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Dec-8-2004 01:45

Hello all.
I'm fairly new to Sleuth and I thought I might share a little hobby of mine with you all. Here's something for that sad moment when the mysteries of the day are all done.

Thousands lay up gold within this house,
but no man made it.
Spears past counting guard this house,
but no man wards it.
What is it?

May-20-2005 20:37

Here's a simple one, then I quit.

I go from house to house but never come inside
I never eat or sleep and my bed is made outside

May-20-2005 21:04

The road or the pavement.

May-21-2005 11:21

well, chicken is the first one mentioned in the sentence...

May-21-2005 16:38

An easy way to understand the riddle and the answer is that an egg is defined NOT by where it came from, but what it contains. Hence a turtle egg is called a turtle egg because a turtle hatches from it, regardless of whether a turtle laid it or if it was a mutation from another species. Ergo (don't hear that word often anymore, lol), the egg came first. I'll leave you good people alone now :-)

May-23-2005 21:35

Daru, I would say a sidewalk goes house to house, but never goes inside.

May-24-2005 23:08

jo jo the answer is nothing

May-24-2005 23:14

da ru Is it a pickup truck.

May-25-2005 15:48

*knows this is a child's riddle...but....*

Why are potatoes good detectives?

May-25-2005 16:06

hmmmm... well I surely dont know! i cant say I'm very good at riddles :(

May-25-2005 16:20

Well, i dont know whats worse, dealing with real children, or people who post on these boards in the manner of children... Either way, the answer to your riddle is:

Because they always have there eyes peeled

<bows>