Here I try out the riddles I invent. Any volunteers?

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Let's start with this one, one of my proudest when it comes to the prose aspect but I'm still not sure it isn't too easy. Tell me how hard you find it.

Upon my great neck I can always be found
In nature's most wondrous diadem crowned
No heart have I, yet is my inner voice true
Though I'm known by two names I'm the same through and through
Have I but one arm; but one arm have I ought
Part of me yes it is; part of me yet it's not
Though you may have much trouble in finding the key
Still I must ask you now to identify me

Well? Is it too easy? What are your answers?
 
Kettle/teapot?

If so...

It's 1943. A woman has to cross a bridge to escape from Germany into Switzerland. The SS Guard has orders to shoot anyone trying to cross into Switzerland and to order anyone trying to enter Germany to turn back. It takes six minutes to get across the bridge. Every three minutes, the SS Guard looks out the window in a different direction. How does the woman get across the bridge?
 
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Boaz said:
Kettle/teapot?
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No. The "diadem" part would be out of place and have no apparent reference point, and a teakettle's arm is very much part of it in every way. Not too bad a guess though. Any other takers?
 
goodness ive been trying to figure this out for so long
great job mashallah but this hard....
is it something obvious or do i really need to think hard
i keep thinking of a skeleton key
 
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Yahya Sulaiman said:
No. The "diadem" part would be out of place and have no apparent reference point, and a teakettle's arm is very much part of it in every way. Not too bad a guess though. Any other takers?
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Phew.... Thanks God it was not Kettle/Teapot :p
I was about to commit suicide that i daily use this pot and i was unaware it has enough material to make a difficult riddle :embarrass
 
Mila said:
i keep thinking of a skeleton key
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Fits some of the clues but not nearly all. What inner voice does a skeleton key possess?

Endymion said:
I was about to commit suicide that i daily use this pot and i was unaware it has enough material to make a difficult riddle
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I do believe there are several riddles I've heard with that answer, but this is not one of them.
 
Clues defeat the purpose. How about if no one has solved it by the time the weekend is over I give the answer then?
 
Hmm. I tried but all of my guesses didn't fit. First I thought a bow, then a tree...but no haha. I'll wait for the answer. Good riddle, Yahya!
 
It's obviously a one armed sculptor (specializing in necks) who, after relocating through the witness protection program, had his heart removed by mafia henchmen not wanting him to testify. Locked in a drafty studio, and still wearing his favourite tiara, he lays draped over a giant neck... the wind howling as it passes over the hole in his chest. A deep yet tragic riddle :(
 
Yahya Sulaiman said:
The answer is a fiddle.
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A fiddle :embarrass This one :hmm:

Fiddle_and_bow-1.jpg


We call it Violin.Do you often play it,Yahya :hmm:
 

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