I know someone did this a year ago but I liked it and I don't think the thread is around anymore.
Here's how you play: Someone posts a riddle, whoever gets it right gets to post their own riddle, and it continues that way.
Try not to Google the answers, or it won't be any fun! Also, try not to post 2 riddles or more every day to allow everyone a chance to try to answer them!
You have two metal rods that don't seem to be distinguishable normally (same color, weight, texture, etc.). However, you've been told that only one rod is magnetic. Is there a way to tell them apart?
Say the magnetic rod is uniformly magnetic and strong.
over all possible initial configurations of the ants on the meter stick what is the maximum amount of time that it would take for all the ants to fall off?
this is the formal way of putting it but it sounded too imposing for the initial post
A man crashes his car with his son inside and then he dies. The son walks to the hospital and asks for an operation and the doctor says "we need your parents' permission to do that" and the son says "but both of my parents are dead :-(".
Where was the boy's mother and the father's girlfriend (they weren't married yet)?
wuriddles has a bunch of riddles ranging in difficulty from relatively easy to unsolved problems in mathematics that i used to mess around with when i was bored in high school
it's probably just a reference to their scales. which is kinda dumb bc there are types of armor other than chain mail which look far more like fish scales. i guess they were focusing more on making it sound cool rather than going for accuracy.
