Daily puzzles/problems.

[Sano]

Nope. Tip: Mark's answer was closer to it than yours.

[MarkBastable]

I've never had much patience with riddles. They always seem so contrived to me. Contrived and quite often leaky as hell. I mean, look at the riddle of the Sphinx. Faced with that absurdly cobbled-together attempt at a puzzle, any traveller with a modicum of gumption would flip the Sphinx the finger and tell him - or possibly her - to spin on it, then gee up the camel and head for the first pub on Thebes High Street.

[prendrelemick]

Ok, this is pretty easy, but here it is:

I am what I am,
but if you know what I am,
I am not longer what I am.
Guess, what am I?

A puzzle ?

[billl]

Mystery?

[prendrelemick]

A mystery puzzle?

[billl]

A secret mystery puzzle?

[MarkBastable]

A stranger.

[billl]

A successful imposter.

[Sano]

A puzzle ?

Yep, you got it. Your turn now.

[prendrelemick]

Noooooo!


Give us a moment.

[prendrelemick]

seven is half of twelve in a certain situation. Explain.

[Sano]

twelve (6 letters) minus seven (5 letters) equals seven minus half (4 letters)? It does sound a bit crazy, but it's all I can think of at the moment.

[MarkBastable]

I have no clear way of drawing this but I'll give it a go...


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is half of

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[prendrelemick]

sano, brilliant but wrong!

Mark, correct! I've used the Roman Numeral route once too often me thinks.

[MarkBastable]

Here's one that forms a snippet of backstory in a fiction piece of mine.....


The second-born of a pair of twins is older than the first-born, having been born in a different country and a different year.