Riddle Game!

[Chief Pride]

born before massachusets was a state

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody.

[Cynette]

[interjection...from a few riddles back!]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

He starts and ends 2 common English words. One painfull in love, One painfull in everyday matter. Do you know what 2 words It must be?

Originally Posted by boiler

Heartache, Heartburn

The second word should be headache

[/interjection]

[James1902]

Originally Posted by wpdrummer

Two brothers who live together own two cars, in both their names, one is a A Rolls- Royce and ones a Mustang. The brothers each like both cars equally but one only drives the Rolls-Royce and one only drives the Mustang, why?

Only one of the brothers has a driving license.

That works but I mis-stated the question, I should have said one olny drives the mustang and the other one only drives the Rolls-Royce. sorry, my bad


spoiler...(P.S. the answer is they are Siamese twins)

[Wayne Doenges]

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody.

Pencil Lead
What's a pencil

What breaks but never falls and what falls but never breaks?

[Chief Pride]

night and day

A worker is to perform work for you for seven straight days. In return for his work, you will pay him 1/7th of a bar of gold per day. The worker requires a daily payment of 1/7th of the bar of gold. What and where are the fewest number of cuts to the bar of gold that will allow you to pay him 1/7th each day?

(my favorite riddle)

[Wayne Doenges]

night and day

The proper response should have been "The break of day and the fall of night"
Can I get a ruling?

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by zinefer

night and day

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

The proper response should have been "The break of day and the fall of night"
Can I get a ruling?

I vote for just "Day" and "Night"!

(James...he's just stalling because he doesn't know the answer to your favorite riddle...oh, wait...I'm just stalling because I don't know the answer to your favorite riddle! )

[A_Reed]

Originally Posted by zinefer

night and day

A worker is to perform work for you for seven straight days. In return for his work, you will pay him 1/7th of a bar of gold per day. The worker requires a daily payment of 1/7th of the bar of gold. What and where are the fewest number of cuts to the bar of gold that will allow you to pay him 1/7th each day?

(my favorite riddle)

It only takes two cuts.

Day One: You make your first cut at the 1/7th mark and give that to the worker.
Day Two: You cut 2/7ths and pay that to the worker and receive the original 1/7th in change.
Day three: You give the worker the 1/7th you received as change on the previous day.
Day four: You give the worker 4/7ths and he returns his 1/7th cut and his 2/7th cut as change.
Day Five: You give the worker back the 1/7th cut of gold.
Day Six: You give the worker the 2/7th cut and receive the 1/7th cut back in change.
Day Seven: You pay the worker his final 1/7th.


Decapitate me and all becomes equal. Then truncate me and I become second. Cut me front and back and I become two less than I started.

What am I?

[Wayne Doenges]

I finally figured this one out.
The answer is SEVEN.

Decapitate me = EVEN
Truncate me = EVE
Cut me front to back = V (aka five)

My turn:
A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 12 pounds?

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Hehehe

Holes

If there are fifteen crows on a fence and the farmer shoots a third of them, how many crows are left?

[Tottanka]

None, after his first shot they will all fly away.

Only one color, but not one size; stuck to the ground, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain; doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What is it?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

Only one color, but not one size; stuck to the ground, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain; doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What is it?

A shadow.

What is heavy when forwards and not when backwards?

[Taylor]

ton

A deaf-mute walks into a hardware store looking for a handsaw. He finds a clerk, makes a back-and-forth motion with his hand, and reads the clerk's lips to say "Are you looking for a saw?" Nodding affirmatively, he is led to the hand tool department where he finds what he is looking for, pays and leaves.
His blind friend walks in and wants a pair of scissors. How can he communicate to the clerk that he needs scissors?

[Wayne Doenges]

He askes the clerk for a pair of scissors. He's blind not mute.

As I was going to Saint Ives
I met a man with seven wives
The each wife had seven cats
The each cat had seven kittens
Kittens, cats and wives how many were going to Saint Ives?

[Cooley744]

399...i think, unless you (the person going to saint ives is a wife)

Which word is the odd one out: First Second Third Forth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth