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I have no answer for these riddles. Can you help me solve them?

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I was cleaning house and I came across these riddles.

I was going to toss them because I don't remember the answers.

Before I do, I thought I should share on Y/A and let you have a go at the answers.

#1

Four men sat down to play.

They played until the break of day.

They played for gold and not for fun,

With separate scores for everyone.

Can you this paradox explain,

If none had lost, how could all gain?

#2

A man with no eyes,

Saw plums on a tree.

He took no plums,

And left no plums.

How can this be?

#3

A man goes hunting and walks exactly a half mile from his cabin, where he sees a bear. He shoots but misses. He walks another half mile and sees the same bear again. He shoots but misses again. Then he walks exactly one mile east and sees nothing, so he walks exactly one mile back to his cabin. What color is the bear and why?

#4

You are stuck in a room with no doors, windows, or obvious ways out. There is a mirror and a table.

How do you get out?

#5

A woman called called a construction company, saying she will pay a million dollars to any company that will build a house with all walls facing north.

How do the construction workers build this house?

#6

A man left his house, locking all the doors and turning off all the lights.

When he came back, 60 people had died because of his leaving.

How did they die?

#7

An entrepreneur is pulling up to a hotel in his car when he immediately knows he will go bankrupt.

He is not allowed to continue his business, but his friend, who is just out of jail, is.

Why?

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  1. 1 - They were playing musical instruments!  Each had a different musical score, and they played for money.

    2 - The key to this riddle is that the words eyes and plums are used in the plural sense. The guy didn't have eyes, he had 1 eye.  And he saw 2 plums.  Hence he took 1 plum and left 1 plum.

    3 - The bear is white cos it's a polar bear.  From the journey he made the only way he could be back at his cabin is if he's at the north pole.

    4 - Look in the mirror and see what you saw, take the saw and cut the table in half, put the 2 halves together to make a whole, climb out the hole, scream til you're hoarse, and ride away on the horse.

    5 - 2 ways - either build house at the south pole, so every direction is north, or only put windows on the north side of the house...

    6 - He was a light house keeper.  By turning out the lights, a ship crashed on the rocks.

    7 - He's playing monopoly!


  2. 3 He is at the North Pole!

    #5 Build it at the South Pole!

    #6 He is a lighthouse keeper!

  3. I Think '#6' could be a hostpital and when he left they all died, maybe  

  4. not sure bout nomber 1.

    number 2 is hes blind, so he cant see.

    number 3 is a white, the bear is polar (he at the north pole)

    number 4 is he run around the room til his feet are SORE. he get the SAW and cuts the table in HALF. he puts the 2 halves together to make a WHOLE. he climbs through the HOLE and out to safety. he yells and yells til his voice if HOARSE. he gets on the HORSE and rides away.

    number 5 is a house built at the south pole.

    not sure bout 6

    not sure bout 7

  5. The only one I knew without looking at everyone else's was #7, and that is 'He is Playing Monopoly'...

  6. 3: White because he lived in the north pole

    5: They build it on the South Pole

    6: He lived in a lighthouse and they people who died crashed their boats

    That's all I've got.

  7. 5 - Walls do not have a direction.

  8. 1) They were musicians

    2) He didn't have eyes, but had one eye

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