Riddle me this. And that.
October 11, 2016 7:45 PM   Subscribe

Riddlewot is a website with riddles made by whoever correctly guesses the front page riddle. That's all. If you want to post a riddle, you gotta make an account.
posted by MoonOrb (64 comments total) 15 users marked this as a favorite
 
"Q: Hand after hand is all I see. Sometimes I squeak, sometimes I refuse to move. I turn and swing, I am a guardian to my own special place."

doorknob.
posted by cashman at 8:34 PM on October 11, 2016


Yup, I answered it too. But I don't actually want to create an account or make a riddle of my own. Is that allowed?
posted by lollusc at 8:36 PM on October 11, 2016


I don't actually want to create an account or make a riddle of my own.

I guess you don't have what it takes to be a riddlewot master.
posted by cashman at 8:40 PM on October 11, 2016 [3 favorites]


Oh, haha me too.
Now i feel like a doorknob.
posted by chococat at 8:43 PM on October 11, 2016 [1 favorite]


"Q: You go into a haunted house. In front of you, you see three doors, all of which have a death trap inside them. If the house is always secured, killing everyone who enters one of the three doors, which door do you go through"

four letters. easy (not the answer ;)
posted by mrgrimm at 8:59 PM on October 11, 2016


I'm going to go with "back".

That's right, I posted the answer here for all to see.
posted by ashbury at 9:07 PM on October 11, 2016 [2 favorites]


Ooh I got that "noisy contest" one that's up now but don't really want to create an account and think of a new riddle.
posted by jason_steakums at 9:26 PM on October 11, 2016


What was the door one? That's driving me nuts.
posted by fshgrl at 9:43 PM on October 11, 2016


Is "Why did the chicken cross the road" taken yet?
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:43 PM on October 11, 2016


Seems riddles go into a moderation queue, not unreasonably, so being first to answer the front page riddle does not necessarily mean that your riddle gets to be the one replacing it straight away.

If there is no riddle ready to replace the front page riddle it remains and they just reset the 'has lasted n seconds without being correctly answered' timer.

Perhaps my riddles were just rubbish :(
posted by motty at 9:44 PM on October 11, 2016


"What hangs on the wall and is green, wet and whistles?"

Fuck you, that's what. At least I could google it.
posted by GuyZero at 9:47 PM on October 11, 2016 [3 favorites]


Yeah I really need to know the answer to the haunted house / doors one. Pls
posted by Panthalassa at 10:01 PM on October 11, 2016


"What hangs on the wall and is green, wet and whistles?"
One letter short of BILLYBASS, too.
posted by darksasami at 10:06 PM on October 11, 2016 [3 favorites]


Yeah I really need to know the answer to the haunted house / doors one. Pls
Presumably the door you entered the house from, I would think.
posted by NMcCoy at 10:08 PM on October 11, 2016


Oh damnit. The door one was driving me crazy but I facepalmed after getting it, I think I was thinking too hard and assuming it was cleverer than it was.
posted by jason_steakums at 10:08 PM on October 11, 2016


yeah but what is it tho
posted by Panthalassa at 10:30 PM on October 11, 2016


Exit / back
posted by the man of twists and turns at 10:42 PM on October 11, 2016


Q: I often grow but do not live. When I fight myself, I win. I cannot bleed, but I can drown. When I go up, I don't come down.

FIRE, but I’m not making an account.

I don’t know how that went 41 incorrect guesses.
posted by Fongotskilernie at 10:42 PM on October 11, 2016


Exit

):
posted by Panthalassa at 10:48 PM on October 11, 2016 [1 favorite]


Q: What is Metafilter? A: Hangs on the wall and is green, wet and whistles
posted by Greg_Ace at 11:04 PM on October 11, 2016 [3 favorites]


I am useful when admiring a view because I cannot be seen, even when you look straight at me. Sometimes my most useful property is that I can change the way you see things. What am I?

got it! GLASS. I submitted something but who knows if they'll let it through.
posted by kafziel at 11:42 PM on October 11, 2016


Spent a while crafting and refining my own to submit. Might as well share it here:

Half of the world celebrates my arrival, while the other half has long since seen my departure - after I left, I was nowhere to be found, and nobody ever saw me crossing the border in between. Armor yourself against me, or I might bite your toes off.
posted by NMcCoy at 12:06 AM on October 12, 2016


They're probably not going to let me submit, "what has it gots in its pocketses," right?
posted by MsMolly at 12:23 AM on October 12, 2016 [7 favorites]


@NMcCoy: my guess is SNOW
posted by MsMolly at 12:25 AM on October 12, 2016


My familiar friends know me by my colors. There is a price to be paid for my recognition; those who do not are long-remembered or immediately forgotten. I ask many questions, and usually offer many different answers to each. I am somewhere and everywhere and nowhere, but in this very moment you are a visitor within my domain.
posted by NMcCoy at 1:01 AM on October 12, 2016 [6 favorites]


Greg_Ace: "Q: What is AskMetafilter? A: Hangs on the wall and is green, wet and whistles"

FTFY
posted by chavenet at 2:29 AM on October 12, 2016 [2 favorites]


Even if you create an account, you can choose not to post a new riddle if you get the answer to the current one.
posted by sarble at 2:43 AM on October 12, 2016


Some of these are trivia instead of riddles. They need some backup options when the user submitted ones are only answerable through Google
posted by mattamatic at 3:04 AM on October 12, 2016


Even if you create an account, you can choose not to post a new riddle if you get the answer to the current one.

Oh good. I surprised myself by solving the current one, and don't have anything ready.
posted by cheshyre at 4:09 AM on October 12, 2016


Q: What is the longest word in the English language typed entirely with the left hand?

This riddle has lasted 1 second without being correctly answered
10 incorrect guesses so far | View incorrect answers:

sweaterdress ratatterarts refreattered createrdress treateraters freasteredss breasteseses tesseradecad
Good guess.
posted by FirstMateKate at 5:13 AM on October 12, 2016 [6 favorites]


Q: What is the longest word in the English language typed entirely with the left hand?

Possible answers are desegregated, desegregates, reaggregated, and stewardesses. Only the latter was accepted

-1 for non-unique correct answers.
posted by Salvor Hardin at 5:25 AM on October 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


> Q: What is the longest word in the English language typed entirely with the left hand?
I can type any word with a single finger. And the correct answer to any riddle is SAIT.


On kuro5hin there used to be an account "TEH RIDDLAR" (ran by several persons I suppose) that did more or less this.
posted by farlukar at 6:06 AM on October 12, 2016


Fun! But I can't figure this one out: From one, to two, to two, to two. I am less than I think, and more than I ever dreamed. I am the height of man's arrogance, and the depth of man's folly. I am not shame, but should be. Halp?
posted by stillmoving at 7:32 AM on October 12, 2016


Nifty. I got two in a row but probably just because I'm lucky. One was an actual riddle and the other was basically wordplay. I feel like a leech though because I don't have one to submit.
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 7:34 AM on October 12, 2016


If I can't see the answers, I'm not a happy riddler.
posted by BlueHorse at 8:08 AM on October 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


The surgeon was his MOTHER!
posted by bitteroldman at 8:14 AM on October 12, 2016


Wait, so are the answers anywhere? What was the fictional species one?
posted by supercres at 8:33 AM on October 12, 2016


Centaur. I have no idea why. I just guessed it because it wasn't in the list of wrong answers and it's a fictional species.
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 8:41 AM on October 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


I am a member of a fictional species. Despite being fictional, every single externally visible part of my body has a name - except one. What am I?

Centaur? Really?

Is it the waist area maybe? Anyways, googling "centaur body parts" found me a paper on Anatomy of the Centaur [PDF], so there's that I guess.
posted by sparklemotion at 8:53 AM on October 12, 2016


Now I want to know what the terrible lizard was. Not giving the right answers is annoying and entertaining at the same time.
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 8:57 AM on October 12, 2016


I am contemplating signing up to put in:
I could have been President but I'm such a card
But I think that will just turn someone's nice thing into another flamewar. How do I stop myself being the reason we can't have nice things?
posted by pulposus at 8:58 AM on October 12, 2016


"Now I want to know what the terrible lizard was. Not giving the right answers is annoying and entertaining at the same time."

Chicken.
posted by I-baLL at 9:01 AM on October 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


Now i feel like a doorknob.

Me too! Where can we find one?

That's been my damned-near Pavlovian response to "I feel like a(n) X" for almost two decades now. I blame MST3K.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 9:31 AM on October 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


what's greater than god, more evil than the devil?
rich people need it while poor folks have it...
posted by bitteroldman at 10:26 AM on October 12, 2016


When open I'm shaped like a V, when closed I'm more like a T... I have the capacity to inflict damage on thee.?
posted by I-baLL at 12:30 PM on October 12, 2016


Scissors. Also kind of lame because a T? Really? 'More like' I suppose but not 'like'.
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 12:38 PM on October 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


"Q: According to legend, I was slain long ago, yet no man killed me. I wasn't killed by woman, beast or nature. What am I?"

That's a damn clever one.
posted by I-baLL at 1:05 PM on October 12, 2016


A bit weirdly phrased but clever.
posted by I-baLL at 1:05 PM on October 12, 2016


Too clever... stuck on that one.
posted by hanov3r at 1:50 PM on October 12, 2016


I'm going to my grave resenting I couldn't solve it.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 2:06 PM on October 12, 2016


PM me for the answer or hints or I can just post it right here.
posted by I-baLL at 2:21 PM on October 12, 2016


Q: You crave me when I do not come but curse me when too long I stay. Without me you would die and yet you rub me off without delay.

I don't understand why blue balls is not the correct answer here.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 2:29 PM on October 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


Because "yet you rub me off without delay." doesn't apply to blue balls.
posted by I-baLL at 2:32 PM on October 12, 2016


Because "yet you rub me off without delay." doesn't apply to blue balls.

says you.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 2:37 PM on October 12, 2016 [2 favorites]


"One word that can mean both 'connect' and 'disconnect.' It's all about context." is like my white whale today.
posted by jason_steakums at 3:29 PM on October 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


@NMcCoy:

My first guess was 'frost' because of the toes but I did get it on the second guess. Well done.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 3:41 PM on October 12, 2016


"One word that can mean both 'connect' and 'disconnect.' It's all about context." is like my white whale today.

Would that be six letters?
posted by Shmuel510 at 5:26 PM on October 12, 2016


I'd been up late, MiltonRandKalman, sheesh :). Also the more I reread that the creepier it gets. Curse websites that demand you write them riddles in the middle of the night! (Also bless them :) )
posted by motty at 6:13 PM on October 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


Ooh I got it! Very good riddle, would riddle again.
posted by jason_steakums at 6:48 PM on October 12, 2016


I'd been up late, MiltonRandKalman, sheesh :)

Maybe you should sleep on it.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 10:47 AM on October 13, 2016 [1 favorite]


Hey, my riddle got posted and it's a three coins one. I tried not to make it too obvious, but I wonder if it's too hard.

Q: Sometimes I want to be answered. Sometimes I'm making a promise. If you can hear me, I'm invisible. If you can see me, I'm silent.
posted by zixyer at 11:39 AM on October 13, 2016


When audible, I am short and startling. When tangible, I am long and supportive. When neither, I am of uncertain length, but profitable.
posted by NMcCoy at 1:30 PM on October 13, 2016


My complexion rhymes with nothing.
My predilection – crimes with young things.
Who am I?
posted by Kabanos at 2:52 PM on October 13, 2016 [2 favorites]


Why am I so highly valued among some, if I am as common as the pebbles beside the pathway? I retort to myself, it must be because I am better than most. But a bird chirps along and hears my small talk, he chortled gleefully. O little one I see you everywhere, you are all alike priding yourself in what people think of you. You are truly very little, your soul is so fragile the wind will break it.
Answer: diamond (apparently).

This site is addictive, but has a few curation problems.
posted by archy at 8:44 PM on November 8, 2016


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