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I, and a certain someone else, have just had this. It took about fifteen or twenty minutes from start to finish, it was hot and wet, it was very good and it consists of three letters.

What was it?

(To any lurking mods, if this is considered a word game, then lock it and no hard feelings!)

Tea?

Is it cat hat bat fat mat pot mom dad rat pat rap. Any of these.

Tea?

Too many clues huh?

Well done.

*takes a bow*

Got another one or was that it?

I wasn't planning on another one. It simply arose from a degree of silliness of the moment...

But if you'd like to take your reward and pose one, I'm sure we this could be nursed along for a while.

OH is that ever so wonderful thing called ....
Wait I wil rember
Oh fiddlesticks it's that thing that I don't get that often
Can't rember at all

Tea? I thought it was sex. Oh, well I guess I was wrong.

Tea? I thought it was sex. Oh, well I guess I was wrong.

i wasn't going to say it.. but thats what i thought it was too.
i was waiting for a mod-lock for a while, then realized i was just... wrong.

How about these:

Hard iron on horse / cow's hide on man.

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.

Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters

Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.

(Waits for thread to be locked). Perhaps I could argue it's not really a word game in the conventional sense but more of a test of intellect based on lexical dissection.

Tea? I thought it was sex. Oh, well I guess I was wrong.

You need to set your sights higher than twenty minutes...

Okay.. Not really a word question, but here goes..

You have 8 identical yellow balls, each weighing exactly the same except one, which is just a bit heavier. You are given a balance beam and are only allowed to use it twice. How would you find the heavier ball?

How about these:

Hard iron on horse / cow's hide on man.

Shoes.


It cannot be seen, cannot be felt
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

Darkness.



The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.


The letter 'e'".


Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters


This sounds familiar. Is it one of The 'Hobbit' riddles? Wind?



Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.


Again, I've heard this before buy I can't quite place it. I'm guessing 'teeth'.

How about these:

The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.


The letter "e"?

Would do the other ones but i see TWW got to it first,

That one I heard before..

Okay.. Not really a word question, but here goes..

You have 8 identical yellow balls, each weighing exactly the same except one, which is just a bit heavier. You are given a balance beam and are only allowed to use it twice. How would you find the heavier ball?

I can see how to do it with three weighings, but not two. I'm sure it'll be blinding obvious when you reveal all (metaphorically speaking of course!).

1. Put four on each side. Discard the lighter four.
2. Put two on each side. Discard the lighter two.
3. Put one on each side and...

How about these:

Hard iron on horse / cow's hide on man.

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.

Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters

Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.

(Waits for thread to be locked). Perhaps I could argue it's not really a word game in the conventional sense but more of a test of intellect based on lexical dissection.

1.) Horse shoe/leather clothes
2.)Darkness?
3.)the letter E
4.)the wind?
5.)Teeth

I got one! Its not a word riddle but yeah:

What walks with four legs in the morning,
Walks on two legs at noon
And walks on 3 legs at evening?

I got one! Its not a word riddle but yeah:

What walks with four legs in the morning,
Walks on two legs at noon
And walks on 3 legs at evening?

I'm just going to go and ask my pet sphinx to see if she can give me a clue...!

I got one too, kinda sucks though.

What flys whenever there is wind, but never goes anywhere ?

- wwa

I was testing your general knowldge.

Okay.. Not really a word question, but here goes..

You have 8 identical yellow balls, each weighing exactly the same except one, which is just a bit heavier. You are given a balance beam and are only allowed to use it twice. How would you find the heavier ball?

I can see how to do it with three weighings, but not two. I'm sure it'll be blinding obvious when you reveal all (metaphorically speaking of course!).

1. Put four on each side. Discard the lighter four.
2. Put two on each side. Discard the lighter two.
3. Put one on each side and...

Heres how:

1.Put 3 on each side. If they are even, discard them or discard the lighter set and the other 2 remaining balls left out.

2. Put one ball of the remaining 3 on each side, leaving one out. If the weigh the same, the ball that was left out is the heavier one. Or the one that weighs more or the 2 balls weighed.

Heres how:

1.Put 3 on each side. If they are even, discard them or discard the lighter set and the other 2 remaining balls left out.

2. Put one ball of the remaining 3 on each side, leaving one out. If the weigh the same, the ball that was left out is the heavier one. Or the one that weighs more or the 2 balls weighed.

Makes perfect sense. (Once it's been pointed out, of course!)

Nice one.

Makes perfect sense. (Once it's been pointed out, of course!)

Nice one.

A friend of mine got asked that at a job interveiw. Well, he got it wrong and asked me later and I got it after about 5 mins of thinking about it.

A friend of mine got asked that at a job interveiw. Well, he got it wrong and asked me later and I got it after about 5 mins of thinking about it.

And the job was...?

Some high level bank job.. He did get it though..

Some high level bank job.. He did get it though..

And there was me expecting it to be a specialist in ... ahem... male problems!

LOL

I got one too, kinda sucks though.

What flys whenever there is wind, but never goes anywhere ?

- wwa

Hair? A kite? Not sure.

Heres one: How long untill this thread is deleated?

Okay.. Not really a word question, but here goes..

You have 8 identical yellow balls, each weighing exactly the same except one, which is just a bit heavier. You are given a balance beam and are only allowed to use it twice. How would you find the heavier ball?

Divide into groups of three, three and two.

Take the two groups of three.

If they weigh the same, take the group of two, split them into two and weigh them against each other. The heavier one is the heavy ball.

If they weigh differently, take the group of three that weighs heavier, then choose two balls from those three and measure them.

If one is heavier, thats the heavy ball.

If both are the same weight, then the third unmeasured ball is the heavy one.

I got one too, kinda sucks though.

What flys whenever there is wind, but never goes anywhere ?

- wwa

Hair? A kite? Not sure.

Nope, a flag

Holy shiznat....

I took so long to type that, he posted the answer already.

:(

How about these:

Hard iron on horse / cow's hide on man.

Shoes.


It cannot be seen, cannot be felt
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

Darkness.



The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.


The letter 'e'".


Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters


This sounds familiar. Is it one of The 'Hobbit' riddles? Wind?



Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.


Again, I've heard this before buy I can't quite place it. I'm guessing 'teeth'.

Very good, okay I did plajurise some of them from the hobbit (the teetho one as well) but I figured that a lot of people wouldn't remember them and I thought that they were really great riddles.

here you go

What can you put in a barell full of holes to make it lighter?

Try these:
I can travel from there to here by disappearing,
and here to there by reappearing.
What am I ?

What is it?
You take off the outside,cook the inside
Eat the outside,throw away the inside

I dont know what you eat, but is the first one the horizon?

My favorite:
Better than God
Worse than the Devil
Dead men eat it always
If you eat it you will die slowly
What is it?

I got one too, kinda sucks though.

What flys whenever there is wind, but never goes anywhere ?

- wwa

Hair? A kite? Not sure.

Nope, a flag

Another answer is time.

Ahhh.... Riddles! :D

...

Unfortunately, it constitutes a word game. iLock.

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