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| DarkMistress |
Posted - 28 Jul 2003 : 16:30:14
The richest need it, The poorest have it, but if both were to eat it they would surely perish.
Can anyone figure it out?  |
| 30 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Aravine |
Posted - 01 May 2008 : 17:50:43
quote:
Originally posted by riot the outsider
What thing in the world does not know its WET.
Water.
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| riot the outsider |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 17:49:50
What thing in the world does not know its WET. |
| Aravine |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 17:09:33
quote:
Originally posted by aravine
how about this one
a box without hinges, key or lid
but inside golden treasure is hid
couldn't think of my own. |
| riot the outsider |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 16:41:40
eggs. |
| Aravine |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 14:56:32
how about this one
a box without hinges, key or lid
but inside golden treasure is hid |
| unknown warrior |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 03:32:08
I get it,it doesn't matter what he say s cause it is not the prisoner that will get killed it is the king him self who will get beheadedor hanged. "He(MUST)" make a statment. |
| unknown warrior |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 03:26:46
But its a lie he can't just find out if its true or not.( The lie could be anything). |
| Brynweir |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 03:26:21
Why try to lie when the statement "I will be hanged" puts the king in a Catch 22 - trapped by his own rules? |
| Rinonalyrna Fathomlin |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 03:07:27
quote:
Originally posted by unknown warrior
The man can tell a lie the king won't know if its true or not therefore saving the mans life.Because the king does not if is a true statement or false.
What if he has ways of checking up on it, though? |
| unknown warrior |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 02:47:59
The man can tell a lie the king won't know if its true or not therefore saving the mans life.Because the king does not if is a true statement or false. |
| Rinonalyrna Fathomlin |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 02:33:30
quote:
Originally posted by Brynweir
Actually if the king is a man of his word, then Rinonalyrna is correct.
Indeed--we're going on the assumption that the king won't just get POed and change his mind on being outsmarted. |
| Brynweir |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 02:20:27
quote:
Originally posted by Brynweir
1) When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.
A riddle
2) Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth.
an echo
3) What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
a deck of cards
4)I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.
the letter S
5) What fastens two people yet touches only one?
a wedding ring
6)What is it that you will break even when you name it?
silence
7)What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up?
an umbrella
8) It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it?
the moon
9)What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?
noise
10) The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
footsteps
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| Brynweir |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 02:14:47
Actually if the king is a man of his word, then Rinonalyrna is correct.
If he says I will be hanged and the king hangs him, then the statement is true so he should be beheaded. If he's beheaded then the statement was false so he should be hanged. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 02:05:45
quote:
Originally posted by Brynweir
A man is caught poaching in the king's forest and the penalty is death. However, the king is a sporting man and tells hims he can choose how he dies. He MUST make a statement. If the statement is true he will be beheaded. If the statement is false he will be hanged. What does he say so that the king cannot kill him?
He's dead either way, so he should tell the king where to stick it!   |
| Rinonalyrna Fathomlin |
Posted - 09 Oct 2007 : 01:54:41
quote:
Originally posted by Aewrik
quote:
Originally posted by Brynweir
I don't think these are as difficult as others posted here, but I liked them:
Two men are in a prison cell looking out the window. One of the men spots a young man walking down the street outside and says "Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is he?
A man is caught poaching in the king's forest and the penalty is death. However, the king is a sporting man and tells hims he can choose how he dies. He MUST make a statement. If the statement is true he will be beheaded. If the statement is false he will be hanged. What does he say so that the king cannot kill him?
1: He's the young man's father.
2: This is a tricky one. Making a statement "I want to die of old age" is only invalid if the king chooses to execute him, so... I'm not sure.
He should say "I will be hanged". |
| Brynweir |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 05:19:10
2) is echo |
| Aewrik |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 05:04:14
Gah.. I must be really tired (it's 5:42 am over here... benkyou o shimasu [doing homework]), but the only I can put my mind around, is question no.2
I'd say the wind. It's very much alive, it speaks without a mouth (listen to the wind, and all) and has its source in air, among other things.
On the other hand, it could be the echo.
Then again, it could be the ghost of Mystra trying to tell us, that while she may be dead, she'll always be around.
Oh, and number ten... perhaps they're memories. I can't see myself really taking memories, but I leave many behind. My own past isn't anything to dwell on. If I did, I'd probably be somewhere else right now. Someplace I'm not entirely sure would be that bad, actually.
I'll try solving those them in the morning, instead.
Better come up with a riddle.
What's white and clean in the morn,
black and blue in the storm,
red and still before the night,
helpless to the windy might?
Well, that's prosaic... |
| Brynweir |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 03:43:32
1) When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.
2) Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth.
3) What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
4)I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.
5) What fastens two people yet touches only one?
6)What is it that you will break even when you name it?
7)What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up?
8) It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it?
9)What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?
10) The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
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| riot the outsider |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 02:54:24
The answer forwards:sirens |
| Brynweir |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 02:52:36
quote:
Originally posted by Aewrik
Seems as it should be : )
I have a bed, but do not sleep.
I have a mouth, but do not speak.
What am I?
I heard this about a week ago, but it's probably not new.
Edit: Oh, and what they would eventually become? My players almost got a little too excited when the sphinx said "good luck, future heroes" as her farewell.
They frolicked on that for a few sessions ahead, before the famine struck and they realised they were only heroes in a very specific "area of expertise."
Edit2:
And two (imho) poetic ones I read a few days ago:
"I walk across an open field
Sometimes singing as I go
And when I reach the other side
The field is split in two."
" You cannot see or hear me
Yet many people fear me.
I can kill the strongest lion in its lair
I can thin your flesh and make your bones appear.
Creatures of the God who put me here
May you learn to love each other and to share
What you possess whenever I come near.
Such is my prayer."
1) A river?
2) ???
3) old age |
| Aewrik |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 01:39:33
Seems as it should be : )
I have a bed, but do not sleep.
I have a mouth, but do not speak.
What am I?
I heard this about a week ago, but it's probably not new.
Edit: Oh, and what they would eventually become? My players almost got a little too excited when the sphinx said "good luck, future heroes" as her farewell.
They frolicked on that for a few sessions ahead, before the famine struck and they realised they were only heroes in a very specific "area of expertise."
Edit2:
And two (imho) poetic ones I read a few days ago:
"I walk across an open field
Sometimes singing as I go
And when I reach the other side
The field is split in two."
" You cannot see or hear me
Yet many people fear me.
I can kill the strongest lion in its lair
I can thin your flesh and make your bones appear.
Creatures of the God who put me here
May you learn to love each other and to share
What you possess whenever I come near.
Such is my prayer." |
| Brynweir |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 01:31:54
The word gehenna? (Using the letter in the name Enigmeina) |
| Aewrik |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 01:06:18
quote:
Originally posted by Brynweir
I don't think these are as difficult as others posted here, but I liked them:
Two men are in a prison cell looking out the window. One of the men spots a young man walking down the street outside and says "Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is he?
A man is caught poaching in the king's forest and the penalty is death. However, the king is a sporting man and tells hims he can choose how he dies. He MUST make a statement. If the statement is true he will be beheaded. If the statement is false he will be hanged. What does he say so that the king cannot kill him?
1: He's the young man's father.
2: This is a tricky one. Making a statement "I want to die of old age" is only invalid if the king chooses to execute him, so... I'm not sure.
A more annoying riddle:
This was a question posed by the sphinx Enigmeina to my players once a long time ago. They insisted on challenging the sphinx on a duel (even though it was unnecessary for the adventure).
The "riddle:"
"My first is its second, which in turn is my sixth and agrees with its fourth.
While my fourth is its first, its last is mine,
and its sixth tells of my second, which is the same as its fifth - the twin of my eighth.
Its third however, speaks of its true nature, and is the first of what you may become, if you avoid death."
The last riddle was intentionally made a little more difficult, but it fit in the campaign, so they didn't have any trouble figuring it out with all the other clues.
Good luck with your deciphering : ) |
| Brynweir |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 00:54:10
quote:
Originally posted by aravine
chestnut. nothing.
Scratches head... hunh? |
| Aravine |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 00:51:30
quote:
Originally posted by NightElf
That riddle, the one at the top. Check out Baldur's Gate II...
far before BG2 by the way |
| Aravine |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 00:49:53
chestnut. nothing. |
| Brynweir |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 00:26:41
quote:
Originally posted by riot the outsider
Answer:sneris
Oh... I get it  |
| riot the outsider |
Posted - 07 Oct 2007 : 00:15:18
Answer:sneris |
| Brynweir |
Posted - 06 Oct 2007 : 23:55:39
I don't think these are as difficult as others posted here, but I liked them:
Two men are in a prison cell looking out the window. One of the men spots a young man walking down the street outside and says "Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is he?
A man is caught poaching in the king's forest and the penalty is death. However, the king is a sporting man and tells hims he can choose how he dies. He MUST make a statement. If the statement is true he will be beheaded. If the statement is false he will be hanged. What does he say so that the king cannot kill him? |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 06 Oct 2007 : 22:02:29
Wow... This thread predates my involvement here... And there's a lot of posters here that I've either never seen before, or not seen for a long time! |
