Okay, here's a fun little "riddle" that I've heard a couple of times in different incarnations:

You want to find the way to the Liars' Village where everybody lies all the time. You know that there's another village nearby called the Truthtellers' Village where everybody always tells the truth. You reach a T-intersection without any signposts. A boy is sitting on a rock nearby. He is either from the Liars' Village or from the Truthtellers' Village, you don't know which. What question (only one!) should you ask the boy to find out which of the two roads leads to the Liars' Village?

A foxy pic of a person of the winner's preferred gender will be posted as a prize to whoever finds the answer (with explanation) first!

retina said:

ask them to pull a stone out a bag with only black stones and say they don't have to marry the guy and can go home if they pull out the white stone?

charlottegelin said:

Yes! That's the correct answer! Unfortunately it's for a whole other riddle. But I'm sure the boy would like a bag of black stones to play with. I'm not sure how he'd react when he has to marry a guy though.

Ask the boy to lead you to his village...if he's from the truthful village, you'll be set. If he's from the liar's village, he'll lead you to the truthful village because he always lies.

Now an interesting thing to this riddle might be: Do you know the origins of this riddle?

Byron said:

How do you know if you're at the right one?

bkw said:

You'll always end up at the truthteller's village...because the boy, whether a liar or a truthteller, can't help but take you to only one of the villages; the truthteller's.

Ask one of them: If I asked the other one the correct way, would he tell me the truth?

Work it out from there

Now: ORIGIN of the riddle ?

Byron said:

Correct!

So, what gender would you like the person in your prize pic to be?
[Edited 5/8/05 23:43pm]

Byron said:

Yeah but u want to go to the liars village

retina said:

Um...female, please..lol

AlfofMelmak said:

The other one??...

There's only one boy at the intersection...

Ocean said:

But this way you'll know where it is. The task was to find the way to it, not to go to it.

Ocean said:

Actually, you want to go to the truthteller's village...but even if you wanted to go to the liar's village, you can still ask the boy to take you to his village...if he's a truthteller, he'll take you down the correct path to the truthteller's village..and if he's a liar, he'll take you down the wrong path to his village and instead take you to the truth teller's village...and whichever road he starts down, you'll know the other road leads to the liar's village.

Oh, just give me the map and I'll drive...lol

retina said:

LOL I'm going to be a pain and say why bother asking him at all then if u have to go the truthful village to find out its the wrong way ...does that make sense...damn I need a drink

Byron said:

My bad ! Didn't read the complete riddle as i thought it was a slightly different version of the one from Alice in Wonderland.

Byron said:

Oh I get it lol....so just don't go with him at all and your set lol
Hey no way u run out of petrol and break down to often

Ocean said:

Well, the exact answer I was looking for was to ask him to point to the road that leads to his village. But Byron's solution works fine too.

Can we beat the answer out of him?

althom said:

Byron said:

Here you go:

retina said:

Got anymore riddles??...

Byron said:

Maybe.

The next time it will be harder though.

Ocean said:

That's only rentals... *smile*

I love riddles, do you have any more!?

Lleena said:

Here's one: what did my foot say to your ass?

(No cheating now)

2the9s said:

You look big with my foot in your ass

I've got one: Which orger is a tractor driving git?
YOu will never guess this!

Lleena said:

this is a difficult one

what has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon (two legs and a grape if you're LadyBoy ), and three legs and a colostomy bag in the evening?
ok, i kinda gave it away.

and it's old.