(urth) Riddle Me This, Urth-Dwellers!

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Sun Jun 6 15:34:30 PDT 2010


The riddle game is an ancient game.

It is a game of turns and forfeits.

You did not name your forfeit: would you care to name it now?

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> On 6/6/2010 2:03 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>> The answer to the riddle is 'your shadow'.
>
> Either way that's a fair guess at a partial solution, though I
> considered a book is a more suitable place to find writing than a
> silhouette.
>
>> And, as I say, I am reserving my turn.
>
> It's not meant to be a turnwise game as far a guessing goes, just like
> people don't have to take turns reading Wolfe's stories and figuring out
> what they mean. The person gets their turn to make a riddle by solving
> the previous one. I suppose we might decide that there needs to be some
> stopping conditions for unsolved riddles.
>
>>>>>> Rather than reward laziness, I'll hand you a (somewhat) Wolfean
>>>>>> riddle:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My writ is three steps' march or four kilometers from my foot,
>>>>>> behind
>>>>>> the baseboards with everyone else's.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that's enough of a head start for Brunians; the rest of you
>>>>> are
>>>>> invited to "play" and solve the riddle.
>
>
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