?; anon text;

[acrostic]

Please solve one or none in your responses. Don't spoil it for everyone else trying them all.

one? ) Imagine you are locked in a prison cell. how do you get out?
two ) I don't have eyes, but once I did see. once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty. what am I?
three? ) What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, but never in a thousand years?
four? ) I am the first on Earth, the second in Heaven. What am I?
five ) alone i am 24th, with a frienD i am 20. another friend and i am unclean. what am i?
six ) if it's information you seek, come and see me. if it's pairs of letters yoU NEED, i have consecutively three. who am i?
TWO ) we're five little items of an everyday sort. you'll FIND us all in a tennis court.
eight ) feed ME and i live, yet give ME A drink and i die. what am i?
nine? ) What goes up a chimney down but can’t come down a chimney up?

Comments

anon text;

[peachykean]

1. Get busted out by a very rich man who wants to take down the establishment and join a gang of fellow 'inmates' to cause chaos in the city, blahblah, have lots of fun, enjoyable sex with the man's sister who is way better than the rich man, try to kill my ex-fiance's girlfriend, and ride a coma back into my cell until a mad doctor calls me sane.

Kidding! I'm going with a key since wasting my time figuring out another answer would be boring.

[ She's not kidding though and he may notice the story sounds familiar. She doesn't expect it will to anyone but hey, she's figuring she's alone here. ]

anon text;

[acrostic]

Your odd and vaguely familiar "joke" answer was far more interesting than your actual one.

They're both wrong.

anon text;

[peachykean]

Familiar? Don't tell me you're from GC.

[ She's all for keeping anon. And if it really is familiar to him she's got an idea who he might be. No one else spouts dumb riddles like that where they're from. ]

Boohoo. :( What ever will I do?

anon text;

[acrostic]

Familiar. We may need to discuss this further in private.

[ Anon is the way to go. He's got a pretty good idea. There is only one living member of that gang of inmates. Presumably. Everything else basically confirms the suspicion. ]

Too bad. So sad.

[not anon]

[youfool]

I'll take the third one; the letter "m"!

[anon]

[acrostic]

Correct.
Congratulations. You know how to spell.

Re: [anon]

[youfool]

Thank you, though that seemed more a counting affair. Say, there doesn't happen to be another riddle nested among the rest, does there? The capitalization is very queer.

[not anon | text]

[treesus]

For number eight, I believe it's 'fire'?

[ anon | text]

[acrostic]

That's it.
Was that one the easiest for you?

[not anon | text]

[treesus]

Yes. Because I am not that good with riddles, not because I'm flammable.

I'll offer one of Raven's riddles in return. "I roar. I can kill quickly. I swallow whole. Yet, I do not have teeth or a tongue. What am I?"

[anon text]

[eatsfish]

[ Oswald had been staring at the compilation of riddles for quite a long time before he responded. To say he had been enraged at the situation he had woken up to was such an understatement that calling it an understatement didn't even feel like a strong enough word to give emphasis to just how seethingly furious he was. Not soon after the rage came the doubts, the worries, the vulnerability. Not only was there the possibility of betrayal, but that he'd finally found something resembling happiness only to have it snatched away -- he should have expected it, maybe. It seemed like happiness wasn't fit for a man like him.

But that was when he'd seen it. The post on the network. And then he started to wonder... was it possible that the person who mattered the most was there too? That he wasn't alone like he had so horribly feared? Maybe he was just seeing what he wanted to, but who else would make a post like that? Who else would make a puzzle out of a puzzle? Still, he couldn't be completely blindsided. He had to be sure. And if he was right... he was being shown ways to be sure. Uncovering the real answer was something he was still trying to desperately decode, but he didn't want to wait any longer to take some kind of action. He couldn't wait. So he would speak in his language. ]

If I'm not mistaken the correct answer to riddle number nine would be an umbrella. I admit, I had to think about it for a while. You must have a knack for these sort of things. Though, it seems a bit of a shame that you've come up with so many on your own only to be asked none in return. Mind if I try my hand at it?

If you head north you won't find, the only emperor that's not one of a kind. Who am I?

[anon text]

[acrostic]

[ Well, if that isn't who he thinks it is than someone is going to pay for such an impersonation. Doubtful anyone would ever be capable of pulling it off well enough to fool him but such a strange situation warrants extreme caution. He must be so upset about this.

What is the correlation between victims brought in here? A sanity certificate? An intriguing puzzle but he'd rather not have it thrust upon them while they're busy doing important work. At least he's not alone. ]

Correct.
You shouldn't sell yourself short by pointing out it took you a while. It was likely faster than most.
But I do have a knack.

Easy. You're a penguin.
I didn't think you liked riddles. I'm flattered you thought to return one.

[anon text]

[eatsfish]

[ His breath caught in his throat the instant he read the reply. And then he read it again and again. He wrote exactly the way he spoke, and what he had said was only further proof. Being encouraging as always, even when things were so beyond them that they didn't even have a clue where to begin was so very like him. Still he was thinking about his best interests, his feelings. Oswald covered his mouth with his hand and squeezed his eyes shut, feeling a wave of relief wash over him. He couldn't stop himself from smiling. It didn't matter who saw him. It was Ed. There was no question about it.

His eyes lingered on Ed's final sentence for just a moment longer. He had to see him immediately. ]

Yes, my friend, you certainly do.

You tend to pick up an appreciation for things you don't expect when you're around someone long enough, but never mind that for just now. I think a meeting is in order.

not anon; text

[sarcaskick]

1. imagine yourself out of it, right?

still anon; text

[acrostic]

Right.
You'd be surprised how often people get that one wrong.

back and forth like this forever

[sarcaskick]

people overthink things a lot. the simplest answer is usually the best one.

Text

[gunnerbrat]

What's with the letter based riddles?
4 is 'e'

1349?
256(2+5)8

anon text;

[acrostic]

I wonder.

Your math is flawed.

anon text;

[gunnerbrat]

What math? That's just how you numbered your riddles.

Are you ignoring my answer on purpose?
It's also in the middle of the sea.

[text]

[offwithhishat]

Goodness. How long did it take you to put all of this together? I dare say I'm impressed.

I'll take a shot at the second one. A skull?

[anon text]

[acrostic]

Thank you. But it didn't take long.

Correct.

[ur anon i'm not we know how it go]

[offwithhishat]

Is that right? Consider me doubly impressed. Do you have all of these memorized or do you come up with some on your own?

Thank heavens. Getting it wrong is always so embarrassing.

text; 1/2

[livable]

8 is fire I think.

2/2

[livable]

Here's one of my favorites:

You took a lab tech job in a remote mountain laboratory working to work on a cure for zombieism. Unfortunately, a fight broke out between two of the doctors and one of them disengaged the lock for the zombie containment facility in the scramble. The zombies eat the doctors first, who are closest to the door, giving you and the others in the lab time to escape. The janitor, the lab assistant, and an old professor are with you and you have to cross an old rope bridge spanning a huge gorge. You're capable of running across in a single minute. The lab assistant's running speed means she would take two minutes. The janitor needs 5 minutes, and the professor needs 10 minutes and to hold onto the ropes the entire way. The zombies will catch up in about 17 minutes according to the professor's calculations. Because the bridge is really old, it's only capable of supporting the weight of two people at a time or the ropes will snap. It's dark enough out that your cell phone's flashlight only illuminates a small area and only one person has their cell phone. The remote area means there is no signal to call for help. Two people can safely wait in the dark at either end of the bridge during the 17 minute span, but to cross the bridge you must have the light with you. Everyone has to make it before the zombies catch up or else the zombies could step on the bridge while two people are still on it.

How can everyone escape safely to the other side of the gorge before the zombies arrive the bridge and topple it?

anon text forever;

[acrostic]

Fire is correct.

I cross the bridge with the lab assistant. I return with the cell phone and pass it to the janitor. The janitor escorts the professor across then hands the phone to the assistant. She returns for me and we cross together.

2 + 1 + 10 + 2 + 2 = 17 minutes and the zombies arrive just as we clear the bridge.
I can see why it's one of your favorites.