hmm..is the third smoke?
i have no idea of the fourth one...:P
3) Thundercloud
4) Mountain?
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1.Squeeze it and it cries tears as red as its flesh,
but its heart is made of stone.
Not a plum, but close, tis a fruit, i don't think plum juice is red...
3.I am the black child of a white father,
a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven.
I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me,
even though there is no cause for grief,
and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air.
A. Smoke Arien
5.There is a thing that nothing is,
and yet it has a name.
It's sometimes tall and sometimes short,
joins our talks and joins our sports,
and plays at every game?
A. Shadow Clare
tell me if you want any clues for the others
2. Ladder (Clare already guessed it, and you didn't respond as to right or wrong)
Cat
Keeper of the Sherbet Lemons
18 years ago
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Ladder is WAY off.... well, not really way off... but it would have to be one bloody long ladder to fit the riddle...
A hint for 4. is think younger than mountains, and mountains don't reproduce... well, not in the normal sense
4. Trees?
2. Jack and the Beanstalk's beanstalk?
is number 2 railway tracks?
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1.Cherry
2. railway tracks
4. Tree,
well done, guys! I have more where that came from, i might put them up later...
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
I have a 100 legs but cannot stand.
A long neck but no head.
And I eat the maids life.
What one word has the most letters in it?
What starts with T, ends with T, and is full of T?
1. 1
2. Broom/Brush?
3. Alphabet
4. Teapot
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18 years ago
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New riddles for you all to ponder
1.Two legs I have, and this will confound: only at rest do they touch the ground!
What am I?
2.You must keep this thing, its loss will affect your brothers.
For once yours is lost, it will soon be lost by others.
3.See if you can translate the following?
Y Y U R Y Y U B I C U R Y Y 4 M E
4.There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors?
have fun!!
1. a wheelbarrow?
the others, i'm not sure...
4. uhhh...they were really hungry, tried to eat the scissors then choked? [img]http://s4.images.proboards.com/tongue.gif" alt=":P" border="0"/> i have no clue!
i'm going to say that the scissors didn't directly kill them though..
1.Two legs I have, and this will confound: only at rest do they touch the ground!
What am I?
A man on a bicycle?
2.You must keep this thing, its loss will affect your brothers.
For once yours is lost, it will soon be lost by others.
Your temper
3.See if you can translate the following?
Y Y U R Y Y U B I C U R Y Y 4 M E
Too wise you are, too wise you be, I see you are too
wise for me
4.There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors?
The person slept on a waterbed. The killer used the scissors to cut the bed open and drown him
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18 years ago
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well done! Dark One got them all right except for the first one, which Arien got, twas a Wheelbarrow....
let me dig through this book more and see if i can stump any of you....
1.You are walking through a field, and you find something to eat. It doesn't have bones, and it doesn't have meat. You pick it up and put it into your pocket. You take it home and put it on a shelf, but 3 day's later it walks away. What is it?
2.I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head, but I'm not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I'm never thrown. What am I?
3.Little Nanny Etticoat, in a white petticoat, and a red nose; the longer she stands, the shorter she grows. What is she?
4.Two men are in a desert. They both have packs on. One of the guys is dead. The guy who is alive has his pack open, the guy who is dead has his pack closed. What is in the pack?
5.What is it that is deaf, dumb and blind and always tells the truth? (tho i don't believe this one, some of them twist the truth)
1.You are walking through a field, and you find something to eat. It doesn't have bones, and it doesn't have meat. You pick it up and put it into your pocket. You take it home and put it on a shelf, but 3 day's later it walks away. What is it?
an egg?
2.I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head, but I'm not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I'm never thrown. What am I?
an arrow
3.Little Nanny Etticoat, in a white petticoat, and a red nose; the longer she stands, the shorter she grows. What is she?
an candle
4.Two men are in a desert. They both have packs on. One of the guys is dead. The guy who is alive has his pack open, the guy who is dead has his pack closed. What is in the pack?
a parachute?
5.What is it that is deaf, dumb and blind and always tells the truth? (tho i don't believe this one, some of them twist the truth)
a mirror
I don't understand that translate one...
ok, i shall translate further:
Y Y = too wise (2 y's)
U R = you are
Y Y = too wise
U B = you be
I C = i see
U R = you are
Y Y = too wise
4 M E = for me
So:
Y Y U R Y Y U B I C U R Y Y 4 M E
Too wise you are, too wise you be, I see you are too
wise for me
yer... wow!
i love that! *stares in wonder at the riddle*
I have one from Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda.
What is it that a rich man has and the dead eat?
(it is not exact because I couldn't remember all of it, but the answer is still the same)
it's nothing, right? if i'm thinking of the correct riddle
what is it that a poor man has
a rich man needs
and the dead eat
yes, that's the one!
do you remember that Theagen one?
I have all three series down stairs, but I can't be bothered to walk outside in the rain to get them.
Just a small problem that I need help understanding rather than solving [there is NO solution anyway, so don't even bother].
PARADOX OF SELF-DESCRIPTION
Some words are self-descriptive, like pentasyllabic, recherche, abstruse, or textual. Others are not, such as responsible, vaporous, or catatonic. A word which is self-descriptive is said to be autological; a word which is not is heterological. Is the word heterological heterological or autological?
My question to you all: What exactly do they mean when they say that recherche and abstuse are 'self-descriptive'? What exactly does it mean for a word to be self-descriptive? I know I SHOULD understand this, and were it not 3 am, I probably would get it after some careful deliberation, but I'm just not understanding the meaning of it in relation to the examples given. If anyone could help me out of this blind hole of stupidity that I seem to have dug myself into, I'd be veryvery grateful!
Three guys go out for lunch
The bill comes to $25
They each pay $10 = $30
There is a $5 change which they give the waitress
The waitress keeps $2 and hands each guy $1 back
Each guy then only paid $9
Together they paid $27
$27 + $2 (from the waitress) = $29
But they had paid $30 at the beginning
Where is the missing $1?