Riddle Archive
Every Friday since March 7, 1997. Answers are kept in the Hall of Fame for the ones that were solved. Some were never solved. Some were never written down. The club is like that.
| # | posted | riddle | solved by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 03/07/1997 | What has to be broken before you can use it? | Marbles |
| 13 | 05/30/1997 | What gets wetter the more it dries? | Wendy_86 |
| 19 | 07/11/1997 | I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, water but no fish. What am I? | Wendy_86 |
| 31 | 10/03/1997 | The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? | Sunny |
| 42 | 12/19/1997 | I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can never go in. What am I? | Sunny |
| 55 | 03/20/1998 | What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? | Marbles |
| 64 | 05/22/1998 | I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I? | Echo |
| 71 | 07/10/1998 | What has a neck but no head? | The Librarian |
| 87 | 12/04/1998 | I am the bug everyone feared. I was due at midnight, and I never really came. What am I? | Null (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 88 | 12/11/1998 | What is always in front of you but cannot be seen? | The Librarian (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 91 | 01/15/1999 | I am not alive, but I grow. I do not have lungs, but I need air. What am I? | Sunny (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 92 | 06/18/1999 | What breaks and never falls, and what falls and never breaks? | nobody (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 93 | 06/25/1999 | What has many keys but cannot open a single door? (Null says this one is a repeat. Null is right.) | nobody (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 95 | 07/09/1999 | The one who makes it sells it. The one who buys it never uses it. The one who uses it never knows. What is it? | nobody (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 97 | 08/20/1999 | What can fill a room but takes up no space? | nobody (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 99 | 12/17/1999 | I am always coming but never arrive. What am I? | nobody (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 100 | 12/31/1999 23:59 | THE LAST RIDDLE | UNSOLVED |
Riddles not listed were ordinary and have been lost to time, floppy disks and one coffee spill (Wendy, 1998).
