Riddles

[gypolord]

Damn it all. Schadenfreude is an ugly emotion and you shouldn't be enjoying this quite so much Schady.

Whenever he can't help it, damn it. Why are you judging this man? HE HAS A CONDITION.

Also, a towel.

[scorpiash]

Schady? Is that Schadenfreude as an adjective or is this a nickname?

I'm assuming this is a trick riddle so I agree with Gypo, when he can't help it. I think he's right about the second one as well so I'll post a riddle.

You have one kitchen scale and ten bags of coins which each weigh ten grams, apart from one bag in which the coins weigh nine grams. If you can only make one weighing how do you discover which bags have the lighter coins.

[Schadenfreude]

Damn it all. Schadenfreude is an ugly emotion and you shouldn't be enjoying this quite so much Schady.

Whenever he can't help it, damn it. Why are you judging this man? HE HAS A CONDITION.

Also, a towel.

Why ever not? *cackles* Surprisingly enough, though, you actually got the answer. When he can't help it. XD

And agreed, it's a towel.

Schady? Is that Schadenfreude as an adjective or is this a nickname?

I'm assuming this is a trick riddle so I agree with Gypo, when he can't help it. I think he's right about the second one as well so I'll post a riddle.

You have one kitchen scale and ten bags of coins which each weigh ten grams, apart from one bag in which the coins weigh nine grams. If you can only make one weighing how do you discover which bags have the lighter coins.

Schady is my Gypo-given nickname. I will also answer to SF and Freude.

Hmm... Do you have to weigh the bags, or can you take the coins out to weigh them differently? Because if you do the later, it becomes a relatively simple maths problem. The former, on the other hand, is a bit trickier.

[Pedro-ologist]

When he has hayfever

No way, in spring I sneeze a good 50 times a day...MY NOSE IS STUFFED UP!

As for the coins, you just put it on, and then keep piling the bags on, until you find the wee one, then you go "I got it". Since you didn't take a bag off, it counts as one weighing.

Also, you could hold all the bags in your hands, and work out which one is lightest, and then weigh that to confirm your guess.

[Schadenfreude]

Or, if you wanted me to explain my mathematical way of solving the problem, you'd take the ten bags and label them 1 to 10. You'd then take one coin from bag 1, two coins from bag 2, three from bag 3, ect, which would give you 55 coins. You put them all on the scales, and consider the fact that if they all weighed 10 grams, the scales would read 550g. Since we know that some of the coins way one gram less that the rest of them, we would get a number lower than that. How much lower depends on how many of the coins we weighed were the 9 gram coins.

If bag one were the 9g bag, we'd have 54 coins weighing 10g each, and one that weighed 9g. So the scales would say 549g, one gram less than it is supposed to weigh, making bag 1 the lighter bag. Taking that into account, you simply have to detract the number the scales read away from 550 to get your answer.

Complicated to explain, but fullproof.

[Pedro-ologist]

That was not too complex. Very good though. You are a very good thinker. I applaud you!

[Schadenfreude]

I'm very good at maths. XD

[Pedro-ologist]

That's not so much maths, more problem solving. They are different things...sort of, they cross over a bit...problem solving uses maths and maths uses problem solving...

[scorpiash]

Wow SF that was fast! I didn't expect someone to work it out so quickly, it took my nerdy friend a couple of days to work it out (and with extra hints). Nicely done!

[Schadenfreude]

I had to solve similar problems in maths at school, so I know what to look for...

When is a door not a door?

[gypolord]

When its ajar. Good one.

[Schadenfreude]

I love play-on-words. XD

You are locked in a room with no doors, and no windows, with nothing but a table and a sore on your knee. How do you get out?

EDIT: 700th post. XD

[Pedro-ologist]

That one is easy. I've heard it heaps of times!

You use the sore to cut the table in half. You stick the two halves together. Two halves make a hole. You climb through the hole to safety!

[Schadenfreude]

Yeah, it's really well known, I know. But it's also my favourite example of play-on-word riddles. There's also an extended version in which you scream yourself hoar*e, then jump on the horse and ride through the hole.

I'm sorry, but the word censor is really annoying me now. I can't even write words that happen to contain censored words. Damnit.

Replace the '*' with an 's'.

[Pedro-ologist]

Aye, the word censor is annoying.

But you can get around it...can you se.e the f.ull st.ops?

Here is a riddle:

There are four girls, and four apples in a basket. Every girl takes an apple, Yet one apple remains in the basket. How is this possible?