The Riddle Thread

[seththelezzy]

Are you serious? Wow. I got it right.

Ok, I've got one.

This one is HARD

The paragraph below is most unusual. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?
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"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "
The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930's
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What is unusual about the paragraph above?

[RandomPscho]

It is missing the letter 'e' throughout the entire paragraph.

[seththelezzy]

Right. The most common letter in the English language is the letter 'e', But in that whole paragraph it doesn't appear once. Very good. Your turn.

[Lamoc]

I'll put a series of riddles up for the hell of it.

Three kids from Bristol went for a walk. About a mile into the walk, they came to a deep, wide river. There was no bridge. They didn't have a boat or raft, or any materials to make one. None of them could swim.
How did they cross the river?

What is that no man ever saw, which never was but always will be?

What goes up but never comes down?

What 3 letters change a girl into a woman?

A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another?

[Hepcat06]

1.

2. time?

3. Warm air. Although the actual air may eventually come down, it wont be warm (i know im wrong).

4.S E X (lol)

5.110? 73037

[acknerr]

1. I'd guess they found a way around it.

[GuidoHunter]

1: It was winter; the river was frozen.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Lamoc]

HAHA! Gj guidohunter and hepcat. Guido your right on number 1, and hepcat answered number 5 right.

What is that no man ever saw, which never was but always will be?

What goes up but never comes down?

What 3 letters change a girl into a woman?

Last 3 riddles. Lets see who can get'em.

[RandomPscho]

1. Time.
2. Age of people.
3. A g e???

My guesses.

[Lamoc]

1 is wrong
2 is right (kinda, age in general)
3 is right

Here's some more I can think of.

What is that no man ever saw, which never was but always will be? (Previous)

What number am I? I have 3 digist, my tens digit is 5 more than my ones digit, and my hundreds digit is 8 less than my tens digit.

What 7 letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed? (one of my favs)

What goes in liquid and comes out solid many days later?

What goes up and down and doesn't move?

A horse jumped over a tower and landed on a priest one day. Suddenly the preist vanished. How did this happen?

[stoners_netname]

2-- 194

*What can go up a chimney down, but not go down a chimney up?*

[GuidoHunter]

Lounger? That's the first possible word I came up with.

@stoner: an umbrella?

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Lamoc]

smoke

What is that no man ever saw, which never was but always will be? (Previous)

What number am I? I have 3 digist, my tens digit is 5 more than my ones digit, and my hundreds digit is 8 less than my tens digit.

What 7 letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed? (one of my favs) (Guild solved, its lounger)

What goes in liquid and comes out solid many days later?

What goes up and down and doesn't move?

A horse jumped over a tower and landed on a priest one day. Suddenly the preist vanished. How did this happen?


Sorry guild didn't know I could delete posts.

[stoners_netname]

5-- Temperature?


ooo guido is a smart cookie! umbrella is correct

[GuidoHunter]

There's no L in my name. Also, stoner got your second one already.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Lamoc]

Uh.... Try sticking to real objects. tempature is real I guess... Its kinda like inches and feet, they're only real because we say they are. I think... Ok I lost my chain of thinking, no its on tempature.

GuidHunter got The 3rd one and Stoner got the 2nd one. Riddles removed.

-Riddles not solved-

What is that no man ever saw, which never was but always will be? (Previous)

What goes in liquid and comes out solid many days later?

What goes up and down and doesn't move?

A horse jumped over a tower and landed on a priest one day. Suddenly the preist vanished. How did this happen?

[GuidoHunter]

The problem with your "riddles", Lamoc, is that they're so poorly constructed that MANY different things can answer them. That means they're not good riddles.

Temperature is a perfect answer, but there's obviously another.

"What goes in liquid and comes out solid many days later" could apply to a number of things; it doesn't even require clever or critical thinking!

The last one there, that's a riddle. Your others are just bad.

Also, QUIT REPOSTING THEM. We saw them once; we don't need to see them a dozen mroe times.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Hepcat06]

Well said Guido

[Ice wolf]

Seeing as Lamoc's riddles were owned by Guido, I'll post more (Hopefully good ones)

What number comes next in the sequence:
61, 691, 163, 487, 4201, ?

What two words meaning "task" and "high temperature" respectively, are anagrams of each other?

What numerical sequence beginning with 1 precedes 25 of 1? (This one might be a bit confusing)

[Lamoc]

No one answers them if I don't repost. But w/e.

9631

second one i have idea what anagrams are

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