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(Message started by: alien2 on May 18^th, 2019, 6:41am)

Title: Darby’s Impossible Riddles!
Post by alien2 on May 18^th, 2019, 6:41am

1. Who is the person that I fear the most?
2. How many beautiful children do I have, for now?
3. How many opponents did I face in a street fight and came out victorious?
4. What place did I take running a marathon?
5. How many fingers am I holding up?
6. How many cats do I have?
7. What is my friend in the eyes of God?
8. What time in the afternoon was I born?
9. How's my wife Aislinn doing?
10. How pretty is my wife?

Title: Re: Darby’s Impossible Riddles!
Post by towr on May 18^th, 2019, 11:25am

1. [hide]The one you see in the mirror.[/hide]
2. [hide]None, since they take after you.[/hide]
3. [hide]None[/hide]
4. [hide]Marathon[/hide]
5. [hide]One family pack of fish-fingers, so that's 20.[/hide]
6. [hide]You mean, how many cats own you.[/hide]
7. [hide]A thorn[/hide]
8. [hide]Yesterday[/hide]
9. [hide]Your best friend. Oh wait, you said how, not who.[/hide]
10. [hide]Pretty ugly, so maybe the kids take after her as well.[/hide]

Title: Re: Darby’s Impossible Riddles!
Post by alien2 on May 18^th, 2019, 1:06pm

Towr. Until now, you've been like a demigod, or, at least, you were exactly that to me. But, it is infinitely clear to me, now, that even You are prone to errors.

Wrong on all counts!

Just try again! And thanks for participating.

on 05/18/19 at 11:25:53, towr wrote:

6. [hide]You mean, how many cats own you.[/hide]

Own/have . . . What is the difference?

Title: Re: Darby’s Impossible Riddles!
Post by towr on May 18^th, 2019, 1:27pm

No, no. The important difference is that one does not own cats. Cats own you.

Quote:

Wrong on all counts!

Must be because I have absolutely not an inkling of a clue what this puzzle is about.

Title: Re: Darby’s Impossible Riddles!
Post by alien2 on May 29^th, 2019, 1:37pm

A similar and not so similar hint: Consider everything (that's everything) that was WRITTEN in the (opening) post!

The riddles are quite unorthodox. I give you that. Perhaps even questionable? But I reckon, I am . . . original.

Title: Re: Darby’s Impossible Riddles!
Post by Grimbal on Jun 12^th, 2019, 8:45am

1. Obi Wan Kenobi.
2. Two, Luke and Leïa.
3. Tricky question, whose victory?
4. Fourty-two is the answer. In kilometers.
5. Gimme five. Wait ... did you ever work for a sawing mill?
6. Half a dozen. But now that Schrödinger borrowed one, you are not sure.
7. All the deadly sins.
8. Just when your mom ate dinner.
9. About to deliver.
10. Ten out of ten. Don't ask how I know.

Title: Re: Darby’s Impossible Riddles!
Post by alien2 on Jun 12^th, 2019, 9:19am

Wow! Right on all counts! How did you know?! (I've deleted the spoiler.)

Still, Your answer to the 1st riddle, although fine, 'tis not quite the one I am after. It concerns somebody a lot more powerful, a lot more mighty.

Title: Re: Darby’s Impossible Riddles!
Post by Grimbal on Jun 12^th, 2019, 12:55pm

on 06/12/19 at 09:19:29, alien2 wrote:

Wow! Right on all counts! How did you know?! (I've deleted the spoiler.)

You just removed the evidence.

on 06/12/19 at 09:19:29, alien2 wrote:

Still, Your answer to the 1st riddle, although fine, 'tis not quite the one I am after. It concerns somebody a lot more powerful, a lot more mighty.

Larger than old Ben? Er ... Obi One-point-Two Kenobi? One-point-Six?

Title: Re: Darby’s Impossible Riddles!
Post by alien2 on Jun 12^th, 2019, 2:41pm

"There can be only one." Highlander, anyone? Let the mentioned belief be your clue and a guiding star towards the remaining solution.

Actually, I am restless. The answer is: God. There is only "one" God.

Bravo Grimbal! Nine out of ten!