Riddles and Puzzles

[MossCommuter]

Parents For Breakfast
You are awoken at 3 A.M. by a knock on your door. Your parents call you to let you know that they are there for breakfast. You are half asleep and confused but quickly think of what food you have. You have bread, jam, butter, and eggs.

What do you open first?

The door

 

[MossCommuter]

Eggsactly
If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?

Miraculous ones; roosters don't lay eggs

 

[MossCommuter]

First
If, having only one match, on a freezing winter day, you entered a room which contained a lamp, a kerosene heater, and a wood burning stove, which should you light first?

The match

 

[TheDoctor]

You obviously got the same box of crackers that we did!

 

[Katherine]

Calender Code
The months of the calendar have been coded in the following ways:
January = 1071
February = 682
March = 1353
April = 154
May = 1335
June = 1046
July = 1047
August = 168

Using the same coding method, how is September coded?

September = 1999

 

[AndyRM]

Words Don't Come Easy
Complete these common words by using all of the letters A to Z, each exactly once.

*e*er
**eue
**o
ma*
*p*a*e*
*erso*
***k*am*on
*ouse
*a*
*ur*
***igent

At first I thought you had to use A to Z in order, which nearly broke my mind. Then I ignored that stupidity and started from the longest word and went backwards which wasn't too difficult.

fever
queue
zoo
mat
speaker
person
backgammon
house
wax
jury
diligent

 

[nickyboy]

Adding it All Up!
Complete this sum with the digits 1 to 6 to make the sum correct.
Perform each mathematical operation in the order shown, from left to right, e.g. 1 + 2 x 3 is treated as (1 + 2) x 3 = 9.
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Note: there is no ÷ 1, and at no point is a decimal or fraction used.

4 + 2 - 1 x 6 / 3 x 5 = 50

Having messed around with it for a few minutes I realised that the correct way to do this was backwards ie what must be the final digit if the answer is "50"? Can only be "5"....and so on

 

[shouldbeinbed]

#1908 & 1909 the old ones are the best.

oh and 1906 - I'm reading upwards

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Does anyone have any problem with these questions coming from books?

Hell yes!

I want you sitting up into the wee small hours straining every mental sinew and synapse to breaking point and typing the homespun riddles out through tears of sheer exhaustion for our entertainment.(*)

(*) 'course not, its good that you keep the thread running and us bamboozled wherever they come from

 

[classic33]

#1908 & 1909 the old ones are the best.

oh and 1906 - I'm reading upwards

Reading upwards doesn't work though.

 

[classic33]

September = 1999

Care to explain?

 

[classic33]

Hell yes!

I want you sitting up into the wee small hours straining every mental sinew and synapse to breaking point and typing the homespun riddles out through tears of sheer exhaustion for our entertainment.(*)

(*) 'course not, its good that you keep the thread running and us bamboozled wherever they come from

Some have been posted, in the past at half four in the morning.
Odd ones from books printed when HMS "Dreadnought" was new.

 

[classic33]

4 + 2 - 1 x 6 / 3 x 5 = 50

Having messed around with it for a few minutes I realised that the correct way to do this was backwards ie what must be the final digit if the answer is "50"? Can only be "5"....and so on

Spoiler is, First number is 2!

 

[classic33]

Arrange The Letters
How should the top set of letters be arraigned over the lower set of letters?
A B C D E F G
J F M A M J J A S O N D

Spoiler

Answer differs in two days

 

[AndyRM]

Care to explain?

Letters & numbers, innit?

January = 10|7|1

10 is the position of J in the alphabet
7 is the number of letters in January
1 is the position of January in the calendar

September = 19|9|9

19 is the position of P in the alphabet
9 is the number of letters in September
9 is the position of September in the calendar

Yours truly,
Alan Turing