If you like the Friday Puzzles, there is now a page containing 101 of them here.
OK, onto today’s puzzle….three riddles for you this week…..
1) When I’m going, it doesn’t mean I’m moving, I can stop even though I don’t go anywhere, and I don’t have any arm but I do have hands. What am I?
2) He who makes me sells me, he who buys me does not use me, and he who does use me isn’t aware of it. What am I?
3) I begin with an E, I end with an E and I only contain one letter, but I am not the letter E.
As ever, please do NOT post any answers, but feel free to say if you think you have solved them and how long it took. Answers on Monday.
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April 29, 2011 at 5:34 am |
OOOhh!! Easy ones this week. I’m not complaining. Finally I can feel smart and claim to know them all. Yippee!
April 29, 2011 at 5:34 am |
Very easy today. All three ina matter of seconds.
April 29, 2011 at 5:44 am |
1 & 3 straight away. 2 needed thinking about. Like the wordy ones.
April 29, 2011 at 8:12 am
same here…
April 29, 2011 at 8:30 am
me 3(!)
April 29, 2011 at 4:04 pm
me 4
The first two instantly, quite liked them. But number 2 seems a little open/vague
April 29, 2011 at 5:46 am |
The first and third one’s I got on first reading. The middle one stumped me for a little bit though. Got them all within five minutes.
April 29, 2011 at 5:47 am |
I think I know the first one. the other two are a bit baffling. sum thinking to do over the weekend!
April 29, 2011 at 6:43 am |
Number 1 is clearly a double-amputee on the toilet wearing one of these: http://www.awise.org/item/3017/plush-peace-hand-hat.html
April 29, 2011 at 6:58 am |
First and third are, once again, so ancient they’re in the fossil record.
2 I just assume is some sort of spy camera device because I’m not as clever as a five-year-old.
April 29, 2011 at 7:04 am |
All three are old and familiar. I had the answers even before I finished reading each one.
April 29, 2011 at 7:23 am |
Easy peasy – thanks for the reminder!
April 29, 2011 at 7:29 am |
Took a minute to figure out the second riddle. I see an argument coming.
April 29, 2011 at 7:51 am |
Simples.
April 29, 2011 at 8:36 am |
One and three are easy. I’m sure two has an equally simple answer, but it’s not clicking for me atm.
April 29, 2011 at 8:42 am
On second thought, I can think of an answer for the second one, but I don’t think it’s the intended one.
April 29, 2011 at 8:49 am |
3 minutes
April 29, 2011 at 9:29 am |
About 5 minutes; #1 and 3 took about a minute each; #2 took longer, and to be honest, I rather think I have AN answer rather than THE answer.
April 29, 2011 at 9:50 am |
I got the first as I read it, I’d heard the second before, and the third one utterly stumped me – for about thirty seconds, when the answer suddenly popped into my head the moment I stopped thinking about it.
April 29, 2011 at 10:30 am |
Oldies but goodies. Recognized them all right away. Answered while reading them.
April 29, 2011 at 11:38 am |
A professor of psychology suffering from delusions?
April 29, 2011 at 12:12 pm |
Why do I feel the urge to sit in a Batmobile while trying to solve these?
April 29, 2011 at 1:31 pm |
all three were easy…. I got all of them in a minute….
April 29, 2011 at 1:34 pm |
1 and 2 were pretty easy. Number 3 had me puzzled for a while.
April 29, 2011 at 1:58 pm |
less than a minute. Though I’m not 100% on number 2, I’m pretty sure
April 29, 2011 at 3:10 pm |
Hope I’m not giving anything away (but most folks have got it quickly – If we have the same solution) but for the third puzzle, it doesn’t have to be one letter does it? (Even more pedantic comment could be that it could be the letter E)
April 29, 2011 at 4:49 pm |
All quite easy even for a non-english speaker and solved within a minute.
But there are exceptions to #2. I know someone who has bought “it” and is already using “it” and intends to continue to use it.
April 29, 2011 at 4:50 pm
somewhere in there the word “native” is missing
April 29, 2011 at 5:51 pm |
1 and 3 – 5 seconds each
2 – I had to look it up, though I know I’ve seen this before. great riddle.
April 30, 2011 at 12:18 am |
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April 30, 2011 at 1:39 am |
Got all of them super quick this week (under 10 seconds each). I feel awfully clever! I think it must help doing all those cryptic crosswords.
April 30, 2011 at 2:34 am |
Got 1 and 3 straight away. Still stuck on the second one. Is it rohypnol?
April 30, 2011 at 10:55 am |
Got them all really quickly. Though #2 I have heard a variation of before.
April 30, 2011 at 2:04 pm |
1 and 3 were easily solved before coffee. 2 took me untill I was on my way home and I’m still not certain coz with my answer he who made it may use it, he who bought it may use it and he who is using may have made or bought it or he may have won it in a raffle.
April 30, 2011 at 2:56 pm |
I had to google for the second one. The other two were immediate.
April 30, 2011 at 5:46 pm |
1 & 3 instantly, still stuck on 2… I’d make a lousy hobbit
April 30, 2011 at 6:43 pm |
I think I got all three right away.
May 1, 2011 at 12:06 pm |
1 was easy-seen 2 before-3, still stuck on (if u need help with 3 then here it is-while awake and asleep u are usually aware of what u are using, keep that in mind when working out this puzzle)
May 1, 2011 at 12:06 pm |
typo-that was meant to be help for puzzle 2*