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What’s at the start of an era, twice in a generation, nowhere in an instant, but awaits you at the end of time?
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the letter e
Poor people have it.
Rich people need it.
If you eat it, you die.
What is it?
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Nothing
Shit?
I was going to say “your own heart”
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Nothing
Oh that’s clever, I’m keeping this one in my back pocket
Everyone knows the hardest riddle of all time:
“What’s in my pocket?”
You even get to keep a gold ring if you use that one!
Some android apps don’t honour spoiler tags (Boost) :( Feel free to link to your answer somewhere instead of spoiler tagging it if you feel extra nice :)
Eternity app does not seem to handle the spoiler tags too.
I’m using boost. I’ve just been scrolling very slowly.
I’ve always been fond of:
The person who makes me, doesn’t want me
The person who buys me, didn’t need me
The person who uses me, doesn’t even know it
What am I?
Maybe not the hardest, but it’s a good one, and most people I ask, don’t get it very quickly.
I’m not sure how to spoilers the answer, so I’ll just give you time to guess the answer. It’s more fun that way.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html
The table doesn’t highlight how necessary the literal word ‘spoiler’ is needed after the 3 colons. Very confusing imo
Agreed, the first time I used it I think I edited my post 3 or 4 times before getting it right.
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A coffin
💯⭐🏅
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I was going to say baby diapers …
After using diapers a baby often realizes it has them on and gets irritated and makes that loudly clear for everyone else.
Light as a feather, but no man can hold me for long.
Answer
A breath
I think I’ve seen this one on a morhedel wordlock in Betrayal at Krondor :o
The version I heard was. “What’s lighter than a a feather, lighter than a flower, the strongest man cannot hold me, for a quarter of an hour”
If you’ve never played Betrayal at Krondor it’s full of these treasure chests that you have to solve riddles to unlock. Here’s a few good ones:
Whoever has it is angry
Whoever loses it is angrier
Whoever wins it has it no more
!A Dispute!<
Brought to the table
Cut and served
Never eaten
!Cards!<
We love it more than life
We fear it more than death
The wealthy want for it
The poor have it in plenty
!Nothing!<
Thanks for sharing!
All the spoilers are visible for me 😔
me too :(
But I got lucky and managed to avoid looking at all except the first.
Whomp sorry some lemmy apps don’t do spoiler tags from what I’ve read :<
Reddit-style spoiler tags are not Markdown standard. Use this syntax:
::: spoiler Answer A man :::Reddit-style spoiler tags are not Markdown standard. Use this syntax:
::: spoiler Answer A man :::::: A
B
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Hmm…
On Connect it doesn’t seem to work.
Neither does it on Voyager because you left out the word “spoiler”. You don’t need the double line breaks though.
Still doesn’t work on Boost unfortunately. Known issue…
You can put one in the other. I think Boost understands Reddit spoilers because it was originally built for that.
What has four wheels and flies?
Blaine is a pain.
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A carriage with horses
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Supposed to be a dump truck, but they have way more than four wheels.
A dolphin is neither a horse nor a boat.
A boat is neither a horse nor a dolphin.
A horse is neither a dolphin nor a boat.
But what is the one common thing that would happen if you were to bite any of these three things?
Devinettes app has about 3 or 4 riddles that I haven’t been able to crack in 8 years.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.workingagenda.devinettes/
It gives no answers or hints, just reports ‘correct’ if you type the right answer in.
Cool app! I tried it and I have 7 riddles to go. Which ones have you not cracked yet?
Edit: a little break helped, 4 to go!
I’d say, your 4 are in this 6:
Name your heroine after me.
Name me the skin
Without this common currency
Without you I am incomplete 1
Without you I am incomplete 2
This: Brought by man
- PS, I am not looking for any answers here at all. (Spoiler-tags do not work in several clients)
I’m fine solving these 15yrs later or not at all. The unsolved ones are good for campfires, or travelling through other countries.
Actually only one of them is in that list. I’m still missing:
- Name me the skin (like you said)
- Recursion here
- My warmth connects
I was stuck on Where, close at hand too but I got that one last night.
I got the other ones on day one, hopefully it won’t take me another 15 years to get the remaining three.
Are those 6 the ones you’re still missing? I won’t give any answers, that wouldn’t be much fun.
I am a non-native speaker (Dutch), I wonder if that’s helping or hindering me…
This is my 3rd phone, since solving them the first time, so I just went through and got the ones I remember.
I’m glad the other 5 of 6 are solvable. Thanks for confirming that.
Looks like ‘Name me the skin’ is the hardest one of all.
I’m pretty sure you will get the other 2 in a couple of days.
The ‘skin’ question… ~5-10 years ? (c:
Now I really want to figure out that skin one 😋.
Out of the six you listed, the Without you I am incomplete-set is probably the easiest one.
I think I like the common currency one best, it’s very clever in my opinion (but not necessarily the hardest one).
I think if I tried that, it would only be a day or two before I went digging into the source code.
I think they are hashed
Hmm.
Rainbow tables…
I think you’re better off with a literal dictionary attack. Knock yourself out: https://github.com/fenimore/devinettes-android/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/workingagenda/devinettes/RiddleCollection.java It’s just SHA-1 of the UTF-8 representation of the answer.
Note that the riddles, unlike the software, are under CC-BY-NC-ND.
Interesting. Looks like it can accept multiple variations on each answer. I was wondering about that
I’m not actually going to do it, but I like the system design
So due to the nature of it beeing riddles it is quite possible the answer is bugged and the hash wrong. But because nobody “knows” they have the solution nobody can say it is a bug.
What is the only number spelled alphabetically correct in english?
:::Forty:::These will make you angry But they might make you laugh
These have been around quite long Yet you’d never expect them
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Deez nuts lmao gottem
ligma
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balls
What, no Riddle of the Sphinx yet?
Be the change in the world you wish to see.
O T T F
What’s next?
in this order
F S S E N T
What does it mean?
Explanation
One, Two, Three, Four…
Correct!
What rock group has four guys who don’t sing?
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Mount Rushmore.
