Riddles!

[McJoggin]

What's up with all the religious stuff lately? I don't want to get involved.

[Renegade_Turner]

Then don't.

Invertin is right.

[Richie Rabbit]

Roflmao~

Many things can create one it can be of any shape or size it is created for various reasons and it can shrink or grow with time. What is it?

[Zhukov]

Many things can create one it can be of any shape or size it is created for various reasons and it can shrink or grow with time. What is it?

The answer had better not be a beard.

[Richie Rabbit]

A hole but a beard is good answer because it can be used for anything really....

[Ragdollmaster]

WHY DID THE PICTURE GO TO JAIL HUR HUR.

A more serious one: You can bake it, boil it, grill it, and fry it, but not fly it. What is it?

[Richie Rabbit]

Egg.

[Renegade_Turner]

Why did the two women cross the road?

I don't know, but why the hell is there a road between the kitchen and the laundry room?

[Ragdollmaster]

Richie: No... a chicken. How in the hell do you grill an egg?

[Ragdollmaster]

Oh, I know the answer! Spambot.

[tokage]

--picture that put a question--

The obvious anwser is egg, because there are many other animals that lay eggs(all reptiles for example).
The anwser, if only "chicken's eggs" were meant, depends highly on the definition of "chicken's egg" and can be either 'The chicken.', 'The chicken's egg.' or 'There can be no chicken and no chicken's egg' for the two obvious definitions of "chicken's egg".

[nutcracker]

What's up with all the religious stuff lately? I don't want to get involved.

I think my god thread started something, lol.

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Egg was first,
The chicken we know happened like this.

Once there was a anchient chicken that was 99.999999999999% the chicken that we know.
The last step of evolution happened in the egg, so egg(as we now know it) was first

[Endoperez]

You will now listen to Betrayal At Krondor "Riddles and Locks" theme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgRBXulWKXE


1. A barrel of rainwater weighs twenty pounds.
What must you add to make it weigh fifteen?

_ _ _ _ S


2. A precious gift this
Yet it has no end or beginning
And in the middle nothing

_ _ _ _


3. Brought to the table
Cut and served
Never eaten

C _ _ _ S


4. Everyone offers this thing
But few will take it when it is offered by someone else

_ _ _ _ _ E


5. It is too much for one
Two it is meant for
But it no longer exists
When the two become more

_ _ _ _ _ _


6. Silently he stalks me
Running as I run
Creeping as I creep
Dressed in black
He disappears at night
Only to return with the sun

_ _ _ _ _ _


7. The one who made it didn't want it
The one who bought it didn't need it
The one who used it never saw it

_ _ _ F _ _


8. This great thing can be swallowed
But can also swallow us

_ _ _ _ _


9. This odd thing seems to get wetter
The more it dries

_ _ _ _ _


10. Today he is there to trip you up
And he will torture you tomorrow
Yet he is also there to ease the pain
When you are lost in grief and sorrow

_ _ _ _ _ _ _


11. Two brothers wanted to race a course
To see which had the slowest horse
Since neither wanted to spur his mare
What must they do to make it fair?

T _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _


12. We love it more than life
We fear it more than death
The wealthy want for it
The poor have it in plenty

_ _ _ _ _ _ _


13. What goes with a wagon
that doesn't benefit the wagon
but the wagon cannot move without

_ _ _ _ _


14. Whoever has it is angry
Whoever loses it is angrier
Whoever wins it has it no more

_ _ S _ _ _ _


15. You must keep this thing
Its loss will affect your brothers
For once yours is lost
It will soon be lost by others

_ _ M _ _ _



From a thread elsewhere, started by Cogito

I've been replaying a favorite game of mine called "Betrayal at Krondor", and one of my favorite parts of the games is solving riddles whose answer open treasure chests.
Below I will list some easy and hard questions, so you can get a feel for them.

In the game, you could brute-force your way through the puzzles because there were only 4 options for each letter, so 4*4*4 options for a 3-letter word, over 4000 for a 6-letter one... And of course, there were only four letters the word could start by, etc. One of my most pleasant gaming-related memories is trying to solve these wordlocks. That fantastic music, a puzzle, ahhh...

[tokage]

Egg was first,
The chicken we know happened like this.

Once there was a anchient chicken that was 99.999999999999% the chicken that we know.
The last step of evolution happened in the egg, so egg(as we now know it) was first

Your answer is right, but only for the assumption that chicken's egg (or egg for short) is something a chicken comes out of.
You could argue the same way and say an egg is something a chicken laid, in which case the chicken was first obviously. It all depends on the definition of egg (or chicken by the way).
You could also use both definitions and conclude that there is neither chicken nor egg, because there can be no first egg laid by a chicken, that had to come from an egg, and no first chicken can come from an egg that has to be laid by a chicken.
And then you can take the easy way out, take the creationist approach and say God created the chicken, basta.

1. A barrel of rainwater weighs twenty pounds.
What must you add to make it weigh fifteen?

_ _ _ _ S

Holes?

4. Everyone offers this thing
But few will take it when it is offered by someone else

_ _ _ _ _ E

Excuse?

6. Silently he stalks me
Running as I run
Creeping as I creep
Dressed in black
He disappears at night
Only to return with the sun

_ _ _ _ _ _

That one is easy.
Shadow

11. Two brothers wanted to race a course
To see which had the slowest horse
Since neither wanted to spur his mare
What must they do to make it fair?

T _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _

Don't know how to fit it on that line, but they could switch horses or take turns.


Wow, riddles in a foreign language are hard.

[Zhukov]

9. This odd thing seems to get wetter
The more it dries

_ _ _ _ _

Towel.

10. Today he is there to trip you up
And he will torture you tomorrow
Yet he is also there to ease the pain
When you are lost in grief and sorrow

_ _ _ _ _ _ _

Alcohol

11. Two brothers wanted to race a course
To see which had the slowest horse
Since neither wanted to spur his mare
What must they do to make it fair?

T _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _

Trade mares.