101 Riddles of the Sphinx

[Richards]

I'll have a go at some of these...

A knight and his son journeyed into the wilds, and were set upon by brigands. The knight died of his wounds, but the son was bought back to the town by his retainers. They fetched the Chief Apothecary, who said, "I cannot treat this youth; he is my son." How can this be?

The Chief Apothecary was the wounded lad's mother.

What kind of sitting stool can never wobble?

A three-legged stool.

Another knight was travelling with a friend. They parted ways at a certain place. The knight traveled ten miles due north, while the friend also walked due north for five miles. Neither deviated from their course. Yet at day's end, they were fifteen miles apart. How can this be?

They parted ways at the South Pole, and each traveled "north" in opposite directions.

What can you never hold in your left hand?

Your left elbow.

In the forest there is a river that humans have never crossed, because they always got eaten by alligators. One day, a clever explorer managed to make it across. Why was she able to do it?

She was an elf (or a dwarf, or any non-human sentient explorer).

Johnathan

 

[Gez]

I'm the beginning of the end,
the root of evil, the end of life
I stretch from the origin of eternity
to the end of time and place.

I also know some good ones in French, but I won't be able to translate them accurately.

 

[Gez]

She was an elf (or a dwarf, or any non-human sentient explorer).

Or she flew across, or she build a bridge, or she brachiated like Tarzan (it's in a forest), or she simply dropped 500 pounds of dynamite in the river, killing all alligators in a wide radius.

 

[Richards]

Or she teleported, or she was a druid and wildshaped into alligator form herself, or she cast an invisibility to animals spell on herself before crossing, or she... (D&D makes this riddle kind of easy to answer, doesn't it?)

I'm the beginning of the end,
the root of evil, the end of life
I stretch from the origin of eternity
to the end of time and place.

You are the letter "e."

Johnathan

 

[Malhavoc]

This is how you role-play Int 3 characters.

How many steps does it take to get a horse in a refridgerator?
yadda yadda yadda

3

4


the Elephant


She swam across.


i'll say why if someone asks, but it's pretty obvious.

 

[tleilaxu]

this is so fragile, you break it just by saying it's name

 

[shilsen]

this is so fragile, you break it just by saying it's name

Silence

 

[seasong]

For those of you who liked the palindromic poem, it was written by Mike Maguire, and published (I think) through Spineless Books. He's pretty clever .

 

[tleilaxu]

i come after Y but before Z

 

[Gez]

OT: For the truly geeky, here's a palindromic C program. Applause.