riddles

Post by **Calisson** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:39 pm

Drifts, dreams, darkens, destroys.
=> a wreckage raft (before being eaten by the Mighty Squid).

Malus99 · Post by **Malus99** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 11:14 pm

very nice idea flash 29 but incorrect, getting warmer though. Calisson, how many people do you know who have a 'a wreckage raft' as a part of them, sounds like a horrible sort of lab accident

Post by **Calisson** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:27 am

Malus99 wrote:Calisson, how many people do you know who have a 'a wreckage raft' as a part of them, sounds like a horrible sort of lab accident

All sailors have deep in their souls, the fear of their ship being wrecked.
I don't know about landslubber, I know only a few of them.

Back to the riddle:

Drifts, dreams, darkens, destroys.
=> Ambition, sure. (Did not noticed that Flash just said it, thanks Meteor for pointing it - it must be the proper answer).

Meteor · Post by **Meteor** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 8:49 am

That's what flash said lol, which turned out to be incorrect. I honestly thought that was it :O

emotion?

Red... · Post by **Red...** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:34 am

I don't know about landslubber, I know only a few of them.

Hehehe. I think you meant landlubbers. I much prefer land slubber though

:):)

Oh, and the squids definitely made my day

Malus99 · Post by **Malus99** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:48 pm

Calisson wrote:landslubber

I take offence to being called a slubber!!! Is that like flubber except slimier? In which case that is a depressingly accurate description of my physique

That made me laugh so hard that I felt compelled to add it to my sig.

All of these are nice tries, but I'm looking for something alittle different, emotions come from the heart, what else can you be ruled by?

Carolus · Post by **Carolus** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:59 pm

Brain?

Mind?

Meteor · Post by **Meteor** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:38 am

"What else can you be ruled by?"

Your missus xD

But in all serious-ness, shall have to wait and think a bit more on this one haha.

Malus99 · Post by **Malus99** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:02 am

Meteor wrote:
"What else can you be ruled by?"

Your missus xD

lol Meteor, very true, I've got a good joke about that:

Outside the pearly gates of heaven, there are two queues of people waiting to go inside. Above the first there is a sign which reads:
"All those men whose lives have been dominated by their wives please stand here." This queue stretches off miles into the distance as far as the eye can see.
The second queue's sign reads:
"All those men whose lives have not been dominated by their wives please stand here."
And standing below this sign is a single bloke with a tash and a bowler hat.
St. Peter looks at him and says: "what the hell do you want?"
To which the bloke replies: "Well, me missus told me to stand here..."

Nobody ever point this post out to my girlfriend please

Back to the riddles! Carolus, you've cracked it! The mind does indeed drift, dream, darken and destroy, well done! There is only one left now to solve, and then I will have to post a load more up!!!

Post by **Calisson** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 11:13 am

Calisson wrote:All sailors have deep in their souls, the fear of their ship being wrecked.
I don't know about landslubber, I know only a few of them.

Malus99 wrote::evil: I take offence to being called a slubber!!!

Who told you were one among the landslubbers I know?

Allright, if ever we happen to meet, despite how you say you look, I will take care about not calling you as such.

Riddles:
see without light,
hear without sound,
taste without smell,
nothing lost, yet something found.
=> imagine?

Malus99 · Post by **Malus99** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:01 pm

Calisson wrote:Who told you were one among the landslubbers I know?

It was in a reply to one of my posts

Allright, if ever we happen to meet, despite how you say you look, I will take care about not calling you as such.

Thankyou

Riddles:
see without light,
hear without sound,
taste without smell,
nothing lost, yet something found.
=> imagine?

Sorry, but imagine is incorrect

Red... · Post by **Red...** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:10 pm

Sorry if I'm being slow, but how does the mind destroy? Professor Xavier excluded...

Malus99 · Post by **Malus99** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:50 pm

Red... wrote:Sorry if I'm being slow, but how does the mind destroy? Professor Xavier excluded...

'Every war begins with but a thought.'

Malus99 · Post by **Malus99** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:55 am

well, I have a couple more riddles for you all:

Hold great power, as such,
yet your flesh, they cannot touch,
cut deeper than tempered steel,
soothe wounds no balm can heal.

has a soul but no mind,
treads the path for all time,
taps to the beat,
marches to the drum,
takes the pain, forever numb.

Have edited them into the first post, and we still have:

see without light,
hear without sound,
taste without smell,
nothing lost, yet something found.

I'll give you a clue for the last one:

Post by **Calisson** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:18 am

has a soul but no mind,
treads the path for all time,
taps to the beat,
marches to the drum,
takes the pain, forever numb.

=> Music?

Garbidge · Post by **Garbidge** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:56 am

Malus99 wrote:Hold great power, as such,
yet your flesh, they cannot touch,
cut deeper than tempered steel,
soothe wounds no balm can heal.

Words

Post by **Loki** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:02 pm

Malus99 wrote:Hold great power, as such,
yet your flesh, they cannot touch,
cut deeper than tempered steel,
soothe wounds no balm can heal.

This would be memories, right?

Malus99 · Post by **Malus99** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:42 pm

3 swings, two near misses, one that landed right on the button. Well done Garbidge, the answer to "hold great power, as such..." is indeed words. I put my thinking cap on today and came up with a few more:

Great leveller,
Final Divide,
Black Abyss,
Void's other side.

Wingless it flies,
conqueror's pride,
hero's black veil,
colours of sail.

Dances, taps, grasps and slaps.

Something a little bit more Druchii related (need to have read the malus books for this one really):

all-consuming breath,
birthed without maw,
wyrm's deadly caress,
forged by the dark lore.

Turns mountain into hill,
Dwarf into giant,
Hero into villain,
what was set in stone, becomes pliant.

Something to ponder over the christmas period, happy Winter Solstice to you all!

Post by **Calisson** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 7:39 am

Great leveller,
Final Divide,
Black Abyss,
Void's other side.
=> death, of course.

Malus99 · Post by **Malus99** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:19 am

the answer is indeed death calisson, I came up with this one for my sis since she answers every riddle with 'death'.

Meteor · Post by **Meteor** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:59 am

Turns mountain into hill,
Dwarf into giant,
Hero into villain,
what was set in stone, becomes pliant.

Time!

see without light,
hear without sound,
taste without smell,
nothing lost, yet something found.

Taking a stab, a bat? If not, a fish??

has a soul but no mind,
treads the path for all time,
taps to the beat,
marches to the drum,
takes the pain, forever numb.

History? If not, memories?

Malus99 · Post by **Malus99** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:11 pm

all very nice tries meteor but incorrect I'm afraid.

Turns mountain into hill,
Dwarf into giant,
Hero into villain,
what was set in stone, becomes pliant.

Time!

time does indeed fit but it is not the answer I am looking for, mainly because I would feel too much like I was plagiarising Tolkien's riddle in 'The Hobbit':

"This thing, all things devour,
birds, bees, trees and flowers,
gnaws iron, bites steel,
and grinds hard stones to meal,
slays king, ruins town,
and beats high mountain down."
to which the answer is time.

The answer to my one is something less absolute, in fact, one of two correct answers to this riddle is the opposite of absolute, especially in measurement of things such as time. The other possible answer is Kenobi's justification of his deception, making his lie become the truth. Whilst we are on the subject of cryptic clues

:

see without light,
hear without sound,
taste without smell,
nothing lost, yet something found.

it is not a bat or a fish, or any creature or plant, it is not of substance atall, it simply is

has a soul but no mind,
treads the path for all time,
taps to the beat,
marches to the drum,
takes the pain, forever numb.

whilst the last riddle's answer has no substance, the answer to this riddle is something you can touch and feel, something most people will see about them or be using much of the time, yet this object often passes without notice, it is something as real as the shirt upon your back.

Those clues should get you all suitably confused and annoyed :twisted:

Carolus · Post by **Carolus** » Thu Dec 23, 2010 12:01 am

----has a soul but no mind,
treads the path for all time,
taps to the beat,
marches to the drum,
takes the pain, forever numb.

Shoes? ^^

Flash29 · Post by **Flash29** » Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:16 am

Malus99 wrote:
Turns mountain into hill,
Dwarf into giant,
Hero into villain,
what was set in stone, becomes pliant.

with hatred anything is possible? a dwarf can be hated so much he seems like a giant.
it can turn a hero into a villian and again with hatred anything is possible?

has a soul but no mind,
treads the path for all time,
taps to the beat,
marches to the drum,
takes the pain, forever numb.

wind?

Malus99 · Post by **Malus99** » Thu Dec 23, 2010 11:46 am

Carolus to the rescue again! he is a mean, lean, riddle-solving machine!

The answer to 'has a sole but no mind...' is indeed a shoe! I know I cheated a little by spelling 'sole' as 'soul' but I didn't want to make it too easy for you, as it is, Carolus has beaten me again.

Nice try flash but, contrary to popular (Druchii) belief, hate is not the answer. This time

Or at least, not from where I am standing, point of view can change everything.