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Like the quiz, but with logic puzzles/riddles to fill in for the questions.

You may ask questions (within reason) to gather more information.

NOTE:  Due to the likelihood of someone getting a wrong answer, wait for your answer to be confirmed to ask a new riddle.

To start:

A lemming is given a skill.  Soon after, he knows that he will soon die.  Why is this?

HINT:  Skill stock/selection matters.

I love these.

Skill is one of the original eight skills?
If so, a blocker? Bomber?
Are any ground removing skills yet available after the skill assignment?

-- Simon

Bomber:  Does not matter.
No ground removing skills.

Lol, one scenario could be a Lemming who has just been made a climber, but can see in sight a large drop and not a brolly to be seen for miles.

Floater?  Does not matter.
Skill was a blocker.

Then he knows he's going to die because of the missing ground removing skills, there's no future for him besides nuke? (Exploder removes ground.)

Then he knows he's going to die because of the missing ground removing skills, there's no future for him besides nuke? (Exploder removes ground.)

You got it right!  It's your turn to ask one (remember, it doesn't HAVE to be lemmings related).

Whee :)

This is one that happened to me in real life. I'm a college student and live in an apartment. One day, I lacked a certain item for a particular task. I still managed to get the job done using a hammer, a screwdriver, a pipe wrench and a towel. What did I want to do?

Any yes/no-questions are possible.

-- Simon

Was it plumbing-related?  Pipe repairs?

A series of horrifying murders involving a blow to the head, drilling out their brains, unscrewing their ears, and cleaning it with a towel? ... And you lacked your sanitary latex gloves. :-)

Lol, no idea.

Was it plumbing-related? No.
Pipe repairs? No.
A series of horrifying murders involving a blow to the head, drilling out their brains, unscrewing their ears, and cleaning it with a towel? No.
And you lacked your sanitary latex gloves. No. :-)

-- Simon

O_o.  What IS this?

Was it a repair job of anything?

Was it building something?

Was it a repair job of anything? No.
Was it building something? No.

If it keeps raining no's, I can give a small hint soon.

-- Simon

Okay, maybe this thread won't work as an anarchy.  I must question the possibility of this riddle being solvable.  Please read the newly added rules.

I have played this one with a friend over Instant Messaging. He solved it after around 20 yes/no-questions without hints. He had a bit of experience with lateral puzzles, though.

Major hint: I was hungry. Damn hungry!

-- Simon

What does THAT have to do with the riddle?!  We all know you don't use hammers, wrenches, etc. to eat!

Clearly you are unaware of the concept of thinking outside of the box.

*DING!*

This is a stupid idea, but did you use the tools to make the food?

I don't know if you are willing to answer this, but what was the tool you were missing?

but did you use the tools to make the food? No.

If I told you the missing object, the puzzle would be solved. :-) That thing can usually only be used for what it's intended to, which is what I managed to do with the weird collection of tools instead.

-- Simon

I think you need to give us another hint.

  You were opening a can. You used the screwdriver and hammer to make a hole in the can, the wrench to open it and the towel to either clean up or hold the can in place. The tool you were missing was a can opener.
If you hadn't mentioned 'hungry' I would have guessed you were opening a can of paint and using the towel in place of a brush.

I figured those because that's the sort of thing I'd do in that situation. Going to the shop to buy the can opener is for boring people. =P

Way to go! That's the solution, complete with usages of all the tools.

The towel was put under the can. That way, the hammer-and-chisel operation produced less noise. I live in an apartment house and didn't want to wake up everyone else late at night. :-)

-- Simon

  Here's my riddle, then. It's more on the lines of Simon's because I'm terrible at every other sort. =P

  You need to drop an egg from a height of three feet without it breaking. You can build something around the egg (not on the floor) to keep it safe, but your only materials are pipe cleaners, cardboard, cellotape and elastic bands. What would work best? Feel free to answer with a diagram if you like. =P

Okay.  You pack the stuff tightly together to make a shock absorber.  The best to use would probably be the pipe cleaners, elastic bands, and possibly cellotape, presuming it's soft.  You have to make sure that there is room to place the egg inside it.  You could use the cardboard to give your shock absorber the final touch (outer casing).  Is this correct?

The box could crumple (it shouldn't) and pipe cleaners and elastic bands don't crumple well (they should). =P

Let's say the cardboard and the pipe cleaners/elastic bands are in the shape of an egg.  Would it work then?

If not, maybe you could make a soft surface using the  materials on the ground for the egg to land on?

I made an instructions sheet!

-- Simon

Clever.  Kind of hard to understand.  You lost me at the parachute, Simon.  What did you make it out of?  Cardboard?  That would not work, would it?  Eh, don't know.  I guess we have to wait for Chmera

Heh, yep, it's an error. I meant "cut it out from cardboard" where I said "cardbox", which would be dumb indeed.

-- Simon

Interesting idea, I have to say.  Do cardboard parachutes work?

  Fascinating. Your idea is more or less what I had in mind, Simon, though I don't know if the parachute would work. Other than that, quite sound. Since I asked this mostly out of curiosity, I'd say Simon gets this one.

Mine was that the egg was to be put in a small, tightly-fitted box attached by the corners to the inside of a larger box with high tension rubber bands. Perhaps I could make these two contraptions and try them for real at some point. =P

Heh, thanks. :-)

I don't have another good puzzle ready yet, I'm sorry. If anyone wants to jump in, feel free to do so. Otherwise I'll post when I have one.

-- Simon

Okay...  made this one up off the top of my head.

A really thin creature is found dead in thousands of really small pieces with an appliance near it.  What is the appliance?

A shredder.

Exactly!  That was the best riddle I could think of at the time.

The lemmings are upside down
with 99% to complete
The arrows are hard
Theres no way compete
To get to the finish
You have to mine
And also
Stay on the line
What am i?

A Cheapo lemmings level?

By the way, it's not your turn to ask a riddle.

Could also be the level "Upsidedown World" if you turned your monitor upsidedown so the lemmings are upsidedown but the ground returns to normal!

Likewise. I turned the screen upside-down during my created level  "Upsidedown Islands"! 

Sorry I can't ask a riddle at the moment. Will someone else take over?

(A Cheapo lemmings level?)
Incorrect dullstar
The answer:Taxing 13-Upsidedown world
The obious hint: the lemmings are upsidedown

 

Two of these smileys got in a fight.  Which two?

The and the . This is so random!

How about this one: This was a real life event which happened before I came in to the forums.

Mr. W was planning to melt chocolate without a cooker, so we put it in a microwave. Mr. W said "We'll heat for three minutes" and then the chocolate got burnt. At that point I opened the microwave door and all the smoke was coming out, setting off the fire alarm. Who's fault was it? Mine or Mr W?

Mr. W because he said to put it in for three minutes. 

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For future reference minimac, don't ask a riddle until your answer is confirmed right, but I'll let it slip!  Eh, that riddle didn't have  an answer set in stone, so you're okay.

Mr. W because he said to put it in for three minutes. 

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But I'll let it slip!

I can tell you the answer in this quote. I'm not sure if I should be giving the answer out or not so I've hidden the text just in case.

Mr. W

Yes!  I got it right!

OS/2, Linux, Windows, Amiga OS, Mac OS, Mac OS X, and DOS are in a corner.  Who's missing?

I guess it should be the SNES, as it features original Lemmings too. (SNES port is my favourite one.)

I never realized there was an OS/2 Lemmings port, and Linux doesn't support it natively (with the Linux version of DOSbox, though, it does).  The missing one if FreeBSD.  Although I don't really know anything about it.  I guess it's somewhat similar to Linux or something.  Eh, who knows.  If we by some chance have someone on these forums who uses that OS, they can tell us about it.

Here's a filler riddle for now, if Ramon posts I'll save this for later.

It lies 100 feet up in the air.

However, its back is on the ground.

What is it?

Ooh, I know the answer to this one as I remember laughing when I first heard it. It's a dead centipede.

Im a level
With a awsome song
and a awsome look
and also an awsome way of grouping up lemmings

what am i?

Let's see, constant use of word awesome?

What an AWESOME level! _{Only contains several grueling minutes of amazing builder abuse!}