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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2020, 01:06:06 PM »
Quote from: RanVor on March 21, 2020, 07:37:46 AM
A coconut?
Ayup. (The gag I heard in the radio essentially went, "since they have hair and milk, why don't we consider coconuts mammals?")
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2020, 01:38:57 PM »
Quote from: Róisín on March 21, 2020, 09:54:52 AM
Here is one of mine...

Róisín, that's truly a beautiful riddle! Well done! And Keep Looking beat me in the answer, but I got it right!

Quote from: JoB on March 21, 2020, 01:06:06 PM
Ayup. (The gag I heard in the radio essentially went, "since they have hair and milk, why don't we consider coconuts mammals?")

I also got this on right, but was beaten again! :) And of course the vegetarian lobby does not want us to consider coconuts mammals. It's a conspiracy! ;)

Here's another, probably you experts will call it easy:

You see a boat filled with people. After some time you look better and the boat is intact, but you don’t see a single person on board. Why?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #17 on: March 21, 2020, 01:51:22 PM »
Quote from: thegreyarea on March 21, 2020, 01:38:57 PM
You see a boat filled with people. After some time you look better and the boat is intact, but you don’t see a single person on board. Why?
The only thing I can think of is that the boat is on land and the people got out but I feel like that's not the answer the riddle is looking for
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #18 on: March 21, 2020, 01:57:53 PM »
Quote from: Mebediel on March 21, 2020, 01:51:22 PM
The only thing I can think of is that the boat is on land and the people got out but I feel like that's not the answer the riddle is looking for

Could be. That's a good answer, :) but as you said this is not the expected one. So let's clarify that the boat is on water, away from the shore.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #19 on: March 21, 2020, 05:41:22 PM »
I see the idea has gotten decently popular. Okay then, have another one.

Nobody wants to have me, but whoever has me, doesn't want to lose me. What am I?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2020, 08:50:50 PM »
Quote from: thegreyarea on March 21, 2020, 01:38:57 PM
You see a boat filled with people. After some time you look better and the boat is intact, but you don’t see a single person on board. Why?

Should I put it in a spoiler?


Spoiler: show
They all got married?


ETA: Ranvor:

Spoiler: show
a temper?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2020, 09:20:45 PM »
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #22 on: March 21, 2020, 09:30:30 PM »
Quote from: thorny on March 21, 2020, 08:50:50 PM
Should I put it in a spoiler?

Spoiler: show
They all got married?


And we have a winner! *raises thorny hand in the air* Well done!

I think that putting our answers on spoilers is a excellent idea.

As was your idea for this thread, Ran!

Quote from: RanVor on March 21, 2020, 05:41:22 PM
Nobody wants to have me, but whoever has me, doesn't want to lose me. What am I?

I'll give my try:

Spoiler: show
Glasses?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #23 on: March 22, 2020, 06:42:03 AM »
Quote from: thegreyarea on March 21, 2020, 09:30:30 PM
I think that putting our answers on spoilers is a excellent idea.

As was your idea for this thread, Ran!

I'll give my try:

Spoiler: show
Glasses?


Still no.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #24 on: March 22, 2020, 07:33:58 AM »
Quote from: RanVor on March 21, 2020, 05:41:22 PM

Nobody wants to have me, but whoever has me, doesn't want to lose me. What am I?

Spoiler: show
Would it be old age?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #25 on: March 22, 2020, 09:15:14 AM »
Quote from: yeethaw_gang on March 22, 2020, 07:33:58 AM
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Would it be old age?


*grins devilishly* No.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #26 on: March 22, 2020, 01:13:42 PM »
Quote from: thegreyarea on March 21, 2020, 09:30:30 PM
And we have a winner! *raises thorny hand in the air* Well done!

I got one right, anyway!

Is 50% a passing grade?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #27 on: March 22, 2020, 03:28:07 PM »
Quote from: thorny on March 22, 2020, 01:13:42 PM
I got one right, anyway!

Is 50% a passing grade?

In my University we used to say that 50% (that was the minimum to pass) was a grade, everything beyond that was a luxury! So to me you're fine!

(the faculty had a tradition on "tight" grades (and still has, but a little less, so I've heard). Having an 80% in anything was considered almost-genius-level, 90% or 100% was definitively worth of general awe and small excursions of younger students to see which project could achieve such "miracle")
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #28 on: March 22, 2020, 06:03:44 PM »
Quote from: RanVor on March 21, 2020, 05:41:22 PM
Nobody wants to have me, but whoever has me, doesn't want to lose me. What am I?

Oh man, I am very much enjoying trying to figure these ones out!
Spoiler: show

An obsession?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #29 on: March 23, 2020, 07:19:19 AM »
Quote from: Gwenno on March 22, 2020, 06:03:44 PM
Oh man, I am very much enjoying trying to figure these ones out!
Spoiler: show

An obsession?


No.
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