Riddle time!

[Jitter]

It’s hand! The “rocks” are fingernails. Not that they are actually rock, but they are harder than the skin around. It’s not like there’s actually water in the “sounds” either

That was trickier than I thought. Many on the list are like that, the description is quite far fetched. The first one is “black hen brooding on red eggs” which is a pot over fire.

[Mebediel]

No one's been able to solve Ran's 7th riddle yet, right? Unless I missed someone's answer while scrolling back through the thread. If it's still unanswered, I'll focus on taking a crack at it

#7: What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none?
An argument wasn't the correct answer, right?

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A...chance? idk

[RanVor]

#7: What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none?
An argument wasn't the correct answer, right?

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A...chance? idk

No, but somewhat close.

[Yastreb]

No, but somewhat close.

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A glance?

[Jitter]

Ran, is it choice? Which is not a choice at all if you don’t have more than one possibilities? (But, you can have a choice of more than two alternatives so I don’t think it’s correct and I’ve abandoned it several times, but it being somewhat close to chance made me suggest this anyway)

[RanVor]

Ran, is it choice? Which is not a choice at all if you don’t have more than one possibilities? (But, you can have a choice of more than two alternatives so I don’t think it’s correct and I’ve abandoned it several times, but it being somewhat close to chance made me suggest this anyway)

Yes, it is. Congratulations. I'll try to post some more riddles in the morning, but now I need to sleep.

[Jitter]

Finally! That was a good one!

One of mine is still unsolved:

J5: All day I lie on my back, at night I stand upright.
 
I’ll a pdd a couple new ones. These all relate to a northern theme.

J6: The wingless one sits on a branch. The mouthless one comes and eats it.

J7: Old bucket, new lid every year.

J8: I’m alive in winter, dead in summer, I grow with my roots above me. Who am I?

[RanVor]

Okay, sleep time over, it's riddle time now! Hopefully these will be of appropriate difficulty.

#1: There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet, there was nothing wrong with what he had done. Why?

#2: It is a 5 letter word if you take away the first letter it is something you get from the sun, if you remove the second letter you will get something to eat, if you remove the third letter you get a word you use in pointing at and if you remove the fourth letter you get something to drink. What is it?

#3: Three playing cards in a row. Can you name them with these clues? There is a two to the right of a king. A diamond will be found to the left of a spade. An ace is to the left of a heart. A heart is to the left of a spade. Now, identify all three cards.

#4: What was never scared but became petrified, can't make a bird but can make a bat, can't live in a house but would die to have one.  What is it?

#5: Which word is the odd one out: Seventy, Brawl, Clover, Proper, Carrot, Swing, Change, Travel, Sacred, Stone?

#6: What is significant about 3661 seconds past midnight on 1st January 2001?

#7: My thunder comes before the lightning; My lightning comes before the clouds; My rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

I've chosen these riddles to be exceptionally difficult. Let me know how you find them. If they're too hard, I'll try to make the next batch a bit easier. Meanwhile, have fun solving!

[JoB]

J5: All day I lie on my back, at night I stand upright.

Well, since my guessing around the concept of a book apparently was no good ...

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The plate you eat your dinner from, and that you leave propped upright next to the sink overnight after washing to let it dry?

 

J6: The wingless one sits on a branch. The mouthless one comes and eats it.

... do I understand correctly that the same word, possibly with different meanings, is supposed to name both "the wingless one" and "the mouthless one"? (Because otherwise, there'd probably be like a bajillion possibilities, starting with a leaf / winter ...)

J7: Old bucket, new lid every year.

That sounds like a question for people who go to hairdressers or hatters more often than I do. O0

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A pond that freezes over during the winter.

J8: I’m alive in winter, dead in summer, I grow with my roots above me. Who am I?

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An icicle.

#1: There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet, there was nothing wrong with what he had done. Why?

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He was born "before" his father as in "in front of his eyes", his mother died during the birth, and the marriage happened in a church where the acolytes all call each other "brother" and "sister".

#2: It is a 5 letter word if you take away the first letter it is something you get from the sun, if you remove the second letter you will get something to eat, if you remove the third letter you get a word you use in pointing at and if you remove the fourth letter you get something to drink. What is it?

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I note that there's a missing comma that could be missing either after "word" or after "first letter", but that's all I got so far ...

#3: Three playing cards in a row. Can you name them with these clues? There is a two to the right of a king. A diamond will be found to the left of a spade. An ace is to the left of a heart. A heart is to the left of a spade. Now, identify all three cards.

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🃁🂾🂢

#4: What was never scared but became petrified, can't make a bird but can make a bat, can't live in a house but would die to have one.  What is it?

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A tree.

#5: Which word is the odd one out: Seventy, Brawl, Clover, Proper, Carrot, Swing, Change, Travel, Sacred, Stone?

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"Sacred" is not a noun (while "proper" can be)?
(By now, there are music albums etc. called "sacred", though ...)

#6: What is significant about 3661 seconds past midnight on 1st January 2001?

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That was 01.01.01 01:01:01.

#7: My thunder comes before the lightning; My lightning comes before the clouds; My rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

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A little backwards.

[RanVor]

Okay, I'm not qualified to reply for Jitter, but: almost; nope; yes; yes; no; yes; no. Three and two thirds out of seven is a much better result than I expected. You're way too good at this. I'm afraid I might not be smart enough to keep giving you riddles...

[thorny]

#1: There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet, there was nothing wrong with what he had done. Why?

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If we change the punctuation --
His father killed his mother and then married his sister. The man at the beginning of the question, who is the son of the man who did all that, did nothing wrong himself.

#2: It is a 5 letter word if you take away the first letter it is something you get from the sun, if you remove the second letter you will get something to eat, if you remove the third letter you get a word you use in pointing at and if you remove the fourth letter you get something to drink. What is it?

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Wheat?

[Jitter]

JoB, correct on J7 and J8. J6 is close (it’s two things). I should add J5 relates to the same common theme, and it’s not plates (which could work but are often stored flat after drying)

[JoB]

almost

It's the last part I goofed up, right?

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Then he "married his sister" as in being the bride's attendant, the registrar, or the priest.

#2: It is a 5 letter word if you take away the first letter it is something you get from the sun, if you remove the second letter you will get something to eat, if you remove the third letter you get a word you use in pointing at and if you remove the fourth letter you get something to drink. What is it?

(I suspected that it'd be something along the lines that thorny's answer follows, too, and simultaneously it shows that my English vocabulary's not up to the task, so I'll step out of this one for now.)

#5: Which word is the odd one out: Seventy, Brawl, Clover, Proper, Carrot, Swing, Change, Travel, Sacred, Stone?

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"Carrot" is the only one not to result in another word when you leave the first and the last letter off.

#7: My thunder comes before the lightning; My lightning comes before the clouds; My rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

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The thunderstorm symbol on the weather map?

It often depicts the lightning in front of the clouds, appears after the weather man started "thundering", and in order to stick it on the map, that latter better should have been dried (assuming that it got cleaned with water, like traditional chalkboard ones) ...

J6 is close (it’s two things).

Now I'm "close" without even making an attempt at a guess?

I should add J5 relates to the same common theme, and it’s not plates

... growf??

J5: All day I lie on my back, at night I stand upright.
J6: The wingless one sits on a branch. The mouthless one comes and eats it.

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If I assume that likening "the mouthless one" to winter/cold (*) is what got me "close", then J5 could well be laundry; your shirt can very well stand upright when it froze before being completely dry, but will flop onto its back when you try the same when, thanks to the sun, it has not yet frozen. And if you have enough branches around, you can hang your laundry on them instead of putting up a clothesline, of course. But what's with "wingless"? Because the shirt's flapping in the wind as if it were a wing?

(*) The metaphor that winter "eats" into one's stocks in spite of not having a mouth of its own IIUC is a rather widespread one.

[RanVor]

#1: There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet, there was nothing wrong with what he had done. Why?

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If we change the punctuation --
His father killed his mother and then married his sister. The man at the beginning of the question, who is the son of the man who did all that, did nothing wrong himself.

#2: It is a 5 letter word if you take away the first letter it is something you get from the sun, if you remove the second letter you will get something to eat, if you remove the third letter you get a word you use in pointing at and if you remove the fourth letter you get something to drink. What is it?

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Wheat?

No changing punctuation and yes.

It's the last part I goofed up, right?

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Then he "married his sister" as in being the bride's attendant, the registrar, or the priest.

(I suspected that it'd be something along the lines that thorny's answer follows, too, and simultaneously it shows that my English vocabulary's not up to the task, so I'll step out of this one for now.)

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"Carrot" is the only one not to result in another word when you leave the first and the last letter off.

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The thunderstorm symbol on the weather map?

It often depicts the lightning in front of the clouds, appears after the weather man started "thundering", and in order to stick it on the map, that latter better should have been dried (assuming that it got cleaned with water, like traditional chalkboard ones) ...

Yes, yes and no.

All but one of my hardest riddles have been cracked in less than a day. I really am too stupid for this thread.

[wavewright62]

(pssst, no - says a person who has not hazarded a guess thus far)