Riddle time!

[Mirasol]

Je comprends aussi, but I tried to solve it with my mom nearby, who of course solved it immediately again... I don´t think it counts if I write her answers all the time.  :'D

[JoB]

Je comprends aussi, but I tried to solve it with my mom nearby, who of course solved it immediately again... I don´t think it counts if I write her answers all the time.  :'D

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Est-ce qu'on parle de la première lettre de l'alphabet (qui n'a que vingt-six lettres pour les Français, car les lettres accentées ne comptent pas), 'A'?
J'aimerai bien savoir ce que les "soldats" pensent du fait que leur "chef" est un bœuf ...

[Róisín]

Yastreb, I reckon the letter ‘A’ is the most likely answer.

[Yastreb]

JoB et Róisín, la lettre A est la propre reponse.

[Róisín]

Merci bien!

[Mebediel]

The French riddle has already been solved, but I actually understood the whole conversation, which means that Duolingo + my summer French class are working!

And to warrant posting in this thread, have a late medieval riddle (lifted from a dissertation on riddles by a scholar named Jessica Jane Lockhart):

Latin:
Ligneus est lectus nulla tamen arbore sectus;
Solvere qui poterit solvat et eius erit.

English translation (slightly modified by me):
A wooden/tough thing is gathered/read, but cut off no tree;
Crack it who can, and his it will be.

There are two solutions to this one!

[Jitter]

Here are a couple more silly ones (plus repeat of the unanswered one)

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

J14: The more you take out if me the bigger I become. Who am I?

J15: Imagine you are at a store at closing time. Suddenly the lights go out - you have accidentally been locked in! All doors and windows are locked and there’s also a locked grille over them. You have no phone. How do you get out?

J16: What was the largest island before Greenland was discovered?

J17: This ancient invention allows you to see through walls! What is it?

[Mirasol]

Yay, new riddles!

While I´m clueless about Mebediel´s midieval riddle and most of Jitter´s, let me try anyway:

latin riddle: (though I highly doubt this is the answer)

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a nut

J17:

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a window

This time actually "solved" by me. :'D

[LooNEY_DAC]

J14:

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a hole.

J16:

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Greenland.

[muidole]

Here are some silly answers that I don’t expect to be correct, but hey, why not 

J9

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What are you doing? Why, you’re skinning the hide and shearing the wool!

J15

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Since you’re there at closing time, you probably work at the store. Therefore, you can just unlock the doors yourself since you have the key! 

Or if you aren’t a worker, you can just wait for morning to come and for the shop to open again

[Jitter]

J14, J16 and J17 are correct. 

CeilingFan, no, J9 isn’t quite that literal. And you don’t have a key.

[wavewright62]

Have we already guessed this one?

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A back wax!  You have to take your shirt off first.

I think Mirasol got the medieval one.

[Yastreb]

This riddle (?) come to you courtesy of the talking-type wireless Goon Show.

Grytpype: Lad, we have perfected a method of getting a man off the ground under his own power. He needs no other means of propulsion.
Seagoon: ... Has it been successful?
Grytpype: Successful? Do you hear that, Count? Why, even last night, the dear Count here, went up on the heath, and unaided, elevated himself into space to the height of twenty feet.
Seagoon: Gad! What’s this invention called?
Grytpype:

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A ladder.

[JoB]

J15: Imagine you are at a store at closing time. Suddenly the lights go out - you have accidentally been locked in! All doors and windows are locked and there’s also a locked grille over them. You have no phone. How do you get out?

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Would that mean "you have no phone of yours" (use the store's, then), or none at all (then check emergency exits, or whether you can set off some alarm)?
Maybe it's the kind of store you wouldn't even want to end your unsupervised time in?
Also, there's the possibility of "I wait for the owner to let me out the next morning, and wag my tail with joy as he arrives" ...

[Jitter]

Wave, as far as I recall J9 remains unanswered (also after your admirable try).

JoB, you don't have any phone at all and emergency exits don't open either (they are locked for the night because there's nobody in!). Try again

Yastreb, you are supposed to let others try first (I thought it was legs, climbing up the hill would do the elevation)