Are These Riddles Real? Or A Complete Leg-Pull?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I found an old issue of a magazine called Shortlist at home (this is a free men’s magazine that comes out in the UK every Thursday.) It included the following 4 riddles, which on the surface look like complete nonsense:

Now, if these were emailed to me, I wouldn’t give them a second thought. But since they were published in a magazine which presented them under the heading “Train Your Brain”, and promised “answers next week” I was wondering if there might be more to them than meets the eye.

Does anyone have any ideas? Ideally, did anyone see the answers in the magazine the following week? (They were in Shortlist issue 3, October 4 2007.)

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Was it the April issue, by chance? :dubious:

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They’re trick questions alright - because they all have the same answer - it’s:

14 K of G in a F P D

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No, it was October. The more I look at them the more I think they have to be fake, I was really just wondering if anyone saw anything in the mag the following week about them.

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  1. I am a man from history. You know me as Napoleon. But who am I?
  • Napoleon
  1. A girl with seven arms walks into a pub with two doors. But which one and how?
  • She walks in the in door but slowly and carefully as she has many guns.
  1. A five-letter anagram, but you have to guess the letters. (6)
  • PSIXP, Post Script In eXPerience.
  1. Pick a card, any card. Memorise it. Is it the one I’m thinking of? Yes. Now work out how.
  • There is obviously only one card in the deck, and that is number 42.
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anagram, not acronym. I like your answers for 1 and 2 though. I just knew the first one had something to do with Napoleon.

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Ok then, how about:

  1. A vegetarian-elm fart.

(anagram for “a five letter anagram”, assuming the (6) is a ruse.)

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Furthermore, it has 6 letters, as indicated by the number in brackets.

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I suspect that #6 is not a playing card. Greeting card? Cardiac? Jokester?

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She walks in the front door of the Seven Arms.

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  1. A girl with seven arms walks into a pub with two doors. But which one and how?

She walks in the one with the metal detector, and leaves her arms at the door.

(covers head, runs away)

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Wait, number one is “The First Emperor of France”, or whatever he was.
The fourth one is, “because I told you which one it is”.
I’m working on the anagram.

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The five letter anagram has six letters? Maybe one of the letters is a number?

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Exactly what I was thinking, GuanoLad. (Heh. Sounds like something Batman would say.)

I dunno…“3-count” = “cut-on-3”? Something like that, only not so lame.
Either that, or a five-letter word for “six”.