Solve the Riddle

[jimH]

For those who says that Zim and Zam aren't human, you're onto something.

Nice brain teaser! I don't have what I would call the definitive answer. However, I have been thinking for a while that they might be Ostriches. Only because they are bipedal (you stated that they were standing on two legs), large (being that one was a foot taller than the other) and they cannot use the sense of feel or touch because they don't have hands and arms as primates do.

You also stated that they could have been there 10 minute or ten days. So, that rules out that it was in the dark of night on a moonless night.

Anyway, are we beginning to narrow it down?

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

Nice brain teaser! I don't have what I would call the definitive answer. However, I have been thinking for a while that they might be Ostriches. Only because they are bipedal (you stated that they were standing on two legs), large (being that one was a foot taller than the other) and they cannot use the sense of feel or touch because they don't have hands and arms as primates do.

Are we beginning to narrow it down?

Not exactly what I had in mind. These are creatures who stands on 2 legs. They have all 5 senses. About the same intelligence as humans. However, they are not real creatures (not on this planet anyways), but youve all heard of them.

 

[lapidus]

Not exactly what I had in mind. These are creatures who stands on 2 legs. They have all 5 senses. About the same intelligence as humans. However, they are not real creatures (not on this planet anyways), but youve all heard of them.

They are ghosts? :S

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

They are ghosts? :S

No. How would that explain it?

 

[lapidus]

No. How would that explain it?

I have no idea, I'm just out of ideas.

 

[attheedgeofscience]

Not exactly what I had in mind. These are creatures who stands on 2 legs. They have all 5 senses. About the same intelligence as humans. However, they are not real creatures (not on this planet anyways), but youve all heard of them.

This should be about "a foot" or so in height difference:

Not sure about the intelligence aspect, however...

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

@lapidus @jimH @amandine @Kopesy @tomm @LeQuack @tinnitussufferer @David S @mcgregor @attheedgeofscience

I'm just going to go ahead and post the answer now. Imagine 2 very small beings. One who is 1 millimeter and one who is 2 millimeters. From their perspective the latter one would tower over the first one and they would have no problem to see the difference of 1 millimeter (since the 2nd one is twice as tall as the first).

For 2 human sized creatures with a 1 millimeter difference, it would pretty much be impossible to determine who the tallest is. Thus for creatures having problems seeing a 1 foot difference, the creatures would have to be very large.

So what I'm talking about here is that Zim and Zam are actually giants or titans.

 

[David S]

Too bad we couldn't solve that one. Shoot again....!

 

[David S]

When you don't know what I am, I do exist but when you know what I am I don't exist. What am I?

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

Here is a new riddle. This one doesn't involve giants or anything supernatural.

An illness that attacks only one type of animals kills off every animal of that type on the planet. There is nothing left of it. However, after some months, that same type of animal that was wiped off the planet comes back on earth. How was this possible? There were no humans or cloning or anything like that involved.

 

[tomm]

It kills something we have in orbit somewhere, like all bacteria or plankton or humans or something die but a shuttle or space station or sat deorbits and so the animal comes back.

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

Not the answer I'm looking for. Let's say there are no animals left of this type. Not even in the whole universe.

 

[lapidus]

Here is a new riddle. This one doesn't involve giants or anything supernatural.

An illness that attacks only one type of animals kills off every animal of that type on the planet. There is nothing left of it. However, after some months, that same type of animal that was wiped off the planet comes back on earth. How was this possible? There were no humans or cloning or anything like that involved.

It was not a mammal species that got wiped out, it was an egg laying species like birds. So the ones that came back were simply not hatched when the others got wiped out?

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

It was not a mammal species that got wiped out, it was an egg laying species like birds. So the ones that came back were simply not hatched when the others got wiped out?

Good guess but not the answer im looking for. Every single animal died. Also the unborn

 

[65vwbus]

Someone dug up a dead one?

 

[tomm]

The disease only kills hybrids like a mule or a liger. Remaining species can make new ones.

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

The disease only kills hybrids like a mule or a liger. Remaining species can make new ones.

Right answer

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

When you don't know what I am, I do exist but when you know what I am I don't exist. What am I?

A secret?

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

I'm posting a new one. Two men were accused of stabbing a man to death. One of them was found guilty of murder with no doubt and the other one was found innocent.

The judges verdict was to set both men free. Why did he do this? There was no blackmailing involved. The definition of murder is to kill someone with intent to kill, so this was no accident, and there was no apparent reason to set this man free.

 

[Kopesy]

Because they we're living in the UK?

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

Because they we're living in the UK?

Don't you have proper laws in the UK? XD

 

[Kopesy]

Don't you have proper laws in the UK? XD

We do, they're just a little weird is all. Some get years for stealing whereas a rapist gets about 2 years, less on good behavior XD

We're there 3 people involved btw?

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

We do, they're just a little weird is all. Some get years for stealing whereas a rapist gets about 2 years, less on good behavior XD

We're there 3 people involved btw?

There were 3 people at the murder site when the murder occured. The two men on trial and the victim

 

[tomm]

The two people were twins and the judge didn't know which one of them did it so he had to set both free? No no, actually it's conjoined twins!

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

The two people were twins and the judge didn't know which one of them did it so he had to set both free? No no, actually it's conjoined twins!

Right again Tom. The judge didn't want to send an innocent man to jail.

 

[tomm]

Rad, Thanks Jesse! These are fun

Better go to bed or Santa Claus won't visit. Merry Christmas

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

Here is a new riddle, guys.

A bus full of passengers travels from western Europe to the east of Asia. Despite all passengers sitting stationary compared to the bus the whole ride, it turns out when they arrive that half of the passengers has travelled a considerable larger distance during the ride compared to the other half. How could this be when every passenger was sitting at their seats the whole ride?

 

[Apocalypse77]

I am a little late but I have been thinking about this riddle for three years and now I finally got an answer. JK.

A bus full of passengers travels from western Europe to the east of Asia. Despite all passengers sitting stationary compared to the bus the whole ride, it turns out when they arrive that half of the passengers has travelled a considerable larger distance during the ride compared to the other half. How could this be when every passenger was sitting at their seats the whole ride?

The riddle said that they arrive, where? So I think the correct answer is that the passengers arrived at the terminal (West Europe) where the bus trip began to East Asia. SO this would mean that some of the passengers may have had a much longer trip to the terminal than others.

 

[walkthroughwalls]

Is it because the bus took a route that looked like a large arch? The passengers on the inner side of the arch would then have traveled a shorter distance than those on the outside.