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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #30 on: January 08, 2010, 03:35:44 pm »
Wrong all across the board, my springtimey chum!

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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #31 on: January 08, 2010, 03:44:18 pm »
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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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #32 on: January 08, 2010, 04:54:16 pm »
You're very close, but you've made a subtle yet critical mistake. I suggest you check your assumptions!

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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #33 on: January 08, 2010, 05:03:40 pm »
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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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #34 on: January 08, 2010, 05:24:47 pm »
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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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #35 on: January 08, 2010, 05:35:04 pm »
'Fraid not, Keebler. That doesn't jive with a number of the clues.

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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #36 on: January 08, 2010, 05:37:00 pm »
Now I am curious as to what it is, I hit them all save "high"!

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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #37 on: January 08, 2010, 05:38:49 pm »
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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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #38 on: January 08, 2010, 05:47:57 pm »
@MFR: Dragon Tear?

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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #39 on: January 08, 2010, 05:51:22 pm »
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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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #40 on: January 08, 2010, 06:15:48 pm »
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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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #41 on: January 08, 2010, 06:38:31 pm »
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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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #42 on: January 08, 2010, 06:43:04 pm »
@ Zeph and Arakial: Nope.

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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #43 on: January 08, 2010, 07:12:28 pm »
żEl Piedra del Sol?
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Re: The Criosphinx's Riddles
« Reply #44 on: January 08, 2010, 07:44:20 pm »
You don't seem very confident! Are you just guessing stuff now?