Official Trivia/Riddles/Lateral Thinking Thread

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Originally Posted by Calliander

So who posts the next one?

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Question poster has discretion on winner selection.

SP said you.

So...you.

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Originally Posted by Takumi

I had five pet hedgehogs. They were fun pets until they all died. That wasn't fun.

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Did you ever mistook them for a chestnut? How about you MVS? :confused:

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Originally Posted by SapphirePhoenix

But you can't say whatever...it's like me saying,"CT or NY???" For Mel Gibson, you made me choose a state. Not to mention it takes more than 3 days for a lizard egg to incubate.

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Yeah, I dig.

Hence, I'll add

11) Poster of Question has sole and final judgement as to who was the first to post correct answer.

in the rules.

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Originally Posted by SearchManX

Did you ever mistook them for a chestnut? How about you MVS? :confused:

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I honestly can't say I did, but I was 4 years old.

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Originally Posted by SearchManX

Did you ever mistook them for a chestnut? How about you MVS? :confused:

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Nope sorry. But one did crawl inside a couch and I sat on it. I've never known chestnuts to poke their eyes out on waterbottles either...

If you feed a hedgehog enough bread and milk, its stomach explodes.

Yowch! That's a gruesome image.

Alright.

I hope Regus isn't looking for one right now. Maybe he can post his no matter who gets mine. Anyway.

A man has ten bags of coins which all look alike. One of the bags is filled with fake coins. All the genuine coins weigh 10 grams each and all the fake coins weight 20 grams each. Each of the ten bags contain 20 coins. Using a scale which measures in grams, how would he be able to determine which bag contains the fake coins with only one weighing?

I'd assume that applies to any animal as well ^_^

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Originally Posted by Calliander

Alright.

I hope Regus isn't looking for one right now. Maybe he can post his no matter who gets mine. Anyway.

A man has ten bags of coins which all look alike. One of the bags is filled with fake coins. All the genuine coins weigh 10 grams and all the fake coins weight 20 grams each. Each of the ten bags contain 20 coins. Using a scale which measures in grams, how would he be able to determine which bag contains the fake coins with only one weighing?

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Put them all on the scale, take them off one at a time.

I live above a star, and yet I never burn,
I have eleven neighbors, and yet none of them turn,
I am visited in sequence, first, last or in between,
PRS (& sometimes Q) are my initials,
now tell me what I mean.

What am I?