Riddle me this!!

When both wives are home he could take the blind man to the wife that did the beating, put his hand on her face, then put his other hand on her hand. He would then take the blind man to his wife and put his hand on her face. He would then take the bind mans other hand and make a punching motion at his wife’s face with the blind man’s hand.

It’s a lot of hassle and would be easier just have the deaf man tell him.

I’m pretty sure the clue would be “confidant” rather than “confident”. But I don’t know the answer. maybe he could do it Pooty Tang style - draw a picture of someone getting their ass kicked.

Obviously the mute is a mime. They all are.

The mute guy can recreate the sounds of the fight when the blind guy is around. Being blind, he will assume it is a real fight.

Get the entire group together and mute man presents the deaf persons’ wife with a wife beater T-shirt. The deaf person will ask why she’s getting a wife beater and the mute person points at the blind person’s wife.

It’s entirely possible to be avowedly mute, which is still coined as “mute” but if the situation is dire enough he could easily break his vow. Leading to a situation where the mute guy just… breaks his vow because it’s important to tell the blind guy what happened.

Yeah, it’s a cop-out, but what answer to this riddle isn’t going to be?

I think some pretty obvious deductions might be helpfull in solving this riddle. We have three men each partially disabled and each married to three separate wives. That makes nine women and three men. Naturally, the blind man has a guide and the deaf man has a translator so that makes fourteen people. As it happens, there’s fourteen kinds of gimps in a family of the partially disabled, so the only one that could have done it is one of the deaf persons wives.

'nother riddle solved.

Wow … that was elegant. :slight_smile:

Dang! I was almost to the end, and no one had mentioned it yet, and… dang. Way to go, WarmNPrickly. Beat me to it.
Errr… I guess a simple text-to-speech program is out, eh? How about:

*Blind guy sees his wife all tore up, says who did it, mute guy points. No wait, that won’t work. Duhhh.

*Mute guy slaps deaf guy’s wife. Blind guy hears it, says why’d you do that-- naaah. Won’t work either.

*Mute guy makes a sound collage, ransom-note-style, but with word snips?

I got nothin’.

That was excellent. Though it still annoys me we wasted so much time searching for the “real” answer :).

Well, now that we have a solution that we all agree on, maybe we can broaden this thread to ideas for silly riddles?

I’ll start:

A man walks into a bar that he’s never been to before. The bartender looks him deep in the eyes and immediately knows he wants a pint of beer. How?

The man has “Good afternoon Mr bartender. A pint of your finest beer please.” tattooed to his eyeball.
All it needed was a little lateral thinking!

Sorry but you assuming that I found that from an online test is completely wrong.
I have had an official stanford binet test and have the certificate to prove it. I had also had tests while at school on which I had scored 140+ consistently.

On behalf of everyone here, congratulations on being so very intelligent.

Just a few points I’d like to mention.

  1. There should be a comma after the word ‘Sorry’.
  2. ‘You’ should be ‘your’ because it introduces a gerund.
  3. ‘Stanford’ and ‘Binet’ should be capitalised, and possibly hyphenated.
  4. Your final sentence contains the word ‘had’ more times than it should.

If I were you, I’d ask for your money back.

Excuse me, but believe the correct term is “nutless monkey”.

Don’t you mean “you’re” or “you are”?

Ah, wait, I see:

His sentence needs to be changed to one of:

“Sorry, but you’re assuming…”

or

“Sorry, but your assumption…”

He’d originally written the bastard lovechild of these two alternatives.

No. The subject of the sentence is “assuming.” It is modified by the possessive pronoun “your” to clarify just whose assuming that is. Just as in the sentence I just wrote it is correctly “whose” assuming, not “who’s.”

Not really. “Your assumption” is an alternative to “your assuming” where the rest of the sentence could stand exactly as written. The difference is that one focuses on the assumption itself while the other focuses on the act of assuming. Note that in the latter case “assuming” (referring to the act of assuming) is a noun, not a verb.

“You’re assuming” changes the subject of the sentence to you, uses “assuming” as a verb, and requires some change to the rest of the sentence to parse correctly.

I believe that Mijin’s point is that “assuming” isn’t a noun. “Assumption” is the correct form.

:smack:

Yep, I see it now. I thought his sentence was supposed to have you as the subject of the sentence.

The irony is, I supposedly have an IQ of 154 (Cattell B test, supervised).
Anyway, enough with the grammar 101. I wanted to hear some more dumb riddles!