Puzzles,conundrums, riddles and thoughts?

[Erik Mesoy]

Chinese curse much?

This is going to be fun!

I think I'll try interative tactics... all-A gives me 2 points, assuming the highest possible score isn't 5.

 

[Sidhe]

I had a quick go and I think it's 7 last answer b

 

[pboily]

The highest score you can reach is 7, but the last answer is not b.

 

[Sidhe]

The highest score you can reach is 7, but the last answer is not b.

Must be d then I think.

 

[pboily]

Must be d then I think.

Well, that's not the one I got. Show us the rest of your answers and we will be able to tell.

 

[Sidhe]

Well, that's not the one I got. Show us the rest of your answers and we will be able to tell.

Actually I got to admit that was a wild guess, I ran through it last night found one solution with seven and no 8's posted the answer and now I have no idea what it was I figured out, it was b originally but since that isn't the answer I guess I missed something the answer is definitely A then

 

[Sidhe]

Ok that was a dull trial and error one again, great puzzle by the way pboily I'm sure it's easilly soluble, but I can't be bothered too boring. Let's mix it up, and if not let's see someone be bothered to solve it, if so your up next. But in the spirit of diversity I have a new one.

A riddle...

What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?

?Very difficult this one but think metaphorically. Anyone who knows it because they've seen it before, refrain from answering for a little bit.

 

[Taliesin]

An ostrich with super powers!

 

[Fifty]

What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?

A PERSON, WITH THE DAY-STAGES CORRESPONDING TO STAGES OF LIFE!??! (CRAWLING, WALKING UPRIGHT, WALKING WITH A CANE?????)

!?!??!?


l

 

[Sidhe]

A PERSON, WITH THE DAY-STAGES CORRESPONDING TO STAGES OF LIFE!??! (CRAWLING, WALKING UPRIGHT, WALKING WITH A CANE?????)

!?!??!?


l

Well thanks for ruining the riddle but you got it Fifty, your up next although you know the story of Oedipus obviously, so what is your new problem?

An ostrich with super powers!

No, It's the riddle of the Sphinx.

In Greek mythology, the Sphinx sat outside of Thebes and asked this riddle of all travelers who passed by. If the traveler failed to solve the riddle, then the Sphinx killed him/her. And if the traveler answered the riddle correctly, then the Sphinx would destroy herself. The riddle:

What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?

Oedipus solved the riddle, and the Sphinx destroyed herself.

The solution: A man, who crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult, and walks with a cane in old age.

Of course morning, noon, and night are metaphors for the times in a man's (person's) life. Such metaphors are common in riddles. There were two Thebes, apparently this Thebes was the one in Greece. And this Sphinx was apparently not the one at Giza, in Egypt.

 

[Sophie 378]

Come on, Sidhe, everyone knows that one! In a book from 1978, Robert Westall said "your tutor did teach you that one. My tutor did teach me that one. It is the only riddle that tutors do know!".

Two more from that book:
1. What is that creeps and twines her arms about you, and you shall die of her embraces?

Spoiler answered by Fifty :

Ivy

2. What shall fall upon you from the sky to be a decoration, and yet shall not stay on you?

Spoiler answered :

A snowflake

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

The answer is always "time" . . .

 

[Sophie 378]

Nope. Not time.

 

[Fifty]

1. vines/ivy
2. snow


MY RIDDLE:

"what can be read but isn't words, can be seen but isn't visible, and can be thrown but cannot be caught"

 

[Sophie 378]

You win! Your turn, Fiddy.

 

[Zande33]

1. vines/ivy
2. snow


MY RIDDLE:

"what can be read but isn't words, can be seen but isn't visible, and can be thrown but cannot be caught"

Hmmm ... I have a pretty lame late-night tired answer. Love? Ok, nevermind, I know that's wrong. Lemme think

 

[Sidhe]

1. vines/ivy
2. snow


MY RIDDLE:

"what can be read but isn't words, can be seen but isn't visible, and can be thrown but cannot be caught"

It'll be something like thought,attention,concentration,mind,ideas or action probably.

I thought of intent but I'm not sure it fits the last one. A glance? A look? An expression?

 

[Fifty]

Hmmm ... I have a pretty lame late-night tired answer. Love? Ok, nevermind, I know that's wrong. Lemme think

you're nearly as far from correct as can be (and that is a hint, and no the answer isn't "hate" )

@Sidhe: None of those, but you are kinda-sorta close (but not real close)

 

[bathsheba666]

John, while Jim had had “had had”, had had “had”.
“Had had” had had a better effect on the teacher.

 

[Sidhe]

you're nearly as far from correct as can be (and that is a hint, and no the answer isn't "hate" )

@Sidhe: None of those, but you are kinda-sorta close (but not real close)

Emotion? Rage?Anger?Jokes?Disgust Na I give up Hatred? War? A Battle?