The One Shot Joke Thread.

Originally Posted by bradtheman

what five letter word gets smaller when you add two letters?

That word would be "Small".....lol

Ok, Let's try this riddle, it was from before the board crashed, but regardless....

Ok, here's the Scenario...

On 1 island, there are 6 wells (labeled 1- 6) and on another island there is one well (labeled 7). If you drink water from any of the wells, you will be poisoned. You can only be cured if you drink water from a higher numbered well. So For example, if you drink water from well #4, you can only be cured by drinking water from well #5-7. So there is a man on the large island as well as a dragon. They don't like each other so they drew up the terms for a duel. This was that each person would give the other a bucket of water that they had to drink out of. The Man CANNOT swim and therefore, cannot reach well 7. The dragon, on the other hand, can fly over to well #7. So, the dragon, so sure of himself, agreed to the terms. For the duel, the Dragon flies over to Well #7 to get water for the man. They meet back at the large island and swap buckets of water. Afterwards, the dragon goes back to drink the water from Well #7 in order to cure himself of whatever the man gave him. Within a few hours, the dragon is dead and the man is still alive. How does the man survive the poison and the dragon die from poison when he has the ultimate antidote?

How ya doing, buddy?

That was fast.....but ok.....good job on that.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Nah, whatever....I'm not sure of many more riddles, so go ahead and post some if you know some good ones...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The hardest part is to see exactly how does one "pop". I assume this is object is tangible since you can hold it, squeeze it, and pop it. How about a hint, packrat?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Adara

I'm taking the coward's way out, but after making my brain do backflips, this is what I came up with:

Spoiler:

My answer is "no." The riddle asks me if I can guess the answer and no, I cannot.

...I know, it's kind of stupid, but that's my guess.

Makes a valid point. Since I really can't guess the riddle either.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Oh dear god.....Why did you create an account just to say that?

Anyways.....Let's kick off some more riddles/problem solving.....

There are 3 jars on a table. All three jars contain nothing but pennies and are labeled albeit incorrectly. One jar holds pennies from 2005. The second jar holds pennies from 1975. The final jar contains pennies from both years. By only taking one penny out of one jar, determine which jar has which pennies.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Moon

Omnislash:

Spoiler:

Take a penny out the jar labelled both and see what date it is. Since all the jars are labelled incorrectly, we can deduce the following:

-----If the penny is 1975, then it's the jar for 1975 pennies. If the penny is 2005, then it's the jar of 2005 pennies.

-----Then, knock over the two remaining jars and see what sorts of pennies are in each.

Well, you got part of it right. Your first step is correct. You cannot knock over the two remaining jars. Using what you know from the first step, deduce the last step mentally. You don't see what's in the remaining two jars and do not need to.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

The first step is to pull out a penny from the "Both" jar. For now, let's assume it's a 1975 penny. The "1975" jar really contains pennies from 2005. And the "2005" jar is really the jar of mixed pennies. If we assume the penny I pulled out was a 2005 penny, then the "1975" jar would hold mixed pennies and the "2005" jar contains the pennies from 1975.

Originally Posted by Ryuu

Omnislash:

Spoiler:

I'll continue from there.

If the jar that is labelled to contain both actually contained only, say, 1975 pennies, then the jar that is labelled to contain 1975 pennies contains the 2005 pennies. So, then the jar labelled to contain 2005 pennies has to contain both.


In easier fashion:

Jar Both contains 1975 pennies.
Jar 1975 contains 2005 pennies.
Jar 2005 contains both.


The reason for this is because the jar that is labelled to hold whatever year pennies the jar labelled to have both holds, cannot be opposites or else the remaining jar would be correct in labelling when that cannot be (lol run on sentence).

[Edit:] Aww, I was beat.

Both are correct. Though it was really confusing in your explanation. Here was my explanation....

Let's say all three jars are labeled by sticky notes that you can peel off and put on another. You pull one out of the "Both" jar and that jar will be whatever you just pulled (e.g. If You pulled a 1975, swap the Both and 1975 Labels around. If you pulled a 2005, swap the Both and the 2005 Labels around.)

So now we know for certain one of the jars.

Given that they are ALL labeled incorrectly, the one you haven't touched yet is still labeled incorrectly. So switch that with the Both because you know for certain the other jar.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Haha, you know, it's funny that I've been asked this riddle earlier and they certainly didn't give me this much information. Actualy, they only give one less than what you gave. And that may be the biggest hint possible....regardless....

Spoiler:

You flip two switches. Enter a room. If the light is off, then obviously, you know it's the one you left off and the problem is solved already. If it's on, you know it's one of the two you switched on. Ok. Turn one switch off. Enter the second room. If the light is on, then obviously, that is the single one you left on and the rest becomes a joke again. If it's off, then we know that it's one of the two you have off. This is where the trick comes in. If the bulb is warm, you just turned it off, so it's the one that you just turned off. If it's cool, then it's the one that's never been turned on.

So, in practicality...

Switches A, B, and C. Rooms 1, 2, and 3.

Flip switches A and B.
Enter Room 1.
-If 1 is Off, it's C, and the remainder is easy enough to figure out.
-If 1 is On, Exit Room 1 and turn off either A or B.
Enter Room 2.
-If 2 is On, then it's the one you still have on, depending on whether you switched off A or B, and the remainder is easy enough to figure out.
-If 2 is Off....
------If the Bulb is Warm, It's the one you just turned off (either A or B), and the remainder is easy enough to figure out.
------If the Bulb is Cold, You never turned this switch on, thereby being switch C, and the remainder is easy enough to figure out.

BTW, if you wanted to know...

Spoiler:

The big hint is that the lights give off heat.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Thoompie

I don't remeber myself saying anything about a second room...
But the idea is right though :-P

Oh shit....damn, I just assumed it was the same riddle, but it's different.....

Well, all the same...

The Official Answer:

Spoiler:

Turn on two switches, wait for like 5 minutes, turn one off. And then go into the room. 1 of 3 will be true...

Bulb is On, It's the one you left on.
Bulb is Off and Cool, It's the one you never turned on.
Bulb is Off and Warm, It's the one you turned on, then off.

Sorry about that.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

You know, theoretically, I could just open the door and look.

Yeah, a lot of riddles are theoretically easy as long as you do something that you would do in real life, but we can just as easily change the scenario and say that the light switches is across the room from the door.

Most amazing jew boots

Checking yourself out? I dunno if the answer is a pun or something.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Do you actually use anything? Or is it something like a door frame with no door?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Do the walls actually make a room, or are there just 4 walls?

Do the walls actually touch the floor and ceiling?

Is it the table that you use?

Do you even use the mirror?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Yeah, I dunno then....

*Checks the Answer*

What the hell.....

Meh, Logic's never done anything good for me anyways.

FELIPE NO