some riddles

[kurlyq2g]

Quote:
Originally Posted by DrKatz420
Not exactly a riddle, but can you think of a common english word with 9 letters and only one syllable?



Here's a hint: the first letter is the same as the last letter.

Here's a hint: the first letter is the same as the last letter.

thought about this one for a long time...did alot of counting....

strengths

and thanks to junglistne i later thought of scratched

 

[billycw]

there was a king that ruled 10 lands, each land had their own coin, the coins were supposed to wiegh a pound each. now 1 land was cheating and skimped off 1oz from each coin. the king had to find out which land was cheating him, but he had a scale that he could only use 1 time. how does he find out which land was skimping?

 

[DrKatz420]

"strengths" is the word i was thinking of. "scratched" also works, good job. Maybe there are a few more. . .

 

[kurlyq2g]

there was a king that ruled 10 lands, each land had their own coin, the coins were supposed to wiegh a pound each. now 1 land was cheating and skimped off 1oz from each coin. the king had to find out which land was cheating him, but he had a scale that he could only use 1 time. how does he find out which land was skimping?

Watch the scale every time another coin is placed on, and the one that does not make the scale reach a whole pound incriment, is the cheat?

I had alot of trouble wording that... still does not sound too great...

Or perhaps i make this too easy... did you mean that he could only load the scale once, all ten coins at a time? Or that he could not take anything off the scale and then put another thing on it?

Man, i have not been this sober in a LONG while...its affecting my thinking in a negative manner.... wierd... So please be nice if I dont make any sense.

 

[billycw]

did you mean that he could only load the scale once

yes i ment he could only load the scale and look at the weight once. but good thinking.

 

[Peregrin Took]

Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is

laguage. "there are only three words in The English Language" ...Language is the third word.

Some will use me, while others will not, some have remembered, while others have forgot. For profit or gain, I'm used expertly, I can't be picked off the ground or tossed into the sea. Only gained from patience and time, can you unravel my rhyme?

You guys had it right, Knowledge. But Wisdom works too.

 

[kurlyq2g]

yes i ment he could only load the scale and look at the weight once. but good thinking.

what is the answer to the king who ruled 10 lands?

 

[billycw]

there was a king that ruled 10 lands, each land had their own coin, the coins were supposed to wiegh a pound each. now 1 land was cheating and skimped off 1oz from each coin. the king had to find out which land was cheating him, but he had a scale that he could only use 1 time. how does he find out which land was skimping?

the answer is as follows-

you put 1 coin from the first land, 2 coins from the second, 3 coins from the third,.....and 10 coins from the tenth land, and how ever many ounces the weight is off that is your skimper.
so if you are 7 oz off it was the 7 land.