101 Riddles of the Sphinx

[Sanackranib]

type right

11) A house full, a room full, and couldn't catch a spoonfull

Edit: Helps if type it right.

Next they are gonna want us to SPELL too! whatever is the world commin' to?

 

[Crothian]

Re: type right

Next they are gonna want us to SPELL too! whatever is the world commin' to?

Just be thankful I caught the error. It's amazing how much more difficult a riddle is when its told wrong.

 

[Sanackranib]

riddles

yes Crothian accurate info is the best. Just don't count on me to catch too many spelling errors (either mine or sombody elses )

 

[Crothian]

12) It ate everything that came
And everything that will
And still it will never get its fill

 

[Torx]

Answer #2 - A shadow.

No, I didn't create the palindrome, I found it on a website several weeks back, copied it, and promptly forgot where I found it.

Keep the riddles coming, these are great (I'm stumped on Crothian's).

 

[tleilaxu]

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

How many steps does it take to get an elephant in a refridgerator?

One day the king of the forest had a meeting of all the animals. Everyone came except one animal. Who didn't come and why?

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?

 

[Red Baron]

Swings by his thigh a thing most magical!
Below the belt, beneath the folds
of his clothes it hangs, a hole in its front end,
stiff-set and stout, but swivels about.

Leveling the head of this hanging instrument,
its wielder hoists his hem above the knee:
it is his will to fill a well-known hole
that it fits fully when at full length.

He has often filled it before. Now he fills it again.

(Hint: It's not what you might think...)

 

[pogre]

Hard as a rock,
It is destroyed by sweetness.

*I won't mention what my players guessed on this riddle as it would set off the EN Granmother alert.

 

[tleilaxu]

How much dirt is in a hole that is 1' deep, 1' wide, and 1' long

 

[s/LaSH]

How much dirt is in a hole that is 1' deep, 1' wide, and 1' long

Nobody else wants a go? None. No dirt, or it wouldn't be a hole.

Swings by his thigh a thing most magical!
Below the belt, beneath the folds
of his clothes it hangs, a hole in its front end,
stiff-set and stout, but swivels about.

Leveling the head of this hanging instrument,
its wielder hoists his hem above the knee:
it is his will to fill a well-known hole
that it fits fully when at full length.

He has often filled it before. Now he fills it again.

(Hint: It's not what you might think...)

Random guess: Some kind of key? I'm clueless here.


My turn:
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?

What kind of sitting stool can never wobble?

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?

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?
(Not kidding... this could be an interesting riddle to solve as a quest rather than an intellectual exercise)

What can you never hold in your left hand?

I seem like you, and keep your pace,
Yet your hand can never touch my face.
What am I?