Riddle thread.

[Ogel96]

Humans.

[solvess]

meh. yea but I got more.

1.Close to the words of life stay I,
But I wither, wane, and grow dry.

2.I do not breathe, but I run and jump.
I do not eat, but I swim and stretch.
I do not drink, but I sleep and stand.
I do not think, but I grow and play.
I do not see, but you see me every day.

3.Always wax, yet always wane: I melt, succumb&eacuted to the flame.
Lighting darkness, with fate unblest, I soon devolve to shapeless mess.

4.With potent, flowery words speak I,
Of something common, vulgar, dry;
I weave webs of pedantic prose,
In effort to befuddle those,
Who think I wile time away,
In lofty things, above all day
The common kind that linger where
Monadic beings live and fare;
Practical I may not be,
But life, it seems, is full of me!

5.To you, rude would I never be,
Though I flag my tongue for all to see.

6.I welcome the day with a show of light,
I stealthily came here in the night.
I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn,
But by the noon, alas! I'm gone.

7.Here there is no north, west, nor east,
And weather fit for not man nor beast.

8.Large as a mountain, small as a pea,
Endlessly swimming in a waterless sea.

[SnakeMittens]

3.Candle.
5.Snake?
6.Dew.
7.South Pole.

[Arkbrik]

7 is North Pole, of course. At the South Pole every direction is north.

[dilanski]

8. Sand?

[solvess]

@SnakeMittens
3.yes
5.no
6.yes
7.no

@dilanski
8.no

[dilanski]

Air!

[aoffan23]

1: We are two twins, we are full up in the day but at night we are empty. We work all day, rest all night. What are we?

Shoes, because I'm currently trying to think of a better answer.

[aoffan23]

1.Close to the words of life stay I,
But I wither, wane, and grow dry.

A leaf.

2.I do not breathe, but I run and jump.
I do not eat, but I swim and stretch.
I do not drink, but I sleep and stand.
I do not think, but I grow and play.
I do not see, but you see me every day.

Your shadow.

[solvess]

@aoffan23

1. close (close enough that you would never get it but i will tell you if you ask)

2.no

[aoffan23]

Okay fine, what's 1?

[solvess]

A Bible-pressed leaf, or flower. (told you you would never get it).

[naussica]

I am the center of gravity, I am not last, but I'm very close, I am the beginning of a variable. What am I?

[Rocket_Saint]

here is my riddle (do not answer is you knew it before hand let other people try to figure it out)

What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?

Humans? Close answer. But according to the Riddler from The Batman Arkham Asylum game;

The Riddler asks the well known riddle:
What walks on four legs, then two legs and finally three? Dr. Young answers with the correct answer of a human being: crawling on all fours as a baby, walking on two as an adult and finally uses a cane in old age.

The Riddler commends her on her answer yet states that correct one is a baby for all three. He claims that it's true a baby crawls on all fours but if you cut off its legs it can only move with two, give it a crutch and it can hobble along on three. Dr. Young, obviously disturbed, asks how the Riddler can joke about such things, to which the Riddler replies

"Easily doctor. It's not my baby..."

[naussica]

I take it you played Batman: Arkham Asylum. That game is a ! I always loved that game.