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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #120 on: May 13, 2020, 06:23:24 AM »
Quote from: Jitter on May 12, 2020, 05:11:44 PM
J1: Narrow sounds, long capes, rock at every end. What is it?
I'm not sure that I even understand the question ... what is a "narrow sound", unless we're talking about this kind?
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... I guess the answer should be something like "a coastline" ...


Quote from: Jitter on May 12, 2020, 05:11:44 PM
J2: When I carry you, you get tired but I don’t. Who am I?
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A supporter of yours filibustering. >:D


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J5: All day I lie on my back, at night I stand upright.
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An insomniac's night gown? >:D
The candle that, upon nightfall, gets taken out of the box and placed into the candleholder that goes onto one's bedside table?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #121 on: May 13, 2020, 07:01:53 AM »
JoB yes, that kind of sound! But the answers aren’t correct :)

In Finnish the “narrow sound” in the riddle clearly means geographic sound or bay. So that is not the giat of it.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #122 on: May 13, 2020, 07:21:32 AM »
Unless you are speaking Irish Gaelic, when it is a description of a type of pronunciation of a letter.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #123 on: May 13, 2020, 08:01:42 AM »
Quote from: Jitter on May 13, 2020, 07:01:53 AM
JoB yes, that kind of sound! But the answers aren’t correct :)
Alright then [cracks skullknuckles] ...

Quote from: Jitter on May 12, 2020, 05:11:44 PM
J1: Narrow sounds, long capes, rock at every end. What is it?
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Irrigation ditches (which need to cut horizontally through slightly elevated parts of the terrain, and get blocked with rocks when a field at one end of a ditch currently doesn't need additional watering).


Quote from: Jitter on May 12, 2020, 05:11:44 PM
J2: When I carry you, you get tired but I don’t. Who am I?
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Water. (As in, no boat between the two, the person needs to swim.)


Quote from: Jitter on May 12, 2020, 05:11:44 PM
J5: All day I lie on my back, at night I stand upright.
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... long hair (falling down on its owner's back while he is up and about)?
[my skullknuckles have failed me :-[ ]
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #124 on: May 13, 2020, 08:25:13 AM »
Is J5
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shadows? Because during the day they lie flat to the ground, but in the night (especially moonless nights) they seem to surround you. Then again, moonlit nights have exceptionally sharp shadows.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #125 on: May 13, 2020, 09:06:49 AM »
In J5

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A Fjord? (extrapolating from Jitter's comment and JoB's attempts)
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #126 on: May 13, 2020, 09:18:24 AM »
I have a confession to make: I'm not good with riddles. But you people seem to be, since you've solved almost every one of the difficult riddles I gave you... Almost, so I hope you don't mind if I repost the one you didn't find the answer yet, just so it doesn't get lost in the thread history.

#7: What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #127 on: May 13, 2020, 02:32:06 PM »
No on everything, but JoB is extremely close on J2 (carry/tired)

J5 is a very Finnish thing, not necessarily something you are familiar with in your everyday life
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #128 on: May 13, 2020, 08:14:29 PM »
Not riddles exactly, but I have of late been compiling clues to put together a cryptic crossword, and figured I might as well try them out here.

They mostly rely on bits of obscure knowledge and having a particularly twisted mind, so are likely largely insolvable, but take a shot anyway!

CC1: Franklin's examination of bears flags (3,8,3,8)
CC2: Men and lions follow the rules in London's haunted field (3,4,8)
CC3: How weird to fill up horrors with man-made affection (1,1,9)
CC4: Between 100 and 150 PO Box Babies (3,6)
CC5: The angelic son of the valley men heralds the printing press (11)
CC6: The least needed former Melinae (5,6)
CC7: Oh who commands the city of the half haired hog? (5)
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #129 on: May 14, 2020, 07:52:22 AM »
Could somebody please work out what Ran's final one (of the current ones) is?

#7: What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none

I keep turning it around in my mind but can't even form a guess that I wouldn't immediately see as wrong!

The best one I have is ARGUMENT, as in if somebody starts arguing with you you can either join them, and then you both are arguing, or not, and they can't really argue alone. But even then if you do go along with them, there's only one argument with two parties in it. Argh!
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #130 on: May 15, 2020, 04:55:24 PM »
Quote from: Jitter on May 13, 2020, 02:32:06 PM
No on everything, but JoB is extremely close on J2 (carry/tired)
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... air, then!?
("I just flew in from Moscow, and boy are my arms tired!")

Or, if getting hypothermia qualifies as "tired", an ice floe you're marooned on?


Quote from: Jitter on May 13, 2020, 02:32:06 PM
J5 is a very Finnish thing, not necessarily something you are familiar with in your everyday life
That starts to sound like something about the sauna ... :P
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As in, the ladle getting hung onto the wall or somesuch when the sauna's not being used during the night ...
Any chance that whatever "back" refers to happens not to be called the "back" of some larger object in other languages?
Or is there a custom to leave a book (say, the Bible) flipped open during the night?


Quote from: Jitter on May 14, 2020, 07:52:22 AM
Could somebody please work out what Ran's final one (of the current ones) is?
#7: What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none
I keep turning it around in my mind but can't even form a guess that I wouldn't immediately see as wrong!
I'd already be happy if I could pinpoint what meaning the "given one" part is supposed to have ...
  • given the fact that there is one of it around
  • assuming that you already have one of it
  • if someone were to give one of it to you
  • if you were to give one to someone else
  • ... etc. ad nauseam
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"An answer to this riddle"? If I give one and it is correct, I "have two" in that I both gave it, and will keep it in mind for%§#ever ...

... aaaand as it turns out, it's easy enough to google ...


As for J1 ...
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... Palm Islands? I suppose that the rock used in building them is most prominent in the breakwaters at the ends of the sandy island strips ...
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #131 on: May 15, 2020, 05:30:22 PM »
JoB!

On J2 you are now getting farther from the correct answer than before :)

On J1 you are again practically on top of the right answer but give the wrong one (as my dad often says, if it were a dog it would bite you by now).

J5 is not about the sauna, but again you are onto something!
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #132 on: May 15, 2020, 06:56:39 PM »
Is J2
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 a canoë ?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #133 on: May 15, 2020, 07:29:59 PM »
Mariiii the original answer is rowboat, but I’ll take canoe :)

JoB, the boat carries you on top of the water :)
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #134 on: May 15, 2020, 07:46:27 PM »
Quote from: JoB on May 15, 2020, 04:55:24 PM
I'd already be happy if I could pinpoint what meaning the "given one" part is supposed to have ...
  • given the fact that there is one of it around
  • assuming that you already have one of it
  • if someone were to give one of it to you
  • if you were to give one to someone else
  • ... etc. ad nauseam
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"An answer to this riddle"? If I give one and it is correct, I "have two" in that I both gave it, and will keep it in mind for%§#ever ...

... aaaand as it turns out, it's easy enough to google ...

That is not, in fact, correct, but if I understood you correctly, you already know that, because you googled it. (Do I have to clarify that googling the answer is cheating?)

(If it turns out I misunderstood you, given one means that you get it from someone.)
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