Imagination

a nose?

a towel?

Air?

My dad told me this one. A Postage Stamp (he works for the post office)

A coffin
A tombstone
A funeral

I'm thinking something in that area...?
If not, then 99.9% of 21st Century consumer products.

easy, penguin

Is it Egg?

Yes it does and seeing how we've all googled it already I'm going to state it so we can move on
Shadow

a Splinter?

unless it's something from the eletro-magnetic spectrum, it will have mass, and therefore weight.
if it's not light, the riddle is scientifically false

The answer is:
A hole.

@above replies:
logic doesn't always demand science, even though they work well together. And over-thinking an issue can often fail to see the right answer. That is the art of riddles - they help one to see that.

The letter 'e'.


PS: "We use that in every day speech but it's not technically correct" suggests that we aren't using every day language in the formation of our riddles. If that's the desired implication then [citation needed].

A river.

it contains every number below 10

Just to clarify, it is NOT that every numerical digit is used only once. In fact, there are 3,628,800 total numbers that fit that criteria using probability math. It's not the highest such number either, as that title belongs to 9,876,543,210.

My only guess is... population of Earth?

A W

It's just an acronym for the question, that one was easy.

The room with the lions. If they haven't eaten for three years they would probably have eaten each other.

Nothing can exist unless in Jack's world unless its name contains double-lettering (cheese, door, etc.)

A wheelbarrow.

The poles would have to be next to each other.

Nothing.

Compare it to anything which is longer than it is.

Sing happy birthday... d(^_^d )

Obviously the misdirection with the door locking, blood and stranger was working an I thought she had been assaulted and raped, but which rapist takes all their clothes off? Committing a crime in a birthday suit... And then it hit me.

Pregnant wife. She had given birth in the car. Stranger was their child.

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if the man burnt the car and walked back home with his baby. I don't know how you could drive in that thing after that.

letter- it had an even amount of letters where there should be an odd amount

One fish each, three fish, means we have three people, we'll call them A, B and C.

A is B's father.
B is C's father.
(A is C's grandfather).

That's two fathers.

B is A's son.
C is B's son.
(C is A's grandson).

That's two sons.

Either that or they lose one of the fish on the way home.

They're both in the middle of water

Meat.

The rope is only tied to the horse. Nothing else

You approach two talking doors. One door leads to the City of Truth, while the other door leads to the City of Liars. You do not know which door is which. You are able to ask only one question to determine which door is which. The door that leads to the City of Liars always speaks lies, while the door that leads to the City of Truth always speaks the truth. You want to go to the City of Truth. What question do you ask to determine which door leads to the City of Truth?

A last name?

There is no use of the letter "E" in that paragraph. In fact, that entire book was written without using that letter even once, as Wright made a conscious effort to do so.
For those that don't know, "E" is also the most common letter in the English language, making the above fact an impressive feat.

He simply stated "I will be boiled in water", creating a verbal paradox.
If they fried him, he would have been lying, which should have doomed him to water and the opposite entails if boiled instead.
The goblins were either confused about what to do, or intelligent enough to respect his ability to use thought under pressure, allowing his escape/release.

No, because by the time the truck is halfway across it would have used enough fuel to drop its weight allowing the bird to land safely

She took his picture.

Shot - camera
Held under water - Develop film
Hang - Places on line to dry/ on wall with frame

kept a glass of water above his head

Can you do more riddles that aren't as open-ended and vague? Any number of things could have happened to this guy, but you're looking for one specific answer that no one is ever going to get unless they look it up or have heard it before.

In my mind, a good riddle has one or very few answers, which can all be induced or deduced from the information provided.

I've heard this one before.

It's a man or woman wearing an analog watch. 2 human hands + hour and minute hands + sometimes a second hand.

I thought you were going to stop giving us these really open-ended ones...

He hung himself from a block of ice which melted later?

I can't see any catch at all right now, so will just say for now that a green house is made of green bricks.

a green house is made of glass.

He only drank one cup, the poison required several doses to be effective? or the ice countered the poison somehow

The poison was in the ice cubes, they hadn't melted yet to distribute the poison into his punch.

lighthouse operator ..... and what a jerk ....

A knife or a sword?

plant?

A tree?

Eye?

Oh! You cunning kitten.

It was Pi Day, and I didn't even see it.

3.14159265358979323846

Pi!

I'm going to half-jokingly guess "children".

Uh, I'll make a purely scientific guess - motion?

Practically, according to Newton's First Law, every object, including humans, at rest tends to stay at rest, thus it doesn't want to go in motion. When an object is in motion, it tends to stay in motion, it doesn't want to lose it.

I don't see much of a difference between "if" and "when", however.

Work. People want to relax, but want to get paid.

Let's give it to Vyzion for false teeth since I'd say that adequately fits the criteria of the riddle, though isn't the answer Terry is looking for.

Just so we can move on.

A river?

stable?
1.stable
2.table
3.able
4.stable

Roasting meat on a spit.

You throw away the outside and cook the inside.
Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside.
What did you eat?

Lightning

Heart? Going solely by the first line

A dictionary

The doctor is the mother

A lock:
it's made from metal, it is installed into an almost-always wooden door, and you wouldn't buy a house that didn't have one.

Why is gold not the answer? It is taken from the mine, it is shut up and never released, and yet it is the whole fractional reserve banking system is based on (used by almost everybody).

I believe the answer is pencil lead, right?

empty?

pegions

a fart

^ Finally one I heard before its the sun

Mary

white, the house is at the north pole.

their siblings are married to each other?

time travel, carl is rogers nephew in the original time stream, carl then travels back in time and marries one of rogers parents siblings becoming roger's uncle while also being his nephew.

Hmm, not sure if you're getting this from a forum I used to frequent (I used to really like puzzle/ riddle sites ) or just happens to be a more (relatively) common riddle nowdays, either way, I don't completely remember but from what I do remember, and re-readig this, lets see...

Andy Dislikes Catcher
Ed's sister engaged 2nd Base
C. Field > R. Field
Harry & 3rd Base same Building
Paul + Allen won $20 from pitcher (@Pinochle)
Ed + Outfielders play poker.
Pitcher's wife = 3rd baseman's sister.
Pitcher + Catcher + Infielders < Sam, except Allen, Harry, Andy.
Paul + Andy + Shortstop lost $50 at racetrack
Paul + Harry + Bill + catcher took trouncing from 2nd base at pool
Sam in divorse suit.
Cather and 3rd base 2 children each.
Ed + Paul + Jerry + R. Fielder + C. Field Bachelors rest married.
Shortstop + 3rd Base + Bill got $100 betting
One Outfielder either Mike or Andy
Jerry > Bill > Mike, all heavier than 3rd Base

So from the ones I do remember and from this, I THINK it should be:

Catcher: Allen
Pitcher: Harry
Shortstop: Ed
C. Field: Bill
R. Field: Mike
L. Field: Sam
1st Base: Paul
2nd Base: Jerry
3rd Base: Andy

Correct?
(Probably not. xD)

Haha, I still remember back then this puzzle gave everyone in the thread a headache, took forever for one of us to get it right, it can be a real pain indeed.

They use the dirt from all the digging, stand on top of it, while standing on top of eachother, and get out. Nailed it! :D

EDIT: First one climbs on top of other, gets out, and pulls other one out. :)

Easy. Needle and Thread. :)

Victim was on a water bed, the scissors were used to cut it open and drown the person.

I think I won't be answering anymore, feels like I'm ruining it for others, plus not really fair considering I've already seen most of these before.

Yay, one I know, its dozens, My grandpa used to pull this one on me until I finally learned the answer.

Omg... Took me a second or two.

His old password is: 'Out of Date'
New password is: 'Different'

If two hours ago, it was as long after one oGÇÖclock in the afternoon as it was before one oGÇÖclock in the morning, what time would it be now?

1) I saw this pretty fast. :D

2) Simple: Wait for the lake to freeze, then build your house. No idea what kind of person says "The mercury goes 'really, really' down!" though...

The answer is:

A Manhole Cover.

The words are Nowhere, and Now Here.

3++3+3=4, 33++3=11

I got it. (:D) He saw that the leaves (Right word? Goodness, plural of LEAF.) of one of the flowers had no morning dew. This is because the plant was moved from the garden, to the mans house, back to the garden.

You have three stoves: a gas stove, a wood stove, and a coal stove, but only one match. Which should you light first?

Eyeglasses

Aerodynamics
Engines
Illustration
Owl
Unanimous

A-E-I-O-U. The vowel family.

There's no mail on Sundays. :)

O-Hi-O!

The priest blew out the candle. He said 'When the wick burns out', not 'when the candle burns out'. :)

The year 2036, I believe. :D

Re-Creation

Recreation.

No

One and Two go. One returns with the flashlight. Five and Ten then go. Two returns. And then One and Two go.

Group of people is:

Grandfather and his 2 sons: Father A and Father B. The 2 Fathers each brought 2 children of their own. :D

Bacon

Sure

Insert the rod into a box (Insert sexual joke here...) measuring 4 feet on all sides. If i'm correct, it will fit diagonally in the box, with even some extra room. :)

The building was on fire, and the first 21 floors (22 if in England) collapsed. The "jump out" was more of a step onto the rubble, and then a quick GTFO.

a disease?

An iceberg?

Echo.

One ThousAnd

Music?

Again, for the good of the thread.

DAVID.

'D' is the Roman Numeral for 500. So 500 begins it, and 500 ends it.
'V' is the Roman Numeral for 5, and is in the middle.
The 'First of all figures, First of all letters' means that an 'I' (Number 1 in Roman Numerals) and an 'A' (First of the alphabet) are seen.

Boat?

The sun

Am I allowed to answer this one?

a compass?

It is really easy one... believe me

a glove

A cipher encryption.
and the "key" is the code word used to decrypt the message

With a mirror?

Compare it to a shorter line.

BTW, if this is the answer, then you had a similar riddle before that dealt with sticks.

Neither: they are both a pound.

As for the riddle, I'll accept that - so long as all are visible, it satisfies the riddle.
My personal solution was to make them a circle - didn't say anything about a straight line, and a panoramic photo can be a 360-degree shot.

An umbrella.

butter

The sun was shining bright, for it was daytime.

A palm.

a rainstorm cloud

a fraction

a president, born April 30, 1789...

Love

Nail in a horseshoe.

a promise

A secret?

a sewing needle.

A mutated lizard/man that must break outside of his eggshell. Get it? the egg is the house !

there are no stairs, one-story house. if there were stairs they would be pink.

The Four Elements:
Water - runs and never wearies
Fire - eats everything on its way
Earth - drinks water in unlimited quantity
Air/Wind - blows (it blew the song every time )

Rain

a snail?

...A clock?

I don't think its right, but my first thought was a human. In the morning as a baby(crawling 4 legs), noon as an adult(2), and evening as an old man with a cane. haha ill see if I can think of a better answer. Also I haven't read the comments yet so if somebodies already said this or answered correctly forgive me.

Scissors

a horse?

wheel

beer. because beer is the answer to all of my problems.

A person?

a horse

Sound/Noise?

red candy covered with chocolate

I can't provide right answer cos I've looked it up in Google. That would be cheating, wouldn't it?

Frostbite? Because it turns the skin black, but when treated with warm water the skin goes to swollen red.....?

The Moon. At the end of every month-long cycle, we get a "New Moon"!

My grandfather taught me this one (or at least another version). Is that cheating?

Our 2 eyes.

Footsteps

Is it your own name?

A Sieve

A Fly (which I killed last night as well)

This is a very very hard one. Had to ponder it for awhile and almost answered: Are you a man? Which would have immediately determined if the man was lying or not, but not point the traveller to the right path.

Sadly, I had to have my girlfriend answer this for me and she figured out it was: Which is the way to your village? This answer would have pointed the man to the village of truth since if the man is telling the truth, he would point the right way; if the man is telling a lie, he would still point to the village of truth.

I think that sums it up eh?

Riddle:

I turn polar bears white
And I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
And girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
And normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
And make your champagne bubble.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop

Letter 'a'.

3, of course.

Math riddles! Interesting...

*after drawing a long tree diagram that I couldn't possibly replicate here and calculating the percentages*

Okay, if my calculations were correct, it seems that the average chance of survival for Mr. Black is a little higher if he shoots at Mr. White (1.6%) against 1.5% chance of staying alive if he tries to kill Mr. Gray. So I'd go with shooting Mr. White first, although, alas, the chances are extremely slim in any case.

Either he deliberately misses or passes. This way Mr. Gray will most likely shoot at Mr. White because he is his main competition. If Gray misses, White will likely shoot Gray since Gray is his major opposition. Mr. Black therefore, could just finish the person who is left.

Thunder?

a bell??

I'm not sure but i think this was posted already

Edit: Found it on page 26-27 Corum Irsie wrote it

It was stated that the answer is imagination. [Insert Spongebob "Imagination" here]

She puts the newspaper under a door. Then she makes them stand on opposite sides of door.

The doctor and lawyer were both women so the cop was the only one who could be Charlie.

4 canaries, 3 cages.

A pool of Water???