Brain Teasers

[Nightshade]

hummm the first one is right anyway....:lol: although that last one is very good dont know why thats not the righ answer but it isnt.

[Pendragon]

And all the rest are wrong as well?! http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/konfus/g020.gif

[Nightshade]

yes afraid so... youre just not thinking cheese corny and silly enough.

[Pendragon]

1.) What has a mouth but does not speak , and a bed but does not sleep?
2.) What did the policeman say to his tummy ? ( americaised english speakers probably wont get this one)
3.) What goes ha ha bonk?
4.) What goes 99 bonk?
5.) Whats yellow and scary?
6.) How do you make an apple grumble?
7.) Where do you go to wieght a whale?
8.) What 3 letters are criminals afraid of?


#5 A bad banana?
#7 (slurring, and getting really corny) The Doctor's Office

Just hit me: #8 has to be ICU http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/drowned/iroc-cop.gif

[Nightshade]

yes 8 is correct:nod: as to the rest still no IM afraid... youll kick yourself when you hear the answers :p

[Taliesin]

4) A centipede with a wooden leg?

[AimusSage]

If only I could switch to über cheesy illogical mode by flipping a switch. :brickwal

The two I did know have already been answered. :(

[Nightshade]

4) A centipede with a wooden leg?

correct:D:Dhttp://www.websmileys.com/sm/fingers/fing25.gif

[Pendragon]

#7) An undersea resturant? Of course, you would be the Waiter/Waitress, the whale would be your customer, so you would have to wait a whale.

#2) Wild guess, OK. "I'll get the braclets/darbies for you?" I know braclets/darbies is slang for handcuff, do they also refer to doughnuts? The other term I have in mind is sinkers, which I know means doughnuts, but wonder how it would fit into a policeman's jargon.

[Nightshade]

nope :D:D give up??

[Pendragon]

#6 Pick on it.

#7 Whales don't have any, but you might weight them at the scales. Don't know why I didn't see that one in the first place.

[Nightshade]

Nope and nope


:D merry christmas Pen!

[zanna]

Is 3) Bam-bam, the Flinstones kid? He bonks everything and thinks its' funny. :)

[Nightshade]

no



:D

[Pendragon]

#3 Clown on a pogo-stick http://smilies.vidahost.com/ups/DeNiro/fight.gif
#6 Get a sour one http://www.invision.smileyville.net/smilies/fnv (2).gif

[zanna]

ooh, Pen, I hope you're right for #3. :) lol, I needed a laugh.

[Nightshade]

no and no :D:D
but your getting closer for number 3, here is a hint
its to do with an expression

[Pendragon]

#3 Laugh until your false teeth fall out?
#6 Tell it it's bad or rotten

[RobinHood3000]

#3 - LMAO

...or something to that effect.

[Nightshade]

ok Pen and Robin you are so nearly there with number 3 it makes my head hurt.

Oh wait aminute did I say how do you make an apple grumble or how do you make an apple puff?

ooops well its the same answer.:blush: Only the puff one is easier/more obvious.

[Nightshade]

1 What has a mouth but does not speak , and a bed but does not sleep?--- a river
2. What did the policeman say to his tummy ? ( americaised english speakers probably wont get this one)
3. What goes ha ha bonk?
4. What goes 99 bonk?-- a centipede with a wooden leg
5 .Whats yellow and scary?
6. How do you make an apple grumble?
7. Where do you go to wieght a whale?
8. What 3 letters are criminals afraid of?----ICU
Just for starters...:brow:

because I cant be bothered to scroll and check numbers:D

AHHH Ive just noticed a spelling mistakes (stupid spell checker) that changes the meaning sorry sorry :blush:

its where do you go to weigh a whale?

[RobinHood3000]

For number 3, does the body part matter?

[Pendragon]

its where do you go to weigh a whale?And you are certain that the Scales wasn't right?

http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/edoom/Thinkingof_.gif


#3 Laugh until you fall on the floor? ROLF?
#5 A banana peel?
#6 What if the apple is a Crab?

:sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:

[Nightshade]

ok Im going to give the pair of you #3 because I guess with internet that term of phrase has sort of been replaced

what goes ha ha bonk?
A man laughing his head off, but wooden teeth and LAMO do as well

Yay for you 2 http://www.websmileys.com/sm/party/fest31.gifhttp://www.websmileys.com/sm/fingers/fing25.gifhttp://www.websmileys.com/sm/fingers/fing24.gif

as to the rest sorry!

Youve really never heard the whats yellow and scary joke before?

[Pendragon]

Youve really never heard the whats yellow and scary joke before?

Well, the one I have has an answer I won't repeat in polite or mixed company! :blush:

[Nightshade]

right ok no let me say these ae all jokes from a book I got when I was 6.

so:D

[Pendragon]

I know, that's what is frustrating me! http://smilies.vidahost.com/ups/chaos/big1.gif These babies ought to be simple!

This is deffinately corny, do you weight a whale at the gym?
Put the apple in a stew?
Yellow and scary--School bus going off a cliff.
In America, police wear bullet-proof vests. So the belly could be under a vest Shoot me! :lol:

[Nightshade]

yupp under a vest :D hehe:lol:

Ok its WIEGH no t..... that was a typo that the spell checker didnt pick up on.
the apple oneis still wrong....and in englland we dont have yellow school buses.

[Pendragon]

http://smilies.vidahost.com/cwm/cwm3d/3ddisgust3.gif

Now, What haven't I done to that apple? Let's see: we peeled it, called it rotten, sour, bad, crab, picked on it, stewwed it. We could core it, I suppose. Or perhaps slur the words apple grumble into apple crumble, in which case, the first thing I'd have to do is dig out the wife's cookbook! Miserable http://www.invision.smileyville.net/smilies/fnv (2).gif! Oh, I got am idea. In order to make cider, you press apples. Would that be it?

Yellow and scary isn't The Lone Banana by any chance? http://smilies.vidahost.com/otn/ez/pi_mad.gif

[zanna]

Like . . . . . Him? :banana:

[Nightshade]

Sorry.....:lol:
give up yet??

[Nightshade]

1.Whats yellow and scary?
hint: a bit of a random one but I always link this one to ...did you ever see Doctor Quin, Medicine woman? well a reoccuring bad guy in that long yellow hair actual historical figure quite famous either hailed as a hero or as the cause of teerible slaughter?
2.How do you make an apple grumble?
hint: you need to stop thinking about what you normaly do to apples its completely differant.
3.Where do you go to wiegh a whale?
Develop a lisp.

[Pendragon]

1.Whats yellow and scary?
hint: a bit of a random one but I always link this one to ...did you ever see Doctor Quin, Medicine woman? well a reoccuring bad guy in that long yellow hair actual historical figure quite famous either hailed as a hero or as the cause of teerible slaughter?
2.How do you make an apple grumble?
hint: you need to stop thinking about what you normaly do to apples its completely differant.
3.Where do you go to wiegh a whale?
Develop a lisp.

OK. You mean for 1. The famous/infamous George Armstrong Custer, so I assume it has something to do with custard :rolleyes:

2. I give up. :crash:

3. Developing a lisp (and becoming Catholic), Purgatory or The Grave (if not Catholic) [(wait on hell).] :idea:

[Nightshade]

1)huh yes it has to do with custard.

2) Chase it around the garden :brow:

3) No ohh just say weigh a whale out loud then say it the other way around :rolleyes: ...what do catholics have to do with the price of anything?

[Pendragon]

http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/edoom/let_it_all_out.gif http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/ruinkai/screama.gif http://smilies.vidahost.com/otn/angry/zx11pissed.gif http://smilies.vidahost.com/cwm/3dlil/mad.gif I GIVE UP! http://smilies.vidahost.com/otn/ez/pi_mad.gif http://smilies.vidahost.com/cwm/big/firemad.gif

[Pendragon]

And you know how I hate to admit defeat.... :flare:

[Whifflingpin]

Yellow and scary was shark infested custard, when I was a kid.

and whales used to be weighed at a whale-weigh station

[RobinHood3000]

...Elmer Fudd would be proud. :mad: Not quite the thame as a lithp, though, ith it?

[Nightshade]

blah :p it is in arabic and whiffling got them in one :D:D I think its a rosomthing or other

[Pendragon]

Yeah, but I write my own puzzles... :)



Your parents told you often enough,
The things you fear aren't really there
If you ignore them, short stuff,
Then they will have to disappear!
This of all the haunting things alone,
Cannot appear unless you look—
Turn away and it will be gone:
Cannot return without your vision's hook.
Not always seen, bright must be
The place where you may spy the thing:
But in every season there will be
A place to look where it is hiding:
As close to you as you own breath—
A burden borne until your death

What is this thing and how do you see it?

[Nightshade]

your reflection and a mirror??

[Silv]

It's a shadow - you can see it when light is cast at any angle other than directly above or under it, hence the reference to the need for "brightness" in order to see it.

[Pendragon]

your reflection and a mirror??
Good catch, Night! Yeah, "in every season" would throw out a shadow, because many places have rainy seasons. But reflections show in mirrors or water. Besides when you turn away, your shadow turns with you. Not so with a reflection. Only spot in places where it may refelect. http://smilies.vidahost.com/games/dbz/dragonball-wishdragon.gif

[Nightshade]

my turn again???

[Pendragon]

Well there's this one:

This phrase is probably appropriate to utter when a certain appliance won't. http://www.invision.smileyville.net/smilies/disdain (30).gif

[Whifflingpin]

"Darn it," when the needle is blunt?

"Blast it," when the powder is damp?

[Pendragon]

"Darn it," when the needle is blunt?

"Blast it," when the powder is damp?Ach, you're in the area, but neither a needle nor powder is an appliance... ;) I like them both though! :lol:

[AutumnGal]

Hi, Pen,

Here's my stab at it...

"That sucks!" when the vacuum is broken. :D

[Nightshade]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Pendragon]

Hi, Pen,

Here's my stab at it...

"That sucks!" when the vacuum is broken. :D Oh, yeah! Exactly! http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/haushalt/d025.gif :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Pendragon]

This should be easy enough, but you never know how people think.

You are camping in the mountains, and return to your camper at nearly dark almost frozen, nearly starved, and with the battery in your flashlight (torch) on it's last legs. A storm is coming in that will keep you confined to the camper at least three days. No problem. You have a kerosene (paraffin) space heater with plenty of fuel, a propane cook stove and enough food, and a Coleman ™ lantern for light. However, you can only find one match. What do you light first, given that if you fail you could freeze, starve, or have to stay in the dark a good bit of the time? http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/konfus/a015.gif

[RobinHood3000]

The match!! :D

[Pendragon]

The match!! :D Too easy, mon ami! But good eyes to see through the dust in the eyes! :thumbs_up

[Pendragon]

They feed the fish and worms alike

[RobinHood3000]

...assassinated mobsters? :confused: :p

[Nightshade]

planktan??
cant spell t a type of algea?

[Pendragon]

...assassinated mobsters? :confused: :pAh, yes. Robin remembers that I write mysteries concerning 30's and 40's era mobsters. Concrete shoes-- feed the fish. Bump off and dump in the woods-- feed the worms. They disposed of their enemies very well! http://www.websmileys.com/sm/violent/sterb003.gif

[Pendragon]

Though there are none as fast as me,
I can be stopped: And that quite easily.
I know the whole Earth from dust to spire,
Yet there are places I may not enter uninvited, like some vampire.
Formost and Firstborn, that is what some say--
See the answer on a Sundail; Shadow points the way...

What is it?

[Taliesin]

Light.

s10cr

[Pensive]

Yeah, this is surely light. :D

[Madhuri]

Even I think its Light.

[Pendragon]

Nothing faster, is there mes amis? Yet you can block out light with walls and binds, and in places like caves, you must take it with you (invite it.) Good! Tal, Pensy, Maddie! http://smilies.vidahost.com/otn/wink/thumb.gif

Someone else make one up. I'm rusty or something... :lol:

[LPRox015]

One man shows another, the portrait of a gentleman and tells him: "I have neither brothers nor sisters, but this man's father is the son of my father."

Who is the man in the painting?

[RobinHood3000]

The speaker's son. :D

[LPRox015]

Exactly! :P

[Pendragon]

One passes through and forms seven, but if the seven pass back through they form one. Name of object, one, and seven, please. :)

[Madhuri]

Is it a symbol??

[Pendragon]

No. Three things. The one that breaks into seven and returns to one, the seven the one becomes, and the object that causes this. ;)

[Whifflingpin]

White light, prism, spectrum ?

[AimusSage]

I thought of that too, but the spectrum of white light does not consists of 7 distinct colors.

It's a good one Pen, you got me stoomped.

[Whifflingpin]

"but the spectrum of white light does not consists of 7 distinct colors"

True, but nominally or traditionally it does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_spectrum

[Pendragon]

White light, prism, spectrum ? Quite right. As Wiff says, Aimus "True, but nominally or traditionally it does." The white light passes into a prism, breaks into the seven colors of the spectrum which if they pass though a second prism, return to white light again. There may be more colors there, due to blending of colors, but seven: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet are the traditional colors. Good catch, Wiff. http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/sportlich/a040.gif Aimus, you must learn to listen to your instinct! ;) :p (When you come right down to it, only Red, Blue, and Yellow are the primary colors anyway, any others are blends!) :idea:

[AimusSage]

Quite right. As Wiff says, Aimus "True, but nominally or traditionally it does." The white light passes into a prism, breaks into the seven colors of the spectrum which if they pass though a second prism, return to white light again. There may be more colors there, due to blending of colors, but seven: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet are the traditional colors. Good catch, Wiff. http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/sportlich/a040.gif Aimus, you must learn to listen to your instinct! ;) :p (When you come right down to it, only Red, Blue, and Yellow are the primary colors anyway, any others are blends!) :idea:
Darn my scientific mind. :lol: When I thought of the prism I jumped right to photons and refractions. :) That's why I'm just no good at riddles. :D

[Pendragon]

It is said these hares grow only under the full moon

[AimusSage]

Were hares? like werewolves, only with longer ears and a bit jumpy?

[Pendragon]

Were hares? like werewolves, only with longer ears and a bit jumpy?
You almost have it-- think about puns.

[AimusSage]

Well, if it's the 'hairs' that come out at full moon, it could be the furry bits on a werewolf.

[Pendragon]

Well, if it's the 'hairs' that come out at full moon, it could be the furry bits on a werewolf.Oh, yeah. Those hares "hairs" only grow under the full moon, it is said! Then again, some say you get to where you can control the araguhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............:thumbs_up :)

[AimusSage]

Hihi. silly me, I love werewolves, I always go out to bars with them, somehow their furry bits are very, uhm... disturbing :p

[Pendragon]

This fetch is not a game
And to meet yours would be a shame
Like as two peas within a pod--
But the sight of yours prepare to meet thy God...



With people from many cultures here, this should be easy enough...:)

[Pendragon]

This fetch is not a game
And to meet yours would be a shame
Like as two peas within a pod--
But the sight of yours prepare to meet thy God...



With people from many cultures here, this should be easy enough...:)

Not even a nibble? Hummmm. http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/xerx/smileythescream.gif

Sleepy should have got it anyway. It is a doppelganger. The ghost of a living person. It is never visible to that person, but if it ever is, legend says that person will die.

From the unabridged dictionary: fetch2 /fɛtʃ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fech] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun wraith (def. 1).

[Origin: 1780–90; perh. short for fetch-life one sent to fetch the soul of a dying person]

[Pendragon]

New Riddle


If I were the "early bird", what would that make YOU? :D

[The Bookinator]

the worm that sleeps in.

I may run rings around you
Or escape your clutching grip
Or leave a treacherous trail
That gives a sudden slip.
(If you're not careful!)

You always end up winning,
While I shrink with each new meet:
Our bouts will be my ruin,
But you'll come out smelling sweet.

What am I?

[Pendragon]

the worm that sleeps in.

I may run rings around you
Or escape your clutching grip
Or leave a treacherous trail
That gives a sudden slip.
(If you're not careful!)

You always end up winning,
While I shrink with each new meet:
Our bouts will be my ruin,
But you'll come out smelling sweet.

What am I?Well, to start, that not the right answer to my riddle. :p

I think you might be thinking of roll-on deodorant.

[Anon22]

Well, to start, that not the right answer to my riddle. :p

I think you might be thinking of roll-on deodorant.

lol........

[Captain Pike]

You wrote:


I may run rings around you
Or escape your clutching grip
Or leave a treacherous trail
That gives a sudden slip.
(If you're not careful!)

You always end up winning,
While I shrink with each new meet:
Our bouts will be my ruin,
But you'll come out smelling sweet.

What am I?
__________________
You're a snail

[The Bookinator]

Well, to start, that not the right answer to my riddle. :p

I think you might be thinking of roll-on deodorant.

close, but no chocolate... (thats better than cigars anyway...:p )

but you are close, cosmetics wise. if that makes any sense... *thinks*

nor is it a snail guys, Bwa ha ha ha! ^_^

as for yours pen...

hmmm...


:yawnb: am i the bird who sleeps in and still doesnt get the riddle? cuz i still dont. Wish I were smarter, than I could be all intelligent sounding like Madhuri or Kathy or Pendragon. *is in awe* O.O

[Captain Pike]

I may run rings around you
Or escape your clutching grip
Or leave a treacherous trail
That gives a sudden slip.
(If you're not careful!)

You always end up winning,
While I shrink with each new meet:
Our bouts will be my ruin,
But you'll come out smelling sweet.

What am I?
__________________
My 14 year old son says: you are a BAR OF SOAP

[The Bookinator]

alright! you rock, genius son of cap'n P!

[Captain Pike]

Now he's going around swell headed! (My kid I mean,, who by the way, was the guy I was asking for a good book for) Great, now only 90 Posts left to go!

[Pendragon]

The Bookinator: I asked:

New Riddle


If I were the "early bird", what would that make YOU?

Now, the early bird always gets the worm!

So, if I were the "early bird", YOU would be the "late worm." Being now deceased and all that! :lol: :lol:

I thought about soap, but saw it already posted. I thought roll-on deordorant first, because I had to get out a new stick that morning! :lol: Some of it leaves a white trail, anyhow! :lol:

[The Bookinator]

Ooooh... I get it now, although I feel really dumb. (>.< D'oh!)

Er... let's see...

We are three genies capable of independent existence.
But bring any two of us together
And we shall summon the missing third
To respond to your beck-and-call within his capabilities.

Man would welcome any opportunity to fit an unwelcome harness
on our first whilst it is in full gallop.
Thus the first will conspire with our second to tackle the quest
To subdue the third to be a slave at your behest.

Our second was so repulsive as to be banished forthwith
to the far-flung corners of the globe.
His feet planted firmly on terra firma,
On his pate, an insecure white cap.

The repulsion of the second is surpassed by how shocking is the third.
Whilst our first, lest we forget, has been cursed by the gods
To remain forever in a state of perpetual restlessness.
Who are these restless, repulsive, shocking, yet subservient genies?

Hint: Think science.

[AutumnGal]

Okay, my hubby and I talked the "Three Genies" riddle through and came up with two guesses.

1. Newton's Three Laws of Motion: Inertia, F = ma, and for Every Action there is an Equal and Opposite Reaction.

or

2. Energy: mechanical, magnetic, and electrical

[Pendragon]

The three states of mater, i.e., Gas, liquid, solid not necessarily in that order. ;)

[The Bookinator]

Actually, Autumn Gal got it. Huzzah! It was the energy guess. ^_^ Although Pen's guess sorta makes sense... *thinks*
...
Ow, I actually used my brain. Teenagers aren't supposed to do that. (Too much logic. O.O)

Anyone have another good riddle, or shall I look up one in my great big book o' riddles? (Borders has EVERYTHING!! And on clearance too!)

[Misscaroline]

If you can find one quick enough, put it up! I'm dying to solve one today...

And yes. Brains. Don't hurt yourself.... thought doesn't come naturally to the adolescent mind...

[The Bookinator]

Using real names to make common words, name the offspring: (the first
one is free!)

1. Mr and Mrs Voyant - Clare (as in Clairvoyant)
2. Mr and Mrs Tress
3. Mr and Mrs Nasium
4. Mr and Mrs Tate
5. Mr and Mrs Anthemum
6. Mr and Mrs Mander
7. Mr and Mrs Mite
8. Mr and Mrs Time

Have fun Miss Caroline!

[Misscaroline]

8. Annie Time?

[RobinHood3000]

3. Jim
6. Sally

[Madhuri]

5. Chris -- Chrys-anthemum

[AutumnGal]

Of those that are left...

7. Dyna Mite (I think)

[Pendragon]

For #8 my daughter's name is Summer ;)

[Whifflingpin]

2) Miss Tress ?

3) Maggie Nasium

4) Anna Tate ?

5) Nat Sean Al Anthemum

6) Gerry Mander

7) Ma Mite (just for the English, I think)

8) Mary Time ?

[The Bookinator]

Ooo... you guys are good. Ze answers are... (scroll down really fast if you don't wanna see)

Answer
2. Matt
3. Jim
4. Dick
5. Chris
6. Sally
7. Dinah
8. Justin

But a lot of your answers work too, everyone! Tell you the truth, I like some of yours better.... Anyone find a good riddle yet? I hafta go now... babysitting awaits. ^_^

[Pendragon]

This is an old one, taken from a book I still own. See if you can figure out the message:

Each line is a word.

It's quiet there even in a hurricane.
A word of advice, politely given.
Old English bowmen loved it.
Bigger than raindrops, smaller than the ocean.
I'm number 26. Your number please?
It sets on the shelf like a well-fed elf.

Read the words down and write out the sentence to solve this riddle. ;)

[AimusSage]

1. eye
2. suggest
3. yew
4. sea
5. ?
6. book

I suggest you see (a/the?) book.

Or something like that?

[Pendragon]

1. eye
2. suggest
3. yew
4. sea
5. ?
6. book

I suggest you see (a/the?) book.

Or something like that?Yep. http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/sportlich/a040.gif Number 5 is "Z", 26 in the alphabet. Pronouced it can sound like "the". "I suggest you see the book." Very good. You could probably tell me the book this comes from, I suspect.

However, there was another one in the same book. There were three, but the thrid involved something that existed only in the book.



1.) Take one lily; kill my friend Eli.
2.) Positively number one.
3.) Take a broom and swat a bee.
4.) What one does with clothes...almost.
5.) Not Mother, not Sister, not Brother; but perhaps Father?
6.) Hymns? Hams? Homes? Almost...but not quite.

Same as last time. One hint. Clocks.

Good luck.

[AimusSage]

1. on(e li)ly = only
2. One
3.
4. wear = where
5. Dad = That
6.

only one ? where that ?

I'll get back to it, I'm not even sure this is right, but it's what I got so far :)

[RobinHood3000]

3 is Room, 6 may be Hums...

[Pendragon]

Here's what is right so far:


1.) Take one lily; kill my friend Eli. = Only
2.) Positively number one.
3.) Take a broom and swat a bee. = Room
4.) What one does with clothes...almost. = Where
5.) Not Mother, not Sister, not Brother; but perhaps Father?
6.) Hymns? Hams? Homes? Almost...but not quite. =Hums



OK this is the sentence:

Only a room where Father Time hums.

A is number one.
Father Time-- I gave a hint "clocks"

Puzzles were from the books "The Mystery of the Screaming Clock" a Three Investigators Mystery, which I've had since a boy and my sons have also outgrown. I'll try to come up with a new one.

[Pendragon]

Revived! Thought of some new ones, and I'm sure the new blood here can come up with others:

Now I am fascinated with edged weapons, and I have a large collection of them, from all over the world. Unfortunately, I seemed to have mislaid one of them at the moment, and I want to find it for me. How horribly awkward of me, you know? You will have enough information to name my lost blade in this paragraph when I am done. I believe that although his people did not name the blade, Zorro would know as he probably carries one for back up. Good Luck.

Pen

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Arrowhead.gif

[RobinHood3000]

I want to say an &#233;p&#233;e - the fencing sword named by the French (which Zorro definitely was NOT). However, it's a little big to carry as backup - perhaps a rapier, instead?

[Pendragon]

I want to say an épée - the fencing sword named by the French (which Zorro definitely was NOT). However, it's a little big to carry as backup - perhaps a rapier, instead? Quite so. Too big to carry as a backup, and his rapier is his MAIN weapon. However, the language is right for the blade I am currently awkardly missing.... fumble fingers! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/Moodswings.gif

[RobinHood3000]

Hmm...a stiletto would fit the original clue, as it was named by the Italians (again, not Zorro's nationality) and is small enough to be carried as back-up, but it's more of a stabbing weapon (not really "edged," though it does have a blade), but of course, it's not French. Hmm...I'm also tempted to ponder if the name of the blade is hidden in the paragraph, but I might be overthinking things...

[Pendragon]

You might be overlooking something...when have I ever not been able to hide something in plain sight? It's one of the reasons my editor, John Olson, runs so many of my stories, even straightening out the awkward ones...

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Pendragon-1.gif

[BibliophileTRJ]

If I understand the question correctly, we're looking for the name of the dagger in Zorro's boot?

Is it....... ummmm........ Fred?

[Pendragon]

OK. You may have to know blades the way I do, although I actually have named the blade three times. I will ease your minds. http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Gauche.jpg Here is the blade.

It is known as a Gauche, which is French for "awkward". The Raiper artist would use this dagger in his off, or 'awkward", hand. Since most people are right handed, that was usually the left hand. If someone ducked under the rapier, this dagger would finish them quickly. Handy back up, indeed.

Shall I give you another, or will someone else tease use now?

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/OMG.gif

[Pendragon]

OK. We will try another. Not to nag you people, but another bladed weapon is missing. It's nowhwere, nata! And it's not like you could conceal the thing, unless you're the Biblical Goliath, maybe. Seems there was some monstrous entinty from India we already had on the Alphebetic Cryptozoology thread, that had a similar name. It's going to nag at me all day and get me nata...

I promise you I have named the weapon in that paragraph...Good luck!

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Fortune_teller.gif

[Madhuri]

All I can figure out is 'Naga,' but, it does not seem like a weapon to me, it's a monster. Please, correct me if I am wrong.

[RobinHood3000]

Isn't the "naganata" a large spear with a honkin' huge blade on the end?

[Madhuri]

Isn't the "naganata" a large spear with a honkin' huge blade on the end?

This seems the most likely answer :nod:

[Pendragon]

Well, that was easy enough! It is spelled "Naginata" on the site I bought mine from...

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Naginata.jpg

Think anyone would want to break in on me as I am reasonably skilled with this?

Always the absent-minded, I appear to have misslaid a pair of new blades. (sigh) When will I ever learn?

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/Duh.gif

[BibliophileTRJ]

Sorry, Pen, but we'll have to put off my visit until all of your weapons are present and accounted for ;) ..... I'd be afraid to make any movement within your home for fear of being inadvertently shredded.:lol: :lol:

[Pendragon]

Meantime, where did I put those blades! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/Yo.gif (Sigh) You know, it's rough to get so absentminded...http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/ISNF.gif

[Pendragon]

(Sigh)

No one has found my missing blades:

Da-da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da dow-dow
Get my old guitar an play in minor chords a little tune
Da-da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da dow-dow
Designed to help all of you out since you can't find the clue
Da-da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da dow-dow
Ralph down in the sewers wouldn't use anything else
Da-da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da dow-dow
And Bully nearly killed Remy with one of these himself
Da-da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da dow-dow
The best expert is a lady if she is still kickin'
Da-da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da dow-dow
She's the girlfriend of the Devil, down in Hell's Kitchen
Da-da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da dow-dow
Da-da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da dow-dow
Da-da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da dow-dow

Good luck! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/GuitarMan.gif

[RobinHood3000]

A-ha!! Elektra and Raphael share a common love in weaponry - the SAI!!

Love the puns (sigh) and allusions, Pen!! Nicely done...


My turn?

I daresay I myself have lost a rather dangerous set of weapons - Mother Teresa would chuckle at these weapons that Michelangelo would never have used to sculpt.

[Pendragon]

Yes, I thought you might. And Bullseye nearly killed Gambit (Remy LaBleu) with one as well. http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Sai.jpg I'm only surprised that people didn't catch on on the first (sigh)!

I'll have to try guessing yours now...

[Pendragon]

You Robin have lost a set of Nunchucks... I have a set of those too...

[RobinHood3000]

FANTASTIC guess, Pen. And that makes one of us - I'm weapon-impaired. :D

Your turn?

[Pendragon]

Just to show I wasn't kidding: http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Chucks.jpg

Now: Another blade lost, a fine one presented to me in honor. There is a problem, however. Even if I find it, if my honor has been tarnished by loosing it, I must use it to commint hari-kari. I'm in a fix! And I just got such a nice summer tan, too!

[RobinHood3000]

I'm tempted to say the katana, but I'm purely a layman in distinguishing the finer distinctions between the various Japanese blades used by samurai and/or ninja.

[Pendragon]

I'm tempted to say the katana, but I'm purely a layman in distinguishing the finer distinctions between the various Japanese blades used by samurai and/or ninja.
Not a katana, I'm afraid. I don't own one, yet... I take that back, my daughter bought me a nice minature katana and wakizashi for Father's Day... But when have I failed to name the blade in the paragraph anyhoo, Robin? The name is there, hidden in plain sight as usual.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/KungFu.gif

[RobinHood3000]

...hmm...aha! The tanto!! (I wouldn't have heard of it if I didn't play so many medieval fantasy video games...)

[Pendragon]

To be sure. The sharp, short dagger used to commit ritual suicide. Mine is a presentation Tanto, given at contests as prizes. I have another also.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Tanto.jpg

But alas and alack. I cannae be seen at th' highland games in full dress kilt w'out me dagger to match, I simply cannae! The skurlies would laugh a' me and I couldnae handle thet. Ye ken the one I mean, nae Soctsman would be seen w'out one, strange though their name be. Ye may hae tae get Kilted tae help, as I cannae come up w' a good pun...

[Pendragon]

Ach, I remember a scene frae Robert Louis Stevenson's book Kiddnapped. Me Highlander kinsman, Alan Breck Steward is in a grand sword fight, w' Davie Balfour a backing o' him w' t' pistols. One skurlie hae ducked under Alan's sword and he uses his dagger on 'im. Don't gae the full name there, but I'll accept t' short form. Tis enow t' see a man t' the kirkyard any road. Gae me the short form and I'll tell ye the long 'un. An' recall I be a rhyme poet, so I gae ye a clue.

[RobinHood3000]

Hmm...I ken only think o' two daggers tha' come to mind - the kris and the dirk, and I honestly don't know if either's even close.

[Pendragon]

The Dirk it is! Specifically a Sgian Dubh Scottish Dagger.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/SgianDubh.jpg

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/ScottishDagger.jpg

I actually have a Kris as well, they are generally thought of as Maylasian, but since you already brought it up, I have to scrap using that one!

I do have a grand small sword that sometimes is used as a jungle knife. It has come to be known by the name of the people who had it first made. Of the blade is used to be said "Draw not except for battle and sheath not unless blooded." I cannot be much more revealing, without giving up real kept hidden arts. First letter to the winner! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/Friends.gif

[RobinHood3000]

Obviously, upon the word "jungle," I think "machete," but I am unsure as to whether it is meant for combat applications...hmm...

[Pendragon]

Oh, to be sure, "machete" would pop to mind. But I know no people named the Machete. And you cannot get under rules, keeping hope alive. The best way to hide something is in plain sight, like a first letter in the pile, right?

[RobinHood3000]

Methinks you've spent too much time in the Acronym Game, brother. :cool: Is there really a people called the gurkha?

A simplistic weapon Donned by virtually every warrior culture in existence. Less than a "bow", Little John all the same found it the bane on his bridge over water, the big ox. Speak softly when you answer!

[Pendragon]

Indeed.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Gurkha-with-Kukri-www.jpg


http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Gurkha.jpg

The top is one of them with their big blade, actually called a Kukri, but known to collectors as a Gurkha after the brave people who welded them in battle. I knew you wouldn't miss that first letter thing a second time! The people of Nepal have a neat one also, but I do not have one. Your turn for a brainteaser, I think.

[Pendragon]

Excuse me. I see you did have a riddle. Yes, a bo, makes a fine weapon, and I used to be fairly skillful with one. Now, my illness has progressed to where I have trouble with my balance, so some of the spinning movements are beyond me, and I never had a proper one anyhoo.

[RobinHood3000]

Yes, indeed - alas, I'm only slightly more proficient with a bo than, say, the Star Wars Kid, but all the same, Donatello is my favorite Ninja Turtle, after all. It takes a manful turtle to wear a purple bandana. Your turn, brother!

[Pendragon]

OK. I should be getting a new set of bladed weapons this week for which I must care a lot or I may reap what I sow badly...

[RobinHood3000]

Scythes - the weapon of choice of the ever-so-stylish Grim Reaper!! :D

[Pendragon]

Sort of. Kama. Reaping Blades. My set looks like these, as I don't have anyone here to snap a picture for me today...

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/kama.jpg


Your turn, I think.

[RobinHood3000]

Oooh, very cool. I've seen them a lot in martial arts exhibitions - not my favorite, alas.

Yet another farm implement-turned-weapon, using this weapon looks as easy as one-two-three, yet is arguably one of the most difficult to handle. Hand this weapon to your average flailing idiot, and he'll render himself unconscious before you can say "Michelangelo derivative." What is it?

[Pendragon]

A flail. Yet another weapon we owe to the people of Okinawa. Truncate a flail, you get nunchaku. Now we have passed through the 5 major weapons of the Okinawa people, all but one: I do not have a pair. There is the bo, full name rokushakubo, sai, nunchaku, kama, and what is the missing weapons, used in pairs. You like tufu? I gave two clues in this paragraph. Good luck.

Pen

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/PuppyLove.gif

[RobinHood3000]

Close enough, brother - the three-section staff was what I was thinking of (I confess, my clues could have been better). =)

http://www.wle.com/media/W050-T.jpg

As for your puzzler - could it be the tonfa, popularized in the Western world as an upgrade from the traditional policeman's nightstick?

http://indianama.com/osCommerce/images/tonfa1.jpg

[Pendragon]

Dang, I forgot the three-part-staff! They do use a flail, however, I have seen it done.

Absolutely. That is the missing weapon. To a policeman, it's a truncheon, thus my clue "truncate a flail". "Tofu" is also like "tonfa". They are used in pairs, and there are a number of ways they can be used. I may yet get me a set. Your move.

[RobinHood3000]

Cool!

Hang it all, this is one of the most underestimated weapons of Oriental martial arts, unfortunately for those who face it, often finding themselves painted with a bulls-eye before they realize they're fit to be tied. What is this weapon, with sibling weapons used in movies such as Shanghai Noon and Kill Bill?

[Pendragon]

I know what this is Robin, but I confess I can't find a good picture. I have heard it called a "flying dragon tongue", it is basically a weigted spear point on a thin steel cable. In Shanghi Noon Jackie Chan uses a horseshoe and a rope. I have seen a skilled woman beat every weapon with one of these. I have seen a skilled man do like Jackie, drive the pointed head through targets, small ones at that.

Though these knives are named for earth's gentlest creatures of flight they are very deadly. Flip-flop!

[RobinHood3000]

Indeed, the "rope dart," as it is sometimes called, takes an incredible amount of skill to master and control. I heard in an interview or a commentary of some sort that when the idea of using a rope dart came up in Shanghai Noon, Jackie himself gave a sigh of exasperation and commented on how difficult it was! :lol:
http://www.wle.com/media/W211H.jpg

Could they be...the butterfly knives/swords? I'm curious, though - do you mean the kind with broad blades, used in pairs in traditional martial arts, or the street weapon that conceals the blade between its handles like a fancy switchblade?

[Pendragon]

Actually, Robin, I own this one: http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/B-knife.jpg, a butterfly knife, thus the "flip-flop" as I can work it well. I have another also. The trick to these is to make sure you do not forget which edge is sharp. Flipping that sharp edge shut on your finger is something you do only one time. You will never do it twice.

These are butterfly swords/knives:
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/B-swords.jpg

I would love a set, but I don't have a set of them. Your move!

[RobinHood3000]

Though it is an elegant weapon, no gentleman has ever used it. Though it shines in brightest day and blackest night, Green Lantern has only heard of it. Though the source of its power is crystal clear, few ever understand it. What is it?

[Pendragon]

The Central Battery? Or the individual lanterns connected to it?

[RobinHood3000]

Not quite, Pen - try a different geek universe. I know you'll get it. ;)

[Pendragon]

Lightsaber. Power source is a crystal, an elegant weapon, perhaps no one will ever understand the Force.

[RobinHood3000]

YES!! I knew you'd get it, Pen!! "A more elegant weapon, for a more civilised age," indeed!

The ball's in your court, brother.

[Pendragon]

Well, the Godfather's often ordered a rubout. But somethimes things had to be done on the QT, for a switch. Just couldn't go in with the usual guns blazing. Then, these came in handy. People would think twice before crossing one yet today.

[RobinHood3000]

Hmm...silent weapons...a blade of some kind?

[Pendragon]

Ah yes the blade is more silent than the gun, youse understand me, sometimes you have to switch tactics. An Italian wit one of dese who is good, he makes the hit artistic, like a pretty moll’s leg in a high heel shoe, capicse?

[Pendragon]

Ah yes the blade is more silent than the gun, youse understand me, sometimes you have to switch tactics. An Italian wit one of dese who is good, he makes the hit artistic, like a pretty moll’s leg in a high heel shoe, capicse?WHOA! You really cannot guess this one?

[Whifflingpin]

I'd say stiletto, but I suppose that's too obvious.

[BlueSkyGB]

Pen is it a blade type weapon or is it....the garrotte? silent but deadly.

[Pendragon]

I'd say stiletto, but I suppose that's too obvious.Wasn't it though? Congratulations, Wiff, you can give us the next teaser, even if all of you missed two very obvious clues. (In red) You caught this one. (in blue) High heels are also called "Stilettos." The clues you missed would make that "stiletto" a "switchblade". The reference to a "cross" in my original clue was for a famous book and movie "The Cross and the Switchblade".



Ah yes the blade is more silent than the gun, youse understand me, sometimes you have to switch tactics. An Italian wit one of dese who is good, he makes the hit artistic, like a pretty moll’s leg in a high heel shoe, capisce?


Your play, Wiff, mon ami...

[stephofthenight]

pen...u make my head hurt...

[Pendragon]

pen...u make my head hurt...Um.. sorry, Steph. I'm a mystery writer for another website, and I have a word limit. You learn to hide the mystery in as few words as possible, while still giving enough clues to solve. I have published 45, so I think I'm getting the hang of it.

Maybe...

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/CrystalBall.gif


You're still up, Wiff! Bring on the next Brain Teaser!

[Whifflingpin]

I'm no good at brainteasers, but I'm surprised that no-one's gone back to the roots of riddle with this one:

I am the world's wonder, for I make women happy.
I am tall & straight, stand in a bed,
Have a roughish root. Rarely (though it happens)
A young maid more daring than the rest
--and lovelier--lays hold of me,
Rushes my red top, wrenches my head,
And lays me in her larder. She learns soon enough,
The curly-headed creature who clamps me so,
Of my meeting with her: she is left in tears!

[barbara0207]

Chilli/hot pepper?

[Pendragon]

I sincerely hope I am not right in the picture I am getting Wiff!

[Whifflingpin]

"I sincerely hope I am not right in the picture I am getting Wiff!"

Unlikely, but, of course, the picture you are getting is probably the one you're meant to get.

barbara0207 is getting warm, except that she's too warm.

[Scheherazade]

Onion?

[Whifflingpin]

Indeed - Onion it is - a brain teaser that amused the learned clerks of Exeter in the eleventh century or thereabouts.

Your turn, Scher...

[Pendragon]

"I sincerely hope I am not right in the picture I am getting Wiff!"

Unlikely, but, of course, the picture you are getting is probably the one you're meant to get.

barbara0207 is getting warm, except that she's too warm.Quite so, that one is worded so as to lead one down the wrong hallway, and unfortunately, once that picture pops into your head, you may forget about solving the problem, as you fear you might be right and wish to not announce the fact! Way to balance the clues, Scher. You're up next! http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/figuren/e010.gif

[Scheherazade]

How can you measure 4 litre of water using only 3 and 5 litre containers?

[RobinHood3000]

Two methods:

1. Fill the 3.
2. Pour contents into 5.
3. Fill 3 again.
4. Fill the 5 from 3.
5. Empty the 5.
6. Pour the 1 remaining in 3 into 5.
7. Fill 3.
8. Pour 3 into 5, which now contains 4. =)


1. Fill the 5.
2. Fill the 3 from 5.
3. Empty the 3.
4. Pour the 2 in 5 into 3.
5. Fill the 5 again.
6. Fill the 3 from the 5, which now contains 4. =)


A weapon also used for escaping from various entanglements...it almost never leaves the adventurer's side. Can you crack this case?

[Pendragon]

I am not certain this is what you want Robin, but it fits. It is a Kubaton, a key-ring baton weapon. Since it can hold keys, or, inside the hollow, picklocks or throwing spikes, in this case, a knife, it can be used for escape. One would always carry it, very small, very portable. This one I own. There is an art to using one as a weapon that I understand is part of police training.


http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Kubaton.jpg

[RobinHood3000]

Oooh...not what I had in mind, Pen, but fascinating all the same.

Don't worry, Pen - I'm sure you can swing the answer to your side somehow. =)

[the silent x]

machete
(ma-sh-e-tee)

[Pendragon]

Oooh...not what I had in mind, Pen, but fascinating all the same.

Don't worry, Pen - I'm sure you can swing the answer to your side somehow. =)My weapons usually are. I agree with X. Kudus to him this round.

[RobinHood3000]

Actually, machete isn't right, either. Maybe I'm not as good as giving clues as I thought. :lol:

Ever seen an indy - I mean, indie film? ;) (Think outside the bladed box.)

[Pendragon]

Bullwhip... thus to entangle legs, or to tangle around a handy treelimb or rafter and swing away. I would have probably refered to Bat Lash for this one, or perhaps Lady Rawhide, Zorro's Lady sidekick. Am I right?

[barbara0207]

Robiiiin! We need to know what it was! :D

[RobinHood3000]

Sorry - been away a bit. :blush:

Yes, indeed - the ball's in Pen's court!!

[Pendragon]

Lessee...

A part of me is made by burning wood,
Burned but not burned away complete,
Another part of me should be mined,
By careful miners indeed, by St. Pete!
The third part is also found below,
Beware, lest the very Devil himself you meet!

The parts three combine to one,
The formula is ancient and precise
Among the three is healing, warmth, and flavor
Together they may send your soul to hell or paradise...

The three and the one for this riddle I think
Are the answers I seek, me auld China Plate!

Good luck...

[Pendragon]

Lessee...

A part of me is made by burning wood,
Burned but not burned away complete,
Another part of me should be mined,
By careful miners indeed, by St. Pete!
The third part is also found below,
Beware, lest the very Devil himself you meet!

The parts three combine to one,
The formula is ancient and precise
Among the three is healing, warmth, and flavor
Together they may send your soul to hell or paradise...

The three and the one for this riddle I think
Are the answers I seek, me auld China Plate!

Good luck...

Wow. No one has got this one yet? It would be wrong to give any extra hints as someone who wishes to remain anonyamous solved it almost as soon as it went up as is, right in every aspect. If they could do it, others will just have to think harder, because the information is there. Good luck!

Pen

[Pendragon]

Wow. No one has got this one yet? It would be wrong to give any extra hints as someone who wishes to remain anonyamous solved it almost as soon as it went up as is, right in every aspect. If they could do it, others will just have to think harder, because the information is there. Good luck!

Pen

OK. As this has been up for five days with no hits, allow me to give credit where credit is due. Wiff saw threw all the padding to the heart of the matter at once and gave me the answer in a PM the very day it went up. He didn't want to pick the next riddle, or ruin the game so quickly:

So let's see about this, shall we:


A part of me is made by burning wood,
Burned but not burned away complete,


You use this every time you grill out, it's called "CHARCOAL"




Another part of me should be mined,
By careful miners indeed, by St. Pete!


The word "mine" suggests a mineral, if you got the charcoal, you would be looking for something to add to it that is a mineral. I call St. Peter "St. Pete" for a good reason. "SALTPETER" is a mineral mined, that mixed with charcoal and


The third part is also found below,
Beware, lest the very Devil himself you meet!


We are going back underground for a third additive, which is plentiful in hell. Hell is describe a burning with "fire and brimstone". Brimstone is SULFER.


And now

The parts three combine to one,
The formula is ancient and precise
Among the three is healing, warmth, and flavor
Together they may send your soul to hell or paradise...

The three and the one for this riddle I think
Are the answers I seek, me auld China Plate!


CHARCOAL, SALTPETER, and SULFUR, properly mixed form GUNPOWDER.
SULFUR is something from which many drugs are made.
CHARCOAL provides a lot of heat as anyone grilling on the Fourth of July could tell you.
SALTPETER can be used as a salt substitute, as it tastes somewhat like salt, it needs refining.
GUNPOWDER will certainly kill, sending you to wherever you go when you die.

China Plate is Cockney rhyming slang for "Mate", but here, it means what it says. China is where gunpowder originated.

That's all folks!



Someone else do the next one!

[the silent x]

who's next?

[Pendragon]

You if you want!

[Pendragon]

Without the head it has no bite,
Without the body no length of flight,
Without the tail it could not fly at all:
The guy from the Hispaniola has missed roll call...

Weapon named?

Good luck.

Pen

[RobinHood3000]

I shall guess - an arrow?

[Pendragon]

Aye, Matey, Mister Arrow is missing from the Hispaniola, and and arrow has a head, shaft, and tail. The longbows used to have the greatest range, longer shafts, pulled back further increased the fps. An arrow that was ill-feathered would miss, unable to fly right.

You're up, brother!

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/Ninja.gif

[Taliesin]

Why are manhole covers round, not say rectangular or square - which would be much more easier to produce?
(There are a number of answers to this question - I will count the question answered when my favourite explanation is presented.)

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Why are manhole covers round, not say rectangular or square - which would be much more easier to produce?
(There are a number of answers to this question - I will count the question answered when my favourite explanation is presented.)A round cover can never fall into the hole.

/Claes

[Madhuri]

A round cover can never fall into the hole.

/Claes

Thats my answer too :)

[Taliesin]

Yup. That's the most common answer, I guess, and it is rather elegant, so it's my favourite.
There are other answers too, like:
*round covers are easier to roll
*round covers don't have nasty corners that could break tires
*round tubes are the strongest form
etc