Any Riddles?

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I thought it would be fun to put a riddle thread in the family section because there is a joke thread and a cooking thread already. Those are really fun threads too, but I couldn’t find a riddle thread; although I did like the trivia thread. Here is a very easy riddle, I bet most of you know it: What is better than God, worse than the Devil, the dead eat it and if we eat eat we’ll die? I found it at a booth at the fair once. I think it was a religious booth. Anyway do you know any more riddles, preferably ones that have to do with religion or any clean riddles will do. Thanks.
 
There was an elderly father (living in Phoenix, Arizona) who called
was talking to his son over the phone (who was living in Salem,
Oregon). “Your mother and I are getting a divorce,” he said. “We’ve been married for forty-five years and we’ve been sick of each other for the last forty years. We’re calling lawyer this weekend and getting this done quick and easy.”
The son was unsure on how to react and how to stop this. So he called his sister in Chicago and told her the news. She went hysterical and immediately called her father. “Dad,” she said, “We’re coming over to Phoenix! Pronto! Don’t do anything!!! Brother and I are coming by plane and we’ll stay there until everything is taken care of!!!”
As the father hung up the phone, he called to his wife, “Hey honey! The kids are coming home for Christmas! And they’re even buying their own plane tickets!”
 
There was an elderly father (living in Phoenix, Arizona) who called and was talking to his son over the phone (who was living in Salem, Oregon). “Your mother and I are getting a divorce,” he said. “We’ve been married for forty-five years and we’ve been sick of each other for the last forty years. We’re calling lawyer this weekend and getting this done quick and easy.”
The son was unsure on how to react and how to stop this. So he called his sister in Chicago and told her the news. She went hysterical and immediately called her father. “Dad,” she said, “We’re coming over to Phoenix! Pronto! Don’t do anything!!! Brother and I are coming by plane and we’ll stay there until everything is taken care of!!!”
As the father hung up the phone, he called to his wife, “Hey honey! The kids are coming home for Christmas! And they’re even buying their own plane tickets!”
 
There was an elderly couple living in out in the countryside. One day the wife says to her husband, “Paint the house! I want every room redone and the outside walls recoated!” Unfortunatly for the husband, the house was huge and roomy, but knowing that she was the boss, the husband complied.

He began his search at a nearby store. He looked at the prices of the cans of paint. “What!” he exclaimed, “$20.00 per gallon! I can’t believe it!” (You see, this man is a money-pincher. He even complained about how much it cost just driving to town!) The man looked at the paint some more, and on it stated: “Thin with Water.” “Ah ha!”, the man said, “If I add enough water to the paint, I can paint my whole house with one can!” Satisfied, the man made his purchase.

And so he painted the house. It took days to recoat the house, but he got the job done. From the attic to the basement, from the porch to the outside walls, he did it all…and with one can of paint.

The husband was getting settled in when all of a sudden dark clouds came. Rain started pouring, and it washed away all the paint. Concequently the house looked worse than it did before. Then out of one particularly huge and dark cloud a booming voice thundered out saying, “REPAINT! REPAINT AND THIN NO MORE!”
 
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Sonya:
What is better than God, worse than the Devil, the dead eat it and if we eat eat we’ll die? I found it at a booth at the fair once. I think it was a religious booth. Anyway do you know any more riddles, preferably ones that have to do with religion or any clean riddles will do. Thanks.
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Nothing 😉

You are in a car with two passengers, and come to a fork in the road. Your two passengers know which road to take but you don’t. One of the passengers always lies, the other always tells the truth. You don’t know which is which, but the two passengers do. If you could ask one question, and only one question, to find out what road to take, what would that question be?
 
Great jokes!
Dunmoose- That answer was correct. Would the answer to your question be to ask one passenger if the other passenger would tell me if a specific path, would lead to the correct way? That way you would find out which path was the correct one but you wouldn’t find out who was the liar or the truth teller. If you pointed to one path and asked a passenger "Would he tell me that this path is the correct one? If the passenger you asked said “yes” then the path you pointed out would be the wrong path and the other path would be the correct path. This is because if the one you asked said ‘yes’ and he was lying than the other one would be telling the truth about the path and would really say ‘no’ that it wasn’t the right path. If the one you asked was telling the truth about the other one saying ‘yes’ then the other one would be lying about the ‘yes’ and the specific path still wouldn’t be the right one. If the one you asked said ‘no’ then it would mean that the path you pointed out would be correct and the other one would be incorrect.

How about this riddle. What gets wetter the more it dries? I didn’t make this one up, but it was simpler than I thought. I had to look up the answer before I figured it out.
 
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Dunmoose:
Nothing 😉

You are in a car with two passengers, and come to a fork in the road. Your two passengers know which road to take but you don’t. One of the passengers always lies, the other always tells the truth. You don’t know which is which, but the two passengers do. If you could ask one question, and only one question, to find out what road to take, what would that question be?
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Just check with OnStar 😃
 
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Sonya:
How about this riddle. What gets wetter the more it dries? I didn’t make this one up, but it was simpler than I thought. I had to look up the answer before I figured it out.
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A sponge or a towel.

What am I:
I live while I eat, but when I drink, I die.
 
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Sonya:
Great jokes!
Dunmoose- That answer was correct. Would the answer to your question be to ask one passenger if the other passenger would tell me if a specific path, would lead to the correct way?
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Close. You ask one of the passengers “if i asked the other one which road to take, which road would he say to take?” Then take the other one. If you are tlking to the pathological liar, he will lie and point to the wrong road. if you are talking to the pathologically honest person he will tell the truth and point to the wrong road. After all, they know which is the liar and the honest person, but you don’t.

Then again, if someone who always lies tells you he’s lying, is he telling you the truth? Explain your answer. This is known as the Liar’s Paradox and is featured in an episode of Star Trek.
 
(What am I?)

A box without hinges, key or lid.
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

(W/apologies to J.R.R.Tolkein)
🙂
 
This is one of my favorites of all time…

Your a bus driver, and you pick up 16 kids, then leave off 14, you pick up 5 more, and leave off seven, you pick up 7, and leave off six, what color are the bus drivers eyes?
 
Another…

There is an airplane full of people. It is going from the United States to Canada. While flying over, something tragic happens and the plane falls right on the border of the U.S and Canada. Where would you bury the survivors?
 
I will explain the first riddle, but of course you understand the towel riddle. Nothing is better than God, nothing is worse than the Devil, the dead eat nothing and if you eat nothing you die.

Pro-life teen is the answer to your riddle fire? CM is the answer an egg?

The other riddles are really funny. Of course the answers would be that the bus driver is you so the color of your eyes would be the answer and you wouldn’t bury survivors.

How about this one. Got it from a catechism lesson.
"Once upon a time, there was a hunter who went on a long journey to hunt for bears. One night he set up camp in a deserted spot. When he woke up early the next morning, he found bear tracks out side his tent. The hunter followed the tracks due south for a mile, due east for a mile and due north for a mile-and found himself back in his camp! The bear had made a complete mess of his tent and all his equipment! What was the color of the bear?
 
Church Militant:
Nope on both counts Victoria! 😛

Don’t know your Tolkein do ya? 😉

(Hint: Gollum…)
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😛 I never read LOTR :eek: I know, I know… I will though, once I can find my book…

What do you mean both accounts?
 
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Sonya:
CM, so you are saying that it wasn’t an egg? Or is it?
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Sorry; I may have missed the post that said Egg, which is the correct answer.

FYI, see the chapter “Riddles in the dark” in The Hobbit 👍
 
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Sonya:
I will explain the first riddle, but of course you understand the towel riddle. Nothing is better than God, nothing is worse than the Devil, the dead eat nothing and if you eat nothing you die.

Pro-life teen is the answer to your riddle fire? CM is the answer an egg?

The other riddles are really funny. Of course the answers would be that the bus driver is you so the color of your eyes would be the answer and you wouldn’t bury survivors.

How about this one. Got it from a catechism lesson.
"Once upon a time, there was a hunter who went on a long journey to hunt for bears. One night he set up camp in a deserted spot. When he woke up early the next morning, he found bear tracks out side his tent. The hunter followed the tracks due south for a mile, due east for a mile and due north for a mile-and found himself back in his camp! The bear had made a complete mess of his tent and all his equipment! What was the color of the bear?
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Sonya,
I think the bear was white: a polar bear! [because the hunter went due north and was back in camp]

Peace and Merry Christmas!
 
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