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by laiureaiuhr on June 27th, 2008
the NSWER MUST BE PONIES, IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT FITS
Everyone knows that ponies paint the polar bears white
Ponies make you cry if they stand on you
Ponies make boys have to pee after they have gone for a long ride
Ponies make girls comb their hair because when they were little they had my little ponies and they would always comb their hair, so now they just comb their own hair
Ponies make celebrities look stupid when they fall on them
Normal people look like celebrities when they ride round on ponies in downtown LA, coz only a celebrity would have a pony in down town LA
Ponies make pancakes turn brown because they dont like them green
Ponies make champagne bubble by the complex process of carbonation (please refer to wikipedia for more details)
If you squeeze a pony with two bulldozers, it will pop
If you look at a pony the wrong way, they will sit on you, and make you pop.
case closed.
by nat-nat on July 8th, 2007
the answer is.... "pressure" get it?
Polar bears are white because the pressure at the poles is low, so they have to be able to absorb heat.
Pressure makes you cry if it's too much.
Pressure in your bladder makes you have to pee.
Peer pressure makes girls comb their hair.
Celebrities usually crack under pressure.
Many normal people will shine under pressure.
Pancakes turn brown thanks to pressure generated by the heat.
Champagne will bubble until the pressure of the carbonation has disappeared.
If you squeeze something under pressure, BAM, there it goes.
If you are "looking" at pressure, you're in it. for example-> in an airplane your ears pop under pressure
by Anonymous on November 14th, 2007
Here's the whole riddle:
" turn polar bears white
And I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
And girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
And normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
And make your champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?"
97% of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out,
But 84% of kindergarten students were able to figure this out,
In 6 minutes or less.
by Anonymous on January 26th, 2008
Now, I found a poem that seems to have the answer: TIME. But, I can't seem to find an author for it so I can't be sure if it is legitimate.
The time has come,
winter is here
and those yellow bears disappear.
The time has past
as man looks back with a sigh
and a tear in his eye.
As time is held
boys cross their legs
but of course the toilet begs
As time marches on
Girls loose their blush
and swap a comb for their brush
As time passes
For those held high
their end is nigh
As time catches up
Everyone is equal
when we get to the final sequel
As time turns
Without it we have flour and water
With it we have breakfast for my daughter
As time revolves
How does one turn water and wine
into something so fine
As time runs out
The more in a minute you try and squeeze
the less you can do with ease.
As time ticks
All the time that has past
man cannot comprehend something so vast.
by Bensbury on May 14th, 2008
The answer they are looking for is 'no'.
As has been said already.
We could answer 'time' but I could also answer 'life', existence or soe other all encompassing word which doesn't explain why the Kids could get it and the Harvard folk couldn't.
It's more a smarmy trick riddle where intellectuals start to figure out what could answer the above while the kids just look at the final part...and because it is difficult they answer 'no'.
However (because I am a smart ass) even though 'No' is the answer the people who made the riddle want.
They actually are WRONG!
Because the question is....
Can you GUESS the riddle?
Well if you want to get semantic the answer is 'Yes'.
Of course you can GUESS the riddle.
We can guess anything.
I can guess that you ate pancakes for breakfast this morning. I don't have to be correct.
So I prefer the answer: 'Yes'
Yes I can guess the riddle.
I'd like to guess 'snow' in all it's various meanings.
I may not be correct but yes I can guess.
by Anonymous on May 5th, 2008
I very much doubt that 84% of kindergarten students guessed 'pressure'. Find me a kindergarten student that knows about the pressure in the poles, understands the concept of peer pressure and the science behind the 'pressure' of the heat turning pancakes brown...oh and lets no forget 'looking' at something that isnt there so therefore having to figure out that 'looking'is really interpeted as 'facing a situation'...find me that 6 year old and I take my hat off to them....they WILL be going to harvard! (does that mean in their later life they wont understand the riddle?)
by Lennox06 on May 4th, 2008
The answer is "time."
There is actually a poem called "Time" and it explains the answer....
Time
The time has come,
winter is here
and those yellow bears disappear.
The time has past
as man looks back with a sigh
and a tear in his eye.
As time is held
boys cross their legs
but of course the toilet begs
As time marches on
Girls loose their blush
and swap a comb for their brush
As time passes
For those held high
their end is nigh
As time catches up
Everyone is equal
when we get to the final sequel
As time turns
Without it we have flour and water
With it we have breakfast for my daughter
As time revolves
into something so fine
As time runs out
The more in a minute you try and squeeze
the less you can do with ease.
As time ticks
All the time that has past
man cannot comprehend something so vast
by Landon on June 5th, 2007
The time has come,
winter is here
and those yellow bears disapear.
The time has past
as man looks back with a sigh
and a tear in his eye.
As time is held
boys cross their legs
but of course the toilet begs
As time marches on
Girls loose their blush
and swap a comb for their brush
As time passes
For those held high
their end is nigh
As time catches up
Everyone is equal
when we get to the final sequal
As time turns
Without it we have flour and water
With it we have breakfast for my daughter
As time revolves
How does one turn water and wine
into something so fine
As time runs out
The more in a minute you try and squeeze
the less you can do with ease.
As time ticks
All the time that has past
man cannot comprehand something so vast.
by Yoyoyo on June 5th, 2007
The answer is time
by wobalome on March 5th, 2007
Sex?
by --angel_fire-- on March 5th, 2007
Air makes celebrities look stupid. Especially if your last name is Simpson or Hilton.
Jk!
by IsiQenqe on June 5th, 2008
The simple question is: Can you guess the riddle:
The answer is: No
by hxckittyxxx on April 21st, 2008
It's PRESSURE.
Polar bears are white because the pressure at the poles is low, so they have to be able to absorb heat.
Pressure makes you cry if it's too much.
Pressure in your bladder makes you have to pee.
Peer pressure makes girls comb their hair...Otherwise we wouldn't bother!
Celebrities usually crack under pressure.
Many normal people will shine under pressure.
Pancakes turn brown thanks to pressure generated by the heat.
Champagne will bubble until the pressure of the carbonation has disappeared.
If you squeeze something under pressure, LikeBamm, there it goes.
If you are "looking" at pressure, you're in it, like in an airplane, and your ears pop.
[[[I like the 'time' answer alot better though...]]
by Anonymous on November 18th, 2007
I think that the answer is "no I cant" because it asked the simple question can you solve the riddle. the whole riddle does not make sense so there lies the answer no i cant. people try to over analize the riddle and come up with answer by thinking to hard. and they said that kiddergartens can get the answer but harvard students could not. then i read the riddle to my little sister and she said "no i cant" but i knows others will disagree.
by Anonymous on June 27th, 2008
The answer is photoshop lol....I really don't know
by amafiahitman on June 6th, 2008
the answer is no
by Falconic on May 17th, 2008
The answer is pressure. I know because I have it in a pretty old book; "Even More Old Lateral Thinking Puzzles". The whole statistical part, as well as the alterations to the wording, are because of people who were to stupid to answer it right. They wanted to feel special so they changed the answer and asked if you could guess it.
"I turn polar bears white
And I will make you cry.
I make boys have to pee
And girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
And normal people seem like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
And make champagne bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Who am I?"
The answers in the book:
"Pressure:
Also accept: Force, Gravity"
Thank you and goodnight.
by .DanielleFLOURINE on May 13th, 2008
What the hell is the real answer?
by Anonymous on May 11th, 2008
Television
by And Why Not? on May 4th, 2008
Why can't the answer by Viagra. Come on guys, this is a simple riddle. Little kids haven't developed their brains to full capacity yet, so they can't think logically, they just go with concrete answers.
They would simply say, "Yes" or "No" it's not that difficult.
If the line: "Can you guess the riddle?" wasn't in there, then they were expecting you to answer the question, "What am I?"
by Donnyiluka on May 1st, 2008
The answer can't be no!?
A. a riddle can't have an answer of just no (then it wouldnt be the hardest riddle it would be the shittest)
B. If 97% of Harvard students couldn't figure it out - then ultimately they got it right because no they couldnt figure it out, just like the kindergardens!?!? Its a contradiction in what its saying.
Pressure would be a more suitable answer. But i think the real answer should be time.
i turn polar bears white - time as in evolution
And I will make you cry. - people will die through out time
I make guys have to pee - no one can hold their pee
And girls comb their hair. - hair grows through time
I make celebrities look stupid - they always start out great then go crazy through out their careers
And normal people look like celebrities. - when ur in ur teens and 20s some people make their image similar to celebrities
I turn pancakes brown - if left on the hot plate long enough
And make your champane bubble. - over time champangne will bubble
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop. - if you squeeze the time continueum it will pop and a black hole or a worm hole will be created
If you look at me, you'll pop. - if you were to look at what ever dimension time is in ( i dont know i think its the 4th or 7th) you would literally pop as ur streteched and construed.
Using all the information given, i would say the answer is God, i dont beleive in God but some people do and maybe the person who wrote it does. Its also an answer that kindergardens would be able to supply and Harvard students would see beyond.
by PharFigNewton on April 17th, 2008
Oh no. This is that riddle that all the kindergarteners knew, but grown adults didn't. Right?
Ugh... I don't know. Water.
by mamamitzvah on June 24th, 2008
bs'd
nope...the answer is within the last line of the riddle:
CAN YOU ANSWER THIS RIDDLE?
The answer is simply NO
by Anamika on June 4th, 2008
I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?
Answer is
the answer to this riddle is NO or NO I CAN'T.
by Nikki on May 28th, 2008
NO... the answer is no!
by mr_speedway on May 14th, 2008
I'm struggling to tell if the people offering answers are simply messing around, or just not that bright.
The entire thing is based on a poem by Neil Gaiman. The reason it's so hard to answer for anyone OTHER than kindergarteners is because no-one else is likely to have read the poem - as such, the 'riddle' makes next to no sense. Looking at it having not read the poem the answer has to be 'yes', as you're simply being asked to identify the riddle, but the question you're answering has little context.
The 'real' answer is 'time' in so much as the poem it is based on is called 'time'.
by jess_star101 on May 14th, 2008
The Answer Is WORDS!
If there were no words how could you describe the color of the
bear? you could turn it into any color with words.
Words that offend a person can cause you to cry if the words hurt deep enough
saying water or describing a sound that is like a waterfall can cause a guy to ***.
If you say a girl has bad hair they would want or could if they had a brush comb it to make it better.
Words that ruin celebrities lifes can make them look stupid
describing certain talents one normal person has that a celebrity doesn't makes them better in someway and can make them look like a celebrity
like the polar bear the word describes what color the pancake is
words describe what the champane is doing like carbonization
squeeze me is a tricky one but I believe that if you squeeze "me" as in "words in the poem" and get the answer out of what is written "I'll Pop" meaning you have achieved the answer from the riddle and it is popped as in the answer has been cracked and revealed. The answer metaphorically popped out of the riddle in words.
If you look at the words in this poem you like a lot of people have said will pop and scream, holler, and lose your sanity out of how easy the answer is and how hard logically it was to solve this riddle.
Because its hard to solve logically thats why most harvard students couldn't come up with it. However kindergardeners could because of their low vocabulary most would just said "words" because you can describe the riddle using words.
by neverwed on May 13th, 2008
The answer is Time. There is a riddle about it.
by Anonymous on May 6th, 2008
People!!!! read ALL the answers before you's just write the same thing over and over again!!! Do your research!!! Polar bears have a fur that is actually translucent and that appears white due to their surroundings, also HIGH pressure is at the poles, not low so that's a load of rubbish. 'Peer pressure makes girls comb their hair' errr.... no it does not! what a lot of crap!!! U cannot 'look at' or 'see' pressure and not all celebs crack under pressure and not all non-celebs shine under pressure!!! stop writing the same things... and at that the same wrong things!!!
What about this one, I got it in an email but I really can't work it out!!
I cause reflections but does not shine,
I am made of wood but was never living,
I have a flame like a fire but cannot burn,
I disappear as soon as I've been seen,
I ring like a bell but am uaually silent,
I am is strong like a metal but shatter on impact.
Please help!
by Dr Peters on May 4th, 2008
The answer is no because it is the all important question at the end which underlines the entire riddle. After asking several young kids they answered not "pressure" (many of which didn't even know what that meant but "no". When i asked them why they had answered it the said "because it doesn't make sense" and "i don't understand it". Another thing is where it asks can you GUESS the answer, which would result in a no because many people spend much time in an in depth answer which would not be a guess.
Dr G.E.A.Peters
by lil gang$ta on April 27th, 2008
the sun
by archie on April 27th, 2008
Actually, for those of you replying "No", I don't think it's right. The fact is that the answer should be "nothing", not "no I cannot answer the riddle" because, in fact, you do know the answer and the answer is "nothing", so the reply should be "Yes".
CLEAR?
by - M.C.S. - Dave on April 24th, 2008
Time of the Season, would be my first guess. For most everything changes somewhat during the seasons.
by merlin51 on April 17th, 2008
ummmmmmmm traits?
by TWA on April 15th, 2008
I'm in disagreement with the person who made this question up. Based on the end of it: "Can you guess the riddle?" and "97% of harvard graduates got this question wrong, 87% of kindergarteners got it right", the answer would be "no" because most kindergarten students would give some variation of that answer.
However, the statistics are biased on the assumption that the asker knew the answer to his/her own question. Technically, you can guess whatever you like. Doesn't mean your guess is correct, it just means you guessed. Also, what if your guess was "No"? Then, even assuming the answer is "No", by guessing it (correctly), you'd prove the answer to be wrong.
Therefore, I can only conclude that the one possible answer is "Yes", and that the statistics are meaningless - Just as meaningless as the title of the riddle.
by Final_Starman on March 5th, 2007
water or alcohol?
by illimitato_hustla on March 5th, 2007
champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?
this is the last part it didnt fit
by Nelson - Jetpacking from bed on June 5th, 2007
Thermal dynamics
by EL1 2 on May 28th, 2007
I remember that Super Panda 2 asked me this riddle, but I can't remember the answer. Nothing does that!
by Anonymous on March 31st, 2008
No it can't really b a camera because a camera doesn't make champaigne pop nor does it make pancakes turn brown. The answer is "no" you see because Harvard students and adults always look 4 a solution 2 solve stuff. While younger ppl always or usually answer what they hear like in the last line of the riddle when they say "can you guess this riddle?", now of course they're gonna say no because they don't know the one answer that can fit into all of the questions. Theres not just 1 thing that can make all that possible......... Atleast i don't think there is...........
by allaroundjoc101 on April 9th, 2007
I think it might be water
by Byakughan on September 12th, 2007
The answer is "yes". If you look only at the last line, which is supposed to be "Can you guess this riddle?", then you'll have come up with the fact that the riddle doesn't matter, and the whole thing is just a yes or no question. The answer is yes because you can GUESS all you want, although you will never find the answer to the "riddle," because there isn't one, and just GUESSING doesn't mean that your answer is right, so the answer is yes. If the final line was "What am I?", then, I'd have to say that the answer is pressure.
by illimitato_hustla on March 5th, 2007
i really don't know i was tryin to find the answer
by jezebel rania ryans on April 7th, 2008
i think that this has the most simplest answer but no one can think of it because we are thinking way outside the box. we have to think samll like a kindergartner who hasn'r got the life skills to think that it "pressure" they dont even know what peer pressure is cuz their too busy playing legos or something.(no offense nat-nat pun. pride) i think it's something like AGE.
by Gold_Autumn on May 11th, 2008
Get that from facebook? Thought so...
by anthonymr_13 on May 11th, 2008
The answer is both pressure and time "the pressure of time" togther that answer works for every possible aspect of this riddel
by illimitato_hustla on March 5th, 2007
i found out the answer let me know if u want it there were 2 good ones though
by SaraZita on March 5th, 2007
pressure?
by Anonymous on May 1st, 2008
god
by satoshirocks on April 28th, 2008
It's "crayon".
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You're reading The World's Hardest Riddle" Body: i turn polar bears white and I will make you cry. I make guys have to pee and girls comb their hair. I make celebrities look stupid and normal people look like celebrities. I turn pancakes brown and make your champane bub
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Comments
why didn't i think of that!
by JD. on July 13th, 2008
lmao tht is hilarious!
by leocouls on July 26th, 2008
Oh jeez that was SO obvious, how didnt I think of it!
by Loughman on September 9th, 2008
haha great answer! Though I think they make pancakes brown because they make their own pancakes and thats just how they come out...BROWN! lol. +3 for you!
by Goofy_20 on October 27th, 2009
U are my Hero.
by CallieCake on March 2nd, 2010
This made me laugh so freaking hard.
Thank you. =')
by clairekelly on March 11th, 2010
you obviously spent a lot of research on this. Bravo!!
by dixftw on April 10th, 2010
U should answer more riddles! That was freakin hilarious
by rinnytinny on May 31st, 2010