What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?

Answer:
<b onMouseOver="innerHTML='The year\'s date reads the same when turned upside down. That will not happen again until 6009.'">Move your mouse here for the answer.</b>

ah...Clever...how do you get the words to change when you move ur mouse over them?

ive got one for ya...

have you guys ever heard of einstein's riddle? it goes like this:

1. On a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

Einstein wrote this riddle and claimed 98% of the world could not solve it. Are you in the top 2% of the world? :P

please do not cheat on this one. it is very gratifying to figure it out on your own. it took me i would guess a total of about 4 hours. it is just basically a guess and check routine. it helps a lot to have a lot of paper!

GOOD LUCK!

P.S. dont post the answer, u dont want to ruin it for others!

Ok i did it, one hour in between chatting to people, not as difficult as i thought it would be but its still pretty good.

btw, NuttyFish, this is what I found about Alpha's special answer, HTML style:
< onMouseOver = "InnerHTML='the text'" >

By the way, this is a light riddle.
What come next?
OTTFFSS???

By the way, this is a light riddle.
What come next?
OTTFFSS???

answer -> E

Here's a good one, though it is fairly simple depending who you are: What is the next number in the following sequence?
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

oh shoot sorry :P (gave answer)

I solved the einstein riddle. Took me about 40 min. It helps to lay out the data in an excel spreadsheet.

ah...Clever...how do you get the words to change when you move ur mouse over them?Javascript. Did you bother to figure out the answer first?
have you guys ever heard of einstein's riddle? it goes like this:Never heard of this, but it doesn't look too difficult to solve. It's a simple logic puzzle. I've done enough of these to know I could do it.
What come next?
OTTFFSS???I've seen and done this one before. E.
Here's a good one, though it is fairly simple depending who you are: What is the next number in the following sequence?
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221I've seen and done this before too.
<b onMouseOver="innerHTML='1113213211'">Answer</b>.

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Here's another:
You want to gain access to a club, and the bouncer requires the correct response to a challenge. You observe a few challenge and repsonse sequences:
12, 3.
10, 1.
8, 11.
Now you try: 6, ?.

<b onMouseOver="innerHTML='Another sequence: 4, 7'">Hint</b>.

<b onMouseOver="innerHTML='9. Ninety degrees clockwise on a clock.'">Answer</b>.

I'm not good with numbers, but here's a riddle (sort of):

Draw a square with only 3 straight lines.

that answer thing is pretty cool. :m:

ive got one for ya...

have you guys ever heard of einstein's riddle? it goes like this:

1. On a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

Einstein wrote this riddle and claimed 98% of the world could not solve it. Are you in the top 2% of the world? :P

please do not cheat on this one. it is very gratifying to figure it out on your own. it took me i would guess a total of about 4 hours. it is just basically a guess and check routine. it helps a lot to have a lot of paper!

GOOD LUCK!

P.S. dont post the answer, u dont want to ruin it for others!
This thing took forever. About four hours like you say. I cannot say that it is not possible to solve it faster. But, I am suspicious of the 40 minute solution. Admittedly, I was interrupted many times. However, just the minutia of checking and cross checking. I used a spreadsheet but it still took a long time. I have to assume that my time would be at least average because I do these all the time.

This thing took forever. About four hours like you say. I cannot say that it is not possible to solve it faster. But, I am suspicious of the 40 minute solution. Admittedly, I was interrupted many times. However, just the minutia of checking and cross checking. I used a spreadsheet but it still took a long time. I have to assume that my time would be at least average because I do these all the time.

I took 15-25 minutes to solve it B0urg. No lists and little writing down: just logic.

I took 15-25 minutes to solve it B0urg. No lists and little writing down: just logic.
You lie like a rug ;)

I guess I am in the top 2%. :p

I wrote down the hints in abbreviated form, made some grids and worked it for about 30 mins... 10 of which were on the toilet (where I do my best thinking of course).

A hint for those still racking your brains... the key is not figuring out what is where... but what cannot be somewhere.

Riddles are Funness! :)

I'm not good with numbers, but here's a riddle (sort of):

Draw a square with only 3 straight lines.

LoL

I'm usually best with spatial puzzles but this sneaky one is giving me troubles...

The only solution I have is to draw a ... square root sign!

Hope I didn't give it away... I don't think I'm right so I'll keep cranking away at it...

:eek:

that answer thing is pretty cool. :m:

it is like magic. Normally I don't care about the answers, but now I check them because i am HARRY POTTER (jr).

I'm not good with numbers, but here's a riddleYou don't need to be to solve this one. ;)
10 of which were on the toilet (where I do my best thinking of course). I have the perfect avatar for you:
The Stinker (http://community.webshots.com/s/image1/2/46/28/35424628YqiBLH_ph.jpg) ;)
Draw a square with only 3 straight lines.I think I have it:
<b onMouseOver="innerHTML='Draw three circles on a sphere in such a way as to make a square on the surface'">Possible answer</b>.
That right?

Draw a square with only 3 straight lines.

I think I know the answer, though it is a wild guess considering i just woke up 15 minutes ago ... is it --> Drawing three lines on the edge of a piece of paper so the the three lines and the edge of the paper makes a square.

Is this right?

I think I know the answer, though it is a wild guess considering i just woke up 15 minutes ago ... is it --> Drawing three lines on the edge of a piece of paper so the the three lines and the edge of the paper makes a square.

Is this right?


No, think harder. :)

Draw 3 lines (very short ones) one next to the other (the same long), they will form a square. (a miniscule one). (something like: III without the white space in between them)

Hmmm......... only straight lines I presume, otherwise it can be a bit easier.....
I dunno

Yah, thats what I actually meant: |||

(but lines have to be smaller and put together..)

Technically all the suggestions for the 3 line riddle would work.
And Rosa, the one about the edge of the paper is essentially the same as the answer you told me.

Here's another:
What is it that gets wetter when it dries?

Ice

__________

Make that line shorter by not touching it or altering it in anyway.

That one is simple ... I think ... you just have to back away from the computer screen and your depth perception will make the line shorter without physically interacting with it.

I agree with that answer.

That one is simple ... I think ... you just have to back away from the computer screen and your depth perception will make the line shorter without physically interacting with it.

Not what I had in mind. Not the answer I was looking for anyway.

The Einstein riddle....does it involve logic like "the man who drinks milk must have the cat as the pet since cats drink milk"...otherwise I give up.

Does shortening that line involve messing around with the monitor settings (like horizontally shortening the screen) ... and also ... would the answer would be the same if I were to draw a line on any piece of paper.

... would the answer would be the same if I were to draw a line on any piece of paper.

Yup....puzzle would be the same if I drew the line on a piece of paper....it has nothing to do with PC functions.

Damn ... I was hoping technology would help me solve it. :)

The Einstein riddle....does it involve logic like "the man who drinks milk must have the cat as the pet since cats drink milk"...otherwise I give up.

No, it doesn't.

Well I stink at pussles, however I've got few I use as a jokes.

1 Its wet, hard, long, and full of c-men.

(BTW, I can't spell the last word, for this one is verbal riddle.)

2 what do you get if you cross a rooster with a night owl?.

3 what do you get if you cross an elephant with a rhinosserous?.

Godless.

The Einstein riddle....does it involve logic like "the man who drinks milk must have the cat as the pet since cats drink milk"...otherwise I give up.

nope. the riddle has no weird associations like that, just take the hints literally and keep guessing and checking!

p.s....curious is rite...try to find out what CANT be together and go from there

Its wet, hard, long, and full of c-men
A submarine. Duh.

__________

Make that line shorter by not touching it or altering it in anyway.

Draw a longer line below it

__________
_________________

Sargentlard,

__________

Make that line shorter by not touching it or altering it in anyway.

Is adding > < on each end regarded as alteration?

Ie. original line:
----------

the same one but shorter:
>----------<

(Heh, this should actually work, but it doesn't onscreen.)


***
The 3 lines riddle: Uh, okay. It is really silly actually. Just draw a simple square, and into it, draw, 3 straight lines. And you have drawn a suqare with only 3 straight lines. Huh, you can also draw a sqaure with only two straight lines, or one. It's a riddle where people tend to get hung up on "semantics", while the solution is ignoringly simple.

lolz......... darn....:P

actually ... the 3 line riddle can be solved another way ... as i found out. You draw two parallel lines horizontally across a piece of paper where the distance between them is the same as the width of the paper. Then, you draw the third line perpendicular to the two parallel lines down the middle. Then you take a pair of scissors and cut the paper along the third line you just drew and alternate the two sides of paper so that it forms a square.

In other words ... think of the capital letter I ... cut it up the middle along the line ... and switch the two pieces to the opposite side to form a square.

IceGood answer! That works, though it's not the one I was looking for.
Make that line shorter by not touching it or altering it in anyway.Does changing the screen resolution, or text size count?
Yup....puzzle would be the same if I drew the line on a piece of paper....it has nothing to do with PC functions. Er... guess not.
Draw a longer line below itClever.
actually ... the 3 line riddle can be solved another way ... as i found out. You draw two parallel lines horizontally across a piece of paper where the distance between them is the same as the width of the paper. Then, you draw the third line perpendicular to the two parallel lines down the middle. Then you take a pair of scissors and cut the paper along the third line you just drew and alternate the two sides of paper so that it forms a square.That's what I meant, but I said sphere for some reason.

As for making the line shorter, the answers given seem to work, so care to give us a hint?

What is it that gets wetter when it dries?
a towel.

That's it.
Here's some more:

1 //---

Always old, sometimes new
Never sad, sometimes blue
Never empty, sometimes full
Never pushes, always pulls
What is it?

2 //---

The man who builds it doesn't want it.
The man who buys it, doens't need it.
The man who uses it never sees it.

3 //---

What is broken by naming it?

4 //---

When encountered, I set men to thinking
Dumbfounded confused and unblinking,
I am always unknown, though I am not alone,
And if I had two eyes I’d be winking.

5 //---

Although the people who come to see it think it moves forward, it actually moves backwards. It started about seven miles from where it is today and is moving now much slower than in the past. Previously, it travelled as much as five feet a year, but now it's travelling less than half that distance. Despite its slow speed, most of the people who have tried to ride along it have perished in the attempt.
What is it?

2 //---

The man use builds it doesn't want it.
The man who buys it, doens't need it.
The man who uses it never see it.

A coffin



3 //---

What is broken by naming it?

Silence


The rest I cannot answer yet.

have you guys ever heard of einstein's riddle? it goes like this:

I love this riddle, actually i love the fact that einstien came up with it.
click the link to see Einstein displaying the answer.
http://www.sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3114&stc=1

Dreamwalker, those are correct.
A hint for #1: Pay attention to the positive attributes, not the negative ones.
I can't think of a hint for #4, but it's a lot simpler/obvious than you might think.
#5 is a natural landmark, so you might not know the answer.

Although the people who come to see it think it moves forward, it actually moves backwards. It started about seven miles from where it is today and is moving now much slower than in the past. Previously, it travelled as much as five feet a year, but now it's travelling less than half that distance. Despite its slow speed, most of the people who have tried to ride along it have perished in the attempt.
What is it?
Is it some kind of waterfall or river?

#5 does sound like a glacier.

#1 I don´t know, perhaps the moon?

Although the people who come to see it think it moves forward, it actually moves backwards. It started about seven miles from where it is today and is moving now much slower than in the past. Previously, it travelled as much as five feet a year, but now it's travelling less than half that distance. Despite its slow speed, most of the people who have tried to ride along it have perished in the attempt.
What is it?

Is it Niagara Falls

#1 - The Moon
#2 - Niagara Falls

GJ. :)

Here's a lateral thinking puzzle:
A hunter aimed his gun carefully and fired. Seconds later, he realized his mistake. Minutes later, he was dead.

A hunter aimed his gun carefully and fired. Seconds later, he realized his mistake. Minutes later, he was dead.
He must have shot himself.

Nope. He didn't realize his mistake until seconds later. And that would be some mistake, shooting yourself.

How high is a chinaman?

this is more an oral riddle, i mean it sounds better if you speak it out loud

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A hunter aimed his gun carefully and fired. Seconds later, he realized his mistake. Minutes later, he was dead.
Did he shoot something explosive? Or maybe a beehive? Something that would fight back? Or did he shoot a bear with a pellet-gun? All of those things could work.

1 - moon
3 - silence

A hunter aimed his gun carefully and fired. Seconds later, he realized his mistake. Minutes later, he was dead.


He shot the gun vertically in the air and the bullet came down and killed him?

but if he did that and arealized it before it killed him couldn't he just move?

A hunter aimed his gun carefully and fired. Seconds later, he realized his mistake. Minutes later, he was dead.

It was wintertime and him firing the gun started an avalanche.

Here is another lateral thinking one for you all

A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator, or if it was raining that day, he goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.

A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator, or if it was raining that day, he goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.

The man was a midget ... if someone else was in the elevator, he can get him/her to press the twelth floor button ... or if it rained, he had an umbrella to reach and press the twelth floor button. Otherwise, the man was too short to reach it for himself and had to settle with going to the tenth floor and walking the rest of the way.

---> Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change.

What am I?

The man was short ... if someone else was in the elevator, he can get him/her to press the twelth floor button ... or if it rained, he had an umbrella to reach and press the twelth floor button. Otherwise, the man was too short to reach it for himself and had to settle with going to the tenth floor and walking the rest of the way.
well done dude

Did he shoot something explosive? Or maybe a beehive? Something that would fight back? Or did he shoot a bear with a pellet-gun? All of those things could work.Nope.
He shot the gun vertically in the air and the bullet came down and killed him?Nope. That wouldn't work either.
but if he did that and arealized it before it killed him couldn't he just move?Exactly.
It was wintertime and him firing the gun started an avalanche.Right.
Here is another lateral thinking one for you all

A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator, or if it was raining that day, he goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.Heh, I know this one, I've solved it before.
---> Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change.

What am I?Hmm... Shadows perhaps?

---> Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change.

What am I?

Eye pupil?

“
---> Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change.

What am I?

A penis?

hmmm ... those are some interesting answers to my riddle ... I didn't expect a penis for an answer though.

But alas, Rosa did manage to give the correct answer.

Aw, all these riddles are bedazzling me reallu.... Can't figure any of them...:(
Maybe I'll try to make some to ease my dismay..... guess the object:)

1) Three runners in a single track.
2) Shaking a cold volcano is a good idea.
3) Murderers do have sympathy.

Guesses:)?

Two horses

A man had two horses. They were of the same gender, the same size. They had the same eyes and the same hoofs. They were both equally fast and equally strong. They prefered the same kind of food. They responded the same way to the man's calls. In fact, they were so the same that they even had the same name.

How could the man distinguish between the two of them?

They were a different colour, all u say thats the same is eyes and hoofs the rest could be a different colour.

Yeah. :)
But it's amazing, sometimes it takes so much for people to think of that.

1) Three runners in a single track.
Guesses:)?
Is it a closet door?

2) Shaking a cold volcano is a good idea.Guesses
I have a snow globe of hawaii. Is it something like that?

Closet door? Nah, though if there's that kind of door, that wasn't my idea...
And snowglobe? Hmmm, no.....
Thanks for answering anyway. Here's extra clue:
for 1) What do you think when you hear the word dizzy?
for 2) bubbles...

Two horses

A man had two horses. They were of the same gender, the same size. They had the same eyes and the same hoofs. They were both equally fast and equally strong. They prefered the same kind of food. They responded the same way to the man's calls. In fact, they were so the same that they even had the same name.

How could the man distinguish between the two of them?

One's a shadow.

Solidus

No, lemming gave the answer already. Only their eyes and hooves were the same, the rest were not physical attributes. They were different color.

Sorry, didn't read further :P

ive got one for ya...

have you guys ever heard of einstein's riddle? it goes like this:

1. On a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

Einstein wrote this riddle and claimed 98% of the world could not solve it. Are you in the top 2% of the world? :P

please do not cheat on this one. it is very gratifying to figure it out on your own. it took me i would guess a total of about 4 hours. it is just basically a guess and check routine. it helps a lot to have a lot of paper!

GOOD LUCK!

P.S. dont post the answer, u dont want to ruin it for others!

It needn't take that long and surely does not require a buttload of paper. I solved it in half an hour with notes that covered about a 3rd of a normal sheet of paper (A4). And you don't need to guess at any juncture in the solving process, the answers are already there once you get it in system.