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The Riddle List
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With thieves I consort,
With the vilest, in short,
I'm quite at ease in depravity;
Yet all divines use me,
And savants can't lose me,
For I am the center of gravity.
Answer: V
Origin: Blank | Wyrdmaster | 126 | 8 | X | Until I am measured
I am not known,
Yet how you miss me
When I have flown.
Answer: Time
Origin: Blank | Wyrdmaster | 98 | 7 | X | I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
Answer: Tomorrow
Origin: Blank | Wyrdmaster | 97 | 7 | X | Alive without breath,
As cold as death,
Never thirsty, Ever drinking,
Clad in mail, Never clinking,
Drowns on dry land,
Thinks an island, Is a mountain,
Thinks a fountain, Is a puff of air.
Answer: A fish
Origin: Recorded | Faol Falconbreeze | 95 | 8 | X | This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
Answer: Time
Origin: Recorded | Wyrdmaster | 94 | 7 | X | The cost of making only the maker knows,
Valueless if bought, but sometimes traded.
A poor man may give one as easily as a king.
When one is broken pain and deceit are assured.
Answer: Promise
Origin: Recorded | Stacia | 87 | 7 | X | Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
Answer: A coffin
Origin: Blank | Wyrdmaster | 85 | 9 | X | I build up castles.
I tear down mountains.
I make some men blind,
I help others to see.
What am I?
Answer: Sand
Origin: Blank | Wyrdmaster | 80 | 7 | X | Glittering points
That downward thrust,
Sparkling spears
That never rust.
Answer: Icicle
Origin: Blank | Wyrdmaster | 78 | 6 | X | Die without me,
Never thank me.
Walk right through me,
Never feel me.
Always watching,
Never speaking.
Always lurking,
Never seen.
Answer: Air
Origin: Blank | Faol Falconbreeze | 78 | 7 | X | | 1 - 10, of 407 | Next >> |
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