concealed Proverb

Dude — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:57:23 +0000

In each sentence a word is concealed, such as the word no in sentence five. If you can find the buried words and read them in order from 1 to 6, they will form a well-known proverb.

1. The word buried here has only one letter.
2. Did you find a jelly roll in Gaskin’s Bakery?
3. It’s the best one I’ve ever seen.
4. The rug at her stairway was made in India.
5. He’s an old friend.
6. Amos sold his bicycle to a friend.

A Valentine’s Day Love Story

Dude — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:54:23 +0000

A teenage boy smitten with a teenage girl in his high school freshman class makes his feelings known. Overjoyed at finding them reciprocated, he took a pen knife to a young hardwood tree in the vicinity and carved their initials within a heart five feet up on the tree’s trunk, as boys will do.
They go back 28 years later. If the tree had added 35% to its height in the first fifteen years of his absence, 10% in the following five years, and two and a half percent in each of the ensuing eight years, how far up the trunk did they have to look to find the carving with their initials?

Feeling Groovy

Dude — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:53:04 +0000

Which is greater, the number of grooves on one side of a vinyl record (if you can remember them!) or the number of days in the year?

Flanders Fields

Dude — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:52:05 +0000

In Flanders fields, where once was blood,
From battles for so few yards of mud,
I woke from such slumber deep,
And mocked the blood the havoc wreaked.

But now I show our future hope,
And enable veterans to cope,
By provoking memories of blood,
Before new battlefields can flood.

What am I?