The Riddle Thread

[Vishnal]

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I don't think these have been correctly answered

2. ONE : MONO :: FEW : ?
7. TAUGHT BY ANOTHER : PUPIL :: TAUGHT BY ONESELF : ?
13. TINTINNABULATION : ONOMATOPOEA :: BITTERSWEET : ?
14. BEND ONE'S KNEE TO : GENUFLECTION :: TURN ONE'S BACK ON : ?

I was watching South Park (Episode: Cartmanland) and it hit me:

14. RENOUNCEMENT

Why? Genuflection means staying with your faith. If you renounce your faith, you are casting it aside and basically disowning it.

2. OLIGO

[Reach]

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Oligo is correct. Good job.

So is autodidact.

I will also *gasp* accept oxymoron. Good job.


Renouncement is not the best answer to 14. Close, though.

[virtuoussinner]

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14. A simple possibility is Forsake.

[EI_Tizzy]

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14) Is maybe resistance?

[1M_4_N008]

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#13 was actually easy for me... Sorry. I poofed away from this thread, and couldn't find it again, lolz. Can anyone post more of these? I like them better than the number ones. I have enough math and Calculus as it is :P

Could #14 be REflection? I think it's a long stretch, but you never know...

Actually, I think it's a realllllly long shot. Scratch that unless it's right:P

[Ice wolf]

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What happened in the middle of the 20th Century that will not happen again for 4,000 years?

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

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?

[GuidoHunter]

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2: ton.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Reach]

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#13 was actually easy for me... Sorry. I poofed away from this thread, and couldn't find it again, lolz. Can anyone post more of these? I like them better than the number ones. I have enough math and Calculus as it is :P

Could #14 be REflection? I think it's a long stretch, but you never know...

Actually, I think it's a realllllly long shot. Scratch that unless it's right:P

No, that's not it.


I'll probably post more when I get some time to make them, or find a site with good ones on it.

[virtuoussinner]

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What happened in the middle of the 20th Century that will not happen again for 4,000 years?

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

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?

3. a bird?

[Reach]

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Well, it has to be one of two things:

1. Something REALLY hard that dissolves in water...

or

2. Something soft and light that floats and naturally falls too slow to damage itself, but will dissolve or break apart in water.


I think the answer to the first one is 1961

[Metheawsome]

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I've got one that no-one has ever gotten before, mostly because it is completely insane..

You are in a room with no windows or doors. In the room is a mirror and a table. You have nothing with you but your wits. And clothes, don't forget the clothes. How do you escape?

Hint: Homonyms (less effective when typed)

[Vishnal]

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@Icewolf:

1. More specifically, 1961 was a year in the 20th century that read the same upside-down.
It's won't happen again until 6009, a span of 4,048 years.

2. A ton. (Little wordplay here; read backwards, it is not.)

3. A tissue. The water will dissolve the tissue, but it won't break if you throw it from a height, unless something impales or otherwise knocks up the tissue.

@Meth:

Here's what you do.

You look into the mirror. You take what you saw, and use the "saw" to cut the table in half. Two halves make a "hole", and you exit through the "hole."

[Metheawsome]

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Vishnal-You look into the mirror. You take what you saw, and use the "saw" to cut the table in half. Two halves make a "hole", and you exit through the "hole."

Correct but you misspelled "whole".

I guess the homonyms thing was a pretty big hint.

[Vishnal]

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I didn't misspell it. I deliberately put it in quotes with that spelling to show the wordplay.

[Metheawsome]

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oops, I thought you would spell them in the sense that they are being used.

someone should probably give another riddle.