That is absolutely correct! Your riddle.

..and why did you change your name?

It was time for a change... Besides, I'm such a night person, I thought it was fitting!

Okay, a man from Mobile, Alabama was visiting Louisiana for vacation. One afternoon, he decided to go for a walk wearing some sneakers he had purchased back home at The Nike Store at the mall. A man walked up to him and said, "I know where you got your shoes."

The man was correct. How? Be specific.

because the man said

"you got them at a nike store."

he didn't say which town he got them in, just the name of the store...

...maybe? or is that too obvious?

Nope, sorry. That is not the correct answer.

Well... I might of missed something, but- Wouldn't the man of seen the Nike logo on his shoes?

And if that's wrong, well maybe the man was the one who sold the shoes to him, and therefore he remembered that...

Nope. I'm sorry, but that is not correct. Keep trying!

Here's some guesses... (am I allowed to make multiple guesses?)

-He could be a stalker.
-Or he was standing behind the guy in line when he bought the shoes.
-They could be special shoes that can only be bought at the store in Alabama.
-Maybe he left the tags on the shoes and it said the name of the store on them.

yeah... those are pretty feeble attempts, but I suck at riddles.

Nope, I'm sorry. None of those guesses are correct.

Here is the one and only hint, because any other hint would just outright give the answer away. This riddle (which was actually a real life event for me) closely resembles Sam's riddle of the bats and the juggler. You have to think a little differently than what you would expect the answer to be. Okay, now I've just given you the answer...

ok the other day i asked one of my freinds for help and he gave me this answer:
"right there on the street of New orleans"
he had his shoes on the street of new orleans






i personally have no idea what he means but i could just be overlooking what he meant

Close, very close. In fact, I could say that that is a partial answer, but partial is not a complete answer. Try one more time?

EDIT:
Actually, I just checked, and realized I didn't mention New Orleans in my riddle. I only said Louisiana. So, you don't need to use New Orleans in the answer.

I take it your friend has been to New Orleans, which is I got my riddle from. He may have fallen for the same trick.

Well, my mom and I came up with a few random, and most prbably wrong, answers. Here they are:

1. The man sold him the shoes.
2. It was his friend
3. It was a very strange and creepy man who watches shoe stores and follows costomers.

After a while of forming headaches, I decided there was significance in the fact that the word 'man' was used instead of 'stranger'. So, he might have known the man to begin with. Tell me that isn't the lamest answer you've ever heard.

Nope, I'm sorry, but none of those are correct.

Wow! I never would have guessed that this would last so long. But, I have a feeling it won't be long now...

grr maybe I should go back to Chris and get another answer from him... he used to live in New Orleans is why he said new Orleans... would I be any closer if I changed the word New Orleans to Louisiana

I think I got it! He got them out of his room that morning! It wasn't about where he bought them, it was where he grabbed them when the man asked! Am I right?

Nope, I'm sorry, that is not correct, either. Check parisg's posts and you will be closer on the right track.

Parsig, changing it from New Orleans to Louisiana would still only be partially correct, but you are soooo close. Think-where he "got his shoes". Oh man, that just gave it away for sure!

Good luck!

He bought them in a shop in New Orleans. I asked my brother, and it sounded good to me. I'm almost complety dry for ideas. Let this one be right! Or let someone get it right before I completley go bonkers!

Sorry again... I did mention in the original riddle that the man purchased his shoes back home...Mobile, Alabama.

Okay, another hint... Let's move away from the idea of where he purchased his shoes.

ok, is it that he got them on planet earth?

or maybe just in the states?

otherwise, i have no clue.

i think you should win the prize for keeping one riddle going the longest! i don't think any of them have lasted this long... have they?

Laura, be prepared that you may have to give the answer up as your riddle has been going for nearly a week.

Here's a joke for you to read while you ponder the answer!!

really old joke
A German shepherd went into a Western Union office, took a blank telegram form and wrote, "Woof...woof woof...woof...woof...woof...woof woof. Woof."

The clerk examined the form. "There are only nine words here," he said. "You could send another 'woof' for the same price."

"But," the dog replied, "that would be silly."

Okay, I guess I will give up the answer. I was pondering the idea of doing it yesterday, but I wanted to try and give parisg one more chance to answer, considering he/she was so close. Speaking of being so close, I'm going to go ahead and give it to parisg. You did get half of it.

Here is the answer- The man said, "I know where you got your shoes. You got them on your feet on the streets of Louisiana. At least it didn't cost anyone $20.00 on here like it did me in real life.

Okay, parisg, you're up!

guess what you know my friend that gave me the really close answer well right after I read that you gave up I saw that he sent me a message on facebook last night containing the correct answer





ok here is my riddle:

the music stops, and the lady dies.

how did she die?

um... when the music stops, the musician throws his instrument at the lady and she dies...

Okay... that is definately not the answer. Let's try again... The lady trips over her own feet when the music stops because she was danceing so fast and stopped so abruptly. I don't think that's the answer either.

Or... the lady is allergic to no music being played. The music stopped and she had an allergic reaction and died. That was really weird. There is no way that that is the answer...

Is she playing musical deaths or something?! Like, instead of musical bumps or musical statues, its musical deaths

no but you both get points for creativity expecially emma for the allegic reaction answer

Hmm ... maybe she's acting? Like she's singing about her death or something ...

Well, maybe the second the music stopped, some one shot her (or something along those lines). I still totally think that she had an allergic reaction (NOT! That would just be weird. But, then again, I'm weird...)

no she isn't an actress and she wasn't murdered

I got it! She didn't really die... her voice did. She was signing reslly loudly along with the music and when it was over she tried to talk but she couldn't because her voice was dead...

maybe it was like in the olden days when they burnt witches, and it was a whole village ceremony or whatever you want to call it...

and they had a whole band and fanfair out, but as soon as the band stopped playing, they burnt her, or a firing squad shot her?

ok, makes no sense, but whatever!

that's my guess!

EDIT:

never mind, that's not it, cause i just read what you said....

"she wasn't an actress and wasn't murdered"

so, forget that!

she was not singing

Okay, this isn't nearly as creative as some of the others I've read which were pretty good and funny! Definitely points for that!

The lady that died was the musician so, of course, the music stopped. She wasn't alive anymore to keep on playing.

no she was not a musician



I know you guys can get it I told this to a group of I think 5th graders over the summer and they all got it (after many hints)




oh and earlier I said that she wasn't murdered but in a sence she cold have been but not like with a gun or beng strangled or any of those ways you would think of murder

Okay, so can we ask questions like:

What did the lady do for a living?
Where were they when it happened?
What kind of music was it?

OK, maybe the lady IS the music or something? That was random, but it was worth a guess.
Or the song ws being sung about a lady and in the song she died?

What did the lady do for a living? I can't tell you that, but can tell you that her job is important
Where were they when it happened? at her work place
What kind of music was it? I can tell you that it isn't a type of music that you listen to on regular basis



the lady is not the music

okay... she was poisoned by some poison that is activated when music isn't playing...

OR

she was some really old lady who was lying on her deathbed. think of a heart beat as the music. when the music (heart beat) stops, she dies.

OR

she was bitten by some kind of poisonous animal. the animal was scared of the music, but when it stopped, the animal wasn't afraid and it bit the lady.

was the lady some sort of ballarina in a music box? the music only stops when you close the lid, so the ballarina would "die" metaphorically speaking and disappear back into the box.

idk, just my guess.

no to all those guesses




the job is very relevent and the type of music is very relevent

I knew i had heard this one before... and i remembered it last night!

The woman is a blindfolded tightrope walker at a circus. The music, which is usually the cue to signal the end of the act, ended a little early, and she thought that she reached the end, so she lost balance and fell to her death.

Hmm...if imctk is correct, then there wasn't any way to get this one without lots of hints. My answer was ruled out when you gave the hint that her job is very relevant (which also makes imctk's answer seem like the right one.)

I'll give my answer anyways as it's adapted from a joke I like. The woman was blonde and the music had the lyrics "breathe in, breathe out" (perhaps she was listening to Machine Head by Bush).

CONGRATULAIONS imctk YOU ARE CORRECT!!!

ok. here's my riddle.

if no one has heard it before, then it should be pretty hard.

A magician was boasting one day at how long he could hold his breath under water. His record was 6 minutes. A kid that was listening said, "that's nothing, I can stay under water for 10 minutes using no types of equipment or air pockets!" The magician told the kid if he could do that, he'd give him $10,000. The kid did it and won the money. Can you figure out how?


good luck!

I have 2 theories (both of which are probably wrong!):

1 - His whole body wasn't underwater

2 - He dug a tuneel or something under a lake/pool whatever and sat in the tunnel

Ok, amy-- you are on the right track with theory number one... That his whole body wasn't under the water, but you still haven't got it.

Keep trying!

Imctk

I got it! he said he could stay under water for 10 minutes he never said anything about holding his breath so he took a glass of water and held it over his head for ten minutes and he was in fact under wate for ten minutes

Oooh, that's smart! I've been trying to figure it out for ages but haven't got to it... And they say I'm smart. *sigh*

Hehe. Well, hopefully it's not right and I come up with the right answer, because I don't want to end up forgetting my amazingly easy but still amazingly wonderful riddle.

yup.

you're up parisg!

yeah someone else can have my turn and post a riddle because I can't come up with one for some reason

Ok, this is a sort of weird one, but I was out of ideas too so I looked up ones on the internet....

Alice is walking throught the forest of forgetfulness. She wants to know what day of the week it is. She stops and asks a lion and a unicorn. Now the lion lies all of the time on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The unicorn always lies on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Alice asks the lion what day it is, he says, "Well, yesterday was one of my lying days." Alice can't figure it out just from the lion's answer so she asks the unicorn and the unicorn says, "Yesterday was also one of my lying days." What day is it?

oh! i know!

it's sunday. that was easy!

i'm not usually very good at getting riddles, so i'm very proud of myself! lol.