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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #180 on: May 26, 2020, 03:55:59 AM »
Keep, you are welcome! I love Finland and love stuffing facts about it down the throat of anyone with an inkling of interest (and sometimes without). It’s also great that I learn new things myself or at least refresh my knowledge, not in this case but many others.

Wave this is nit thread recycling though, the thread was started by Ran just a while ago just to keep us entertained!
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #181 on: May 26, 2020, 09:46:43 AM »
Keep Looking, got it in one! The specific answer is an adder. And yeah, we Australians do have a disproportionate number of the world’s venomous snakes. I have been bitten by several of them, and have a scar on my face from one that made the attempt but did not succeed in fully envenoming me, and a nastier one on my wrist from a big lizard (which bit me hard while I was holding it so someone could remove a tick from its ear, poor thing).
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #182 on: May 26, 2020, 11:56:23 AM »
Róisín, that must have been a nasty bite, since I believe that in Australia "a big lizard" is probably a crocodile, right? ;)

Here are a few riddles to feed Minnions insatiable hunger (all call then G+number to help differentiate if more people puts riddles simultaneously):

G1: Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?

G2: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

G3: What instrument can you hear but never see?

G4: What word begins and ends with an E but only has one letter?

G5:
“If you break me, I’ll not stop working.
If you can touch me, my work is done.
If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?”

       “Wizard and Glass” by Stephen King

G6:
“First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies,
Next tell me what’s always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?”

        “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” by J.K. Rowling

I bet you guys will solve then all in less than 24h! :)

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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #183 on: May 26, 2020, 12:18:49 PM »
Let me limit myself to those I feel like sorta-kinda taking personal ...

Quote from: thegreyarea on May 26, 2020, 11:56:23 AM
G1: Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?
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The figure 8, turning into the infinity symbol and the figure 0, respectively. Don't cut it wrong, though, or you'll have a 3. :3
(As a mathematician, I have to point out that something being infinite does not imply it's "everything" - as several infinite but actually sparse (in ℝ) sets of numbers demonstrate.)

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G4: What word begins and ends with an E but only has one letter?
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An envelope - unless you buy a hybrid mail output management system including the consolidation feature from my employer. :P
(No, that's not the next riddle, that's our everyday technobabble.)
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #184 on: May 26, 2020, 01:02:20 PM »
Quote from: JoB on May 26, 2020, 12:18:49 PM
Let me limit myself to those I feel like sorta-kinda taking personal ...
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The figure 8, turning into the infinity symbol and the figure 0, respectively. Don't cut it wrong, though, or you'll have a 3. :3
(As a mathematician, I have to point out that something being infinite does not imply it's "everything" - as several infinite but actually sparse (in ℝ) sets of numbers demonstrate.)
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An envelope - unless you buy a hybrid mail output management system including the consolidation feature from my employer. :P
(No, that's not the next riddle, that's our everyday technobabble.)


Ah ah! Actually when I saw that you had answered the first that came to mind was "Well, JoB probably already solved them all. Let's get back on the search...".
Problems of dealing with very smart people (way better, believe me, than dealing with stupid people) :)
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #185 on: May 26, 2020, 01:29:50 PM »
Riddles: G1 is the number 8, G2 a Clock or watch?

Grey, I have never been bitten by a croc, though I have been cut on the edges of the scales of one I was helping to butcher for eating up in PNG. The lizard that bit me was a stumpytail, one of those things that looks like a squashed pine cone with a bulbous tail, somewhat similar in appearance to a bluetongued lizard. They don’t have teeth but bite very hard.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #186 on: May 26, 2020, 01:33:52 PM »
Quote from: thegreyarea on May 26, 2020, 11:56:23 AM
G3: What instrument can you hear but never see?
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Wind? Or voice
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #187 on: May 26, 2020, 02:25:54 PM »
JoB is correct on G1 and G4!
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the number 8, and envelope


Róisín is correct on G1 and G2!
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A clock or watch


Mebediel is correct on G3!
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Your voice


Congratulations! It seems that it won't take more than 2 or 3 hours... As I said, a bunch of smart people! :D

Róisín, I check that stumpytail. It looks nice until it bites you... And I didn't knew that croc scales were sharp enough to cut...
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #188 on: May 26, 2020, 02:34:20 PM »
Sorry, I'm not going to answer anything now, I'm too tired and not really in the mood for riddles. I just wanted to say that I'm really glad to see the sudden surge of activity. Thank you, Grey!
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #189 on: May 26, 2020, 02:39:05 PM »
Quote from: RanVor on May 26, 2020, 02:34:20 PM
Sorry, I'm not going to answer anything now, I'm too tired and not really in the mood for riddles. I just wanted to say that I'm really glad to see the sudden surge of activity. Thank you, Grey!

I'm happy that you like it! :) Get some rest, and I'll go hunting for more riddles to feed the wolves minnions!
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #190 on: May 26, 2020, 04:51:49 PM »
Because of swift thread I repeat again:

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.

J7: Old bucket, new lid every year. - Pond with ice cover (JoB)

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

All four relate to the same theme.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #191 on: May 26, 2020, 06:59:09 PM »
My try
J6:
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Snow? It sits on branches, wingless, and is eaten by the mouthless sun


I had guessed right on J7 and J8, but JoB arrived first...

But I still don't have anything for J5
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #192 on: May 27, 2020, 02:09:42 AM »
Grey, correct!

J5 still to go. With the hints of it being a Finnish (and Nordic) thing and the theme, you guys should be able to get it :)
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #193 on: May 27, 2020, 03:01:15 AM »
Could J5 be a rifle? Or a sled?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #194 on: May 27, 2020, 04:17:18 AM »
Quote from: Róisín on May 27, 2020, 03:01:15 AM
Could J5 be a rifle? Or a sled?

I guess Róisín got it!

So, nobody has any guesses on G5 and G6?

(now it looked like we were playing Battleship... :)  )
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