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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #60 on: April 09, 2020, 03:31:09 AM »

"I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?"

Yes and no.
That is correct. Pretty easy, wasn't it?

It was, once I went engineer and starter systemically from square 1 :) Before that, I spent a while wondering in circles.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #61 on: April 09, 2020, 06:58:34 PM »
Yes, no, but close and no, but close. Try again!
Alright trying again for the middle one:

What has a bottom at the top?
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I almost went with "toilet," but I realize now that it's "legs, isn't it?

I'll have to think a bit longer on another answer to your last riddle!
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #62 on: April 09, 2020, 07:06:13 PM »
Alright trying again for the middle one:
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I almost went with "toilet," but I realize now that it's "legs, isn't it?

I'll have to think a bit longer on another answer to your last riddle!
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #63 on: April 09, 2020, 07:12:19 PM »
If two's company, and three's a crowd, what are four and five?
It's simple.
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Nine.

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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #64 on: April 10, 2020, 05:52:49 AM »

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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #65 on: April 10, 2020, 04:01:08 PM »
Alright, I've got an Old English riddle for you all:

I war oft against wave     and fight against wind,
do battle with both,     when I reach to the ground,
covered by the waters.     The land is strange to me.
I am strong in the strife     if I stay at rest.
If I fail at that,     they are stronger than I
and forthwith they wrench me     and put me to rout.
They would carry away     what I ought to defend.
I withstand them then     if my tail endures
and the stones hold me fast.     Ask what my name is.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #66 on: April 10, 2020, 04:34:12 PM »
fight against wind
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Windfighter?

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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #67 on: April 10, 2020, 07:15:00 PM »
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Windfighter?

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hehehehe nope
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #68 on: April 11, 2020, 03:18:04 AM »
Maybe kelp or some similar seaweed?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #69 on: April 11, 2020, 05:29:37 AM »
 Maybe?

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A sail?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #70 on: April 11, 2020, 06:28:51 AM »
While on the subject of the Anglo Saxon riddle poems: I think I mentioned that some of them sound a lot more risqué than they actually are (don’t worry, the answers are actually quite decent).

I have a head and I stand in a bed.
Rough is my root.
I bring tears to the eyes of many a tender maiden.

And:
There is a thing that hangs below his belt.
Stiff and stout, it swivels about.
When the man who owns it returns from a journey
Often it fills a well-known hole.
Now it fills it again.

And Wyrm, your answer to Mebediel’s riddle sounds more likely than mine!
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #71 on: April 11, 2020, 08:11:39 AM »
While on the subject of the Anglo Saxon riddle poems: I think I mentioned that some of them sound a lot more risqué than they actually are (don’t worry, the answers are actually quite decent).

And:
There is a thing that hangs below his belt.
Stiff and stout, it swivels about.
When the man who owns it returns from a journey
Often it fills a well-known hole.
Now it fills it again.

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a sword?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #72 on: April 11, 2020, 08:35:18 AM »
No. Neither sword or dagger. But good guess.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #73 on: April 11, 2020, 09:11:57 AM »
While on the subject of the Anglo Saxon riddle poems: I think I mentioned that some of them sound a lot more risqué than they actually are (don’t worry, the answers are actually quite decent).

I have a head and I stand in a bed.
Rough is my root.
I bring tears to the eyes of many a tender maiden.

And:
There is a thing that hangs below his belt.
Stiff and stout, it swivels about.
When the man who owns it returns from a journey
Often it fills a well-known hole.
Now it fills it again.

For the second riddle, would it be a key?

As for the first one, I'm not sure of the specifics, but it sounds maybe like some kind of root vegetable? Perhaps a radish - they can be a bit spicy and thus bring tears to a maiden's eye.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #74 on: April 11, 2020, 11:04:56 AM »
Wait. The first one of Roisin's riddles. I was lying in bed when I suddenly had a revelation. Is it
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an onion?
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