Another box in another house

[md65536]

This one is phrased differently for a different answer.

 

I am in a box in a house.

But I'm not in a box, nor a house.

What am I?

[Iggy]

You are the swish of a silk sari on a summer night, and other things described here:

 

I will put in the box

the swish of a silk sari on a summer night,

fire from the nostrils of a Chinese dragon,

the tip of a tongue touching a tooth.

I will put in the box

a snowman with a rumbling belly,

a sip of the bluest water from Lake Lucerne,

a leaping spark from an electric fish.

I will put into the box

three violet wishes spoken in Gujarati,

the last joke of an ancient uncle,

and the first smile of a baby.

I will put into the box

a fifth season and a black sun,

a cowboy on a broomstick

and a witch on a white horse.

My box is fashioned from ice and gold and steel,

with stars on the lid and secrets in the corners.

Its hinges are the toe joints of dinosaurs.

I shall surf in my box

on the great high-rolling breakers of the wild Atlantic,

then wash ashore on a yellow beach

the color of the sun.

 

~Kit Wright

[md65536]

You are the swish of a silk sari on a summer night, and other things described here:

Not what I had in mind.

 

 

I'm not in a box,

and I'm not in a house,

but I'm in the two combined.

I'm in either,

I'm in neither,

I'm in both at once you'll find.

[JustinW]

I am in a box in a house.

But I'm not in a box, nor a house.

What am I?

 

You are nothing. If nothing were something, which would be a different teaser alltogether. Only nothing, used as a noun, can be and cannot be at the same time. One could ask "what is in the box?", you could say "nothing.". Or one could ask "what is in the box?", one could say "you" if what you are is "nothing".

[md65536]

You are nothing. If nothing were something, which would be a different teaser alltogether. Only nothing, used as a noun, can be and cannot be at the same time. One could ask "what is in the box?", you could say "nothing.". Or one could ask "what is in the box?", one could say "you" if what you are is "nothing".

I don't think that's acceptable.

If nothing's in a box in a house, how can it be true that "nothing is not in a box"?

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not nothing!

But I'm found in nothing.

I'm in the absence of everything.

I'm in a bottle of gin,

But not a glass of water,

 

I refer to myself by name.

 

[JustinW]

Space would be the obvious answer to the absence of everything. Also to the bottle of gin, glass of water senario.(at least at my house) But wouldn't space apply the same way as my use of nothing?

Sorry for being dense.(I have problems) The answer is you are you. You don't ask what's in the box. It took some time even after the spoiler

Edited November 7, 2011 by JustinW

[michel123456]

Not what I had in mind.

 

 

I'm not in a box,

and I'm not in a house,

but I'm in the two combined.

I'm in either,

I'm in neither,

I'm in both at once you'll find.

 

t

 

This one is phrased differently for a different answer.

 

I am in a box in a house.

But I'm not in a box, nor a house.

What am I?

 

o

[JustinW]

Aha I still didn't get it. Time? that could still be an arguable point since you didn't say when one was to tell if you were in the box.

 

We are typing over eachother and it seems I missed again. Now that I get it it is a pleasant puzzle that I thought way too hard over.

I appologize this was two different post for your last two answers. You are a letter in the puzzle.

Edited November 7, 2011 by JustinW

[md65536]

t

 

 

o

So close!

 

 

 

I appologize this was two different post for your last two answers. You are a letter in the puzzle.

I'm not t, I'm not o

md65536 is not michel123456 (except a little at first, and a little at the end)

It must be true that you are you,

And t is t and o is o

But what am I?

 

 

 

 

 

I am in "a box in a house."

But I'm not in "a box, nor a house." (nor "a box", nor "a house")

 

 

[JustinW]

you're a box

[md65536]

You are a letter in the puzzle.

You were on the right track here. I am! But it's not a specific answer to the riddle because it doesn't agree with the statement "But I'm not in a box, nor a house.", when interpreting each of the statements in a consistent way.

Edited November 7, 2011 by md65536

[JustinW]

in. I kept thinking WHAT DOES IT MEAN! AAAHHHHH, sweet clarity

Edited November 7, 2011 by JustinW

[md65536]

 

 

Yes, that solves the riddle.

 

It also fits most of the additional clues but not all of them -- "I'm in either", "I refer to myself by name". The answer I had in mind is "the letter i".

 

 

Edited November 7, 2011 by md65536

[JustinW]

I was thinking way too hard on that one. Probably should have stayed a little closer to the problem. Good puzzle.

[md65536]

I was thinking way too hard on that one. Probably should have stayed a little closer to the problem. Good puzzle.

Thanks!

I thought of it trying to find a situation in which "small bang"'s similar puzzle could ever be not answered with "yes".

The trick is probably in remembering some other riddle that involved the words themselves and not the meaning of the words, and then your brain like switches modes or something.

 

 

[michel123456]

you find similar tricks in crosswords.

[Snowman]

It is I, I would be in a box in a house. I will not be found in either a box nor a house.

[questionposter]

You are Schrodinger's Cat (not "hat") and is therefore in a box in a house but also outside of both those things due to it's superposition.

Edited May 1, 2012 by questionposter