The Moebius strip was quite cool Radar Ralf. I hadn’t seen that before. Thanks for that one.
HUGS!
Sqrl
J_Blues, if I’m not mistaken, you’re talking about the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse.
One thin = Famine
One bold = War
One sick = Pestilence
One cold = Death
No, you are not mistaken. Thats exactly it. I’m just hoping my scouts take a little longer with that one…
…here are some more of that genre.
NOTE: These are riddles in which people can ask yes/no questions to the poser (of the riddle).
A man survives a shipwreck and, upon returning to the mainland, he has a bowl of soup at a restaraunt. He immediately walks out and committs suicide. Why?
A man is dead in a room with 53 bicycles. What happened?
I have a bunch more I can’t remember…
Another good mental game is to get three utensils and organize them on the ground, or a table/counter. Ask people what number is represented by this organization o utensils. The trick is that the organization of the utensils is random. It doesn’t matter. What you do is to put both of your hands on the ground/table/counter next to the utensils and stick out the number of fingers that corresponds to the number. This is what they are supposed to pick up if they are observant… It’s dirty, but hey…
There is also the state game. One person says a state and then other names states trying to figure out the pattern. The pattern is that prior to saying the state name one must uter “ummmmmm…” Again, it’s dirty and will probably garner you some dirty looks.
The guy realized he had eaten his wife/friend etc.
Took me about an hour to figure that one out with friends several years ago.
A couple other of those yes/no Q and A riddles:
A guy is going home, he meets a man with a mask and gets scared…why?
A man goes downstairs, gets his newspaper, reads the headlines, then kills himself…why?
Hmm, you’re right, Phouka. I think that the version where the cannibals can’t row has a three-person boat.
As for my previous riddles, the first one is “roasting meat on a spit”. Turn the meat quickly, it cooks slowly, and vice-versa. I’m not going to give the answer to the second, because it’s too easy, but here’s a hint: Any of the clues by itself is enough to answer the riddle, and the rest are just so you’re sure of the answer.
The guy with the mask is a fireman, and the man’s house is on fire?
Chronos, would the answer to your riddle happen to be “nothing”?
The guy scared of the masked man may have been playing baseball.
The guy dead in a room of 53 bicycles was caught cheating at cards.
One I like that isn’t really a riddle but nobody has ever gotten is:
“A farmer has twenty sick sheep, and one dies. How many are left?”
They always say twenty-five. Heh heh. I got some dirty looks for that one.
In my congition class we did a small chapter on problem-solving skills. We had the same problem, but we got the more PC version -
You can’t leave the cannibals and missionaries together because the missionaries will attempt to convert the cannibals if they outnumber them. 
FunkDaddy
“What is it that is greater than God, but worse than the devil; the rich lack it, but the poor have it, and if you eat it, you will die?”
I know, Chronos! It is Nothing! If I remember correctly, that’s also half of an incorrect guess for “What have I got in my pocket?”
Grendel69 mentioned the kind of puzzle wherein the guessers can ask the riddle-giver Yes-No questions. The book from which I read many of these calls them Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Here are a couple of my favorites, and since they’re not any fun without a series of Yes-No questions, I’ll give you their answers:
· A woman comes home to find her husband lying dead on the floor. Why does she blame the cat?
For this one, be careful how you word it so as not to give away what she blames the cat for. The answer is that her husband has been cremated, after he died some time ago, and his urn, which had been sitting in some place of reverence, had been overturned on to the floor, apparently by the cat.
· A man wakes up in the middle of the night. He’s hungry, so he goes into the kitchen, makes himself a bologna sandwich, puts the dishes in the sink, and then turns off the light and goes to bed. The next morning there are dozens of dead people outside his house. How did they die?
Their ship crashed into the shore, because this man’s house, a lighthouse, had its light turned off. Note that in this one, the whole sandwich thing is just a red herring. Hee hee.
· A rich man buys ten super-expensive cars. He then goes to great expense to wrap them in plastic wrap and vaseline (or whatever it takes to preserve them) and bury them in the desert. He comes back for them a year later. Why?
The borders of the country in which he bought the cars were in dispute at the time of his purchase. Being shrewd at finances, he realized that it would be cheaper to bury them in the desert, and then to get them back when that spot in the desert was in effect in another country, than it would have been to pay the hefty import tariffs.