Quiz - Mind Trap

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 21 May 2003, 04:07

nonono zworqy, that way of thinking is not going to get u anywhere. there are plenty of words ending with gry, like gry for example, but they are not common (u don't use them every day and i myself have no idea what it means either)

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 21 May 2003, 22:31

Antz wrote:nonono zworqy, that way of thinking is not going to get u anywhere. there are plenty of words ending with gry, like gry for example, but they are not common (u don't use them every day and i myself have no idea what it means either)

Nonono Antz

, he said it clearly: "There are three words in the English language that end in -GRY".

And I meant that "gry" is used everyday in the words "hungry" and "angry", and it means "feeling hunger or anger". LOL!

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 21 May 2003, 22:36

But gry is not a word (actually it is, but it's not used commonly in the English language).

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 21 May 2003, 22:46

Ye, ye I know... can't a man be funny sometimes?

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 21 May 2003, 23:04

Sure sure. :]

People who like riddles can go to Net Riddle, you can also come to #net_riddle.

chux · Post by **chux** » 22 May 2003, 12:36

Ok, I'll explain...

There are three words in the English language that end in -GRY. Two are HUNGRY and ANGRY. The third one everyone uses every day and knows what it stands for. If you listened carefully, I already told you what the word is. What is the third word?

this part - "There are three words in the English language that end in -GRY. Two are HUNGRY and ANGRY." - Is not a riddle. It is a trivia question. (If anyone knows the third word, let me know...it isnt 'gry' by the way)

The riddle is "What is the third word?" and if you look at the first line - "There are three words in the English language" it means that there are three words in 'The English Language' which as you can see, there is. The, English and Language.

The third word is 'language'.

I dont like this riddle, its too complicated for such a stupid answer

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 22 May 2003, 13:20

We've already answered two times chux.
I agree, the riddle is pretty stupid.

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 22 May 2003, 14:37

OMG, you're so wrong chux! You can't just rip the first half of the first sentence right out of it's context like that!

Jalli · Post by **Jalli** » 22 May 2003, 15:33

It is language, old riddle blaah...

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 22 May 2003, 16:15

The entire second part of Net Riddle consisted of word plays like this one. Such as: "Just type the answer in the input field." In that case the answer would be the answer. DAME annoying.

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 10 Jun 2003, 23:38

Some fresh Q's:

1: There was a man who smuggled cocaine for many years. The small pack of cocaine was hidden in a tube of toothpaste. The tube was perfectly sealed so noone could see that it contained something other than toothpaste. But after a few years a customs officer got suspicious of the tube of toothpaste, and the man was busted.

Why did the customs officer get suspicious?

2: Another man had ordered coffee in a restaurant. He called for the waitress and said: "There's a fly in my coffee, please give me a new cup!"
The waitress took the cup, and 2 minutes later with she came back with a new cup. But the man said: "Hey, this is the same coffee! You've just removed the fly!"

How did he know that?

3: The Johnson family wanted a bigger basement for their house. However, when the builders had worked for a while they stumbled upon a veri big rock. They couldn't get it out through the door, it was too dangerous to blow it up and it would take too long to chisel it down to smaller pieces. But eventually the workers found out what to do.

How did they get rid of the big rock?

4: In a bar in New York 3 men were drinking beer before going on a trip.
When the bartender asked them where they were going, all 3 gave him the same answer.
But the first man took a plane to California, the next guy went to Texas by train and the last man drove an hour in his car. However, all 3 men had been thruthful when saying where they were going.

How can this be?

5: Two different numbers who consists of only 1's gives the same answer whether you add them together or multiply them with eachother.

Which are the two numbers?

Vaitork · Post by **Vaitork** » 11 Jun 2003, 03:47

2) He had trown sugar to his coffee b4 complaining, so when they returned it, it was still sweet so he knew it was the same.

the others... i have to think a bit

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 11 Jun 2003, 08:46

1: if he used the same fake tooth paste tube all the dates and maybe even the type got too old. and the tube still non used. maybe?
3: they dug it deeper?
4: they were going either home, or to work, or to something like that.

Post by **SveinR** » 11 Jun 2003, 12:50

zworqy wrote: 1: There was a man who smuggled cocaine for many years. The small pack of cocaine was hidden in a tube of toothpaste. The tube was perfectly sealed so noone could see that it contained something other than toothpaste. But after a few years a customs officer got suspicious of the tube of toothpaste, and the man was busted.

Why did the customs officer get suspicious?

No-one uses a tube of toothpast for several years

zworqy wrote: 4: In a bar in New York 3 men were drinking beer before going on a trip.
When the bartender asked them where they were going, all 3 gave him the same answer.
But the first man took a plane to California, the next guy went to Texas by train and the last man drove an hour in his car. However, all 3 men had been thruthful when saying where they were going.

How can this be?

They were all going "away".

Post by **SveinR** » 11 Jun 2003, 12:51

wee, double post

Jalli · Post by **Jalli** » 11 Jun 2003, 14:55

1: Noone has a new toothpaste every time they travel...
2: Sugar in coffee...
3: They dug it deeper and built basement on top of it...
4: Probably "home"
5: Tough one...

chux · Post by **chux** » 11 Jun 2003, 18:58

1: The brand stopped being made

2: He put milk in it, so he could see it was the same coffee

3: They made the basement a different shape (Wrong answer, but its all i can think of)

4: The were going "home"

5: II and II (2 and 2 in roman numerals)

WkE · Post by **WkE** » 11 Jun 2003, 19:14

chux wrote:5: II and II (2 and 2 in roman numerals)

2 different numbers...
anyway, i like the 5th, i'm trying to solve it.

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 11 Jun 2003, 23:17

You've got nr 2,3 and 4:

2: There was sugar in the coffee... (vaitork)
3: They buried the rock under the house... (Antz)
4: They were all going "home"... (Antz)

Now for 1 and 5...

About nr 1, I guess you're right, noone uses the same toothpaste for so long, but he probably switched tube sometimes.

Nr 5, hmmm chux, those were neither different or 1's...
Clue: It doesn't have to be whole numbers...

John · Post by **John** » 12 Jun 2003, 01:36

#5 is 1,1 and 11 took 5 mins to figure out..

sorry for bragging

chux · Post by **chux** » 12 Jun 2003, 16:45

Gah, i know theyre not differen tor 1s, but it was the best i could come up with.
I worked out 1.1 and 11, but only just after John got it

Q1. The officer was the guy who ordered the cocaine, he saw that the smuggler only had the toothpaste when he ordered some cocaine from him.

or

Q1. The smuggler only went to whereever he was going overnight. When the tube came back empty over 1 night, the guy became suspicious

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 12 Jun 2003, 23:24

Wee, John made nr 5!

1.1 * 11 = 12.1
1.1 + 11 = 12.1

Come on! You can do nr 1 too! It's really easy...

sonic_fruit · Post by **sonic_fruit** » 13 Jun 2003, 14:38

because the smuggler always had the mad staring eyes, jittery hands and wasted clothes of a hardened coke addict?

new questons?

Jalli · Post by **Jalli** » 13 Jun 2003, 14:59

1: He didn't have any teeth

Serj · Post by **Serj** » 13 Jun 2003, 16:54

New ones

1. What will be the last number in this series?

6
16
1611
1631
161321

2. There's this pub where they play a lot of snooker. They've given names to the ball's: black=harry, pink=frank, blue=pete, brown=carl, green=jack, yellow=william and red=george. A customer (a very skilled snooker player) always plays the black ball after a red one, no mather how difficult this shot is. He's succesfull with 90% of his pots. They've given him a nickname too. What's his nickname?

3. Which letter is missing here: SERI_S

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 13 Jun 2003, 18:30

2. Dick
3. E

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 13 Jun 2003, 22:56

Hey! Noone's made the smuggler question yet!

BTW, not bad thinking by Jalli...

Anyway:

1: Still thinking...
2: probably something not even mentioned in the question. "The Pro"?
3: probably E

John · Post by **John** » 13 Jun 2003, 23:16

I thought Jalli's answer was the right one...

Jalli · Post by **Jalli** » 13 Jun 2003, 23:25

Okay then, his teeth were rotten...

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 13 Jun 2003, 23:57

Jalli wrote:Okay then, his teeth were rotten...

Still not correct... Some help: The customs officer realised that the smuggler wasn't planning on using the toothpaste. Why not?

Post by **SveinR** » 14 Jun 2003, 00:02

The smuggler had artificial teeth

Red · Post by **Red** » 14 Jun 2003, 00:19

The smuggler didn't have any toothbrush...maybe?

chux · Post by **chux** » 14 Jun 2003, 00:42

After a couple of years he lost his teeth and also took some false teeth cleaner with him...

1. 16131231

2. Either 'Harry' (cos of the black) or something completely different...

3. Loads, ABCDFGHJKLMNOPQTUVWXY and Z

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 14 Jun 2003, 07:18

well hairy george is surely just some other name for dick or balls or groin or something.

Serj · Post by **Serj** » 15 Jun 2003, 11:04

1. chux, almost right, finish it till it doesn't change anymore

2. hint: it's just "magic" he's able to pot all those balls

3. Just one letter: take it literally (and E is wrong!)

Jalli · Post by **Jalli** » 15 Jun 2003, 11:39

2: This has got to be Harry Potter (Putter)

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 15 Jun 2003, 23:00

Red wrote:The smuggler didn't have any toothbrush...maybe?

Finally!

1: There was no toothbrush in the luggage!

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 15 Jun 2003, 23:02

Serj wrote: 3. Which letter is missing here: SERI_S

F.

Serj · Post by **Serj** » 16 Jun 2003, 15:25

Jalli made 2nd one, it's Harry Potter indeed

Zworqy got 3rd one. When you add an F to the "underscore" you get the letter E.

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 16 Jun 2003, 23:30

Serj wrote: Zworqy got 3rd one. When you add an F to the "underscore" you get the letter E.

LOL, I didn't even get that... I just made the word "SERIFS". Serifs are those "ornamentations" on some fonts.

Serj · Post by **Serj** » 17 Jun 2003, 15:51

zworqy wrote:
Serj wrote: Zworqy got 3rd one. When you add an F to the "underscore" you get the letter E.
LOL, I didn't even get that... I just made the word "SERIFS". Serifs are those "ornamentations" on some fonts.

Coincidence

chux · Post by **chux** » 17 Jun 2003, 15:56

Dohh, I was going to say F ages ago, but I didnt think 'serif' would be it

6
16
1611
1631
161321
16131231
16231241
1614132231
1614232241
1624133231
1614332231
1614332231

Mwaaahahahah I got it!

WkE · Post by **WkE** » 17 Jun 2003, 16:43

dunno if this riddle was in this topic already... but anyway :
1. a man entered to a restaurant. he ordered food, and began waiting. after a while, when he still didn't got his food, he decided to leave the restaurant and he wrote this note to the waiter : "180,100".
what had he ment to say ?

(sorry for bed anglish, never translated a riddle to english before

)

John · Post by **John** » 17 Jun 2003, 18:50

chux wrote:Dohh, I was going to say F ages ago, but I didnt think 'serif' would be it

6
16
1611
1631
161321
16131231
16231241
1614132231
1614232241
1624133231
1614332231
1614332231

Mwaaahahahah I got it!

Plz explain what u did...

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 17 Jun 2003, 19:48

ok here's one too:

09
10
19
24
31
40
51
64
79
90
??
??
??

it's pretty difficult (maybe too difficult), but if you can make it i say Gratz big time!

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 17 Jun 2003, 22:00

ok markku got the answer to this on irc,

[23:41:07] <Markku_> it's 13^2, 14^2 and 15^2 converted to hexadecimals, the answer depends on what notation you want to use
[23:45:58] <antz[Q]> nice, you're good. answers are A9, C4 and E1

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 17 Jun 2003, 22:37

OK NEW ONE. hope this is at least a bit harder than the previous one..

16
27
46
76
155
264
???
???

[edit]AND DAME IF YOU SOLVE THIS AS QUICKLY AS THE PREVIOUS ONE!![/edit]

Serj · Post by **Serj** » 18 Jun 2003, 11:17

John wrote:
chux wrote:Dohh, I was going to say F ages ago, but I didnt think 'serif' would be it

6
16
1611
1631
161321
16131231
16231241
1614132231
1614232241
1624133231
1614332231
1614332231

Mwaaahahahah I got it!
Plz explain what u did...

You have to read out loud what you see. So you start with the 6, that's one 6. So you write it down 16. Now it says one 6 and one 1, 1611 (you start with the highest number). Then it becomes one 6 and three 1's, so 1631 etc etc. In the end the number doesn't change anymore, it becomes 1614332231.

jw · Post by jw » 19 Jun 2003, 08:55

WkE wrote:dunno if this riddle was in this topic already... but anyway :
1. a man entered to a restaurant. he ordered food, and began waiting. after a while, when he still didn't got his food, he decided to leave the restaurant and he wrote this note to the waiter : "180,100".
what had he ment to say ?

(sorry for bed anglish, never translated a riddle to english before )

Probably it mend "I ate nothing, I ow nothing"

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 19 Jun 2003, 10:36

since no right answer yet, my first hint

1
1
2
3
.
.
16
27
46
76
155
264
???
???