Jokes and Riddles Centre

[Suicide Junkie]

It was a convertible.

Draw 9 dots in a 3x3 grid.

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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)

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
It was a convertible.

Ha! Got ya! It says in the riddle that the car is a sedan. Not a convertable.

and Taera, that's not the answer.

[Jack Simth]

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 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?

The woman was the stranger - she was already in the car, hiding (the trunk, perhaps?) (Alternately, the woman was the stranger and had the keys). There isn't anything in the riddle itself that says the woman was the man's wife; the wife could already have been dead at the outset.

Another possibility, requiring a few typos on your part: car should be plural; they were driving seperately. The woman's car broke down, and the man went for help for her. He locked up his own car, and found the stranger in her car, not his. Again, the wife was already dead, as there is nothing to say that the woman was the man's wife.

Another possibility: the woman was the man's wife, but opened the door for the stranger (she had the keys), who killed her.

Another possibility: There are methods for getting into a locked car without damaging it physically. The stranger could have gotten in with one of those methods. The man's wife was either the woman (who the stranger killed) or was already dead.

This one isn't hard, it's open-ended; there are many possibilities, but of course only one is what happened. There is no real way to choose which one is correct without already knowing the answer. If you care to contradict me on this, find a problems with all the answers I gave that are wrong.

[Suicide Junkie]

Okeydokey.

The stranger in the car was an Ex-CAA/AAA police officer investigating the murder of the guy's wife (who was outside the car at the time, as stated).

[TerranC]

The woman was the stranger - she was already in the car, hiding (the trunk, perhaps?) (Alternately, the woman was the stranger and had the keys). There isn't anything in the riddle itself that says the woman was the man's wife; the wife could already have been dead at the outset.

The woman is not a stranger, as referring somebody as a stranger means that he or she wasn't previously known to the protagonist.

Plus, the woman could have been the man's girlfriend, or Roommate, or Close Friend, and etc.

Another possibility, requiring a few typos on your part: car should be plural; they were driving seperately. The woman's car broke down, and the man went for help for her. He locked up his own car, and found the stranger in her car, not his. Again, the wife was already dead, as there is nothing to say that the woman was the man's wife.

[Edited] Edit: There was a typo on the riddle, but not like the ones you suggested.

Another possibility: the woman was the man's wife, but opened the door for the stranger (she had the keys), who killed her.

Although possible, that's not the answer.

Another possibility: There are methods for getting into a locked car without damaging it physically. The stranger could have gotten in with one of those methods. The man's wife was either the woman (who the stranger killed) or was already dead.

Thinking too much into it, aren't you? Could be possible, but not the answer.

This one isn't hard, it's open-ended; there are many possibilities, but of course only one is what happened. There is no real way to choose which one is correct without already knowing the answer. If you care to contradict me on this, find a problems with all the answers I gave that are wrong.

Indeed. As you said, there's only one answer.

[ July 31, 2003, 23:36: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Okeydokey.

The stranger in the car was an Ex-CAA/AAA police officer investigating the murder of the guy's wife (who was outside the car at the time, as stated).

Nope. Think simpler Dr. Nick.

[ July 31, 2003, 23:33: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[Suicide Junkie]

This one isn't hard, it's open-ended; there are many possibilities, but of course only one is what happened. There is no real way to choose which one is correct without already knowing the answer. If you care to contradict me on this, find a problems with all the answers I gave that are wrong.

Indeed. As you said, there's only one answer.

Negatory, there. You've got the opposite of what he said.

"If you care to contradict me on this, find a problem with all the answers I gave that are wrong."
Please do.

PS:
Hardly needs to be much simpler than that.
Police investigate murders all the time, and cruise the highways and roads, and also know how to get into cars without damaging them.
Makes perfect sense to me.

[ July 31, 2003, 23:36: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
"If you care to contradict me on this, find a problem with all the answers I gave that are wrong."
Please do.

I thought I already did on the ones I could.

[Suicide Junkie]

"Could be simpler" isn't a problem with the answer, its a problem with the question.

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Negatory, there. You've got the opposite of what he said.

The "this" I meant was "...only one is what happened. There is no real way to choose which one is correct without already knowing the answer." - which TC agreed with; he wasn't contradicting me, near as I can tell.

[ July 31, 2003, 23:39: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]