Anybody up for a riddle?

FatDragon said:

Care to explain?
It's bending my brain.
God backwards is dog; that much I get,
But insomniac's relevance eludes me just yet.

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An insomniacs plight
is to sit up all night
and to think about things to pursue.
The existence of God?
No, the existence of Dog?
He sits up all night contemplating true.

Post #1996 gives "Insomniac" asthe first clue
Adding it then, makes the Joke/Riddle true.
Please, people, tell me, how did I do?

What do you get when you mix
An insomniac, dyslexic and agnostic, what twist


You get a person who stays awake all night
Wondering if there’s a real Dog in site

(Best I could do [emoji3])

Oops looks like I responded to late. I love this thread great minds here caretake

Gonna admit something now here and now
I am truly not a brilliant riddle cow
Nor do I have all the answers or good riddle and rhyming questions
I made a promise before about riddle suggestions
Never ask a question before that I haven’t answered the question
But I have broken my word, not often so don’t be perturbed

I got on a riddle sight tonight
Every answer I had was just not right

So I guess what I’m saying, if wrong you’re not betraying
Imagination, logic and fun

Please keep this thread going on sons

(Ya, we’re not related. I’m not your poppa. Sons just rhymed

Cheers
Dan D

Gnomebrewer said:

An insomniacs plight
is to sit up all night
and to think about things to pursue.
The existence of God?
No, the existence of Dog?
He sits up all night contemplating true.

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That was well done.
To keep with the format,
your reply won.

9
3
1


What am I talking about son?

(Hint, look at the beginning of this. and then you will be winning it’s not hit or miss)


By the way. Anybody remember the Great Santini?
Bull Meechum of course
A Marine Corps force

It’s just a movie but kind of groovie
Bull Meechum, played by Robert Dinero
Wouldn’t exactly be my hero
But the character he does depict
Is a very good man and sob

Is it golf balls being weighed on a scale?
Though I want to be first, I suspect that my answer will fail.
Oh whale.

That last line should read like "oh well."
It's not very good, as you can all tell.
Oh well.

Fat dragon
Here is the riddle so
It’s the first one posted that n Thad riddle rhyme fun

To me the best riddle of all
It made my mind work
Frustrating and all

9
3
1

That’s the sort of aDashrrthe answer

But not the question says little dawg Dasher

Ok here we go my friend
An old riddle but
Good I’m the end


Ready?

9 balls,?they can be golf balls if that’s u want

Really doesn’t matter no matter
One then is lighter than all the rest

You have a balance scale to put to test
After two weighs you’ll know for sure
The odd ball will show and that’s the cure
To this question
Most certainly sir

One last hint
A little glint
9 is a prime number
It’s a thing to sunder
You cannot divide into two
Wholly
Just something to stew

9
3
1

1, 2 and 3 do prime numbers be.
Then five and seven after which comes eleven,
but nine I’m afraid is nary a prime for 3x3 will equate it just fine.

Maybe you mean something by this math that is sloppy.
But if it’s in error then vary your copy

Dan said:

9 balls,?they can be golf balls if that’s u want

Really doesn’t matter no matter
One then is lighter than all the rest

You have a balance scale to put to test
After two weighs you’ll know for sure
The odd ball will show and that’s the cure
To this question
Most certainly sir

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Tis your first puzzle in this thread.
An easy one at that.
Three balls on either side will
Find the lighter set.
Then it's one and one therefrom,
The lightest ball to get.
If either weighing balances true, you know
The lighter ball is odd man out.

AZCoolerBrewer said:

1, 2 and 3 do prime numbers be.
Then five and seven after which comes eleven,
but nine I’m afraid is nary a prime for 3x3 will equate it just fine.

Maybe you mean something by this math that is sloppy.
But if it’s in error then vary your copy

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Oops I screwed up
My math an awkward pup
It just flowed in my head
Now I’m embarrassed instead
But good to see FatDragon got the riddle
Now I’m sitting here celebrating on my fiddle

(More bad rhyming. I can’t help myself)
Cheers!
Dan

FatDragon said:

Tis your first puzzle in this thread.
An easy one at that.
Three balls on either side will
Find the lighter set.
Then it's one and one therefrom,
The lightest ball to get.
If either weighing balances true, you know
The lighter ball is odd man out.

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FatDragon well done
Now in response you must son
Give us a new riddle
Play your own fiddle
And I need to come up with more words than riddle and fiddle
Cheers!
Dan

On my way to work one day,
I came across a sign.
For twice a single second
It displayed the number nine.
Then seven up a second,
Then twice as long 'twas five.
How flashed it those next seconds
'ere I resumed my drive?
And what was odd about the sign
That tweaked my brain and tickled me,
This riddle to derive?

In plain language because it might be a bit too confusing in my hokey verse:
On my way to work one morning, a sign flashed 9 for a couple seconds, then 7 for half as long, then 5 for another couple seconds. What did it flash over the next few seconds, and why did the whole thing strike me as being interesting?

FatDragon I think I have the fix
But lately my brain just ain’t the right mix

I must quote to fill in the blanks
To make sure I’m not shooting blanks (erg)

FatDragon said:

On my way to work one day,
I came across a sign. (Speed sign)
For twice a single second
It displayed the number nine. (18)
Then seven up a second, (7)
18+7=25
Then twice as long 'twas five.
2x5=10

25+10=35

I’m quite sure I got this riddle wrong
At one point my absurd math came up with 55 and I wasn’t smokin a bong
And initially silly on me because I didn’t see
I was going to say Jenny I got your number
8675309


I’m sure I didn’t get this one correct FatDragon
But look forward to who does and continues the riddle wagon
I like riddles they keep me thinking
Otherwise my brain becomes stinking
; )


How flashed it those next seconds
'ere I resumed my drive?
And what was odd about the sign
That tweaked my brain and tickled me,
This riddle to derive?

In plain language because it might be a bit too confusing in my hokey verse:
On my way to work one morning, a sign flashed 9 for a couple seconds, then 7 for half as long, then 5 for another couple seconds. What did it flash over the next few seconds, and why did the whole thing strike me as being interesting?

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Dan said:

FatDragon I think I have the fix
But lately my brain just ain’t the right mix

I must quote to fill in the blanks
To make sure I’m not shooting blanks (erg)

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You ought to take it literally:
Two seconds flashed it 9,
One second it was 7,
Then two more it was 5.

A hint that may elucidate
For fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide:
This sign was like the wristwatches
Douglas Adams did deride.

I'll tell it true for all to see
If it stumps for one more day.
I wouldn't want my silly rhyme
This thread's momentum to slay.

Kid got me sick.
I feel like crap.
Here's the answer
Before I nap.

A stoplight with a countdown timer,
Bottom left line dead.
It first flashed nine and then was eight,
Which looked like nine instead.
Then seven for a little while,
Then six, which looked like five.
The true five followed, as it ought,
Then I prepared to drive.
Next four and three in quick success,
But two was a disaster:
It's leftmost part was shot clean off
As if by Solo's blaster.
Then at last, the number one,
I confess that it looked great.
I hit the gas and drove to work,
As oft, perpetually late.

Douglas Adams liked to make fun of humanity as a species that still thought digital watches were a pretty neat idea. I can say from experience that digital stoplight timers can be quite nice, but when one line is burnt out, they can sure be confusing!

Here's one to keep us going:

At first, I was two:
One of one and one of many.
Then I was one, all alone.
Then I was two, all alone.
Then four, then eight, still alone.
Then 16, 32, 64, 128, each time all alone.
And still I grew, by two and two, and each time all alone,
And yet, never alone.
For I was always with another
Who dwarfed me all along,
Who fed me then and feeds me now
And sings a gentle song.

I could go on, there's more to say,
But I've probably said enough.
So tell me, please, just who I am,
And was this riddle tough?

A dragon egg and dragon sperm, when alone the count is two.
Together join the both of them a single cell is new.
That cell does split, the dragon grows, first 2 then 4 then 8.
A baby dragon all alone, yet in it's mother's crate.
The riddle was tough, but something's naggin'
A baby I think, but not actually a dragon.

Gnomebrewer said:

A dragon egg and dragon sperm, when alone the count is two.
Together join the both of them a single cell is new.
That cell does split, the dragon grows, first 2 then 4 then 8.
A baby dragon all alone, yet in it's mother's crate.
The riddle was tough, but something's naggin'
A baby I think, but not actually a dragon.

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For now, my spotlight's at its end.
Your time has come, my malty friend.

Old Mrs Hubbard is cooking a stew, but is limited in what she can use.
Rice and potato can both go in, not pasta or peas or cashews.
Meats a bit tricky, as beef is out, not pork or chicken or lamb.
But she can use bacon, venison's in, and she can even use ham.
Carrot's are bad and cabbage is out, but potato can always go in.
So tell me my friends, some more that are good and the key to knowing this thing.

A hint, I see, might be needed, to get to the end of this one.
The key is the language, not the foods themselves, that go in to the tun.
So tomato is good, but a problem might be, for those who cannot spell,
that tomarto would not be going in, it doesn't ring the bell.

No onions, no garlic, no salt, no beaver.
When consonants can't touch, nor vowels, either.
No pepper, no broth, only water will do
I don't think I would like this stew.


_________________________
Of them beware - keep your distance,
What happens to them is none of your business.
But talk to one, and oh you'll see,
Themselves no more, will they be.

Hang Glider said:

No onions, no garlic, no salt, no beaver.
When consonants can't touch, nor vowels, either.
No pepper, no broth, only water will do
I don't think I would like this stew.

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You're correct, Hang Glider, and very well said
So far your riddle goes over my head

Fret not, my dear brew friend,
the answer is taught in kindergarten.
(Or even before, for parents that fret)
but most of us nod, if eyes are met.

It's that one who brings such danger,
The answer must be none but 'stranger'.

Leaving the rhyme thing behind for a while, I'm a kindergarten teacher myself, but I also teach a couple oral English classes in a university. In my lecture this week, I taught my university students about the concept of "stranger danger" and we discussed the evolution of the protective parent. At our kindergarten today, a parent from another branch of the school that the kids don't know was recruited to come and sneak around the school during recess, trying to hand out candy to the kids and take them away. She convinced about a dozen to come with her, by ones and twos, and we had a bunch of kids crying as the teachers brought them back from her car and explained that they had fallen for the "stranger danger drill" and would have been taken away and never seen their parents or friends again if it had been real. I wasn't privy to the "drill" beforehand and it didn't sit well with me, doing such a thing in the fenced-in playground at the school where the kids are supposed to feel safe, but so it goes.

Anyway, it's funny that a riddle about strangers came up in the same week where I had two significant brushes with the concept of "stranger danger" in education. I guess it all comes of being the week of Halloween when it's a hot topic.

Back to the riddles, back to the rhymes.
If I'm confirmed right, I'll share one next time.

Of course you're correct, my fine large Dragon
The turn is yours, commence your braggin'

I feel poorly to interject
Fat Dragon is truly a Riddle Master I respect
Hang Glider is cut cut from the same cloth
Riddling masters and I’m just a sloth

Sometimes people don’t thank you because it seems things don’t be mattering
But brothers I thanks you for keeping this thread battering


Lol. My cheesy lines
Riddle banter is sublime.

And there was no reason riddle there

Just Dan standing on antiquated stairs

Antique of course I have no remorse
For this riddling thread takes on it’s own course
FatDragon and HangGlider you have brought breath back in
To you both and to all I wish riddle rhyme zen

Cheers!

Dan Dawson

Dan said:

Antique of course I have no remorse
For this riddling thread takes on it’s own course
FatDragon and HangGlider you have brought breath back in
To you both and to all I wish riddle rhyme zen

Cheers!

Dan Dawson

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Let's not forget Gnomebrewer,
A riddling master; none is truer.
And yourself, grandmaster of this thread,
Sending enigmas through our heads.

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Speaking of enigmas, here's my freshest one,
Although they say there's nothing new underneath the sun:
I'm the bane of many tourists eager to partake,
The curse of ancient kings, when their vengeance they take,
The fate of he who dares to taste yesterday's rare steak,
The one who sends a veteran of battles to the jake,
And may, where bullets managed not, cause his resolve to break,
But fear ye not, oh sufferer, when you begin to ache,
You shall not need to call the man who handles the steel snake.

FatDragon said:

Let's not forget Gnomebrewer,
A riddling master; none is truer.
And yourself, grandmaster of this thread,
Sending enigmas through our heads.

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Speaking of enigmas, here's my freshest one,
Although they say there's nothing new underneath the sun:
I'm the bane of many tourists eager to partake,
The curse of ancient kings, when their vengeance they take,
The fate of he who dares to taste yesterday's rare steak,
The one who sends a veteran of battles to the jake,
And may, where bullets managed not, cause his resolve to break,
But fear ye not, oh sufferer, when you begin to ache,
You shall not need to call the man who handles the steel snake.

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If you go to Mexico, don't drink the water.
The resulting scene would be like a slaughter.
In this condition, I wouldn't want to see ya.
Montezuma's revenge, must be diarrhea.

Diarrhea? Gross, man!
This is a family forum!
Seeing as you're right, though,
I guess it must be your turn.

This one doesn't work if you're a scuba diver.
For this riddle pretend you're a city bus driver:
At your first stop you pick up 6 people,
The sencond stop, you find 6 more.
The third stop 5 disembark,
And you pick up 4.
After that you lose 2,
But there are 7 that are new.
At the next stop, to your suprise, everyone gets off, what color are the drivers eyes?

The drivers eyes you might not see
I’m the driver always been blue to me

If your eyes are blue
That answer is true

I guess it’s my turn
I’ll give it a churn
I did not make this riddle up
But did answer and didn’t look that up
And of course modified it to rhyme
And that took a little time

You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring.
I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat and dying.
The wind is my enemy and apple cinnamon and suchs’ my friend
I’ll be your light to my very end
To some I brig a warm friendly glow
Others think my gift is too low


I know that’s not great riddle rhyming
It best I could do and I’m not crying [emoji3]

I think I've got this handled:
You must be a candle.