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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #225 on: June 09, 2020, 09:19:28 AM »
Man I sure am terrible at riddle-solving…

Not a new answer or a new riddle but: I showed J6 to my mom and apparently the riddle exists in traditional Germany too with a slightly different wording:
"the bird, featherless, sits on the tree, leafless. Comes the woman, mouthless, eats the bird, featherless."
Solution is of course the same. I thought that was a fun coincidence :)

Quote from: RanVor on May 23, 2020, 06:47:54 AM
#7: My thunder comes before the lightning; My lightning comes before the clouds; My rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

And to actually answer one (from way way back, but as far as I saw nobody answered correctly yet):
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Is it fire?

because thunder= lighting the fire with flintstones or something which makes a loud sound when pounding them together, lightning= firelight itself, clouds= smoke, rain=sparks
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #226 on: June 09, 2020, 09:40:10 AM »
Quote from: Mirasol on June 09, 2020, 09:19:28 AM
And to actually answer one (from way way back, but as far as I saw nobody answered correctly yet):
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Is it fire?

because thunder= lighting the fire with flintstones or something which makes a loud sound when pounding them together, lightning= firelight itself, clouds= smoke, rain=sparks

No. But it's closer than other answers.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #227 on: June 09, 2020, 10:43:34 AM »
Thanks for the revival, Mirasol! I’m sure very many of the riddles are quite widely known, and not solel by coincidence either :)

A couple of mine remain unanswered too:

J9: First we skin the hide, then we shear the wool. What are we doing?

J10: Five brothers go first, the bald one chasing them
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #228 on: June 09, 2020, 11:53:16 AM »
Quote from: RanVor on June 09, 2020, 09:40:10 AM
No. But it's closer than other answers.

Oh my god... I showed the riddle to my mom now too and she didn't even think about it for two seconds and said
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volcano


She told me she didn't know the riddle before. I feel very stupid right now... At least with Jitters riddles she's just as lost as me.

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She told me to add that her second (also immediate) guess was atom bomb
« Last Edit: June 09, 2020, 12:05:32 PM by Mirasol »
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #229 on: June 09, 2020, 02:40:56 PM »
Quote from: Mirasol on June 09, 2020, 11:53:16 AM
Oh my god... I showed the riddle to my mom now too and she didn't even think about it for two seconds and said
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volcano


She told me she didn't know the riddle before. I feel very stupid right now... At least with Jitters riddles she's just as lost as me.

Edit:
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She told me to add that her second (also immediate) guess was atom bomb

Don't worry, you're not the only one who couldn't get it for a long time... In fact, I've chosen this riddle specifically because I couldn't solve it myself.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #230 on: June 10, 2020, 12:20:28 AM »
J10: five brothers go first, the bald one chasing them.
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A foot - five toes and a heel?

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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #231 on: June 10, 2020, 02:43:49 PM »
Wave, yes! JoB suggested a hand but then didn’t go with that when I told him it’s close :)
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #232 on: June 10, 2020, 04:13:27 PM »
Again I'll put this here, the only one still unsolved in my first batch:

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?”

 From “Wizard and Glass” by Stephen King

And a new batch for your amusement!

G7: A very ancient one, from the Sumer Civilization

 “There is a house. One enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?”

G8: From Jane Austen's "Emma"

“My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings,
Lords of the earth! their luxury and ease.
Another view of man, my second brings,
Behold him there, the monarch of the seas!”

G9: A long one, allegedly written by Albert Einstein (but there's no hard evidence of it)

There are five houses in a row. Each house is painted a different color and has a person of a different nationality living in it. Each person drinks a different beverage, smokes a different type of cigar, and owns a different animal as a pet. Using these 15 clues, which person owns the pet fish?

The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede has a pet dog.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is directly to the left of the white house.
The person in the green house drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall has a pet bird.
The person in the yellow house smokes Dunhill cigars.
The person in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The person who smokes Blends lives next to the person with the pet cat.
The person with the pet horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
The person who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The person who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

G10: It's said to be Theodore Roosevelt's preferred:

I talk, but I do not speak my mind
I hear words, but I do not listen to thoughts
When I wake, all see me
When I sleep, all hear me
Many heads are on my shoulders
Many hands are at my feet
The strongest steel cannot break my visage
But the softest whisper can destroy me
The quietest whimper can be heard.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #233 on: June 10, 2020, 05:33:02 PM »
I can´t do Interpretation, but I can do logic (I hope). So for G9:

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yellow/blue/red/green/white
Norwegian/Dane/Brit/German/Swede
water/tea/milk/coffee/beer
Dunhill/Blends/Pall Mall/Prince/Blue Master
cat/horse/bird/fish/dog

Which means that the fish is owned by the German Living in the green house, who drinks coffee and smokes Prince


This thread is fun :D
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #234 on: June 10, 2020, 05:47:36 PM »
I love logic puzzles, but I will not peek at Mirasol's answer.  I want to work that one out over my lunch break.
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #235 on: June 10, 2020, 07:26:00 PM »
Quote from: Mirasol on June 10, 2020, 05:33:02 PM
I can´t do Interpretation, but I can do logic (I hope). So for G9:

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yellow/blue/red/green/white
Norwegian/Dane/Brit/German/Swede
water/tea/milk/coffee/beer
Dunhill/Blends/Pall Mall/Prince/Blue Master
cat/horse/bird/fish/dog

Which means that the fish is owned by the German Living in the green house, who drinks coffee and smokes Prince


This thread is fun :D

So you can, Mirasol! Well done!
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #236 on: June 10, 2020, 09:24:09 PM »
Quote from: thegreyarea on June 10, 2020, 04:13:27 PM
G7: A very ancient one, from the Sumer Civilization

 “There is a house. One enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?”

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The night?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #237 on: June 10, 2020, 09:51:33 PM »
Quote from: Mebediel on June 10, 2020, 09:24:09 PM
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The night?


Sorry, Mebediel. It's a nice try, but that sumerian guy set a different answer 4000 years ago...
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #238 on: June 10, 2020, 09:52:32 PM »
The womb?
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Re: Riddle time!
« Reply #239 on: June 10, 2020, 10:17:17 PM »
Quote from: wavewright62 on June 10, 2020, 05:47:36 PM
I love logic puzzles, but I will not peek at Mirasol's answer.  I want to work that one out over my lunch break.

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