ThinkTank Riddles #6
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ThinkTank Riddles #6
Hi guys! Welcome to the sixth edition of ThinkTank Riddles! As usual, I will post the answers in a week. Hopefully these riddles are at least slightly harder than all the others, which were solved in a incredibly short timeframe by many talented JetPunkers. Here we go.
Let's Get Thinking!
Shannon runs the early morning shift at a local radio station. When leaving for work, she dresses in the dark, since she doesn't want to wake her husband when she leaves. In her dresser are four pairs of white socks, four pairs of blue socks, and four pairs of black socks. How many socks must Shannon take with her to be sure of a matching pair?
Question #2
Garth, Pamela, and Patricia are at the town dump, searching for cool items. Patricia found a tap. Garth only found a rag. What did Pamela find?
A group of friends are sitting around a table in a bar. Katy asks Richard to hold her hand, before going to order a second round of drinks. When she returns, the others are accusing Richard of being a cheat. Both Richard and Katy are single, so what's going on?
Question #4
Mr and Mrs Coronado, their two daughters, and a niece are waiting outside a photography studio for another member of their family before having their portrait taken. A man walks past and greets the family. Both Mrs Coronado and her niece reply with, "Hello, Father!" Explain.
Question #5
CALMNESS
CANOPY
DEFT
FIRST
SIGHING
STUN
These words all share a common feature. What is it?
Question #6
Two fathers and two sons enter a shop and spend $1.50 each. The shopkeeper only takes $4.50. What happened to the rest?
I come from a mine and are surrounded by wood. Nearly everyone uses me. What am I?
Question #8
Question #9
OTTFFSS
What are the next three letters?
Question #10
Joe was looking through a window on the 44th floor of a tall building. Suddenly he was seized with an impulse to open the window and jump through it. He did, and though there was a sheer drop to the bottom, he was not hurt in any way, nor did he use any equipment to assist his landing. How?
Question #11
Antony and Cleopatra were found dead in the bedroom. The window was open and broken glass was found on the floor. There were no marks on their bodies, they had not been poisoned, and there was not a single person in the house when they died. What happened?
Question #12
Rover, a naughty dog, is muzzled and attached to a leash 3 meters (9.84 ft) in length. He spots a ball to play with across the yard,10 meters (32.8 ft) away from him. How does Rover succeed in reaching the ball without moving it toward him?
Question #13
If a man and a half can asphalt a a road and a half in a day and a half, how many roads can six men asphalt in seven days?
If you walk one mile south, one mile west, then one mile north, and you end up exactly where you started, where are you?
Question #15
That concludes the fifteen riddles. I will be back in a week with the answers. Please don't cheat the answers, and have fun solving these (hopefully more difficult) riddles!
1. 4 socks. If Shannon has two, then they could be different colors. If she has 3, then they could still all be different colors. But the fourth sock will always be the same color as at least one of them.
2. A map. This is found by reversing the first 3 letters of each name.
3. They're playing cards. Richard peeked at Katy's hand of cards after she asked him to hold it for her.
4. The man is a priest.
5. Each word contains three consecutive letters.
6. There is only three men, a father, a son, and a grandfather, so only $4.50 was spent.
7. The graphite (or 'lead' as some may know it) inside a pencil.
8. The woman is writing cheques for each of her employees.
9. E, N, and T. The sequence is the first letter of each of the numbers 1-10.
10. Joe was a window cleaner and jumped into the window on the 44th floor, from his window cleaner's platform on the outside.
12. Rover's leash is not attached to anything besides his collar, so Rover simply runs across the yard to his ball.
13. 28. If a man and half can do a road and a half in a day and a half, first double everything to get rid of any annoying fractions, which gives you 3 men doing 3 roads in 3 days. From there, simply do the math to find the answer, 28.
14. At the North Pole. This is the only place on Earth where this would be possible.
15. The band, who played the national anthem for each competing nation at the Olympics.
Congratulations to Neodymium for being the first user to guess every answer correctly! And thank you to everyone else who joined in, you all answered most questions correctly.
2- Map
3- They're playing cards
4- The man is a priest
5- All the letters are upper case
6- The shopkeeper is one of the four
7- Lead in a pencil
8- ???
9- ENT
10- The window leads to a balcony
11- Antony and Cleopatra are fish, the glass is from a fishbowl or tank
12- The dog's leash is only attached to the dog, it is free to move
13- ???
14- North Pole
15- The Band has played for every team
How did I do, Any prizes ?
The emoji-only prizes are only for people who get them all right
13. 28
2. map
3. playing cards
4. he is a priest
5. All have 3 consecutive letters in the alphabet
6. One is both father and son (grandfather - father/son - son)
7. pencil lead
8. signing paychecks
9. ENT
10. opens on to a roof or balcony
11. fish
12. The leash moves
13. 42
14. North Pole
15. The band or whoever is playing the music
2. map
3. cards playing
4. priest (or some sweet home alabama thing but prolly the priest)
5. 3 consecutive letters
6. grandfather father and son
7. graphite in a pencil
8. cheque writer
9. ENT (#s)
10. he jumped into the window, window cleaner
11. they're fish
12. leash isnt attached
13. 28
14. North Pole
15. the band
Question #1
To guarantee a matching pair of socks, Shannon must take three socks with her. This is known as the Pigeonhole Principle, where if she takes more than three socks, she will surely have a matching pair among them.
Pamela found a pat. The three names each contain a syllable that corresponds to an item: "Garth" contains "garbage," "Pamela" contains "pail," and "Patricia" contains "pat."
Katy asked Richard to hold her hand. However, when she returned, she found Richard holding hands with another person (likely someone else at the table), thus causing the misunderstanding.
All the words contain consecutive double letters: CALMNESS (LL), CANOPY (NN), DEFT (TT), FIRST (RR), SIGHING (GG), STUN (NN).
Joe was inside a building on the 44th floor. He opened a window in a flight simulation game and did not jump in reality, so there was no physical harm.
Question #13
If a man and a half can asphalt a road and a half in a day and a half, then six men can asphalt six roads in the same day and a half, assuming all work at the same rate.
Question #15
No athlete has played for all the teams at the Olympics in the same year.
(It'l happen within your lifetime)
Thanks Neo, I always like seeing ChatGPT attempt stuff
2. map
3. playing cards / gambling
4. priests / name is Father
5. they have letters
6. grandfather, father, and son; there are only 3 people
7. coal? (*should say 'am' not 'are' in the first sentence*)
8. ???
9. E (for eight), N (for nine), T (for ten)
10. he went out onto a balcony (either on the 44th floor or the floor below or be Alcides Moreno (although he did get hurt)
11. there were no people in the house when they died, so they were not people. maybe there was a painting or Antony and Cleopatra dead or maybe Antony and Cleopatra were non-human animals that died of natural causes.
12. leash is not attached to anything besides Rover / the ball naturally rolls toward him / the ball is moved by another person toward Rover
13. too lazy to do
14. South Pole (or maybe North Pole, I forgot which)
15. anyone, for a year that the Olympics did not run