Riddle Thread.

[ashitaria]

Okay, I admit. I'm bored. The forum isn't so active now, ever since Anthille locked the Bad Words thread.

So now, I'm starting a riddle thread. Here's the rules (don't worry, there's only one.)

1) Show a riddle.
2) (I tricked you!) If someone guesses your riddle correctly, he shows his riddle.

It would be great if your riddle is original though. I've exhausted almost every riddle on the net.

Here's mine.

What's long, swishy, and very very frightful?

 

[Alice?]

Okay, I admit. I'm bored. The forum isn't so active now, ever since Anthille locked the Bad Words thread.

So now, I'm starting a riddle thread. Here's the rules (don't worry, there's only one.)

1) Show a riddle.
2) (I tricked you!) If someone guesses your riddle correctly, he shows his riddle.

It would be great if your riddle is original though. I've exhausted almost every riddle on the net.

Here's mine.

What's long, swishy, and very very frightful?

A ringwraith?

 

[ashitaria]

What's that?

 

[Alice?]

What's that?

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[ashitaria]

XD.

I'll give you a hint.

It's flexible.

 

[y4r5xeym5]

You're opening yourself up to way many innuendos my friend.

My guess? A fishing pole

 

[Words]

Okay, I admit. I'm bored. The forum isn't so active now, ever since Anthille locked the Bad Words thread.

So now, I'm starting a riddle thread. Here's the rules (don't worry, there's only one.)

1) Show a riddle.
2) (I tricked you!) If someone guesses your riddle correctly, he shows his riddle.

It would be great if your riddle is original though. I've exhausted almost every riddle on the net.

Here's mine.

What's long, swishy, and very very frightful?

A...snake? Though it seems the easy way out.

 

[420MuNkEy]

There was a 'bad words' thread I missed? Drats.


@riddle: An eel?

 

[Jah]

A radioactive slinky ?

 

[420MuNkEy]

What do you mean by "swishy"?
Here's what the New Oxford American Dictionary (second edition) says:








swishy, a.
[f. swish n. or v. + -Y.]

1. Characterized by swishing.

2. slang. Characteristic of a male homosexual; effeminate. Also as n.





swish, a. colloq.
[Perh. f. as prec.]

Smart, elegant, fashionable.





swish, v.
[Imitative. Cf. swish int. or adv. and n.¹]

1. intr. To move with a swish (see swish n.¹ 1); to make the sound expressed by ‘swish’.

2. trans. To cause to move with a swish; esp. to whisk (the tail) about.

b. intr. (const. with).

c. trans. To move or remove with (or as with) a swishing movement.

3. intr. To jump a high hedge, brushing through the twigs at the top and making them bend. Also to swish a rasper (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).

4. trans. To flog, esp. at school.

5. To brush with a swishing sound.

Hence swished, 'swishing ppl. adjs.; also 'swisher, a flogger.





swish, int. or adv. and n.¹
[Imitative.]

A. int. or adv. Expressive of the sound made by the kind of movement defined in B. 1; with a swish. Also reduplicated swish, swish.

B. n.

1. a. A hissing sound like that produced by a switch or similar slender object moved rapidly through the air or an object moving swiftly in contact with water; movement accompanied by such sound.

b. Reduplicated swish, swish or swish-swish.

c. A rough hiss heard at each revolution of a faulty gramophone record.

2. A ‘dash’ of water upon a surface.

3. Short for swish-broom, -tail (see swish-).

4. A cane or birch for flogging; also, a stroke with this.

5. A male homosexual; an effeminate man. U.S. slang.

6. Cricket. A rapid or careless attacking stroke. colloq.





swish, n.²
[? Native name.]

A native mortar of West Africa. Also attrib.

 

[Cognisant]

This is the problem with riddles, they're just open metaphors with potentially hundreds of interpretations, for example I could suggest that it's an electrified cable and who's to say I'm wrong?

That's flexible, long, swishy, and very very frightful.

 

[ashitaria]

You're opening yourself up to way many innuendos my friend.

My guess? A fishing pole

Wrong. And the are only two possibilities to something long, swishy and frightful.

What do you mean by "swishy"?
Here's what the New Oxford American Dictionary (second edition) says:








swishy, a.
[f. swish n. or v. + -Y.]

1. Characterized by swishing.

2. slang. Characteristic of a male homosexual; effeminate. Also as n.





swish, a. colloq.
[Perh. f. as prec.]

Smart, elegant, fashionable.





swish, v.
[Imitative. Cf. swish int. or adv. and n.¹]

1. intr. To move with a swish (see swish n.¹ 1); to make the sound expressed by ‘swish’.

2. trans. To cause to move with a swish; esp. to whisk (the tail) about.

b. intr. (const. with).

c. trans. To move or remove with (or as with) a swishing movement.

3. intr. To jump a high hedge, brushing through the twigs at the top and making them bend. Also to swish a rasper (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).

4. trans. To flog, esp. at school.

5. To brush with a swishing sound.

Hence swished, 'swishing ppl. adjs.; also 'swisher, a flogger.





swish, int. or adv. and n.¹
[Imitative.]

A. int. or adv. Expressive of the sound made by the kind of movement defined in B. 1; with a swish. Also reduplicated swish, swish.

B. n.

1. a. A hissing sound like that produced by a switch or similar slender object moved rapidly through the air or an object moving swiftly in contact with water; movement accompanied by such sound.

b. Reduplicated swish, swish or swish-swish.

c. A rough hiss heard at each revolution of a faulty gramophone record.

2. A ‘dash’ of water upon a surface.

3. Short for swish-broom, -tail (see swish-).

4. A cane or birch for flogging; also, a stroke with this.

5. A male homosexual; an effeminate man. U.S. slang.

6. Cricket. A rapid or careless attacking stroke. colloq.





swish, n.²
[? Native name.]

A native mortar of West Africa. Also attrib.

The bolded ones are the definitions that I mean by "swishy".

This is the problem with riddles, they're just open metaphors with potentially hundreds of interpretations, for example I could suggest that it's an electrified cable and who's to say I'm wrong?

That's flexible, long, swishy, and very very frightful.

That can be flexible, long and frightful, but not swishy, at least not by my definitions.

You know, I'd be surprised if anyone hasn't guessed this one yet.

Here's a clue: it's often used by a person in authority.

 

[Cavallier]

A sword?

I don't like riddles.

 

[y4r5xeym5]

A whip

I thought we got off this topic a while back...

 

[ashitaria]

A whip

I thought we got off this topic a while back...

We have the answer! Now choose your riddle!

On second thought, description riddles really aren't welcomed by the community. Let's try out a logic one. Your pick.

 

[y4r5xeym5]

What's in my pocket? Wait, no. Scratch that.

What's stronger than steel and succumbs to a deed?

 

[shoeless]

...a pen.

 

[y4r5xeym5]

...a pen.

Yep. As you can see I love making riddles. Your turn!

 

[shoeless]

i'm really horrible at making riddles. so. i'll think on that.

in the mean time, somebody else say something. this could be a while.

 

[y4r5xeym5]

So, how much do you love noodles?

 

[shoeless]

more than you know.

 

[ashitaria]

Yep. As you can see I love making riddles. Your turn!

I thought the answer was a heart. A heart could be as strong as steel yet succumb to a kind deed.

But oh well.

Do you mind if I make up another riddle shoeless?

 

[shoeless]

go for it.

 

[Fukyo]

Okay, I admit. I'm bored. The forum isn't so active now, ever since Anthille locked the Bad Words thread.

Uh...yeah, that's why we have the Arena.


come if you dare little one... *smirk*

 

[ashitaria]

come if you dare little one... *smirk*[/SIZE]

We shall see, shall we?

And here's my riddle.

A person was in a hotel room which was pitch-black. He was able to pour the exact amount of orange juice to fill a 500ml cup all the way to the brim without turning on the light. How did he do it?

 

[shoeless]

i'm guessing flashlights/sunlight/moonlight etc. doesn't count. (it never does... whores.)

uhhh... well, knowing this is an intp forum, it's probably going to have some really complex theoretical scientific (florida oranges contain exactly 133.333ml of orange juice per orange in them!) whatever kind of answer. or not, and i'm just bitter because i can't figure it out.

he just poured a 500ml cup into another 500ml cup? or a juice box from the minibar, maybe?

 

[ashitaria]

i'm guessing flashlights/sunlight/moonlight etc. doesn't count. (it never does... whores.)

uhhh... well, knowing this is an intp forum, it's probably going to have some really complex theoretical scientific (florida oranges contain exactly 133.333ml of orange juice per orange in them!) whatever kind of answer. or not, and i'm just bitter because i can't figure it out.

he just poured a 500ml cup into another 500ml cup? or a juice box from the minibar, maybe?

You are close, but he didn't have any other tools except a juice container, his hands and the cup.

Think more out of the box.

And I've already given you more clues than I planned. I'd expect you'd guess it in about five minutes?

 

[Dormouse]

Is this one of those 'It was daylight, the window was open' answer ones? Maybe the room was only painted pitch-black.

Or maybe the orange juice was radioactive and glowed in the dark.

Was he blind, with a developped accuracy for pouring beverages?

Yeah, I'm bad at these things.

 

[ashitaria]

No no and no.

I can't reveal any more clues unless the answer becomes too obvious, but I can reveal a tiny one.

He used nothing but his five senses, except his eyes.

 

[Alice?]

Was he using a glow in the dark graduated cylinder? haha

 

[ashitaria]

No...No tools....

Okay, I'll give away part of the answer, he used his hands (touch). Now, tell me how he used his hands.

I've practically given the answer away.

 

[Dormouse]

Well, obviously you can just rest one finger on the brim of the glass, and stop pouring the moment the juice touches it.

It's not really a clever answer, it's what came to my mind first earlier, but it would work.

 

[Alice?]

Well, obviously you can just rest one finger on the brim of the glass, and stop pouring the moment the juice touches it.

It's not really a clever answer, it's what came to my mind first earlier, but it would work.

Yeah, I thought of that also but it seemed too simple.

 

[ashitaria]

Ah...

Funny, I knew that all of you would answer the way you guys did...

but let's just say you guys finally got the answer.

Now..whose next?

 

[ckm]

Ah...

Funny, I knew that all of you would answer the way you guys did...

but let's just say you guys finally got the answer.

Now..whose next?

Didn't you say you've exhausted the internet's supply of riddles? Go for it.


I have one, and it was the most amazing thing ever when I was a kid but it's not original so people may know it. Shall I?

 

[ashitaria]

Go for it. I might be lucky.

 

[ckm]

A man rides his donkey into town on a Tuesday. Five days later he returns on Tuesday. How is this possible?

 

[ashitaria]

He left the town on Thursday. He came back five days later during Tuesday.

 

[ckm]

No, he departs and arrives on the same day.

You're really not going to like the answer, I predict.

 

[ashitaria]

He left Tuesday right before midnight. So in reality, he leaves on wednesday, and then he arrives on Monday about a minute after midnight. So in reality, he arrives on Monday. The number of hours in between is equivalent to 5 days. Am I right?

 

[Tempestas]

Donkey's name was Tuesday.

 

[ckm]

Sorry ashitaria, Tempestas is right! Can I assume you knew the riddle?

 

[ashitaria]

Lol, I would have guessed that eventually...
XD

The guy got it first. Way to take it so literally. XD

So who's next?

 

[Tempestas]

Yup. But I've heard the one where the horse's name was Friday.

What's blue and smells like red paint?

 

[ckm]

Much for muchness.

Blue paint?

 

[ashitaria]

Green paint?

 

[ckm]

Is the green paint super effective against the blue, which is super-effective against the red, which is super-effective against the green?

 

[ashitaria]

White. Because white is made out of all the colors.

 

[Tempestas]

Blue paint. I don't have very creative riddles. ><

Who's next?

 

[ashitaria]

Hm...



What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?