Take the goat across first. Then bring the leopard over and, on your return trip, take the goat back with you. Then bring the yam over. Then bring the goat over.

Thank you for being right and making this the shortest thread ever. . .

*smile*

She saw two farmers working in a field and paid them a pittance to help her cross the river with her belongings. Halfway across, the farmers decided to drown her in order to steal her goat and her yam, and correctly assuming that any girl who was crazy enough to be roaming around with a leopard for protection must have additional valuables on her person, the sack of priceless jewelery hidden away at the bottom of her rucksack.

A month later her bloated, sun ripened corpse turned up 33km down the river, terrifying a group of elderly pensioners who were hoping to catch a glimpse of a long forgotten radio actor rumoured to be on holiday nearby. The farmers were never caught, and the fate of the yam and goat are lost to time (likely outcome: one was eaten and the other was milked), but the leopard lived a long and fruitful life.

He was a little person. He could reach the button for the first floor but needed to use the umbrella to reach the button for the 80th floor.

The little boy suggested they let the air out of the tires.

The puddle beneath the hung man was once a block of ice. It wasn't a murder, it was a suicide.

The calls were coming from inside the house!

How about a Flash version of this game, with a few extra characters added to the game?

How do you get out of a windowless, locked room with only a table and a mirror?

That Flash version is boggling my mind. No matter what I do, people just keep punching each other.

Oh, wait, there are instructions.

It was all orchestrated by the kid who got stuck in the Win a Plushie claw machine. He's an evil bastard and the fame has gone to his head.

The doctor was his mother.

Great bit on The Office last week about giving the answer to riddles before the first sentence was done.

Mischief: this riddle of yours, is it something you can actually solve, or do you just have know the answer?

danf's original riddle is clearly a word puzzle: leopard, goat, and yam are anagrams of paroled, toga, and May.

Obviously the girl is just out of stir. Her crime? Impersonating a Roman, which is illegal in spring. If we assist her in crossing the river, she will have left the jurisdiction without checking first with her parole officer.

Aiding and abetting a fugitive is no laughing matter.

Rock Steady: Yep, that's where I got the idea for my comment. Heh.

The Office season 3 started REALLY slow and I was getting worried but it's starting to pick up. I don't think I laughed the first three episodes.

Daniel Charms:

Look in the mirror to see what you saw. Take the saw and cut the table in half. Put the two halves back together to make a hole. Put the hole on the wall and crawl out of the hole.

He was blind. The book was in braille.

One day she had to cross a river in a boat that could hold only one of those three possessions at a time.

She needs to stop believing the lies people tell her. The weight of a yam is inconsequential, so if the boat can carry the girl and a leopard, it can carry the girl, a leopard, and a yam. If the weight of the yam is actually enough to capsize the boat, she should just wait for a bigger boat.

Also, goats and leopards can swim, even if they don't like it. So just put the goat in the boat, because it's less bitey and therefore better company, and tie the leopard to the back of the boat, and off you go in one trip.

Place three pennies in a row. Now, place a second penny on top of one of them. Now, use the last two pennies to make a second row that intersects with the two-penny stack. Voila--six pennies, two rows of four pennies apiece.

muddgirl: He was blind. The book was in braille.

I don't know that one, and googling the answer just gives me tons of info about Louis Braille. I give up, what's the riddle?

I would also be remiss if I didn't mention this great post by Defective Yeti here.