Comments on: I am blue and gold and white and full of links. What am I?

I am blue and gold and white and full of links. What am I?

anastasiav — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:33:52 -0800

Riddles and more riddles - Easy Riddles and Ancient Riddles, Math Riddles and Traditional Riddles, Anglo-Saxon Riddles and Lawyer Riddles, Dirty Riddles and Logic Riddles, Medieval Riddles and Awful Riddles. Finally: Ambiguity, Classification and Change: The Function of Riddles.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:27:59 -0800

(what Schoolblog said in his trackback post) Is this the coolest "thank you", anastasiav, or what? ;) I started with the logic riddles, then went on to the math riddles and...realizing the time-trap I was falling into, just bookmarked the whole thread, for future fun - in small doses!

By: crumbly

crumbly — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:08:28 -0800

Funny, my brother presented us with the Two Ropes riddle (3rd down on the logic riddles link) the other night. When he gave the answer I had one of those "damn, I should have gotten that!" moments. The kind where you wish you could unhear the answer and attack the problem with a little more rigor. That might be the sign of a good riddle, I don't know. (Oh, and FWIW, the 12 balls problem at the bottom of the same page completely kicked my ass.)

By: JaxJaggywires

JaxJaggywires — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:18:13 -0800

I believe I have the solution to the 12 balls riddle, but I'll hold off on writing it, in case you wanna keep thinking crumbly. Talk about a time killing post though ;-> I love it!

By: signal

signal — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:26:36 -0800

The solution to "Daughter or son? " in the logical riddles page is wrong.

By: plep

plep — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:31:38 -0800

Great - thanks!
(And let me say that I am a huge fan of the Exeter Book - medieval Anglo-Saxon riddles, some dirty).

By: JaxJaggywires

JaxJaggywires — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:37:33 -0800

The solution to "Daughter or son? " in the logical riddles page is wrong. Indeed. Wouldn't boy-girl and girl-boy be the same possibility, just said differently? Therefore, a 50% chance the second child is a girl. Guess the riddle was so "medium difficulty" that they fooled themselves.

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:28:39 -0800

Thanks for the riddles, ana, but let us pause to honor the man who has done more for the cause of riddling than anyone else alive. Oh, and I haven't made it through all the links yet, so I don't know if you included the riddle variant that has become the Holy Grail of Group Insulting: Light Bulb Jokes. Sorry if I've degraded the quality of links on this thread, but, after all, I'm the guy who did the MetaPun Post.

By: willnot

willnot — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:45:33 -0800

Petals Around a Rose is a great logic game to worry over for a bit of time. It had me crazy for about 15 or 20 minutes until I was able to work out the solution.

By: signal

signal — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:22:15 -0800

damn you, willnot.

By: notsnot

notsnot — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:38:23 -0800

Double damn you, willnot. Without figuring out what the "petals" and the "rose" are, I used the homophone "rows" and figured it out. Gah, I've been staring at the problem for about 25 minutes.

By: taz

taz — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:53:14 -0800

Thanks a million, anastasiav! I love riddles! willnot - I got it, but it took me about an hour. The "Petals Around a Rose" title turned out to be misleading for me, and I wasted a lot of time pursuing the wrong path. Anyway, once I actually copied down the numbers on the dice with the corresponding answer-numbers, it was pretty easy to resolve.

By: bison

bison — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:19:53 -0800

willnot: oh, that's a good one. I nearly tore my hair out running down a wrong path with notsnot's pun. I love seeing how people solved Petals around the Rose. For me, I looked at how other people (in the story) solved the problem. And once I realized that a computer could not easily solve it where a human could, bammo. I could reliably get the answer. Loverly. Thanks, anastasiav, for posting this.

By: signal

signal — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:42:05 -0800

I solved Petals... Just took me 10 days. Sigh.

By: taz

taz — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:34:47 -0800

Personally, I was very much misled by the "petals of a rose" idea because of the Greek name for a rose, which means, literally, 30 petals. I was wrongly distracted by the idea of "30" for a while. Now that I've figured it out, I guess I could go back to see wtf the puzzle has to do with a rose and it's petals... but, probably, naaah.