Riddles!

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Okay, SO...  This is how it is.  I start off with the first riddle and you guys have to find out the answer.  Except if I feel like nobody is gonna get the answer, then I'll just tell you.  Feel free to add your own riddles along the way.

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 champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess this riddle?

Everyone has unlimited tries to get the riddle.  Happy ajs?

Except for J Menz and Counterpoint.  You only have 10 tries.  Not 12, only 10 Got that?!

[j_menz]

Everyone has unlimited tries.  

Except for J Menz and Counterpoint.  You only have 10 tries.  Not 12, only 10 Got that?!

Don't you mean "champagne"? [this does not count towards my 10]

You've phrased it so the most popular answer doesn't fit anymore, incidentally

[ajspiano]

I believe you've neglected to add the  "can you guess this riddle?" part. Answer, yes, yes I can guess.

[davidjosepha]

I believe you've neglected to add the  "can you guess this riddle?" part. Answer, yes, yes I can guess.

Well?! Don't keep us waiting!

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I believe you've neglected to add the  "can you guess this riddle?" part. Answer, yes, yes I can guess.

Happy now?

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Don't you mean "champagne"? [this does not count towards my 10]

You've phrased it so the most popular answer doesn't fit anymore, incidentally

You have nine more tries.  Not 11, nine!

[j_menz]

You have nine more tries.  Not 11, nine!

How does correcting your spelling count as a guess? 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

How does correcting your spelling count as a guess?  

That's eight!  You better choose more carefully next time!

EDIT:

Whoopsies!  I didn't notice that spelling error. 


Well you still only have eight tries left anyways. 

[j_menz]

By way of elimiation of the more obvious:

8. God.

7. Electromagnetic Radiation

6. Pressure

5. Time

[ajspiano]

Happy now?

I was happy before..  and now.. 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

By way of elimiation of the more obvious:

8. God.

7. Electromagnetic Radiation

6. Pressure

5. Time

None of those are it.  Are you even trying?

[j_menz]

Are you even trying?

I have it on good authority that I can be very trying. I even have references. 

[davidjosepha]

okay I'm bored, what's the answer?

[rachmaninoff_forever]

okay I'm bored, what's the answer?

Mom

[davidjosepha]

Mom

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 champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.

You're gonna have to explain to me how Mom works for the bold lines haha

[piano_vs_science]

science???
if you think about it, it'll make sense

[j_menz]

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 champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.

You're gonna have to explain to me how Mom works for the bold lines haha

And most of the unbold ones to me, I'm afraid.

[lostinidlewonder]

The answer is Balloon with stuff inside it! lol

I turn polar bears white:
Throw a balloon with white paint inside it.

and I will make you cry. 
Throw a balloon with ground up chili!!

I make guys have to pee
If they drink a balloon full of beer!

and girls comb their hair.
The static from a balloon can stuff up your do!

I make celebrities look stupid  .
They do look stupid carrying lots of balloons

and normal people look like celebrities. 
I always thought the guy selling all those balloons was important!

I turn pancakes brown 
Balloon with brown paint is bad!

and make your champane bubble. 
If you let the air out of the balloon into the liquid it would.

If you sqeeze me, I'll pop. 
Balloons dont like to be squeezed too tightly.

If you look at me, you'll pop. A balloon filled with grenades would! Or if you have a balloon fetish.... or if the balloon took on a special shape of a blow up doll lol.

[perfect_pitch]

It doesn't have something to do with some bloody microscopic molecule or molecular physics does it???

[davidjosepha]

bloody microscopic molecule

Not unless that's what you call your mother

[perfect_pitch]

Not unless that's what you call your mother

WHAT??? Are you telling me the actual real answer to that riddle is 'Mother'

Then this riddle is as stupid as anything...

[davidjosepha]

WHAT??? Are you telling me the actual real answer to that riddle is 'Mother'

Then this riddle is as stupid as anything...

Well...

Mom

I'm a bit baffled as well

[rachmaninoff_forever]

WHAT??? Are you telling me the actual real answer to that riddle is 'Mother'

Then this riddle is as stupid as anything...

You don't get it?

Oh well 

[j_menz]

You don't get it?

Oh well 

3 of us in that boat, and counting. 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Oh sorry guys, the answer isn't mom.  I was thinking of another riddle.  My bad.

The answer is no.

[j_menz]

Oh sorry guys, the answer isn't mom.  I was thinking of another riddle.  My bad.

The answer is no.

Only since you finally corrected the riddle to include the question. 

[davidjosepha]

The answer is no.

This one needs explaining too.

Edit: Oh. OHHHHHH

Dammit, rach, I was losing sleep trying to figure this one out and then you tell me the riddle doesn't even have an answer? AHhhhhh

[rachmaninoff_forever]

This one needs explaining too.

Edit: Oh. OHHHHHH

I'll do it eventually.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Dammit, rach, I was losing sleep trying to figure this one out and then you tell me the riddle doesn't even have an answer? AHhhhhh

Well the answer IS no.

[davidjosepha]

Well the answer IS no.

The answer to your question is "no", but the riddle to which the question refers has no answer.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

The answer to your question is "no", but the riddle to which the question refers has no answer.

Well now you get to make the next riddle!

And the other answer to the riddle actually is mother... 

[ajspiano]

Well the answer IS no.

The answer is "yes" as I pointed out earlier. One CAN guess, incorrectly.

[j_menz]

Well the answer IS no.

Only if you ask the "Can you answer this riddle?" question at the end, which you originally omitted to do.

[davidjosepha]

Well now you get to make the next riddle!

Here's my riddle. No cheating and looking at the answer.

https://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html

[j_menz]

And the other answer to the riddle actually is mother... 

Nonsense!  

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Only if you ask the "Can you answer this riddle?" question at the end, which you originally omitted to do.

That's because I forgot to add that part.   

[j_menz]

Here's my riddle. No cheating and looking at the answer.

https://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html

*** Now acting for all the brown eyed people in their class action against the Guru. 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Here's my riddle. No cheating and looking at the answer.

https://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html

Everyone leaves?  I tried cheating, but I couldn't find the answer on the page...

[davidjosepha]

Everyone leaves?  I tried cheating, but I couldn't find the answer on the page...

Oh, I didn't realize that page didn't have a link to the solution. Lucky me!

Once you Google, find, and read the solution (because of course you will), half of you will say "What? Huhhhhhhhhhh?" and the other half will say "That is the most brilliant thing in the world."

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Oh, I didn't realize that page didn't have a link to the solution. Lucky me!

Once you Google, find, and read the solution (because of course you will), half of you will say "What? Huhhhhhhhhhh?" and the other half will say "That is the most brilliant thing in the world."

Well did I get it right?

[davidjosepha]

Nope 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Nope 

Dang!

[davidjosepha]

Dang!

https://xkcd.com/solution.html

[rachmaninoff_forever]

https://xkcd.com/solution.html

Well now I'm not going to look for the solution because I wanna find it...

[j_menz]

Well now I'm not going to look for the solution because I wanna find it...

I've already given you a hint. 

[davidjosepha]

I've already given you a hint. 

hehe I don't think it's a strong enough hint for him to get it, although maybe

[j_menz]

hehe I don't think it's a strong enough hint for him to get it, although maybe

I didn't want to spoil all the fun. Besides, I can hear the cogs turning from here. 

[m1469]

OK, the Guru speaks on the first day (I think that because everybody is still there).  Everybody goes to the fairy at midnight, believing they have blue eyes - half of them are right and leave that night.  Everybody else leaves the next night, believing they have brown eyes.  

[j_menz]

OK, the Guru speaks on the first day (I think that because everybody is still there).  Everybody goes to the fairy at midnight, believing they have blue eyes - half of them are right and leave that night.  Everybody else leaves the next night, believing they have brown eyes.  

Nope. 

[m1469]

Nope.  

Yeah, I read  .  But, my way is still possible following all the rules, so ... and there is no logical reason for anybody to wait a single night before going to the fairy, since there is no stated limit on how many nights they can go there.  If it were me, I'd go the first night and throw it down ... if I were wrong, I'd go the next night, etc..