Riddle of the Week

[Lance]

Dimes; they have a higher value-volume ratio.

[Phi for All]

Dimes; they have a higher value-volume ratio.

Correct. Lay on, Macduff.

[skuinders]

Because I am bored at work, here are the calculations.

Volumes:

[math]v_{nickel} = 1.95mm\times \pi \times 10.6mm^2 \approx 688mm^3[/math]

[math]v_{dime} = 1.35mm\times \pi \times 8.96mm^2 \approx 340mm^3[/math]

 

Value/Volume:

[math]r_{nickel} = \frac{5}{v_{nickel}} \approx 0.007 cents/mm^3[/math]

 

[math]r_{dime} = \frac{10}{v_{dime}} \approx 0.029 cents/mm^3[/math]

 

[math]r_{dime} > 2 \times r_{nickel} [/math]

[abeefaria]

A fish is one half foot plus one half of it's length, how long is the fish?

[Lance]

12"

[Kyrisch]

Please, if you are sure your answer is correct, feel free to post a new riddle in your answer post without waiting for approval.

[Lance]

I would but I don't know any good riddles.

[Kyrisch]

I have a good one, would you let me post it?

[Lance]

Go for it.

[Kyrisch]

Man goes over

Man goes under

During war I burn asunder

 

I stand on land

I stand on water

I span from one shore to another

 

What am I?

[Bettina]

Man goes over

Man goes under

During war I burn asunder

 

I stand on land

I stand on water

I span from one shore to another

 

What am I?

[hide]a bridge[/hide]

 

Bettina

[Bettina]

In case I was right...here is mine.

 

What has a bear's nose, a giraffe's tail, a crocodile's stomach and a zebra's legs?

 

Bettina

[Kyrisch]

[hide]An Okapi?[/hide] lol

[Kyrisch]

Oh wait, I get it...

[hide]The Zoo[/hide]

 

A thousand legs but naught can stand

A thin long neck of colour sand

I work only by human hand

[zyncod]

I can babble but cannot talk,

I can run but cannot walk;

I cannot sleep but have a bed,

I have no house but have a shed.

[YT2095]

this one sounds easy enough...

 

[hide] water in a river [/hide]

[BobbyJoeCool]

A thousand legs but naught can stand

A thin long neck of colour sand

I work only by human hand

[hide]A road or path?[/hide]

 

If I happen to be right... (or even if not, because people seem to be posting.)

 

This thing all things devours:

Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;

Gnaws iron, bites steal;

Grinds hard stones to meal;

Slays king, ruins town,

and beats high mountain down.

[Newtonian]

Erm excuse me YT said it was my turn....or are we forgetting our place here and not reading the OP..anyway here goes

 

What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?

[BobbyJoeCool]

Erm excuse me YT said it was my turn....or are we forgetting our place here and not reading the OP..anyway here goes

 

What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?

[hide]If you flip the year upside down and put it backwords' date=' it spells the same year.[/hide']

 

Mine posted a little bit up stands as my riddle.

[YT2095]

This thing all things devours:

Birds' date=' beasts, trees, flowers;

Gnaws iron, bites steal;

Grinds hard stones to meal;

Slays king, ruins town,

and beats high mountain down.[/quote']

 

[hide] the weather [/hide]

[Kyrisch]

This thing all things devours:

Birds' date=' beasts, trees, flowers;

Gnaws iron, bites steal;

Grinds hard stones to meal;

Slays king, ruins town,

and beats high mountain down.[/quote']

 

Poor Bilbo sat in the dark thinking of all the horrible names of all the gaints and ogres he had ever heard told of in tales, but not one of them had done all these things. He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could not think of it. He began to get frightened, and that is bad for thinking. Gollum began to get out of his boat. He flapped into the water and paddled to the bank; Bilbo could see his eyes coming toward him. His tongue seemed to stick in his mouth; he wanted to shout out: "Give me more time! Give me more time!" But all that came out with a sudden squeal was:

 

"Time! Time!"

 

Bilbo was saved by pure luck. For that of course was the answer.

 

One of the finer moments in The Hobbit, in my opinion. Made me laugh out loud. Tolkein was a genius.

 

Anyway, my riddle has yet to be answered correctly...

 

A thousand legs but naught can stand

A thin long neck of colour sand

I work only by human hand

[BobbyJoeCool]

One of the finer moments in The Hobbit[/i'], in my opinion. Made me laugh out loud. Tolkein was a genius.

 

I figured someone would get it from that. I love that book.

[BobbyJoeCool]

[hide'] the weather [/hide]

 

It's a good guess, as far as it goes, but Kyrisch was right when he said "Time" It's the the chapter in the book The Hobbit Riddles in the Dark. My favorite "riddle" in that chaper is "What have I got in my pocket?"

[YT2095]

Question:

"What have I got in my pocket?"

 

Answer: "I`de rather not Know"

[Kyrisch]

Well since I did answer a riddle, I guess I'll post another along with my first one that no one has figured out yet (I'm guessing this is because I wrote it myself and you can't look up the answer on the internet lol).

 

A thousand legs but naught can stand

A thin long neck of colour sand

I work only by human hand

 

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A curved snake balancing

Atop a single ball

Suspended for eternity

Not to sway nor to fall

 

It always strikes

An inquisitive tone

Always preceded,

Sometimes followed,

But never found alone.