As always, sorry for my bad English.

Here in Brazil, when there is no pen and pencil, no board games and no cards to play (and no smarphones to dogfight...), we use to play some kind of riddle games.
I am opening this thread to find out if this kind of game is known by you non-brazilian people. If so, my goal is to colect as many new (and good) riddles as possible for my "collection", because I only know two right now.

About the mechanics of this "game", it works this way:
One person says a riddle, what is basically a short information about a misterious history of fact, with a question to be answered. The other people needs to find out the answer and what is this history all about by making questions to the "riddle maker" in a way that the questions can be answered simply by "yes", "no", or "irrelevant".

This is not really a "game", because there is no real winners and loosers: the fun is in the brain exercising and the joyning spirit... But I never saw this kind of "game" used on forums, so here goes the only two riddles of this kind that I know:

Riddle #1 - A man with a tense expression enters a restaurant, and ask if they can serve him some sea-gull flesh. After some minutes, the waitress brings him his portion, he takes a single little piece to his mouth, tastes it, imediatelly leaves the restaurant and, at the very doorsteps, kills himself. Why did he do it?

Riddle #2 - In a hotel, a maid enter in a room with a broom to do her job, see the dead bodies of a couple, desists to make the cleaning work, and leave the place, closing the door. She decided not to tell what she saw to anyone. Why?


Obs 1: To those that already knows the answers, please let other people play around with their questions.
Obs 2: To those that wants to "play", remember: you need to ask only something that can be answered with the words "yes" or "no". If the answer to the question is irrelevant for the enigma-solving, I will simply answer "irrelevant".
Obs 3: To those that knows other riddles of this kind, please let us know and post it here!

Why is it that the only two "riddles" that you know, both involve dead people? Yes or no?

Jacob, death isn't viewed in a taboo sense (as seen in America and other westernized countries) in other countries. Customs can be different.


And my answers to the riddle:

Riddle 1: Hmmm....I've developed two answers:

A. The seagull had eaten something poisoned or extremely toxic. Perhaps even ingesting an acute pathogen of some sort and acting as the initial secondary host. This is the main reason why you do not eat seagull. Seagull are literally flying rats. The severe pain from such a toxic substance eroding at his stomach could cause enough pain for the man to kill himself.

B. Perhaps the man saw the seagull eat something disgusting before entering the restaurant. The man knows what seagull tastes like (since he doesn't seem to mind eating it as it was offered) and as he receives his platter to taste the meat -- he realizes it tastes strange. He then thinks back to the point where he saw the previous gull eating something disgusting (say the carcass of a cat or other creature) and realizes that the gull he just ate -- was the very one feasting on the carcass.

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Riddle 2:

The maid entered her own room. The dead couple was her parents. A photograph of them. Since the maid is a very clean person, she doesn't need to clean her own house. And since it's a photograph of her own relatives -- there is no reason to tell anyone.



That's what I came up with.

Slenderman you offended seaGAL.
Lol

I came up with answers.
#1. The man in the restaurant was on "bath salts".

#2. The maid didn't tell anyone because she new that the bodies were just hallucinations caused by the LSD that she dropped before work.

[e]Sputnik wrote: Slenderman you offended seaGAL.
Lol

I don't get it.

Jacob10000 wrote: I came up with answers.
#1. The man in the restaurant was on "bath salts".

#2. The maid didn't tell anyone because she new that the bodies were just hallucinations caused by the LSD that she dropped before work.

1. If he were on bath salts, he might not be coherent enough to even order food. Most people on synthetic cannaboids tend to be extremely disruptive and thus he would have probably been kicked out -- much less offered free seagull meat.

Also, it was the seagull flesh itself that made him kill himself. It had to be something with the seagul. Unless the seagull was smoking that junk.

Seriously guys -- do not ever smoke "spice". Stuff is awful. I'd rather my patients smoke tobacco than that junk. And that's REALLY saying something.


2. I don't think they would have let her do her job -- much less she even be able to perform the tasks at had if she were on Lysergic Acid.

Lets pay attention to the mechanics, please... With some well elaborated questions, you should find the solution in no time... Avoid trying to figure it out with one shot... The fun resides on making the questions... Try to find some information about the man, for exemple. It will take days in this forum-format, but it worths.

riddle #1 was the tense expression on his face, as he entered the restaurant, due to mental distress?
riddle #2 are the bodies human?

Pedrinho wrote: Lets pay attention to the mechanics, please... With some well elaborated questions, you should find the solution in no time... Avoid trying to figure it out with one shot... The fun resides on making the questions... Try to find some information about the man, for exemple. It will take days in this forum-format, but it worths.

Could you review my first answers and tell me if I'm right/close?

can I get the yes or no answrs to my questions to your riddle quickly please


I suffer from PDS

patience deficiency syndrome

Slenderman wrote:

Jacob10000 wrote: I came up with answers.
#1. The man in the restaurant was on "bath salts".

#2. The maid didn't tell anyone because she new that the bodies were just hallucinations caused by the LSD that she dropped before work.

1. If he were on bath salts, he might not be coherent enough to even order food. Most people on synthetic cannaboids tend to be extremely disruptive and thus he would have probably been kicked out -- much less offered free seagull meat.

Also, it was the seagull flesh itself that made him kill himself. It had to be something with the seagul. Unless the seagull was smoking that junk.

Seriously guys -- do not ever smoke "spice". Stuff is awful. I'd rather my patients smoke tobacco than that junk. And that's REALLY saying something.

I'm not talking about spice, K2, and other related products. I'm talking about the so called "bath salts" that people have been snorting.


2. I don't think they would have let her do her job -- much less she even be able to perform the tasks at had if she were on Lysergic Acid.

Back when I was an automotive technician I went to work on a couple of hits of LSD a few times. Also at the same job I worked while tripping DXM more times than i can count. I have worked on peoples cars under the influence of many things, almost all vehicles were regular visitors but None of the vehicles that I worked on returned for the same problem, I fixed it right the first time. Actually it seemed easier for me to focus on the task at hand if i was trying to ignore everything that was "happening" around me. I guess the point is that if i can do that, cleaning a room should be a breeze.

Now, I have another guess at #1. Was eating seagull flesh the last thing he had to check off of his "bucket list"?

He means [e]SEAGIRL, Slender. Flymagic's pet seagull.

This is like 20 questions, guys. Don't guess directly, ask a question.

#1: Was the man suicidal before entering the restaurant?

#2: Were the bodies human?

CalvinIsAwesome wrote: He means [e]SEAGIRL, Slender. Flymagic's pet seagull.

This is like 20 questions, guys. Don't guess directly, ask a question.

#1: Was the man suicidal before entering the restaurant?

#2: Were the bodies human?

I hold copyrights on the were the bodies human question Calvin

lol, sorry, just saw that you wrote that.

okay, #2: were the bodies NOT human.

Kptn Singh wrote: riddle #1 was the tense expression on his face, as he entered the restaurant, due to mental distress?
riddle #2 are the bodies human?

a) yes
b) no (it looks that you are going to spoil this riddle, because most of people used to figure it out only after trying many, many questions imagining that there was a murder, and if the maid took some participation in the crime...

CalvinIsAwesome wrote: He means [e]SEAGIRL, Slender. Flymagic's pet seagull.

This is like 20 questions, guys. Don't guess directly, ask a question.

#1: Was the man suicidal before entering the restaurant?

#2: Were the bodies human?

Answering:
#1: No.
#2: No (I answered this same question right now. It doesn't matter who made the question, anyway).

About your comment, what did you mean with "20 questions"? Is this the name of this "game" in English, with a limited number of questions to be made? If so, I don't think that this rule needs to be applied. And, as I stated in the original post, please let me know about other riddles used for this "20 questions" game, I know only these two!

riddle #2

I winnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

what do I win

karma? thank you?

Slenderman wrote:

Pedrinho wrote: Lets pay attention to the mechanics, please... With some well elaborated questions, you should find the solution in no time... Avoid trying to figure it out with one shot... The fun resides on making the questions... Try to find some information about the man, for exemple. It will take days in this forum-format, but it worths.

Could you review my first answers and tell me if I'm right/close?

Sorry, Slenderman, I didn't read your answers at the time I posted that.
Remember that this game expects that you make questions, not that kind of long assumptions - but, answering to your request:

Simply put: you are cold, far from the real answers. You are right only about the fact that the man killed himself because of the sea-gull flesh.
In saying all this, I am disobeying the game's rules - because I am supposed to say only "yes", "no", or "irrelevant". I hope this is the last time I do it.
Direct questions, please, from now on... And please, let me know if any of you know more of these riddles!

Kptn Singh wrote: riddle #2

I winnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

what do I win

karma? thank you?

Although this riddle is not yet completely solved, the part that were solved by Kptn Singh was the most important one, and contains a subliminar answer to half of the main question (the reason for not telling no one about the couple was because there was no human bodies).
Ok.
But why she decided not to do her cleaning job using her broom, and left the room just after entered? (I think that this part doesn't worth the brain-using, though, because it's only a matter of guess what kind of animal was found...
So, I can consider it done for the riddle 2 - and I gave yjou a karma point, although I am sort of abusing giving karma on this forum... But I am a generous person.

Edit 1: to the moderators: sorry for posting several posts in sequence. I'll try to avoid this from now on.

20 questions is a game where someone thinks of something and someone elso asks 20 yes, no, maybe questions then they have to guess the answer. What cal ment with the 20 questions referance was not to guess right away but to ask questions the guess.

Gosh. These are hard
No. 1 flesh is skin. He ate feathers. He didn't want to choke, so he made it short and sweet.
No2. The dead bodies were bugs, and she didn't want anyone to know that the hotel she worked at had a bug problem.

My idea for number 2 is that the bodies were rats or mice. She left with out cleaning the room with the broom because she went to go get some other stuff like gloves and trash bags to put the dead rats or mice in to dispose of them. She would then finish cleaning the room.

for number 1. Did the man kill himself with a gun.

Skydavis1 wrote: My idea for number 2 is that the bodies were rats or mice. She left with out cleaning the room with the broom because she went to go get some other stuff like gloves and trash bags to put the dead rats or mice in to dispose of them. She would then finish cleaning the room.

for number 1. Did the man kill himself with a gun.

Riddle 2: the part of "why the maid didn't told to others" is solved, and from now on any animals should fit the couple part. I don't think that it worths going on with this, so I tell you: Skydavis1 solved the part of "why she left without cleaning. So, lets concentrate on the sea-gull thing:

Answer for question about riddle 1 is "Irrelevant" (it doesn't matter how he killed himself for the history solving purposes)

VortexIII wrote: Gosh. These are hard
No. 1 flesh is skin. He ate feathers. He didn't want to choke, so he made it short and sweet.
No2. The dead bodies were bugs, and she didn't want anyone to know that the hotel she worked at had a bug problem.

Questions, VortexIII, questions, please! Read about the mechanics of this game.
Please, don't insist on making assumptions, trying to figure out the whole thing with single blind shots.

Try to know about the man's life with simple questions like "Does the man have a wife?" (Answer is: no)

Why the maid didn't tell the others. Not "Why the maid didn't told to the others".

riddle 1: is sea gull flesh poisonous to humans?

I love these games! Unfortunately, I've heard these before, so I really shouldn't participate.

You've got to ask 'yes/no-answered' questions to help you solve the riddles. I guess I could ask a question to help you guys on the right track.

Here it is:

(Riddle 1) - Did the man have an expectation as to what the seagull would taste like?

That is all

EDIT: These are called Lateral Thinking Riddles, FYI.

ok this is making me want to try some USDA grade B seagull meat now

do I mail order or waht

Ped, may I suggest putting "Sorry for my poor English" or something of the like in your signature? It'll save you from feeling compelled to type it every time.

CalvinIsAwesome wrote: Ped, may I suggest putting "Sorry for my poor English" or something of the like in your signature? It'll save you from feeling compelled to type it every time.

Thank you, Calvin!
I'll do that...