Riddles that Rhyme

[KatCo]

Hope you don't mind me starting a new thread, I thought that this type of riddle could add some fun!


Four men sat down to play,
They played all night 'till break of day.
They played for gold and not for fun
With separate scores for everyone.
When they came to square accounts,
They all had made quite fair amounts.
Can you the paradox explain,
If no one lost, how could all gain?

By the way, Happy New Year Everyone!

[blinc]

Don't mind at all Katco! It's nice to have different riddles going on. :)

Hmmm... were they playing each other? If not, then maybe they all went together to a place but played other players and they all won against other people?

Or... they all four played the same game like Blackjack, they all won because they all beat the house?

[Karenluvs6]

ooh this is a toughy!
are they even playing a real game at all?....or is it just meant to make ya think that they were?......did I say that right?

[Karenluvs6]

or by chance, were they playing 'music'?

[KatCo]

Karen got it! Wow! You guys are good.
They were all professional musicians....
See if I can remember any other riddles that rhyme, or maybe someone else has one?

[Karenluvs6]

Ooh! Yippeeeeeeeeee I got one right!

[blinc]

*whaps forehead*

Different "scores" for everyone. Ooooh, that was a tricky one KatCo. Really good riddle! :)

[DkTahg]

Often talked of, never seen,
Ever coming, never been,
Daily looked for, never here,
Still approaching, coming near.
Thousands for it's visit wait
But alas for their fate,
Tho' they expect me to appear,
They will never find me here.


What is the poem about? {owl}

[blinc]

Oh gosh... The future maybe? People are always talking about it... it won't ever appear, because there's always a future. People won't find it because they can't get to it?

[DkTahg]

Blinc, that might as well be the answer, so I am going to give it to you. The actual answer is tomarrow, which is the future. Thats two for two so far. Your blowing away my riddles and puzzles {scatter}! Good Job.

[blinc]

Woo hoo! I'm on a roll! Gosh, maybe it's something I'm eating. {toothy}

*scampers away to look in the fridge*

[DkTahg]

Alive without breath,
As cold as death.
Never thirsty,
Always drinking,
All in mail,
never clinking.

Who or what am I? {jester}

[blinc]

It's not so easy if you don't know the answer!
Which I don't
Gosh, I haven't even been able to come up with a far-fetched idea on this one!

[DkTahg]

I've seen this riddle so many times that i just assumed that everybody knew the answer. I guess thats what I get for assuming. I would like to give a hint, but any hint will give it away. sorry :(

[blinc]

Noooo! You didn't, not at all! I forgot to add my usual {toothy} to let you know I was kidding around. I'm sorry! I wouldn't post something like that in a serious manner. Just yanking your chain a little was all. :)

You know for a moment I thought it was fire... because it's alive but has no breath. But, alas... it didn't fit with the rest.

Not even a teensy weensy hint?

[DkTahg]

It's a creature, and it is alive.

[blinc]

Wwha? {eek}
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! Aneurism! Aneurism! {toothy} You're in league with those guys in the white coats aren't you?
*quickly looks over shoulder*
*eye twitches*

[DkTahg]

Yes I am. I like to see people in pain hehehe {devil}. As they say, no pain, no gain!
Here's another clue. It can comes from a lake or an ocean, and many people use it to make them smarter!{toothy} Now I gave it away.

[blinc]

Even after those hints the part about the "mail never clinking" has me baffled!
ok...
Alive without breath,
As cold as death.
Never thirsty,
Always drinking,
All in mail,
never clinking.

Hints: It's a creature, and it is alive
It can comes from a lake or an ocean, and many people use it to make them smarter

Aaaaaaagh! I don't know what it is! Don't tell yet ok? This one is going to hit one of us in the middle of the night. The only thing I can think of is Seaweed! (quit that laughing). {toothy}
*best Arnold voice*
I'll be bach!

[blinc]

*whaps self on the forehead*
DOH! {homer}

I think I've got it. It's fish, isn't it?
Alive without breath, (they don't breathe air as we do)
As cold as death. (they're cold blooded)
Never thirsty, (duh)
Always drinking, (always "drinking" water to get the oxygen through their gills)
All in mail, (SCALES!!!)
never clinking. (Scales don't clink)

[DkTahg]

Yup, its a fish!
Good job :)

[blinc]

{mm} Woo hoo! I got it, I got it!! {mm}

[!_scary_!]

i've got a rhyming riddle for you (several actually, but here's one...you're trying to find out what it is the riddle is talking about, but you probably already knew that...)
My love, when I gaze on thy beautiful face,
Careering along, yet always in place --
The thought has often come into my mind
If I ever shall see thy glorious behind.

[Debby]

Gee, that's a tough one...the only thing I can think of like that with a face...is a clock.
But it has to be something you don't know if you'll ever see the end of, so I'm sure that isn't right.

[blinc]

Debby, you might be on to something there... you would never see the end of time.

[TTP]

A ceiling fan! (sp)
Who ever looks at the top of the blades?

[!_scary_!]

nope, sorry. that could work, but a ceiling fan doesn't have a face.

[blinc]

What about the clock? Would that have worked Scary?

[TTP]

*pout*
*Sulking*

[!_scary_!]

nope, a clock couldn't work either. first off, you can see the behind of most clocks anytime you want (some of them are like in the wall, and you can't take them out, so you can't see the behind of those) and, the behind of clocks aren't exactly glorious.

[KatCo]

Just a possibility....

First guess: The Moon?

Second guess: The Sun (even though looking at it's face would blind you, so never mind...)

And the last possibility: The Wind?

Ohhh...this is a tough one....What else has a face? Thinking, pondering and contemplating......

[blinc]

Oooh, Debby you gave me an idea! Is it a star that went super Nova... or even just a star?

My love, when I gaze on thy beautiful face, (A star)
Careering along, yet always in place -- (moving through space)
The thought has often come into my mind
If I ever shall see thy glorious behind. (We wouldn't ever see the end of a super Nova... the light would just disappear but we wouldn't ever see the "end" of it because the light of it's death is what we are seeing now. Or just a regular star, because we would probably never live long enough to see it's death)?

[Debby]

Wow! That's a good guess Blinc!!! I can't think of anything at the moment....I did wonder if careering along was really that, or was it a typo, for careening along? Just curious.

[!_scary_!]

blinc, good guess, but it's kinda farfetched, the lines don't really fit if it were a star....
anyways, katco's first guess was correct. it was the moon! congrats!

(and no, it wasn't a typo. to 'career' is to move at top speed)

[blinc]

{mm} Congratulations Katco! That was a tough one, even though it seemed simple upon first reading it. Ok Scary, chunk another one our way! We're ready for ya! {toothy}

[TTP]

Hmmm...at one time I was good at these. I guess age has closed my mind to all possibilities...*sigh*

[blinc]

*snort* Yeah right, blame it on age you young whippersnapper! {toothy}

[TTP]

It is what's wrong I tell ya! {toothy}
*Breaks into "Forever Young," by Rod Stewart*

[blinc]

It can't be what's wrong I tell ya! {toothy}
I'm twice as old as you... and if age is getting to you, then that would make me feeble minded!
*ROFL*

[TTP]

{anon}

Ok, she left herself open here, but on the grounds that I know she isn't I won't even mention it.

[blinc]

{blush} Hee hee! Thank you for not taking that pot shot! {toothy}

[!_scary_!]

this one is a bit easy, but hopefully it'll hold you over till i get a better one:
I go around in circles
But always straight ahead,
Never complain
No matter where I am led.

[jamesglewisf]

LOL! We just had that one a couple of weeks ago. It was a wheel.

[Debby]

Thanks for explaining what careering meant, scary, I had never heard that before!!!

And Jim....no fair! of course we all heard that one already!!! LOL.....but we could have acted like we were so smart it just occurred to us!!! LOL ;) :)

[!_scary_!]

lol
well, here's another....i hope you haven't heard this one either:
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?

[KatCo]

Nothing? Absolutely Nothing......{toothy}

[Debby]

Awwwwwww, we had that one on another riddle thread too!

I think it was worded a little different, but pretty much the same.

It's a good one though!!!!!!! :) :)

[DkTahg]

It can't seen, It can't be smelt,
It can't be heard, It can't be felt.
It hide behind stars and under hills;
Empty holes It fill.
It come before and end after,
Ends life, kills laughter.

[Debby]

It's not death is it? That doesn't really sound right. (it does fill empty holes, though...lol)

[DkTahg]

Keep working on it. :)

[TTP]

Silence?

[DkTahg]

Nope, it's not silence, although that could work. There is one other one that I am looking for...

Any guesses?

[TTP]

darkness

[Debby]

Oh yes, I'll bet that's it.

[DkTahg]

Yep, thats it. Darkness is the answer. :)

[DkTahg]

A yellow eye in blue face saw a yellow eye in green face,
"That eye is like to this eye,"
said the first eye.
"But in low place,
not in high place."

[blinc]

A yellow eye in blue face (The sun?)

saw a yellow eye in green face, (something yellow on the earth?)

"That eye is like to this eye,"
said the first eye. (don't know yet)

"But in low place, (earth?)
not in high place." (sky?)

[Debby]

I think you must be right, Blinc...but I can't figure out what the yellow eye on green face is.

Maybe the sun is seeing it's reflection on the earth?

[blinc]

Ack! DkTahg! HINTS!!! We need hints over here! {toothy}

[DkTahg]

Your on the right tract.... The sky and earth, sun and___________. Yup keep working on it; it will come.
Sorry, the moon is not an exceptible answer, he he

Oh, you want hints huh? ummmm, well, sorrrry, no can do. Any hint will drastically ruin my fun he he {toothy}.

Ok, you convinced me, here's your hint...." It comes from an 1960's motion picture, a T.V. series, and Jean Kerr's best seller novel. The five word title"________________" of the motion picture comedy stars Doris Day and a lovable yet clumbsy sheep dog.

ooooh!!! I love using triva as "off the wall" and as "semipseudo" hints!
{evil}

[blinc]

{toothy} Aha! Now isn't it a shame I'm so old, I actually remember that movie? "Please don't eat the daisies"!!! Yessir, I do believe I've got it now!

A yellow eye in blue face
saw a yellow eye in green face,
"That eye is like to this eye,"
said the first eye.
"But in low place,
not in high place."

The sun saw a daisy!

{grblob} That's it, isn't it? {grblob} Huh? {grblob} Isn't it? Yes! yes! It's got to be it!!

[DkTahg]

Yep, thats the answer. You got it! :)

[Debby]

Way to go Blinc!!!!!! :)

[DkTahg]

Can I post another one?

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beast, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays kings, ruins town,
And beats high mountains down.






Also, on a side note: Katco (Mom) does not know the answer to this riddle so she too can post! :)

[blinc]

hmmm... is it water? or... OOOOH! I think I know what it is if it isn't water... TIME?
{grblob} {einstein} {grblob}

Although water might work if you thought of flooding waters... could destroy towns and rain would eventually, over millions of years destroy mountains. Although... time sound better.

[TTP]

or wind...

[Debby]

I think your right Blinc...when I read it, I was going to guess time...then saw you already had...I think that is the right answer. :)

[DkTahg]

Ooh that was way too easy {toothy}! I have some really hard ones if you want me to post them, but i think i will wait to let someone else post one first. :)

[blinc]

Give us another DkTahg! {toothy}

[Debby]

Yes, do....I need one more reason to be frustrated! LOL

[jamesglewisf]

This one has gotten long. Someone start a "Riddles that Rhyme 2."