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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizO_Arcia" data-source="post: 2560251">For those interested, here's the list of the riddles used this year <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Round 11.What is it the more you take, the more you leave behind?answer: "footsteps"2.When is a door not a door?answer: "when it's a jar"3.I move without wings, between silken strings, I leave as you find, my substance behind. What am I?answer: "a spider"4.A little house full of meat, no door to go in and eat. What am I?answer: "a nut"5.Riddle me, riddle me, what is that, over the head and under the hat?answer: "hair"6.What is the moon worth?answer: "a dollar (because it has four quarters)"7.Why is a pencil like a riddle?answer: "it's no good without a point"8.A warrior amongst the flowers, he bears a thrusting sword. He uses it when'er he must to defend his golden hoard. What is he?answer: "a bee"9.A wee wee man in a red coat. Staff in my hand, stone in my throat. What am I?answer: "a cherry"10.Foward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?answer: "a TON"11.What has black spots and a white face, is fat not thin, and helps you to win, but tumbles all over the place?answer: "a dice"12.What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young; born in an instant yet lasts a life time. What is it?answer: "a memory"13.Ever winding, ever binding, Tying land and man and tree.  Twisting life through former wasteland.  Calling bird and bear and bee.  Crystal clear and clean and cool.  Rising swell to nurture land.  There the reeds may touch the sky Whilst life might settle, make its stand.  What am I?answer: "a river"14.Once come the ending of the day, I fall the endless on my way.  I leave the night to dark delight, Until I bring the morning light.  What am I?answer: "the sun"15.I scream the scream that no-one hears, As you will scream, to nightmare's fears, I rule the winds, the devil's bird, I clear the night without a word.  What am I?answer: "a bat"-Intermission-Round 216.Often talked of, never seen. Ever coming, never been. Daily looked for, never here. Still approaching, coming near. Thousands for its visit wait, but alas for their fate. Tho' they expect me to appear, they will never find me here. What am I?answer: "tomorrow"17.At night I come without being fetched. By day I am lost without being stolen. What am I?answer: "a star"18.I run, though I have no legs to be seen. I possess no heat, yet I do have steam. I have no voice to let words out, but from far away you can still hear me shout. What am I?answer: "a waterfall"19.You must keep this thing, its loss will affect your brothers. For once yours is lost, it will soon be lost by others.answer: "your temper"20.With sharp edged wit and pointed poise, it can settle disputes without making a noise. What is it?answer: "sword"21.Some try to hide, some try to cheat, but time will show, we always will meet. Try as you might, to guess my name. I promise you'll know, when you I do claim.answer: "death"22.A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains.answer: "The word 'dozens'. Take away the 's', and you have the word'dozen', which is twelve."23.I never was, am always to be, no one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all to live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.  What am I?answer: "the future" tomorrow was also accepted24.When I live I cry, if you don't kill me I'll die. What am I?answer: "a candle"25.The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind. What is it?answer: "grass"26.What is it that was given to you, belongs only to you, and yet your friends use it more than you do?answer: "your name"27.No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?answer: "silence"28.Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, and a long tail which she let fly; and every time she went through a gap, a bit of her tail she left in a trap. What is she?answer: "a needle and thread"29.Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear, all day we are bitterly pressed; Yet this I will say - we are full all the day, and empty when we go to rest. What are we?answer: "a pair of shoes"30.I am sometimes strong and sometimes weak, but I am nobody's fool. For there is no language that I cannot speak, though I never went to school. What am I?answer: "an echo"Tie-Breakers!-My first is a creature whose breeding is unclear. My second, a price you must pay. My whole can be found in the river of Time and refers to events of today. What am I?answer: "current"-'Twas in heaven pronounced, 'twas muttered in hell, and echo caught faintly the sound as it fell. On the confines of earth it was permitted to rest, and in the depths of its presence there was confessed. answer: "the letter H"-I am a window, I am a lamp, I am clouded, I am shining, and I am coloured; set in white, I fill with water and overflow. I say much, but I have no words. What am I?answer: "an eye"-I dance four feet to ev'ry line, with A and A I try to rhyme. And B and Bmake couples two, the answer my friend stands in front of you.answer: "this riddle!"-I'm as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I'll approach like a breeeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I'll dance to the music, though I can't hear. Of names I have many, of names I have one. I'm as slow as a snail, but from me you can't run. What am I?answer: "a shadow"-Many things can create one, it can be of any shape or size, it is created for various reasons, and it can shrink or grow with time. What is it?answer: "a hole"-**Twigs and spheres and poles and plates, join and bind to reason make.answer: "a skeleton"**This was the tie-breaking riddle!</blockquote>

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