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posted August 24, 2004 05:33 PM |
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sphinx
I'm italian, I don't know english very well.
I need answers to sphnix riddles (because I not understand the text of the question)
can you help me?
I need a link to a page in wich there are the answers or a TXT file.
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Daystar
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posted August 24, 2004 07:51 PM |
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could you post the questions you are strugling with? that way we can help you.
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mitzah
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posted August 25, 2004 09:44 PM |
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Here are all the answers...
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour. M The letter M
It goes up and down the stairs without moving. carpet
Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die. fire
Thirty white horses,
On a red hill,
First we champ,
then we stamp,
then we stand still.
What are we? teeth
What five letter English word does not change
its pronunciation when four letters are taken away? queue
What can you catch but not throw? cold
I run, yet I have no legs. What am I? nose
Take one out and scratch my head
I am now black but once was red match
What does everyone have that he or she can always count on? fingers
He has a look of awful scorn,
And wears his clothes a funny way,
Waving his hands over fields of corn,
He keeps the birds away! scarecrow
I'm in a rock, not in a stone
I'm in marrow, not in bone
I'm in a bolster, not in a bed
I'm not living , I'm not dead r The letter r
Remove the outside, cook the inside,
eat the outside, throw away the inside. corn
I have a 100 legs but cannot stand.
A long neck but no head.
And I eat the maids life. broom
What is that of which the common sort is best? sense
What gets wetter the more it dries? towel
The man who invented it, doesn't want it.
The man who bought it, doesn't need it.
The man who needs it, doesn't know it. coffin
What's the beginning of eternity,
the end of time and space,
the beginning of the end,
and the end of every place? e The letter e
The more there is the less you see. darkness
They come at night without being called
and are lost in the day without being stolen. stars
Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I? ton
What is it that one needs most in the long run? breath
What lives on its own substance and dies when it devours itself? candle
I move quickly but have no legs
I like warm flesh and blood
Some of my bones can unhinge
I travel through lots of mud
If you see me you may scream
I really don't know why
If you can guess what I am called
Then you are smart, oh my! snake
You find us in darkness but never light.
We are present in daytime but absent in night.
In the deepest of shadows, we hide in plain sight. d The letter d
There was a green round house.
Inside the green round house was a smaller white house.
In the white house was a red house.
And living in the red house were lots of little black babies. watermelon
What kind of room has no windows or doors? mushroom
They are Dark,
and always on the run.
Without the sun,
would be none. shadows
What has hands, but is not flesh, blood or bone? clock
Two people walk to the top of the hill,
a little person and a big person.
The little person is the big person's son
but the big person is not the little persons father.
Who is the big person? mother
I have holes on the top and bottom.
I have holes on my left and on my right.
And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water.
What am I? sponge
I look at you, you look at me
I raise my left, you raise your right
What is this object? mirror
A word I know,
Six letters it contains,
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains. dozens
It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh,
bones and blood all at the same time.
What is this object? ring
The more you take the more you leave behind. footsteps
Light as a feather, there is nothing in it;
the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute. breath
As I walked along the path,
I saw something with four fingers and one thumb,
but it was not flesh, fish, bone or fowl. glove
What can run but never walks,
has a mouth but never talks,
has a head but never weeps,
has a bed but never sleeps? river
What eats rocks, levels mountains, rusts metal,
pushes the clouds across the sky, and can make a young man old? time
Use me well and I am everybody, scratch my back and I am nobody. mirror
What we caught we threw away, what we didn't catch we kept. lice
What grows in winter and dies in summer. And has roots that grow up? icicle
What one word has the most letters in it? alphabet
Yellow and white
Hard outside
Stolen from life
What am I? egg
You use a knife to slice my head,
and weep beside me when I am dead. onion
I went into the woods and got it
I sat down to seek it
I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. splinter
What can fill a room but takes up no space? light
It is weightless but you can see it
and if you put it in a barrel of water
it will make the barrel lighter. hole
No sooner spoken than broken.
What is it? silence
I have two heads but only one body,
the more still I stand the faster I run. hourglass
The part of the bird that's not in the sky,
Who can swim in the ocean
And yet remain dry. shadow
The rich men want it, the wise men know it,
the poor all need it, and the kind men show it. love
Squeeze it and it cries tears as red as its flesh,
but its heart is made of stone. cherry
I am the black child of a white father,
a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven.
I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me,
even though there is no cause for grief,
and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. smoke
I am both Mother and Father.
I am seldom still yet I never wander.
I never birth nor nurse.
What am I? tree
Born Motherless and Fatherless,
Into this world without a sin
Made a loud roar as I entered
And never spoke again. thunder
There is a thing that nothing is,
and yet it has a name.
It's sometimes tall and sometimes short,
joins our talks and joins our sports,
and plays at every game. shadow
Through wind and rain I always play,
I roam the earth, yet here I stay;
I crumble stones, and fire cannot burn me;
Yet I am soft--you can gauge me with your hand. ocean
A little pool with two layers of wall around it.
One white and soft and the other dark and hard,
amidst a light brown grassy lawn. coconut
Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I'm double, I'm single,
I'm black blue and grey,
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way. eye
We are little creatures;
all of us have different features.
One of us in glass is set;
one of us you'll find in jet.
Another you may see in tin,
and the fourth is boxed within .
If the fifth you should pursue,
it can never fly from you.
What are we? vowels
I do not breathe, but I run and jump.
I do not eat, but I swim and stretch.
I do not drink, but I sleep and stand.
I do not think, but I grow and play.
I do not see, but you see me every day. leg
Always wax, yet always wane:
I melt myself with my own flame.
Lighting darkness, with fate unblessed,
I soon devolve to shapeless mess. candle
With potent, flowery words speak I,
Of something common, vulgar, dry;
I weave webs of pedantic prose,
In effort to befuddle those,
Who think I wile time away,
In lofty things, above all day
The common kind that linger where
Monadic beings live and fare;
Practical I may not be,
But life, it seems, is full of me! riddle
To you, rude would I never be,
Though I flag my tongue for all to see. dog
What is all over the house? roof
I welcome the day with a show of light,
I stealthily came here in the night.
I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn,
But by the noon, alas! I'm gone. dew
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives? one
I never was, am always to be.
No one ever saw me, nor ever will.
And yet I am the confidence of all,
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball. tomorrow
What is it that everyone requires, everyone gives,
everyone asks for and that very few take? advice
What always happens at the end of a dry spell? rain
What is all over the house? roof
What starts with T, ends with T,
and is full of T? teapot
Spell mousetrap in 3 letters. cat
What is always before you,
yet you can never see it? future
What increases the more you share it with others? joy
What is too much for one, enough for two,
but nothing at all for three? secret
I was born at the same time as the earth.
I am destined to live as long as the earth.
Yet I shall never be five weeks old.
What am I? moon
What does a hero need most in the long run? breath
What is it that you should always keep
because no one else wants it? temper
It wasn't my sister nor my brother,
but still was the child of my father and mother.
Who was it? me
What is it that everyone in the world is doing
at the same time and at the same speed,
yet some started sooner and some will finish later? aging
What flies when attached and floats
when it's not? feather
What can be broken by speaking just one word? silence
What has a big mouth yet never speaks? jar
What can't you see that is always before you? future
What can you hold without ever touching
or using your hands? breath
What is neither inside the house,
nor outside the house,
but lets you see both? window
What has four legs but only one foot? bed
When things go wrong,
what can you always count on? fingers
If yesterday had been Wednesday's tomorrow
and tomorrow is Sunday's yesterday,
what day would today be? friday
What do you get between sunrise and sunset? sunburned
How can you say rabbit without the letter R? bunny
What kind of clock is crazy? cuckoo
What has a neck but no head? bottle
What has 10 legs and drools? quintuplets
What never gets any wetter
no matter how hard it rains? ocean
What creature always goes to bed
with its shoes on? horse
What is the first thing you do every morning? wake
What do people make that nobody can ever see or feel
but it annoys them just the same? noise
I am, in truth, a yellow fork
From tables in the sky
By inadvertent fingers dropped
The awful cutlery.
Of mansions never quite disclosed
And never quite concealed
The apparatus of the dark
To ignorance revealed.
What am I? lightning
When young, I am sweet in the sun.
When middle-aged, I make you happy.
When old, I am valued more than ever.
What am I? wine
I am always hungry,
I must always be fed,
The finger I lick
Will soon turn red.
What am I? fire
All about, but cannot be seen,
Can be captured, cannot be held,
No throat, but can be heard.
What am I? wind
If you break me
I do not stop working,
If you touch me
I may be snared,
If you lose me
Nothing will matter.
What am I? heart
If a man carried my burden
He would break his back.
I am not rich,
But leave silver in my track.
What am I? snail
Until I am measured
I am not known,
Yet how you miss me
When I have flown.
What am I? time
I drive men mad
For love of me,
Easily beaten,
Never free.
What am I? gold
I go around in circles
But always straight ahead,
Never complain
No matter where I am led.
What am I? wheel
Each morning I appear
To lie at your feet,
All day I will follow
No matter how fast you run,
Yet I nearly perish
In the midday sun.
What am I? shadow
Weight in my belly,
Trees on my back,
Nails in my ribs,
Feet I do lack.
What am I? ship
Bright as diamonds,
Loud as thunder,
Never still,
A thing of wonder.
What am I? waterfall
My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
What am I? candle
A glittering point
That downward thrusts,
A sparkling spear
That never rusts.
What am I? icicle
You heard me before,
Yet you hear me again,
Then I die,
'Till you call me again.
What am I? echo
Three lives have I.
Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
Light enough to caress the sky,
Hard enough to crack rocks.
What am I? water
Lovely and round,
I shine with pale light,
grown in the darkness,
A lady's delight.
What am I? pearl
At the sound of me, men may dream
Or stamp their feet
At the sound of me, women may laugh
Or sometimes weep
What am I? music
When I am filled
I can point the way,
When I am empty
Nothing moves me,
I have two skins
One without and one within.
What am I? glove
As a whole, I am both safe and secure.
Behead me, and I become a place of meeting.
Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready.
Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts.
What am I? stable
What does man love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
And all men carry to their graves? nothing
What is round as a dishpan,
deep as a tub,
and still the oceans couldn't fill it up? sieve
I bind it and it walks.
I loose it and it stops.
What is it? sandal
A cloud was my mother,
the wind is my father,
my son is the cool stream,
and my daughter is the fruit of the land.
A rainbow is my bed,
the earth my final resting place,
and I'm the torment of man.
What am I? rain
I stand on one leg with my heart in my head.
What am I? cabbage
What belongs to you but other
use it more than you do even
though you've had it since you were born? name
What fastens two people yet touches only one? ring
What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten? cards
What goes into the water red and comes out black? ember
When one does not know what it is,
then it is something;
but when one knows what it is,
then it is nothing.
What is it? riddle
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Famous Hero
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posted August 25, 2004 11:10 PM |
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did you get them from the team?
i can hardly believe you answered them all 
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mitzah
Promising
Supreme Hero
of the Horadrim
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posted August 26, 2004 12:39 PM |
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pietjebell
Promising
Known Hero
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posted August 26, 2004 12:54 PM |
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Mitzah:
Jeez man!
QP?
I think you deserve one..
When its all sorted out by just you off course 
BTW: the poster.. LOL
If you dont speak the language, how on earth did you manage to play, install, make the moves, post, read the answers here etc?
Ya dont need excuses, just ax for answers
(no offence meant my friend)
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