What Are Your Favorite Self-Created Riddles?

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The thread revolves around participants sharing and creating riddles, discussing their own compositions, and responding to each other's riddles. The focus is on the creativity involved in riddle-making and the enjoyment of solving them.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant shares a riddle about something small yet deadly, prompting others to guess the answer, which is suggested to be a grenade.
  • Another participant presents their own riddle, which involves elements of heat and mass, but the answer remains unguessed.
  • Several participants express their thoughts on the difficulty and aesthetics of their riddles, with one noting that their riddle may have provided too much information.
  • A participant suggests that the answer to the first riddle could also be bullets, indicating a potential confusion between similar terms.
  • Another participant attempts to create a riddle involving heavy friends and cold conditions, but the answer is not correctly identified, with feedback provided on missing key points.
  • A different riddle is introduced that evokes strong emotions, but it is unclear if anyone has guessed the answer yet.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally share their riddles and engage in guessing, but there is no consensus on the answers to some of the riddles, indicating multiple interpretations and ongoing exploration.

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Some riddles may rely on specific interpretations or cultural references that are not universally understood, leading to varying responses and guesses.

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Individuals interested in creative writing, puzzle-making, or those who enjoy riddles and wordplay may find this discussion engaging.

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Hi all,

I love riddles and occasionally try to write them. Here's one that I like because it rhymes (although it's super easy).

Small as a pebble, deadly as a boulder
Used by the rebel, but mostly by the soldier
What am I?
Have you made any riddles that you'd be willing to share?
 
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The answer is a grenade. Easy but nice riddle.
Let me try!
I hide the hole and cut the sheet
I form when the mass goes like a fleet
I swallow things and they give heat
Now tell what am I but with no cheat
(Wow man...I didn't know I'm this good at it!)
 
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The only thing I can think of:
event horizon?
 
Enigman said:
The only thing I can think of:
event horizon?
Yeah, that's right. I mostly worried about aesthetics and so it wasn't hard. It gave too much information.
 
OK, I think I try once more.

Although everyone says we can't double
Our heavy friends can make us a couple
If its cold enough, we form and pile on
We roam freely, we get lights on
We make you happy, since guys don't resist
Now tell what we are, yeah we insist
 
EternusVia said:
Small as a pebble, deadly as a boulder
Used by the rebel, but mostly by the soldier
What am I?
I'm going to go with bullet(s).
 
DaveC426913 said:
I would have gone with bullet.
Yeah, that's better. I always confuse words with similar meanings. So I don't get the size of it the first time I hear pebble!
 
Shyan said:
OK, I think I try once more.

Although everyone says we can't double
Our heavy friends can make us a couple
If its cold enough, we form and pile on
We roam freely, we get lights on
We make you happy, since guys don't resist
Now tell what we are, yeah we insist
Electron?
Pauli exclusion, fermionic condensate, conduction and electricity. Not sure about the heavy friends, though I am guessing it refers to spin orbital coupling
 
Enigman said:
Electron?
Pauli exclusion, fermionic condensate, conduction and electricity. Not sure about the heavy friends, though I am guessing it refers to spin orbital coupling

No, but near!
You're missing two key points, and the heavy friends is one of them.
 
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With strong emotion, I part ways
From what beholds the clouds and waves
A touch of sadness, a touch of pain
The way to move me's hard to feign
 

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