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Worlds Hardest Riddle?
croxis
I am the walrus
in Zocalo v2.0
[url]http://usgamers.blogspot.com/2006/07/worlds-hardest-riddle.html[/url]
[quote]I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champagne bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?
97% of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out, but 84% of kindergarten students were able to figure this out in 6 minutes or less. Can you guess the correct answer? Just post in the comments, I'll reveal the answer in a couple days. Good luck.[/quote]
My first guesses are [spoiler]Air or Heat[/spoiler] but they just dont quite fit
[quote]I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champagne bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?
97% of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out, but 84% of kindergarten students were able to figure this out in 6 minutes or less. Can you guess the correct answer? Just post in the comments, I'll reveal the answer in a couple days. Good luck.[/quote]
My first guesses are [spoiler]Air or Heat[/spoiler] but they just dont quite fit
Comments
Spoiler: No, I can't.
Oh, and I would like to see the actual surveys that found that "97% of Harvard graduates" couldn't figure it out while "84% of kindergarten students" could. Yay for made up statistics to make stupid questions look "official."
BTW, I know the answer. And the answer is....
Spoiler: no
The question is "Can you solve this riddle"?
Harvard Student: Water
Kindergarten student: No.
Therefor, the answer is, "no"
Now, that was the LITERAL answer...but then theres the "Well, too close to not be it catatory..."
Spoiler:
TIME
The time has come,
winter is here
and those yellow bears disappear.
The time has past
as man looks back with a sigh
and a tear in his eye.
As time is held
boys cross their legs
but of course the toilet begs
As time marches on
Girls loose their blush
and swap a comb for their brush
As time passes
For those held high
their end is nigh
As time catches up
Everyone is equal
when we get to the final sequel
As time turns
Without it we have flour and water
With it we have breakfast for my daughter
As time revolves
How does one turn water and wine
into something so fine
As time runs out
The more in a minute you try and squeeze
the less you can do with ease.
As time ticks
All the time that has past
man cannot comprehend something so vast.
-Neil Gaiman, childrens poem
[B]My first guess was Spoiler: the sun (I even had substantial justification), then I thought maybe Spoiler: air works, but after re-reading the question a few times, I have a new one.
Spoiler: No, I can't.
Oh, and I would like to see the actual surveys that found that "97% of Harvard graduates" couldn't figure it out while "84% of kindergarten students" could. Yay for made up statistics to make stupid questions look "official." [/B][/QUOTE]
the one line that imho makes all the answers wrong IMHO is
"If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop."
you can't squeeze Spoiler: God so that can't be the answer, if you squeeze Spoiler: Air it doesnt pop and you dont pop looking at it. you also can't squeeze and make pop Spoiler: heat, coke, the sun, hydrogen, or time
so i think the proper answer has to be Spoiler: No, I can't.
[B]Once you pop, you can't stop! [/B][/QUOTE]
The answer is Pringles???
its 'purple Arrdvarks... '
otherwise it wouldn't be posted here ! :P
(cant find the spoiler tag sry)
I disagree, you can sweeaze time as depicted in the poem, trying to do more with less time...but it doesn't work.
likewise, time can put the sweaze on you.
[B][snip] it's just a bad riddle. [/B][/QUOTE]
That much is fairly certain. :p
Polar bears are black haired until exposed to light, thus the camera has a flash, so it is always right.
Clealy someone will pop when they are in the focal point of an important picture.
And they do most of the rest of the stuff fairly easily to, if you think of the "unintended consequences" idea.
[B] Spoiler: Polar bears are black haired until exposed to light, thus the camera has a flash, so it is always right.[/B][/QUOTE]
Spoiler: Actually, the fur of polar bears is translucent. They have black skin, but because the translucent fur refracts light, they appear white.
[B] Spoiler: Actually, the fur of polar bears is translucent. They have black skin, but because the translucent fur refracts light, they appear white. [/B][/QUOTE]
Actually polar bears aren't actually bears at all, they are sentinals of the zarmaf people sent to earth to keep an eye on the plankton population...
[B]Actually polar bears aren't actually bears at all, they are sentinals of the zarmaf people sent to earth to keep an eye on the plankton population... [/B][/QUOTE]
so true so true
[B]Actually polar bears aren't actually bears at all, they are sentinals of the zarmaf people sent to earth to keep an eye on the plankton population... [/B][/QUOTE]
Nooo, where are the spoiler tags? Why did you spoil everything for me.
;)
[B]Nooo, where are the spoiler tags? Why did you spoil everything for me.
;) [/B][/QUOTE]
Spoiler: Oops, Sorry :)
[B]Actually polar bears aren't actually bears at all, they are sentinals of the zarmaf people sent to earth to keep an eye on the plankton population... [/B][/QUOTE]
You're not supposed to tell them that! You know what happens to those who spread the Forbidden Information to the Underlings!
[B]You're not supposed to tell them that! You know what happens to those who spread the Forbidden Information to the Underlings! [/B][/QUOTE]
They get ice cream???????
"Can you guess the riddle?" is an invalid avenue of inquiry. There is no riddle. The question assumes one exists, but that isn't the case. There's nothing to be able to guess or not guess. Spoiler: "No" isn't right because what are you talking about?