24-hour Riddles and Solutions
Journeyman Smithy's team
I'm a cobbler who crafts with no leather,
but all four elements put together.
Earth and water, fire and air,
Buy my shoes and get two pair.
Who am I?
A farrier
Two lords are riding through the woods on their horses. A man stops them saying, “My lords, I propose a race. To the victor I offer an enchanted ring.” At this they dismount their horses.
The man continues, “The race is to the tree at the centre of the woods.” He points to a very large tree. “However, the winner is the man whose horse arrives last.” The lords look at each other, climb onto a horse and race to the tree. Why?
They climb on their opponent's horse
I am weightless but you can see me
Put me in a bucket and I'll make it lighter
What am I?
A hole
In hope, I am made. When finished, I am destroyed. I can be complicated, yet simple. I can be sly, yet obvious. In first meeting, I am alive. Yet as an old friend, I am dead. What am I?
A riddle
Lt Sarrasri's group
With this the guilty will confess, the liars will tell truth,
But the unconvicted's misdirections will succeed,
With this the dead make sense without necromancy,
And that which is not sentient speaks without nature.
A conversation that can be held in a crowd but can never be heard by more than one person.
What is it?
Converse with dead
What is greater the less it contains?
Ignorance (also accepted: a vacuum)
I am easy to give but hard to take
I am shared with a bride and see at a wake
I have a monopoly on the young
And at times it is true I have stung.
What am I?
Advice
It is something you eat which you neither plant nor plough
It is the son of water but if it touches water it dies
Salt (also accepted: ice)
Lt Katrin's team
A flash of bright teeth in the darkness
And a touch enveloped in lace
I may help your heart to keep beating
Or kill without leaving a trace
Foxglove
I never was, am always to be
No-one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
Who live and breathe on this terrestrial ball
What am I?
Tomorrow
Today he is there to trip you up and he will torture you tomorrow.
Yet he is also there to ease the pain, when you are lost in grief and sorrow.
What is he?
Alcohol
Guard Oolong's team
I seek, yet I have no eyes
I have feather, yet I have no wings
I have prey, yet I do not ear.
What am I?
An arrow
What has eight legs, eight eyes and eight ears and is made of flesh, wood and metal.
A horse-drawn carriage
What has teeth that nobody sees, gnaws iron, bites steel and brings high mountains down?
Time
How should any cherry
be without stone?
And how should any dove
be without bone?
How should any briar
be without thorn?
And how should I love my lover
without longing?
A dove's egg has no bone
(Ask Paul/Oolong to explain the rest - I don't read old English)
Smyrna's team
I have a hat but no head
I have a foot but no shoe
What am I?
Mushroom
You have six glasses in a line, three full and three empty.
Moving only one glass, you need to change the order of the line to alternating -
that is, full, empty, full, empty, full, empty.
What do you do?
Pour the second full glass into the second empty glass
You have been poisoned by an enemy. To torment you they give you eight pills. Seven of the pills are the poison, the eighth is the antidote. The antidote weighs slightly more than the poison but the pills are otherwise identical. You have an accurate balance scale and enough time to make two weighings. There is only enough antidote to cure one dose of poison and there is no other way to detect the poison in the pills. How do you find the antidote?
Weigh two sets of 3 pills against each other. If they weigh the same the weigh the remaining two against each other and take the heaviest. Otherwise take two of the heaviest group - either one will be the antidote or, if they weigh the same, the remaining pill will be it.
Lt Gerrard's group
What is blue or black or orange or purple?
The sky
Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic force and magic spelling
Celestial sprites elucidate
All my own striving can't relate
Pi (look at the number of letters in each word)
Throw me out the window
And I'll leave a grieving wife.
But bring me back, and in the door,
And I'll be giving life
The letter “n”
Lt Magma's team
Why do birds fly south in the winter?
Too far to walk
Pretty sane for a lunatic?
Moon-touched (also accepted: werewolf)
It lies there still upon the ground
It has no breath, it makes no sound
A furry coat upon its back
For heat and light it does not lack
A rug
Magma, he is so red
Teasel, she is so blue
You may be wary
Or the --- will eat you
Raptor (allegedly)
High Master Halamar's team
On a tightrope, 4 paths we go
In our house, money does flow
Who am I?
(Temple of) Balance
Those I encounter I may hunt,
those that deserve vengeance dealt upon them I slaughter
What am I?
Slayer
What bell makes no sound, but is found across many lands?
Bluebell
Three Paladins were journeying through a cave when they came upon a chamber with eight shadows gathered around a loaf of bread. “We are hungry,” they whispered. “Feed us each an equal slice of the loaf, and we will let you send us to our final rest. Fail and we will sate our hunger on you. And you may each only strike once with your sword.”
How did the Paladins end the undead?
Cut in half, then quarter, then turn or stack and cut through other plane (we accepted several mathematical formulae and also: with holy power)