??Riddler Competiton??!
Question: 3 riddles.
1st to get them right wins.
1. Two cops walked into a room with no windows and found a dead man who obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn't figure out how. There was no chair beneath him that he might have jumped off of, or a table. Just a puddle of water. How'd he do it?
2. A man is lying dead with a backpack on, face down in the desert. What happened?
This next one is sort of a riddle...
3. The paragraph below is most unusual. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?
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"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "
The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930's
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What is unusual about the paragraph above
Answers: 3 riddles.
1st to get them right wins.
1. Two cops walked into a room with no windows and found a dead man who obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn't figure out how. There was no chair beneath him that he might have jumped off of, or a table. Just a puddle of water. How'd he do it?
2. A man is lying dead with a backpack on, face down in the desert. What happened?
This next one is sort of a riddle...
3. The paragraph below is most unusual. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?
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"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "
The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930's
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What is unusual about the paragraph above
Well, the first one is a guy who hung himself standing on a block of ice.
Then the man was a parachute jumper who's parachute failed to open.
There is no 'E' to be found in the paragraph, despite it being the most commonly used letter in the alphabet.
10 points please.
Q - Two cops walked into a room with no windows and found a dead man who obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn't figure out how. There was no chair beneath him that he might have jumped off of, or a table. Just a puddle of water. How'd he do it?
A - Stood on a block of ice
1. He stood on a block of ice, noosed himself, and died. Then the ice melted, thus resulting in a puddle.
2. The man jumped out of a plane over a desert, but his parachute failed to open.
3. There is no "the" in the whole paragraph
Stood on a block of ice hung himself and died then the ice melted into a puddle.
the man jumped out of a plane or a helicopter with a parachute but it failed to open which was why he was found face down lying dead
the most common letter in the english alphabet is "E" which is not found here AT ALL
1: the man was a fish
2: their hot air balloon was falling and he pulled the knotted string
3: there is no "e" in that paragraph the most common letter in the English alphabet
Stood on an ice block
parachuter whose paracute didn't open
no E
1. he stood on a big block of ice and it eventually melted leavin a puddle of water.
2. he was a skydiver r sumthing lik that an wen he jumped out of the plane his parachute didn't work
3 the letter 'e' does not appear in the paragraph!
1. Block of ice.
2. Parashute failed to open.
3. no 'e.'
10 points please :)
oh and, have a star :)
Stood on a block of ice.
Then the man was a parachute jumper who's parachute failed to open.
There is no 'E' to be found in the paragraph