Answers to Riddles

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1) Bees making honey in the corpse of a lion.

2) A human (4 legs when a baby, 2 legs middle aged, 3 legs as an old man with a stick)

3) The barrel is A, the five gallon bucket is B, and the three gallon bucket is C.

This is how much should be in each at each stage.

A:___ 8___ 5___ 5___ 2___ 2___ 7___ 7___ 4___ 4__
B:___ 0___ 0___ 3___ 3___ 5___ 0___ 1___ 1___ 4__
C:___ 0___ 3___ 0___ 3___ 1___ 1___ 0___ 3___ 0__
Or:
A:___ 8___ 3___ 3___ 6___ 6___ 1___ 1___ 4__
B:___ 0___ 5___ 2___ 2___ 0___ 5___ 4___ 4__
C:___ 0___ 0___ 3___ 0___ 2___ 2___ 3___ 0__

At this point you remove the five gallon bucket.

4) She can't reach the button for floor 12.

5) Friday is the name of his horse.

6) If it's snowing everything else will be white as well - whereupon you risk being run down by a snowplough or road-salter.

7) It's broad daylight (note - no mention of the sun).

8) White. The house is at the North Pole so the bear is a polar bear.

9) Another table (C is a cannibal, M is a missionary)

 Direction  Trip 1  Trip 2 Trip 3   Trip 4  Trip 5  Trip 6
 Out  2C  2C  2M  2M  2C  2C
 Back  1C  1C  1C1M  1C  1C  

The characters in this riddle are for academic purposes only and are not intended to foster any kind of distrust against cannibals, who are wonderful people who really love other humans.

10) Sweets

11) This is another one which deserves a table....

House number  1  2  3  4  5
Colour Yellow Blue  Red White Green
Nationality Norwegian Dane Briton Swede German
Drink Water Tea Milk Beer Coffee
Cigar Dunhill Blends Pall Mall Blue Master Prince
Pet Cats Horses Birds Dogs Fish

And so, ladies and gentlemen, we can see that the German coffee-swigging occupant of house No. 5, in its coat of green paint, with an odour of Prince cigars, keeps fish.

So much for riddles.

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05/09/08