Riddle Master Challenge

[Be Elle]

Welcome to the Hogsmeade Station Riddle Master Riddle-Off!


This is a challenge which anyone may participate in, but the grand prize if the position of Riddle Master (See the Hogs Head for details).

There will be three rounds.

First Round:
Task: Submit a riddle, from anywhere and any place, which you think would best present you as a Master of Riddles.

Five winners will be picked from Round One. They then progress to the Second Round.

Second Round:
Task: Create a riddle of your own, which is logically constructed, with an answer.

Three Finalists will progress from here to Round Three.

Third and Final Round:
Task: Create a Harry Potter-based riddle, of any kind.


The competition is now open. The First Round will run from Today 3-Sept-07 to Monday 10-Sept-07.

Fill out this Form in order to enter.

Form:

Name:
House:
Riddle One:


Note: The Form is to be posted below.

This thread is now open to entries and discussion alike.


Good luck to everyone,
Your Headmistress,
Elle.

[moogle]

Sounds like fun. I'm definitly up for this. Did you want us to put the answer to our riddles too?

Name: Moogle
House: Gryffindor
Riddle One:
What is greater than God,
More evil than the devil,
The poor have it,
The rich want it,
And if you eat it, you'll die?

Answer: Nothing

(It's quite a well-known one, but I really like it.)

[wiltingroses08]

Name: wiltingroses08
House: Ravenclaw
Riddle One: What is special about the number 854917632?

Answer: The digits 1-9 are arranged alphabetically.

[kaisei13]

Name: Kaisei13
House: Slytherin
Riddle One:

Often talked of, never seen.
Ever coming, never been.
Daily looked for, never here.
Still approaching, coming near.
Thousands for it's visit wait.
But alas for their fate,
Tho' they expect me to appear,
They will never find me here.

What is the poem about?

(Can we answer the others riddles if we know?)

(P.S. Wiltingroses08 you forgot the zero)

[wiltingroses08]

Really? I'd only ever heard it with digits 1-9.

[Be Elle]

Yeah, put your answers in.

I think I get Wilts, and Kai's, but Moogs, yours just stumps me. I've never heard it.

[moogle]

hehe, it took me quite a while to figure it out the first time I heard it.

It's a real logical one. If you look at it closely you'll see that every premise contradicts itself. There's only one thing that makes sense if every possible situation will always be a contradiction.

[Be Elle]

I could think of something until I got to the last line. What's the answer?

[voldemortina]

Name: voldemortina
House: hufflepuff
Riddle One: A man is in a room and the door is locked so he can't get out. He has with him a piano, a calander, and a bed. How does he eat drink and get out?

Answer: He uses the dates from the calander to eat, the springs from the bed to drink and the keys from the piano to get out.

[moogle]

I added in the answer.

Ooh, I like that one Voldemortina

I've heard another one similar to that. it's something like, a man is alone in a room that has no doors, no windows and is completely made of thick stone that cannot be broken. The only thing in the room is a piece of wood.

How does he get out?

Answer: Hits his arm with the wood until it is sore. Uses the saw (sore) to cut the wood into halves. Two halves make a whole, and so he climbs out the hole.

It's more one that has supposed to be spoken though. I like yours better because it actually uses the proper words, lol.

[Be Elle]

Holy crap! Nothing! Nothing!

I am so let down. -laughs-

[moogle]

ahaah. It cracked me up when I first heard it. I spent ages trying to figure it out, and finally I was like, "This sucks. There is nothing that can fit that."

And my friend was like, "yeah, that's the answer. Nothing."

[kaisei13]

well moogle, I don't really like your riddle, it leaves out the blatant fact that the Olsen Twins are much more evil than the devil

here is a few more fun riddles

If it takes six men six days to dig six holes, how long will it take one man to dig half a hole?

Which would be worth more, a pound of $10 pure gold coins, or a half pound of $20 pure gold coins; or would they be worth the same amount?

You are in a concrete room. There is a steel pipe 25 centimeters in length cemented into the center of the concrete floor. The pipe protrudes about 15 centimeters. A ping-pong ball is dropped down the pipe. There is a fraction of a centimeter clearance around the ping-pong ball and the pipe. Your task is to get the ping-pong ball out of the steel pipe undamaged. The only items that are available are a wooden ruler, a ball of string, a pocket mirror, a paper clip and a small magnet. Since nothing else is allowed into the room, how could you get the plastic ping-pong ball out of the steel pipe?

[voldemortina]

moogle i have heard of that riddle to
i love it, he he

[Be Elle]

And the vying for top spot begins.