WitchOfDoubt
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Good try, but that doesn't work with the third line, at the very least.
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He speaks in foreign voice,
And thinks in spoken thought;
His choice is not a choice -
He is and he is not.
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Nice!
See, at one point I thought "a dripping kitchen faucet", since that has hot, cold, and a runny nose. But that wouldn't fit the "kitchen drain" clues.
I think I expected the riddle to be much more detail-specific (a sink broken in a certain way, as opposed to dripping AND clogged) and less holistic. But it's definitely fair.
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Well, another one that works for all but the first verse is
garbage disposal
And a friend of mine, thinking outside the box, guessed
hookah
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My first intuition is that this is some kind of
device/appliance/machine that may or may not be broken.
My first guess, a clogged toilet/drain fits the third verse and part of the second, but totally doesn't work for the first verse at all. I'll keep thinking.
Edit:
A further hunch
Maybe it's a car or car engine - it can run hot or cold, and the brandished "knife" could be a dipstick for testing oil. The nose-blowing could be a horn?
I don't own a car, but I googled "oil change" and "spitting" and it looks like cars can spit up oil.
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Huh. jippiidan, I think you solved number 10!
POTRAYAL - PORTAL = RAY
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Well-answered!
If there's any place where Gollum's speech patterns should be "reasonable common knowledge," it's a riddling board.
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The answers to these two riddles are linked in some way. Some slightly non-general vocab/knowledge may be needed, but I think it's either fair or skirting the edges of fairness.
Good luck!
1) Green walls that hide a sealed room
Of bright silk curtains and sweet perfume.
2) Errors we'll own to, if we're wise...
What Gollum runs for exercise?
Hint:
The thread title is relevant.
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Thank you for the encouragement. This one's been through a few drafts. The original version was MUCH easier and posted for a less intense audience, and used lots of cliches (shadows getting shorter at noon, chess knight described as a person, etc.)
I'm still not entirely happy with the last one. For one thing, knights are knighted with the flat of a blade, not, generally speaking, the tip. For another, it doesn't make a neat rhyming couplet. I'd be happy to hear suggestions!
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I haven't done a surface integral in ages, so I'm probably entirely wrong here, but can we...
... solve it by using symmetry?
Integral of |x|/(|x| + |y| + |z|) over the sphere = integral of |y| / (|x| + |y| + |z|) = integral of |z| / (|x| + |y| + |z|) over the sphere.
Call this surface integral's value I.
Then 3*I = sum of integrals. Here, I think the sum of those integrals equals the integral of the sum of the integrands. So 3*I = surface integral of (|x| + |y| +|z|)/(|x| + |y| + |z|) over the sphere. That's just 1, and integrating 1 over the sphere's surface should just give us its surface area (I think).
So... 3*I = surface area of a sphere of radius 1 = 4*pi
So the answer is (4/3) pi.
This is probably based on faulty assumptions, but it really doesn't require much in the way of calculus - just algebra and a very basic sense of what integrals represent.
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(Adding poll)
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plainglazed: Well-answered!
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MissKitten: Far from it.
Newbie: No, no, and no.
TheChad: That would be an excellent answer for the first riddle alone, but isn't what I was looking for - it doesn't fit the pattern of the three answers.
Here are some clues to eliminate some general possibilities:
The answer is not a physical illness.
The arms are not human arms.
The sword's end did not kill or wound.
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A few of them, based on the first clue:
1. FORTUNATE - FORTE = TUNA
5. DECODED - DEED = COD
6. MUSTANGS - MUSS = TANG
8. GENTEELLY - GENTLY = EEL
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lenzvlt: A good try! But the connection between the three answers is less ambiguous than that.
Let me be clearer. Although Thalia's answer would satisfy the second riddle alone, it isn't the correct answer in this context, and might actually lead you in entirely wrong directions.
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That'd definitely work for the second riddle alone, but using that answer won't lead you to the other two. Individually, these riddles are ambiguous, but if you solve all three, I think you'll have no doubt that your answer's correct.
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(The three answers are, of course, connected.)
I: Unlike afflictions that strike and move on,
This lingers after all symptoms are gone.
II. No threat was made, no robbery done,
Yet two arms upraised reach for the sun.
III. Some men end by the sword;
The sword's end made me.
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Nope!