• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Nancy Reading
  • Carla Burke
  • r ranson
  • John F Dean
  • paul wheaton
  • Pearl Sutton
stewards:
  • Jay Angler
  • Liv Smith
  • Leigh Tate
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • Timothy Norton
gardeners:
  • thomas rubino
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • Maieshe Ljin

Riddles

 
steward
Posts: 3422
Location: Maine, zone 5
1955
7
hugelkultur dog forest garden trees foraging food preservation cooking solar seed wood heat homestead
  • Likes 5
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Who doesn't like a good riddle (or for the one's I'll post.....a riddle)?

Please share your riddles here.

And for the reader.....try to not peek at the answer until you struggle for a bit!!!

Edit:  Per Anne's good call, do not post the answer until folks have guessed it (then confirm) or haven't been able to for a bit.  Thanks!
 
Greg Martin
steward
Posts: 3422
Location: Maine, zone 5
1955
7
hugelkultur dog forest garden trees foraging food preservation cooking solar seed wood heat homestead
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?

A teapot.
 
Greg Martin
steward
Posts: 3422
Location: Maine, zone 5
1955
7
hugelkultur dog forest garden trees foraging food preservation cooking solar seed wood heat homestead
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
What begins with an “E” but only has one letter?

An envelope.
 
Greg Martin
steward
Posts: 3422
Location: Maine, zone 5
1955
7
hugelkultur dog forest garden trees foraging food preservation cooking solar seed wood heat homestead
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
What can travel around the world without leaving its corner?

A stamp.
 
steward
Posts: 16058
Location: USDA Zone 8a
4272
dog hunting food preservation cooking bee greening the desert
  • Likes 5
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
It might be fun to not give the answer and see who can guess.

My problem is when I scroll down I see the answer before the sentence.
Staff note (Greg Martin) :

Agreed:  From this point forward post the riddle without the answer so the guessing can begin!  (thanks Anne)

 
Posts: 19
Location: Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
4
hugelkultur forest garden sheep
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
What can you catch but cannot throw?

 
Greg Martin
steward
Posts: 3422
Location: Maine, zone 5
1955
7
hugelkultur dog forest garden trees foraging food preservation cooking solar seed wood heat homestead
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Jack Durston wrote:What can you catch but cannot throw?


A break?
 
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 5
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Jack Durston wrote:What can you catch but cannot throw?



A cold?
 
Silas Rempel
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I??
 
Silas Rempel
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Forwards I weigh a lot. But backwards I do not. What am I?
 
master pollinator
Posts: 4953
Location: Due to winter mortality, I stubbornly state, zone 7a Tennessee
2118
6
forest garden foraging books food preservation cooking fiber arts bee medical herbs
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
A cold

Ugh. Time lapse. 😁
 
gardener
Posts: 937
Location: SW Missouri • zone 6 • ~1400' elevation
394
fish trees chicken sheep seed woodworking
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Silas Rempel wrote:Forwards I weigh a lot. But backwards I do not. What am I?



A delivery truck?
 
T Melville
gardener
Posts: 937
Location: SW Missouri • zone 6 • ~1400' elevation
394
fish trees chicken sheep seed woodworking
  • Likes 5
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
The man lives in a little square house with a window in each wall. Every window faces south. He only leaves for work one day per year. Who is the man?
 
Silas Rempel
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

T Melville wrote:

Silas Rempel wrote:Forwards I weigh a lot. But backwards I do not. What am I?



A delivery truck?


Nope😁
 
Jack Durston
Posts: 19
Location: Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
4
hugelkultur forest garden sheep
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
A cold, a break, the train, bus or a plane, this one is quite open.
 
Greg Martin
steward
Posts: 3422
Location: Maine, zone 5
1955
7
hugelkultur dog forest garden trees foraging food preservation cooking solar seed wood heat homestead
  • Likes 6
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Silas Rempel wrote:Forwards I weigh a lot. But backwards I do not. What am I?



ton
 
Silas Rempel
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Greg Martin wrote:

Silas Rempel wrote:Forwards I weigh a lot. But backwards I do not. What am I?



ton



Correct!!! Good job!
 
Greg Martin
steward
Posts: 3422
Location: Maine, zone 5
1955
7
hugelkultur dog forest garden trees foraging food preservation cooking solar seed wood heat homestead
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
 
Silas Rempel
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 5
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

T Melville wrote:The man lives in a little square house with a window in each wall. Every window faces south. He only leaves for work one day per year. Who is the man?


Santa Claus 🎅
 
gardener
Posts: 1674
Location: the mountains of western nc
505
forest garden trees foraging chicken food preservation wood heat
  • Likes 9
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Greg Martin wrote:A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?



did he write the words ‘your exact weight’?
 
Greg Martin
steward
Posts: 3422
Location: Maine, zone 5
1955
7
hugelkultur dog forest garden trees foraging food preservation cooking solar seed wood heat homestead
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

greg mosser wrote:
did he write the words ‘your exact weight’?


That he did Mr. mosser!
 
T Melville
gardener
Posts: 937
Location: SW Missouri • zone 6 • ~1400' elevation
394
fish trees chicken sheep seed woodworking
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Silas Rempel wrote:

T Melville wrote:The man lives in a little square house with a window in each wall. Every window faces south. He only leaves for work one day per year. Who is the man?


Santa Claus 🎅



You got it!
 
greg mosser
gardener
Posts: 1674
Location: the mountains of western nc
505
forest garden trees foraging chicken food preservation wood heat
  • Likes 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Silas Rempel wrote:The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I??



not to be too potty-minded,but...a dump? the more i take a poop, the more i leave behind.

relatedly, the more dirt i shovel out of a hole, the more hole there is.
 
Silas Rempel
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

greg mosser wrote:

Silas Rempel wrote:The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I??



not to be too potty-minded,but...a dump? the more i take a poop, the more i leave behind.

relatedly, the more dirt i shovel out of a hole, the more hole there is.


Nope try again 😁
 
Anne Miller
steward
Posts: 16058
Location: USDA Zone 8a
4272
dog hunting food preservation cooking bee greening the desert
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
When you need me, you throw me away. But when you're done with me, you bring me back.
 
Silas Rempel
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Anne Miller wrote:When you need me, you throw me away. But when you're done with me, you bring me back.


Anchor
 
T Melville
gardener
Posts: 937
Location: SW Missouri • zone 6 • ~1400' elevation
394
fish trees chicken sheep seed woodworking
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Where does dragon milk come from?
 
gardener
Posts: 828
Location: Central Indiana, zone 6a, clay loam
589
forest garden fungi foraging trees urban chicken medical herbs ungarbage
  • Likes 5
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Silas Rempel wrote:The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I??


Time?
 
Silas Rempel
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Heather Sharpe wrote:

Silas Rempel wrote:The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I??


Time?


Nope. please try again
 
Heather Sharpe
gardener
Posts: 828
Location: Central Indiana, zone 6a, clay loam
589
forest garden fungi foraging trees urban chicken medical herbs ungarbage
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Silas Rempel wrote:The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I??


Photographs?
 
Silas Rempel
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Heather Sharpe wrote:

Silas Rempel wrote:The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I??


Photographs?


Nope, please try again
 
Anne Miller
steward
Posts: 16058
Location: USDA Zone 8a
4272
dog hunting food preservation cooking bee greening the desert
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Silas Rempel wrote:

Anne Miller wrote:When you need me, you throw me away. But when you're done with me, you bring me back.


Anchor



Correct!






 
Anne Miller
steward
Posts: 16058
Location: USDA Zone 8a
4272
dog hunting food preservation cooking bee greening the desert
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

T Melville wrote:Where does dragon milk come from?



Throughout the ages, Dragon's Milk has been used as a term to describe potent ales and elixirs worth of celebration – a reward at the end of the journey. We are proud to be stewards of that ancient tradition today, hand-crafting each batch of Dragon's Milk Bourbon Barrel-Aged Stout in Holland, Michigan.

dragonmilk.com

I bet that is not the answer!
 
Anne Miller
steward
Posts: 16058
Location: USDA Zone 8a
4272
dog hunting food preservation cooking bee greening the desert
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Silas Rempel wrote:The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I??



Air?
 
Silas Rempel
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Anne Miller wrote:

Silas Rempel wrote:The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I??



Air?


Nope, try again
 
Anne Miller
steward
Posts: 16058
Location: USDA Zone 8a
4272
dog hunting food preservation cooking bee greening the desert
  • Likes 7
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Silas Rempel wrote:

Anne Miller wrote:

Silas Rempel wrote:The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I??



Air?


Nope, try again



Footstep?
 
Silas Rempel
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Anne Miller wrote:

Silas Rempel wrote:

Anne Miller wrote:

Silas Rempel wrote:The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I??



Air?


Nope, try again



Footstep?


You are correct!!! Congratulations!!!
 
Greg Martin
steward
Posts: 3422
Location: Maine, zone 5
1955
7
hugelkultur dog forest garden trees foraging food preservation cooking solar seed wood heat homestead
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
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.
The wind is my enemy.
 
Silas Rempel
Posts: 98
29
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Greg Martin wrote: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.
The wind is my enemy.


A candle??? I have thought way to hard on this.
 
T Melville
gardener
Posts: 937
Location: SW Missouri • zone 6 • ~1400' elevation
394
fish trees chicken sheep seed woodworking
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

Anne Miller wrote:

T Melville wrote:Where does dragon milk come from?



dragonmilk.com

I bet that is not the answer!



Not what I had in mind no. This actually straddles the line between riddle and joke.
 
I don't get it. A whale wearing overalls? How does that even work? It's like a tiny ad wearing overalls.
Heat your home with the twigs that naturally fall of the trees in your yard
http://woodheat.net
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic