What's your favorite Enigma / Riddle / Sentence Puzzle?

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)

stepanzak ,

You are in a room with two doors. Each door has one guard. One door leads to heaven and the other leads to hell. You have to choose one door and once you choose it, you have to go there. Before you choose, you can ask one of the guards one question. One of them always lie and the other always tell the truth. You don't know which guard is the liar/truth teller and you don't know which door leads to hell/heaven.
What's the question you ask the guard?

Suspicious ,

What's 2+2?

stepanzak ,

The guard replies either four or something else.
You now know which of the guards is the liar and who is the truth teller.
You used your one question and still have no clue which door leads to hell and which leads to heaven.
You have to guess 😕.

Kyoyeou OP ,
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Time Flies like an Arrow

Fruit Flies like Banana

But there is not like an Answer to find in that

hansl ,

That’s called a “garden path sentence”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence Has more examples.

RagnarokOnline ,

How easy should it be to solve?

My favorite longer puzzle is “there’s a naked man lying dead in a field with a stick in his hand. Asking me only yes/no questions, tell me why he is in the field and how did he die?”

Kyoyeou OP ,
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I'm ok with having some hards! It's a Board Game Society some of them can like a bit of challenge!

Hmmmm Did you have to fight sir?

RagnarokOnline ,

No :)

Kyoyeou OP ,
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Are you waiting for something?

RagnarokOnline ,

No, I am dead. I can no longer wait :)

Kyoyeou OP ,
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Say, dead sir, can you answer yes to a question?

RagnarokOnline ,

Yes!

Kyoyeou OP ,
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Can you be somewhere else?

RagnarokOnline ,

No. Not unless someone were to move my body. But I am only in this field.

Kyoyeou OP ,
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Are you happy with your situation?

RagnarokOnline ,

No. I feel neither good nor bad, as I am dead. However, I didn’t want to die.

Kyoyeou OP ,
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Would I be dead if I took the stick?

RagnarokOnline ,

You would not. The stick in and of itself is not harmful. (I love where that question was going, though. Like a voodoo stick or something!)

Kyoyeou OP ,
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Did you have this Stick for a long time before your death (I thought Elise had found almost the answer with their question)

RagnarokOnline ,

No, I didn’t have the stick for a long time before death.

Kyoyeou OP ,
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Oh wait, are you a Seed! That died and so became a tree?

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