Riddle me this, Riddle me that!

Assuming chickens had the intelligence to talk and lie, yes he could be telling the truth, because he's calling them liars, he doesn't say they always lie.
 
Eugene said:
Assuming chickens had the intelligence to talk and lie, yes he could be telling the truth, because he's calling them liars, he doesn't say they always lie.
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Exactly.

I assume orkoza meant to phrase it as: "All chickens always lie", in which case it is a paradox and is unsolvable. You can't say that he is telling the truth because chickens are "always liars". If indeed chickens were always liars, then the chicken would have rather said: "Chickens never lie".

This is the same way you can't ever say: "It is opposite day today" as the opposite should be to say, "today is not opposite day", which would make it the same as every other day.

This is a form of Russell's paradox which in very complex mathematical terms states: "Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. If R qualifies as a member of itself, it would contradict its own definition as a set containing all sets that are not members of themselves" (Thanks Wikipedia)
 
orkoza said:
OK its all wrong, chickens cant talk. So I'll give it to Eugene
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That's silly. You can't start a riddle with "If a chicken says" and then claim chickens can't talk. You already implied that they could in this scenario.

Anyway...

You throw away my outside then cook my inside, then eat my outside and throw away my inside. What am I?
 
orkoza said:
OK its all wrong, chickens cant talk. So I'll give it to Eugene
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But you stated: "If a chicken says". This presupposes that the chicken can talk. If he is the only chicken that can talk, then the paradox applies. If he is not the only chicken that can talk, then he could be telling the truth or he could be lying. I suppose that depends on the individual chicken.

Poorly formulated. Just sayin'
 
Eugene said:
That's silly. You can't start a riddle with "If a chicken says" and then claim chickens can't talk. You already implied that they could in this scenario.

Anyway...

You throw away my outside then cook my inside, then eat my outside and throw away my inside. What am I?
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Chicken

you pluck the feathers throw them away
you cook the chicken
Eat the chicken
then throw away the bones!

Bet you werent expecting that answer huh :P
 
Roomys_ZA said:
Chicken

you pluck the feathers throw them away
you cook the chicken
Eat the chicken
then throw away the bones!

Bet you werent expecting that answer huh :P
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That seems reasonable, unless it's a talking chicken of course. Most foods will will probably answer that riddle.

You're up.
 
Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
 
Roomys_ZA said:
Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
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Language

There are only three words in the English language. You didn't specify that there was a third word ending in -GRY
 
There are three boxes. One box has only lemons. One box has only oranges. The last box is an equal mixture of lemons and oranges. All the boxes are labeled but all the labels are wrong. How can you, without looking or feeling around, reach into one box, pull out one fruit and based upon what you pulled out correct all the labels?
 
StaggerLee said:
There are three boxes. One box has only lemons. One box has only oranges. The last box is an equal mixture of lemons and oranges. All the boxes are labeled but all the labels are wrong. How can you, without looking or feeling around, reach into one box, pull out one fruit and based upon what you pulled out correct all the labels?
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i hope this is right.

pull a fruit out the first box, and if its a lemon/orange lable the box accordingly, and the second box the opposite fruit.
the "The last box is an equal mixture of lemons and oranges" so you lable it as that.
 
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