What is the beginning of eternity the end of time and space the beginning of every end and the end of every place?
What do the rich people need but the poor have plenty and if you eat it you die?
What begins with P ends with E and has a million letters in it?
Ask yourself this:
"I am a man. If the son of this other man is the father of my son, what is the bond of kinship between this man and myself?"
I was lucky enough to have a player who was very good at solving riddles and puzzles in my gaming group. He loved having them for his character to solve.
At Provins fair, a merchant buys cloth for 70 shillings, and then sells it for 80 shillings.
Thinking he can earn more money, he buys it back for 90 shillings before finally selling it for 100 shillings.
Has he made a profit? If so, how many shillings has he earned?
During a battle, the king and his retinue are captured by the enemy who have a cruel fate in store for their prisoners:
The king is decapitated; his eldest son is hanged; two squires lose their head.
Yet, this massacre results in only two victims.
How is this possible?
(I will post the answers to these riddles tomorrow night.)
said riddles
dame you
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Ask yourself this:
"I am a man. If the son of this other man is the father of my son, what is the bond of kinship between this man and myself?"I was lucky enough to have a player who was very good at solving riddles and puzzles in my gaming group. He loved having them for his character to solve.
A similar riddle:
A man walks in on another man in a drawing room, staring at a painting. The room is dark, so the newcomer asks the man who the subject of the painting is. The man replies, "Brothers and sisters have I none, and this man's father is my father's son".
In this case, the man is looking at a picture of...
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What is your name?
What is your quest?
What is your favorite color?
Kings and nobles see it rarely. Peasants and fools see it every day. You see it even now. I have never seen it, and never shall.
I like it.
What is your name?
What is your quest?
What is your favorite color?
My name is Lakesidefantasy.
My quest is to learn new riddles.
My favorite color is red...no, blue!
Cool stuff.
That's right and I like the variant.
At Provins fair, a merchant buys cloth for 70 shillings, and then sells it for 80 shillings.
Thinking he can earn more money, he buys it back for 90 shillings before finally selling it for 100 shillings.
Has he made a profit? If so, how many shillings has he earned?
The merchant made a profit of 20 shillings. (This one is so obvious it's hard.)
During a battle, the king and his retinue are captured by the enemy who have a cruel fate in store for their prisoners:
The king is decapitated; his eldest son is hanged; two squires lose their head.
Yet, this massacre results in only two victims.
How is this possible?
(I will post the answers to these riddles tomorrow night.)
The two squires have lost their head...the king!
Here's another one. I used the answer to this riddle as the trigger to a secret page spell which revealed a more powerful spell written behind a lesser one on a scroll.
"You heard me before, yet you hear me again,
Then I’m gone,
Till you call me again.
What am I?"
It's not a problem if the PCs can't solve this riddle because they just miss out on some extra loot.
Riddles are like secret doors, you should never make the adventure dependent on overcoming them.
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What is in my pocket?
What has it got in its nassty little pocketses, we wonders, yess, we wonders?
The airspeed velocity of an unladen European (not African) swallow is approximately 40 km/hr (25 mph), according to Wolfram|Alpha.
This site is amazing.
Red snake in a dark shaft
Surrounded by vicious white soldiers
Dotting. Great thread idea, always had trouble coming up with these on my own.
A riddle, a riddle, a farmer's riddle
Alive at both ends and dead in the middle
What am I?
I have five faces that are called one name
I have a twin that will never be the same,
But together we laud a hero's name.
What am I?
One of my parties started a riddling contest with a local bard's college not that long ago. I'll see if I can dig out some of the riddles they used.
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While I was traveling to Saint Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Seven wives with seven cats,
Seven cats with seven hats,
Man, hats, cats, wives,
How many were traveling to Saint Ives?
An farmer at market has four customers.
The first says, "I wish to buy half of all of your eggs, plus half an egg more."
The second says, "I wish to buy half of all of your remaining eggs, plus half an egg more."
The third says, "I wish to buy half of all of your remaining eggs, plus half an egg more."
The fourth says, "I wish to buy half of all of your remaining eggs, plus half an egg more."
At the end of the day, the farmer has sold all of his eggs and has not broken a single one.
How many eggs did he bring to the market?
From the first of spring, the lilies on the lake double each day. It takes thirty days for the lake to be fully covered. How many days does it take to be half covered?
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While I was traveling to Saint Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Seven wives with seven cats,
Seven cats with seven hats,
Man, hats, cats, wives,
How many were traveling to Saint Ives?** spoiler omitted **
If you're going w/ that riddle, throw in the whole thing and let them do the math a while:
As I was going to St Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife at seven sacks.
Each Sack had Seven Cats.
Each cat had seven kits...
Kits Cats Sacks and Wives, how many were going to St Ives?
A riddle, a riddle, a farmer's riddle
Alive at both ends and dead in the middle
What am I?** spoiler omitted **
I was so sure the answer to this was "the winter".