Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,
two of us will help you, whichever you would find,
one among us seven will let you move ahead,
another will transport the drinker back instead,
two among our number hold only nettle wine,
three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line,
choose, unless you wish to stay for everyone,
to help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
first,however slyly the poison tries to hide
you will always find some nettle wine's left side;
second, different are those who stand at either end,
but if you would move onwards, neither is your friend;
third, as you see clearly, all are different size,
neither dwarf nor giant hold death in their insides;
fourth, the second left and the second ron the right
are twins once you taste them, through different at
first sight.
You can't understand this riddle and the answer if you doesn't read Harry potter and the philosophers
stone. read it to understand the answer.
1 Rearrange the letters of NOR DO WE to make one word.
2. First, the fish must be caught.'
That is easy: a baby, I think, could have
caught it.
'Next, the fish must be bought.' That is easy: a penny, I think, would have
bought it.
'Now cook me the fish!'
That is easy, and will not take more than a minute.
'Let it lie in a dish!'
That is easy, because it already is in it.
'Bring it here! Let me sup!'
It is easy to set such a dish on the table.
'Take the dish-cover up!'
Ah, that is so hard that I fear I'm unable!
For it holds like glue-
Holds the lid to the dish, while it lies in the
middle:
Which is easiest to do,
Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the
riddle?
Other RIDDLES:
3. If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?
4. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
5. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?
6. Who Got Wet? An elephant, a giraffe, a monkey and a cat were standing under an umbrella.
Who got wet?
7. I have a friend that's always close, but I've never seen him. He knows what I'm thinking but we've never spoken. What am I?
Answers:
1. ONE WORD.
2. An oyster. A baby can pick it up from an oyster bed, a penny would buy one in Carroll's day, it cooks quickly, it lies in its own dish, it is easily placed on the table, but the "dish-cover" is hard to raise because it is held to the dish by the oyster in the middle.
The White Queen tells alice this riddle in Through the Looking Glass. The riddle is never answered in the book.
3.A lie. It can't be the truth without contradicting itself (and therefore being a lie), but some of my statements can be lies, and this is one of those statements.
4. Queue
5. Seven. The four daughters have only one brother, making five children, plus mom and dad.
6. No one! I didn't say it was raining!
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