What is the answer to this riddle?

WeirdRaptor · **on:** November 02, 2004, 12:11:35 AM

It cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be smelled.
It hides behind stars, and under hills, and empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after.
End life, kills laughter.

Ready...set...GUESS! B)

Malte279 · **Reply #1 on:** November 02, 2004, 01:55:44 AM

I know the answer (I read the book this riddle is taken from), but I won't give it away to give others a chance to guess.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #2 on:** November 02, 2004, 02:02:09 AM

B)

Petrie · **Reply #3 on:** November 02, 2004, 10:01:37 AM

carbon monoxide

Malte279 · **Reply #4 on:** November 02, 2004, 02:26:20 PM

No, the answer is simpler. Don't think too technical to guess this one.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #5 on:** November 02, 2004, 07:04:30 PM

The answer is something natural.

Petrie · **Reply #6 on:** November 02, 2004, 07:24:39 PM

Carbon monoxide does fit the description though.

Um is it nothing?

Littlefoot1616 · **Reply #7 on:** November 02, 2004, 09:49:44 PM

Duh...AIR right? The very thing that keeps us ticking! It's natural. It cant be seen, smelled nor heard. It fills empty holes (but the hole still has something in it) ends life if it were to deplete. It was around before anything else could survive on the planet.

Im getting a bit ahead of myself...I might even be wrong...but for argument's sake...

Howz my aim?!

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #8 on:** November 02, 2004, 10:14:35 PM

Nope. Air can be heard, and its not behind stars. And air woudn't kill laughter.

And Carbon Monoxide is wrong, too, Arvens.

It cannot be seen, cannnot heard, cannot be smelled.
It hides behind and undedr hills, and empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after.
Ends life, kills laughter.

Its something we fear.

Petrie · **Reply #9 on:** November 02, 2004, 11:40:42 PM

Is it death?

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #10 on:** November 03, 2004, 12:19:14 AM

Nope. Don't feel bad, that's what I'd have guessed, too.

Malte279 · **Reply #11 on:** November 03, 2004, 03:55:04 AM

It is one of the toughest riddles from the book it is taken from, which contains a number of other riddles.

NewOrder · **Reply #12 on:** November 03, 2004, 06:48:44 AM

Silence?

Petrie · **Reply #13 on:** November 03, 2004, 10:17:13 AM

How can silence end life? :huh:

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #14 on:** November 03, 2004, 10:57:18 PM

Wrong, but a good guess.

You're right, Malte, I probably should have taken from one of the earlier riddles.

Petrie · **Reply #15 on:** November 03, 2004, 11:28:36 PM

Yeah, we're pretty lousy at this.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #16 on:** November 04, 2004, 02:31:36 AM

Is anyone just ready to give up, because I'm beginning to doubt if you'll get it. I didn't even have to guess the answer, it was provided in the book when the character who was being asked answered correctly.

Petrie · **Reply #17 on:** November 04, 2004, 09:25:08 AM

Well you had the book in front of you so that's not fair.

I'm ready to hear the answer.

Malte279 · **Reply #18 on:** November 04, 2004, 11:55:56 AM

The answer on this riddle would be "Darkness", and a reason why I consider it a rather difficult riddle is because "darkness" doesn't really end life.
However, there is another riddle in the same book which is more factly with what it says and may be easier to answer:

This thing all things devours
Birds, Beasts, Trees, Flowers
Gnaws Iron, Bites Steel
Grinds hard stone to meal
Slays king, ruins town
And beats high mountain down

Petrie · **Reply #19 on:** November 04, 2004, 12:50:55 PM

Easy....water.