From: mark@zaphod.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning/Metrica)
Subject: NET.BOOK: Net.Book.Riddles (part 2 of 8)
Followup-To: rec.games.frp.misc
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:09:37 GMT

 
 
 
 
 
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Title:  None
Riddle:

    A box without hinges, key, or lid,
    Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Entry:  10.7
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Title:  None
Riddle:

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

Entry:  10.8
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Title:  None
Riddle:

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

Entry:  10.9
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    You feel it, but never see it and never will.

Entry:  10.10
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    You must keep it after giving it.

Entry:  10.11
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    As light as a feather, but you can't hold it for ten minutes.

Entry:  10.12
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Has a mouth but does not speak, has a bed but never sleeps.

Entry:  10.13
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb!

Entry:  10.14
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    You break it even if you name it!

Entry:  10.15
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    It passes before the sun and makes no shadow.

Entry:  10.16
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    You feed it, it lives, you give it something to drink, it dies.

Entry:  10.17
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    A red drum which sounds
    Without being touched,
    And grows silent,
    When it is touched.

Entry:  10.18
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    A harvest sown and reaped on the same day
    In an unplowed field,
    Which increases without growing,
    Remains whole though it is eaten
    Within and without,
    Is useless and yet
    The staple of nations.

Entry:  10.19
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    If you break me
    I do not stop working,
    If you touch me
    I may be snared,
    If you lose me
    Nothing will matter.

Entry:  10.20
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    All about, but cannot be seen,
    Can be captured, cannot be held
    No throat, but can be heard.

Entry:  10.21
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I go around in circles,
    But always straight ahead
    Never complain,
    No matter where I am led.

Entry:  10.22
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Lighter than what
    I am made of,
    More of me is hidden
    Than is seen.

Entry:  10.23
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    If a man carried my burden,
    He would break his back.
    I am not rich,
    But leave silver in my track.

Entry:  10.24
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    My life can be measured in hours,
    I serve by being devoured.
    Thin, I am quick
    Fat, I am slow
    Wind is my foe.

Entry:  10.25
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:
	    Weight in my belly,
    Trees on my back,
    Nails in my ribs,
    Feet I do lack.

Entry:  10.26
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    You can see nothing else
    When you look in my face
    I will look you in the eye
    And I will never lie.

Entry:  10.27
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I am always hungry,
    I must always be fed,
    The finger I lick
    Will soon turn red.

Entry:  10.28
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Three lives have I.
    Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
    Light enough to caress the sky
    Hard enough to crack rocks.

Entry:  10.29
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Glittering points
    That downward thrust,
    Sparkling spears
    That never rust.

Entry:  10.30
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Each morning I appear
    To lie at your feet,
    All day I follow
    No matter how fast you run,
    Yet I nearly perish
    In the midday sun.

Entry:  10.31
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Keys without locks
    Yet I unlock the soul.

Entry:  10.32
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Something wholly unreal, yet seems real to I
    Think my friend, tell me where does it lie?

Entry:  10.33
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I am so simple,
    That I can only point
    Yet I guide men
    All over the world.

Entry:  10.34
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    A beggar's brother went out to sea and drowned.
    But the man who drowned had no brother.
    What was the relationship between the man who drowned and the beggar?

Entry:  11.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    For our ambrosia we were blessed,
    by Jupiter, with a sting of death.
    Though our might, to some is jest,
    we have quelled the dragon's breath.
    Who are we?

Entry:  11.2
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Colored as a maiden tweaked,
    time was naught when I began;
    through the garden I was sneaked,
    I alone am the fall of man.
    What am I?

Entry:  11.3
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Early ages the iron boot tread,
    with Europe at her command.
    Through time power slipped and fled,
    'til the creation of new holy land.
    Who am I?

Entry:  11.4
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    One thin, one bold,
    one sick, one cold.
    The earth we span,
    to prey upon man.
    Who are we?

Entry:  11.5
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    One where none should be,
    or maybe where two should be,
    seeking out purity,
    in the kings trees.
    What am I?

Entry:  11.6
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

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