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What's your favorite Enigma / Riddle / Sentence Puzzle? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 11 months ago by Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Tomorrow is a big event at my university. I'd like to make a fun thing where the people of the Board Game society I am in can try to find me for a riddle, kind of a Where is Waldo in a place where there is a crap tone of people to find the NPC that'll give them a Riddle (Maybe something to win? No idea how I could do that detail)

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[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I fly without wings, I cry without eyes, whenever I go, darkness flies.

Edit: Another one: The more you take the more you leave behind.

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Clouds?

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

Right! Here's your banana

🍌

[–] RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

I like this one

[–] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Laxatives?

Edit: for the latter

Or possibly footsteps

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Laxatives works for both. A very shitty solution of you. Here have a 🤎.

Footsteps is correct. 🍌

[–] RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

LOL

[–] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago

That's a nice one Wooden Apple!

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hole?

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nope

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Notes?

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nope

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think my answer was good enough even if not the intended one. I'm not guessing further.

Edit: I think mine is better than the conventional one I found online so I'm satisfied. The reason I prefer mine is

spoiler

What you leace behind footsteps is better called footprints