Riddles

[Loki]

I know there was a Riddles game in one of the previous incarnations of the forum, but I enjoyed them, so I figured I would start a new one. The person that answers correctly can post a new riddle, or pass and let the first poster put up a new one.

#1
Metal or bone I may be,
Many Teeth I have and always bared,
Yet my bite harms no one
And ladies delight in my touch.

[SamWiser]

Of course the guy named Loki would do this. Is it a comb? I'm going to let you confirm before I put another one.

[Loki]

Yep. All yours.

[SamWiser]

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.

It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.

It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.


No cheating now.

[Davecom3]

I don't know. Nothing seems to fit.

[Loki]

Of course the guy named Loki would do this.

Of course, the guy named after a hobbit would do this one.

Is it "Darkness"?

[SamWiser]

You got it. Darkness.

[Loki]

I move without wings,
Between silken strings,
I leave as you find,
My substance behind.

[Alsaindar]

Are you a spider?

[Loki]

Indeed. You're up!

[Alsaindar]

What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?

[Wolfie]

A river

[Alsaindar]

Right, your turn.

[Wolfie]

What word in the English language uses all five vowels plus Y in alphabetical order and uses each one only once?

[lingrem]

facetiously! I heard that before, got mad at looked it up so made a point to remember it in case I was ever asked again! LOL!

[Davecom3]

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Of course, it is to be noted that that's not the only answer. There's also abstemiously, acheliously, anemiously, annelidously, arseniously, and caesiously, alphabetically speaking. Facetiously is only the best known of these words. Still, give it to lingrem as I had to look those others up due to my disbelief in facetiously being the only word to qualify, plus the fact that if you google, you'll find there are still several I haven't mentioned.

[ThroughTheWell]

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Google pretty much kills riddles. If it is a good riddle, it becomes well known enough to be searched for. That leaves the bad riddles that a person makes up on the spot as ungoogleable, but, well, are typicaly bad. I'd say it is rare to be able to create riddles that are reasonable, good, and unkown to google. And I can't not google for the answer.

Sorry to bum someone's day, but that is my view of this particular game.

[lingrem]

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I've got the same view ThroughtheWell - but there might come up a riddle I haven't heard before, or maybe we'll start making up our own horrible ones!

If you throw me from the window,
I will leave a grieving wife.
Bring me back, but in the door, and
You'll see someone giving life!

What am I?

[gamecreator]

Letter N

[lingrem]

Yep, lol. I wonder when we'll find one no one's heard before?

[gamecreator]

I don't know any english riddles and don't want to google, so have translated one:
It walks on straw withount noise, walks on water and doesn't sink, walks in fire and doesn't burn.

[Davecom3]

Sunlight, or maybe light in general?

[gamecreator]

I think original answer can walk in slightly less metaphorical sense, than light.

[Wolfie]

Wind?

[Davecom3]

But wind does make a sound. Likewise, I can't see it being air, as it would burn in certain cases.