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Devinettes app has about 3 or 4 riddles that I haven’t been able to crack in 8 years.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.workingagenda.devinettes/
It gives no answers or hints, just reports ‘correct’ if you type the right answer in.
Cool app! I tried it and I have 7 riddles to go. Which ones have you not cracked yet?
Edit: a little break helped, 4 to go!
I’d say, your 4 are in this 6:
Name your heroine after me.
Name me the skin
Without this common currency
Without you I am incomplete 1
Without you I am incomplete 2
This: Brought by man
- PS, I am not looking for any answers here at all. (Spoiler-tags do not work in several clients)
I’m fine solving these 15yrs later or not at all. The unsolved ones are good for campfires, or travelling through other countries.
Actually only one of them is in that list. I’m still missing:
- Name me the skin (like you said)
- Recursion here
- My warmth connects
I was stuck on Where, close at hand too but I got that one last night.
I got the other ones on day one, hopefully it won’t take me another 15 years to get the remaining three.
Are those 6 the ones you’re still missing? I won’t give any answers, that wouldn’t be much fun.
I am a non-native speaker (Dutch), I wonder if that’s helping or hindering me…
This is my 3rd phone, since solving them the first time, so I just went through and got the ones I remember.
I’m glad the other 5 of 6 are solvable. Thanks for confirming that.
Looks like ‘Name me the skin’ is the hardest one of all.
I’m pretty sure you will get the other 2 in a couple of days.
The ‘skin’ question… ~5-10 years ? (c:
Now I really want to figure out that skin one 😋.
Out of the six you listed, the Without you I am incomplete-set is probably the easiest one.
I think I like the common currency one best, it’s very clever in my opinion (but not necessarily the hardest one).
What rock group has four guys who don’t sing?
Click for answer
Mount Rushmore.
Light as a feather, but no man can hold me for long.
Answer
A breath
I think I’ve seen this one on a morhedel wordlock in Betrayal at Krondor :o
Poor people have it.
Rich people need it.
If you eat it, you die.
What is it?
Tap for spoiler
Nothing
Oh that’s clever, I’m keeping this one in my back pocket
Shit?
What walks on four legs at dawn, two legs at noon, and three legs at dusk?
spoiler-title
Humans in their three stages of life: crawling at birth, walking upright in main life, and walking assisted at the end
Everyone knows the hardest riddle of all time:
“What’s in my pocket?”
You even get to keep a gold ring if you use that one!
What has four wheels and flies?
Blaine is a pain.
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Supposed to be a dump truck, but they have way more than four wheels.
If you’ve never played Betrayal at Krondor it’s full of these treasure chests that you have to solve riddles to unlock. Here’s a few good ones:
Whoever has it is angry
Whoever loses it is angrier
Whoever wins it has it no more
!A Dispute!<
Brought to the table
Cut and served
Never eaten
!Cards!<
We love it more than life
We fear it more than death
The wealthy want for it
The poor have it in plenty
!Nothing!<
All the spoilers are visible for me 😔
me too :(
But I got lucky and managed to avoid looking at all except the first.
Whomp sorry some lemmy apps don’t do spoiler tags from what I’ve read :<
Reddit-style spoiler tags are not Markdown standard. Use this syntax:
::: spoiler Answer A man :::A
B
Hmm…
On Connect it doesn’t seem to work.
Edit, the word “spoiler” was needed, it works now!
Neither does it on Voyager because you left out the word “spoiler”. You don’t need the double line breaks though.
Thanks, works now!
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Famously the hardest logic puzzle in the world: Blue Eyes
https://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html
A group of people with assorted eye colors live on an island. They are all perfect logicians – if a conclusion can be logically deduced, they will do it instantly. No one knows the color of their eyes. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island. Any islanders who have figured out the color of their own eyes then leave the island, and the rest stay. Everyone can see everyone else at all times and keeps a count of the number of people they see with each eye color (excluding themselves), but they cannot otherwise communicate. Everyone on the island knows all the rules in this paragraph.
On this island there are 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and the Guru (she happens to have green eyes). So any given blue-eyed person can see 100 people with brown eyes and 99 people with blue eyes (and one with green), but that does not tell him his own eye color; as far as he knows the totals could be 101 brown and 99 blue. Or 100 brown, 99 blue, and he could have red eyes.
The Guru is allowed to speak once (let’s say at noon), on one day in all their endless years on the island. Standing before the islanders, she says the following:
“I can see someone who has blue eyes.”
Who leaves the island, and on what night?
There are no mirrors or reflecting surfaces, nothing dumb. It is not a trick question, and the answer is logical. It doesn’t depend on tricky wording or anyone lying or guessing, and it doesn’t involve people doing something silly like creating a sign language or doing genetics. The Guru is not making eye contact with anyone in particular; she’s simply saying “I count at least one blue-eyed person on this island who isn’t me.”
And lastly, the answer is not “no one leaves.”
The answer
The answer is >!the 100 people with blue eyes leave on the 100th night.!< Double spoiler tagged so it hopefully works on every Lemmy client.
For the logic, imagine if it were actually just three people: the guru, one brown eyes, and one blue eyes. For the sake of clarity, I’ll speak through the perspective of a blue eyes in these examples. Guru says “I see someone with blue eyes.” Brown eyes also sees someone with blue eyes. But I see no one with blue eyes. I deduce that I must have blue eyes, and leave that same night.
Now >!imagine there are two blue eyes, two brown eyes, and the guru. Guru says “I see someone with blue eyes.” Brown eyes both see two sets of blue eyes, but I only see one set of blue eyes. I figure if the other person sees no other blue eyes, they’ll leave the first night. They don’t, which can only mean that they also saw someone with blue eyes, which must be me. We both leave the second night.!<
You >!can expand this logic all the way out to 100, so on the 100th night, all the blue eyes leave.!<
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I think the problem is underspecified: it doesnt define what happens if they get it wrong. If they get it wrong are they barred from exiting? Or can they make a guess every night? Whats stopping them from all saying blue and the boat leaving with 100 blue eyed people on night 1? Or do they only get one guess?
Also it would have saved more people if the guru had simply stated the counts they daw because everyone could count the other people and then see what color was missing (their own eye color) and they could have all left night 1.
What’s at the start of an era, twice in a generation, nowhere in an instant, but awaits you at the end of time?
spoiler
the letter e
O T T F
What’s next?
in this order
F S S E N T
Correct!
What has 11 heads, 2 wings and 22 legs?
Answer
A football team.
Not a particularly hard one, but I always enjoyed it.
this is a great opportunity to bring in riddles from the Kids Write Jokes tumblr. not gonna spoiler the answers for… obvious reasons.
some of my favourites:
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Doctor Dentist
Doctor Dentist who
How can you be a Doctor and a Dentist there is not enough time
what do dogs call Italy?
dogtaly
How many sharks does it take to make a grandpa shark?
1,280,000 sharks.
what does NASA stand for.
not another spaceship aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
and my all time fave
can you fart?
do it now
These will make you angry But they might make you laugh
These have been around quite long Yet you’d never expect them
Tap for spoiler
Deez nuts lmao gottem
ligma
Tap for spoiler
balls
