Welcome to the Riddling Contest! You get three guesses per riddle but they must be sent in a private PM to both Trelian and Arcia within 60 seconds. Do not post guesses openly! Correct answer on first guess is 5 pts, on second is 3 pts, on third is 1 pt.
1.What is it the more you take, the more you leave behind?
answer: "footsteps"
2.When is a door not a door?
answer: "when it's a jar"
3.I move without wings, between silken strings, I leave as you find, my
substance behind. What am I?
answer: "a spider"
4.A little house full of meat, no door to go in and eat. What am I?
answer: "a nut"
5.Riddle me, riddle me, what is that, over the head and under the hat?
answer: "hair"
6.What is the moon worth?
answer: "a dollar (because it has four quarters)"
7.Why is a pencil like a riddle?
answer: "it's no good without a point"
8.A warrior amongst the flowers, he bears a thrusting sword. He uses it
when'er he must to defend his golden hoard. What is he?
answer: "a bee"
9.A wee wee man in a red coat. Staff in my hand, stone in my throat. What am I?
answer: "a cherry"
10.Foward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
answer: "a TON"
11.What has black spots and a white face, is fat not thin, and helps you to
win, but tumbles all over the place?
answer: "a dice"
12.What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young;
born in an instant yet lasts a life time. What is it?
answer: "a memory"
13.Ever winding, ever binding, Tying land and man and tree. Twisting life through
former wasteland. Calling bird and bear and bee. Crystal clear and clean and cool.
Rising swell to nurture land. There the reeds may touch the sky Whilst life might
settle, make its stand. What am I?
ANSWER: A River
14.Once come the ending of the day, I fall the endless on my way. I leave the night
to dark delight, Until I bring the morning light. What am I?
ANSWER: The Sun
15.I scream the scream that no-one hears, As you will scream, to nightmare's fears,
I rule the winds, the devil's bird, I clear the night without a word. What am I?
ANSWER: A Bat
16.Often talked of, never seen. Ever coming, never been. Daily looked for,
never here. Still approaching, coming near. Thousands for its visit wait,
but alas for their fate. Tho' they expect me to appear, they will never
find me here. What am I?
answer: "tomorrow"
17.At night I come without being fetched. By day I am lost without being
stolen. What am I?
answer: "a star"
18.I run, though I have no legs to be seen. I possess no heat, yet I do have
steam. I have no voice to let words out, but from far away you can still
hear me shout. What am I?
answer: "a waterfall"
19.You must keep this thing, its loss will affect your brothers. For once
yours is lost, it will soon be lost by others.
answer: "your temper"
20.With sharp edged wit and pointed poise, it can settle disputes without
making a noise. What is it?
answer: "sword"
21.Some try to hide, some try to cheat, but time will show, we always will
meet. Try as you might, to guess my name. I promise you'll know, when you
I do claim.
answer: "death"
22.A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is
what remains.
answer: "The word 'dozens'. Take away the 's', and you have the word
'dozen', which is twelve."
23.I never was, am always to be, no one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I
am the confidence of all to live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
What am I?
answer: "the future"
24.When I live I cry, if you don't kill me I'll die. What am I?
answer: "a candle"
25.The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind. What is it?
answer: "grass"
26.What is it that was given to you, belongs only to you, and yet your
friends use it more than you do?
answer: "your name"
27.No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
answer: "silence"
28.Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, and a long tail which she let fly;
and every time she went through a gap, a bit of her tail she left in a
trap. What is she?
answer: "a needle and thread"
29.Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear, all day we are bitterly
pressed; Yet this I will say - we are full all the day, and empty when we
go to rest. What are we?
answer: "a pair of shoes"
30.I am sometimes strong and sometimes weak, but I am nobody's fool. For
there is no language that I cannot speak, though I never went to school.
What am I?
answer: "an echo"
31.We try to kill what we save.
answer: "time"
32.I am two-faced but bear only one, I have no legs but travel widely. Men
spill much blood over me, kings leave there imprint on me. I have greatest
power when given away, yet lust for me keeps me locked away. What am I?
answer: "a coin"
33.Many things can create one, it can be of any shape or size, it is created
for various reasons, and it can shrink or grow with time. What is it?
answer: "a hole"
34.I dance four feet to ev'ry line, with A and A I try to rhyme. And B and B
make couples two, the answer my friend stands in front of you.
answer: "this riddle!"
35.I come out of the earth, I am sold in the market. He who buys me cuts my
tail, takes off my suit of silk, and weeps beside me when I am dead.
answer: "an onion"
Extras (For tie-breaking)
-My first is a creature whose breeding is unclear. My second, a price you
must pay. My whole can be found in the river of Time and refers to events
of today. What am I?
answer: "current"
-I'm as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I'll approach like a breeeze,
but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I'll
dance to the music, though I can't hear. Of names I have many, of names I
have one. I'm as slow as a snail, but from me you can't run. What am I?
answer: "a shadow"
-Consumes all and lays to waste, pull out of its mouth for better taste.
answer: "fire"
-'Twas in heaven pronounced, 'twas muttered in hell, and echo caught
faintly the sound as it fell. On the confines of earth it was permitted to
rest, and in the depths of its presence there was confessed.
answer: "the letter H"
-I am a window, I am a lamp, I am clouded, I am shining, and I am coloured;
set in white, I fill with water and overflow. I say much, but I have no
words. What am I?
answer: "an eye"
bhryn / 135 + 35ballofuzz / 135 + 30
mikalwannabeking / 116
palaralae / 113
malhandir / 80
elvishrogue / 66
loremistress / 60
ann_aster / 48
tyrante / 45
thephilosifer / 45
tylwyn / 39
gothicdruidess / 38
ricohard_draconis / 30
rainbow_warrior / 25
maughn_key / 20
dragon_alie / 15
magoichi / 11
linneus / 10
kuulvayesheniruss / 5
kitsie / 3
Sat Sep 18 17:21:45 2004 wizo_arcia {public msg} Onto to the real riddles then!
Sat Sep 18 17:21:54 2004 maughn_key {public msg} YAAAAAY!!!
Sat Sep 18 17:22:02 2004 wizo_trelian {action} gets ready to record, hehe
Sat Sep 18 17:22:02 2004 wizo_arcia {public msg} Riddle #1
Sat Sep 18 17:22:02 2004 braxxii {enters}
Sat Sep 18 17:22:11 2004 wizo_arcia {public msg} 1.What is it the more you take, the more you leave behind?
Sat Sep 18 17:22:20 2004 thephilosifer {private msg: wizo_arcia} steps
Sat Sep 18 17:22:20 2004 thephilosifer {private msg: wizo_trelian} steps
Sat Sep 18 17:22:24 2004 tylwyn {private msg: wizo_arcia} time
Sat Sep 18 17:22:24 2004 tylwyn {private msg: wizo_trelian} time
Sat Sep 18 17:22:25 2004 rainbow_warrior {private msg: wizo_arcia} (( Steps ))
Sat Sep 18 17:22:25 2004 rainbow_warrior {private msg: wizo_trelian} (( Steps ))
Sat Sep 18 17:22:28 2004 tyrante {private msg: wizo_arcia} time
Sat Sep 18 17:22:28 2004 tyrante {private msg: wizo_trelian} time
Sat Sep 18 17:22:29 2004 loremistress {private msg: wizo_arcia} Time
Sat Sep 18 17:22:29 2004 loremistress {private msg: wizo_trelian} Time
Sat Sep 18 17:22:30 2004 braxxii {leaves}
Sat Sep 18 17:22:33 2004 corbin__ {private msg: wizo_arcia} nothing, a hole, evil?
Sat Sep 18 17:22:33 2004 corbin__ {private msg: wizo_trelian} nothing, a hole, evil?
Sat Sep 18 17:22:33 2004 ann_aster {private msg: wizo_arcia} 1.Nothing 2. Everything 3. no answer
Sat Sep 18 17:22:33 2004 ann_aster {private msg: wizo_trelian} 1.Nothing 2. Everything 3. no answer
Sat Sep 18 17:22:34 2004 palaralae {private msg: wizo_arcia} steps?
Sat Sep 18 17:22:34 2004 palaralae {private msg: wizo_trelian} steps?
Sat Sep 18 17:22:35 2004 mikalwannabeking {private msg: wizo_arcia} footsteps
Sat Sep 18 17:22:35 2004 mikalwannabeking {private msg: wizo_trelian} footsteps
Sat Sep 18 17:22:38 2004 ricohard_draconis {private msg: wizo_arcia} [1 hole 2 love 3 baths]
Sat Sep 18 17:22:38 2004 ricohard_draconis {private msg: wizo_trelian} [1 hole 2 love 3 baths]
Sat Sep 18 17:22:40 2004 ballofuzz {private msg: wizo_arcia} footsteps! oh yeah
Sat Sep 18 17:22:40 2004 ballofuzz {private msg: wizo_trelian} footsteps! oh yeah
Sat Sep 18 17:22:40 2004 magoichi {private msg: wizo_arcia} road, way, walk...
Sat Sep 18 17:22:40 2004 magoichi {private msg: wizo_trelian} road, way, walk...
Sat Sep 18 17:22:49 2004 gothicdruidess {private msg: wizo_arcia} your message time, air
Sat Sep 18 17:22:49 2004 gothicdruidess {private msg: wizo_trelian} your message time, air
Sat Sep 18 17:22:55 2004 wizo_arcia {public msg} 15 seconds
Sat Sep 18 17:22:57 2004 elvishrogue {private msg: wizo_arcia} [time]
Sat Sep 18 17:22:57 2004 elvishrogue {private msg: wizo_trelian} [time]
Sat Sep 18 17:23:03 2004 maughn_key {private msg: wizo_arcia} [time]
Sat Sep 18 17:23:03 2004 maughn_key {private msg: wizo_trelian} [time]
Sat Sep 18 17:23:06 2004 thephilosifer {private msg: wizo_arcia} lives
Sat Sep 18 17:23:06 2004 thephilosifer {private msg: wizo_trelian} lives
Sat Sep 18 17:23:07 2004 tyrante {private msg: wizo_arcia} friends?
Sat Sep 18 17:23:07 2004 tyrante {private msg: wizo_trelian} friends?
Sat Sep 18 17:23:10 2004 bhryn_astairre_ {private msg: wizo_arcia} Hole
Sat Sep 18 17:23:10 2004 bhryn_astairre_ {private msg: wizo_trelian} Hole
Sat Sep 18 17:23:13 2004 wizo_arcia {public msg} Time
Sat Sep 18 17:23:17 2004 dragon_alie {private msg: wizo_Arcia} foot steps
Sat Sep 18 17:23:17 2004 dragon_alie {private msg: Wizo_trelian} foot steps
Sat Sep 18 17:23:18 2004 braxxii {enters}
Sat Sep 18 17:23:25 2004 braxxii {leaves}
Sat Sep 18 17:23:27 2004 kuulvayesheniruss {public msg} WTH
Sat Sep 18 17:23:37 2004 thephilosifer {public msg} whats the answer...
Sat Sep 18 17:23:38 2004 ballofuzz {public msg} was it footsteps?
Sat Sep 18 17:23:49 2004 braxxii {enters}
Sat Sep 18 17:23:50 2004 mikalwannabeking {public msg} one hopes, as thats what it should be :)
Sat Sep 18 17:23:55 2004 braxxii {leaves}
Sat Sep 18 17:23:56 2004 wizo_arcia {public msg} The answer is footsteps
Sat Sep 18 17:23:59 2004 corbin__ {public msg} douh!
Sat Sep 18 17:24:00 2004 tyrante {action} smacks head.
Sat Sep 18 17:24:02 2004 bhryn_astairre_ {public msg} doh
Sat Sep 18 17:24:04 2004 braxxii {enters}
Sat Sep 18 17:24:05 2004 thephilosifer {public msg} i no... thats what i said...
Sat Sep 18 17:24:06 2004 mikalwannabeking {action} didn't get a response tho
Sat Sep 18 17:24:07 2004 palaralae {public msg} Was 'steps' okay?
Sat Sep 18 17:24:09 2004 magoichi {public msg} D'oh!
Sat Sep 18 17:24:14 2004 kuulvayesheniruss {public msg} damn what if you walk on concreat!
Sat Sep 18 17:24:15 2004 wizo_trelian {public msg} Steps was ok.
Sat Sep 18 17:24:15 2004 wizo_arcia {public msg} Yes, steps is fine
Sat Sep 18 17:24:20 2004 palaralae {action} . o O ( Whew. )
Sat Sep 18 17:24:23 2004 wizo_arcia {public msg} Kuul> Think abstract ;)
Sat Sep 18 17:24:24 2004 thephilosifer {public msg} i did'nt get anything...
Sat Sep 18 17:24:25 2004 braxxii {leaves}
Sat Sep 18 17:24:25 2004 wizo_trelian {public msg} Dragon_alie, your answer was a little too late.
Sat Sep 18 17:24:29 2004 thephilosifer {public msg} wait so i get a point...
Sat Sep 18 17:24:32 2004 rainbow_warrior {action} whews whith palara
Sat Sep 18 17:24:37 2004 tyrante {public msg} If I win, I will dance in the streets o.O
Sat Sep 18 17:24:38 2004 dragon_alie {public msg} yea
Sat Sep 18 17:24:39 2004 mikalwannabeking {private msg: wizo_arcia} did you get my answer? just wondering.
Sat Sep 18 17:24:39 2004 mikalwannabeking {private msg: wizo_trelian} did you get my answer? just wondering.
Sat Sep 18 17:24:44 2004 dragon_alie {public msg} I noticed when I looked up
Sat Sep 18 17:24:45 2004 ann_aster {public msg} Please don't dance.
Sat Sep 18 17:24:49 2004 wizo_trelian {private msg: mikalwannabeking} (( yep! ))
Sat Sep 18 17:24:50 2004 ann_aster {public msg} It scares Bhryn.
Sat Sep 18 17:24:55 2004 bhryn_astairre_ {public msg} .... ¬_¬
Sat Sep 18 17:24:56 2004 wizo_arcia {private msg: mikalwannabeking} ((yes, I did))
Sat Sep 18 17:25:08 2004 mikalwannabeking {private msg: wizo_arcia} k, sorry, just didnt get a response. i'll shaddup now
Sat Sep 18 17:25:09 2004 ballofuzz {public msg} can you guys not talk so much inbetween lets get a move on this contest