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(Message started by: Elias on May 18^th, 2005, 1:36pm)

Title: Some Riddles
Post by Elias on May 18^th, 2005, 1:36pm

The strangest creature you'll ever find: Two eyes in front and many many more behind.
What kind of animal is it?

I am as cold as death, and not breathing air.

I weaken all men for hours each day.
I show you strange visions while you are away.
I take you by night, by day take you back, none suffer to have me,
but do from my lack.
What am I?

Never tired, never still.
Moving quietly from hill to hill.
Does not run or even walk,
life it gives and sometimes take,
when it´s hand is gone you feel the chill it leaves behind.
What is it?

I move without wings, between silken strings, I leave as you find, my substance behind.
What am I?

I´m sometimes short and long,
sometimes cold and sometimes hot.
When displayed, I rarely impress.
What am I?

Twigs and spheres and poles and plates,
join and bind to reason make.
What am I?

When liquid splashes me, none seeps through. When I am moved a lot, l
iquid I spew. When I am hit, color I change. And color, I come in quite a range.
What I cover is very complex, and I am very easy to flex.
What am I?

Brighter than the day, yet my light can go out at any time.
Sometimes I fall but never hits the ground. What am I?

No legs have I to dance,
No lungs have I to breathe,
No life have I to live or die
And yet I do all three.
What am I?

My voice rises above the din,
Sometimes catching all unaware.
I never ask questions,
yet get many answers.
What am I?

From home to work I go, sometimes big,
sometimes smal.
I don´t care about rain or snow I always stay outside the door.
What am I?

I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them.
I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold.
They are the smallest you could imagine.
Sooner or later everybody needs my help,
yet many people are afraid to let me help them.
Who am I?

I usually wear a yellow coat.
I usually have a dark head.
I make marks wherever I go.
What am I?

I turn around once.
What is out will not get in.
I turn around again.
What is in will not get out.
what am I?

What gets bigger the more you take away from it?

The more you give,
the more it wants. No man can live without it in this cold godforsaken land. What is it?

Often held but seldom touched,
often bites but seldom bit,
always wet but never rusts,
to use me well you must have wit.
What am I?

Though liquid in nature, don't push me too far,
For then I will break,
and the damage may scar.
What am I?

I'm old and it feels like I have runned forever,
but never moved at all.
I got no lungs or throat,
but still I have mighty roaring call. What am I?

Some says that Adam and Eve had everything, i have another opinion.
What did they don´t have that everyone else has?

We capture light, and yet we don't.
We reflect rays of sun, and yet we don't.
Without us all the world is gray and dull.
What are we?

A strange thing, the more you take,
the more you leave behind? what can this be?

I am the only thing that always tells the truth. I show off everything that I see. I come in all shapes and sizes.
So tell me what I must be!

What has no content,
yet you can see it.
What is it?

-A frog fell into a well 12 feet deep. He could jump 3 feet, but every time he jumped 3 feet, he fell back 2 feet.
How many times did he have to jump to get out of the well?

Weight in my belly,
trees on my back,
nails in my ribs,
but feet I do lack.
What am I?

Like a two-edged sword, I can cheer you up or bring you down,
Many say I can even make you free. What am I?

I never was, am always to be,
magicians say they can see me, but none else ever will.
And yet I am the confidence of all to live,
I´m the hope of the poor and the doom for the rich.
What am I?

Title: Re: Some Riddles
Post by Tromondontrol Sliptannie on May 18^th, 2005, 2:47pm

Ugly text. Go bye bye

Title: Re: Some Riddles
Post by Icarus on May 18^th, 2005, 3:39pm

Elias - You have already posted these! There is NO reason to post them again a few days later. I am locking the thread. If you want to reply, do it on the other thread of the same name (which has the same riddles).