Riddles thread

Nice. I moved it to fun and games. I assume this is one of those, get it right and the next riddle is yours sort of things.

A king recieves a payment from one of his merchants. The payment is 9 gold coins. He suspects that one of these coins is false. The only way to tell the difference between the fake and the real coins is that the false coin is just barely heavier.

Therefore the king decides to weigh the coins to determine which is false. The scales are brought out. However, there is a catch. He is only allowed two weighs. How, with only two weighs, can the king determine which of the 9 coins is the fake?

 

split them into three groups. 1:4:4: weigh the two groups of four against eachother. if they are even, then replace one of the coins in one of the groups with the one coin you didnt use. if that group is heavier, then the coin is false.

but if they werent even in the first way, then take the heavier group and divide them by two, then weigh them against eachother.

i had a question like this in math, but i think it might have been different

 

1) This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

2) What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?

3) No-legs lay on one-leg, two legs sat near on three legs, four legs got some.

4) It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

Answers an more riddles can be found here: The Hobbit: Riddles

 

is it time?

sorry, thought it was all one riddle

 

The first one is time.

10 bucks you used the website >.>

 

no, i remeber someone using it on me, and i remember the whole ruins part of it. but i checked my anwser after words.

 

@Darkside: That's doing it the hard way, but it does actually work. My solution was split them in to three groups of three. Weigh two of them against each other. Whichever one is heavier has the false coin. If they balance, the false coin in in the unweighed set. Now take the set of three with the fake in it and weight two of them. If they balance, the false coin is the one you didn't weight. If they don't balance, the heavier one is the fake. Far less confusing that way.

As for SkylerOcon's riddles, as a huge fan of the Hobbit, I know them all by heart.

1) Time
2) Mountains
3) A man sits at a table on a stool eating fish and the cat gets the scraps. Or bones specifically, if you follow the book's answer.
4) Darkness

A train leaves Nashville Tennessee, going east at 34 miles an hour. Another train leaves Boise, Idaho going west at 47 miles and hour. When do the two trains meet?

 

The only answer I know is "eventually". That's the most general answer I can give you.

 

Gonna revive the thread. Here is a riddle.

There is this woman who has a divorce. She has one set of twins. When one twin turn twenty the other turns twenty-two, if one turn thirty, the other turns thirty-two.

Why is this?

 

Hmmmm, the only thing I can think of is that another set of twins are involved, and it involves a twin from each, but I don't think that is right...... Hmmmmmmm.....

 

There just both turning 20/30 only the other twin is reffered to as thirty-two

basicly saying hes turning 30 as well

 

Ohhhhh. As in a simple throwoff by using 'two' instead of 'too'?

 

*CPR* Let's revive this it was great fun!!

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