Riddles

[frog]

I stole this from Die Hard: With A Vengeance (which is infinitely better than "Scrubs", whose answer is "one nickel and one quarter")...

While I was traveling to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wive had seven cats. Each cat had seven sacks. Each sack had seven kittens. Each kitten had seven mice. Mice, kittens, sacks, cats, and wives, how many were going to St. Ives?

None?

[nb7899]

One because he's going but he never said that the rest of the people/objects/animals, were going.

[I-baLL]

One because he's going but he never said that the rest of the people/objects/animals, were going.

I don't think that this riddle is answerable with the way it's written.

[frog]

One because he's going but he never said that the rest of the people/objects/animals, were going.

I don't think that this riddle is answerable with the way it's written.

Yeah, it doesn't give enough information to give a solid answer. The man he meets might be going the opposite direction, who knows.

[tk]

Yeah, it doesn't give enough information to give a solid answer.

Not enough information?

While I was traveling to St. Ives...

"I" = one person.

[frog]

Yeah, it doesn't give enough information to give a solid answer.

Not enough information?

It doesn't say that the man isn't travelling to St. Ives as well, and due to the ambiguity of "with" we don't know if these wives knives and hives are with him in a property relation, with him in the place of meeting, or with him on his journey to St. Ives. Cf,

That man over there with seven wives (maybe not his wives, but they are present).
The man with seven wives (his wives, maybe not with him here)
The man travelling with seven wives (maybe not his wives, maybe not present, but they are travelling together).

When you read that deep into it, the riddle collapses under its lack of conciseness. But then so would most riddles, hence my not reading that deep into it initially and proposing the answer "none."

[gangals]

Because of the fact that it doesn't mention at what location or to where the other characters are traveling, then you could assume that he met them on the train traveling to St. Ives.

[nb7899]

Yeah, it doesn't give enough information to give a solid answer.

Not enough information?

It doesn't say that the man isn't travelling to St. Ives as well, and due to the ambiguity of "with" we don't know if these wives knives and hives are with him in a property relation, with him in the place of meeting, or with him on his journey to St. Ives. Cf,

That man over there with seven wives (maybe not his wives, but they are present).
The man with seven wives (his wives, maybe not with him here)
The man travelling with seven wives (maybe not his wives, maybe not present, but they are travelling together).

When you read that deep into it, the riddle collapses under its lack of conciseness. But then so would most riddles, hence my not reading that deep into it initially and proposing the answer "none."

The whole point of most riddles is that you have to look outside the box.

[I-baLL]

Yeah, it doesn't give enough information to give a solid answer.

Not enough information?

While I was traveling to St. Ives...

"I" = one person.

But how can we tell if the others are or aren't going to St. Ives?

[.]

Yeah, it doesn't give enough information to give a solid answer.

Not enough information?

While I was traveling to St. Ives...

"I" = one person.

But how can we tell if the others are or aren't going to St. Ives?

well he says "met a man" he doesn't say that he'd met the rest so you can deduce that.


ANYWAYS!!

Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers"?

[silentneep]

Don't know if this make a difference, but the Die Hard riddle beings "As I was going..." instead of "While I was going..."  The word while kind of implies that it was something that happened on the duration of the journey.  "As I was going..." seems more likely to imply that it happened en route.

If you break me, I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?

[.]

Don't know if this make a difference, but the Die Hard riddle beings "As I was going..." instead of "While I was going..."  The word while kind of implies that it was something that happened on the duration of the journey.  "As I was going..." seems more likely to imply that it happened en route.

If you break me, I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?

Reply mine first you selfish!

[I-baLL]

Don't know if this make a difference, but the Die Hard riddle beings "As I was going..." instead of "While I was going..."  The word while kind of implies that it was something that happened on the duration of the journey.  "As I was going..." seems more likely to imply that it happened en route.

If you break me, I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?

Reply mine first you selfish!

You asked a trivia question and not a riddle.

The answer is that when the team was based in Minneapolis they named themselves after the thousands of lakes in Minnesota.

[nb7899]

Yeah, it doesn't give enough information to give a solid answer.

Not enough information?

While I was traveling to St. Ives...

"I" = one person.

But how can we tell if the others are or aren't going to St. Ives?

You don't seem to understand the fact that it wouldn't be a riddle if it said whether or not they were going to St. Ives.  The fact that it doesn't say, is attempting to make you think that they are, but they really arn't, thus making it a riddle.

[.]

a riddle then...

I love the web though I've never used a computa'

what am I?

its an easy one bro's c'mon!