Riddles in the Dark!!!

[Nilore]

I'm bored!! You see, my school goes back on Monday but everyone else finishes then!!!!! I've already had my week off you see.
So I was wondering if the fine people of the Entmoot would make up some riddles and everyone can have a look and then we might have a vote at the beggining of December ey.

Please don't make them too hard for people have to understand them!!

Nilore

[Khamûl]

Actually, there is already a Riddle Thread (http://www.tolkientrail.com/entmoot/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4031) in the Middle-Earth forum.

If you mean non-Tolkien related riddles, contact me via PM and I will re-open this thread.

[Khamûl]

Ok, I'll reopen this riddle thread as long as it stays non-Tolkien related.

[Sister Golden Hair]

Also, if you like riddles, there are a bunch of them at the Tolkien Trail.:)

[Dussander]

"At night they come without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen."
Hint: They belong to the night.

"I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball."
Hint: It never comes, but always does.

"Runs over fields and woods all day
Under the bed at night sits not alone,
With long tongue hanging out,
A-waiting for a bone."
Hint: It's something very close to you.

"The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place."
Hint: It's in front of you right now

"There was a green house.
Inside the green house there was a white house
Inside the white house there was a red house.
Inside the red house there were lots of babies."
Hint: A fruit

Answers, 1] the stars 2] tomorrow 3]shoe 4] the letter E 5] watermelon


More Riddles in the Dark

Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. (a coffin)

Tell me what a dozen rubber trees with thirty boughs on each might be? (months in the year)

As I went over London Bridge
I met my sister Jenny
I broke her neck and drank her blood
And left her standing empty. (Gin)

It is said among my people that some things are improved by death.
Tell me, what stinks while living, but in death, smells good? (a pig)

What goes through the door without pinching itself?
What sits on the stove without burning itself?
What sits on the table and is not ashamed? (the sun)

What work is it that the faster you work,
the longer it is before you're done,
and the slower you work,
the sooner you're finished? (roasting meat on a spit)

Whilst I was engaged in sitting
I spied the dead carrying the living. (a ship)

I know a word of letters three.
Add two, and fewer there will be. (few)

I give you a group of three.
One is sitting down, and will never get up.
The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry.
The third goes away and never returns. (Stove, fire, smoke)

Whoever makes it, tells it not.
Whoever takes it, knows it not.
And whoever knows it wants it not (counterfeit money)

Two words, my answer is only two words.
To keep me, you must give me. (my word *aka a promise*)

[Dussander]

Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic force and magic spelling
Celestial sprites elucidate
All my own striving can't relate (Pi)

There is not wind enough to twirl
That one red leaf, nearest of its clan,
Which dances as often as dance it can (The Sun)

Half-way up the hill, I see thee at last
Lying beneath me with thy sounds and sights --
A city in the twilight, dim and vast,
With smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights. (The Past)

I am, in truth, a yellow fork
From tables in the sky
By inadvertent fingers dropped
The awful cutlery.
Of mansions never quite disclosed
And never quite concealed
The apparatus of the dark
To ignorance revealed. (lightening)

Many-maned scud-thumper,
Maker of worn wood,
Shrub-ruster,
Sky-mocker,
Rave!
Portly pusher,
Wind-slave. (The Ocean)

Make me thy lyre, even as the forests are.
What if my leaves fell like its own --
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep autumnal tone. (the west wind)

This darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollock highroad roaring down,
In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
Flutes and low to the body falls home. (a river)

I've measured it from side to side,
'Tis three feet long and two feet wide.
It is of compass small, and bare
To thirsty suns and parching air. (the grave of a child)

My love, when I gaze on thy beautiful face,
Careering along, yet always in place --
The thought has often come into my mind
If I ever shall see thy glorious behind. (the moon)

Then all thy feculent majesty recalls
The nauseous mustiness of forsaken bowers,
The leprous nudity of deserted halls --
The positive nastiness of sullied flowers.
And I mark the colours, yellow and black,
That fresco thy lithe, dictatorial thighs. (a spider)

When young, I am sweet in the sun.
When middle-aged, I make you gay.
When old, I am valued more than ever. (wine)

I am always hungry,
I must always be fed,
The finger I lick
Will soon turn red. (a flame)

All about, but cannot be seen,
Can be captured, cannot be held,
No throat, but can be heard. (wind)

I am only useful
When I am full,
Yet I am always
Full of holes. (sieve *aka a sponge*)

If you break me
I do not stop working,
If you touch me
I may be snared,
If you lose me
Nothing will matter. (a heart)

If a man carried my burden
He would break his back.
I am not rich,
But leave silver in my track (a snail)

Until I am measured
I am not known,
Yet how you miss me
When I have flown. (time)

I drive men mad
For love of me,
Easily beaten,
Never free. (gold)

[Aeryn]

What has 4 legs in the morning
2 legs in the afternoon
and 3 legs in the evening
Hint: It really isn't a day/



Post your guesses.

[Coney]

Originally posted by Aeryn
What has 4 legs in the morning
2 legs in the afternoon
and 3 legs in the evening

A man, crawling, walking tall, walking with a stick.

[Aeryn]

:) Close,
A baby crawling, a young man walking, and an old man using a cane.

But Coney it was close enough for me.

[Aeryn]

I view the world in little space,
Am always changing place;
No food I eat, but, by my power,
Procure what millions do devour.

There's not a kingdom on the earth,
But I have travelled over and over,
And though I know not whence my birth,
Yet when I come, you know my roar.
I through the town do take my flight,
And through the fields and meadows green,
And whether it be day or night,
I neither am nor can be seen.

In Spring I look gay,
Decked in comely array,
In Summer more clothing I wear;
When colder it grows,
I fling off my clothes,
And in winter quite naked appear

Though it be cold, I wear no clothes,
The frost and snow I never fear;
I value neither shoes nor hose,
And yet I wander far and near:
My diet is forever good,
I drink no cider, port, nor sack,
What Providence doth send for food,
I neither buy, nor sell, nor lack.

I fly to any foreign parts,
Assisted by my spreading wings:
My body holds an hundred hearts,
Nay, I will tell you stranger things:
When I am not in haste I ride,
And then I mend my pace anon;
I issue fire from my side:
You witty youths, this riddle con



Post you guesses.

[Elenka]

Either you people have wonderful books full of rhyming riddles, or you're too cursed good at writing your own. :mad:

[Coney]

Aeryn: 1) Television
2)The Wind
3)A Tree

Still working on the rest;)

[Aeryn]

Wrong on the first one Coney, the other two are correct.
Hint on 1, you see it daily in most places

[Coney]

Originally posted by Aeryn
Hint on 1, you see it daily in most places

Newspaper? :confused:

[Aeryn]

Nope. Further hint, You see it daily in most places as long as it is not the Extreme North.(alaska hint hint hint)

[Coney]

Ah, it's the Sun:D ............ am on a no-brainer today;)

[Aeryn]

It's understandable, I am not feeling particularly sharp either.
Need a hint on no. 4?

[Aeryn]

is that a yes?

[Coney]

Originally posted by Aeryn
is that a yes?

Sure;) .......... got a bit distracted:) lol

[Aeryn]

Np. I understand being busy posting.
I don't know exactly how to give a hint without giving it away, but I'll try my best.
Hint: form of travel. (literal)

[Jonathan]

With my 400th post, I'll revive the Riddle thread. This is not really a riddle, it's pure mathematics. Here it goes:

Three men rented a hotel room for $30. They paid ten dollars each.
When they were on their way to their room, the receptionist felt bad and thought he had overcharged them. The room wasn't worth more than $25. He explained how he felt to the bellboy and told him to bring the men five dollars.

On his way to the three men's room the bellboy thought:
"How are they going to distribute the money amongst themselves? I better keep two dollars and let them have only three dollars. That way, they'll get one dollar each."
The bellboy knocked on the three men's door and gave them three dollars, for which they were very thankful.

Now, the three men had paid nine dollars each for the room. Three times nine is twenty-seven. The bellboy had two dollars, and twenty-seven plus two is twenty-nine.
But they had paid $30 dollars! What happened to the last dollar?

[Sister Golden Hair]

Hold on here.

The front desk had $25.00
The bellboy had $2.00
The three men had $3.00

That's $30.00

[LuthienTinuviel]

Originally posted by Jonathan
With my 400th post, I'll revive the Riddle thread. This is not really a riddle, it's pure mathematics. Here it goes:

Three men rented a hotel room for $30. They paid ten dollars each.
...
But they had paid $30 dollars! What happened to the last dollar?

holy cow, now i know why i don't like math.:confused:

[Jonathan]

Originally posted by Sister Golden Hair
Hold on here.

The front desk had $25.00
The bellboy had $2.00
The three men had $3.00

That's $30.00 So how do you explain that 3 · 9 + 2 = 29 and not 30? You must explain it in a mathematical way :D

[Sister Golden Hair]

30-5=25

They paid a total of $30.00. They were given back $3.00, bringing their total to $27.00. 27+3=30.

Explain the $2.00 that the bellboy has.:D

[Artanis]

Originally posted by Jonathan
Now, the three men had paid nine dollars each for the room. Three times nine is twenty-seven. The bellboy had two dollars, and twenty-seven plus two is twenty-nine.
But they had paid $30 dollars! What happened to the last dollar? This is tricksssy! :rolleyes: The three men had paid 27 dollars, including the 2 dollars the bellboy have! Add the 3 dollars the men got back, and you get 30 dollars. :D

[Jonathan]

Originally posted by Artanis
This is tricksssy! :rolleyes: The three men had paid 27 dollars, including the 2 dollars the bellboy have! Add the 3 dollars the men got back, and you get 30 dollars. :D Congratulations Artanis, that's the correct answer! You're good at mathematics ;)

[Artanis]

It's not math, it's logic ;)

[Jonathan]

Yeah, I know. But I wasn't sure if it was written 'logic' or 'logics', so I wrote mathematics instead :p

[Artanis]

Originally posted by Jonathan
Yeah, I know. But I wasn't sure if it was written 'logic' or 'logics' I'm not sure either ;) but I wrote it anyway :p