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DannyB: some girl on the street asked if i was saved yet
DannyB: i told her i saved at the last checkpoint a couple minutes back
DannyB: and can reload from there if i die
DannyB: she was confused
Riddle:
I have many tongues but cannot taste
By me, most things are turned to waste
I crack and snap, yet I stay whole
I may take the largest toll
I assisted all of the first men
And I will pay them back again
Around me, people snuggle and sleep
Yet run when I am released from my keep
I jump around and leap and bound
The cold man wishes I he had found
What am I?
Answer: Fire
Riddle:
Ten fish I caught without an eye,
and nine without a tail.
Half of eight, and six missing heads,
landed in my pail.
Who can tell me,
as I ask it,
how many fish are in my basket?
Answer: Zero - 10 without the "1" is 0, 9 without it's tail leaves 0, 8<-- divided here leaves twice 0, 6 without it's head leaves.
Riddle:
Who becomes pregnant without conceiving?
Who becomes fat without eating?
Answer: Clouds
Riddle:
Two brothers we are, great burden we bear
By which we are bitterly pressed.
In truth we may say
We are full all the day
But empty we go to our rest.
What am I?
Answer: Shoes (or boots)
Riddle:
I am a wee wee man,
In a red red coat.
With a staff in my hand,
And a stone in my throat.
What am I?
Answer: A Cherry
Riddle:
An iron roof, and glass walls
Burns and burns
And never falls.
What is it?
Answer: A Lantern
Riddle:
It holds most knowledge that has ever been said;
But is not the brain, is not the head.
To feathers and their masters, 'tis both bane and boon. . .
One empty, and one full.
What am I?
Answer:Paper
Riddle:
Inside me the adventurous find
Quests and treasures of every kind.
Trolls, goblins, orcs, and more, await
Within my closed walls for
All those that wish to visit me.
Your hands are the key
To secrets untold,
And your mind will unlock the door.
What am I?
Answer:A book
Riddle:
Stronger than steel,
And older than time;
They are more patient than death
and shall stand even when the stars have ceased to shine.
Their strength is embedded
in roots buried deep
Where the sands and frosts of ages
can never hope to touch or reach.
What am I?
Answer:Mountains
Riddle:
Creatures of power, creatures of grace,
Creatures of beauty, creatures of strength.
As for their lives,
they set everything's pace,
For all things must come to live
under their emerald embrace. . .
Either in their life, or in their death.
What are they?
Answer:Trees
Riddle:
When you look into my face,
I shall never lie;
Instead be but a window into your soul,
whether there light or shadows hide;
As in me many see their deaths
where others see their lives;
In this deny me many try,
but they simply twist their knives;
For though prejudiced to some I may seem,
THE LIE IS THEIR OWN LIVES.
What am I?
Answer: A mirror
Riddle:
Two bodies have I,
though both joined in one.
The more still I stand,
the quicker I run.
What am I?
Answer: An hourglass
Riddle:
I weaken all men for hours each day.
I show you strange visions while you are away.
I take you by night, by day take you back,
None suffer to have me, but do from my lack.
What am I?
Answer: Sleep
Riddle:
It is more beautiful than the face of your love.
It is more scary than your worst fear.
Dead men eat it all the time.
If a live man eats it, he soon will die.
A poor man has it.
A rich man wants it.
What am I?
Answer: Nothing
Riddle:
In many hallways you would stand,
If not with this in hand.
What am I?
Answer: A Key.
Riddle:
What is faster than the speed of sound, but is still human?
Answer: The thought.
Riddle:
I'm the source of all emotion, but I'm caged in a white prison.
What am I?
Answer: The heart.
Riddle:
If you have it,
You want to share it.
If you share it,
You don't have it.
What is it?
Answer: A secret
Riddle:
Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First we champ,
Then we stamp,
Then we stand still.
What are we?
Answer: Teeth
Riddle:
Voiceless it cries,
Wingless it flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.
What am I?
Answer: Wind
Riddle:
Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking. What am I?
Answer: Fish
Riddle:
This thing all things devours:
Birds, beast,trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
What am I?
Answer: Time
Riddle:
As light as a feather, but you can't hold it for ten minutes.
What is it?
Answer: Your breath
Riddle:
A red drum which sounds
Without being touched,
And grows silent,
When it is touched.
What am I?
Answer: Heart
Riddle:
All about, but cannot be seen,
Can be captured, cannot be held
No throat, but can be heard.
What am I?
Answer: Wind
Riddle:
Lighter than what
I am made of,
More of me is hidden
Than is seen.
What am I?
Answer:An iceberge
Riddle:
You can see nothing else
When you look in my face
I will look you in the eye
And I will never lie.
What am I?
Answer: mirror
Riddle:
Glittering points
That downward thrust,
Sparkling spears
That never rust.
What are we?
Answer: icicles, teeth or stalactites?
Riddle:
Keys without locks
Yet I unlock the soul.
What am I?
Answer: a piano, harpsichord
Riddle:
Something wholly unreal, yet seems real to I
Think my friend, tell me where does it lie?
Answer: in the mind
Riddle:
One where none should be,
or maybe where two should be,
seeking out purity,
in the kings trees.
What am I?
Answer: A Unicorn
Riddle:
One tooth to bite,
I'm the forests foe.
One tooth to fight,
as all Norse know.
What am I?
Answer: An Axe
Riddle:
The part of the bird
that is not in the sky,
which can swim in the ocean
and always stay dry.
What am I?
Answer: A Shadow
Riddle:
Inside a great blue castle
Lives a shy young maid
She blushes in the morning
And comes not out at night.
What am I?
Answer: The sun
Riddle:
In marble halls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal-clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
What is it?
Answer: An egg
Riddle:
Though I dance at a ball, I am nothing at all.
What am I?
Answer: A shadow
Riddle:
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man who had seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
Answer: One
Riddle:
Look into my face and I'm everybody;
Scratch my back and I'm nobody.
What am I?
Answer: A mirror
Riddle:
I go over all the hills and hollows,
Bite hard, but never swallow.
What am I?
Answer: Frost
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