Jokes and Riddles Centre

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by TerranC:
A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made sure nobody else, other than the woman, was in the car, rolled all the windows up, and locked all of the sedan's doors. He went off, but when he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car. No physical damage was done to the car, so how did the stranger get in?

Edit: Slight typo. Sorry folks.

In that case, a few more possibilities:

1) The woman opened the door for the stranger (easy from the inside) - wife was either already dead or was the woman and was killed by the stranger.

2) Stranger to who? Most readings will assume that the riddle means stranger to the man, but that isn't necessarily the case. I haven't met this woman, so she is a stranger to me. The woman could thus be the stranger, and have already been in the car. With such a case, the wife would have already been dead, or the wife was the woman and died from heat stroke/heart attack/whatever (if a dead person can qualify as a stranger).

3) If stranger doesn't imply human, it could refer to an insect/spider/rodent/whatever that got in; cars aren't usually air-tight. If the woman was the wife, she could have died from something while in the car (perhaps a bite). If the woman was not the wife, the wife was already dead.

4) The stranger could have gotten in if the woman rolled down a window. Then, either the woman was the wife and the stranger killed her or the wife was already dead.

[atari_eric]

Originally posted by TerranC:
Bah. I think that one was too easy. Here's a harder one IMHO.

A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made sure nobody else, other than the woman, was in the car, rolled all the windows up, and locked all of the sedan's doors. He went off, but when he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car. No physical damage was done to the car, so how did the stranger get in?

Edit: Slight typo. Sorry folks.

Woman died giving birth to the "stranger".

[TerranC]

In that case, a few more possibilities:

1) The woman opened the door for the stranger (easy from the inside) - wife was either already dead or was the woman and was killed by the stranger.

Taera already implied this, and I already posted that that implication was wrong.

2) Stranger to who? Most readings will assume that the riddle means stranger to the man, but that isn't necessarily the case. I haven't met this woman, so she is a stranger to me. The woman could thus be the stranger, and have already been in the car. With such a case, the wife would have already been dead, or the wife was the woman and died from heat stroke/heart attack/whatever (if a dead person can qualify as a stranger).

Close! You've got the concept of the answer, but not quite there.

3) If stranger doesn't imply human, it could refer to an insect/spider/rodent/whatever that got in; cars aren't usually air-tight. If the woman was the wife, she could have died from something while in the car (perhaps a bite). If the woman was not the wife, the wife was already dead.

It's assumed that there are no such things in or near the car.

4) The stranger could have gotten in if the woman rolled down a window. Then, either the woman was the wife and the stranger killed her or the wife was already dead.

Nope.

[TerranC]

Originally posted by atari_eric:
Woman died giving birth to the "stranger".

And there it is!

Here's another one:

During WWII, there was a bridge connecting Germany and Switzerland, and on the German side, there was a sentry tower with a guard in it. He would come out every three minutes to check on the bridge, and he had orders to turn back anyone who tried to get into Germany, and shoot anyone trying to escape without a pass. There was a woman who desperately needed to get into Switzerland, and she knew she didn't have time to get a pass. It would take her at least six minutes to cross the bridge, but she managed to do it. How?

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
It was a convertible.

Draw 9 dots in a 3x3 grid.

code:

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.  .  .

.  .  .

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Now, connect all the dots with only 4 straight lines, each beginning where the previous one ended. (Ie, don't take your pen off of the paper)

The trick is long lines and going beyond the grid:

code:

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O

|\   /

. . .

|  X

. . .

|/   \

.-.-.-O

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1) Lower left to right of lower right
2) Go to above Upper Left
3) Go to Lower Left
4) Go to Upper Right

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by TerranC:
Here's another one:

During WWII, there was a bridge connecting Germany and Switzerland, and on the German side, there was a sentry tower with a guard in it. He would come out every three minutes to check on the bridge, and he had orders to turn back anyone who tried to get into Germany, and shoot anyone trying to escape without a pass. There was a woman who desperately needed to get into Switzerland, and she knew she didn't have time to get a pass. It would take her at least six minutes to cross the bridge, but she managed to do it. How?

Only half the bridge was German territory.

[Suicide Junkie]

The mess made by the birth would probably wreck the upholstery, but that's probably the answer being looked for.

Question:
Every day, little Joey's math teacher gave a math test. Joey managed to get a perfect score in the class.
If the only question on each test was "Square root of 4 = ___ ___", what THREE things must he have written on each test paper?

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Question:
Every day, little Joey's math teacher gave a math test. Joey managed to get a perfect score in the class.
If the only question on each test was "Square root of 4 = ___ ___", what THREE things must he have written on each test paper?

I see some possibilities:
1) "1" "+" "1"
2) "2" "-2" "Joey"

[ August 01, 2003, 00:15: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by TerranC:
During WWII, there was a bridge connecting Germany and Switzerland,...

The woman waited for the guard to go into the tower and started across. Three minutes later, just before he came back out she was about halfway accross and she turned and started walking back into Germany. Guard comes out and sees a woman trying to get in without permission and per his orders commands her to turn back. She does and walks to freedom in Switzerland.

Geoschmo

[ August 01, 2003, 00:14: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Suicide Junkie]

I see some possibilities:
1) "1" "+" "1"
2) "2" "-2" "Joey"

Given the two separate blanks to fill in for the question, and the fact that square roots have two values, answering "1+1" on the test would be only half credit at best.

#2 is absolutely correct.