You are in a room, with no exit, windows, or doors. On the outside of the room, a river flows. You have a table and a mirror. How do you get home?

This sounds strangely familiar from a long time ago... playground stuff.

Is the answer that you look in the mirror to see yourself. Then in the past tense, you "saw" yourself. Use the saw to cut the table into two halves. Two halves make a whole, so you put that hole onto the wall to escape the room... then that's where it ended in the version I heard so there's probably some other similar-sounding word for boat to take you back home along the river.

A more pertinent question is how the hell you got inside this room.

Or you go to the river bed, sleep in said bed, then wake up in bed at home... or something.

HAHAHAHA! I've never heard that before but it's brill!! Especially when SK is so droll explaining it! 

You got the first part, but how do you get across the river?

He threw the table halves in the river to watch them float.  He ate the float, then walked home.

No.

I recall a variation on this whereby you rub your hands together until they are sore and use the saw to cut whatever.(I think it was an orange)

Then, once you get out you shout until you're hoarse, get on the horse and ride home.

Oh yeah... horse... that was it.

But this one has a river in it is it possible to shout until you're boat?

hahahahahah

How about you run around until you're tired, and float home on the tyre?

guy was swimmer, he swam across river....hehehe....no gimmicks with this part like see/saw, whole/hole...

OR maybe he used his trunk/boxer so he did not swim naked or he ws naked but converted table into trunk, wore trunk and swam across river

He broke off two of the table legs and held them up to form a cross.  He used this to cross the river.

Maybe he lives in the room, so has doesn't have to do anything to get home.

Sorry, none of these are right!

Can he use the hole again, to throw it in the river and drain it?

Or there's a conveniently located bridge?

Or he takes his hips and rearranges them into a ship?

Nope. None of these.

He waited until winter, and when the river froze over, he walked home.

Yeah, that would work.

he saw river flow and he flew and got home.........LOL

FLG has started doing lateral thinking..........

Were they trying to hide that fact they were suffering from it? No.

Were they drinking unusually large amounts of water, to combat dehydration? No.

Hint yet?

Ok, here's a hint....wrong topic.

No, I meant I would give the hint... oooohhh, I get it now.

Does the colour of the apples have anything to do with it?

The colour of the apples is very unlikely to have anything to do with this riddle. You're looking for the riddle "Stealing Apples".

hahahaah!!!

that apples riddle has gone on so long it's multiplying and spreading into other riddles.

End our pain!!

Back to the 'Locked up' riddle:  Is there another person involved?

he is already in his home, locked up in his room

OR he saw outside and from outside he saw his home. But outside of outside = INSIDE. SO he is home

He gets out of his ROOM, makes ROOMS for himself in river and reaches home

OR

He gets out of locked up ROOM and say "DAMN". He sets the dam in front of river and he reaches home

None of these.

Does the crossing of the river also rely on a play on words?

When you create hole on wall of room, assuming it is wooden, you used that cut piece of wood and go across rive by standing on it.

He watches the river flow. He steps onto the floe and foates to the other side or all the way home.

Ooh...interesting....

You could wait until the weekend when the banks are closed and then lope off home....

Oh geeesas! This one is still going!

Looking up at the post times... topeka99 hasn't replied since August '09

Will we ever know the answer?

A riddle within a riddle!

Maybe topeka has actually been locked up.

LOL

Yea very funny..but if you "saw" yourself as in "saw yourself in the mirror" doesn't this mean that you are dead?????!

Because you "saw" yourself which will make you bleed to death 

Mike Jason

I work at SEO Software 

Take both the pieces of the table, so you have boat? And ride it home.

I'm fairly certain that it's wait for the weekend when the banks are closed, that one comes up in so many other riddles.

you are home? since there's no way out i'm assuming u built this room around u? thats how u know about the river outside?

you flip the table sit on top and use the mirror to peddle.

Arthur Dent is correct.

Sounds about right to me.

However, I still want to know if it's possible to shout until you're boat.

Could be a hoarse-drawn boat (like on a canal)

you swim home