moonpiedumplings@programming.dev to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 days agoGive me some of your hardest riddles? (with solutions in spoilers)message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareZagorath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-211 days agoShe comes sometimes at need, But never at your heed. To meet with her is jolly, To push her would be folly. Who is she? edit: for bonus points, I first came across this with a second step in the puzzle. Not a riddle, but a different kind of puzzle. Solve this: Cyphertext Lweycxkxr nq kwf mxzqp vlqu yq uxslnkyy, njocy kc yi ykj u dop mjyfff lp udvp nq pws. Kdd qkxrm cbp nqy dgcvw nq qpn kdd zcd wcvdwy dyos qpq njo rlqeyx. Vrp vgo, zz eyfluo, qfkod upihua lpwcedy dopm fyy’n ekcy yrln jexupc ebkxv cu sxjqcdcdvp. Though that’s not the same text I had the first time (it was in a D&D game and the text was related to that), the same technique would need to be applied to read the above text. The riddle’s solution is relevant.
minus-squarepostnataldrip@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-211 days agoMy app doesn’t support spoilers so I don’t know if this has worked. Maybe collapse this comment if you don’t want to see it, just in case. Spoiler Lady luck? Edit: fixed maybe? Thanks @Zagorath@aussie.zone
minus-squareZagorath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 days agoYou gotta do ::: spoiler [spoiler description] on the first line (most of the time, that means ::: spoiler Spoilers or similar. Spoilers Correct
minus-squareZagorath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-210 days agothe edit worked there’s also, if you’re interested, a second part of the puzzle that I edited into the above. It’s not a riddle though so feel free to ignore.
She comes sometimes at need,
But never at your heed.
To meet with her is jolly,
To push her would be folly.
Who is she?
edit: for bonus points, I first came across this with a second step in the puzzle. Not a riddle, but a different kind of puzzle. Solve this:
Cyphertext
Lweycxkxr nq kwf mxzqp vlqu yq uxslnkyy, njocy kc yi ykj u dop mjyfff lp udvp nq pws. Kdd qkxrm cbp nqy dgcvw nq qpn kdd zcd wcvdwy dyos qpq njo rlqeyx. Vrp vgo, zz eyfluo, qfkod upihua lpwcedy dopm fyy’n ekcy yrln jexupc ebkxv cu sxjqcdcdvp.
Though that’s not the same text I had the first time (it was in a D&D game and the text was related to that), the same technique would need to be applied to read the above text. The riddle’s solution is relevant.
My app doesn’t support spoilers so I don’t know if this has worked. Maybe collapse this comment if you don’t want to see it, just in case.
Spoiler
Lady luck?
Edit: fixed maybe? Thanks @Zagorath@aussie.zone
You gotta do
::: spoiler [spoiler description]on the first line (most of the time, that means::: spoiler Spoilersor similar.Spoilers
Correct
the edit worked
there’s also, if you’re interested, a second part of the puzzle that I edited into the above. It’s not a riddle though so feel free to ignore.
Luck?
Spoilers
Correct