Question

Two yes/no riddles

Asked by: stsanz

Here are two small yes/no riddles. Hope you don't know them :


-- A man is at home. He goes to bed, switching the light off and gets asleep.
   The morning comes, he's getting up, and when he sees what he sees, he commits suicide. Why?

-- A man is found dead in the desert. He is bare naked, and he has a straw in his hand. What happened?


100 points for each riddle.

Please if you know these riddles, wait a bit before you give the answer. Let those who don't know them play a bit.
Now, if they are classic ones that everyone knows please tell me...

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2003-08-04 at 07:55:01ID20698964
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Answers

 

by: triaditPosted on 2003-08-04 at 08:11:21ID: 9071246

The second one is a pretty classic one that many people know.

 

by: triaditPosted on 2003-08-04 at 08:13:05ID: 9071271

For #1 is the man blind?
Does he have a wife?
Does he have any pets?
Is the man afraid of something?
Are any of my questions relevant?

 

by: thesaint21Posted on 2003-08-04 at 08:14:24ID: 9071292

the second one --  a hot air balloon was losing air and they had to lighten the load.  so drawing the short straw the man had to jump and scrafice himself to save his friends.

 

by: triaditPosted on 2003-08-04 at 08:17:23ID: 9071344

you forgot why he was naked thesaint and you also forgot to read the part of the post that says IF YOU KNOW THE RIDDLES WAIT A BIT BEFORE YOU GIVE THE ANSWER!

 

by: stsanzPosted on 2003-08-04 at 08:22:20ID: 9071410

Ok, so the second one seems to be a classic.

Now, the first one.

>>triadit
>>is the man blind?
No

>>Does he have a wife?
Not relevant

>>Does he have any pets?
Not relevant

>>Is the man afraid of something?
at one moment he's not, at one other he is.

 

by: triaditPosted on 2003-08-04 at 08:26:34ID: 9071465

When the man wakes up is he afraid of something?
Does the man work?
Is there someone else in his house?
Did the man's computer crash and did he not want to pay the large fees us IT people charge to fix computers so he committed suicide? 8-)

 

by: stsanzPosted on 2003-08-04 at 08:33:05ID: 9071543

>>When the man wakes up is he afraid of something?
Yes

>>Does the man work?
Yes

>>Is there someone else in his house?
No (not really relevant)

>>Did the man's computer crash and did he not want to pay the large fees
>>us IT people charge to fix computers so he committed suicide?
He should but no ;-)

 

by: ClifPosted on 2003-08-04 at 08:40:06ID: 9071639

#1 -
He was a lighthouse keeper.  What he sees are the ships that wrecked the night before because he turned off the lighthouse light.

#2 -
He and a friend were hot-air ballooning when the balloon hit the side of a mountain and developed a leak. They slowly started to descend, so to lessen the weight they threw all their belongings overboard, including the clothes they were wearing. This didn't help, so they drew straws to find out which one would jump to save the other's life. So, this is how you find a dead naked man with a straw lying in the desert, with mountains in the background. Sheesh.

 

by: stsanzPosted on 2003-08-04 at 08:41:33ID: 9071659

thanks Clif

 

by: stsanzPosted on 2003-08-04 at 08:43:00ID: 9071677

Well these are well known.
Please if you know some others, submit them.

 

by: ClifPosted on 2003-08-04 at 08:46:24ID: 9071721

Sorry I answered them so quickly, but I failed to see the logic of knowing the answer but having to wait and give others a chance at winning two hundred points.

 

by: triaditPosted on 2003-08-04 at 09:15:56ID: 9071996

 

by: SunBowPosted on 2003-08-04 at 15:22:25ID: 9074802

> Let those who don't know them play a bit.

OK, I skip all comments, here is first take, and it ain't good. Maybe I heard them or similar, at moment no clue.

1) No guess yet. Initial problem is justifying suicide.

2) No clue, just the wild guess of the straw means attempting to drink from the oasis that was a mirage. That still leaves how he got their and where his clothes are. Maybe he stripped to go for a skinny dip. But these don't seem to make up a good riddle.

I may try again before catching the other comments. (I guess I'll give others even more time to beat me out) Good luck, especially on some non-traditional answer.  Come to think on_it, I think this guy was the other one that the aliens had kidnapped, experimented on, and then just dropped off at what seemed to them a reasonable place nearby.

 

by: SunBowPosted on 2003-08-04 at 15:23:58ID: 9074814

(although before the question opened, I was ready to enter a 'maybe', then after seeing it was going, to provide a complete set of yes/no, no/yes "answers" to cover the field)

 

by: mojo652Posted on 2003-08-05 at 09:52:38ID: 9081914

Here's a riddle.. how are those two supposed to have yes/no answers?

 

by: stsanzPosted on 2003-08-05 at 10:11:58ID: 9082059

The answers to the two riddles were given up here.

Since they were not found by asking questions, but revealed
by people knowing them, there won't be no points given.

This question will be deleted.

 

by: akylmanPosted on 2003-08-06 at 15:15:30ID: 9095234

Just one question on the second one first.  If they already threw all of their clothes overboard.  where did they get the straw from?

 

by: akylmanPosted on 2003-08-06 at 15:20:27ID: 9095263

As a note on deleting this question..  stsanz asked a question.. it was answered.  stsanz really should award the points to someone who posted.

Otherwise, in a more serious forum, if someones answers my question that I asked.. can I still ask for it to be deleted stating it didn't satisify my exact needs?  (a variable wasn't named correctly)  :)

 

by: ClifPosted on 2003-08-07 at 05:21:50ID: 9098986

akylman,
"where did they get the straw from?"
From the baloon's basket.

----------
Lunchy,
Understand I am not arguing for the points, just the logic on the question itself.

In the original question, stsanz wrote, "Please if you know these riddles, wait a bit before you give the answer."
I did wait a bit.  I waited a full fourty-five minutes before answering.

stsanz also wrote, "Let those who don't know them play a bit."
Again, I followed the rules.  I let triadit and thesaint21 play before I gave the answer to both riddles.

As I said in an earlier post in this thread, I cannot see the logic in knowing the answer to both riddles but having to wait until someone guesses them.  I am not psychic, I cannot guess when some of the others are just about ready to guess the answer so that I could be able to answer after giving others a chance to "play a bit".

Tell me, how is this question different than Expert_A wanting to give Expert_B a load of points for no reason.  Expert_A posts a question and waits for Expert_B to answer, but before he can I pop in and answer.

 

by: mojo652Posted on 2003-08-07 at 06:18:57ID: 9099463

I agree, at least give the points to people who tried to answer the riddle...

       The problem with these riddles is that there's no way of telling who actually figured it out themselves, and who was told the answer or heard the answer before.. I guess all you can really do is ask those who know the answer already to refrain from answering altogether... or at least next time be more specific about how long they should wait before answering...

        I think most of the people on Experts-Exchange are responsible and mature enough that they won't pretend to have guessed the answer when they knew it beforehand just for a few points. Perhaps offering a lower number of points would prevent people from doing this? The riddles section is more for fun anyway rather than Questions/Answers/Points.

        And I'm still a little confused as to why these are called yes/no riddles...
       

 

by: ClifPosted on 2003-08-07 at 06:23:38ID: 9099496

mojo652,
"And I'm still a little confused as to why these are called yes/no riddles..."
Actually you might think of them as being "Twenty Questions".

 

by: triaditPosted on 2003-08-07 at 06:29:07ID: 9099541

You are supposed to ask yes/no questions to figure out what happened.  The person who gives the scenario is only allowed to answer with yes/no

 

by: ClifPosted on 2003-08-07 at 06:35:34ID: 9099613

"Understand I don't have the time..."
Somewhere to go?  Is EE about to explode in the next few minutes?

:)

Thanks for the points.

20120131-EE-VQP-002

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