A hurricane/tornado?
Solve this Riddle if you can
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Those break glass.
ivandh wrote:
This one is also easy.
I can knock down buildings but I cannot break glass.
I can fly over mountains but I cannot climb stairs.
What am I?
Sounds like computer game logic. Is it a character in a game?
May 18, 2013
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#305
ivandh wrote:
This one is also easy.
I can knock down buildings but I cannot break glass.
I can fly over mountains but I cannot climb stairs.
What am I?
A bullet.
glass being bullet proof, and small, mini, tiny buildings????????
May 18, 2013
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#306
Gil-Gandel wrote:
Assoluto wrote:
"The key to life and death is everywhere to be found, but if you do not find it in your own house, you will find it nowhere.
Yet, it is before everyone's eyes; no one can live without it; everyone has used it.
The poor usually possess more of it than the rich; children play with it in the streets.
The meek and uneducated esteem it highly, but the privileged and learned often throw it away.
When rejected, it lies dormant in the bowels of the earth. I
t is the only thing from which the Philosopher's Stone can be prepared, and without it, no noble metal can ever be created."
This one turns up in various places on the internet, with no solution. I'll be interested to see if we get one this time.
Oxygen or "air".
1.It's "the key to life and death" because you must breathe to live or you will die.
2. "If you do not find it in your house you will find it nowhere" because if you don't have air to breathe in your house, you won't live to go anywhere else.
3."It's before everyone's eyes; No one can live without it; everyone has used it..."
Again, we all must breathe.
4."The poor usually possess more of it than the rich; children play with it in the streets..."
The poor usually have less resources to shelter themselves from the elements including hot air in the summer and are more exposed to it.
Children play with it in the streets. Children who grow up poor must learn to use the air as a "prop" as they pretend. For example, the child who flaps their arms in the air and says they are flying are really just pretending to fly and are using the air around them as a prop to represent the sky.
5. "The meek and uneducated esteem it highly but the rich often throw it away"...
The meek and uneducated esteem cooled air during the summer and heated air during the winter highly for reasons of comfort and yet the rich often use it wastefully without the need to conserve it as much because they can afford to pay for the heated or cooled air whenever they like without having to worry about running out of resources like kerosene fuel for heated air or freon gas for cooled air, etc.
6. "When rejected, it lies dormant in the bowels of the earth..."
When we breathe in oxygen, the human body "rejects" or exhales the rest of the air in the form of carbon dioxide which is absorbed by trees, plants and ultimately back into the earth and below its surface. When we burn fuels, the carbon dioxide gas goes back to lie dormant in the bowels of the earth where it collects for millions of years too.
"It is the only thing from which the Philosopher's Stone can be prepared, and without it, no noble metal can ever be created."
The Philosopher's Stone had to do with alchemy and was broken into 4 main elements:
1.Air
2.Fire
3.Earth
4.Water
By definition, The noble metals are metals that are resistant to corrosion and oxidation in moist air, unlike most base metals
Therefore, if the metals do not have moist *air* from which to resist corrosion and oxidation, they would be just like base metals and wouldn't be considered noble metals.
So for these reasons and justifications, I submit to you the answer, "Air".
Wow. That's pretty good. Did you think of all that yourself?
Maybe it wasn't so easy. I made it up on the fly but I felt like there was a dead giveaway in there.
A hint: hurricane is generally speaking the closest answer so far.
Pelikan_Player a écrit :
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A member of the RSS making up a "riddle" with no solution?
What does that have to do with anything?
Sounds to me like you just have your panties in a bunch for some reason 
There is a real answer and, though hurricane is not it, of the guesses it is closest.
I see, you are trying to bait me into spilling the answer without you doing any work. If you aren't here to solve riddles then there is always chess to play...
Please, oh kind sir! We surrender!
May 18, 2013
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#312
Tamama-nitouhei wrote:
Wow. That's pretty good. Did you think of all that yourself?
I did. But I will admit, it's still only a guess.
It's not wind, so what's a hurricane without wind? (and I don't mean a region of low barometric pressure!)
learningthemoves a écrit :
Tamama-nitouhei wrote:
Wow. That's pretty good. Did you think of all that yourself?
I did. But I will admit, it's still only a guess.
Even if it's wrong, the reasoning is pretty impressive.
ALISHA_A wrote:
If a man takes 18 hours to reach Norway from India on his car. He departs for it on sunday and after staying there 4 10 hours only he decides to return back.
He returned back home on Sunday.. How??
Where is his home?
May 18, 2013
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#315
Here's a popular medieval riddle. I first read this in my AP European history book many, many years ago:
"A strange thing hangs by a man's thigh, hidden by a garment.
It has a hole in its head. It is stiff and strong and its firm bearing reaps a reward.
When the man hitches his clothing high above his knee, he wants the head of that hanging thing to poke the old hole (of fitting length) it has often filled before."
Source: A History of Western Society by McKay and Scott.
SmyslovFan wrote:
"A strange thing hangs by a man's thigh, hidden by a garment.
It has a hole in its head. It is stiff and strong and its firm bearing reaps a reward.
When the man hitches his clothing high above his knee, he wants the head of that hanging thing to poke the old hole (of fitting length) it has often filled before."
Source: A History of Western Society by McKay and Scott.
A key?
May 18, 2013
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#317
ivandh wrote:
This one is also easy.
I can knock down buildings but I cannot break glass.
I can fly over mountains but I cannot climb stairs.
What am I?
The first idea I had was an airplane, because I am convinced that an airplane can not climb stairs. But it can break glass imo.
Yet, if a hurricane comes close to it and the English might have at least one proverb equal to Dutch then do I think that 'storm' is the answer. In Dutch there is the expression of a storm in a glass of water. But the climbing the stairs puzzles me with regards to a storm.
ivandh wrote:
This one is also easy.
I can knock down buildings but I cannot break glass.
I can fly over mountains but I cannot climb stairs.
What am I?
A child? Cannot, as in prohibited from doing.
The answer is within your [edit: Loek's] post, but storm is not it. The bit about the stairs is crucial, for though this thing can run down them quite easily, it cannot climb back up!
By the way, and totally unrelated to the riddle, the corresponding English proverb is "a tempest in a teacup."
Mm, not quite.