Someone starts a riddle or puzzle, and everyone else tries to guess what it is. The person with the right answer gets to ask the next one.  If the riddle poster does not respond, remind them.  If the riddle poster does not seem to be responding after awhile, assume that riddle is dead and move on to the next one.

(Time to start a new thread.  The old one was nearing 1000 posts.)

If you want to see private line guesses for previous riddles, you can look at a closed and archived riddle thread.

Here's a funny one I like. I did not make this up, so I assume it is online. Restrain yourself from looking it up, if you can.

Why is the letter O the noisiest of all the vowels?

I'm so tempted to go look it up.  But I'm trying to be good.

HINT: This is a play on words like the old one "When is a door not a door?"

I will go ahead and give the answer here since it has been a few days:

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Because it's not in audible (inaudible).

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Anyone can post the next one.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:12, Tue 06 Dec 2022.

She cries without eyes,
Diminishing size,
And when the flame
Upon her came,
From her tears
She disappears.

a candle?

Yes. I thought that might be a hard one. Glad you got it!

I rather had fun making that one. one of my favorites of my recent creations.

I have one idea here. Maybe people can put their answers in "spoiler" format. Then if others want to try to solve, they can do so without having the answer right in front of them. Just an idea.

I enjoy your riddles too :)

I have a head,
But cannot think;
Strike me hard,
And smell my stink,
And then I'm gone
Before you blink.

A match?

Yes. Guess we're not doing the spoiler thing...?

I haunt, all pale, the waters of foul fens;
Fortune has fashioned me a bloody name,
For greedy gulps of red blood are my fare.
No bones, or feet, or arms at all have I,
yet bite with three-forked wounds unlucky men,
And by health-bringing lips thus conquer care.

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Leeches - the riddle is from the same super-classic adventure I pillaged so far...

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This message was last edited by the player at 18:00, Sun 18 Dec 2022.

I think he meant to put your guesses in spoilers, not the answer when you post the riddle lol

In reply to Grant (msg # 15):

Congratulations! You guessed right!
Now it's your turn to post a riddle :P

No new riddle to stump me yet?

Sorry, I only solve the riddles, not post them.

Same, so Heath or Fool can go again.

What is it that goes uphill and downhill, yet never moves?

The road?

That's right! Now it's your turn to propose a new riddle!

Nah.  You can go again.

Yes, this is what I meant!  HAHA

I've been overseas for the last month. I'll have to try to think of a new one.

I run at the mouth,
But stop not at the bank;
The channel I turn,
But then see it at my flank.
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:34, Sat 21 Jan 2023.

A river?

Yes!

What gets wet as it dries?

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Another small riddle from the same classic adventure source... soon I'll have it completely pillaged...

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a towel

In reply to Heath (msg # 30):

That's correct!

They did set her on fire,
Until she bled,
And when she cried,
They cut off her head.

This riddle sounds gruesome... :P

Haha...any answers?

Hint:

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It is a common man-made object that has existed for thousands of years. I think you CAN get at least the first three letters!

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..dle?

Yeah it's a candle.

Candle, yes. Sorry, guys, but I am mostly AWOL right now due to personal reasons.

I assume that your personal reasons are not the solution to your riddle :P

What do builders have to look out for before constructing a building and surgeons have to look out for while performing a surgery?

I think we need a hint.

Do you want the key to the riddle?

I was going to say "stumps," like tree stumps and amputated limb stumps and stumped by the riddle, but I know that's wrong.
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:11, Mon 11 Sept 2023.

How about "skeleton"? Like skeletons buried in the land, in the body, and a skeleton key

Signs?

Infrastructure?

Builders flag pipes, underground electrical lines and communications lines before beginning construction

Surgeons are constantly making sure that they are not severing nerves or nicking veins, arteries and/or other vital organs during surgery.

I agree.

I looked it up online. it is "skeleton."

This letter he wrote,
But had nothing to write;
Yet the blind man read it
And the dumb man said it,
While the deaf man heard it alright.

Hmm... how about H?

Nope. Try again

No guessers?

Think of a letter that can also be a number.

In reply to Heath (msg # 51):

The first to come to mind is O, that can be also 0.

Yes, that is correct! This is  actually not 100% original. I modified it from a common riddle that goes like this:

A headless man had a letter to write; It was read by a man who had lost his sight. The dumb repeated it word for word, And deaf was he who listened and heard.

"The letter in question is the letter "O". It is zero. The man had nothing to write. The blind could read nothing. The person who was dumb could repeat nothing. The deaf man listened and heard nothing."

My challenge has made men throughout time stumble,
I have defeated kings and left wise men humble,

You see me now, but I am most often heard,
and have killed men when with bullets paired,

You might break a sweat when fighting with me,
but I'll exert no pressure on your body,

a with a direct approach you can never find victory,
work laterally rather than literally.

What am I?

Words?

In reply to Heath (msg # 55):

Not really :)

damn that's a good one...

i have a couple guesses (but im not too confident on either):

1. The Unknown
2. Fear

lmk :)

In reply to Froggychum (msg # 57):

Not yet :)

perhaps anger or violence?

Not really... do you need a hint?

I could use one, I think :P

In reply to Froggychum (msg # 61):

I'm a very boring fool.

that's not ringing too many bells..

but i read it again and had another idea:

it could be related to these ideas, which are all very similar:

* the wind
* oxygen
* atmosphere
* sound
* motion
* fluidity

If it's none of those, it could also be: DANGER?
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I'm a very boring fool and I tend to repeat myself.

Boredom? Foolishness? Repetition?

These all seem too obvious. You wouldn't give away the answer like that. It's not a hint at that point.

I have five more ideas:
 - Exhaustion
 - Old Age
 - Madness
 - Chaos
 - Problems

I'm going to go with "riddle"

That's right! That was the same solution to another riddle I proposed some time ago :D

Harry calls me Tom.  :)

Now it's your time to propose a riddle.

Round as a globe,
Yet surrounded by hair;
Moist in the middle,
And water sometimes flows there.

Is it the mouth?

No, but I like the way you are thinking. ANd you're very close.

I won't be active for awhile due to holidays and because I opened a new business that's eating up my time. Here is the answer.

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an eye:  spherical like a globe, eyelashes as hair, tears make it moist, and crying makes the water flow

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Nice!

They Call Me The King. I Have The Eyes, Hiss, And Fangs Of A Snake, But Have No Scales Or Venom.
What am I?

Elvis?

No, probably not

In reply to Heath (msg # 75):

Not really - try again! :)

So probably not Michael Jackson either--the king of pop.  Hmmm...

How about a lion, the "king of the jungle"?

In reply to Heath (msg # 78):

Almost :)

A lion is a cat that is king of the jungle. Is it just cat? If so, not sure where the king part comes in

It is indeed just a cat.

Cut down this tree,
And it sprouts again;
Though plucked from
its roots,
It never bears fruits,
And sprouts once more
Where it's always been.

Hmmm... hope?

No, but nice metaphor. hope springs eternal, eh?

This is actually something tangible

A couple more lines:

Though they be
Brown or black, or
Yellow or red;
These trees,
Cut or plucked,
Are already dead.

Mushrooms?

No. Afraid not.

"Trees" here means something that is not a tree, something everyone has in one color or another.

Is it hair?

sounds right to me...

Yes. Sorry for delays. I've been sick most of the last 6 weeks

In reply to Heath (msg # 90):

Now it's your turn to post a riddle ;)

Tristenno gets a turn.

OK