puzzle thread

**Blue Protoman** · January 17th, 2009, 19:36

3?

**fg-54** · January 17th, 2009, 19:51

nope

clue: the answer is not a number. (3 more guesses and i post the answer)

***quzar*** · January 18th, 2009, 02:34

Originally Posted by fg-54

At which spin does the dog lay down?

The last one.

**fg-54** · January 18th, 2009, 16:54

yup, ok here is the next one:

the more there is of me, the less you see.
what am i?

**dangee** · January 18th, 2009, 17:07

that's easy, Baggins

FOG

how about this:
you know the saying "easier for a camel to fit thru the eye of a needle
than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven"

Well , how can you fit A Camel thru the eye of a needle?

**dejkirkby** · January 18th, 2009, 20:22

Smoke a Camel and blow the smoke through the needle eye.

**dangee** · January 18th, 2009, 21:17

nice try, but a few wafts of smoke escaped round the edges, and a
stinky dog-end got left in the ashtray !

A bonus point for inginuity, and a clue:

The answer does involve a smoking related component..

**dejkirkby** · January 18th, 2009, 22:13

The large peaked doors of castles, strongholds and other large archaic architecture were called needles.

They all had small doors built within them which were usually rectangular, and designed so that only a single person on foot or a single rider could pass through at a time. This was done so, in order to inhibit the flow of traffic during certain times such as during war.

Camels are adverse to walking through crowded spaces. they don't like being indoors either. On top of that, they're rather large.

So at times people found themselves having to try to coax one of these beasts through the smaller of the doors, which happens to be called an Eye. The Needle is the name of the large door. The Eye is the name of the small door within the Needle. This is where the term comes from. Though a camel can be coaxed through the Eye of a Needle, it was seldom easy both due to the animals temperment and size.

This is why in some areas where some of these ancient doorways still exist the Eye oftentimes appears to be inordinately tall.