The last thread was getting a little large, so time to start another!

We were working on a riddle from TheLostResource:

there are 6 people outside only five shadows what happened

There were a lot of good responses in the previous thread here. Please read them so that you don't repeat an answer.

The rules:

Once a riddle is given and a member answers correctly, confirmation must come from the person who originally gave the riddle. When the answer is deemed correct the member who answered is allowed to post a riddle.

Exception to this rule: If the guesser or confirmation never come, the thread is allowed to be "bumped" with a new riddle. But we're talking several days here, not hours.

Play nicely.

Hmmmm... A few possible answers:

One person was standing directly behind another, so it made one shadow

One is a vampire ()

Errrr... That's all I can think of for now... I'll try again tomorrow, when I'm not so tired.

TheLostResource has not answered the last post for over a month, so I guess it is time to move on.

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

The letter e?

Good job Eisa! Your turn!

What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward?

I think I might have heard this before - an icicle?

Yup, that's the answer! I thought it appropriate, considering the season. Your turn!

SORRY I TOOK SO LONG!! Here is one that's sort of hard...



A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made sure nobody was in the car, rolled all the windows up, and locked all of the sedan's doors. He went off, but when he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car. No physical damage was done to the car, so how did the stranger get in?

Um...the wife let the stranger in?

Nope.... keep trying! It's one of those that sorta smack you on the head if you get it... ok not really.... it's a sad story if that helps

The woman he was with wasn't his wife, but the stranger. His wife was already dead from the start.

That's my guess, anyway.

Ooh good guess! Sorry but no.. that was fairly good though! Here's a hint - the "stranger" won't be a stranger for long.

The stranger is a baby? And the wife died in childbirth?

Yep E.Austen you are correct!

I must be given before I am kept. What am I?

A promise?

Yep Eisa. Your turn!

Hmmmm. *thinks* This one is easy.

No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

Silence?

Yup, you're right! Your turn!

Sweet! Ummmm....Okay, I got one:

A hill full, a hole full, you can't catch a bowl full. What is it?

Darkness.

Not quite...

Um...air, maybe?

You are sooooooo close!

Fog?

Emptiness?

E.Austen, you're up!

This is an ancient riddle, so you may already know the answer (or your English teacher might):

Head down, nosing-I belly the ground.
Hard snuffle and grub, I bite and furrow
Drawn by the dark enemy of forests,
Driven by a bent lord who hounds my trail,
Who lifts and lowers me, rams me down,
Pushes on plain, and sows seed.
I am a ground-skulker, born of wood,
Bound by wizards, brought on wheel.
My ways are weird: as I walk one flank
Of my trail is gathering green, the other
Is bright black. Through my back and belly
A sharp sword thrusts; through my head
A dagger is stuck like a tooth: what I slash
Falls in a curve of slaughter to one side
If my driving lord slaves well.

Uhm...a snake?

Wow, I have no idea.

Some sort of harvesting machine?

oo i thought it was a fox at first...

Fidelis, you are pretty close. But be specific!

A plow?

a combine harvester

Eisa got it!

This was an Anglo-Saxon riddle from the Book of Exeter. That's why I said that your English teacher might know the answer.

It looks like enought time has passed. I'll post a riddle.

A man lies dead on a field of green surrounded by 53 bicycles. Why did he die?

I would say he got ran over but that's too obvious and blunt, also you never said whether or not the bicycles had people on them. A field, considering grass, he's dead on... 53 is either a main key to solving the clue or just a random number, like you could say 25 and it would make no difference. Since a field of green and 53 bicycles seem to me like a really random pairing, maybe it's not literally a field of green and there aren't literally 53 bicycles. A field of green could be a number of things, like a green poker table or a green carpet/rug. Or a specific field like a soccer field or a gold course. The 53 bicycles could be something different, I believe there is some sort of beverage called Bicycle (not sure, though), or like the card brand Bicycles, but it is well known that there are 54 total cards in a deck, 52 without the jokers. 53 is right between the two numbers, but why that number? Why not the full 52/54? Hmm.... I think I might be able to figure it out, but I'm not quite sure...

Wow, megz, you've either heard this one and are just toying with me so that it's not too obvious that you've already seen this riddle, or you're very good at this. I'm going to assume the latter. You've figured out just about everything and you just need the final piece and it will all be clear.

Hahaha I think I might let someone else have it. I might of heard this riddle before...

Go ahead and finish it off, by all means. The previous post had been over 3 months ago, so it's not like this thread has been a hotbed of activity.

Haha I guess you do have a point - well they are playing a card game (be it Poker, Blackjack, Hold 'Em, whatever) with the card brand Bicycle, and the guy is caught cheating. As gamblers might be, the other players were violent and shot him, and he landed on the table, the "field of green". Quite it really...

That's right. Now it's your turn to decide whether or not to let this thread sit cold for three months.

Um, I think I'll go ahead. There's this riddle that's been bothering me and I don't know the answer to be honest, that's why it's bothering me. It's probably been heard by a lot people, and I don't know if it's a riddle that's messed up or what. It goes like this -

Three guys rent a room for $30, so they each paid $10. It turns out the room was only $25. The bell boy took the money back to the room but couldn't figure out how to split $5 three ways, so he put $2 in his pocket and gave them each a dollar back. So they each paid $9 right? 9 x 3 is 27 and the bell boy has $2, which makes $29. What happened to the other dollar?

Wondering if you could help me with it?

You just have to sort the money properly..you know, keep straight which money was paid and which was kept. The men paid $30 and got $3 back, so they paid $27 in the end. The $2 that the bell boy kept is part of the $27 that the men paid because they never got it back, so of the $30 that was paid originally, the hotel has $25, the bell boy has $2, and the men have $3. You shouldn't try to add the $2 the bell boy has to the $27 that the men paid because that was already accounted for as part of the $27. Is that clear enough?

I think I have it now, just the riddle trying to trick me... well it worked! It's weird how numbers can confuse people. I mean numbers are just amounts of things, they're just numbers, yet people can be perplexed by them. Huh, I guess this means you're up!

When are you going to post a reply???

I think it's pretty free for anyone to post, so I'll just go ahead.

If mechanical engineering makes guns, bombs, explosives, and other things that go "boom", what do they make in architectural engineering? (This is a joke by the way)

Um... things that go "moo?"