Riddles

BLUE_2007 · Post by **BLUE_2007** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:22 am

I'm REALLY sorry if this has already been done, but I thought it would be interesting. I myself am not very good at riddles, but I still love that confused look on my friends' faces when I tell them a good one.

So, simply follow suit:

My head and tail both equal are,
My middle slender as a bee.
Whether I stand on head or heel
Is quite the same to you or me.
But if my head should be cut off,
The matter's true, though passing strange
Directly I to nothing change.
What am I???

[spoiler]8 - eight[/spoiler]

NightPoofer · Post by **NightPoofer** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:02 am

This'll be an interesting thread! I'll try one!

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.

[spoiler]A coffin[/spoiler]

hilowey · Post by **hilowey** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:35 pm

There is one word in the English language that has kst in the middle, in the beginning, and in the end. What is the word?

BLUE_2007 · Post by **BLUE_2007** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:38 pm

If two's company and three's a crowd, what are four and five?

[spoiler]9 - nine[/spoiler]

Northstars Love · Post by **Northstars Love** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:03 pm

What's bigger than the universe?
The dead eat it?
But if you eat it you'll die?

[spoiler]Nothing![/spoiler]

NightPoofer · Post by **NightPoofer** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:08 am

Three lives have I.
Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
Light enough to caress the sky,
Hard enough to crack rocks.

[spoiler]water
[/spoiler]

Tracker · Post by **Tracker** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:58 am

I am large enough to hold countries,
But small enough for you to hold.
The seas and rivers I carry,
Do not make me wet.

What am I? [spoiler]A Map[/spoiler]

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:58 am

What walks on 4 legs in the morning
2 legs in the afternoon
And 3 Legs at night?

[spoiler]A human (four legs when a baby, two when adult, three uding a cane when elderly)[/spoiler]

bamfboy · Post by **bamfboy** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:15 am

Originally posted by **Northstars Love**
What's bigger than the universe?
The dead eat it?
But if you eat it you'll die?

[spoiler]Nothing![/spoiler]

Ah, I know a different version of this one : Rich people need it, poor people have it, but if you eat it you'll die

My one:

Three quarters of a cross, a circle complete, two semi circles with a perpendicular meet, an upside-down V that in the middle meets, two semi-circles and a circle complete

[spoiler]Tobacco[/spoiler]

BLUE_2007 · Post by **BLUE_2007** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:03 pm

Is an old hundred dollar bill better than a new one?

[spoiler]99 times better[/spoiler]

jimmy · Post by **jimmy** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:17 pm

although I'm far from the point
I never make mistakes
I fix yours

what am I?

[spoiler]an eraser[/spoiler]

BamfChyck · Post by **BamfChyck** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:47 pm

I have one!

Forward I’m heavy, backward I’m not.

[spoiler]a ton[/spoiler]

These are fun! Thank you all for sharing them.

Shadow_Dancer · Post by **Shadow_Dancer** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 1:50 am

What a great idea for a thread.

I love riddles. I have one too.

If yesterday had been Wednesday's tomorrow and tomorrow is Sunday's yesterday, what day would today be?

[spoiler]Friday[/spoiler]

sapphirescimitar · Post by **sapphirescimitar** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:26 am

Here's some I created:

My first starts father and also starts free,
My second ends farther, now don't you see?
My third is in needle, but not in its spelling,
My fourth is third, though only in swelling,
My fifth is the middle of the end,
My sixth is after sea, now you've got a _____.

[spoiler]friend[/spoiler]

I won some poetry contest with that simple poem.

Start with start and end with mass,
Computer talk for you,
First person for me,
Centipede, catapault, chrome,
The eye of a needle, but not,
Somewhat slang for father,
Eternally first.

[spoiler]suicide[/spoiler]

Where were wonderfalls wicked?
I saw them at the beginning of the ocean,
But it was the middle of the end instead,
So they told me to find them after the sea,
Where evening begins,
Full from the start,
Yet dying at the end of you,
Lurring loves lovingly.

[spoiler]wonderful[/spoiler]

A first flying warrior that stings and rhymes my knees,
Eternal is forever but today it is first,
No ends conversation but now it doesn't,
Name the first of my first - instrument (Violin, for those of you who didn't know.),
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
Lull so, so many times, but once one time,
I want you, I seek you, I need you, I...
Go, too, so go end.

[spoiler]Benvolio[/spoiler]

That's all of mine I can think of now... And no stealing them! I have them published someplaces! Ahahah!

BLUE_2007 · Post by **BLUE_2007** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:27 am

It has one stem, nine branches
Nine flowers and nine fruits
Yet change it does not with the seasons
But with the year like, "Poof!"

[spoiler]1999[/spoiler]

We are little creatures;
all of us have different features.
One of us in glass is set;
one of us you'll find in jet.
Another you may see in tin,
and the fourth is boxed within .
If the fifth you should pursue,
it can never fly from you.
What are we?

[spoiler]A,E,I,O,U[/spoiler]

NightPoofer · Post by **NightPoofer** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 7:19 pm

I build up castles.
I tear down mountains.
I make some men blind,
I help others to see.
What am I?

[spoiler]sand[/spoiler]

BLUE_2007 · Post by **BLUE_2007** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 9:01 pm

What do you throw out when you want to use it,
but take in when you don't want to use it?

[spoiler]an anchor[/spoiler]

What is one thing that all wise men,
regardless of their religion or politics,
agree is between heaven and earth?

[spoiler]and[/spoiler]

What question can you never answer "yes" to?

[spoiler]are you asleep?[/spoiler]

NightPoofer · Post by **NightPoofer** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:27 am

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.

[spoiler]a coffin[/spoiler]

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

[spoiler]few[/spoiler]

Shadow_Dancer · Post by **Shadow_Dancer** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:54 am

What is it that you can take away the whole and still have some left; and that you can take away some and still have the whole left?

[spoiler]The word wholesome[/spoiler]

BLUE_2007 · Post by **BLUE_2007** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:03 am

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?

[spoiler]an arrow[/spoiler]

I'm a strange contradiction; I'm new, and I'm old,
I'm often in tatters, and oft decked with gold.
Though I never could read, yet lettered I'm found;
Though blind, I enlighten; though loose, I am bound,
I'm always in black, and I'm always in white;
I'm grave and I'm gay, I am heavy and light -
In form too I differ - I'm thick and I'm thin,
I've no flesh and bones, yet I'm covered with skin;
I've more points than the compass, more stops than the flute;
I sing without voice; without speaking, confute.
I'm English, I'm German, I'm French, and I'm Dutch;
Some love me too fondly, some slight me too much;
I often die soon, though I sometimes live ages,
And no monarch alive has so many pages.

[spoiler]a book[/spoiler]

NightPoofer · Post by **NightPoofer** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:19 pm

Whilst I was engaged in sitting
I spied the dead carrying the living.

[spoiler]ship[/spoiler]

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?

[spoiler]the sun[/spoiler]

BLUE_2007 · Post by **BLUE_2007** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 4:00 pm

A moth ate words; a marvelous event
I thought about it when I heard about that wonder.
A worm had swallowed some man's lay, a thief
In the darkness had consumed the mighty saying
With its foundation firm. The thief was not
One whit the wiser when he ate those words.
Who was the thief?

[spoiler]bookworm[/spoiler]

BLUE_2007 · Post by **BLUE_2007** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:06 pm

I have a thousand eyes, yet I live in darkness.
I have a thousand ears, yet I cannot hear.
I have a thousand mouths, yet I cannot speak.
What am I?

[spoiler]a brain[/spoiler]

Light as a feather, there is nothing in it;
the strongest man can't hold it
for much more than a minute.

[spoiler]a breath[/spoiler]

What gets harder to catch the faster you run?

[spoiler]your breath[/spoiler]

Man walks over, man walks under,
in times of war he burns asunder.

[spoiler]a bridge[/spoiler]

NightPoofer · Post by **NightPoofer** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:21 pm

This Riddle Made me really frustrated.

"Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only thee words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is."

[spoiler]Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. The riddler explained that it was G or Y, in other words either one...Now the 3rd word could end with a G or a Y..He told us the answer three times and if you look, the word SAY is in the paragraph three times AND it ends with Y...Read it aloud and the answer is (now) obvious...I had not figured this out until the Riddler gave the hint about G or Y.[/spoiler]

Of course, there are several other ways that this riddle could be told, and each way has a different answer due to the slight changes in the wording.

BLUE_2007 · Post by **BLUE_2007** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:52 pm

In a tunnel of darkness lies a beast of iron.
It can only attack when pulled back.

[spoiler]a bullet[/spoiler]

Little Nancy Netticoat
In a white petticoat
and a red nose,
The longer she stands,
the shorter she grows.

[spoiler]candle[/spoiler]

My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.

[spoiler]candle[/spoiler]

What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot?

[spoiler]carpet[/spoiler]