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Title: Need help with riddles
Post by: RelicMaster on February 02, 2011, 09:08:38 AM
This will sound strange, but I need help coming up with a few riddles for my next book. In my second book I have a skeleton guarding the path to the Fountain of Youth and I am having a hard time coming up with riddles for him to ask to allow the main characters to pass. Please help me.

Thanks
Title: Re: Need help with riddles
Post by: Electric MacButters on February 02, 2011, 04:59:17 PM
1.What is your name?

2.What is your quest?

3.What is your favorite color?

(Sorry, had to do it. ;))

I got nothin' right now, I'll let you know when I've had time to percolate.
Title: Re: Need help with riddles
Post by: Enjorous on February 02, 2011, 05:21:02 PM
What kind of riddles are you looking for.

like When is a door not a door?

Or like "Something so hard that it can crush roofs yet must fear the sun"

or: I run, though I have no legs to be seen. I possess no heat, yet I do have steam. I have no voice to let words out, but from far away you can still hear me shout. What am I?

or even something like You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?
Title: Re: Need help with riddles
Post by: Kali on February 02, 2011, 05:32:56 PM
What time period?  Are riddles about electricity, roads, cars, etc., possible?
Title: Re: Need help with riddles
Post by: The Corvidian on February 03, 2011, 02:53:33 AM
What happens once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in one hundred thousand years?

(click to show/hide)

I have a tongue, but cannot talk; I have eyes but I can't see. What am I?

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Need help with riddles
Post by: Nickeris86 on February 04, 2011, 05:27:24 AM
"What is in my pocket?" ;D
Title: Re: Need help with riddles
Post by: LizW65 on February 04, 2011, 02:36:26 PM
One way to go about this might be to work backwards, as it were:  what big reveals to you want to come at the end of your characters' quest?  What do you know about the endgame that they don't?  How will the experience change them?  Devise some riddles around the answers to these questions, couch them in obscure and obfuscating language, and voila!  Instant foreshadowing! ;D
Title: Re: Need help with riddles
Post by: SuperflyMD on February 04, 2011, 08:03:57 PM
Quote from: Nickeris86 on February 04, 2011, 05:27:24 AM
"What is in my pocket?" ;D

This one never ends well for me.
Title: Re: Need help with riddles
Post by: raljamcar on February 19, 2011, 03:33:45 AM
Quote from: Enjorous on February 02, 2011, 05:21:02 PM
What kind of riddles are you looking for.

like When is a door not a door?

Or like "Something so hard that it can crush roofs yet must fear the sun"

or: I run, though I have no legs to be seen. I possess no heat, yet I do have steam. I have no voice to let words out, but from far away you can still hear me shout. What am I?

or even something like You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?
when it is ajar
snow?
Train?
whats the last one though?

how about a good universal one like
what has mountains, that are flat, lakes that are dry, and winds that never blow
Title: Re: Need help with riddles
Post by: Enjorous on February 19, 2011, 05:40:53 AM
It's actually a whistle and a bell, respectively.
Title: Re: Need help with riddles
Post by: Nickeris86 on February 20, 2011, 02:11:39 AM
Offer me food and i shall thrive, offer me drink and i shall die. i am friend to all and to none.
Title: Re: Need help with riddles
Post by: jeno on February 20, 2011, 02:27:56 AM
...fire?