The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Party Room => Topic started by: WeirdRaptor on November 02, 2004, 12:11:35 AM
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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)
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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.
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;) B) :D
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carbon monoxide :p
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No, the answer is simpler. Don't think too technical to guess this one.
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The answer is something natural.
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Carbon monoxide does fit the description though. ;)
Um is it nothing? :p
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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?! ;)
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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.
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Is it death?
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Nope. Don't feel bad, that's what I'd have guessed, too.
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It is one of the toughest riddles from the book it is taken from, which contains a number of other riddles.
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Silence?
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How can silence end life? :huh:
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Wrong, but a good guess.
You're right, Malte, I probably should have taken from one of the earlier riddles.
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Yeah, we're pretty lousy at this. :p
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:lol
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.
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Well you had the book in front of you so that's not fair. :p I'm ready to hear the answer.
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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
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Easy....water. ;)
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Nope!
Though there are cases of water killing kings (e.g. Barbarossa) it doesn't do so on regular basis.
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They'll figure it out. They just need for Time. B)
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Indeed ;)
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Lava... I think...
Or it could be dragons.... lol myth idea. two guesses if you don't mind
-Threehorn
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Nope. I don't know of any king who ever died in lava. The dragon might be a good idea and there may be sagas about dragons that brought down mountains, but the answer is much simpler.
Just take your time. I'm sure one of you will guess it.
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The answer is Human
-Threehorn
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Nope. We have yet to beat a High Mountain down.
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Nature
-Threehorn
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Getting very close, but you'll need a bit more Time to think about it.
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It's Time of course.. you've been giving the hints all along =p
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how can time slay kings?
-Threehorn
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If' she not killed in a war or assassinated, he'll die of old age.
Time will eventually end everything.
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So the answer is time?
-Threehorn
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Yep.
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That got me. I would never think of that. But thinking back on the riddle I see the answer lol
-Threehorn
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I got it as soon as one of you wrote Time with a capital letter. :p
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:D
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Okay, here is another one:
Alive without breath
As cold as death
Never thirsty
Ever drinking
All in mail
Never clinking
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I've seen riddles like these played out before....
Does it have something to do with trees?
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No, it doesn't, but I believe to remember Arvens that once you Did see this kind of riddles, though I don't think you still remember.
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I obviously don't remember it. :p
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I think it's one of these: water, sea or ice... I'm probably wrong.. but it's worth a shot
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Water sea or ice? Alive without breathe? All in mail never clinking? Not really, but you ARE aiming in the right direction. You are pretty close NewOrder.
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Oh yeah, this one. I remember it! :D
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Burn this book!!! :p
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This only happens one chapter.
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Burn this book!!!
I really wouldn't want to stay at a place where books are burned! I can understand the librarian in the movie "The day after tomorrow" though it was a special case there.
The riddle is not that fishy and difficult. Just think about it.
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Is it fish? algie? coral? (ok.. I'm probably several degrees below zero with this shot)
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That was a joke Malte. :rolleyes: I didn't honestly want you to burn the book but I just was expressing my difficulty of finding out the answer. ;)
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:lol:
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ok.. I'm probably several degrees below zero with this shot
Not at all NewOrder! Actually "fish" was the correct answer.
I didn't think that you were serious about burning the book Arvens, but indeed I should have made plainer that I didn't when I expressed my dislike of the idea of books being burned.
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Fish? I would have never guessed that
-Threehorn
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Then the questioner would have accomplished his task. ;) Although, given the circumstances, you might have gotten it.
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You mean the circumstances the character in the book is in WeirdRaptor? I don't think they would make things much easier for the guesser. Anyway, here is the next one:
What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?
One remark, the last line of the riddle is scientifically incorrect.
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Weeee I got it it right =p
Hmm... mountain? iceberg?
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Yep. A mountain.
A box without hinges, key, or lid. Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
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wow wouldn't have guessed that :lol
-Threehorn
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;) The 'riddler' was very clever.
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what the next riddle????
-Threehorn
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A box without hinges, key or lid. Yet golden treasure inside is hid.