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Postby josh_manga » Mon Nov 21, 2011 2:58 pm

Hey, i don't know if this has been done already, but i'd like to start a riddle competition.

The rules are simple. Write or find a riddle, the clues to the solution should be in the riddle itself, but can also allude to common knowledge sources (scientific laws, the Bible, famous quotes, whatever.) Only one riddle at a time. The person who solves the riddle gets to post the next one. If the person who solved the last riddle does not wish to post a new one, say so, so someone else can have a chance. The person who posted the riddle does not have to give hints, but may, and hints like "you're close" or "i would have accepted x if y" are acceptable, and it is polite to let people know if their answer was wrong (just be polite about informing them, a simple "no" will suffice). If no one has solved the riddle after a week or more, the poster may give the answer and post a new riddle. Also, please keep the riddles, hints, and answers clean.

Here's my riddle, i expect it shouldn't be too hard:

Resting we are wakeful,
For wakes are for us.
Those who speak our name become breathless,
And breathless are we.
Multiplying, we do not conceive.
Dividing, we unify.
Even after death we may grow.
Eyeless we watch,
And sightless we keep vigil.
We leave naught behind,
For we have gone nowhere.
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Postby josh_manga » Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:13 pm

bump.

(is that legal?)
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Postby MomentOfInertia » Sat Dec 03, 2011 7:25 am

The dead?
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Postby josh_manga » Sun Jan 01, 2012 1:00 am

you're close, not the exact answer i'm looking for, but close.
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Postby josh_manga » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:10 am

The correct answer was the Undead.
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Postby MomentOfInertia » Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:06 pm

Ah.

'Missed by that much.'
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Postby SierraLea » Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:02 am

Tall, I am young.
Short, I am old.
Skinny, I am fast.
Fat, I am slow.
Wind is my Enemy.
What am I?
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Postby MomentOfInertia » Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:16 am

S'not a mountain is it?
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Postby SierraLea » Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:08 pm

Wrong. Try something in your house.
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Postby MomentOfInertia » Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:36 pm

Candle?
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Postby AnimeGirl » Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:16 pm

I am seconding the candle.
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Postby SierraLea » Tue Mar 20, 2012 3:46 pm

It was a candle. Good job!

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Postby FllMtl Novelist » Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:05 pm

A river.
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Postby MomentOfInertia » Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:17 pm

Agreed, a river.

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Postby SierraLea » Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:55 am

Right.
Live without breath
As cold as death
Never thristy, ever drinking.
All in mail never clinking.
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Postby eightluvver888 » Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:18 pm

Fish... LOTR?
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Postby nuni7270 » Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:38 pm

Plankton? Bacteria? Water? That weird bug outside my window?
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Postby SierraLea » Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:52 am

eightluvver888 (post: 1542522) wrote:Fish... LOTR?


Right. It's from The Hobbit
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Postby josh_manga » Tue May 29, 2012 4:32 pm

Fun and all, but Sierra, you're not following the rules. Whoever guesses the riddle gets to post the next one.
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Postby SierraLea » Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:20 pm

Sorry! Then someone post something quick, because I want to try guessing.
"I tell you, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out." (Luke 19:37-40).
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Postby rocklobster » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:18 pm

OK, here's a classic.
What creature has four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening?
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Postby Raleford » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:18 pm

A human. A baby crawls on all fours, an adult walks on two, and an elder in the waning years uses a cane.

I don't know where you got it, but I have heard it before.
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Postby Vilo159 » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:32 pm

Sphinx's riddle.
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Postby Raleford » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:34 pm

Ah yes, I do remember that now. Ok, sorry I was looking for my riddle, here it is:

A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. However, if there is nobody else in the elevator and it hasn't rained, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his room.
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Postby SierraLea » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:06 pm

I know this one. The man is short, so he can't reach the button that takes him to his floor. If someone else is in the elevator, he asks them to press it. If it was raining, he can reach the button with his umbrella. Otherwise he has to choose a lower floor button and walk to his actual floor. I'd done this one before.

I'll give you another. A couple celebrate their 25th birthdays with their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. How?
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