Riddles

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New riddle:
A woman is about to be executed. She can choose which way she can die. No matter how bizarre, time-consuming or costly it is.
You know that the woman is clever. Really clever. With that in mind, what did she choose? Remember that she is so clever that she could find an error in the options.

She chooses to die of old age. 

This ones actually really simple...
Rearrange the letters of NOR DO WE to make one word.

Swap the N and the W. Then take the last three letters and put them in front. Pick up the space between the R and the D and put it between the E and the W.

kaizoman666, you ought to wait until it is confirmed that old age is the right answer. What if it wasn't?
Anyways, it is confirmed as i type this.

kaizoman666, you ought to wait until it is confirmed that old age is the right answer. What if it wasn't?

If it wasn't, we would just have two riddles to answer.

Myeh...

New riddle, and also, I live in the UK... so...

Three people go into a restaurant and order a meal, the bill comes to £25. They each give £10, the waiter brings back £5 change. They each take back £1, and leave the remaining £2 for the waiter as a tip.
So, they gave £10 and got £1 back, which means they spent £9 each. OK £9 x 3= £27 + £2 (for the waiter) = £29. What happened to the missing pound ?

I've heard this riddle countless times and it's always so hard to explain the answer.

New riddle, and also, I live in the UK... so...

Three people go into a restaurant and order a meal, the bill comes to £25. They each give £10, the waiter brings back £5 change. They each take back £1, and leave the remaining £2 for the waiter as a tip.
So, they gave £10 and got £1 back, which means they spent £9 each. OK £9 x 3= £27 + £2 (for the waiter) = £29. What happened to the missing pound ?

They took a jog afterward, so they lost a pound. =D *is wrong*

 

I have one of those idiotic ones that you probably heard 746 times when you were in elementary school.

You're in an indestructible room with no windows and no doors. All that's in there is a table and a mirror. How do you get out?

I've heard this riddle countless times and it's always so hard to explain the answer.

Each person gave £10 and got back £1. The left side there (£27) is how much they gave to the restaurant. The middle is the amount of money they gave, plus the tip they gave to the waiter. Thus, the tip got double counted. Remove the extra tip and your left with £27, the price of the meal (what the restaurant receives) plus the tip (what the waiter receives).

Its not tough at all. Its simply tricking people with math.
The way it works is like this: In total, £27 spent. £25 of that was for the food, and £2 of that was the tip. The remaining £3 was what the money they got back from the person they paid.


Also, you might want to try explaining it a little better...

You're in an indestructible room with no windows and no doors. All that's in there is a table and a mirror. How do you get out?

You look in the mirror and see what you saw. You take the saw and cut the table in half. Two halves make a whole. You jump in the hole and escape.

I've heard both these riddles half a million times.

You're in an indestructible room with no windows and no door. How do you get out?

Walk through the empty doorway.


You're in an indestructible room with no windows, no doorway, and a mutant man-eating beaver.  How do you get out?

Ummm... Why are we suddenly messing with the riddle?