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| 29 MAY 2003 at 10:59pm |
JessJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (29 MAY 2003 10:38pm)
Are you sure? It fits really well! Or is it something else/reflecting in something else?
I guess it could fit, lakes most likely are green, but there is something else that could fit better...
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| 29 MAY 2003 at 11:31pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Jessica (29 MAY 2003 10:59pm)
I guess it could fit, lakes most likely are green, but there is something else that could fit better...
Is it some (yellow) flower & sun?
I forgot my sig.
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| 30 MAY 2003 at 5:47am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Last Chance to See! This is the final quintet of Krondorian riddles. The remaining few don't make sense outside of the game.
1. We travel much, yet prisoners are,
And close confined, to boot.
Yet with any horse we will keep pace,
And always go on foot.
2. Inside a burning house,
This thing is best to make.
And best to make it quickly before,
The fire's too much to take.
3. This fool has married
many women. Yet he has never
been married.
4. Neck, but no head.
Arms, but no hands.
Waist, but no legs.
5. I saw him where he never was,
And where he could not be.
And yet within this place,
I saw a wavering face,
Staring back at me.
I forgot my sig.
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| 30 MAY 2003 at 6:01am |
EvaGuild Master
Posts : 3247
Joined: 5 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By MichalN (30 MAY 2003 5:47am)
Last Chance to See! This is the final quintet of Krondorian riddles.
:'( That makes me so sad... It's the end of en era. What will happen to the riddle-thread now? It was my ticket to forum-fame.
If I get any of them wrong, it's just because I want to savour the experience:
#1: a horse-shoe?
#2: an escape?
#3: a catholic priest?
#4: a shirt/sweater/coat/dress?
#5: a mirror?
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| 30 MAY 2003 at 9:27am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Eva (30 MAY 2003 6:01am)
:'( That makes me so sad... It's the end of en era. What will happen to the riddle-thread now? It was my ticket to forum-fame.
Oooo, don't cry... and don't worry, I'll think of something
If I get any of them wrong, it's just because I want to savour the experience:
To let you savour some more, no answers yet - I just woke up in the middle of the night and I might get them wrong anyway
I forgot my sig.
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| 30 MAY 2003 at 2:45pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Eva (30 MAY 2003 6:01am)
#1: a horse-shoe?
#2: an escape?
#3: a catholic priest?
#4: a shirt/sweater/coat/dress?
#5: a mirror?
#1 No...
#2 Not quite.
#3 There are no Catholics in Krondor but yes, it's a priest
#4 Right, even though the origianl answer was "jacket"
#5 You're on the right track, but it's not a mirror.
I forgot my sig.
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| 30 MAY 2003 at 8:15pm |
EvaGuild Master
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Joined: 5 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Oooo, don't cry... and don't worry, I'll think of something
Oh, Michal! You're my hero! :-*
#1 A wheel?
#2 A hole? Sorry, couldn't resist!
#5 - Ah, "Wavering face" - must be a reflection in water then
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| 30 MAY 2003 at 8:30pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Eva (30 MAY 2003 8:15pm)
Oh, Michal! You're my hero! :-*
At your service ma'am
#1 A wheel?
No... it actually does have a lot to do with horses and shoes. But not horseshoes
#2 A hole? Sorry, couldn't resist!
Good guess... but no The word starts with a 'h'.
#5 - Ah, "Wavering face" - must be a reflection in water then
Right!
I forgot my sig.
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| 30 MAY 2003 at 9:30pm |
EvaGuild Master
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Joined: 5 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | #1 The shoes of someone riding a horse?
Is #2 haste, then?
Here's a batch for you:
When I am filled
I can point the way,
When I am empty
Nothing moves me,
I have two skins
One without and one within.
My tines be long,
My tines be short
My tines end ere
My first report.
What am I?
As a whole, I am both safe and secure.
Behead me, and I become a place of meeting.
Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready.
Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts.
What am I?
A hundred and one
by fifty divide,
And if a cipher
is rightly applied,
The answer is one from nine.
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| 30 MAY 2003 at 11:30pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Eva (30 MAY 2003 9:30pm)
#1 The shoes of someone riding a horse?
Is #2 haste, then?
#1 is something on the shoes of someone riding a horse
#2 is indeed 'haste'.
Here's a batch for you:
These are killers! The English of these riddles is so archaic and muddy that I am severely confused
#1 Compass? Balloon?
#2 Is that some animal?
#3 Clues please!
#4 What does 'cipher' stand for here?? Zero? Digit? Number? Mathematical operation? Something else?
I forgot my sig.
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 12:11am |
JessJourneyman
Posts : 1359
Joined: 21 MAR 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (30 MAY 2003 11:30pm)
#1 is something on the shoes of someone riding a horse
You mean a spur?
Originally Posted By Eva (30 MAY 2003 9:30pm)
Here's a batch for you:
When I am filled
I can point the way,
When I am empty
Nothing moves me,
I have two skins
One without and one within.
My tines be long,
My tines be short
My tines end ere
My first report.
What am I?
As a whole, I am both safe and secure.
Behead me, and I become a place of meeting.
Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready.
Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts.
What am I?
A hundred and one
by fifty divide,
And if a cipher
is rightly applied,
The answer is one from nine.
1. a glove
2. nooo clue
3. I had this one b4...no one solved it, 'prefixes' and 'suffixes' came up...
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 12:14am |
JessJourneyman
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Joined: 21 MAR 2003
Status : Online | I live above a star,
and yet I never burn,
I have eleven neighbors,
and yet none of them turn,
I am visited in sequence,
first, last or in between,
PRS (& sometimes Q)are my initials,
now tell me what I mean.
I am one simple word,
but I mean different things
One of my meanings
brings great forceful swings,
The other of me, may have curve,
like the first...
But only one meaning can help quench a thirst.
One of my meanings will often bring cheers,
Either of them could hold a few beers.
You throw away the outside and cook the inside.
Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What are you eating?
What has no content, yet you can see it?
It can be cut and will grow back.
Yet when you least expect it,
it may disappear never to return.
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 12:17am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Jessica (31 MAY 2003 12:10am)
You mean a spur?
Yep!
3. I had this one b4...no one solved it, 'prefixes' and 'suffixes' came up...
Yeah... I think I know how the riddle is supposed to work, I just can't find the right word(s)...
I forgot my sig.
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 12:19am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Jessica (31 MAY 2003 12:14am)
What has no content, yet you can see it?
A hole?
#2 Could be 'barrel'
#3 Corn cob? That'd fit pretty well...
#5 Hair?
I forgot my sig.
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 12:39am |
JessJourneyman
Posts : 1359
Joined: 21 MAR 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (31 MAY 2003 12:17am)
Yeah... I think I know how the riddle is supposed to work, I just can't find the right word(s)...
You mean like a hidden word in the riddle? If that's how you figure it out, I wouldn't be able to get it!
Originally Posted By MichalN (31 MAY 2003 12:18am)
A hole?
What else!
Originally Posted By MichalN (31 MAY 2003 12:18am)
#2 Could be 'barrel'
#3 Corn cob? That'd fit pretty well...
#5 Hair?
2. It's something that holds liquid...but barrel doesn't fit the first two descriptions...
3. Yeah corn on the cob.
5. Yeah..
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 12:48am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Jessica (31 MAY 2003 12:38am)
You mean like a hidden word in the riddle? If that's how you figure it out, I wouldn't be able to get it!
No, not a hidden word... just prefixes and/or suffixes to some (unknown to me at the moment) word.
What else!
I never doubted
2. It's something that holds liquid...but barrel doesn't fit the first two descriptions...
Pitcher?
3. Yeah corn on the cob.
Yum
I forgot my sig.
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 12:54am |
JessJourneyman
Posts : 1359
Joined: 21 MAR 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (31 MAY 2003 12:48am)
No, not a hidden word... just prefixes and/or suffixes to some (unknown to me at the moment) word.
Should I let the secret out?? .....It's a stable.
Originally Posted By MichalN (31 MAY 2003 12:48am)
I never doubted
I knew you wouldn't
Originally Posted By MichalN (31 MAY 2003 12:48am)
Pitcher?
Yeap.
What about the 1st one?
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 1:01am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Jessica (31 MAY 2003 12:53am)
Should I let the secret out?? .....It's a stable.
Table is a place of meeting? I'd never think of that.
What about the 1st one?
Has me puzzled. What's the thing with the initials?
I forgot my sig.
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 1:06am |
JessJourneyman
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Joined: 21 MAR 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (31 MAY 2003 1:01am)
Table is a place of meeting? I'd never think of that.
Ahh...you see that's what I meant, now I see how to solve it!
Originally Posted By MichalN (31 MAY 2003 1:01am)
Has me puzzled. What's the thing with the initials?
It's something that you see everyday (or almost, at least) and you prolly pass it by. It's in your home, you need it for "contact".
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 1:11am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Jessica (31 MAY 2003 1:06am)
Ahh...you see that's what I meant, now I see how to solve it!
You mean you knew the solution but not why it was the solution?
It's something that you see everyday (or almost, at least) and you prolly pass it by. It's in your home, you need it for "contact".
Now there's a nice hint! It's a '7' on a touch tone phone
I forgot my sig.
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 1:21am |
JessJourneyman
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Joined: 21 MAR 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (31 MAY 2003 1:11am)
You mean you knew the solution but not why it was the solution?
Yeah, I couldn't get it, I was wondering what the...?!
Originally Posted By MichalN (31 MAY 2003 1:11am)
Now there's a nice hint! It's a '7' on a touch tone phone
I like that riddle, it's original.
1. Sometimes it glitters, but often not;
May be cold, or may be hot.
Ever changing though the eye can't measure,
Concealed within may be many treasures.
Some find safety beneath its gate,
While some may die beneath its weight!
Old and broken, it brings forth life.
2. Part carbon, part water,
I am poison to the fishes.
Many falsely claim my name,
I am the pause that refreshes
3. What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?
4. What won't break if you throw it off the highest building in the world, but will break if you place it in the ocean?
5. While walking across a bridge I saw a boat full of people. Yet on the boat there wasn't a single person. Why?
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 1:30am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Jessica (31 MAY 2003 1:20am)
Yeah, I couldn't get it, I was wondering what the...?!
See, that was great cooperation
#2 Is that some soft drink?
#3 Something used to mix/apply white paint for instance...
#5 The boat was an U-boat and the people were in it, not on it? Or, they were all married?
I forgot my sig.
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 1:50am |
JessJourneyman
Posts : 1359
Joined: 21 MAR 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By MichalN (31 MAY 2003 1:30am)
See, that was great cooperation
I couldn't do it without you
Originally Posted By MichalN (31 MAY 2003 1:30am)
#2 Is that some soft drink?
#3 Something used to mix/apply white paint for instance...
#5 The boat was an U-boat and the people were in it, not on it? Or, they were all married?
2. Yeah soda!
3. heh no....not 'paint'......
5. They were couples/married! mwahahahaha... :
#1 is kinda confusing...wow, I can't even think of a good clue for it....hhmmmm...you can find it on a beach, mountain, shallow rivers...damn
#4. Ha! this one is tough right? hmmm... :'(....<-- that's a clue
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| 31 MAY 2003 at 2:01am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Jessica (31 MAY 2003 1:50am)
I couldn't do it without you
I can safely say the same
3. heh no....not 'paint'......
Whitewash? I don't know...
5. They were couples/married! mwahahahaha... :
I still think U-boat was more inventive
#1 is kinda confusing...wow, I can't even think of a good clue for it....hhmmmm...you can find it on a beach, mountain, shallow rivers...damn
Rocks/sand?
#4. Ha! this one is tough right? hmmm... :'(....<-- that's a clue
Hmmm... drop of water?
I forgot my sig.
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