There is a variant of this puzzle here, but it's not quite the same. If I missed it in a search then my bad.

There is a bum who loves cigars, but unfortunately he can't afford to buy any. He realizes though that people rarely finish their cigars. He finds out that on average there is 1/5 of a cigar remaining when a person throws it away. Therefore he can make 1 cigar if he finds five cigar butts. Yesterday the bum had a very lucky day and found 25 cigar butts. How many cigars was he able to make?

b/c of its simalarity to the first sequence.

Heh, ok... well, 1,1,1 is not correct and there is definitely a much more substantial reason for the answer.

The one who askes her to come to him.

Nice one Nikyma. This is definitely the fastest way, unless he asks her to run to him of course.

A King sat on his throne. Beside him stood his Princess who was to be married to 1 of the 2 suitors who both stood 25 ft. in front of them. The King set up a test to determine the wiser of the suitors. He ordered his knights to bind each man as best they could in 2 different ways.

The first suitor was sat in a chair with his hands bound behind him and his feet tied together with sturdy rope. The second suitor's ankle's were chained to 2 500 lb. weights.

The suitors were then told that the first of them to kiss the hand of the Princess would be the one to marry her. Which suitor was able to kiss her hand first and how did he meet the King's expectation?

Polar bears cannot be found in south pole...penguins cannot be found in north pole....what can it be???

Be careful not to jump to conclusions here. Nothing is said about poles. And also, caricatures do not have to be only black and white (which is mentioned in multiple posts).

itachi- san please reply!!!

Well, sorry to disappoint, but the answer has still not been given. It might help to try and match your answer with every line of the riddle. It should fit for every line, or else it wouldn't be much of a riddle

This puzzle was not EASY.

This one isn't cracked yet? This should help: bonanaova has the closest guess.

a bear or a buffalo

Sorry,but I can't use spoiler.I think for two thinks-one is wine,but I don't see how cover the 3th line,which I don't understant well anyway.My second guess is mushrooms/magic mushrooms.

You got it! ..I think. Yes, the answer is:

a mushroom

From the dark and dank I rise

typical fungus growing location

I make you not believe your eyes

one of the psychedelic variety

I make some plumbers grow in size

one of the video game variety (I figured this would really be the give-away, but alas)

Mario and Luigi! anyone?..anyone?..Bueller?

And many think I appetize

many people eat and enjoy a wide variety of mushrooms, myself included

araneae arachinida

8 legged drain demon

OK, well not what I had in mind. This is a good one and funny, but it's a bit too loose fitting.

There are two wealthy old ladies living in a house, 45 miles out of town. They have a rather large house. No one lives with them, no animals or people. There is a thunderstorm, and the house is not visibly damaged. Two weeks after the storm, someone from town decides to check on them, but finds them dead in the house. The questions are: Where is each lady in the house? (They are both inside.) And What was the cause of death for each them?

I'm sure 2 old women living in such a secluded home could find an infinite amount of ways to die. And just about every place inside a house is perfectly possible for such an unfortunate yet 'bound to happen' event, storm or not.

Yes, no, maybe so?

Oh, sorry, no. That's not correct. I was hoping this would be an easy one <_<

Because I'm skeptical before I look at any puzzle:

1)bread, waffles, English muffins, etc..

2)water

3)Greenhouses are usually made out of glass or some plastic material I wouldn't be able to name, but I don't see why a house can't be built out of green bricks? -also you got a typo for the red house ex.

4)either bury the survivors alive or let them die more natural deaths and then bury them wherever they have specified.

the punch was poisoned after he stopped drinking it/left or he poisoned the punch himself after he drank some of it

OK, maybe this one is too hard or it just plain ain't that good, so here's another hint to get the snowball rolling again:

I hinted before about programming so:

When you count apples, with what number do you start counting? 1 of course.

When you count while programming, with what number do you start?

[A First Time for Everything?]

There's a first time for everything except for the act of disproving the first part of this sentence.

Lol wasn't ox the only one that knew what it meant?

And Mr. Burns of course

Here's an easy one to make up for the last one I posted.

From the dark and dank I rise

I make you not believe your eyes

I make some plumbers grow in size

And many think I appetize

OK, here is my original answer. It is a concept in (but originated before of course) The Simpson's episode: "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish", one of my personal favorites and also probably the best name for any episode.

Also, please no complaints about the obscurity of this word because I mentioned that at least 3 times. Noct proved the riddle could solved with commonplace words anyway. Having said that, my original answer to this was:

tontine. –noun

1. an annuity scheme in which subscribers share a common fund with the benefit of survivorship, the survivors' shares being increased as the subscribers die, until the whole goes to the last survivor.

government/law?

I have to say that these answers fit quite nicely Noct. Though not my original intention, you indeed have answered the riddle so congrats! Other agreements like treaties and the like, fit as well. I will post my original answer tomorrow, since I would say this has been adequately solved. Here are some final hints for my answer if you want to keep at the guessing game:

1)the word is English, but very seldom used

2)It involves the direct life and death of specific people

3)I got the idea from a Simpson's episode

...because I have no idea how far off I am...

The Declaration of Independence

I guess one person's loathing is another's fun, or something like that... Nice try, but the answer cannot be singular due to the 4th line.

good guess with antenna, but incorrect.

on a shorter trip, that would probably be correct, but on a long one, not so much (there's my only hint for this one)

Ahhhh.

luggage, surfboards, snowboards, anything carried on the roof. Bicycles standing up-right would be tallest maybe?

I know this isn't right but it fits some of the lines and it made me laugh a little to myself when I thought of it so I thought I'd share it.

a pre-nuptial agreement

Nice one! This is far and away the best guess yet and it is surprisingly close to being another answer for the riddle. It's also really funny Definitely funnier than the answer, if that helps.

OK, I'm not even sure if I'm sold on this idea, but I do find it interesting. It would be an icon (like a check mark) that the Original Topic Posters could use at any time when they are either satisfied with a response being the intended answer to their puzzle or if they have posted the solution themselves. The column for Post Icons would be ideal for this, but it would obviously have to have the ability to be added after the Topic was posted. The Topic would still be open for discussion of course, but everyone would be aware that the OP was satisfied.

I can think of 2 great purposes for this option. One would be for people scanning the archives. I've noticed that the users are growing rapidly for this site (which is great) and therefore so are the number of Topics. Having this option would make it easy to find old Topics that have yet to be satisfactorily solved according to the OP. Secondly, the check mark would let people know that a puzzle that had them stumped is finally solved. I feel that this option would greatly reduce the amount of spoilers posted and the incentive to post spoilers because everyone would know without even opening a puzzle if it has been solved or not. This way a puzzle could hang around unsolved for a very long time and not get lost in the distant pages of the archives without people knowing it has yet to be solved.

Just a long drawn out thought

2,3,1?

2,1,1,1,1,1,1

2,1,1,1,3,1 (3 is 1,1 in binary)

2,3,1,3,1 (thought it could be the first assuming that the patterns skips a 1 and the converts the next pair to 3)

There are other ways the pattern could start changing 1,1 to 3.

No, but good guess. Just so you don't keep trekking down this path, it is the wrong direction.