Gil-Gandel wrote:
chessgdt wrote:
What unique characteristic do the words thirsty, defiant, and coughing share?
Three consecutive letters in consecutive alphabetical order.
It seems obvious now that you've pointed that out. 
Solve this Riddle if you can
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May 21, 2013
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#503
Interesting characteristic. In Dutch do we have the word 'nop', and a word like versturen (four consecutive letters).
Ok, about letters, it is an oldie in Dutch, yet it fits in the English alfabet too and it reminds to the power of words in the deserted riddle: how many letters does the alfabet contain?
Which alfabet?
keju wrote:
shoopi wrote:
FakeName6 wrote:
keju wrote:
A man is imprisoned in a concrete jail in the middle of a vast desert. There are no other people or animals around. All he has is one wooden stick. How does he escape?
Well, you take the stick and break it in half. Then you put the two halves together, which makes a whole. You put that hole in the wall and jump through it!
This has got to be one of the best answers in this thread.
It's the right answer too! But the man still has to escape the desert. How?
but he can see and he has chips of the sement from the jail! so he put the c(s)hip in the see and sails away
or he put the two halfs of the stick together to make a whole then puts the hole in the ground and jumps through and he ends up on the other side of the world!
ajttja wrote:
or he put the two halfs of the stick together to make a whole then puts the hole in the ground and jumps through and he ends up on the other side of the world!
He doesn't even have to break the stick. He can simply rub his hands together until they are sore. Then use the saw to cut it in half.
It's an amazing riddle. Kids just love it.
How do you split the ocean in half?
what has roads but no cars, oceans but no water?
How do you say "horses" in Dutch?
May 21, 2013
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#513
Gil-Gandel wrote:
How do you say "horses" in Dutch?
1. if I would translate it: paarden,
2. if I would pronunciate it, it would sound close to English, although the accent of our languages is quite different. The s is in Dutch much sharper for instance and you can hear the r better. We have also an h at the start of a lot of words, like hij (he), hebben (have), hallo (hello), hand (hand).
3. we can't pronunciate the word 'horses' in Dutch, because it is not a Dutch word.
We have the same letters in our alfabet, although we have different sounds in our language.
Piecefodder wrote:
ajttja wrote:
or he put the two halfs of the stick together to make a whole then puts the hole in the ground and jumps through and he ends up on the other side of the world!
He doesn't even have to break the stick. He can simply rub his hands together until they are sore. Then use the saw to cut it in half.
That only works if you have an English accent, and England's only desert is far from vast, so I don't think that can be correct.
by his car
it doesnt matter how long he stayed there ,its got nothing to do with how long it took him to get there
he travelled ,it took him 18 hrs to get there
he stayed there for 4 hrs.
he returned home,
all seperate actions
the assumption is he returns by his car
why would he leave it behind
LoekBergman wrote:
Mars.
The English alfabet as stated in the riddle.
It was not stated in the riddle that it was the English alfabet.
Introduction:
"Ok, about letters, it is an oldie in Dutch, yet it fits in the English alfabet too and it reminds to the power of words in the deserted riddle:"
Riddle:
"how many letters does the alfabet contain?"
May 21, 2013
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#517
LudRa95 wrote:
LoekBergman wrote:
Mars.
The English alfabet as stated in the riddle.
It was not stated in the riddle that it was the English alfabet.
Introduction:
"Ok, about letters, it is an oldie in Dutch, yet it fits in the English alfabet too and it reminds to the power of words in the deserted riddle:"
Riddle:
"how many letters does the alfabet contain?"
Ok, stand corrected. :-)
LudRa95 wrote:
LoekBergman wrote:
Mars.
The English alfabet as stated in the riddle.
It was not stated in the riddle that it was the English alfabet.
Introduction:
"Ok, about letters, it is an oldie in Dutch, yet it fits in the English alfabet too and it reminds to the power of words in the deserted riddle:"
Riddle:
"how many letters does the alfabet contain?"
seven different letters, but ten in total, unless this is a trick question and the space counts as a letter, in which case there would be eight different letters and eleven in total.
chasm1995 wrote:
LudRa95 wrote:
LoekBergman wrote:
Mars.
The English alfabet as stated in the riddle.
It was not stated in the riddle that it was the English alfabet.
Introduction:
"Ok, about letters, it is an oldie in Dutch, yet it fits in the English alfabet too and it reminds to the power of words in the deserted riddle:"
Riddle:
"how many letters does the alfabet contain?"
seven different letters, but ten in total, unless this is a trick question and the space counts as a letter, in which case there would be eight different letters and eleven in total.
That interpretation requires quotation marks around "the alfabet". The answer is 26 letters.
What unique characteristic do the words thirsty, defiant, and coughing share?
Three consecutive letters in consecutive alphabetical order.