kalaim:
"what i wear is the color of snow,
And I make snails understand death."

Salt.

Can run but never walks. If you use it it'll save your life, but overuse it and you die.
What is it?

Water.

Saylex:

No doors or locks to hide me in, no handles with which to carry. A prize of gold resides within for those who do not tarry.

Like I said, all old riddles, but fun nonetheless.

An egg.

Can run but never walks. If you use it it'll save your life, but overuse it and you die.

-An over-protective cheetah addicted to LSD (or slippery shoes where the friction has worn away) and traitor issues. also see "revolver ocelot on roller skates"

InProgress:

boc407:
If b is in my hand whats in my eye? [read this one out]

and this is an old one but here goes

A woman meets a man at her mother's funeral. She has a fabulous time with him but at the end of the day he leaves without giving her his number. Nobody knows who he is and she cant find him. The next day she kills her sister. Why?

To meet him again at the funeral. It's very obvious. It may also be the fact that I heard it already.

I take it you heard the story that this question was actually used to see if some one was a bit on the psychotic side? If they gave the right answer they were crazy :P

What force and strength cannot get through,
I with a gentle touch can do.
And many in the street would stand,
were I not a friend at hand.

What am I?

What's pink, fuzzy, and goes up and down?

boc407:

InProgress:

boc407:
If b is in my hand whats in my eye? [read this one out]

and this is an old one but here goes

A woman meets a man at her mother's funeral. She has a fabulous time with him but at the end of the day he leaves without giving her his number. Nobody knows who he is and she cant find him. The next day she kills her sister. Why?

To meet him again at the funeral. It's very obvious. It may also be the fact that I heard it already.

I take it you heard the story that this question was actually used to see if some one was a bit on the psychotic side? If they gave the right answer they were crazy :P

My cousin told me that this was a question the teacher told them in sociology class. And yes that was the reason.

GenHellspawn:
When you have it, you want to share it. When you share it, you don't want to have it.

I guess it was too tough

A secret.

Jumplion:
What's pink, fuzzy, and goes up and down?

Insulation?

Thanq:
Can run but never walks. If you use it it'll save your life, but overuse it and you die.
What is it?

A defibralator?

(Sorry for the triple post kombo)

What force and strength cannot get through,
I with a gentle touch can do.
And many in the street would stand,
were I not a friend at hand.
What am I?

-maybe those crappy shields the atreides guys had in the film "Dune"
or a slow knife for the crappy shields

GenHellspawn:

GenHellspawn:
When you have it, you want to share it. When you share it, you don't want to have it.

I guess it was too tough

A secret.

It wasn't too hard, though I admit it ends differently then the one I'm familiar with:

"If you have one, you want to share it, if you share it, it no longer is one."

I'm not sure how I don't want it if I share it, but I can understand how it isn't one, if you share it.

@CasualZombie: I'm going to say... nooooo. It's none of those things, heh.

Jumplion:
What's pink, fuzzy, and goes up and down?

... my ex-girlfriend... with fuzzy handcuffs

what starts and ends with an e, but only has one letter?

by night I come without being fetched, but by day I am lost without being stolen.

skin like the sea, face like a tree, great beast I be, yet vermin frighten me.

I am no sooner spoken than broken, what am i?

poke out my eye and all that's left of me is a nose

I am a natural phenomenon, I can speak in any language, I can say anything, I can make any noise at all, what am I?

no matter what you do, whether I weigh 1 pound or 100 pounds, I always stay the same size, what am I.

bonus prize for first one to answer all of 'em

GenHellspawn:
[quote=Thanq]Can run but never walks. If you use it it'll save your life, but overuse it and you die.
What is it?

It be water!

knumpify:

Jumplion:
What's pink, fuzzy, and goes up and down?

... my ex-girlfriend... with fuzzy handcuffs

what starts and ends with an e, but only has one letter?

by night I come without being fetched, but by day I am lost without being stolen.

skin like the sea, face like a tree, great beast I be, yet vermin frighten me.

I am no sooner spoken than broken, what am i?

poke out my eye and all that's left of me is a nose

I am a natural phenomenon, I can speak in any language, I can say anything, I can make any noise at all, what am I?

no matter what you do, whether I weigh 1 pound or 100 pounds, I always stay the same size, what am I.

bonus prize for first one to answer all of 'em

ok, thinking my way through them, so far i have:

- Firstly "envelope"

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- I'd have to guess elephant for the third one

- 4th is obviously Silence

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ok i cracked some more:
ok, thinking my way through them, so far i have:

- Firstly "envelope"

- 2 could be Stars, or Darkness.....The sun is a star too though so meh.

- I'd have to guess elephant for the third one

- 4th is obviously Silence

- NOISE!!! , poke out the 'I' and you have nose :)

- Probably an echo eh!

- Not sure on the last one

The last one is a scale.

How old is yonder sentence?

@knumpify:RE:
I am a natural phenomenon, I can speak in any language, I can say anything, I can make any noise at all, what am I?

An echo.

nice, that didn't last long, but since none of you answered all of them yourselves, no one gets the prize!

'You waste me and kill me but at the end of the day you always wish you had more of me. What am I?'

HalfShadow:
'You waste me and kill me but at the end of the day you always wish you had more of me. What am I?'

Time! I need more time!

Oh, wait. No I don't...

"What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don't want to use it?"

Breath?

Nope. Breathing requires you to take in breath to use it, unlike what is described in the riddle.

Yan-Yan:
[quote=HalfShadow]
"What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don't want to use it?"

I'm guessing trash bags?

Yan-Yan:
"What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don't want to use it?"

Man, you're just weighing us down with riddles like this.

Almightyjoe:
What goes up the chimney down, but won't come down the chimney up?

Hate to rain on your parade, but everyone knows that one.

- J

A beggar has a brother. What is the beggars relation to the brother. (HINT: not brother)

This one was on Law and order so might be easy:
A man was found to hang himself in a barn. The Noose was up 4m the barn was 12m wide and deep. The man was approximately two meters from the ground. There was no hay underneath the man so how did he get up?

Anthony and Cleopatra were found dead on the floor. There were no marks or bruises on them. The only thing odd in the room was a broken bowl. How did they die?

jezz8me:
A beggar has a brother. What is the beggars relation to the brother. (HINT: not brother)

Sister.

jezz8me:
This one was on Law and order so might be easy:
A man was found to hang himself in a barn. The Noose was up 4m the barn was 12m wide and deep. The man was approximately two meters from the ground. There was no hay underneath the man so how did he get up?

I've heard this a few different ways. Is this the version where he climbed up on ice that has since melted?

jezz8me:
Anthony and Cleopatra were found dead on the floor. There were no marks or bruises on them. The only thing odd in the room was a broken bowl. How did they die?

They're goldfish. People need to stop using this riddle, it's only solvable if you've heard it before.

- J

you know heaps of riddles or are good at solving. Yes it is that one. How did you figure out the brother one that baffled so many people.

It is solvable if you think hard enough by the way it was worked out by our class who hadn't heard it. There is a really difficult one involving houses that you need to draw to visualize and apparently only 5% of people can do it. I did :D. It is a more logical one though i prefer the creative ones.

jezz8me:
you know heaps of riddles or are good at solving. Yes it is that one. How did you figure out the brother one that baffled so many people.

It is solvable if you think hard enough by the way it was worked out by our class who hadn't heard it. There is a really difficult one involving houses that you need to draw to visualize and apparently only 5% of people can do it. I did :D. It is a more logical one though i prefer the creative ones.

The brother one is easy, as most good riddles are when you can send your mind to the right place to solve them. You just have to ditch your preconceived notions of what words mean. The goldfish one is more along the lines of what we used to call a two minute mystery. It's not "solvable" in the way that the beggar one is. When you get the beggar one, you instantly know that it is the correct answer. The goldfish one, you need someone to tell you that you picked the answer they happened to be looking for.

Generally, two-minute mysteries allow yes or no questions to reach the conclusion. The midget with the umbrella mentioned earlier in this thread is another one like that.

- J

I run but never walk, I have a mouth but never talk,I have a bed but never sleep, I have a head but never weep. What am I?