ThinkTank Riddles #8
First published: Friday October 25th, 2024
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Welcome to the eighth edition of ThinkTank Riddles!
Let's Get Thinking!
Jonathan works as an assistant at a butcher's shop. He plays football on the weekends and enjoys watching Star Wars. He is 6 foot 2 and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
Riddle #2
I have only one colour, but not one size; stuck on the bottom but easily flies. I'm present in sun but not in rain; I do no harm and feel no pain. What am I?
Riddle #3
What connects two people but touches only one?
What begins and has no end, and is the end of everyone who begins?
Riddle #5
Where can you finish a book without finishing a sentence?
Riddle #6
Jessica runs away from home. She turns left, and keeps running. After some time she turns left again and keeps running. She later turns left once more and runs back home. Why?
Riddle #7
Two men are in a desert. Each are wearing packs. One man is alive and the other man is dead. One man's pack is open and the other is closed. What happened?
Riddle #8
You get thrown into a hole. The hole is 30ft deep, 6ft wide and has water at the bottom. You can't climb the sides of the hole, you can't dig through it, and you can't call for help. How do you get out?
Riddle #9
How can you fit ten horses into nine single-horse carriers?
I promise.
I do.
I offend.
I point.
I fight.
What am I?
Riddle #11
Gary pushes his car into a hotel and loses a fortune. However, a few minutes later, he is just as rich as he was before. What happened?
Riddle #12
Miles and Debbie are hiking through a forest, when they come across a cabin. They immediately know that everyone inside the cabin is dead. How?
Riddle #13
If Edna's daughter is my daughters mother, what am I to Edna? Her grandmother; her mother; her daughter; her granddaughter; or Edna herself?
Riddle #14
I’m always there, some distance away, between land or sea and sky I lay. You may move towards me, yet distant I stay. What am I?
Riddle #15
How much dirt is in a square hole that measures four feet wide, five feet long, and ten feet deep?
Well, that's it for today's edition! As usual, I will post the answers in the comments after a week, but until then, put your guesses in the comments to see if you're right! See you next time!
long overdueanswers!1. Jonathan weights meat. He's an assistant at a butcher's shop.
2. A shadow
3. A wedding ring
4. Death
5. In a prison, you can complete a book but still have time to serve on your sentence.
6. She's playing baseball (or softball)
7. There were parachutes in the packs. The one whose pack is closed is dead, because the chute didn't come out.
8. It's a well. Climb up the rope and escape
9. Have one pregnant horse
10. The five fingers
11. Gary is playing Monopoly
12. It's a plane cabin, crashed in the forest and mangled to a horrific extent
13. Her mother
14. The horizon
15. None, it's a hole
6 she turned left thrice, running in a quadrilateral, eventually returning home, though not facing the original direction she faced in
13 is edna’s daughter
14 is horizon
15 there is no dirt because its a hole
8 Wait for the rain
9 Put extra horse in the carriage
10 Is the fingers from left to right on the right hand
12 They are murderers
#9, each carrier is only wide/long enough for a single horse
#10, no, they aren't.
2 is a blue sky?
5: In prison
6: She ran in a square shape
14: The horizon
15: There's no dirt. It's a hole for gods sake
10: Feelings maybe?
11: Gary owns the hotel?
13: Her granddaughter?
Love these riddles
#11 this still doesn't explain what happened here.
#13 are you sure?
7: 2 skydivers, one who never opened his parachute.
11: Gary's playing monopoly.
12: It's a crashed airplane cabin.
2. the sole of a winged shoe
3. computer
4. death
5. by giving up
6. she's jogging around the block
7. skydiving
8. the water is all the way to the top too
9. one pulls em
10. human
11.car insurance
12. its burned to ground and they see skeltons
13. edna's son in law
14. horizon
15. none
#8 No, there is water only at the bottom.
#11 This could be a good explanation, but it doesn't really cover all aspects. For instance, why is Gary pushing his car?
#12 Its not really a cabin anymore if its burned to the ground, is it?
#13 Try harder