Riddle from the dark tower series

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The thread features a series of riddles and wordplay challenges, with participants sharing their interpretations and responses. The scope includes logical puzzles, linguistic curiosities, and playful exchanges related to riddles.

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  • Participants discuss a riddle about something that has a mouth, head, and bed, with some suggesting it refers to a river.
  • One participant humorously proposes a complex interpretation involving a person with removed body parts.
  • Another riddle is introduced about a nine-letter English word that remains valid as letters are removed, with requests for answers.
  • A classic riddle involving a farmer, a fox, a goose, and corn is presented, with participants expressing familiarity with it.
  • Discussion includes a wordplay challenge about a word that changes from plural to singular with the addition of an 's', with various responses and interpretations.
  • One participant mentions the post office as an example of a word that can be reduced letter by letter, while others question the validity of certain words in the riddles.
  • Another participant suggests words that change forms with the addition of letters, introducing terms like "tor" and "tori".

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Participants express differing interpretations of the riddles, with no consensus on the answers or the validity of certain wordplay. The discussion remains unresolved with multiple competing views.

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Some responses rely on humor and creative interpretations, which may not align with traditional riddle solutions. The discussion includes varying levels of familiarity with the riddles presented.

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What has a mouth but cannot talk,
what can run but never walks?
what has a head but cannot weep.
what has a bed but cannot sleep?
 
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bobquantum said:
What has a mouth but cannot talk,
what can run but never walks?
what has a head but cannot weep.
what has a bed but cannot sleep?
Sounds like a river to me.
 
too easy
 
I don't know...it could be a person who is in a hurry, has had his or her tongue and tear ducts removed, and has insomnia...tough call.
 
ƒ(x) said:
I don't know...it could be a person who is in a hurry, has had his or her tongue and tear ducts removed, and has insomnia...tough call.
Ahaha, you may be right.
 
Try this one: What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.
 
Hey. My university professir told me this one and I can't seem to get:

A farmer was going to town with a fox, a goose and a sack of corn. When he came to a stream, he had to cross in a tiny boat, and could only take across one thing at a time. However, if he left the fox alone with the goose, the fox would eat the goose, and if he left the goose alone with the corn, the goose would eat the corn. How does he get them all safely over the stream?
 
bobquantum said:
Hey. My university professir told me this one and I can't seem to get:

A farmer was going to town with a fox, a goose and a sack of corn. When he came to a stream, he had to cross in a tiny boat, and could only take across one thing at a time. However, if he left the fox alone with the goose, the fox would eat the goose, and if he left the goose alone with the corn, the goose would eat the corn. How does he get them all safely over the stream?
That's an old one.
Take the goose over first and come back. Then take the fox over and bring the goose back. Now take the corn over and come back alone to get the goose. Take the goose over and the job is done!
 
bobquantum said:
Try this one: What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.

I want to know the answer!
 
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bobquantum said:
Try this one: What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.
Post office is like that and is 10 letters long.
What word changes from plural to singular when you add an 's' to the end of it?
 
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jimmysnyder said:
Post office is like that and is 10 letters long.
What word changes from plural to singular when you add an 's' to the end of it?

I don't get it? Are 6 of them words nobody has ever heard of?
 
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Phyisab**** said:
I don't get it? Are 6 of them words nobody has ever heard of?
You can take thousands of letters from the post office, one letter at a time right down to the last letter, and the word stays the same.
 
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Oh man figures. I didn't think there was a word that could literally do that.
 
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jimmysnyder said:
What word changes from plural to singular when you add an 's' to the end of it?
Princes :biggrin:
 
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How about what word would change from singular to plural if you add an i at the end ?
 
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bobquantum said:
What has a mouth but cannot talk,
what can run but never walks?
what has a head but cannot weep.
what has a bed but cannot sleep?

needle
time
something
another something :biggrin:
 
  • #17
Onibabavn said:
How about what word would change from singular to plural if you add an i at the end ?
I was going to say Hawaii, but I think fascist works better. A more interesting word is tor, an archaic word that means hill and is singular. Adding an i gives tori, which is plural for torus, adding yet another i yeilds torii, a gate to a Japanese Shinto shrine and singular.
 
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jimmysnyder said:
Post office is like that and is 10 letters long.
What word changes from plural to singular when you add an 's' to the end of it?

Nearly every verb?
 
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bobquantum said:
Try this one: What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.

"Starlings" is one such word.
 

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