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[holyjesusbeams]

Unfortunately, Discedo, I seem to have very little to offer regarding pleasant conversation topics, so have another riddle or two, instead~

1 | Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs, each person had an egg. How is this possible?

2 | Three lawyers rent a hotel room for the night. When they get

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[screened] lol he's so retarded

[ilpresto]

1. I don't know! Maybe one of them had an egg, but didn't eat it?

2. ...I can't tell at all. I've never been very good at math logic.

3. I have three!

4. As many as you have? Maybe the missing fourth egg from the first problem is there!

5. Um... Forever? If you go into negative numbers, that is!

6. An end? 'Cause there are two days in the weekend.

7. For a minute I thought this was a clock-problem, but that doesn't work either. How do you do it?

8. Economic inflation. [No rly]

9. I don't know! I'm from Japan!

10. Meat, right?

[screened] ...oh god kazuki you're so cute

[holyjesusbeams]

1. Think less about the eggs and more about the people involved.

2. Is that a relent, then?

3. Correct.

4. [...He's just pausing to laugh here.]

5. Not quite. Subtract 6 from 30 once and you get 24. After that, it is no longer 30, so therefore the answer is only once. Number 4 has a similar answer.

6. Not precisely. There's one in an end, too.

7. Using roman numerals, 12 is XII. Putting a line through the middle - the halfway point - horizontally makes "VII", which is seven.

8. Good one. Not the answer I had in mind, but... Hm. That also rings true.

9. [Laughing at this response also~]

10. And yes! That was actually one I was expecting few people to get.

So two and a half to three. Not bad, considering the hour, Kazuki-kun.

[screened] hee <3

[ilpresto]

1. Two fathers and two sons... No, I still don't get it.

2. Yeah, I'd never figure that one out.

4. If it's like five, then... One egg! Because then it wouldn't be an empty basket anymore, right?

6. Oh! Oh! I get it! The letter 'E'! Am I right?

7. I don't know roman numerals either. So that's how it works!

9. How does American money work anyways? How much is a dollar?

10. Really? I thought that one was the easiest!

It's still a crummy score, heh. And I'm up because I took a nap this afternoon, and now I can't get back to sleep!

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[holyjesusbeams]

1. One is a grandfather, thus his son is both a son and father to the grandfather's grandson.

2. The math is incorrect. 9 • 3 + 5 - 2 = $27. The other way to go about this would to just say that the bellhop refunded $3, skipping the detail of the tip.

4. Hee hee, yes.

6. Also correct.

9. A dollar is the equivalent of approximately 100 yen, and their coins are the rough equivalent of 1, 5, 10, and 25 yen.

At least all this chip-removal nonsense has wound down by now. Best enjoy the peace while it lasts?

[Text || Locked] oh god my brain. I remember some of these from high school

[wishgazer]

I might as well give it a try.

1. One of them is a grandfather, and one of the other two is both this man's son and the other son's father.
2. It's 9x3+5-2, if I've got my calculations right, so the lawyer was wrong.
3. 3.
4. One, since the basket wont be empty after that.
5. Once, because after 30, you get 24.
6. "E".
7. XII is 12. If you cut that horizontally, it'll be VII, which is 7.
8. A person's age.
9. I'm not that familiar with American money, sorry.
10. Meat.

[Text || Locked] Fff, I love how the one he can't/doesn't answer is probably the trickiest.

[holyjesusbeams]

All correct, save for the ninth. Impressive!

[Text || Locked] That's the mun's fault- I really DON'T KNOW American currency D':

[wishgazer]

Thanks.

I have just the one for you: A woman tries to drop her husband into the ocean, but he blows back into the boat. Why?

[Text || Locked] Oshi-- Where are you from? ♥

[holyjesusbeams]

Because she didn't think to drop the urn in with the cremated ashes.

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[greatcuppajoe]

Ya know, Josh, I bet the library's got an audiovisual section.

[voice | Japanese]

[holyjesusbeams]

You'd discourage me doing my best to entertain the residents, Sanae?

[voice | Japanese]

[greatcuppajoe]

Just thinkin' of your welfare. Besides, judgin' from those weather reports, most of the TVs around here are still workin'.

[voice | Japanese]

[holyjesusbeams]

I may look into it.

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[latteheart]

More riddles? I guess people around here really like them, huh...I only can get a few of them, though.

1. This is an old one. It's a son, a father, and a grandfather, right?

3. If you take three, then you've got three!

4. One. Then it's not empty anymore.

8. ...a person's age.

I can't figure out any of the others...they all sound like math problems. That's too hard.

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[holyjesusbeams]

They're a good way to pass the time, wouldn't you agree?

Your answers are correct. Perhaps you'll get more of them if I hint that not all of them are math, and merely deceive you into believing that they are.

[locked] Last time you did a riddle I was so mad. I got it but my characters weren't smart enough 8|

[latteheart]

They're fun! And some people can come up with really clever ones.

Aha, trick questions? That's sneaky. Hmm... [brb thinking them over again]

5. Ah, then, is this the same as number four? You can only take 6 from 30 once, because after that it's not 30 anymore?

6. This one's pretty easy when you think about it again. It's the letter "e", right?

10. Are you sure this isn't math? Haa, how are we supposed to know what he weighs just from that? I guess he'd have to be pretty big to be a butcher, but...

...oh! Oh, I get it now! A butcher weighs meat!

[locked] Fff, thus why there are more this time~

[holyjesusbeams]

Correct in all cases. Riddles, quite often, focus on one's ability to form logical reasoning, rather than exercise pure 'book smart' skill.

[screened] He's bored enough and can't sleep.

[a_lone_flame]

1) One of them is a grandfather while the others are the man's son and the other son's father.
2) 9x3+5-2.
3) Three.
4) One.
5) Again, once.
6) E.
7) Roman numerals - XII is twelve. VII is seven. Split it down the half, and there you go.
8) Age.
9) $1.19. 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies.
10) Meat.

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[holyjesusbeams]

Are these really so simple...? Hm.

All are correct.

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[a_lone_flame]

I guess they are, if you asked that question.

Good.

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[holyjesusbeams]

That, or Discedo is more intelligent than I thought.