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Zenan Plains - Site Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kodokami on January 06, 2010, 01:37:27 am
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I noticed that the Compendium has yet to have a topic for riddles, so here it goes. We could use this as a friendly place to answer and place riddles we have heard or even created ourselves. I thought we all could have some fun trying to answer each others' riddles. :D
To start things off, here is one a friend of mine told me:
You are in a room. There is a door on either side; one door leads to freedom, the other to instant death. Also in the room are two computers; one will answer any question truthfully, the other will answer any question with a lie. You are allowed to ask ONE computer ONE "yes-or-no" question. Not knowing which door leads where or which computer answers truthfully, what question would you ask to assuredly open the door to freedom?
(To say whether I know the answer or not would be proper etiquette, I suppose. For this riddle, I do not know the answer, nor do I believe there to be a definite answer, but have fun anyway. :P)
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Ah! I've been waiting months to unleash my Most Fiendish Riddle! Here we go:
What's old, and bold, and catches your eye?
What's solid, and stolid, and two cloves, and high?
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As long as this doesn't turn into those riddles-that-aren't-really-riddles that would blow Blaine's top (Why did the dead baby cross the road? What has four wheels and flies?), I think this could be a good, non-lame game-ish thread...
Simple, but one of my favs cause it's part of the Dark Tower: When is a door not a door?
Fuck yeah!! The Tower junkie in me lives on~!!! ^_^
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Querry: Should we post guesses here?
Anywho, here's an old favorite of mine:
A small miracle hangs near a man's thigh,
Full under folds. It is stiff, strong,
Bold, brassy, and pierced in front.
When a young lord lifts his tunic
Over his knees, he wants to greet
With the hard head of this hanging creature
The hole it has long come to fill.
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Querry: Should we post guesses here?
Anywho, here's an old favorite of mine:
A small miracle hangs near a man's thigh,
Full under folds. It is stiff, strong,
Bold, brassy, and pierced in front.
When a young lord lifts his tunic
Over his knees, he wants to greet
With the hard head of this hanging creature
The hole it has long come to fill.
That seems less like a riddle and more like a very ambiguous metaphor/euphemism for sex and a particular instrument that goes with it.
But actually, it's a sword or knife.
EDIT: Sorry, forgot to contribute one of my own.
This one's a bit different; My mother sent me it by email a while back and asked me how it works. It took me about an hour, but I did figure it out.
http://www.regiftable.com/regiftingrobinpopup.html
Can you figure out how it works?
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Nope, it isn't a knife or a sword.
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Thought: It's a key.
Kodokami: You ask if the other computer would tell you that door x is the killing door. If door x is the killing door, the truth computer will say "No", because that's what the lying computer would say. The lying computer will say "No" as well, because the truth telling computer would say "Yes", and the lying computer must lie. So if the computer says "No", go through that door, if not, go through the other.
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@Lord J: Is it a tree?
Here's one of my favorite:
In the history of human civilization, only 12 people have accomplished this feat to date. What is it?
It's not so much a riddle, but a lateral puzzle. Best of luck.
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Too vague, Genesis. Only twelve men led such lives as to included in Suetonius's De Vita Caesarum (more commonly known as the Lives of the Twelve Caesars), for example. That is an interesting feet indeed, but not the one you are looking for. A feat accomplished by only twelve individuals is more common than you might think; certainly this sort of this isn't quite as rare as a blue moon.
Also, RD, yup.
EDIT: Josh, by any chance are you referring to the old Space Transportation System (specifically, a shuttle launch)?
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Becoming an emperor or monarch isn't the feat I was talking about. Lots of people in history have done this.
The feat actually took place in the past 100 years.
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Ah! I've been waiting months to unleash my Most Fiendish Riddle! Here we go:
What's old, and bold, and catches your eye?
What's solid, and stolid, and two cloves, and high?
The moon?
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Radical_Dreamer: Wow. I asked my friend if that was correct, and it is. I have been stumped on that one for so long!
:picardno
GenesisOne: Only 12 people have been to the moon, right? And that takes place during the past century, so it fits.
...I still can't fathom Lord J's Most Fiendish Riddle, lol.
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No correct guesses yet on the Most Fiendish Riddle. Here's a clue: The answer is two words.
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Ah! I've been waiting months to unleash my Most Fiendish Riddle! Here we go:
What's old, and bold, and catches your eye?
What's solid, and stolid, and two cloves, and high?
I memorized this riddle early yesterday morning, and I've been pondering it all day.
...I still don't have the faintest idea, unless the answer is Patrick Stewart (that's "I've-been-awake-for-27-hours-straight" reasoning for you, heh :))
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Heh. "Patrick Stewart" is a pretty good answer! Not the correct one, but pretty good.
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@Most Fiendish Riddle: The 'night sky'?
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While our mind mull over the Fiendish Riddle, perhaps an easier one might serve as a welcome distraction? I promise I wont shamelessly steal from the Exeter Book this time:
I have many keys but no chords.
I have many bars but no sense of time.
I make notes although I carry no tune.
I sing at the end so you will begin again.
What am I?
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While our mind mull over the Fiendish Riddle, perhaps an easier one might serve as a welcome distraction? I promise I wont shamelessly steal from the Exeter Book this time:
I have many keys but no chords.
I have many bars but no sense of time.
I make notes although I carry no tune.
I sing at the end so you will begin again.
What am I?
A typewriter?
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Radical_Dreamer: Wow. I asked my friend if that was correct, and it is. I have been stumped on that one for so long!
:picardno
That is a very, very old riddle. It's just rephrased, but the core logic is the same.
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@Kodokami: You're right. Only 12 people have been to the moon. As a reward, here's a little test of wits to see if you can read a question differently that it should be read:
1. With which hand do you stir your hot cocoa?
2. In Iran, you can't take a picture of a man with a turban. How come?
3. Two of every seven people in town have an unlisted telephone number. If there are 14,000 names in
the phone book, how many of them have unlisted numbers?
4.A plane flies from Dallas, TX to Miami, FL on a clear, still day. Halfway there, it drops a 100 lb. sack of mail and a 100 lb. steel rod. Which item hits the ground first?
Best of luck.
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1. With which hand do you stir your hot cocoa?
2. In Iran, you can't take a picture of a man with a turban. How come?
3. Two of every seven people in town have an unlisted telephone number. If there are 14,000 names in
the phone book, how many of them have unlisted numbers?
4.A plane flies from Dallas, TX to Miami, FL on a clear, still day. Halfway there, it drops a 100 lb. sack of mail and a 100 lb. steel rod. Which item hits the ground first?
I have no idea about the first two (it's too late at night, my brain isn't quite working well).
3 - If a phone number is unlisted, then it won't be in the phone book. So none of them?
4 - Not too sure about this one, but off of the top of my head, flying between Dallas and Miami would involve flying over the Gulf of Mexico, so they wouldn't hit the ground, but the water. But if they're both 100 lbs, they'd hit the water at about the same time, right?
This is more of my late night logic for you.
And Lord J Esq, I think your riddle might have eaten my brain. I'm going to be obsessed with it until I figure out the answer.
EDIT: Okay, so I should probably drop off one of my own (since this is fun :)). I'm not the best riddle-maker (and it doesn't help that I cooked this up in less than five minutes), and I'm sure this is painfully easy, but here we go:
My legend is clear for all to see
Yet my lines are difficult for many to read
I'll guide you forth, or lead you back
I'll fulfill my purpose, you'll find your path.
What am I?
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My legend is clear for all to see
Yet my lines are difficult for many to read
I'll guide you forth, or lead you back
I'll fulfill my purpose, you'll find your path.
What am I?
I'm thinking...a map!
And Lord J Esq, I think your riddle might have eaten my brain. I'm going to be obsessed with it until I figure out the answer.
I also hate it when a tasty riddle goes unanswered. So: One last clue--this time a Big Clue--and then I'll do the Big Reveal tomorrow night if it still goes unsolved. The Big Clue is that this riddle is specifically tailored for the kinds of people who would visit the Compendium!
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@Kodokami: You're right. Only 12 people have been to the moon. As a reward, here's a little test of wits to see if you can read a question differently that it should be read:
1. With which hand do you stir your hot cocoa?
2. In Iran, you can't take a picture of a man with a turban. How come?
Here, Kodokami, let me help you out a bit.
1. Most people stir their cocoa with a spoon--helps avoid burns. ;P
2. Not all that familiar with Iran, but my guess, based on how these kind of questions normally work, is that men in Iran don't normally wear turbans, and therefore you would have a hard time finding such a person to photograph.
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@ Arakial, yup. I cheated a little, too, by making it outdated technology
@ Josh: If the riddle is Chrono related, then The Moon(s) seem like the proper answer. If we weren't limited to two words, then Notre Dame de Paris would have be a possible answer as well (I've been racking my brain for freeways and engineering projects that might strike your fancy enough to inspire a riddle, that was the only one I could think of that might fit).
Anywho, since we seem to be low on riddles, here is another one:
Take twenty-three of me and then add that many more,
We'll make just one, you know; our math is really poor.
I only have a few letters, don't you see?
But I'm a book that tells you all that will be.
What am I?
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Nah, somebody already guessed the moon(s). Besides, that doesn't really fit with all the parts of the riddle.
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Ah yes, I had forgotten.
Edit: Though depending on one's perspective, it does fill all the requirements. They're old, red is a bold color, and there being two of them does indeed catch your eye. Being hunks of rock, they are solid, Harle (the second moon) seems stolid, there are two of them for which clove could be a poetic reference to, and of course they're in the sky.
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That's quite a stretch. A good riddle wouldn't rely on such a stretchy answer, because it would amount to little more than a cheat. You could conceivably fit all kinds of answers to my Most Fiendish Riddle, but the real answer is pretty unambiguous. Also, "the moon(s)" doesn't really fit in with the clues that I've given, other than being two words.
I said I wouldn't give any more clues before the Big Reveal late tonight, but I'll offer two more clues anyway, since I had already considered offering them previously:
1. Each line of the riddle pertains to a separate word.
2. Our British friends would probably have an edge at deciphering it.
That's in addition to the two clues I've already given:
3. It's two words.
4. It's tailored to people who would visit the Compendium.
Good luck! I am glad my Most Fiendish Riddle has lived up to its reputation thus far. I think you'll all be tickled with the answer.
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Thought: Chromosomes?
J: What is this sense of 'clove' you're using? I can only think of the sense as with a clove of garlic. Is there another?
Edit: J: Telephone/Police box? Double-decker bus? A Victorian house?
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J: What is this sense of 'clove' you're using?
That's part of the riddle, of course!
Your answers are all-wrong, though.
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Oh sheeeeeeii—...Is it The clock on the Big Ben tower and the tower? If not, I'm guessing it's some kind of clock or timekeeper. A grandfather clock? A pocket watch? I'm onto you!
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Wrong all across the board, my springtimey chum!
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I've been poring over the Most Fiendish Riddle since you posted it, too... all I can think of is that it's unconventional and weighs about 16 pounds. No clue what would fit that. Sadly, I'm certain it has nothing to do with the Fiendlord. Perhaps I should phone up my british relatives and ask them...
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You're very close, but you've made a subtle yet critical mistake. I suggest you check your assumptions!
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Hrmph. Well then, eagerly I will await the morrow. Perhaps I shall vainly seek to borrow surcease of sorrow from my books.
@MsBlack: close enough. Technically it is human chromosomes, but I should have up-played the human part more.
@Josh: The Brits have an advantage and its directed at the compendium? Time Cheese!
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Ah! I've been waiting months to unleash my Most Fiendish Riddle! Here we go:
What's old, and bold, and catches your eye?
What's solid, and stolid, and two cloves, and high?
Dreamstone?
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'Fraid not, Keebler. That doesn't jive with a number of the clues.
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Now I am curious as to what it is, I hit them all save "high"!
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People need to post more riddles. I blame you, Josh, for setting the bar so high.
The glory of lamb turns bright and gay.
The glory of man turns still and grey.
A knuckle rolls and point by point shows
A metal falls and side by side mows
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@MFR: Dragon Tear?
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Now I am curious as to what it is, I hit them all save "high"!
That, and a number of the other parts. =P
@MFR: Dragon Tear?
Ooh. Nice guess. Wrong, but nice. Dragons certainly are old and bold and eye-catching. In fact, if they're really in a sassy mood, they'll catch both of your eyes. But a tear could hardly be called any of those things in the second line, except possibly "solid" if you're talking about the Dragon Tear tear and not just any ol' tear.
Edit: Added closing italics tag!
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Alright, I have a real guess this time. The Magic Tree on Water Dragon Isle! "Magic", being aged, unconventional and eyecatching, "Tree", being tall and budding.
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A Dragon Scale? A scale certainly is solid, stolid as justice is, usually weighs about two cloves(maybe, or perhaps referring to two sides) and is high as a respected symbol.
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@ Zeph and Arakial: Nope.
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żEl Piedra del Sol?
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You don't seem very confident! Are you just guessing stuff now?
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Yeah... :lol: So no Sun Stone, eh.
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Well, see, that's the thing! That's the answer. Sun Stone. You win! But your reckless guessing makes it a tarnished victory! Minus Points for you, Mister. Mega Minus Points. I'd like to think that, though your victory is sure, the Most Fiendish Riddle took a piece of you with it.
The sun is the oldest object in a solar system, and of course it's bold and eye-catching. Stone is well known for its symbolic qualities of both solidity and stolidness. When one is high on drugs they might be described as "stoned." And, of course, my favorite part: A "clove" is an old English unit of weight equal to seven pounds, so two cloves would be a stone. (That's the British connection.) Zephira was onto it, but she was using the wrong value: A clove can be either seven pounds or eight pounds depending on the context.
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Heh... it was the 'Sun' thing that I was unsure about.
EDIT: To be fair to myself though, I thought you completely shot down my Sun Stone answer at first...
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Following the Most Fiendish Riddle, here's one that's hopefully just as Fiendish.
Brightest light in deepest dark,
Broken white and secret art,
My chambered heart a vacant home,
My walls the stock and crop of form.
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People need to post more riddles. I blame you, Josh, for setting the bar so high.
The glory of lamb turns bright and gay.
The glory of man turns still and grey.
A knuckle rolls and point by point shows
A metal falls and side by side mows
A sickle or scythe?
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@rushingwind: You got the phone number question and plane drop question right.
@alfadorredux: You got the hot cocoa question right, but not the turban question.
For me not being caught up in this thread, I have to repost the question:
"In Iran, you cannot take a picture of a man with a turban. How come?"
Here's a hint: it's got with being able to take a picture.
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"In Iran, you cannot take a picture of a man with a turban. How come?"
Here's a hint: it's got with being able to take a picture.
http://www.iranian.com/main/image/92873
eh?
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2. In Iran, you can't take a picture of a man with a turban. How come?
Because turbans don't take pictures, cameras do. :P
It appears Lord J's riddle was answered (the answer being something I probably would not have guessed). Darn, lol. I was kinda hoping it would last longer.
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@Lord J Esq - Yep, it's a map! :)
And awesome riddle, by the way! I'm kind of sad now that I know the answer... but alas, all good things must come to an end.
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The glory of lamb turns bright and gay.
The glory of man turns still and grey.
A knuckle rolls and point by point shows
A metal falls and side by side mows
Hair?
Here's one I just made up:
Up, down, left, right
Fathoming here too is the fight
Eight, seven, six and five
My unitless units bring me to life
If you could see me perhaps you'd die;
Vector riddles I'd bring: Ten, twenty or more
But their directions just two of four—
Their magnitudes naturally limited
For now just tell me what I am!
I'm referring to a specific sub-form. If you get the more general form, I shan't tell you so.
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@ Zephira: A camera
@ Arakial and MsBlack: Nope, neither a sickle scythe, nor hair.
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No, Thought. It's game related. I do like cameras though!
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You know, when I first got into this, I thought this would be easy, seeing how I like riddles.
But now, they've become treasure chests layered with multiple locks, one locking the other.
Confound it, these enigmatic verses of poetic mystery! :x
@Kodokami: You're right! Cameras take picture, not turbans.
@Thought: Is it the grim reaper?
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Perhaps we're all thinking of different kinds of riddles. Some riddles (when is a door not a door? When it's "ajar"! Turbans don't take pictures, cameras do) are more like jokes. Difficult to understand, but funny and entertaining. The definition of riddle I'm used to is one that has multiple clues ("locks", as you put it), sounds complicated, takes a while to solve, and ultimately ends up with a simple answer.
Your best friends in riddles like these are thesaurus.com and dictionary.com. They cracked at least a few locks on J's.
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Ah, riddles have a long and much loved tradition. They aren't just entertainment but mental exercises as well. Often to create and solve a riddle requires looking at the world in a non-standard way; approaching things sideways, as it were.
That being said, nope, not the grim reaper either. To give a hint, if hints are desired: the answer is a homophone.
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A sheik announced that a race would decide which of his two sons would inherit all his wealth. The sons were to ride their camels to a certain distant city. The son whose camel reached the city last would be given all the sheik's wealth. The two sons set out on the journey. After severals days of aimless wandering, they met and agreed to seek the advice of a wiseman. After listening to the wiseman's advice, the two sons rode the camels as quickly as possible to the designated city. What was it that the wiseman told the two sons? They did not agree to split the wealth, and their father's decree would be followed.
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Both reach the city at the same time? Both reach the city never/Forfeit the wealth? They'd never know if the other one had arrived if they didn't wait just outside the city? 'Time is money'? They'd each waste their lives waiting if the other never arrived? They should each force the other into the city? Something that convinced them to not take the wealth? Switch camels?
Dunno. They're in equilibrium, so either they collude to each get half or none of the wealth or there's some trick. I think it'd be too assumptuous to say they can collude, so it must be a trick in the words, since I can only presume they're playing perfectly and so the advice can't benefit one more than the other.
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Both reach the city at the same time? Both reach the city never/Forfeit the wealth? They'd never know if the other one had arrived if they didn't wait just outside the city? 'Time is money'? They'd each waste their lives waiting if the other never arrived? They should each force the other into the city? Something that convinced them to not take the wealth? Switch camels?
Dunno. They're in equilibrium, so either they collude to each get half or none of the wealth or there's some trick. I think it'd be too assumptuous to say they can collude, so it must be a trick in the words, since I can only presume they're playing perfectly and so the advice can't benefit one more than the other.
yep, switched camels. nice!!
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In which case the riddle should have started, "Ignoring game theory..." =P
Edit: To help with my riddle: It's a two-word alliterative phrase. And to help even more: Both words start with 'c'.
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I am cheating (i didn't come up with these), but here's a few:
For GenOne:
What gets wet while drying?
This one reminds me of Shee:
I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to leave I must break through the wall. What am I?
And in the spirit of the Most Fiendish Riddle (that's a clue btw, the riddle is not anything like LordJ's and probably much easier):
It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. Obviously, it's...
_____________
And to attempt Thought's most recent riddle, is it a guillotine? Long shot, i know.
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And in the spirit of the Most Fiendish Riddle (that's a clue btw, the riddle is not anything like LordJ's and probably much easier):
It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. Obviously, it's...
The Gates, naturally.
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Following the Most Fiendish Riddle, here's one that's hopefully just as Fiendish.
Brightest light in deepest dark,
Broken white and secret art,
My chambered heart a vacant home,
My walls the stock and crop of form.
Since no one's having any luck (or no one saw it), a couple clues: It's from Chrono Trigger, it's an object, and use a dictionary/thesaurus.
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Following the Most Fiendish Riddle, here's one that's hopefully just as Fiendish.
Brightest light in deepest dark,
Broken white and secret art,
My chambered heart a vacant home,
My walls the stock and crop of form.
Since no one's having any luck (or no one saw it), a couple clues: It's from Chrono Trigger, it's an object, and use a dictionary/thesaurus.
Rainbow Shell. :D
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Sajainta wins! Perhaps I shall have another hopefully fiendish riddle later on. The way she breezed through it, it must have been the easiestthing in the world!
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This one's really simple.
Steal the light that I will, my will
What thou cannot break with swords.
Bindth thee my arms await
To dream what my fellows dream.
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It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. Obviously, it's...
Da Moon!
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It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. Obviously, it's...
Da Moon!
Correction: The PHASE of the Moon!
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For GenOne:
What gets wet while drying?
A towel.
This one reminds me of Shee:
I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to leave I must break through the wall. What am I?
Oh that is too much of a hint! A chick! (or really any creature that hatches from an egg).
And to attempt Thought's most recent riddle, is it a guillotine? Long shot, i know.
Nope. To give another hint, if hint you want: each line refers to something fundamentally different than the others.
It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. Obviously, it's...
Da Moon!
Correction: The PHASE of the Moon!
I must disagree, "The Moon" is a better answer since any given phase lasts for significantly less than a month, and the pun regarding the new moon phase is sweeter that way.
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It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. Obviously, it's...
Da Moon!
Correction: The PHASE of the Moon!
I must disagree, "The Moon" is a better answer since any given phase lasts for significantly less than a month, and the pun regarding the new moon phase is sweeter that way.
"The Moon" is not correct. The moon is older than a month. The phase of them moon, however, is not...and yet it's also far older. Periodic quantities, unlike linear ones, can be said to have two kinds of "age": both absolute and cyclical. You do have a point that "the phase of the moon" is far less than a month, but the riddler only specified that the quantity not be more than a month, and so my answer is still technically correct. Put that in your Funk & Wagnalls, oh ho hoh! :why
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If you pull the 'different senses' card: The moon is reborn every month. If you pull the pedantic card, I'll pull the Mathematician's Monocle Card: Moon cycles need not be the same, just as no two years need be of the same length.
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Here's a riddle I made up when I was 13.
I swim within the ocean blue,
I am a certain artist's tool.
Beware! Too much of my harsh white
And you could lose your cherished life.
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If you pull the 'different senses' card: The moon is reborn every month. If you pull the pedantic card, I'll pull the Mathematician's Monocle Card: Moon cycles need not be the same, just as no two years need be of the same length.
:kz :kz The only card you're pulling is the jester, mister! :kz :kz
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I think many internet people had it when they said, ""i.e. im full of shit so im not going to respond with any actual arguments."" That's you, Sonny J! I win! u lose
Any takers on my riddle? I'll give the answer if not.
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Unfortunately you have me totally stumped, MsBlack. The closest I have been able to come to a possible answer is "a graph" but that totally doesn't fit any of the hints you have given, and seems to vague. You have me bested!
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You guys got all mine! Well, thought got them and then LordJ and others argued over the moon one. I believe the answer was intended to just be the moon. However, good points have been made that suggest the phases of the moon to be a more accurate answer. For the kiss method, we'll keep it simple and say it's "the moon". I shouldn't have mentioned Shee when posting that chicken riddle, and I really liked the towel one. Oh well! All in good fun.
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Steal the light that I will, my will
What thou cannot break with swords.
Bindth thee my arms await
To dream what my fellows dream.
darkness/night
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Here's one I just made up:
Up, down, left, right
Fathoming here too is the fight
Eight, seven, six and five
My unitless units bring me to life
If you could see me perhaps you'd die;
Vector riddles I'd bring: Ten, twenty or more
But their directions just two of four—
Their magnitudes naturally limited
For now just tell me what I am!
I'm referring to a specific sub-form. If you get the more general form, I shan't tell you so.
The answer: A cryptic crossword! It's a grid, with letters up, down, left and right. Fathoming clues is the aim of the game. The white squares in the grid are what it's all about. If you figured it out and saw a cryptic crossword, you'd 'die' upon being presented with further brainteasing. The cryptic clues are vector riddles in that they have a direction and a magnitude (e.g. 'Five down' or 'Two across'), or because the words are written in a particular direction and are of a given length in the grid. However, there are always exactly two directions out of the four used--down and right in English crosswords. They're "naturally limited" because only natural numbers are used in numbering the clues (or, if you like, the words are always of natural length).
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Well met! I would never have solved that with the clues provided, though. Clearly the day is yours.
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It's been several pages, so I should reveal the answer to my little conundrum. First I must apologize; if I was better at crafting riddles it would have been difficult but not so confusing. Alas, I am not as fiendish as some.
The glory of lamb turns bright and gay.
The glory of man turns still and grey.
A knuckle rolls and point by point shows
A metal falls and side by side mows
Answer: dye/die
Explanation: Glory can mean beauty. Thus, the "beauty" of a lamb is dyed to be a bright and cheerful color. In contrast, the "beauty" of a man turns still and grey when they dies.
To note, the first two lines followed similar forms because the "die" that they represented was both a verb. The next two lines refer to nouns and so they shared a form different from the first two lines.
A "knuckle" is a bone, of course. Knuckles and other bones used to be used as dice (indeed, some dice are still made out of bone). Thus, to roll a knuckle is to roll a die, which will display a variety of points (aka, pips).
The last line seems to have thrown people off the most; this too is "die," but as in diecast models. A die is a metal part in a machine that forms and cuts a particular shape out of a larger sheet. The metal die falls and cuts (or "mows") the shape out.
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Hah, you fiend. I was kinda nearly there with 'hair' after all, you! *Hat tip*
J: Was it a problem with the riddle or is this just another point for me to add to the tally?
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J: Was it a problem with the riddle or is this just another point for me to add to the tally?
I'm not very good at solving riddles, to be honest. It's one of my numerous cognitive mediocre spots. I have more fun writing them than solving them. So, another point to the tally is in order, I think! Where does that bring your total? Two? Or would it be three, if you're going to count the Vegemite Incident?
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Wow.
It has been a while since anyone got anything in here answered. As such, it's due for a revival:
I am always in front of you, but you can never see me.
What am I?
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The future
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Correct, Thought.
Air would've been another great answer, too.
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But what if you were swimming? Or in space?
Anywho, until I can think of a proper one, here'sa rip-off:
I've stolen the speech of men
Their ancient hard-won thoughts
Give a gluttonous dinner
Their songs and sayings are mine
Yet I am a strange creature
What gain have I for my theft?
I am no wiser for it!
What am I?
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This thread totally needs to make a comeback. Also, I have been waiting three years for an answer to Saj's brilliant riddle, and I DON"T HAVE IT YET. It's going to drive me CRAZY!
Here's a riddle I made up when I was 13.
I swim within the ocean blue,
I am a certain artist's tool.
Beware! Too much of my harsh white
And you could lose your cherished life.
COME ON PEOPLE WE CAN SOLVE THIS. Pleeeeeease help?
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"Lead" fits all but the first line (lead white was a common paint pigment at one point, and it's fairly poisonous). Anyone else got an equally wild-assed guess?
The answer to Thought's riddle of March 03, 2010 is obviously "a book", though.
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A Riddle Most Fiendish:
What's brown and sticky?
ANSWER: A brownie, of course.
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I'll show myself out...
...to the Riddle Shop for next time's awesome headsplitter!!
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Clearly a stick.
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...dammit, now I'm hungry. >_<
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Wait, so the answer wasn't a poop?
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It's never a poop! We have standards here at the Chrono Compendium! :D
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I'm not sure I want to know if it can be sticky...
Anyway... actually, yeah, describing it as sticky would not make me think it was that. Didn't tried to think up an answer before just reading it up, but I would've thought something like cajeta.
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I have a long hair cat, and sometimes I have to trim the fur around her butt, because she'll get chocolate in there.
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I have a long hair cat, and sometimes I have to trim the fur around her butt, because she'll get chocolate in there.
ME TOO.
Holy cat, I'll be sitting there eating or something and will suddenly smell a whiff of stank and just look at my cat. Lo and behold, tangled fur turds. It's awful. She has gotten somewhat better about letting me trim, though.
As for the riddle...
What's brown and sticky?
Honey? A honey nut treat? A bear that's just raided a beehive?
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Mine is still pretty disagreeable, but she usually just ignores me for an hour or two after I'm done.
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Hmm, interesting.
Can't say I've ever had that problem with my cat, thankfully. And she has quite the amount of fur... but probably not as long as yours, then.
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Wait wait wait. I think Mauron got it. The pun of the riddle totally flew over my head. What is brown and sticky. I feel like I gotta slap my forehead on that one.
Let's keep the riddle mongoring going!
I give a mother's kiss
Despite the way I slice
In the end you'll be blue
Your demise will suffice
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A knife wielding serial killer that finishes the job with suffocation?
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I can only think it could be something related to the cold...
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Nope. Mauron didn't get it. :)
(Thank you Zoom function.)
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I give a mother's kiss
Despite the way I slice
In the end you'll be blue
Your demise will suffice
Think... Chrono Trigger.
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Nope. Mauron didn't get it. :)
Whoops. I totally missed that the answer was just in super tiny print. I feel like a dumb dumb.
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My browser displayed that answer in more than 1 point font, but I liked the stick answer better.
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That's the joke. The answer to "What's brown and sticky" is "a stick"; it's sort of an archetypal example of a bad pun (or a "dad' pun). The twist here is to take the other word in "brown and sticky" and make that the answer instead: a brownie.
And, yeah, hiding snarky or sassy stuff in 1 pt. font used to be a Compendium trope, way back when. =P
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I give a mother's kiss
Despite the way I slice
In the end you'll be blue
Your demise will suffice
Answer:
Slash!
Mother's kiss = his giant mouth,
'Slice' as a reference to Slash,
Blue as his color, and
demise in reference to the battles with him
This is fun, let's keep this riddle train going!
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I'm pretty sure it wasn't my demise we saw.
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You're right! He fails... Twice. Thrice if you consider the Bend of Time in Chrono Cross.
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As long as this doesn't turn into those riddles-that-aren't-really-riddles that would blow Blaine's top (Why did the dead baby cross the road? What has four wheels and flies?), I think this could be a good, non-lame game-ish thread...
Simple, but one of my favs cause it's part of the Dark Tower: When is a door not a door?
Fuck yeah!! The Tower junkie in me lives on~!!! ^_^
Blaine is a pain and that is the truth.
Yep, fellow King fan here!!
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LONG LIVE THE CRIMSON KING.
Although I'd rather worship a billy-bumbler!
My teeth will all rot
In spite all the drink
At least fourteen
Of course soda's the link
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Is that the soda guzzling contest?
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Is that the soda guzzling contest?
So close, and I never even thought about that being an adequate answer. However, when I quickly wrote it out, that's not what I considered. There's another answer involving soda...
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Toma?
His teeth rot (because he's dead) and there are at least 14 bearers of his name (Toma XIV).
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Razig is our winner!
In the US version he drinks soda, and you have to acquire one and pour it on his grave for the Rainbow Shell quest. Thus the drink/soda reference. The drink line was also subtly referencing that you see him in every bar/tavern in 600AD Chrono Trigger.
And the reference to 14 was indeed that we know of at least fourteen in his lineage, as seen by Toma XIV in Chrono Cross.
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I'll try my hand at this.
A lucky find got me here
The journey takes me north
We'll meet again in the end
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Oh yikes. My first thought is the prehistoric Hunting Grounds.
I completely missed it my first play through and only found it my second time playing the game on a lucky find. It's also north of Ioka village and loops back around in on itself, so you end where you began.
I don't think that's going to be the answer, however.
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Not what I was thinking of.
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I'm sure I'm completely wrong because I really suck at riddles(Blaine would have killed me, and that is the truth. Ha ha!), but my thought was the End of Time.
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I'm not sure how north would work into the End of Time.
Was I too vague with my riddle?
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Was I too vague with my riddle?
No. Riddles are supposed to be tricky!
Is it the Kingdom of Zeal? Luck led the party there (fated gate created by Lavos in Magus' Keep), the journey of Crono and friends took them north (or rather up) to Zeal, and they'll... wait a minute.
Is it Magus? Magus ended up in Zeal by pure chance after confronting Lavos in 600AD. He traveled north to the Northern Keep on the surviving landmass of the Antiquity period. And he'll meet Lavos again in the final battle.
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I can see where you're going with those, but not what I had in mind.
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Darn it.
I don't think it's Tata. The first two lines could make sense, but I don't know how he would still meet again at the end.
Now I am literally going to sit down and look at a map of each Chrono Trigger era. North being hint.
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I will neither confirm nor deny possibilities not presented as guesses.
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Honestly I was just thinking of the line "A lucky find got me here" because they stumble on the End of Time. This is why I'm no good at these things. Ha ha
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The Hero's Medal? Do they take that north? I don't remember now.
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Hmm, a tricky one, I think.
What comes to mind is that perhaps it's Radical Dreamers related. Due to the Frozen Flame being said to have been in the northern kingdom of Guardia... maybe...
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I originally refused to confirm or deny this, but I will now.
I don't think it's Tata. The first two lines could make sense, but I don't know how he would still meet again at the end.
Tata appears in one of the endings. The other two are of course finding the Hero Medal, and traveling to Denadoro Mountains, north of Porre.
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Tata appears in one of the endings. The other two are of course finding the Hero Medal, and traveling to Denadoro Mountains, north of Porre.
Darn it. You're right. I feel silly.
Here's another one:
In the beginning there was only
Large and in charge,
Never changing, ever ending
You make me blue in the face
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The Reptites?
The dominant species in prehistory, unable to adapt to the ice age caused them to freeze.
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PRobably more of a joke guess but... the Nu...?
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In the beginning there was only
Large and in charge,
Never changing, ever ending
You make me blue in the face
It was a nu!
All BEGINS and ends nu,
Large and robust looking
Never changes and is in every era
And they're blue
Good job!
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I am four, and six, yet seven
But always one
Depose the serpent of Eden
And thy deed is done
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Is it magic? The first and second lines make me think of the series' magic.
Chrono Trigger has four elements, Chrono Cross has six, and the actual Chrono Cross element itself is seventh element.
However, I can't figure out the serpent of Eden. I assume this is a reference to Satan (as in from the Bible?), who was a snake in the Garden of Eden.
Wait... Is the answer is actually the Chrono Cross element? Since it's all of the above and the only thing capable of destroying the Time Devourer, which is the big bad and sort of the equivalent to Satan (aka enemy numero uno).
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You're right on about the magic, though I was actually thinking of something, or someone, else. The "serpent of Eden" is both a reference to another character and also a physical location in the series. Good guess!