Have we considered the possibility that he simply rolled the balls across first? They are bowling balls, they'd have enough momentum to make it across a bridge so small as to only support 150 pounds.

Well, it DID say that they all crossed at the same time...

Yeah, I thought of that, but they wouldn't be able to cross at the same time. Also, what kind of bowling balls only weigh five pounds?

You expect young children to be able to use a bowling ball that's 33% or more of their weight?

Wait, if the man sits on that side of the bridge and doesn't eat he'll start to lose weight. Once he's lost 10 pounds he can just carry all 3 of the bowling balls across.

Athough, he'll also be malnourished enough that he might actually faint on the bridge. And if it's so poorly constructed that it can't take more than 150 pound, I'm guessing there's no hand rails...

"You expect young children to be able to use a bowling ball that's 33% or more of their weight? "

I expect children weighing less than twenty pounds to not go bowling.

(Whoops. Wrong thread... sorry, if you read that and got confused...)

Is this the "Riddle Me This..." thread or the "Argue About that Random Juggler" thread?

...Guess we'll take the skip on that one.

I see nothing wrong with discussing posted riddles.

It's a trick answer: the man is 145 pounds. Currency can't cross a bridge. The bowling ball, after a painfully long time, evolve from spontaneous generation to become sentient beings and spend the money on Bridge Renovations so they can see their Bowling Ball families.

It's first grade, Sponge Bob

Can we have another riddle?

a sign that says how much load a bridge can tolerate is never actually the maximum load for a bridge. there's always at least a factor of safety about twice the posted limit, sometimes upwards of six times the maximum posted, so the man and his balls should have no concerns. /engineering

Well if no one else is giving the riddle...


A plane crashes in a field and every single person dies, two survive, how is that?

The two people that survived weren't single.

Was that correct?

Yes it was.

Well. I'll be next.

If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it.

...It's a secret to everybody.

A CORRECT PERSON IS YOU!

Riddle anyone...?

Smell me, buy me, and deliver me.
I won't change.

What am I?

Oxygen?

Cent, scent, and sent

One day two scientists were at a bar. The first said "I'll have some H2O.". The second one said "I'll have some H2O2.". The second one died.

Riddles, not jokes, man.