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starwing
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| How are you so good at riddles Ragnarok? I'm rubbish, just test me. |
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Ragnarok
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If you asked me some of these verbally, and outside of a "trick questions" situation, then I'd probably get them wrong. Because they're in print and it's known that they're trick questions, it's much easier to take a few minutes to carefully deconstruct the question. 
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LEE
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Hey, what if we had audio on this. I would really trip you guys up 
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Namhias
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 I didn't know there was a different scale for precious metals, should have seen that one coming  |
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Rayadragon
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I didn't either until my labmate told me about it...
Ragnarok, I've never heard the 4th question in that series before. Thanks for the new way to trick people!
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Hyraxylos
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| Posted: Mon 11 Feb 2008 7:54 Post subject: |
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| LEE wrote: |
| Hey, what if we had audio on this. I would really trip you guys up |
Some of these are tricky for the most part because if they're written down (rather than spoken) then one can simply go back and look again, like with the "toast-roast" thing or whatever it was. I'm also pretty good at speaking these questions in a certain way that I place emphasis on words in each sentence that AREN'T important to the actual trick involved. 
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Ragnarok
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| Ragnarok, I've never heard the 4th question in that series before. Thanks for the new way to trick people! |
Here's one version of the four-question set: link.
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Hyraxylos
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Someone asks me, "If everyone dove off a cliff would you do it too?"
I respond, "If everyone drove on the same side of the road, would you do it too?" 
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