Thread: The Worlds Hardest's Riddles

Q1.
I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?

97% of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out, but 84% of kindergarten students were able to figure this out in 6 minutes or less. Can you guess the correct answer?

Q2.
If the barber can only shave those in the village that don't shave themselves, then who shaves the barber

Q3.
1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.



yeah just take a guess at the any of the questions and third one I really dont know the answer.

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Q2 is a paradox not really a riddle and a fairly famous one at that, because if the farmer shaves only those who dont shave themselves, then he cant shave himself because hed be shaving someone who shaves themselves

don't know any answers, but speaking of paradox's:

1. One fine day in the middle of the night,
2. Two dead boys* got up to fight, [*or men]
3. Back to back they faced each other,
4. Drew their swords and shot each other,
   
5. One was blind and the other couldn't, see
6. So they chose a dummy for a referee.
7. A blind man went to see fair play,
8. A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"
   
9. A paralysed donkey passing by,
10. Kicked the blind man in the eye,
11. Knocked him through a nine inch wall,
12. Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,
    
13. a deaf policeman heard the noise,
14. And came to kill the two dead boys,
15. who lived on the corner, in the middle of the block
16. in a two story building, on a vacant lot
17. If you don't believe this story’s true,
18. Ask the blind man he saw it too!

Originally Posted by Lardo

1. One fine day in the middle of the night,
2. Two dead boys* got up to fight, [*or men]
3. Back to back they faced each other,
4. Drew their swords and shot each other,
5. One was blind and the other couldn't, see
6. So they chose a dummy for a referee.
7. A blind man went to see fair play,
8. A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"
9. A paralysed donkey passing by,
10. Kicked the blind man in the eye,
11. Knocked him through a nine inch wall,
12. Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,
13. a deaf policeman heard the noise,
14. And came to kill the two dead boys,
15. who lived on the corner, in the middle of the block
16. in a two story building, on a vacant lot
17. If you don't believe this story’s true,
18. Ask the blind man he saw it too!

that funny there like 11 paradoxes in there. also most of it rhymes too.

yeah lardo your right. OK. take a deep breath and read this slowly, because it is very tricky. First two definitions:

def 1) All and only those who shave themselves = S

def 2) All people in the village, including the barber, are either members of S or members of not-S. there is no one in the village that is a member of both.

If the barber shaved himself then he would be a member of S.
If the barber does not shave himself then he would be a member of not-S.

A barber who must shave all and only not-S can not shave any S

The barber can not shave himself, because he would be shaving a member of S

if the barber is not a self shaver then he is a member of not-S

The barber must shave himself because he must shave all members of not-S

Thus he must both shave and not shave himself

This is the paradox.

No one else in the village can shave the barber because only the barber can shave members of not-S.

but there's not enough information to give a fully logical answer.
1. there could be more than one barber in the village. the barbers might go to the other barbers to be shaved.
2. there's a possibility that the barber doesn't need to shave or simply doesn't shave at all.
3. one of the people that shave themselves may shave the barber, even if they're not a barber themselves.
these are all possibilities because the question itself doesn't give us enough information to actually answer it.