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Riddles, Part 2
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What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?
A horse?
2-Hey, that makes sense.
2- Nope! A horse is of use to a carraige, isn’t it?
Who is loud, pink, and spiritual all over?
my famous one from the last Riddles thread:
A man is found dead in a room locked from the inside, suspended five feet above the ground with a rope around his neck. There are no other objects in the room, except for a large puddle of water beneath his feet. How did he die?
He drowend. Or choked.
1- a wheel?
1 – hah! i got it! it’s the people inside the carriage!!
anybody here?
6- I think that I knew that once. Of course, the obvious answer is suffocation.
7, 8- Nope!
I’m afraid it might actually be a bit obsolete, since carraiges aren’t in use anymore. But keep trying!
6- I know that one, so I won’t answer it yet.
6-A heart attack.
6- I also know it, but won’t answer yet.
6-I don’t know if you did or not, but the answer was already revealed on the last thread.
1-Age? “carriAGE”?
15- No! Heheheh. You’ll never guess…
Obviously, the answer to 6 is the man was standing on a block of ice, and as it melted, he was hung. That is not a very hard riddle.
Try this one: A donkey is on a chain 10 feet longand the carrots he has to eat are 20 feet away. How does he eat the carrots?
He doesn’t
lol. Good answer. But it has to eat them, or else maybe he’ll die. Maybe he’ll curl up in a hole and die of suffocation, just like the person in 6.
19- Remember the puddle in that riddle (6).
18- No, he eats them. all of them.
19- He is hung because of a block of ice. It is simple.
I know that.
Jadestone, you’re not on the alter ego thread right now.
17-the chain isn’t attached to anything
The donkey pulls whatever the chain is ATTACHED to to get the carrots?
i have a riddle:
I have a limb but cannot walk
I have a mouth but never talk
I have a tier but never weep
I have a Bed but I never sleep.
WHAT AM I?
24- a river?
25- I think it is.
suffocation? a heart attack? hellooo, peoples! Hafiz got it right. BTW, r u new? if so…
KAA…MEE…HAA…MEE…HYAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
with that taken care of…
11 – it’s not? hmm…is it the coach?
27- No. I’ll repost it, since I’m too lazy to scroll all the way up every time to read my riddle.
What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?
More than a bit obsolete, actually. But anyhow, I’m sure someone will figure it out eventually.
Can we have a hint? Because no-one has any idea what it is.
27- No, I’m not new. I used to be A Dijinn, before that I was Ptolemy, then Frodo, then Nobodydude.
I haven’t been on in a while.
17- you are correct
29- Okay… I’ll try to think of one…
It’s not something tangible.
30- Sorry about taking your name, I didn’t know that you had used it.
Who is loud, pink, and spiritual all over? No one answered this!
A sunburned preacher.
I know the answer to Alice’s riddle but I cheated.
34: lol
32- Whick name, if it is not A Dijinn or Ptolemy, (My 2 last names) You can use them. Glassboro did once try to steal Ptolemy.
That’s me. I didn’t know that it was yours, otherwise I wouldn’t have used it.
34- No. I meant an MBer.
36- Oh, well I forgive you.
Heres a riddle, why on long threads is the most recent post thread at the bottom and other times it is at the top?
38- Donaldo?
39- I don’t get it.
Hafiz- You keep responding to your own posts.
guess some of these. find what the letters mean.
16=M on a DMC
5=D in a ZC
1= H on a U
76= T in the BP
18= H in a GC
sorry, just realised i was posting under another name. watev
Carriage riddle- Noise.
45- Right you are!
40- No. Not funny. Here’s a hint: Oink.
Oh! An oracular pig!
I love oracular pigs, and once considered using “the oracular pig” as an alter ego.
48- No! No! No! I said that it has to be an MBer!!!!!
49- Oh, sorry!
I thought that was someone else.
Piggy the Proud Catholic.
50- Correct! *Hands virtual chocolate prize*
I mean that if you scroll up to the top of the screen. Go ahead do it now. there is a bar that says Most Recent Posts. It bugs me that that bar is only sometimes at the top of the screen. That was not a riddle, but a question directed to the gapa. I’m sorry but 39 was a typo, i meant to respond to Glassboro’s post.
Take that over to Ask the Gapas. All right?
25-Correctomundo!*pies heartily*
RIDDLE 1
You was going the wrong way down a one way street, and the police saw you and didn’t pull you over. Why didn’t the police stop you?
RIDDLE 2
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, “If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50.” The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he’ll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
54-
1: Um, maybe the police couldn’t, because you were going the wrong way? Or, a slightly less lame answer, you were going the wrong way to get where you were going.
2: He wrote, “your exact weight.”
54-
1: You are walking/riding a bike down the road
I admire whoever came up with the idea for this thread. It is something I have always wanted but never knew I did. I currently don’t have any riddles I wrote myself right now, and I’m too lazy to try and remember ones that I haven’t, so I’ll just come up with one quickly:
This is really easy, but it’s the best I can do on short notice ;):
I have no wheels, and yet I roll
I ride the air, but cannot fly
I’ve been around the world, yet traveled but four feet
I have no idea!
Alice came up with the idea for the first one, and we needed a new one when the old one went over 300 posts.
I would like to pay attention to the riddles here but I have a lot of threads to visit in a short amount of time Must_hurry
Okay, everyone, here’s a riddle! 65 riddles, actually, and I know the answers to only a few of them. Anyway, you’re supposed to name 65 trees, but if you like you can break it into parts and answer the parts.
What’s the sociable tree, and the dancing tree,
And the tree that is nearest the sea;
The most yielding tree, the busiest tree,
And the tree where ships may be?
The languishing tree, the least selfish tree,
And the tree that bears a curse;
The chronologist’s tree, the fisherman’s tree,
And the tree like an Irish nurse?
The tell-tale tree, and the traitor tree,
And the tree that’s the warmest clad;
The layman’s restraint, and the housewife’s tree,
And the tree that makes one sad?
The tree that with death befrights you,
The tree that your wants would supply,
The tree that to travel invites you,
And the tree that forbids you to die?
The tree that will fight, and the tree that obeys you,
And the tree that never stands still;
The tree that got up, and the tree that is lazy,
And the tree neither up nor down hill?
The tree to be kissed, and the dandiest tree,
The tree guiding ships to go forth;
The tree of the people, the unhealthiest tree,
And the tree whose wood faces north?
The tree in a battle, the tree in a fog,
And the tree that bids the joints pain;
The terrible tree when schoolmasters flog,
And the tree a mother and child do name.
The emulous tree, the industrious tree,
And the tree that warms mutton when cold;
The reddest brown tree and the reddest blue tree,
And the tree one becomes ere one’s old?
The treacherous tree, the contemptible tree,
The tree to which wines are inclined;
The tree that causes each townsman to flee,
And what round fair ankles are twined?
The tree that’s entire, and the tree that is split,
The tree half given by doctors when ill;
The tree that we offer to friends when we meet,
And the tree we may use as a quill?
The tree that’s immortal, and the trees that are not,
And the tree that must pass through the fire;
The tree that in Latin can ne’er be forgot,
And in English we all most admire?
The Egyptian plague tree, the tree that is dear,
And what round itself doth entwine;
The tree that in billiards must ever be near,
And the tree that by Cockneys is turned into wine?
The tree that makes one sad? Weeping willow?
The tree that must pass through the fire? Redwood?
The tree that’s immortal? Bristlecone pine?
The tree that in billiards must ever be near? Oak or Mahogany, I would imagine.
I’m just guessing here.
61- Yes, weeping willow. No, redwood. No, bristlecone pine. No, oak or mahogany.
I’m finding the answers frustratingly ununderstandable, and I’m beginning to think that this is another of those obsolete riddles. They aren’t all trees. Some are shrubs, etc.
51- 1:They would crash 2: on the paper he wrote, “your exact weight”
Erm… anyone have at least a guess about my riddle?
It was post 57… although no one has been back here since the day I posted there!!!!
That’s sad. I thought this thread would be great.
Well, it looks like no one is going to be on this thead ever, so I’ll just say the answer in a few days if no one objects.
64- I’m sorry, I have a lack of good riddles . . . yet. Let me see . . .
What stands on one leg with its heart in its head?
I went to the city, I stopped there, I never went there, I came back again.
A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I’m the torment of man.
Answer those and I’ll give more!
I don’t write riddles, but I guess I should try.
In answer to 57, is it a globe?
Is that a bad answer?
NONONONONONONO! I forbid it! Come back, everyone!
Eesh. Phooey. Bleh. I posted more riddles and everyone disappeared. Well, they disappeared before I posted the riddles, but why did they disappear in the first place?
And to Taiwan Hippo Fan, in defense of this thread, the first version was brilliant. It wasn’t far, far, into the first one that people began to lose interest, probably because they ran out of riddles.
65- “A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I’m the torment of man”- rain?
67- Yup!
I still refresh this, but I’m bad at guessing riddles and I don’t know any good ones.
69- Look them up. That’s what I do.
agagabagabag – it could also be the IPU (Invisible Pink Unicorn, of course.)
~~~
when the world is mine
my color divine
shall cover every wall
it’s reign will never fall
some may hate it
many debate it
it’s brightness galore
so many deplore
yet they cannot resist
the bright red mist
that will fall over the world
the day my plot is unfurled
i’m going to curl up and die if no one can answer that.
i actually made that and all the rhymes up, too.
here’s a hint: 4/1
Hey not bad! I don’t know what it is yet, but I’ll think about it.
It’s :idea:s, isn’t it?
you don’t know what it is? after reading all those things on Origins and Beginnings about 63/\/371c 3xp3r1^^3/\/75? ZOMG.
74 – you gots it. twas not bad, if i do say so myself.
Wow. I got a riddle right.
I know this isn’t a riddle, but because one of my riddles on the last thread was about this, I thought I would point this out…
Remeber the Koko on the home page, the one that moves when you put your mouse over it? Well, try clicking on it!!! Whoa!!!
78- Cool!
Ok What causes shadows but doesn’t cast one
80- The sun.
you’re correct >:-(
What does not live, but still can die?
83-A joke??? (“YOU KILLED IT!!!”) Which is probably wrong.
What goes up but never comes down?
A pair of dice? *shrugs* I dunno…..
84- Nope.
85- Nope.
What goes up but never comes down? Um . . .
Four hands on a table
Three hooks on a wall
Two hours have passed
and One man is dead
How did he die?
84- your age. alas.
87- he cheated at cards and was in a shootout? dunno
87- I’m not sure, but the hands are clock hands, right?
88-….no.
89- That would be a…..no.
Feel free to ask yes or no questions though.
the hands are hands of cards, right?
the hands are cards, the guy cheated, but the hooks…?
91- Yes
92- Yes, no, guess!
Is the dead man the “suicide king”?
What goes on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, three in the evening and none at night?
Only one colour, but not one size,
Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies,
Present in sun, but not in the rain,
Doing no harm, feeling no pain. (This one is easy!!!!)
What force and strength cannot get through
I with a gentle touch can do,
And many in the street would stand,
If I were not a friend at hand. (Figure this one out, Hafiz!)
95- person. that’s the riddle of the sphinx
96- shadow.
97- *has to think* friend at hand spoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoileraspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilera spoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilera spoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilera spoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilera spoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilera spoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspoilerspo key!
I got a riddle:
What product would advertisers be proud to claim “sucks more than all the others”?
A vacuum cleaner?
Yes! We have a winner!
98-Your spoilers didn’t hide anything because you pressed return.
100-I think so too
I know a one-floor house that’s all black – windows, doors, furniture, everything. What color are the stairs?
This is obvious and really easy but not THAT easy.
doy. there are no stairs. You said yourself it was one story.
ok, here’s a pretty good one! kinda easy tho…
here it is:
A woman is about to be executed. Since she has been a good citizen most of her life, the executioner gives her the option of chosing by which way she can die, no matter how bizarre, time-consuming, or costly it is. What manner of death should she choose, or will it not make a difference?
whaddya think?
105- She chooses to die of old age.
104- it tricks a lot of people. You’d be surprised.
83- A flame.
108- No, actually it wasn’t meant to be a riddle at all. I was commenting on the deadness of the thread, in riddle format.
107- It tricks more people when it’s oral, rather than written, because then you can just gloss right over it. Once my sister made the mistake of leaving out the one-story part, and then she had to stop and go back. That spoiled it.
106-yup
i knew it would be 2 easy
i have a riddle
I am tall when I am young
I am short when I am old
With life I do glow
The wind is my foe
What am I?
Its from a book so alot of you will know it
112-That’s easy. A candle.
A random collection of riddles; some ridiculously easy, some not so much. Enjoy!!
1.) A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
2.) What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
3.) Captain Frank and some of the boys were exchanging old war stories. Art Bragg offered one about how his grandfather led a battalion against a German division during World War I. Through brilliant maneuvers, he defeated them and captured valuable territory. After the battle he was presented with a sword bearing the inscription “To Captain Bragg for Bravery, Daring and Leadership. World War I. From the Men of Battalion “Captain Frank looked at Art and said, “You really don’t expect anyone to believe that yarn, do you?” What’s wrong with the story?
4.) How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
114-
1) She had multiple husbands?
2) Dunno
3) Germans weren’t involved in WWI? Maybe? But I’m just guessing.
4) Once. After that, all that’s left is a 2.
115-
1) no
2)
3) no (germans started both world wars)
4) yes and no–yes, once. no, u can only subract it once bcuz
25-5=20
close!!! (and i am willing to give hints when needed!
)
17- the chain doesn’t have to be unattached it could be:
the chain is attached to a pike in the middle of a field. the dnkey is at the end of his chain. the carrots are twenty feet behind him, but only ten feet from the pike so he can still reach it. (i’m not sure if i explained that well, but it makes sence if you think about a circle with a diameter of 20 feet, but any point on the circumpherance is within ten feet of the center)
116-
1) she shoots him a look. then she holds him under water, but nt his head. after, she hangs up his picture. they then proceed to dinner.
(i’ve already hears 2&3, so i won’t answer them)
117-not rly
she’s a photographer. She shot a pic of her husband, developed it, and hung it up 2 dry.
close, tho!
halllooooooo!!!!!!!! anybody come here anymore??????
!!!!!!!
!!!!!!
what eats all but for whom thirst never appears because drinks kill it
helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo n e 1 there?????
121: This isn’t a chatroom. Proceed to Welcome, Newcomers.
3.) Captain Frank and some of the boys were exchanging old war stories. Art Bragg offered one about how his grandfather led a battalion against a German division during World War I. Through brilliant maneuvers, he defeated them and captured valuable territory. After the battle he was presented with a sword bearing the inscription “To Captain Bragg for Bravery, Daring and Leadership. World War I. From the Men of Battalion “Captain Frank looked at Art and said, “You really don’t expect anyone to believe that yarn, do you?” What’s wrong with the story?
If he defeated the Germans wouldn’t the writing on the sword be in German?
whoa thats good
no whats wrong is that bragg was never a captain
123- Why would it be in German? He defeated the Germans, they didn’t give him a sword.
125- No, that was his grandfather, not Art Bragg himself.
GAPA drops a hint: If you were a solder fighting in World War One, what would you have called the war?
The men fighting in WWI called it the Great War, not World War 1.
Oh wait, the OEAD just said that. Never mind then.
127-the world war.
Right. They didn’t know that there would be another one.
127-130-Oooooh.Why do riddles have to seem so obvious when they’re solved!?
New riddles!-
(1)What falls but never breaks?
(2)This is an unusual paragraph. I am curious as to how quickly you can find out whats so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing’s wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it but you still may not find anything odd.
If you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching. Good luck!
131-
(1) Night.
(2) It doesn’t contain the letter E.
132-Very good! You got both right!
What I really want to know is why a raven is like a writing desk. Grrrrrr.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in 1000 years?
Brothers and sisters I have none but that man’s father is my father’s son. (who is “that man”?)
The letterm!
Your son.:mrgreen:
*revives thread* The man who built it doesn’t want it. The man who bought doesn’t need it. The man who needs it doesn’t know it. What is it?
A coffin.
A man lives on the 4th floor of an apartment building, which has an elevator. If there is another person in the elevator, or if it is raining, he rides the elevator all the way to the 4th floor. But if it’s sunny, and he’s alone in the elevator, he rides it to the 2nd floor, then walks up two flights of the stairs to the 4th. Why?
He is short and can only reach the 2nd button. If it is raining, he has big boots and can reach it, and if another person is there they can press it for him.
Very close. If it’s raining, he can push the button with his umbrella, but whatever.
Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking
Fish.
Any eye in a blue face
saw an eye in a green face.
“That eye is like this eye,” said the first face
“But in a low place, not in a high place.”
The sun shining on a daisy in a meadow.
I know it’s not the “proper” answer, but, personally, I like “eye in a blue face” being the sun, “eye in a green face” its reflection in a pool of water…..
but i do believe the answer was something about a daisy.
SFTDP
114, #3- Commanders lead battalions, not captains!
Oh, but now I see that there was a different answer, being that it would just be called the World War, not World War One. Which makes sense.