Riddles

[Hypersmurf]

Hmmm- interesting. Never thopught of using magic... But the residual liquid in the glass and helmet at each pouring will affect the weight.

Wait... so you were looking for the uniform-diameter-specific answer to a riddle that allows 'any container'?

And damn - I had a stove, fire, and a woodpile, or a candlestick, candle flame, and wax, but I wasn't happy with either of them - so close!

-Hyp.

 

[Omegaz]

And here is a really old riddle,

I'm a great help to women, and the hope of something to come.
I harm none except for my slayer, and stand rooted in a high bed, shaggy below.
Sometimes the beautiful peasant's daughter, an eager-armed, proud woman grabs my body, rushes my red skin, holds me hard, and claims my head.
The curly-haired woman who catches me fast will feel our meeting, and her eyes will be wet.

The answer to this one was:

[sblock] Onion.[/sblock]

Here is a classic:

Marble walls as white as milk,
lined with skin as soft as silk,
with a fountain, crystal clear,
a golden apple doth appear.
There are no doors to this stronghold,
yet thieves break in and steal the gold.

 

[DragonMa15]

That would be an egg right?

I don't remember where I heard this one, but my players hated me for it.

A soul was trapped in the house of pain, but was not privy to the password.
The soul watched as another soul approched the Gate Keeper.
The Keeper wheezed twelve, the soul responded six and was set free.
Another soul did approach, and the Keeper coughed six.
The sould responded three and was set free.
Gaining courage, the poor soul did approach.
The Keeper gasped ten, the trapped soul answered five. The poor soul was trapped forever in the House of Pain, why?

Looking for the number that would set him free. Or the players, thats how I used the riddle anyway.

 

[Richards]

If the Keeper gasped "ten," then the trapped soul should have answered

Spoiler

"three," because in each case the answer was the number of letters in the number (when spelled out) that the Keeper said.

Johnathan

 

[Ferret]

I saw this whilst reading a dragon magazine, I thought it was quite cool!

Ironic that, when asked to stand, I am counted one of five; Since I'll oppose the other four so long as I'm alive.

 

[Omegaz]

Ironic that, when asked to stand, I am counted one of five; Since I'll oppose the other four so long as I'm alive.

[sblock] A thumb and four fingers?[/sblock]

Here's another:

"To what question are you unable to reply "yes."

 

[isoChron]

[sblock] A thumb and four fingers?[/sblock]

Here's another:

"To what question are you unable to reply "yes."

**Do you sleep ? Are you dead ?**

 

[Hypersmurf]

Here's another:

"To what question are you unable to reply "yes."

Truthfully? Sensibly? I'm not sure what limits there are.

For example, you can't sensibly reply 'yes' to the question 'To what question are you unable to reply "yes"?', because 'yes' isn't a question.

You can't truthfully reply 'yes' to the question "Does one and one make three?", because the correct answer is 'no'.

But you can reply 'yes' to either, if you don't mind lying or making no sense.

-Hyp.

 

[Richards]

Other questions it should be impossible to reply with "yes" as an answer:

Are you mute?

Are you a good mime?

Would you like to sit through a "Hey Ernest!" movie marathon?

Did you know that the next person who says "yes" to me is going to be stripped, shaved, have "Hello Kitty" stickers adhered to every square inch of their body, and be forced to perform "I'm a Little Teapot" on the head table of the 13th Annual Stockbrokers Convention in Littlehampton, during the luncheon?


Johnathan

 

[Lamoni]

"To what question are you unable to reply "yes."

Will your next word be "no"?