Riddles

[alondor]

To Silentiea's riddle i say the answer is... nothing
where as to falconer's i say fear

[Corva]

To Falconers I can onl say... Reflection. It's the only way that it fits the first line.

Nothing doesn't really fit. Nothing started life? Nothing started Evolution? Kalaam.

[Falconer]

Both wrong. Hahaha, finally a good riddle!

@Silentia: God

[Pandora]

to falconer's, I want to say it's either a mirror or a shadow


here's some dragon riddles, tell me what you think these mean. Hint, one of these is actually really really easy.


1. A man can walk past a tree all of his given life. Yet the man who sits under the tree for one single day knows more than he.

2.A fool builds a house from glass, yet a wiser man can't see what the fool can.

3.i am offered to everyone
I am sought after
I can't be carried
I can't be held
I've seen the better and the worst
I am found with the rich and with the poor
and although I have no limbs I have been said to knock on doors

[Falconer]

No, no, no, wrong direction entirely.

1: The man who sits sees others pass by?
2: That the bright sun will turn the place into an oven?
3: Love.

1 and 2, I'm not even sure what is being asked. This riddling on an entirely new level.

[Dragon444]

@Pandora; is the third one "opportunity"?

sorry, but I don't have any to add right now.

[Pandora]

@Pandora; is the third one "opportunity"?

yes exactly right! good job!

Falconer: you are thinking to hard about them both, way off course. I gave the hint that one of them was really easy. I'll give you another hint, one of them is considered a life lesson, the other means exactly what it says in a way.

[dragonfly]

pandora, #1 is Sir Isaac Newton i think (apple falling on his head = gravity)
I'll think about number two.

[Pandora]

nope sorry, not it, think more on the terms of how well the men both know the tree.

[Blue Tiger]

Ok, is the 1st one "perspective", to use your eyes and ears?
Is the second one something to do with the fact that the fool can see through the house, and maybe danger?

[Pandora]

you are on the right track with both, but you haven't quite gotten there yet.

[wut2say]

1. i have no idea
2. Glass breaks, and everyone can see what you're doing....wrong, but a good point
3. Death

[Dragon444]

Okay, Wut2Say, I answered the 3rd riddle. I have no clue what the others are though.

[Silentiea]

The first one seems basically like 'stop and smell the roses'. I think that's the life lesson.

The second one says the fool can sometimes see more than the wise man. They think differently, and the fool will sometimes come up with solutions the wise man misses?

And I know Mirravin said the third one was opportunity, but I've always heard it as 'Hope comes knocking', and that seems to fit as well.

And as I said for mine way back when, There is no 'answer', someone just wrote it as a poem, but all kinds of people tried to think it was a riddle. So maybe it should be a poll.

[Falconer]

1: The first man thinks of his destination. The second thinks of his location.

2: Everything. The house is made of glass.

If nobody guesses mine by later on today, I'll post the answer.

[wut2say]

hope really? i've always heard of death knocking... ah well. i missed that.

@ falconer: i have no idea. all i can think of each and every time i read it i think, light, reflection, moon, mirror....and two have been said. and the other two are said in the riddle.... i applaud your riddle of bafflement.

[Pandora]

Falconer got the second one right! The fool can see more that the wise man because his house is made of glass! Lol! told you that one was really simple!

Sil has come the closest to answering the first, but it's not quite there yet.

here's another one to work on, I hope this one is a bit easier to solve.

I am a lonely one
I'm what is formed from what could have been
I'm not real, only in the minds of others do I exist
I'm placed with what is sad
I'm what happens when one thinks of what they could have had

[Falconer]

@Pandora: That Falconer guy, only guesses the dumb-easy ones...
1: The man who walks past sees but a snapshot, but the man who sits under the trees sees its interaction with the world around it?

New riddle: I'm assuming the word in the last line is "Could", not cloud.
Prejudice?

The answer to my riddle is warts. *cricket chirping* You get rid of warts by washing in a silver basin by moonlight?

[Silentiea]

Oh, wow. Excuse me for not knowing folk remedies for warts. Haha.

The man under the tree gets to see all the people who walk past it besides himself?

[Falconer]

That's okay, Silentia, we can't all be geniuses.[/joking]

[Blue Tiger]

Is that one longing? Regret? Nostalgia?

[Silentiea]

Avarice? Jealousy? Or some other word for the same sort of thing?

[wut2say]

I like Regret. and yes, i know that it has already been suggested. but it sounds right. Kudos!

[Pandora]

Blue Tiger got the last one.

it's regret.

Ok for the first riddle since you've all gotten so close I'll let you know just how close you did get.

the tree repesents a person or an object that we take forgranted. The person who walks by is a person who knows this person or object, but doesn't really get to know it or them. The person who sits under the tree is someone who spends a single day with this person or object, and learns more about them than the person that is supposed to know them.

proving that knowing a person doesn't mean you really do know them.

[wut2say]

hmmm, sehr sehr cool. quite philosophical... sehr nett.