Riddles - the riddles that get you money

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Sun Feb 17, 2002 9:33 pm

A bet?
A tree with an apple falling? (Apple?)
A javelin? A spear?
A big heavy rock?
Wait... is it an insult?

Dyluck · Post by **Dyluck** » Sun Feb 17, 2002 10:43 pm

I like the five senses idea, maybe it's touch or sight?

Btw is it "forth" or "fourth"?

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 2:28 am

Why thank you, Dyluck.
Maybe a A golden ring? A dart? A Crossbow Bolt?
The thing about dying is the tricky part...
I can put this into simple form...

'1 of 5' = One of Five, maybe Senses, maybe fingers on hand?
'One who sent Fourth' = If it is 4th and not Forth it maybe the 4th sense.
'One who recieved died' = So, the thing can kill or banish another thing.
'Isn't alive' = So, it can't be plants or animals...
I have no idea... I'll kick myself when the answer is given.
Hey, I'll pull a Damien, "A moment?" *G*

Badmosche · Post by **Badmosche** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 2:52 pm

I think that I am a river but i have no idea witch one. Or am I one of the Great Lakes?

Yours....

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 4:24 pm

Was that a riddle Badmosche?

Badmosche · Post by **Badmosche** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 6:33 pm

Sorry Erdrick. I forgot the @Sabrina

Sabrina · Post by **Sabrina** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 9:42 pm

Here is your one and only clue.

It isn't related with Illarion

Thats all i can tell you

and yes its Fourth

Nanuk · Post by **Nanuk** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 10:17 pm

Just a very wild guess: does it have to do something with the bible, if so I might have an answer.

Nanuk

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 10:58 pm

Oh! Oh! A Chess peice! Or checkers! Thats it! Err... is it?

Dyluck · Post by **Dyluck** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 1:14 am

You do know that fourth means 4th right? Just checking

Sabrina · Post by **Sabrina** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 12:22 am

nice try edrick, but there are more than 5 checkers pieces

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 12:47 am

What about chess? If so, do I have to be specific?
Maybe the horse, bishop, or rook?

Quain · Post by **Quain** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 7:53 am

Hmm a new riddle... will probably be finished quickly though...

What's better than god,
worse than the devil,
poor people have it,
and rich people want it?

EDIT Adition: It is "Nothing"... as Roke guessed....

(Edited by Quain at 3:16 am on Feb. 22, 2002)

Roke · Post by **Roke** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 2:59 pm

Is it nothing Quain???

(Edited by Roke at 4:17 pm on Feb. 21, 2002)

Nanuk · Post by **Nanuk** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 10:18 pm

@Sabrina

Oh well, no answer is an answer

. Than I will just try it.

David had 5 stones with which he challenged Goliath. With one of the stones Goliath was killed and David became king. So the answer will be: a stone.

Nanuk

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Fri Feb 22, 2002 3:18 am

I guessed a stone! Boulder! Wait, is it Pebble? David had a stream pebble, right?
And Quain, is that Chances, or Hope? Maybe Innocence?

Sabrina · Post by **Sabrina** » Sun Feb 24, 2002 5:10 am

Good be, butthats not the answer I am looking for

@Quain

I saw that riddle before.

Also in it said most children got it right =)

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Thu Feb 28, 2002 5:30 am

Ok this one is tough so think hard. To answer this riddle you most answer it in the most logical way posible.Mainly because that is the answer. Ok here goes.

A king deciced to find the wisest man in his kingdom. So he held a test, and in the end three men were choosen. So since this could not work the king made one last test. So the king gathered the men in one room then blind folded them.(now from this point on imagen yourself as one of the three men any will do)Then he told them "I have placed five hats on the table in front of me. Three red two green. I will place a hat on each of your heads then remove your blind folds the first to tell me what color hat they have on wins the to others will have their heads removed". So the king places a hat on your head then throws the two remaining away. When your blind fold is removed you see the other two men wareing red hats. What color is yours.

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 2:58 am

Also, in addition to Quain's riddle, a Djinn once said a similar one:
The poor have it
The rich need it
If either was to eat it they would die.
The answer is Nothing.

Now, for Fred,
The hat would most likely be red, since (if you are any one) and the others wear red then you also wear red. It is very simple

And, the king makes you all think you wear a green hat!
So, the answer is RED.
Do I win any gold? :biggrin:

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Sat May 25, 2002 5:34 am

I know that this has been under for a long time, but here's a riddle:

Never resting, never still.
Moving silently from hill to hill.
It does not walk, run or trot,
All is cool where it is not.
What am I?

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Sat May 25, 2002 7:22 pm

Lava! Fire! Pheonix!
The SUN!

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Sat May 25, 2002 10:44 pm

Well, one of your answers is correct! I dont think that fire, lava, or a phoenix move silently, but the sun does. You win.... being a winner! Congratulations

Here's another:

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

Caranthir the great · Sat May 25, 2002 11:10 pm

Time?

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Sat May 25, 2002 11:23 pm

Yes, it is time.

I dont have another riddle right now, someone else say one.

Turin Ironhammer · Post by **Turin Ironhammer** » Sun May 26, 2002 1:19 am

Well erdrick I don't know the last time you saw Fred. But he left illarion about a month ago or more. So I guess you will never know if you were right.

Morgaine Le Fay · Post by **Morgaine Le Fay** » Sun May 26, 2002 6:45 am

#me passes by the board and sees all too many postings.
#me starts to read carefully.
#me gives up to read all the postings...

well, well, well inhabitants of illarion
since you love riddles... i have got three for you. suppose some hobbit should be able to solve them easily.

1. Always moving, never sleeping, never crawling, always creeping. A soothing tap, a rage of thunder, jagged teeth, pull you under. With my hand, a town is doomed, holder of all land, not always consumed. What am I?

2. At my whim a country crumbles, from its ruin another stumbles, kill each other at my desire, ever-expanding, a new empire. Born to me are kings and queens, sacrilege for religious schemes. Many I ruin, thousands I devour, greater are those that i empower. What am I?

3. Since the beginning, I am the after. But I am merely the revealer of hidden truth, the teller of what is to come. What am I?

have fun with solving those 3

#me walks away. satisfied.

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Sun May 26, 2002 5:02 pm

1. Tsunami
2. Tsunami
3. Water

Morgaine Le Fay · Post by **Morgaine Le Fay** » Mon May 27, 2002 12:43 am

@erdrick

got all of them wrong - but nice try

Likwid Air · Post by **Likwid Air** » Mon May 27, 2002 12:55 am

The first is "the sea"

Likwid Air · Post by **Likwid Air** » Mon May 27, 2002 12:57 am

The second is "money"