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Some android apps don’t honour spoiler tags (Boost) :( Feel free to link to your answer somewhere instead of spoiler tagging it if you feel extra nice :)
Eternity app does not seem to handle the spoiler tags too.
What has 11 heads, 2 wings and 22 legs?
Answer
A football team.
Not a particularly hard one, but I always enjoyed it.
These will make you angry But they might make you laugh
These have been around quite long Yet you’d never expect them
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Deez nuts lmao gottem
ligma
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balls
I’ve always been fond of:
The person who makes me, doesn’t want me
The person who buys me, doesn’t need me
The person who uses me, doesn’t even know it
What am I?
Maybe not the hardest, but it’s a good one, and most people I ask, don’t get it very quickly.
I’m not sure how to spoilers the answer, so I’ll just give you time to guess the answer. It’s more fun that way.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html
The table doesn’t highlight how necessary the literal word ‘spoiler’ is needed after the 3 colons. Very confusing imo
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A coffin
Tap for spoiler
I was going to say baby diapers …
After using diapers a baby often realizes it has them on and gets irritated and makes that loudly clear for everyone else.
Light as a feather, but no man can hold me for long.
Answer
A breath
I think I’ve seen this one on a morhedel wordlock in Betrayal at Krondor :o
The version I heard was. “What’s lighter than a a feather, lighter than a flower, the strongest man cannot hold me, for a quarter of an hour”
Devinettes app has about 3 or 4 riddles that I haven’t been able to crack in 8 years.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.workingagenda.devinettes/
It gives no answers or hints, just reports ‘correct’ if you type the right answer in.
I think if I tried that, it would only be a day or two before I went digging into the source code.
I think they are hashed
Hmm.
Rainbow tables…
I think you’re better off with a literal dictionary attack. Knock yourself out: https://github.com/fenimore/devinettes-android/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/workingagenda/devinettes/RiddleCollection.java It’s just SHA-1 of the UTF-8 representation of the answer.
Note that the riddles, unlike the software, are under CC-BY-NC-ND.
Interesting. Looks like it can accept multiple variations on each answer. I was wondering about that
I’m not actually going to do it, but I like the system design
So due to the nature of it beeing riddles it is quite possible the answer is bugged and the hash wrong. But because nobody “knows” they have the solution nobody can say it is a bug.
Cool app! I tried it and I have 7 riddles to go. Which ones have you not cracked yet?
Edit: a little break helped, 4 to go!
I’d say, your 4 are in this 6:
Name your heroine after me.
Name me the skin
Without this common currency
Without you I am incomplete 1
Without you I am incomplete 2
This: Brought by man
- PS, I am not looking for any answers here at all. (Spoiler-tags do not work in several clients)
I’m fine solving these 15yrs later or not at all. The unsolved ones are good for campfires, or travelling through other countries.
Actually only one of them is in that list. I’m still missing:
- Name me the skin (like you said)
- Recursion here
- My warmth connects
I was stuck on Where, close at hand too but I got that one last night.
I got the other ones on day one, hopefully it won’t take me another 15 years to get the remaining three.
Are those 6 the ones you’re still missing? I won’t give any answers, that wouldn’t be much fun.
I am a non-native speaker (Dutch), I wonder if that’s helping or hindering me…
This is my 3rd phone, since solving them the first time, so I just went through and got the ones I remember.
I’m glad the other 5 of 6 are solvable. Thanks for confirming that.
Looks like ‘Name me the skin’ is the hardest one of all.
I’m pretty sure you will get the other 2 in a couple of days.
The ‘skin’ question… ~5-10 years ? (c:
Now I really want to figure out that skin one 😋.
Out of the six you listed, the Without you I am incomplete-set is probably the easiest one.
I think I like the common currency one best, it’s very clever in my opinion (but not necessarily the hardest one).
“failed to install due to unknown error” :(
Do you feel like posting the riddles here?
What has four wheels and flies?
spoiler
A carriage with horses
Blaine is a pain.
If you’ve never played Betrayal at Krondor it’s full of these treasure chests that you have to solve riddles to unlock. Here’s a few good ones:
Whoever has it is angry
Whoever loses it is angrier
Whoever wins it has it no more
!A Dispute!<
Brought to the table
Cut and served
Never eaten
!Cards!<
We love it more than life
We fear it more than death
The wealthy want for it
The poor have it in plenty
!Nothing!<
All the spoilers are visible for me 😔
Whomp sorry some lemmy apps don’t do spoiler tags from what I’ve read :<
Reddit-style spoiler tags are not Markdown standard. Use this syntax:
::: spoiler Answer A man :::A
B
Hmm…
On Connect it doesn’t seem to work.
Edit, the word “spoiler” was needed, it works now!
Neither does it on Voyager because you left out the word “spoiler”. You don’t need the double line breaks though.
Thanks, works now!
Still doesn’t work on Boost unfortunately. Known issue…
You can put one in the other. I think Boost understands Reddit spoilers because it was originally built for that.
Spoiler >!test!<
Edit: nope
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me too :(
But I got lucky and managed to avoid looking at all except the first.
O T T F
What’s next?
What does it mean?
Explanation
One, Two, Three, Four…
Correct!
What rock group has four guys who don’t sing?
Click for answer
Mount Rushmore.
Be the change in the world you wish to see.
‘What is my hobby ?’
What walks on four legs at dawn, two legs at noon, and three legs at dusk?
spoiler-title
Humans in their three stages of life: crawling at birth, walking upright in main life, and walking assisted at the end
Look at these equations:
1^3 = 1^2
1^3 + 2^3 = (1+2)^2
1^3 + 2^3 +3^3 = (1+2+3)^2
1^3 + 2^3 +3^3 +4^3 = (1+2+3+4)^2
Question:
Can it go on like this forever, is it always a true equation? If yes, why? If no, why?
Corresponding Wikipedia page with a graphical proof, among others
The graphical proof is really nice :)
Proof by induction?
1±2±3±...±n =(1+n)*n/2plugging that into the right side of the equation to transform it:
((1+n)*n/2)^2 = (1+n)^2*n^2/4=n^2(n^2+2n+1)/4 = (n^4 + 2n^3 +n^2)/4If this holds for n:
1^3 + 2^3 +3^3 + ... + n^3 = (n^4 + 2n^3 +n^2)/4Then for n+1:
(n^4 + 2n^3 +n^2)/4 + (n+1)^3 =? (1+n + 1)^2*(n+1)^2/4(n^4 + 2n^3 +n^2)/4 + (n+1)^3 =? (n^2+4n + 4)(n^2 +2n + 1)/4(n^4 + 2n^3 +n^2)/4 + (n+1)^3 =? (n^4 + 4n^3 + 4n^2 + 2n^3 + 8n^2 + 8n + n^2 + 4n + 4)/4(n^4 + 2n^3 +n^2)/4 + (n+1)^3 =? (n^4 + 2n^3 + n^2)/4 + (4n^3 + 12n^2 + 12n + 4)/4(n+1)(n^2 +2n + 1) =? n^3 + 3n^2 + 3n + 1n^3 + 2n^2 + n + n^2 + 2n + 1 =? n^3 + 3n^2 + 3n + 1n^3 + 3n^2 + 3n + 1 =? n^3 + 3n^2 + 3n + 1Which is obviously true.
So yes, it holds forever.
This is the way.
Your math teacher might not approve of this proof
The given examples suffice to prove the general identity. Both sides are obviously degree 4 polynomials, so if they agree at 5 points (include the degenerate case 0^3 = 0^2), then they agree everywhere.
You are right LOL: I do not approve. But somehow I like the lazy approach :)
this is a great opportunity to bring in riddles from the Kids Write Jokes tumblr. not gonna spoiler the answers for… obvious reasons.
some of my favourites:
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Doctor Dentist
Doctor Dentist who
How can you be a Doctor and a Dentist there is not enough time
what do dogs call Italy?
dogtaly
How many sharks does it take to make a grandpa shark?
1,280,000 sharks.
what does NASA stand for.
not another spaceship aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
and my all time fave
can you fart?
do it now
