Riddles... Answers are Rot13 encoded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sources... http://www.iupui.edu/~asimmon/dungeon/riddle.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In my minds eye I see, Three circles joined in priceless graceful harmony. Two full as the moon. One hollow as a crown. Two from the sea, five fathoms down. One from the earth, deep underground. The whole a mark of high renowned. Tell me, what can it be. Answer: N evat, gjb cresrpg creyf ba n pvepyr bs tbyq. Gur evat bs gur ybeq bs gur znefu. Gur crey evat bs Pnynobhf. (From "Clash of the Titans" (1981)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it, can neither see it nor feel it. What is it? Answer: N Pbssva (From "Dream Park" by Larry Niven and Steve Barns) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I know a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be. Answer: Gur jbeq vf srj (From "Dream Park" by Larry Niven and Steve Barns) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it, wants it not. Answer: Pbhagresrvg Zbarl (From "Dream Park" by Larry Niven and Steve Barns) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you got it you want to share it. If you share it you haven't got it. Answer: N Frperg (From Movie, "MirrorMask", 2005) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One night 4 men sat down to play. They played all night 'till break of day. They played for gold and not for fun, With separate scores for everyone. Can you the paradox explain, if no one lost, how could all gain? Answer: Gurl jrer n zhfvpny Dhnegrg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Round and round I seem to go, Yet where I stop no one does know. All thing in life bow down to me, From tiny rock to might tree. I keep the pace as best I can, And I shall be the death of man. Answer: Gvzr (gur Fha jbexf gbb) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have rivers without water, Forests without trees, Mountains without rocks Towns without houses. Answer: N Znc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Circular portal, to heart and mind. Brief affirmation, from many a nation. or pointer to find, the mind of each mortal. Answer: Rlr - Nlr - V ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Round as a cup Tall as a house And all the kings horses Can't draw it up. Answer: N Jryy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upon currents of the mind I ride, Inspired by tales of lengends and lore. Yet in the thine heart I abide, And remain forever more. I am fragile, often destroyed, Once lost, tough to restore. My offerings are typically enjoyed, Though in time, they tend to blur. Thine heart's fondest desires I give, But fears may make thee cry. None am I who e'er hath lived. Pray tell me, what am I? Answer: Qernzf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More fragile than the thinnest glass, I am broken night and day. Do any truely know me? That is difficult to say. I am powerful, emotionally, Yet defeated by a single word. If more would try to listen, Perhaps I would be heard. I pray a sweet melody, But to few 'tis known. Do not attempt to join in, For I must sing along. Answer: Gur fbhaq bs fvyrapr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is at the beginning of eternity, and at the end of time and space. Last in life, second to death. The beginning of every end, and the end of every race? Contained by earth, water and fire, but not in air. Answer: Gur yrggre r ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have many tongues but cannot taste By me, most things are turned to waste I crack and snap, yet I stay whole I may take the largest toll I assisted all from the first men And I will pay them back again Around me, people snuggle and sleep Yet run when I am released from my keep I jump around and leap and bound The cold man wishes I he had found Answer: Sver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Though I have no colour, I am sometimes white, And you can't avoid me, though try as you might. I'm useful for hiding things no one can see and rarely, if ever, does good come from me. Answer: N Yvr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A dragonrider flies into town on July 1st, Stay three nights and three days, And then flies out again on July 1st. how could this be? Answer: Gur qentbaf anzr vf Whyl 1fg (Their is a lot of variations on this one -- often involving days of the week instead of days of month) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are few to the wise; We are abundant to the drunken; We can calm the beast and are precious to the child; We can devour the heart, without piercing the skin. Answer: Jbeqf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am master of the four winds, but I do not fly; I move, but am not alive; I can seem calm, but be a raging turmoil; And when I erupt with motion, I can be calm within. I appear to be lifeless, but inside, I team with it; Without me life would not exist. What am I? Answer: Gur Frn be Bprna ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Often talked of, never seen, Ever coming, never been. Thousands for it's visit wait, and prehaps for their fate. Answer: Gbzzbeebj (pbhyq nyfb or Qrngu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I cut through evil like a double edged sword, And chaos flees at my approach. Balance I single-handedly upraise, Through battles fought with heart and mind, Instead of with my gaze. Answer: Whfgvpr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I run through hills; I veer around mountains. I leap over rivers and crawl through the forests. Step out your door to find me. Answer: N Ebnq ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inside me the adventurous find Quests and treasures of every kind. Trolls, goblins, orcs, and more, await Within my closed walls for All those that wish to visit me. Your hands are the key To secrets untold, And your mind will unlock the door. Answer: N Obbx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Creatures of power, creatures of grace, Creatures of beauty, creatures of strength. As for their lives, they set everything's pace, For all things must come to live under their emerald embrace. . . Either in their life, or in their death. Answer: Gerrf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As beautiful as the setting sun, As delicate as the morning dew; An angel's dusting from the stars that can turn the Earth into A frosted moon. Answer: Fabj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two bodies have I, though both joined in one. The more still I stand, the quicker I run. Answer: Ubhetynff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You get many of me, but never enough. After the last one, your life soon will snuff. You may have one of me but one day a year, When the last one is gone, your life disappears. Answer: Oveguqnlf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I make you weak at the worst of all times. I keep you safe, I keep you fine. I make your hands sweat, and your heart grow cold, I visit the weak, but seldom the bold. Answer: Srne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Answer: Fyrrc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- They have not flesh, nor feathers, Nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs, Of their own. Answer: Tybirf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have it, You want to share it. If you share it, You don't have it. Answer: Frperg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? Answer: N Zbhagvna ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter. Answer: Qnexarff (From "The Hobbit" by Tolkian) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid. Answer: Rtt (From "The Hobbit" by Tolkian) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking. Answer: Svfu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This thing all things devours: Birds, beast, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. Answer: Gvzr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You must keep it, after giving it. To keep your faith, to you and to them. Answer: Lbhe Jbeq ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick Fat, I am slow Wind is my foe. Answer: Pnaqyr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A beggar's brother went out to sea and drowned. But the man who drowned had no brother. What was the relationship between the man who drowned and the beggar? Answer: Gur Orttre jnf uvf fvfgre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One tooth to bite, he's the forests foe. One tooth to fight, as all Norse know. Answer: Nkr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The root tops the trunk on this backward thing, that grows in the winter and dies in the spring. Answer: Na Vpvpyr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have legs but walk not A strong back but work not Two good arms but reach not A seat but sit and tarry not Answer: Punve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man who had seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to St. Ives? Answer: Bar (From the movie -- Die Hard 3?) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What runs around a city but never moves? Answer: Pvgl Jnyy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is full of holes and holds water? Answer: Fcbatr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Double my number, I'm less than a score, Half of my number is less than four. Add one to my double when bakers are near, Days of the week are still greater, I fear. Answer: Gur Ahzore Fvk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am so simple, That I can only point Yet I guide men All over the world. Answer: Pbzcnff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I never was, Am always to be, No one ever saw me, Nor ever will, And yet I in confidence of all who live and breath. What Am I? Answer: Gbzbeebj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nafjre: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nafjre: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------