Riddles and Brains (Yumm)

Today seems like a great day to inquire on some tricky question. No, I'm not talking about the meaning of life or any of the such (but I'm sure that will be a post sometime soon). What I speak of is the stretching of the brain muscles also known as dendrites. Like everyone knows, if you don't use them you loose them...

~Fact of the Day: Around the age of 4, you maintain the maximum amount of dendrite to neuron connections. You continue to make connections until the age of 20, but after age 4 what ever is not being used is snipped away. (My teacher compares it to maintaining a rose garden) Snipping is a good thing, other wise it would take longer to process information. This is also why it is much easier to learn and remember multiple languages as a child than later on in life (as long as you continue to practice it)~

As I was saying... riddles are one way to exercise one's brain. It can increase memory (practical and spacial) as well as reasoning skills. Basically, practice make almost perfect (nothing's completely perfect (just as the line never seems to be able to reach zero, but it sure does get close)...math). It's okay to feel challenged by the situation, learn the logic and apply it to real life.

Okay... ready to start? Of course you are... let's begin!
I will pose the question. Underneath lies the answer, but as you may see (or not so much) it is not visible. For your benefit I have posted the answers and high-lit them in the same color. Just highlight them with your cursor and then you will see. Good Luck!


Riddles of the Sphinx
Which creature in the morning goes on four legs, at mid-day on two, and in the evening upon three, and the more legs it has, the weaker it be?
Man—who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane in old age. Legend goes the sphinx would ask passers the riddles. If they did not answer correctly they would be devoured. Though the riddles are not found in the early tells. It wasn't until in later Greek history that they apper.

There are two sisters: one gives birth to the other and she, in turn, gives birth to the first. What are they?
Day and Nigh. tBoth words are feminine in the Greek language.

A Lewis Carroll Riddle

John gave his brother James a box:
About it there were many locks.

James woke and said it gave him pain;
So gave it back to John again.

The box was not with lid supplied,
Yet caused two lids to open wide;

And all these locks had never a key-
What kind of box, then, could it be?

A box on the head (hit him). First stanza: John his James, here locks = hair. Second: It hurt James, James his John. Third: the 'box' didn't have lid, but the 2 eye lid came open wide. Fourth: no lock for this kind of box. 

Something more modern

Power Outage -http://www.trickyriddles.com/riddle/3229-Power-Outage

You're in a mansion and the power's out. You see a green door and a red door. Pick one. Now you see a purple door and a orange door. Pick one. Now you see a door with a golden handle and a door with a silver handle. Pick one. You finally come to some signs on three doors. One says "Death from drowning," another says "Death from machine guns," and the last one says "Death from electric chair." Then you see a big sign off to the side that says "Or stay in the mansion and starve to death." What do you choose and still live?

Pick the door with the electric chair. Remember, the power is out?

Water in the Cup -http://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/33929/water-in-the-cup.html

A man in a restaurant asked a waiter for a juice glass, a dinner plate, water, a match, and a lemon wedge. The man poured enough water onto the plate to cover it.
"If you can get the water on the plate into this glass without touching or moving this plate, I will give you $100," the man said. "You can use the match and lemon to do this."
A few minutes later, the waiter walked away with $100 in his pocket. How did the waiter get the water into the glass?

First, the waiter stuck the match into the lemon wedge, so that it would stand straight. Then he lit the match, and put it in the middle of the plate with the lemon. Then, he placed the glass upside-down over the match. As the flame used up the oxygen in the glass, it created a small vacuum, which sucked in the water through the space between the glass and the plate. Thus, the waiter got the water into the glass without touching or moving the plate.
You can even try this experiment at home!

What begins with and 'e' and ends with an 'e' and has only one letter?

An Envelope

Well that's all for now. The links have some more great riddles, puzzles, brain teasers, and logic problems. I recommend you check them out when you have the chance.

Ta-ta for now...