Riddle

[cabinintheforest]

A man walking his dog through a forest comes across a cabin. Inside, he finds two men dead in their chairs. How did they die?

On this riddle you have to think outside the box.

[frankshank]

Plane crash. I like these. Next.

[frankshank]

Cabin: So I take it this how you came up with your username. Cabinintheforest = thinking outside of the box?

[robert]

they were never born there was no one to die.

[cabinintheforest]

I do not understand this riddle. Can some explain what the answer means?

A man was defiled by an all powerful queen because the queen loved him but the man was married so she couldn't have him. So the queen turned him into a rose bush, the exact replica of two other rose bushes: exactly the same shape, # of flowers, smell - exact replicas. At night, the man could turn back into a man and go visit his wife. The wife got sick of it and begged the queen to restore her husband. Taking pity, the queen said that if the wife could chose her husband from the other two rose bushes, the man could become a man all the time again. The wife talked it over with her husband and he was agreeable. So, at dawn, the wife went where the husband had been turned into the rose bush and where "he" was among the other two exact same rose bushes. She chose which one was her husband after a quick look at each of the bushes. She had no idea previously of where he was located in comparison to the others, and she did not watch him walk back to his "spot". How did she know which one her husband was?

ANSWER: He was the flower with no dew on it, for he spent the night with his wife.

[cabinintheforest]

Jul 3, 2010 4:55:44 GMT -5 frankshank said:

Plane crash. I like these. Next.

Have you heard the riddle before, or did you work it out? Yes it was a plane crash.

[frankshank]

Jul 4, 2010 15:17:03 GMT -5 @cabinintheforest said:

Jul 3, 2010 4:55:44 GMT -5 frankshank said:

Plane crash. I like these. Next.

Have you heard the riddle before, or did you work it out? Yes it was a plane crash.

I have heard it before, many years ago. At the time I answered it hadn't dawned on me that I had.

With regards to the other riddle, as the husband was with his wife during the night, dew did not form on the rose (him). Dew is moisture condensed from the atmosphere, esp. at night, and deposited in the form of small drops upon any cool surface e.g. a flower.

[alpha]

A man walked in to the "infinite" hotel and asked for a room for the night, the receptionist said sorry we have no vacancies, even though we have an infinite number of rooms, we also have an infinite number of people staying for tonight, the cleaning lady overheard this conversation and offered a solution...

[Peter]

...he could kip down in one of the infinite number of cleaning cupboards? Hey, with an infinite number of spare toilet rolls to work with, you could make yourself a comfy bed! Oooh, infinite clean fluffy towels ;D

[Peter]

Actually the first thing that came to mind, is that with an infinite number of guests, the man must already have been one of them. He must have just forgotten. Also, an infinite number of guests would fail to turn up due to <insert one of an infinite number of reasons to fail to turn up to a hotel here>, so he could have one of their rooms.

[frankshank]

Closeish Peter. I looked it up after 3 minutes. LOL.