Riddles!

[Lord Herdsetk]

I don't know about you guys, but I love riddles. So here we go! I'll start with a fairly hard riddle. Do your best, talk it out here if you need to. I'll give some hints, but I want to see if you guys can answer it correctly!

Question 1

You are on a gameshow and the host shows you three doors. Behind one door is a suitcase with $1 million in it, and behind the other two doors are sacks of coal. The host tells you to choose a door, and that the prize behind that door will be yours to keep.
You point to one of the three doors. The host says, "Before we open the door you pointed to, I am going to open one of the other doors." He points to one of the other doors, and it swings open, revealing a sack of coal behind it.
"Now I will give you a choice," the host tells you. "You can either stick with the door you originally chose, or you can choose to switch to the other unopened door."
Should you switch doors, stick with your original choice, or does it not matter?

 

[kevlite2020]

switch doors! I only know that because the dude in the movie "21" said it, and there's some complicated math reason why!

 

[Fremdin]

Boo math.
There was someone doing a bunch of word riddles on here a longtime ago and I dominated.
Though, I don't see why you would change your door.

 

[Lord Herdsetk]

I'll give a hint. Its a probability question. The correct answer is to switch doors. Why would you though?

Assuming that there are no tricks involved in the doors, why would it make a difference as to whether or not you should keep your original door?

I'll give another hint.

There are three doors, correct?

Let me sort of draw it out for you here: good bad bad

It doesn't matter which one you pointed to first, lets say you picked one of these three.
The gameshow host takes away one of the bad doors. So you're left with: good bad.

This is the tricky part. Why would switching be a good idea if your door wasn't proven to be a bad door yet?

 

[broken_one]

I don't understand why you would change on a 50-50 chance, going up from a 33-66 chance.

 

[Fremdin]

I'll give a hint. Its a probability question. The correct answer is to switch doors. Why would you though?

Assuming that there are no tricks involved in the doors, why would it make a difference as to whether or not you should keep your original door?

I'll give another hint.

There are three doors, correct?

Let me sort of draw it out for you here: good bad bad

It doesn't matter which one you pointed to first, lets say you picked one of these three.
The gameshow host takes away one of the bad doors. So you're left with: good bad.

This is the tricky part. Why would switching be a good idea if your door wasn't proven to be a bad door yet?

Cause the host only has 2 to chose from since you picked and he's not gonna show you the door that has the prize behind it. I'm not good at explaining.

 

[Fremdin]

where are the word riddles?

 

[broken_one]

So it's a bluff (i.e., creating a false sense of confidence)? Because then it would make loads of sense.

 

[Lord Herdsetk]

Actually Fremdin, you are very close.
Basically, here's the line of logic

You have three doors. 2/3 are bad choices, 1/3 is a good choice.

You are far more likely to pick a bad choice your first go around. Therefore, once one of the bad choices has been eliminated, you are probably holding the bad choice seeing as the first choice you made held a higher probability of you picking the wrong door.

 

[mina]

Why is a raven like a writing desk?


I've seen the outcome go two different ways on gameshows.

 

[waves16]

I remember our math teacher trying to explain this...I still don't get it though

 

[Fremdin]

Why is a raven like a writing desk?


I've seen the outcome go two different ways on gameshows.

Isn't that the unanswered riddle from "Alice in Wonderland?"
Is it cause they both make notes,

 

[Lord Herdsetk]

I have a pretty evil word puzzle here >

Question 2

What English word can be used any number of times in a row (without changing the spelling at all) and still form a valid, grammatical sentence?

I'm not gonna lie, you probably just want to have this one lying in the back of your mind to kick around now and then. Its pretty tricky and obscure. I'll ask another question that is much easier to solve.

Question 3

It is greater than god, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you will die? What is it?

Many of you probably have heard this one already XD

 

[Fremdin]

I have a pretty evil word puzzle here >

Question 2

What English word can be used any number of times in a row (without changing the spelling at all) and still form a valid, grammatical sentence?

I'm not gonna lie, you probably just want to have this one lying in the back of your mind to kick around now and then. Its pretty tricky and obscure. I'll ask another question that is much easier to solve.

Question 3

It is greater than god, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you will die? What is it?

Many of you probably have heard this one already XD

#3 is nothing

 

[Lord Herdsetk]

Why is a raven like a writing desk?


I've seen the outcome go two different ways on gameshows.

Can you give a hint?

Correct Fremdin! Nothing is the answer

 

[Fremdin]

# 2 is had

 

[Lord Herdsetk]

Question 4

I have billions of eyes yet I live in darkness. I have millions of ears yet only four lobes. I have no muscles, yet I move two hemispheres. What am I?

 

[Fremdin]

Subjective past is hard to conjugate yo

 

[Fremdin]

Question 4

I have billions of eyes yet I live in darkness. I have millions of ears yet only four lobes. I have no muscles, yet I move two hemispheres. What am I?

I'm a brain

 

[Lord Herdsetk]

As far as question 2 goes, you can use this word an infinite amount of times and form a complete sentence.

HINT: You can use this word 4 times in a row before it gets really confusing.