Hung Around Peoples Necks
It can look like a T
It can look like an X
They can be found on chains
Hung around peoples necks
What is it?
It can look like an X
They can be found on chains
Hung around peoples necks
What is it?
Hint:
The Coin Toss Riddle
You are in a bar having a drink with an old friend when he proposes a wager.
"Want to play a game?" he asks.
"Sure, why not?" you reply.
"Ok, here's how it works. You choose three possible outcomes of a coin toss, either HHH, TTT, HHT or whatever. I will do likewise. I will then start flipping the coin continuously until either one of our combinations comes up. The person whose combination comes up first is the winner. And to prove I'm not the cheating little weasel you're always making me out to be, I'll even let you go first so you have more combinations to choose from. So how about it? Is $10.00 a fair bet?"
You know that your friend is a skilled trickster and usually has a trick or two up his sleeve but maybe he's being honest this time. Maybe this is a fair bet. While you try and think of which combination is most likely to come up first, you suddenly hit upon a strategy which will be immensely beneficial to you. What is it?
"Want to play a game?" he asks.
"Sure, why not?" you reply.
"Ok, here's how it works. You choose three possible outcomes of a coin toss, either HHH, TTT, HHT or whatever. I will do likewise. I will then start flipping the coin continuously until either one of our combinations comes up. The person whose combination comes up first is the winner. And to prove I'm not the cheating little weasel you're always making me out to be, I'll even let you go first so you have more combinations to choose from. So how about it? Is $10.00 a fair bet?"
You know that your friend is a skilled trickster and usually has a trick or two up his sleeve but maybe he's being honest this time. Maybe this is a fair bet. While you try and think of which combination is most likely to come up first, you suddenly hit upon a strategy which will be immensely beneficial to you. What is it?
Hint: Think what would be most likely to happen if you chose HHH, would this be a good decision?
The answer is to let your friend go first. This puzzle is based on an old game/scam called Penny Ante. No matter what you picked, your friend would be able to come up with a combination which would be more likely to beat yours. For example, if you were to choose HHH, then unless HHH was the first combination to come up you would eventually lose since as soon as a Tails came up, the combination THH would inevitably come up before HHH. The basic formula you can use for working out which combination you should choose is as follows. Simply take his combination (eg. HHT) take the last term in his combination, put it at the front (in this case making THH) and your combination will be more likely to come up first. Try it on your friends! Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Bringing Back The Lost
It brings back the lost as though never gone, shines laughter and tears with light long since shone,
a moment to make, a life time to shed, valued then but lost when your dead. What is it?
a moment to make, a life time to shed, valued then but lost when your dead. What is it?
Hint:
Standing My Test
I'm seen to fly, described as hard. I can be your currency and heal all wounds, but not many things can stand my test. I am...
Hint:
Candy Filled Treat
This is a candy filled treat
That can be found in stores
In the run-up to Christmas
And has twenty-four doors
What could it be?
That can be found in stores
In the run-up to Christmas
And has twenty-four doors
What could it be?
Hint:
Getting Put Into Shoes
This is a body part
That can be found in twos
It is a type of length
And gets put into shoes
They are?
That can be found in twos
It is a type of length
And gets put into shoes
They are?
Hint:
The Sinking Boat Riddle
Hint:
Gentle Enough To Soothe Your Skin Riddle
I am gentle enough to soothe your skin light enough to fly in the sky strong enough to crack rocks. What am I?
Hint:
Finding The Dough
Hint:
Transforming Nature Riddle
This part of nature gets transformed
But it's not summer becoming fall
It starts as a caterpillar
But emerges with wings colorful
But it's not summer becoming fall
It starts as a caterpillar
But emerges with wings colorful
Hint:
Caterpillar Metamorphosis Riddle
It starts off as a caterpillar
And then it becomes a chrysalis
Then later it has colorful wings
Once it's gone through metamorphosis
What is it?
And then it becomes a chrysalis
Then later it has colorful wings
Once it's gone through metamorphosis
What is it?
Hint:
Fluttering By Riddle
Hint:
A Queen's Twins Riddle
A Queen has twins by Caesarean section so it's impossible to tell who was born first. Now the twins are adults and ready to rule. One is intensely stupid, while the other is highly intelligent, well loved and charismatic. Yet the unintelligent one is chosen as the next ruler.
Why?
Why?
Hint:
Invisible At Night Riddle
I fly like a bird of many colors through the sky. I am made with both wood and fire but I do not burn up. You can see me clearly during the day, but I am nearly invisible at night. What am I?
Hint:
Hot Air Balloon Over The Sahara
One sunny afternoon, three men go for a ride on a hot air balloon over the Sahara desert. An hour into the trip, the balloon begins to lose altitude. A month later, someone found one of the ballooners laying on the desert sand dead, naked, and holding half a toothpick. What happened to him?
Hint:
As the balloon lost altitude, the men took of their clothes and threw them overboard to decrease the weight of the balloon. The balloon continued to drop so the men drew straws to see who would be forced to jump. The dead man in the desert drew the shortest one (the half toothpick). Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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