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Howdy everyone,
I was thinking of riddle for my upcoming challenging encounters. Like Fun/puzzle/doorways/events.
I am trying to work out things to start with easy one then develop harder ones.
Here are some simple ones.
Here are some I've gather up.
1. What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats? River
2. What can you put in a wood box that will make it lighter? Holes
3. Until I am measured I am not known. Yet how you miss me when I have flown. Time
4. If you drop me I'm sure to crack, but give me a smile and I'll always smile back. Mirror
5. The one who makes it always sells it. The one who buys it never uses it. The one who uses it never knows he's using it. Coffin
6. Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin, Light enough to caress the sky, Hard enough to crack rocks. Water
7. At the sound of me, men may dream or stamp their feet. At the sound of me, women may laugh or sometimes weep. Music
8. I build up castles, I tear down mountains. I make some men blind, I help others to see. Sand
9. What can you catch but not throw? cold
10. The more you take, the more you leave behind. Footsteps
I was wondering if any of you like to join in on develop some more riddles would be a big help.
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I have always been partial to the scale and weighted ball scenario.
If you have 9 balls and one is heavier than the rest how to pinpoint the heavy one by using the balance only twice?
1 - Split the balls into three groups of three balls each.
2 - First use of the scale: Weigh any two groups against each other.
3 - If the groups weigh the same then the heavier ball is in the third group, otherwise it is in the group that weighs more.
4 - We now know that the heavy ball is one of three.
5 - Second use of the scale: Using the group of balls that we know contains the heavy ball, weight any two balls against each other.
6 - If one of the balls is heavier then we have our answer. If the balls weigh the same then the third ball is the heavy one and we again have our answer.
Failure or success could mean anything you want.
What kind of room has no doors or windows? A Mushroom
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand? A palm
What gets broken without being held? A promise
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I? A Secret.
Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die. What am I? A Fire
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I have always been partial to the scale and weighted ball scenario.
If you have 9 balls and one is heavier than the rest how to pinpoint the heavy one by using the balance only twice?
1 - Split the balls into three groups of three balls each.
2 - First use of the scale: Weigh any two groups against each other.
3 - If the groups weigh the same then the heavier ball is in the third group, otherwise it is in the group that weighs more.
4 - We now know that the heavy ball is one of three.
5 - Second use of the scale: Using the group of balls that we know contains the heavy ball, weight any two balls against each other.
6 - If one of the balls is heavier then we have our answer. If the balls weigh the same then the third ball is the heavy one and we again have our answer.Failure or success could mean anything you want.
I see.
I'd be interested in not-stipid puzzle riddles or something!
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Magic mouth speaks "I am cold stone black as night yet i burn bright with light what am I", Coal, unfortunately coal is the activation word for the rope of entanglement hidden amidst the debris at the bottom of the pit.I'm using this one...
For extra fun, make the pit the shape of a half circle smooth on the sides, now as the party attempts escape by climbing out hit them with ice storm sleet version
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For extra fun, make the pit the shape of a half circle smooth on the sides, now as the party attempts escape by climbing out hit them with ice storm sleet versionMagic mouth speaks "I am cold stone black as night yet i burn bright with light what am I", Coal, unfortunately coal is the activation word for the rope of entanglement hidden amidst the debris at the bottom of the pit.I'm using this one...
I really like what you have here Azixirad. Just evil Mauh-ah-ah-ah!!!
Just do some of the classics:
Identical twins stand at a fork in the road(or two hallways for in a dungeon) one path leads to ruin and the other to safety, one speaks only in truths and the other only in lies.
Maybe have this inscribed on a statue that comes to life and attacks if they get it wrong; 'If you lie to me I will slay you with my sword. If you tell me the truth, I will slay you with a spell. What must you say to stay alive?'
A Elf, was slain. The Human claims the Gnome is guilty. The Gnome says the Dwarf did it. The Half-Orc swears he didn't kill the Elf. The Dwarf says the Gnome is lying. If only one of these speaks the truth, who killed the Elf?
Just do some of the classics:
Identical twins stand at a fork in the road(or two hallways for in a dungeon) one path leads to ruin and the other to safety, one speaks only in truths and the other only in lies.
Maybe have this inscribed on a statue that comes to life and attacks if they get it wrong; 'If you lie to me I will slay you with my sword. If you tell me the truth, I will slay you with a spell. What must you say to stay alive?'
A Elf, was slain. The Human claims the Gnome is guilty. The Gnome says the Dwarf did it. The Half-Orc swears he didn't kill the Elf. The Dwarf says the Gnome is lying. If only one of these speaks the truth, who killed the Elf?
Ok, I am pretty tired and/or dehydrated. Can you walk me through these answers?
And, baring any other evidence, always blame the half-orc.
Just do some of the classics:
Identical twins stand at a fork in the road(or two hallways for in a dungeon) one path leads to ruin and the other to safety, one speaks only in truths and the other only in lies.
Maybe have this inscribed on a statue that comes to life and attacks if they get it wrong; 'If you lie to me I will slay you with my sword. If you tell me the truth, I will slay you with a spell. What must you say to stay alive?'
A Elf, was slain. The Human claims the Gnome is guilty. The Gnome says the Dwarf did it. The Half-Orc swears he didn't kill the Elf. The Dwarf says the Gnome is lying. If only one of these speaks the truth, who killed the Elf?
Ok, I am pretty tired and/or dehydrated. Can you walk me through these answers?
And, baring any other evidence, always blame the half-orc.
Alright they're pretty simple if you take the time to think though some players might have heard them before so they might get the answer right away.
1. In order to find the right path you ask both of them what their brother or sister would say is the safe path since one always tells the truth they'd point you to the path of ruin since the other would lie about which path is safe and since the other lies they'd also point to the path of ruin since that isn't what the other would say is the safe path.
2. You need to create a paradox for this if you said spell it could say it was the truth and kill you with the spell or say it's a lie and kill you with your sword but if you say sword it couldn't kill you with a spell since then it'd be a lie but can't kill you with a sword since it'd be the truth leaving the only option of letting them go.
3. The half-orc is the only one that swears he didn't kill the elf if he's lying that means he killed the elf.
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2. You need to create a paradox for this if you said spell it could say it was the truth and kill you with the spell or say it's a lie and kill you with your sword but if you say sword it couldn't kill you with a spell since then it'd be a lie but can't kill you with a sword since it'd be the truth leaving the only option of letting them go.
Maybe have this inscribed on a statue that comes to life and attacks if they get it wrong; 'If you lie to me I will slay you with my sword. If you tell me the truth, I will slay you with a spell. What must you say to stay alive?'
I'm still totally lost, your answer confused me more than the riddle did. My suggestion was just to keep quiet.
I'm still totally lost, your answer confused me more than the riddle did. My suggestion was just to keep quiet.2. You need to create a paradox for this if you said spell it could say it was the truth and kill you with the spell or say it's a lie and kill you with your sword but if you say sword it couldn't kill you with a spell since then it'd be a lie but can't kill you with a sword since it'd be the truth leaving the only option of letting them go.
Maybe have this inscribed on a statue that comes to life and attacks if they get it wrong; 'If you lie to me I will slay you with my sword. If you tell me the truth, I will slay you with a spell. What must you say to stay alive?'
Well as I said the answer is a paradox so it's bound to be confusing and I probably didn't do the best job of explaining it but, the answer is sword just to be simple about it.
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As far as the sword and the spell riddle, I assume you're required to say something. Far easier than sword would be to say, "this sentence is a lie".
Or just ask it a question. Or say anything else that isn't a direct statement. Or even a complete sentence. Such as "ABCDEFG" or, "On the other side of the wall."
The problem I have with a lot of "paradoxical" logic riddles is that it's hard to construct them to have a single right answer.
As far as the sword and the spell riddle, I assume you're required to say something. Far easier than sword would be to say, "this sentence is a lie".Or just ask it a question. Or say anything else that isn't a direct statement. Or even a complete sentence. Such as "ABCDEFG" or, "On the other side of the wall."
The problem I have with a lot of "paradoxical" logic riddles is that it's hard to construct them to have a single right answer.
For true brain-busting, you can also say something that doesn't have a truth value of either true or false, like "The current king of Andoran is bald."
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Just do some of the classics:
Identical twins stand at a fork in the road(or two hallways for in a dungeon) one path leads to ruin and the other to safety, one speaks only in truths and the other only in lies.
Maybe have this inscribed on a statue that comes to life and attacks if they get it wrong; 'If you lie to me I will slay you with my sword. If you tell me the truth, I will slay you with a spell. What must you say to stay alive?'
A Elf, was slain. The Human claims the Gnome is guilty. The Gnome says the Dwarf did it. The Half-Orc swears he didn't kill the Elf. The Dwarf says the Gnome is lying. If only one of these speaks the truth, who killed the Elf?
2. You need to create a paradox for this if you said spell it could say it was the truth and kill you with the spell or say it's a lie and kill you with your sword but if you say sword it couldn't kill you with a spell since then it'd be a lie but can't kill you with a sword since it'd be the truth leaving the only option of letting them go.
I don't think your original riddle was written correctly if this is the answer. It sounds like you meant the riddle to read:
"If you lie to me I will slay you with my sword. If you tell me the truth, I will slay you with a spell. With what shall I kill you?"
That way, the answer sword creates the paradox, because it can't kill you without making your statement true.
With the final question being, "What must you say to stay alive?" the real paradoxical answer has to be, "You will kill me with your sword," not just the word "sword."
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A boy and his big sister are sitting around the kitchen table chatting.
"You know sis, if i took away two years from my age and gave them to you, you'd be twice my age, huh!"
"Well why don't you just give me one more on top of that? Then I'll be three times your age."
So just how old is each sibling?
y= girl's age
x=boy's age
make 1st equation
(x-2)2=y+2
2x-4=y+2
2x-6=y
make 2nd equation
(x-2)3=y+3
3x-6=y+3
3x-9=y
set them equal to each other
3x-9=2x-6
3x=2x+3
x=3
solve for y
(x-2)2=y+2
(3-2)2=y+2
(1)2=y+2
2=y+2
0=y
the boy is 3 and the girl is 0 (still an infant)
HOW CAN THEY BE TALKING????
2nd interpretation:
y= girl's age
x=boy's age
make 1st equation
(x-2)2=y+2
2x-4=y+2
2x-6=y
make 2nd equation
(x-3)3=y+3
3x-9=y+3
3x-12=y
set them equal to each other
3x-12=2x-6
3x=2x+6
x=6
solve for y
(x-2)2=y+2
(6-2)2=y+2
(4)2=y+2
8=y+2
6=y
I remember this fun one from that animated Batman & Robin show from the 90's...
"Traveling on a globe, what is the shortest distance between two points?"
Of course, your players might totally screw things up by answering, "Teleportation!" .... Stupid PCs :P
The shortest distance is a straight line. The curved one is longer - just easier to travel as otherwise you'd have to dig.
How about this...
"As I live I give life to billions of trillions. As I age I exhaust my resources until I grow so large I kill all those I have birthed. From my death countless others will flourish."
I just made it up, the words might not be the best. But basically, thanks to the Sun, our Earth has the capacity for life. As it ages, it fuses Hydrogen atoms into Helium with thermonuclear fusion. Once all the Hydrogen is gone, the Sun will become a Red Giant as it begins to use the Helium as fuel. When that happens, it will kill every living thing on Earth. Afterward, the Sun will go Super Nova, propelling countless atoms of every atomic weight throughout the solar system allowing other distant planets to use those elements as they form life from the Carbon it will create.
I dunno, kind of cool, right?
What is at the end of all things? =?
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A boy and his big sister are sitting around the kitchen table chatting.
"You know sis, if i took away two years from my age and gave them to you, you'd be twice my age, huh!"
"Well why don't you just give me one more on top of that? Then I'll be three times your age."
So just how old is each sibling?
** spoiler omitted **
Both 6. :)