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vader_rocks

09-21-06, 01:43 AM
A place to post your greatest brain-teasers and room puzzles!

1.Only one color, but not one size,
Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies,
Present in sun, but not in rain,
Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.

A Shadow
vader_rocks

09-21-06, 12:41 PM
Ok, here's another (Ignore the dots in the pictures; they're there to keep the picture together)

2. The PC's enter a room with two stone doors (One on either side) that immediately slam shut as soon as the last PC is inside. After failing to open the doors (and after a few spot checks) the PC's find a number of iron rods arranged on a wall in this configuration:

._ ._ ._
|_|_|_|
|_|_|

and an inscription that reads "Take three, leave three"

The riddle is a takeoff of the famous matchstick puzzle, and is basically saying "Take away three rods to leave only three squares:

._ ...._
|_|_|_|
...|_|
DragonOfTheDawn

09-21-06, 01:22 PM
"I travel with you,
yet i am always first.
You may end but i won't.
You need me while i don't.
You die and i continue."

Answer: Time

copied by; Baldur's Gate 2 SoA
vader_rocks

09-21-06, 02:55 PM
4. What can you put in a bucket of water to make it lighter?

A Hole

:bump:
RobbyPants

09-21-06, 03:07 PM
There's always the "use 4 straight lines to connect the 9 dots:

...
...
...

The idea is the lines aren't confined to the dot grid (kind of hard to show in ASCII characters). The top line extents out to the right a bit. The left line extends out the bottom. A thrid line conntects those two (hitting the bottom center, and right center dots), and the fourth line goes from the top left to the bottom right.

____
|\/
|/x
|
Piggyfreak6

09-21-06, 05:18 PM
One that I used in the last session.

You come up to a large stone door. The door is unlocked, and easly opened. Once opened the door instantly slams shut, and a voice says, you wern't invited here.

They'll keep trying to open the door, but it won't. The key is, to open the door, you must physically knock on the door.
vader_rocks

09-25-06, 08:24 AM
:w00t: :bump: :w00t:
oxybe

09-25-06, 09:04 AM
i'll check later if i can find my list of riddles... some i used, others i'm waiting. it's a pretty long list though... i may just post it in short bursts, or all in a sblock
vader_rocks

09-25-06, 11:19 AM
7. This one I actually stole from True Dungeon's website. Check it out! (http://www.truedungeon.com/true/challenges.htm)
Bahamut_the_Gold

09-26-06, 02:06 AM
Q: Who is the greatest Fighter of all time?



















A: Life.
















Q: Who is the greatest Thief of all time


















A: Death.
Bahamut_the_Gold

09-26-06, 02:12 AM
I am more powerful than all the gods.
Rich people want me.
Poor people have me.
I was before the begining, and I will be after the end.

What am I?

























Nothing.
vader_rocks

09-26-06, 02:45 PM
:plotting: :bump: :plotting:
Lost_Hybrid

09-26-06, 02:58 PM
I can be extended and broken
But not in the same way
I can be abused and renewed
But not on the same day
I am hard to find and harder to lose
I am frequently offered and never refused.

I come out when it's dark but not always at night
I am death to all creatures, be they wrong or right
Any man that I catch receives his last rites
For I prove your time on Earth is finite.

I bear gold on my back and blue at my feet
Though you can always see me
I am very discreet
I always fall apart but am never incomplete
I make an excellent coffin but a very poor seat.

Answers: Trust, Lightning, and the Beach, in that order.
vader_rocks

09-27-06, 04:42 PM
14. The land was white the seed was black
It'll take a good scholar to riddle me that.

An Eye or Eyeball
vader_rocks

09-27-06, 07:35 PM
:ayyyy!: :bump: :ayyyy!:
Lord_Varos

09-27-06, 07:46 PM
R. Janice is about to be executed. The executioner explains that if the next statement she says is true, she will be hanged. If it is false, she will be drowned. Janice turns to you, saying she is too scared to answer, and asks you, "What should I say?"




A.
A. Whatever she wants. She is about to be hanged.
Makuya

09-27-06, 08:01 PM
R. Janice is about to be executed. The executioner explains that if the next statement she says is true, she will be hanged. If it is false, she will be drowned. Janice turns to you, saying she is too scared to answer, and asks you, "What should I say?"




A.
A. Whatever she wants. She is about to be hanged.

Actually, the correct answer should be "I will be drowned."
Lord_Varos

09-27-06, 08:03 PM
I guess you didn't catch that. Her statement directly following her sentencing was, "I'm too scared to answer!"
vader_rocks

12-23-06, 04:27 AM
How far can you walk into the forest?

Halfway. After that, you're walking out.

:cheer: :bump: :cheer:
Frodo34x

12-23-06, 11:08 AM
If dy/dx = (5x -5)(6x^2 - 4x + 13), what is y?

A character can bypass this with a Proffesion(mathematician) check DC 16.
vader_rocks

12-24-06, 11:30 PM
Ka-:bump:
CryoSilver

12-24-06, 11:41 PM
18: There is a simple note on the door: "This door is locked"

In order to open the door, the PCs need to take the note down and put one up that says 'This door is not locked'
vader_rocks

01-06-07, 01:56 AM
Shameless :bump:
everkin

01-06-07, 02:04 AM
one of my players wants to be avariel and drow combined.
any comments?
vader_rocks

01-06-07, 02:08 AM
one of my players wants to be avariel and drow combined.
any comments?

Um...wrong thread, there, bud.
vader_rocks

01-07-07, 02:58 AM
El :bump:-o
cog_n_taz

01-07-07, 03:08 AM
I make the mightiest of kingdoms fall.
I make the hardest armor rot to nothing.
I make the mightiest weapon rust and break.
I make the strongest men and gods die.
I was here at the beggining, and will be here until the end.
What am I?

Time:D
Far_Traveler

01-07-07, 11:02 AM
If dy/dx = (5x -5)(6x^2 - 4x + 13), what is y?

A character can bypass this with a Proffesion(mathematician) check DC 16.

Just so you know, I hate you.

The answer is 30x^4 - 50x^3 + 85x^2 - 65x

I'm such a nerd
vader_rocks

01-08-07, 03:44 PM
:bump:-ski
Ragix

01-08-07, 04:09 PM
What has a butt but no legs?













































A gun!
vader_rocks

01-09-07, 10:34 AM
Why does this thread keep dying?

What always ends everything?

The letter "G"
Radijs

01-09-07, 11:20 AM
An old classic:
My first is foremost legally,
My second circles outwardly,
My third leads all in victory,
My fourth ends twice a nominee
My whole is this gates only key.

What am I?

Answer: Love
kronos451

01-09-07, 01:27 PM
I am marking this for use in my campaign If nobody has any objections?
vader_rocks

01-09-07, 10:08 PM
I am marking this for use in my campaign If nobody has any objections?

By all means, my friend.
kronos451

01-09-07, 10:14 PM
thanx!
vader_rocks

01-11-07, 01:04 AM
Things that go :bump: in the night.
NinjaPenguin

01-11-07, 02:10 AM
Just so you know, I hate you.

The answer is 30x^4 - 50x^3 + 85x^2 - 65x

I'm such a nerd

You forgot to add in the arbitrary constant of integration, FT, but you beat me to it. :)
DyingHopes

01-11-07, 08:30 AM
A stone door has just been slamed behind the Pc's back, there is no way to open them and no other way, nor water to dring, food to eat and very soon no air to breathe.

Only a riddle:

The loneliest I am
A star or a flame
Hills I may carry
Death I can cheat
Lasting for ever
I am still here
I can not die
Nor I can live

When the correct answer is spoken out loud, the doors will open.

It is pretty simple.
Firestar27

01-11-07, 01:39 PM
is the answer "time"? because there have been too many riddles with the answer "time".
vader_rocks

01-11-07, 03:11 PM
A stone door has just been slamed behind the Pc's back, there is no way to open them and no other way, nor water to dring, food to eat and very soon no air to breathe.

Only a riddle:

The loneliest I am
A star or a flame
Hills I may carry
Death I can cheat
Lasting for ever
I am still here
I can not die
Nor I can live

When the correct answer is spoken out loud, the doors will open.

It is pretty simple.

It may be simple, but it's too hard for me.

I give up, what's the answer?
vader_rocks

05-02-07, 11:01 PM
Come on! Don't leave us hanging! What's the answer?
yellowdingo

05-03-07, 12:48 AM
A Physical puzzle-

Your PCs walk through a puddle of water and leave a trail of coloured footprints. The problem is that each of them is leaving a trail of different coloured footprints...and it remains permanent with the boots or barefeet they walked through the puddle with.

They must walk backwards through every step to put the colour back into the puddle of water.