A Riddle For Ye

[SWAT]

You don't really need the weight. Feeling the bulb to see if it's hot usually suffices in this riddle. As in,

Turn switch one on, wait a minute then turn it off. Then turn switch two on and run back to the other room. If it's on, great. If the bulb is warm, then it's switch one. If the bulb is cold, it's switch three.

We have a winner!

 

[Asmor]

We have a winner!

Not neccessarily. What if the bulb is too high or otherwise unable to be touched? What if the bulb is one of those that doesn't generate heat? What if the room is so far away that by the time you get there it's cooled down?

There are a number of variables that are not explicitly stated that make the canonical answer to this far from definitive.

 

[PugioilAudacio]

That is the answer to this riddle. You can state variables at any riddle, but this is THE answer

I see nobody has gotten mine yet.

 

[Slife]

The answer to the previous riddle was: lightning (sjmiller got it).

Today's riddle is:

As I went over London Bridge
I met my sister Jenny
I broke her neck and drank her blood
And left her standing empty.

A bottle of something... Ginny!

 

[Tuzenbach]

Yes, this thread actually made me look up "tines" in the dictionary. A very educational endeavor, too.

 

[Tuzenbach]

spinning off an oldie

No legs at dawn
One leg at noon
Four legs in the evening
What am I

Not particularly good, but I'm no poet

We've been cheated! We've not gotten an answer for this yet!

I'll say a frog. It starts life as an egg (no legs), eventually becomes a tadpole (you could call it's tail a leg I suppose), then finally ends up as a frog. The dawn, noon, and evening references are metaphors for the frog's lifecycle.

 

[Tuzenbach]

Quick! What do you call a Gnomish Geometer?

 

[Kemrain]

Quick! What do you call a Gnomish Geometer?

Trash?
Geometer? You mean a Globe?

- Kemrain the Round.

 

[Tuzenbach]

Trash?
Geometer? You mean a Globe?

- Kemrain the Round.

NO! In 2E there was a specialist Mage called a Geometer. They did things with mathemtical sigils and glyphs and such. I believe it may have been referred to later on as a "Geomancer".

"Geometers are wizards who study the summoning and control of magic through the creation of intricate geometrical patterns, ranging from runes drawn on paper or carved in stone to free-floating constructs composed of brilliant lines of energy".

Skills & powers, p.138

 

[PugioilAudacio]

Gin, is correct, as is the frog (I think, it's not my riddle).

Here's another


What work is it that the faster you work,
the longer it is before you're done,
and the slower you work,
the sooner you're finished?