Tomorrow is a big event at my university. I’d like to make a fun thing where the people of the Board Game society I am in can try to find me for a riddle, kind of a Where is Waldo in a place where there is a crap tone of people to find the NPC that’ll give them a Riddle (Maybe something to win? No idea how I could do that detail)
Okay, so if I build a bridge from X to Y, it’s a great bridge.
If I build a bridge from A to B it’s a terrible bridge.
Do you want to build a bridge?
(If the person says Okay as a part of their bridge proposal, it is good. If not, then the bridge is bad)
This is a great way to make everyone at a gathering hate you.
I don’t get it. What’s happening here?
It’s a prank riddle. Basically you make two statements about building bridges. They can be from anywhere and to anywhere else. My nose to your forehead, Baltimore to Seattle, it makes no difference. In one sentence, you use the word “okay” and in the other you don’t. The sentence with “okay” in it produces a good bridge. The sentence that doesn’t, doesn’t.
When you ask a person to build their own bridge, if they say “okay” in the sentence, it’s a good bridge. If they don’t, it’s a bad bridge and it falls down. This setup is built to make people frustrated because “okay” is one of those filler words that people don’t really pay attention to in sentences.
I’ve also heard of a similar setup where a person hands an object to another person (again, the object doesn’t matter) and says “This is a bean, okay?” And if the recipient says “okay” then they have done the task correctly and can pass it along to another person, declaring the object is something else. If the receiver doesn’t say “okay,” then something went wrong and one of the people who is in on the joke interrupts and starts the process again. with a new object.
Great explanation
Okay, so the correctness of the bridge is there because there is okay at the beginning of the sentence am I right?
I know a similar one where you say some kind of finger counting verse, in the end you put your arms akimbo and request the other person(s) repeat it. It doesn’t matter if they get the finger counting right, because it only counts if they also get the akimbo correct.
It’s fun to do in a group of slightly drunk people, until all got it but one. Then it feels like bullying… :/
My sister drives me crazy with these kind of “riddles”!