Riddles

Robb Graves said:
Telokh_Amdo said:
Here's one for ya:

If a wagon carrying 10 passengers is suddenly set upon by a Dragon and burned to cinders exactly on the border between Icenia and Imladar, where do you bury the survivors?

Madcap
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I would not be burying the survivors Madcap. Though, kudos to them for surviving the encounter.

-Nathan Westwind
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On occasion, survivors of accidents of this kind are indeed buried. Travelers who come across the scene of the accident, having no medical training, mistake the unconsious, charred bodies to be permanently dead corpses and make haste to bury them. If the survivors were able bodied, they may be able to claw their way out of the loose top soil. Most would probably die as a result of their premature burial.

In a case such as the above, the survivors would be buried where ever the digger of the grave deemed most convienient.

Apprentice Ren Suzume
 
Arkade said:
At 7pm the farmer comes home after a hard day's work, he checks the kitchen and notices his wife is still cooking for dinner. He takes a nap, at 10pm his wife is done and he enjoys a nice hot meal. At 12pm he and his wife go to bed together. At 7am the man kills his wife, why did he kill his wife?
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Perhaps his wife had poisoned his unusually timed meal, so he killed her with his last breath so that she would not have an opprotunity to harm any more unsuspecting diners.
 
The Periodic Table
 
None have guessed my riddle corectly... Mayhap I have stumped all?
 
You did not say he awoke for the meal. Perhaps she threw it at him or poured it on him while he was sleeping. In that case, he is strange for enjoying it and should seek anger management from a local stone elf for killing his wife over it.

Regards,
Alavatar Peece
Red Wizard of the Crossroads
 
Methinks it has more to do with the various times involved. Originally, it took three hours for her to finish the meal, perhaps the morning meal was completed too quickly and he took that to mean foul play. Or, mayhaps, this farmer isn't a person at all, but something which routinely "kills his wife" as part of its natural order. It's most likely this riddle references a play on words or some assumed facet which isn't overstated in the original tale.

Though, from what I've seen of Arkade Prince, this could just be a shaggy-dog story and he's leading us, in good fun, on a wild stag hunt - similar to the old, elven contemplative asking: "How does the red tailed fox live in the enclosed glass ball?" "It doesn't."


Dramthin Hartsboon
Simple Keeper of the Tainted Grove
 
Arkade said:
At 7pm the farmer comes home after a hard day's work, he checks the kitchen and notices his wife is still cooking for dinner. He takes a nap, at 10pm his wife is done and he enjoys a nice hot meal. At 12pm he and his wife go to bed together. At 7am the man kills his wife, why did he kill his wife?
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I believe the answer is because she was being unfaitful.

I don't believe that is the correct wording though. i have seen it thusly:

A husband goes home at 4pm and sees his wife cooking dinner, the husband then goes take a nap and when he woke up at 7pm he saw that a marvelous dinner was prepared. At 10 pm they went to bed. In the morning at 7am, the husband killed her. Why?
 
Ahh you are rite, there is unfaithfulness within the tale, but it is not the wife. And the wording is correct.

Dramthin- Do not discurage them from trying my riddle! Do not distrupt my dreams! You could be more or less rite tho. More than likely not, but maby.
 
Oh but Arkade Prince, I am nothing BUT a disruptive influence, ask anyone.

The trick with this riddle are the assumptions people make. The third sentence reads, "he and his wife go to bed" which does not necessarily mean the farmer and the farmer's wife go to bed - in the morning, upon realizing the situation the farmer kills the farmer's wife upon seeing her and "him" in bed. That seems to be the simplest explanation, the one based on the least number of assumptions. More complex answers can be offered, but they demand greater pretexts and leaps of logic. I've seen this tale told with slow-acting poison and a myriad other off the wall suppositions. And, as Arkade Prince says the infidelity is not on the side of the wife, I think he's taking some liberties with context and premise.

Of course, if the wording IS correct, there is something very fishy going on as the action is either not chronological or takes place over three days. That is, he comes home at seven in the evening on Night 1 ("At 7pm the farmer comes home..."); she cooks for three hours ("...his wife is still cooking for dinner. He takes a nap,...") and they eat at ten in the evening on Night 1 ("...at 10pm his wife is done..."); they do not, however, go to bed until twelve noon of Morning 2 ("At 12pm he and his wife go to bed..."); he then kills her at seven in the morning of Morning 3 ("At 7am the man kills his wife..."). The third time is listed as "12pm" which is noon, instead of "12am" which would be midnight and the logical time for people to go to bed. Adds intrigue and complications.

Though, I think it would be interesting if "his wife is still cooking for dinner" means the old hen was in the stew-pot, and "his wife is done and he enjoys a nice hot meal" implies the farmer supped on his bonny lass. But, I'm a bit askance at times.


Dramthin Hartsboon
Simple Keeper of the Tainted Grove
 
At 7pm the farmer comes home after a hard day's work, he checks the kitchen and notices his wife is still cooking for dinner.(day2) He takes a nap, at 10pm his wife is done and he enjoys a nice hot meal.(day2) At 12pm he and his wife go to bed together.(Food stays in your body for a few days, day3) At 7am the man kills his wife (day1), why did he kill his wife? He was hungry.

Dramthin I hope you did not take my last comment as an attack agenst you. It was mearly play. I would say that you hit my answer almost on the dot.


"Though, I think it would be interesting if "his wife is still cooking for dinner" means the old hen was in the stew-pot, and "his wife is done and he enjoys a nice hot meal" implies the farmer supped on his bonny lass."
"not chronological or takes place over three days"
"The trick with this riddle are the assumptions people make."

All these things were an aid in finding the correct answer, for a bit of fun replace the word "wife" with the word "Roast".

Some would argue that the info was too scattered and off, bah! That is why it is a riddle! Your supposed to be fristrated with the answer, ha!
 
On the contrary, I find a GOOD riddle to be only frustrating when the answer was so obvious because it had only one answer that would fit it's qualifiers completely and I didn't think of it. Your "riddle" was poorly worded and could have had any number of correct answers. If this were a competition, I doubt that would have been allowed to be asked tot he contestants because of it's vague and disputable nature.
 
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