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Has to be stupidity

Here's a good one:

A word I know, Six letters it contains, Subtract just one, And twelve is what remains.

Thirteen

Come on guys, bring more difficult ones. English isn't my primary language and still I can solve them ^^.

Thirteen has more than six letters!

Thirteen "has" more then six letters (8), but it contains only 6, as "t" and "e" are doubles.

@noelte: Im Deutschen würden wir sagen: enthält 6 verschiedene Buchstaben bzw. hat 6 Buchstaben. Sind zwei verschiedene Sachen .

Thirteen is not the answer, the answer "has" 6 letters.. and all that other stuff.


I'm generally don't remember the ones that are so "hard" that I consider them obscure, but if you like.. here's one:

A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn, with an outline of a green grass. What is this?

@bb see Ablaze

Hmm, I don't know about Ablaze's riddle, but here is another one for you to solve

I can go up the chimney down, but not down the chimney up.
What am I ?

umbrella

You're right

Man, you can just copy and paste these into google. Kind of deflates the whole riddle thing, dosen't it?

For the record the answers are "Dozens" (subtract the "s" and make dozen) and "a coconut."

Now, i'm going to prove that 4 equals 5

-20 = -20
16-36 = 25-45
16-36+9²/2² = 25-45+9²/2²
(4-9/2)² = (5-9/2)²
4-9/2 = 5-9/2
4=5

ähm, ... q.e.d.

noelte wrote:(4-9/2)² = (5-9/2)²
4-9/2 = 5-9/2

And I suppose that (-1)^2 = (1)^2 means -1 = 1 ?

Geoff the Medio wrote:

noelte wrote:(4-9/2)² = (5-9/2)²
4-9/2 = 5-9/2

And I suppose that (-1)^2 = (1)^2 means -1 = 1 ?

Of cause not, it only means that -0.5² equals 0.5² leads to -0.5 = 0.5

You forgot i.

Okay, here's one:

What's the difference between a duck?