Brain Teasers

I'm wondering...does it have anything to do with the fact that the victorious son answered second?

Not really. Except he was wrong, and the second was right. If it were the other way around, I doubt he would have gotten it wrong, then. Plus I'm pretty sure he was the older of the two, if clearly not the wiser. The order doesn't really matter.

Let me then say TIME. The old saying is "Time and tide change everything." Time is measured in the passing of the moon, the coming and going of the tides, etc. ;)

That is a wonderful guess- very nicely deducted, btw- but I'm afraid that that's not it. Sorry Pen. :(

I think you are going to have to tell us MS C. I can think of things affected by the moon or said to be affected by the moon, but none seem to fit.
Werewolves, for example. People's moods are said to be affected by the moon. Age as in Native American societies: "He is an elder of many moons." I honestly don't know. ;)

Oh, I could never turn you down, Pen! It's women:D:D:D! You guys were appalingly close with the red tide bit, but I couldn't say that, now could I? Shall you post the next, Pen, or shall someone else?

Give someone else a shot. ;) Good riddle! http://www.cosgan.de/images/kao/haushalt/h025.gif

Why, thank you! That's all for me now! I've used my best, and it did stump you. (I'm still amazed no one came out and guessed it when I tried to reiterate how mad she got at the wrong one...) Who's up next? I need a good riddle...

I cannot help myself: sorry! http://www.cosgan.de/images/kao/figuren/e030.gif

Possibly very thin, or white and thick,
Opaque mayhap, or translucent, clear—
Whether seen or unseen alike both very slick,
One creeps with fingers like a witches.

Is that a sheet? Is that a cube? Is that a spike?
Hummm. This one wet; that one dry.
One smokes and burns, funny like—
The other too may smoke or seem to cry.

Power of Preservation gives them value,
Power for Destruction lies within them too
Yet when not solid one is life, one death:
Yet one name alone will name the two…

And that would be:

...salt?

For some reason, chemistry is on the brain.

Drinks?? Cigarette?? Bad-habit??

I know I fail miserably at these riddles, but I like playing??

Oh you must think if not chemistry, at least basic physics...:) No answer so far. All clues are there, I swear to that! :thumbs_up

Is it evaporation?

Ice, or water....

yes I think it must be ice:nod:


Possibly very thin, or white and thick,
Opaque mayhap, or translucent, clear—
Whether seen or unseen alike both very slick,
One creeps with fingers like a witches.

Is that a sheet? Is that a cube? Is that a spike? /all applicable to ice
Hummm. This one wet; that one dry.
One smokes and burns, funny like—
The other too may smoke or seem to cry.

Power of Preservation gives them value,you use it to store food
Power for Destruction lies within them tooavalanches hypothermia death by freezing frost bite a
Yet when not solid one is life, one deathwater is the source of all life:
Yet one name alone will name the two…
but becase its one name oh wait you mean dry ice and normal ice not ice and water do you?
And that would be:

ICE!