Memes That Make You Giggle

[LaurenRitz]

Grandmother didn't have a phone


I only ever was just OK at them. Some stumped me. Others go off on unrelated tangents for their answers. Those I don't consider puzzles.

Grandmother had a rotary phone and she didn't know how to dial it. I initially also thought it was Grandma didn't have a phone, but apparently I was an idiot for not making an assumption.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Two indians are standing on a bridge. One indian is the father of the other one's son. What relationship are the two indians.

Husband and wife.

 

[Hinotori]

Grandmother had a rotary phone and she didn't know how to dial it. I initially also thought it was Grandma didn't have a phone, but apparently I was an idiot for not making an assumption.

See if you heard that in the 80s I don't think that would have been answerable by anyone in my hometown. We all had rotary dial phones until 1985 because the phone company actually owned them.

 

[Hinotori]

Friend of mine told a riddle about a flower that turned into a woman at night and the answer was you could tell which one was her because the flower had no dew on it in the morning. I had so much trouble with that because dew was an abstract concept to me at that age. I'd never experienced it. You don't get dew when your humidity is in the single digits. Dew point was always way lower than temp. Except in winter, but I never connected the frosted grass to dew.

 

[FarmerJamie]

Those make my head hurt.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Like an IQ test, it's context dependent. If you don't have the "correct" background, you won't get the questions right.

 

[LaurenRitz]

You're on a quest and come to two doors, each guarded. One guard always tells the truth, one always lies. You don't know which is which. You are allowed to ask each one question. What do you ask?

 

[Hinotori]

You're on a quest and come to two doors, each guarded. One guard always tells the truth, one always lies. You don't know which is which. You are allowed to ask each one question. What do you ask?

Would the other one tell me this door is the correct one.


Sarah from the Labyrinth can answer this one. In a D&D session a DM tried this and the barbarian asked one if the door was the right one then killed him. Then asked the other if he was dead. Which worked too.

 

[Hinotori]

One session we got "Only the penitent man shall pass" on a door. Fighter tried to bum rush through it and blades cut him almost in half at chest height. Could go through but only if you crawled.

Then there's the all time favorite unanswerable of Golum. "What's in my pocket?"