BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Riddles!

**Posted by SebbyM** June 25, 2014 5:10 pm

I love riddles so I thought I could ask some to you who also like them. Of course you can also ask them if you like!
My first one is: I wear a dress that falls off me and I light until I die, what am I?

**Posted by MartaSt** June 25, 2014 5:37 pm

Comet?

**Posted by SebbyM** June 25, 2014 5:43 pm

Hmm, nice solution (logically seen it would be true) but not what I was looking for

**Posted by MartaSt** June 25, 2014 5:47 pm

My second guess will be candle then

**Posted by SebbyM** June 25, 2014 6:40 pm

And we have a winner!!

**Posted by MartaSt** June 25, 2014 6:54 pm

Nothing good come into my mind right now so if you like you could ask another one

**Posted by SebbyM** June 25, 2014 7:55 pm

Ok, there is a rather tricky one and easy one:
-I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?
-By night I fly, by day I sleep. I do have eyes and yet I don't see a peep. What am I?
Enjoy!

**Posted by Harriet** June 25, 2014 8:11 pm

1st is anything with music (keys), could be a CD box as well as a piano or an amplifier or a radio or a drum

**Posted by MartaSt** June 25, 2014 8:21 pm

Second - maybe a bat?

**Posted by SebbyM** June 25, 2014 8:34 pm

Harriet, you are very close, and martast, you got it right!

**Posted by SebbyM** June 25, 2014 8:36 pm

Oh sorry harriet, I didn't see you wrote Piano, it is the right answer! Congrats!

**Posted by Harriet** June 25, 2014 8:42 pm

Thanks. But why is it exactly a piano and nothing else? Just curious

(And it couldn't be a drum, stupid me!)

**Posted by SebbyM** June 25, 2014 8:43 pm

Alright, this seems too easy for you guys, what about that one:
I can be cracked and I can be made. I can be told, at the same time I can be played. What am I?

**Posted by MartaSt** June 26, 2014 9:48 am

Damn, this is tough one. I'm thinking from yesterday and I can't figure it out. I will shoot "joke" or something like that but I'm not totally convinced.

**Posted by saturnR** June 26, 2014 1:07 pm

I wonder if the answer to that riddle is "riddle"

**Posted by SebbyM** June 26, 2014 3:25 pm

Hey joke is correct! If nobody wants to ask one, then I will:
-I am the start of war and end of sorrow. You can't express wisdom without me but I am at the heart of dimwits. You may find me in waves but never in oceans. What am I?

**Posted by Mattlocked** June 26, 2014 5:32 pm

"W"

**Posted by SebbyM** June 26, 2014 5:59 pm

Perfect! How smart you all are.

**Posted by Mattlocked** June 26, 2014 6:12 pm

Well, we are the Sherlock fandom, aren't we?

No idea for a new one, though... Feel free to go on.

**Posted by Russell** June 26, 2014 6:30 pm

I like riddles, but haven't really retained a lot of good ones in my head (other than the awesome ones from the 'Riddles In The Dark' scene… ;D). Your 'w' one though, reminded me of finding this cleverly amusing back when I was a kid!
Yours were fun! This is an old, slightly silly and probably widely heard one….

There's a sign - 'Railroad Crossing, watch out for cars'. How do you spell it without any R's?