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BAN9?

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@Selmiak. You have all three correct.

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I think this is not actually an out-dated riddle. It is a modern riddle that uses our modern digital notions of alarm clocks to create a red herring.  If we rush into the riddle, we're supposed to think 13 hours is correct because we all know we can set our digital clocks to a 24-hour period.  But the phrase "wound up", rather than being a remnant of an out-dated riddle, is actually a carefully placed, subtle clue that tells us exactly what we need to know about the nature of the clock in order to arrive at the correct answer.

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Two out of three ain't bad.  You got the #3 wrong. 

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The clue is in the word choice rather than the sentence construction

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I take it the obvious answers to 2 and 3 are not the answers being looked for?!

I'm thinking 1 might be something to do with

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being at one of the poles

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You are barking up all the right trees

[1. A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction. Each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What colour is the bear?2. Take two apples from three apples, what do you have?3. I went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and I wound up my clock to set the alarm to sound at nine o'clock in the morning. How many hours would I get before being woken by the alarm?]

Mayor of London Boris Johnson recently made some insulting [for some people, I couldn't give a shit] remarks about people with low IQs.
Earlier today he was given three "IQ" questions [which were really just riddles, I doubt these came from Mensa] on a radio show.  He got the first two wrong and refused to answer the third.

I got the first two right, but admit I couldn't answer the third. I have since worked out why the answer was what it was, though. How will you do?
The questions did have multiple choice answers, but I'll leave them out for now.  If you solve the riddle, you won't need them anyway. But be prepared to justify your answers.  Use spoiler tags so other people can have a think about them before seeing the answer.

1. A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction. Each side having a southern exposure.  A big bear comes along. What colour is the bear?

2. Take two apples from three apples, what do you have?

3. I went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and I wound up my clock to set the alarm to sound at nine o'clock in the morning. How many hours would I get before being woken by the alarm?

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On the American Independence Day Penelope was murdered
In August Roy was killed
On Labor Day Ibsen met his untimely end.
People thought they were safe till on Halloween Carl died.
Everyone could be thankful on thanksgiving because the murder was caught in the act of trying to kill Emily.

What was the murderer's name?

Penelope
Roy
Ibsen
Carl
Emily

Price?

@Renodox - Santa Clause?

Santa Claus     (don't let the Tim Allen "Santa Clause" movie fool you) 

No no, you see, Santa is my uncle... he's a relative clause

@Renodox - Santa Clause?

Blade Runner?

I don't think we're taking turns in this thread as such, just if you have a riddle, fire away :-)

Happy Bidet Stu

Ahhhh I seeee. A loch is the Scottish name for a lake. So I was wrong.  I was thinking of this kind of lock

Oh yeah, I forgot it was supposed to be related to doors.

So... Is (a) in the lock?  (as in the locks you find in a canal)

was (a) the fly in the ointment?

Happy Birthday Andail. Have a good one

Asher was put on "Indefinite hiatus" in October

That's a crying shame.  It was a gorgeous looking game.

Since my question was rather rudely shut down in the game's own thread I'll ask here:

Has anyone heard anything about the game Alum?  As it's been three months since they won backing on Kickstarter, and as far as I can see there has been no news.

Thanks Babar. I knew it would be something simple

Spreadsheet lovers.  I have a column full of cells containing 'y', 'n' or nothing.  Below that I have a cell in which I want the total instances of 'y' from that column.  I know this is elementary stuff, but I'm not having any luck trying to work it out.

(I'm using OpenOffice Calc, on the off chance that makes a difference)

Cheers :-)

is #3 a mouse?  As in a computer mouse.  They are small and hard and if they have a tail in the form of a cable (unless they are wireless).  And you can see their trail by means of the cursor on your screen :-)

The whole 'let your parents check your candy' thing is probably a good plan.

This happened in the UK last year:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/21/man-who-accidentally-handed-out-cocaine-instead-of-halloween-candy-sentenced-to-community-service/