The Riddle-Game
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The Riddle-Game
The Riddle Game!
Rules:
1. Keep your feet out of the water!
2. Only one riddle at a time.
3. Whoever answers the riddle correctly first may ask the next riddle.
4. Anyone asking a riddle must respond to any guesses from other users. If the riddler does not respond within three days to guesseses, the riddle may be skipped. In which case, the last person to have posted a riddle may go.
5. If anyone cannot think of a riddle after correctly guessing the last one, they may pass, and allow anyone else to go next. However, Gollum gets one of their fingers as a compensation-snack.
6. Hands out of pockets at all times, and no weapons allowed.
7. If a correct guess is confirmed by the riddler, and the guesser does not answer within a week, anyone may go next (but only one at a time).
8. Loser gets eaten. Or must show us the way out of here, their choice!
To start things off, and mostly because I'm tired and a lousy riddler, I will use my favourite from the thread on the LotRO forums that inspired this one.
Here goes, and goodluck!
I'm a slippery fish in a cloudy sea;
Neither hook nor spear will capture me.
With your hand you must hunt and seize this fish,
And see that it ends up in the dish!
(Hopefully you haven't heard this one before)
Last edited by Forest Shepherd on Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:00 pm; edited 3 times in total
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Re: The Riddle-Game
No idea what the answer might be, but love this thread Now I'll probably be thinking on that riddle all day
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"The earth was rushing past like a river or a sea below him. Trees and water, and green grass, hurried away beneath. A great roar of wild animals rose as they rushed over the Zoological Gardens, mixed with a chattering of monkeys and a screaming of birds; but it died away in a moment behind them. And now there was nothing but the roofs of houses, sweeping along like a great torrent of stones and rocks. Chimney-pots fell, and tiles flew from the roofs..."
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Re: The Riddle-Game
I like games also but am usually crap at them ! Is it an eel ?
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Re: The Riddle-Game
Ive got one......
What can one not keep,
Two hold,
And three destroy ?
What can one not keep,
Two hold,
And three destroy ?
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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
"There are far, far, better things ahead than any we can leave behind"
If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you always got
azriel- Grumpy cat, rub my tummy, hear me purr
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Re: The Riddle-Game
Is it a bar of soap?Forest Shepherd wrote:I'm a slippery fish in a cloudy sea;
Neither hook nor spear will capture me.
With your hand you must hunt and seize this fish,
And see that it ends up in the dish!
bungobaggins- Eternal Mayor in The Halls of Mandos
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Re: The Riddle-Game
Is it a conversation?azriel wrote:Ive got one......
What can one not keep,
Two hold,
And three destroy ?
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I was gonna say salt, though soap probably makes more sense.bungobaggins wrote:Is it a bar of soap?Forest Shepherd wrote:I'm a slippery fish in a cloudy sea;
Neither hook nor spear will capture me.
With your hand you must hunt and seize this fish,
And see that it ends up in the dish!
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Re: The Riddle-Game
A secret?azriel wrote:Ive got one......
What can one not keep,
Two hold,
And three destroy ?
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One does not simply woke into Mordor.
-Mrs Figg
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
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Re: The Riddle-Game
I'm thinking this is the correct answer as well.Bluebottle wrote:I was gonna say salt, though soap probably makes more sense.bungobaggins wrote:Is it a bar of soap?Forest Shepherd wrote:I'm a slippery fish in a cloudy sea;
Neither hook nor spear will capture me.
With your hand you must hunt and seize this fish,
And see that it ends up in the dish!
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Re: The Riddle-Game
I'm a slippery fish in a cloudy sea;
Neither hook nor spear will capture me.
With your hand you must hunt and seize this fish,
And see that it ends up in the dish!
Is it a man having a pee?
Neither hook nor spear will capture me.
With your hand you must hunt and seize this fish,
And see that it ends up in the dish!
Is it a man having a pee?
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No. It's NOT! {{{spears and hooks.... }}}Mrs Figg wrote:
Is it a man having a pee?
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Yes! Well done.bungobaggins wrote:Is it a bar of soap?Forest Shepherd wrote:I'm a slippery fish in a cloudy sea;
Neither hook nor spear will capture me.
With your hand you must hunt and seize this fish,
And see that it ends up in the dish!
Here is a reward:
And I await your riddle!
P.S. Azriel, no cutting! (See rule #3)
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"The earth was rushing past like a river or a sea below him. Trees and water, and green grass, hurried away beneath. A great roar of wild animals rose as they rushed over the Zoological Gardens, mixed with a chattering of monkeys and a screaming of birds; but it died away in a moment behind them. And now there was nothing but the roofs of houses, sweeping along like a great torrent of stones and rocks. Chimney-pots fell, and tiles flew from the roofs..."
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Re: The Riddle-Game
Rules and Forumshire Forest- there is a connection between the two things but nobody has ever been able to fathom it out.
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Haha, yes, it was daring of me to include even seven.Pettytyrant101 wrote:Rules and Forumshire Forest- there is a connection between the two things but nobody has ever been able to fathom it out.
In fact we need an 8th that I missed... Fixing that now.
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"The earth was rushing past like a river or a sea below him. Trees and water, and green grass, hurried away beneath. A great roar of wild animals rose as they rushed over the Zoological Gardens, mixed with a chattering of monkeys and a screaming of birds; but it died away in a moment behind them. And now there was nothing but the roofs of houses, sweeping along like a great torrent of stones and rocks. Chimney-pots fell, and tiles flew from the roofs..."
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Amarie got my riddle, clever old thing she was correct.
and what the heck are rules ?....only there to be broken.
and what the heck are rules ?....only there to be broken.
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what the heck are rules ?....only there to be broken.- Azriel
Haha- I knew there was a connection between rules and Forumshire- that was it!
Haha- I knew there was a connection between rules and Forumshire- that was it!
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I always assumed rules were set up as a dare.
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Yay! I got it!Forest Shepherd wrote:Yes! Well done.bungobaggins wrote:Is it a bar of soap?Forest Shepherd wrote:I'm a slippery fish in a cloudy sea;
Neither hook nor spear will capture me.
With your hand you must hunt and seize this fish,
And see that it ends up in the dish!
Here is a reward:
And I await your riddle!
P.S. Azriel, no cutting! (See rule #3)
I would like to exercise rule #5 and pass, because I don't know any good riddles.
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no rddlz? cumon Bungs give us a rddlz
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Okay, Figgys.
Here's one I found.
On my own I'm 24th,
Two of us and I'm 20,
Three of us and I'm 18.
What am I?
Here's one I found.
On my own I'm 24th,
Two of us and I'm 20,
Three of us and I'm 18.
What am I?
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I'm guessing X = 24th letter, XX = roman 20, XXX = porn?bungobaggins wrote:Okay, Figgys.
Here's one I found.
On my own I'm 24th,
Two of us and I'm 20,
Three of us and I'm 18.
What am I?
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Oooooh, David, you got it!David H wrote:I'm guessing X = 24th letter, XX = roman 20, XXX = porn?bungobaggins wrote:Okay, Figgys.
Here's one I found.
On my own I'm 24th,
Two of us and I'm 20,
Three of us and I'm 18.
What am I?
Your turn!
bungobaggins- Eternal Mayor in The Halls of Mandos
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Wait, where's my prize?
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Oh, silly me.
Here, to go with your phallic root vegetables.
Here, to go with your phallic root vegetables.
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