The Riddle Game 2

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Correctus - Your turn.

 

From Emily Dickenson:

I am, in truth, a yellow fork
From tables in the sky
By inadvertent fingers dropped
The awful cutlery.
Of mansions never quite disclosed
And never quite concealed
The apparatus of the dark
To ignorance revealed.

 

The obvious one... Lightning?

 

Correct.

Your turn Carcaroth.

 

Ooops, weekend got in the way.

A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him.
5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together.
How can this be?

 

She takes a photograph and develops it?

 

Indubitably my dear Watson.

 

Don't think we've had this one

Old Mr. Tidy was found dead in his study by Mr. Fiend. Mr. Fiend recounted his dismal discovery to the police. " I was walking by Mr. Tidy's house when I thought I would just pop in for a little visit. I noticed his study light was on so i decided to peek in from the outside to see if he was in there. There was frost on the window so I had to wipe it away to see inside. That is when i saw his body. So I kicked in the front door to confirm my suspicions of foul play. I called the police immediately afterward."
The officer immediately arrested Mr. Fiend for the murder of Mr. Tidy. How did the officer know Mr. Fiend was lying?

 

Condensation would form on the inside of the window, not the outside.

 

Yay Jhonka, have a shiny balloon on a stick (it's a newe supplier, they have swirly patterms)

 

Oh, er. It's been a week hasn't it? Sorry 'bout that.


A horse is tied to a 15-foot rope and there is a bale of hay 25 feet away from him. The horse proceeds to eat from the bail of hay. How is this possible?

 

The rope is only tied to the horse, I.E. not anything else. Hence, he can freely move around and eat the hay.

 

That was fast. Your turn.

 

Thanks, Jhonka.

I'm going to go with something a bit tricky --

"What is R.P.I.?"

A small hint; it's got to do with tombstones.

 

Rest per instructions?

 

A spelling error?

 

Close enough. And just when I thought no one'd find it -- Carcaroth's answer is very close.

The real one, however was a grave error. Yes, it's a bad pun.

*hands over the Mantle of Power Word: Riddle to the panther*

Your turn.

 

Sorry folks, didn't think I would have one this one.

Five clever newsboys formed a partnership and disposed of their papers in the following manner. Tom Smith sold one paper more than one quarter of the whole lot. Billy Jones disposed of one paper more than a quarter of the remainder. Ned Smith sold one paper more than a quarter of what was left, and Charley Jones disposed of one paper more than a quarter of the remainder. At this stage the Smith boys had together sold just one hundred papers more than the Jones boys had sold. Little Jimmy Jones, the youngest kid in the bunch, now sold all the papers that were left. The three Jones boys sold more papers than the two Smith boys, but how many more?

Edit:

And here dies the riddle game. For a simple mathematic one at that.

[ August 25, 2006, 16:51: Message edited by: Carcaroth ]

 

Dead, shmead; The Jones' sold two hundred, sixteen (216) papers more than the Smiths.

And it wasn't very simple; I had an overall idea how to look for the sales numbers I wanted but had to start grinding out possibilities before I could see a pattern.

I imagine a SIMPLE mathematic word problem would have an elegant method to its solution more readily visible.