The Riddle Chest Quotes

“In order to throw it, you'll need a hand. It never goes far, though, and might not land.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“Has a mouth, but cannot drink. Has a head, but cannot think. Has a tongue, but not a lung. Some are held and some are hung.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“From that which came within itself, it built its table on my shelf, then, roaming freely, out of sight, it must have found my bed last night.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“Not a burden for its weight
and daily carried out,
he who takes it wishes
it had never come about.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“Everyone has it. Those who have it least don't know that they have it. Those who have it most wish they had less of it, but not too little or none at all.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“In different ways, it's proudly shown,
though many like it have been sewn.
It's never torn from being worn,
but when it's tattered, should be burned.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“6.
It's not a bird, though feathered, and
it has a mobile nest.
It's quick in flight and, having flown,
it always stops to rest.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“What has three legs, one that's always down and two that, when only at rest, touch the ground?”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“He comes to bedsides, icy bridges, battlefronts, and crumbling ridges. When he comes, he comes alone, taps a shoulder, then is gone. 28. Has a mouth, but cannot drink. Has a head, but cannot think. Has a tongue, but not a lung. Some are held and some are hung. 29. Blow for blow, they matched each other. Neither would fall to the other. In the eyes of the crowd, they were this. 30. Anyone can take it as long as it's on someone. 31. It stalks the countryside with ears that cannot hear. 32. I am what remains of what was once a living whole, dug in deep, protruding, though, and unobtainable. 33. It's a surprise party, so to speak, without any cause for celebration.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“In different ways, it's proudly shown, though many like it have been sewn. It's never torn from being worn, but when it's torn, it should be burned.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“Shorter than my four siblings,
but easily the strongest,
I am more important to them
than they are to each other.
See Answer”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“ARROW”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“It's not a bird, though feathered, and
it has a mobile nest.
It's quick in flight and, having flown,
it always stops to rest.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“Guided to guide others, makes trails where it goes, gets shorter with age, but won't burn or glow.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“We have kept ours from enemies and watched it grow from friends. We have covered it to be with those on whom our lives depend.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“SHADE Riddle Type: Literal clues.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“Two handsome racers are having a race. One keeps lapping the other and the race never ends. What am I?”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“What stalks the countryside with ears that cannot hear?”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“BELL Riddle Type: Literal clues.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“BREAD Riddle Type: Literal clues. Breaking a loaf apart with your hands is the oldest way of eating bread. "Breaking bread" is also a popular idiom which means "sharing a meal with friends".”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“Of all the things that are broken, this makes the least noise and is always done on purpose.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“PUNCH Riddle Type: Play on expectations. "Need a hand" is more commonly used as a way of saying "need assistance". But in this case, it means you literally need your own hand. All other aspects of the riddle are to rule out thrown objects.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“ARROW Riddle Type: Worded to make you think of animals. Birds are naturally feathered, but arrows are feathered by fletching. A quiver is metaphorically the "mobile nest" in which arrows are carried and an arrow remains stationary upon landing.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“It's not a bird, though feathered, and it has a mobile nest. It's quick in flight and, having flown, it always stops to rest.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“It can't be touched, but can be felt. It can't be opened, but can be gone into. Those who seek it always find it under something, yet it moves from place to place.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“Apples for leather, leather for silk, silk for tobacco, all to get milk... See Answer”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“He comes to bedsides, icy bridges, battlefronts, and crumbling ridges. When he comes, he comes alone, taps a shoulder, then is gone.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“riddle is a challenge that is meant to be solved with reasoning whereas a joke is a setup for an amusing pun or statement.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“41. First you have them, then you make them. You can give, but never take them. You can have too few or too many, but it's worse not having any.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain

“31. It stalks the countryside with ears that cannot hear.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain