Braingle: 'A Baked Treat' Riddle

A Baked Treat

Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.

Puzzle ID:	#30210
Fun:	(2.98)
Difficulty:	(2.47)
Category:	Riddle
Submitted By:	spookboy0
Corrected By:	spookboy0

(Thing 1)
I, at the start, am old
Many centuries I've been told
Used by the Greeks
For counting techniques
After things were bought and sold

Later is when I became known
As an infinite figure, when shown
You've counted my spaces
Over two billion places
And still, my amount is unknown

(Thing 2)
I, too, am not young
I'm almost as old as Thing 1
I'm just a frog
On the natural log
But I can make counting fun

(Thing 1 and Thing 2)
When you combine us two
In the order of Thing 1 and Thing 2
We'll be a baked treat
That's painful to beat
Whether cherry, peach, or aloo

Answer

Thing 1 is "Pi."

Thing 2 is "e," the base of the natural logarithm.

Thing 1 and 2 are, together, "Pie."

(an aloo pie is a potato pie)
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Comments

(user deleted) May 01, 2006	At first I thought "thing 1" was an abacus! Then I realised it wasn't when I looked at the ending, which was a giveaway. still fun to do
OldChinaHand May 01, 2006	Good one. I missed the 'e', in both college and now, but I sure would enjoy some sweet potato pi...but only if its round.
lexymo May 01, 2006	Got me thinkin!!! Good one!
paul726 May 01, 2006	Nice job, Spookboy. Good riddle for a math weenie (like me).
blablabla May 01, 2006	wow...i got it....nice1mrspookboy....ilovepi(e)!!!!
Lui312 May 01, 2006	lol...Thing 1 and Thing 2.The Cat in The Hat!
spazzyjazzy93 May 01, 2006	i knew there was pie in it somehere. . . . great teaser! i loved it!
schatzy228 May 02, 2006	as american as baseball and chevy,,,good old ibm pie,,er,,,uh,, i mean apple pie nice teaser
pink2 May 02, 2006	thats a good one.i got pie
irar1792 May 03, 2006	i got the first one easy but then the second we haven't covered yet, so i didnt get thing 2 or 3
momcallahan May 11, 2006	I got the first one and the third one...but I thought that it was "pie" something b/c I thought it was a play on words.
blagh May 12, 2006	I kept saying to myself "the first is pi, the last is pie, what's the middle one?" It would be good to be clever!
AwwwSweet May 19, 2006	Nice, but easy. I barely glanced over it and knew the answer was pie. I'm also suddenly very hungry.
Jimbo May 23, 2006	Loved the teaser. Got the answer but I don't get the "frog"? Que?
GebbieRose Jun 03, 2006	Excellent!
PunnettSwears Jun 03, 2006	Pretty easy, but absolutely clever. Well done!
learningchinese Jun 03, 2006	BU TAI NAN
Rach_ Jun 03, 2006	I also started off thinking abacus. Agree I don't understand the frog part, can someone explain that part please? Enjoyed it and understood the rest after a couple of reads.
coachpisco Jun 03, 2006	Very good.
shawneeo Jun 03, 2006	I think the frog was a device for him to give the "natural log" clue, or else I don't know... That was really good, spook! I didn't get "e", didn't exactly have that in my memory banks, but now it's there. But it was very well written! Thanks!
Tracey2209 Jun 03, 2006	The frog on the log is a clue. It emphasizes the insignificance of the letter 'e' in the word 'pie'. Just like you probably wouldn't notice a frog sitting on a log, you dont pay attention to the letter 'e' at the end of 'pie' because it is silent. 'E' is also just one of 26 letters of the alphabet, all o which are equally important to the English language. My goodness, I am such a geek, but I can't help it - I'm an English teacher!! Great teaser and well written (and I got it too) !!
kcheer2493 Jun 03, 2006	coundn't get thing two, but got pi. Well written. Great
Rach_ Jun 03, 2006	Thank you
btrfly12 Jun 03, 2006	at first i thought thing 1 was an abacous
iteachkids Jun 03, 2006	WW - S, S clever!!!
bradon182001 Jun 03, 2006	Well written teaser, even I got it from the poem.
alis99 Jun 03, 2006	Does any1 here knws wat aloo means except me
funkyjing Jun 03, 2006	wah! u made me think, i never get the answer i thought its a cake,, tough one baby!
jabdr Jun 03, 2006	I loved the poem...which led me nowhere...no pi, no e. But....still loved the poem.
lindquist_25 Jun 03, 2006	I got thing 1, but I have no idea how thing 2 is solved. Cute teaser.
lindquist_25 Jun 03, 2006	Oh yeah, I got them combined too. Hmmm...
kman613 Jun 03, 2006	Now that was a great riddle! Like many, I only got 1/2 of it.
TBNZee Jun 03, 2006	At first I thought abacus too, then i realized the right answer!! SAND! and it works with part 1 and 2 cuz you can make a SANDwich. So by process of elimination the answer to 2 is Witch.
lorelle_b Jun 03, 2006	Oh my goodness...EXCELLENT TEASER! Two thumbs up! VERY clever.
babbeee Jun 03, 2006	Just GREAT....make me use my "brain"....took awhile...but even I got it...
scr26 Jun 03, 2006	ok.....couldnt #1 be infinity? and wat the heck did e have to do w/ a frog on a log?
pianofox Jun 03, 2006	very clever...even though I got it right off. Nice one!
Stuff1 Jun 03, 2006	Good thinker! Pi was the easy part.
Vudluxi Jun 03, 2006	Good teaser I've heard of aloo as the word for potato in Indian cookery but not an aloo pie. Mmmmmmmm - where's the takeaway menu?
vlerma Jun 03, 2006	Well I guess this one proved that math is not my forte . But after reading the poem and the answer I really have to admire how well written and thought out this teaser was. For those of you who found it so easy, WOW I must have missed the ship when I was supposed to do the three R's. Spooky this was awesome! Even if I didn't get it.
hellokittysana Jun 03, 2006	That was a pretty good riddle i have to give thumbs up on this one!!!
tdbrsun Jun 03, 2006	Good one. It rattled my brain.
BadBunnee02 Jun 03, 2006	Good one!! I liked the "pi"/"pie" pun, especially.
patm Jun 03, 2006	I got pi but I didn't understand why you needed the second part; I was happy with the pun by itself. In the cobwebs of my memory vault, that natural logarithm thing is stored somewhere, so the last poem was an AHA! moment. Thanks for the math refresher.
doghouse270 Jun 03, 2006	I didn't know the answer until you said "cherry, apple and whatever else." good teaser anyway
Musikman212 Jun 03, 2006	Very good job. Really liked this one and it was so well written too.
RRAMMOHAN Jun 04, 2006	Great! Despite a background in Math, couldnt get the answer. I thought the first one was star, but got the third one right.
xeses Jun 04, 2006	Excellent, I now know what aloo pie is! Thanks and please bake us some more puzzles!
scallio Jun 05, 2006	After figuring out that the final answer is PIE, I was able to figure out that Thing 1 is PI, but I could not figure how you got E for Thing 2. Thanks for getting us revved up this morning with a fun teaser!
udoboy Jun 05, 2006	OK everybody. The base number in a logarithm can change. The natural logarithm uses the number "e" as the base. If you don't understand logarithms, it's natural you didn't catch "e"
spookboy0 Jun 09, 2006	Aloo pie is basically potato pie.
riddle_of_fate Jun 03, 2007	I guessed pie
lmurray Jun 03, 2007	EASY, BUT I ENJOYED THE RHYME. TKS.
Corina Jun 03, 2007	Wow this was fun. I couldn't get the "e" part, but intuitively put it together based on the 1st and 3rd clue. Let's see if saxman gets it. nya nya nya
puttumup Jun 03, 2007	way to easy..
doehead Jun 03, 2007	Easy,but interesting.
anion Jun 03, 2007	I got pi really easily but could not figure out part 2. I knew the treat was pie but I thought maybe it was more than just pie...pie alamode or something. I just didn't know what the frog on a log was. Great hard teaser. Made me think and was really well worded. Good job!!!
2ndhandrose Jun 03, 2007	HEY JIMBO. THAT'S RUDE. my maternal grandparents are French-Canadian.!!! I am insulted by your slurr. Should I report it? Que'st Que C'est?
2ndhandrose Jun 03, 2007	great teaser!!!! Excellent job !! I too thought 1st of an abacus. The part 2 I learned something. Rose Thanx
shawnbse Jun 03, 2007	great teaser...i got pi, but what does a frog have to do with "e"?
Rainesylin Jun 03, 2007	Such a cute poem! I have a math degree, so it was easy...but soooooo cute!!!
auntiesis Jun 03, 2007	Like a lot of people I got Pi, but I couldn't get the e . I figured the answer was pie something. Maybe next year !
Stupidenator Jun 03, 2007	I got thing one.
mondayschild59 Jun 03, 2007	I also thought thing 1 was an abacus, but then thing 2 made no sense. I finally figured it out when thing 2 popped into my head. Thanks for the post, it was fun.
siskiu Jun 03, 2007	this was hard!!!!!!! i was stumped...the end should have been a giveaway...but i was still clueless!!! uuhh...i think im just still a little sleepy...my brain's not workin properly...
phyllisa Jun 03, 2007	Got Thing 1 but never learned Thing 2 until now!
cloughme Jun 03, 2007	I too was unable to get the "e" part of the riddle. You learn something new everyday....
SweetPotato Jun 03, 2007	The saying, "Easy as pie," I am told, was originally "Easy as pi" which was coined by a math teacher.
gallopingboo Jun 03, 2007	great one!
I_Write_Books Jun 03, 2007	Great Job!
hockeyfan94 Jun 03, 2007	Awes me!!! I am a math genius, so this was easy for me. Great Teaser - Keep It Up!!!
cutie_pie11 Jun 03, 2007	That was an okay teaser... Although I've heard better. Although i am not good at math or riddles lol.
breathesunshine Jun 03, 2007	I'm in the group with many others of getting 1 and 3 but not 2. Nice work on the poem!
kauphi1976 Jun 03, 2007	i got the 'pi' for first and 'e' kinda (natural log math crap) for second and thought the answer is something pie. but not by combinin 'pi' + 'e' .. strange Aloo in Hindi ( National language of India) is Potato Genie-Ass
Yorkshire-Boy Jun 04, 2007	nice, but easy, (for a math major) I never had a potato pie! but I love aloo gobi, an Indian dish, (made from potatos and cauliflower)...I'm really hungry for Indian food now.
cheeny13 Jun 04, 2007	Very unique!! Very well-written rhyme and a great teaser too!!
oddrey Jun 05, 2007	very fun and well done. I like it alot.
ManiKatti Jun 07, 2007	For the first one, I was also thinking abacus, but then the end gave it away -_-, and for the second, nothing sparked, and when I read the third, I was like, OMG! Pineapple! But what the heck? The second one is the letter e? That's hard..
speedqueenkmw Jun 13, 2007	got 1/2 like everyone else
Qrystal Jul 16, 2007	Awww it was easier than I thought ... I saw the pi, and figured it was "something pie" although the pi was the first part, so in the order of Thing 1 and Thing 2 it would be "pie something" but ... that didn't seem to work for anything. I even use e a lot in my work, but the frog thing threw me off the ln (lawn -haha.)
ruoffba May 18, 2009	Obviously I should pay more attention to the title ... or redo pre-calc. pi=+/-e? I choose option a.
bear01 Jun 03, 2010	uh.. pi of course.. i was wayyy off with the fairies on this one...give teasers a break time lol
doehead Jun 03, 2010	REPEATS,REPEATS,REPEATS, THANKS EDITORS.
FatHead Jun 03, 2010	I liked how they were almost limericks.
ROCStorm Jun 03, 2010	and everybody knows Pi(R) round, cornbread R^2
precious1026 Jun 03, 2010	I hated this Teaser as a Riddle or anything. This Teaser made No sense or failed at displaying any true Logic. Usually, I have nothing but nice expressions about the Teasers created. People work hard to entertain, teach or preach to us, but this one, blahhhhh
precious1026 Jun 03, 2010	Pie Pi in any sense of the term was not a means of mathematical expression that old in nation, not to mention in Greek.