Heroes of Might and Magic III - "In the Wake of Gods" The 3DO Company
Sphinx' Riddles
No Riddle
One-word answer to Sphinx'
riddle:
I have a 100 legs but cannot stand.
1. A long neck but no head.
And I eat the maids life.
broom
Two people walk to the top of the hill,
a little person and a big person.
2. The little person is the big person's son
but the big person is not the little person's father.
Who is the big person?
mother
3. What gets wetter the more it dries?
4.
What five letter English word does not change
its pronunciation when four letters are taken away?
I'm
I'm
5.
I'm
I'm
in a rock, not in a stone
in a marrow, not in a bone
in a bolster, not in a bed
not living, I'm not dead
towel
queue
Yellow and white
Hard outside
6.
Stolen from life
What am I?
egg
It is weightless but you can see it
7. and if you put it in a barrel of water
it will make the barrel lighter.
hole
I welcome the day with a show of light,
I stealthily came here in the night
8.
I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn,
But in the noon, alas! I'm gone.
dew
I am the black child of a white father,
a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven.
9. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me,
even though there is no cause for grief,
and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air.
10. What kind of room has no windows or doors?
11. It goes up and down the stairs without moving.
12.
Take one out and scratch my head
I am now black but once was red
smoke
mushroom
carpet
match
13. What one word has the most letters in it?
alphabet
You use a knife to slice my head,
and weep beside me when I am dead.
onion
14.
15. The more there is the less you see.
16. What always happens at the end of a dry spell?
17.
No sooner spoken than broken.
What is it?
darkness
rain
silence
I
I
18. I
I
I
do
do
do
do
do
not
not
not
not
not
breathe, but I run and jump.
eat, but I swim and stretch.
drink, but I sleep and stand.
think, but I grow and play.
see, but you see me every day.
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Every wife had seven sacks,
19. Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
leg
one
What lives on its own substance and dies when it
devours itself?
candle
21. What is always before you, yet you can never see it?
future
20.
22.
Remove the outside, cook the inside,
eat the outside, throw away the inside.
There was a green round house.
Inside the green house was a smaller white house.
23. In the white house was a red house.
And living in the red house were lots of little black
babies.
24. Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
He has a look of awful scorn,
And wears his clothes a funny way,
25.
Waving his hands over fields of corn,
He keeps the birds away!
26.
What grows in winter and dies in summer. And has roots
that grow up?
I went into the woods and got it
27. I sat down to seek it
I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it.
You find us in darkness but never light.
28. We are present in daytime but absent at night.
In the deepest of shadows, we hide in plain sight.
corn
watermelon
fire
scarecrow
icicle
splinter
29. What is that of which the common sort is best?
sense
I am both Mother and Father.
I am seldom still yet I never wander.
30.
I never birth nor nurse.
What am I?
tree
31.
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but
never in an hour.
32. What can you catch but not throw?
33.
Use me well and I am everybody, scratch my back and I
am nobody.
34. Spell mousetrap in 3 letters.
To you, rude I would never be,
35. Though I flag my tongue for all to see.
m
cold
mirror
cat
dog
Thirty white horses,
On a red hill,
First we champ,
36.
then we stamp,
then we stand still.
What are we?
37.
What we caught we threw away, what we didn't catch
we kept.
38. What starts with T, ends with T, and is full of T?
teeth
lice
teapot
39. Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
ton
40. What is all over the house?
roof
I move quickly but have no legs
I like warm flesh and blood
Some of my bones can unhinge
I travel through lots of mud
41.
If you see me you may scream
I really don't know why
If you can guess what I am called
Then you are smart, oh my!
snake
42. What has hands, but is not flesh, blood or bone?
clock
What's the beginning of eternity,
the end of time and space,
43.
the beginning of the end,
and the end of every place?
44. What increases the more you share it with others?
45.
What is it that everyone requires, everyone gives,
everyone asks for and that very few take?
There is a thing that nothing is,
and yet it has a name.
46. It's sometimes tall and sometimes short,
joins our talks and joins our sports,
and plays at every game.
e
joy
advice
shadow
Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
47.
I'm double, I'm single,
I'm black blue and grey,
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way.
eye
What can run but never walks,
has a mouth but never talks,
48.
has a head but never weeps,
has a bed but never sleeps?
river
49. What is it that one needs most in the long run?
What eats rocks, levels mountains, rusts metal,
50. pushes the clouds across the sky, and can make a young
man old?
51.
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
breath
time
light
52.
I have two heads but only one body,
the more still I stand the faster I run.
hourglass
53. I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
nose
Light as a feather, there is nothing in it;
54. the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a
minute.
breath
55. The more you take the more you leave behind.
I have holes on the top and bottom.
I have holes on my left and on my right.
56.
And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water.
What am I?
footsteps
sponge
Through wind and rain I always play,
I roam the earth, yet here I stay;
57.
I crumble stones, and fire cannot burn me;
Yet I am soft--you can gauge me with your hand.
ocean
I look at you, you look at me
58. I raise my left, you raise your right
What is this object?
mirror
With potent, flowery words speak I,
Of something common, vulgar, dry;
I weave webs of pedantic prose,
In effort to befuddle those,
Who think I wile time away,
59.
In lofty things, above all day
The common kind that linger where
Monadic beings live and fare;
Practical I may not be,
But life, it seems, is full of me!
riddle
The man who invented it, doesn't want it.
60. The man who bought it, doesn't need it.
The man who needs it, doesn't know it.
coffin
I never was, am always to be.
No one ever saw me, nor ever will.
61.
And yet I am the confidence of all,
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
tomorrow
The part of the bird that's not in the sky,
62. Who can swim in the ocean
And yet remain dry.
shadow
Always wax, yet always wane:
I melt myself with my own flame.
63.
Lighting darkness, with fate unblessed,
I soon devolve to shapeless mess.
candle
64.
The rich men want it, the wise men know it,
the poor all need it, and the kind men show it.
65.
What does everyone have that he or she can always
count on?
It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh,
bones and blood all at the same time.
66.
What is this object?
love
fingers
mirror
67.
Squeeze it and it cries tears as red as its flesh,
but its heart is made of stone.
cherry
They are Dark,
and always on the run.
68.
Without the sun,
would be none.
shadows
We are little creatures;
all of us have different features.
One of us in glass is set;
one of us you'll find in jet.
69. Another you may see in tin,
And the fourth is boxed within .
If the fifth you should pursue,
it can never fly from you.
What are we?
vowels
70.
They come at night without being called
and are lost in the day without being stolen.
As I walked along the path,
71. I saw something with four fingers and one thumb,
but it was not flesh, fish, bone or fowl.
stars
glove
A little pool with two layers of wall around it.
72. One white and soft and the other dark and hard,
amidst a light brown grassy lawn.
coconut
Born Motherless and Fatherless,
Into this world without a sin
73.
Made a loud roar as I entered
And never spoke again.
thunder
A word I know,
Six letters it contains,
74.
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains.
dozens
