On my way to St. Ives I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wives. How many were going to St. Ives?

there's a hole on the basement's ceiling which allows light to seep in?

[quote=ridGÇódle
/-êridl/
Noun
1.A question intentionally phrased to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer.
2.A large coarse sieve, esp. one used for separating ashes from cinders or sand from gravel.


Verb
Make many holes in (someone or something), esp. with gunshot.


puzGÇózle
/-êp+Öz+Öl/
Verb
Cause (someone) to feel confused because they cannot understand or make sense of something: "one remark he made puzzled me".


Noun
A game, toy, or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge.

Just as a note to address some of the complaints in this thread. The OP was harassed for ambiguous or intentionally misleading questions. Well that's a riddle. riddles use double meanings, puns, word play etc to confuse.

Questions with a single logical answer are puzzles.

I love both and am saddened I only yesterday found this thread. anyways, the bird's shadow one and #'s in alphabetical order are clever riddle's and fit the title of the thread.

As for the ambiguous ones such as "The music stopped. She died" Those are generally contain either very little information or intentionally misleading information. They way I have always played them is that those trying to work it out can ask yes or no questions to narrow down and solve them. While they are among my favorite type of puzzle not easily done in this thread. perhaps if given its own thread would be more conducive to solving.

Thanks for making this thread. mostly typing all this out because I'm bored so

a green house is made of glass.

He only drank one cup, the poison required several doses to be effective? or the ice countered the poison somehow

You are CORRECT! Here comes another one:

A man walks into a party and pours some punch and ice into a cup. He was really thirsty and drank it really fast. Then he left the party. Later he hears that everyone at the party died. There was poison in the punch. How did the man not die if he drank the same punch?

Hard Tier:

You are in the basement and there are 3 light switches. A,B and C.
Two of them do nothing. One of them turns on the light on the first floor.
You can't see the first floor, so there is no chance of seeing what happens when you flip a switch.
You are not allowed to use any kind of help or tools.
The only thing you can do is turn on/off the three light switches.
The goal is to know, for certain, which switch turns on the light after you go upstairs.
You are only allowed to go upstairs once and you cannot go back downstairs once up.

The poison was in the ice cubes, they hadn't melted yet to distribute the poison into his punch.

lighthouse operator ..... and what a jerk ....

A knife or a sword?

plant?

You're getting warmer...

A tree?