Writing Passionates discussion

So I've mentoined before that at least one of my story ideas came from a riddle. I decided to have some fun and give a couple of riddles! See if maybe they spark some imagination....

Here's one:

This lady's mother dies. At the funeral, she meets this really cute guy and they hit off. She wants to talk to him again, but forgets to get a number. Two weeks later, the lady's sister dies. Why??

Kinda morbid, I know! I friend and I wrote a murder mystery on my original answer to this riddle... haha. See what you can come up with.

clarification (sorry!):

Who kills the lady's sister and why. That's how the last part should go...

The guy she met at the funeral because she never called him?? I dunno.

Ahhh, freaky!!!! The first thing that comes to mind, is that the man is some sort of serial killer, or that he wants to see her again, and the only way he can think of is to kill her sister, but that wouldn't make sense because if he knows where her sister lives why doesn't he know where she lives?

ooooh i know the answer to this one... XD i won't give it away though.

Maybe he killed her sister so they can meet at the funeral again??

hehe you guys are good
well, I hate to hurry this up, but here's the answer:

The lady killed her own sister because she thought that the man would be at her sister's funeral, too. Then she could get his number.

Oh my! That is harsh! Hehe...it was the other way around of what I was thinking...

I've got one!

Crime records of the police: On sunday, this little boy of a family of six was killed at his house. The police came to investigate and found out what each of his family members were doing on the day of his murder. His mother was chopping up beef with a butcher knife. His little sister was playing with her dolls in her room. His older brother was playing video games in his own room. His father was taking out mail. His older sister was sitting at the dining table doing nothing staring in front of her, having emo thoughts. Who killed the son?

ooh! i think i know!
it was the father, cuz THERE IS NO MAIL ON SUNDAY!!! XD
that took me a while... lol.

I've heard something like that one before.........

Bingo! Brigid got it right. Lol. Yeah, took me awhile on that one too...XD

hmmmm my guess is the same as brigid's.

Gaah, scary jokes! Ah, I am about to go to bed and you guys are giving me night mares. xP

I have a riddle!

A plane crashes at the border in between America and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?

They don't.

yeah... there wouldn't be any left. assuming the plane blew up when it hit?

haha wait! I just got that! you don't bury survivors! lol! silly lainey!

lol yeah i heard that before.

Yeah, I heard it before as well. Gah, it used to stump me everytime before - I would think "Hum... I know, this, I know this, I DO IN FACT KNOW THIS!!" and then nothing would ever come to mind, haha, and then I would facepalm when someone told me what the answer was. Ha, yay!

Haha. XD

Another riddle:
If a Creatan goes to Greece, and says that all Creatans are liars, and then that same creatan comes back and says that all creatans tell the truth, which one of his statements are true?

All Creatans are liars?
or neither?

my guess is neither. this creatan seems like kind of a shifty character to me. Besides no one can ALWAYS lie and no one can ALWAYS tell the truth. Plus, how does he know every Creatan in the world well enough to have a reliable opinion that could be taken for fact?

yeah, it's neither isn't it?

Here is my logic:

Assume, at first, that the first statement is true, and the latter is falseHowever, that would be saying that he tells lies, and he therefore wouldn't have said something that is true.

If the latter statement is true, and the first statement is false, then that would mean that he was lying about the first statement, and lying cancels out the possible truth of the second statement.

Then assume that niether of the statements are true. That would mean that All createns never lie nor do they tell the truth.

So, my answer is that both of the statements are true. The key to many riddles, including this one (assuming my answer is right) is in the wording. The riddle never said how much of the time createns lie or tell the truth. Createns sometimes lie, and sometimes tell the truth, and all of them do both of these actions.

wow veronica... that is a wonderful point. *claps even if it isn't right*

lol.*elvis voice* thank you. thank you very much.

Woo Hoo! It took me so long to figure it out. It's neither, and both! if that makes sense!

Wait, how can it be niether? If you neither tell the truth, nor lie, then what are you doing exactly?

ooh!! i have one!!


there's a round house. it has acres of land surrounding it, and beautiful gardens and a few fountains. there is woods surrounding it on the north side. as you can see, the family is very rich. the mistress of the house woke up one day to see that her engagement ring was missing from her bedside table. she then went about asking the staff if they had seen her ring. the chauffer said he had been driving people around all day. the cook had been cooking all day, and the maid said she was sweeping the corner of the lounge. who did it and how do you know??

It was the maid. Round places have no corners.

bravo, my friend, bravo. maybe i thought it appropriate for here, b/c it took me forever to figure it out until i heard it for the THIRD time.

oh, I've heard that one before. Except it was a murder and it was the joker because he was playing cards in the corner of the castle.

oh, really?? ive heard a murder one once, and it has nothing to do with the round house thing, but i dont really remember it. it was really good too.

oh i've heard the round house one before... XD

Anybody got a new riddle?

Um, Okay, a man buys a $500,0000 car, but he doesn't pay a penny. How does he do this?

No, but close. HINT: Check the wording.
Um, What I meant in the last riddle was that no one can really tell all lies or only the truth. Unless they're Jesus.

he pays more than a penny.

YAY. Just google riddles and you get a jillion answers. Ugh. Jillion. I'm becoming a bad writer as I've noticed because of the red squiggly lines.

does that mean im right??

yes u r right.

okay i have a riddle... idk if anyone's heard it before. but here it is anyway.

so this guy walks up to a bar, and he asks the bartender for a glass of water. the bartender takes out a gun and points it at the guy. the guy sees the gun, thanks the bartender, and leaves... WHY? and no, it wasn't a water gun. lol. XD

I don't have a clue.

XD okay.... anyone else... ??

the guy had the hiccups, and the bartender scared them away!

yep. XD lol

I don't get it!!!!!

the guy had the hiccups, so he asked the bartender for a glass of water (to get rid of the hiccups). the bartender pointed a gun at him to purposefully scare him so that the hiccups would go away.

OH!!!!
Yeah, i'm just slow that way.