(1) _____: the (2) _____ of the (3) _____.

Rick · Post by **Rick** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:11 pm

Badgers we don't need no stinking badgers

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:12 pm

Yes but you don't notice the silent ones...

Andrew D · Post by **Andrew D** » Tue Oct 15, 2013 2:58 am

A meta-clue: Three idiomatic combinative forms, two obscurantisms, one definition of the answer, one term for something cowardly and inhumane sometimes done to the answer, and one song-lyric reference.

Econoline · Post by **Econoline** » Tue Oct 15, 2013 10:35 am

Criminal?

Rick · Post by **Rick** » Tue Oct 15, 2013 11:07 am

burglar

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Tue Oct 15, 2013 7:57 pm

****hunted****

Andrew D · Post by **Andrew D** » Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:26 am

And we have a winner!

Silence: the friend of the hunted.

Hunt is a term used in change-ringing: It can mean a particular bell, a particular alteration of sequence, or the act of making that alteration; hunted is the past tense of hunt.

Hunt is a short-form term for hunt-sergeant, a Massachusetts official who was, in colonial times, in charge of organizing hunts (with hounds, no less) for hostile Indians; hunted is the past tense of hunt.

Hunted down, hunted out, and hunted high and low are all combinative forms of hunted.

In Jesus Christ Superstar, Pilate describes Jesus as having "that look you very rarely find -- the haunting, hunted kind."

Diligently sought is a definition of hunted.

A hunted animal is treed by being forced up a tree (a very cowardly and inhumane way of hunting).

Andrew D · Post by **Andrew D** » Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:49 am

So Joe Guy gets to formulate the next riddle.

A statement, which can be interrogatory, containing no more than three numbered blanks. Exception: If the same word fills more than one blank, all instances of that word are given the same number, and all instances of that word combined count as only one blank. For example, "Vanity, vanity, all is vanity" could be rendered (1) __________, (1) __________, (2) __________ is (1) __________, and that riddle would be considered to have only two blanks.

Numbered clues, each corresponding to a numbered blank. Exceptions: meta-clues -- clues which describe other clues are permissible, as are clues applicable to the entire riddle. An example of a meta-clue appears above. An example of a clue applicable to the entire riddle would be my having given "Frank Herbert quotation" as a clue. A clue applicable to the entire riddle is not numbered.

Once a blank has been correctly filled, its solution becomes public knowledge. Once a blank has been correctly filled, the author of the riddle must explain the clues for that blank.

To reduce the likelihood that the authorship of riddles will pass back and forth between a small fraction of participants, once a riddle is solved, the author of that riddle sits out the first three rounds of clues of the next riddle.

Have at it, Joe Guy!

Andrew D · Post by **Andrew D** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:41 am

Well, it's been over a week.

Do you intend to propound a riddle, Joe Guy?

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 3:27 pm

Sorry, Andrew. I had forgotten about this thread. I'll pass and leave the next one to you or someone else. I won't participate in guessing the answers since I've opted out.

Rick · Post by **Rick** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:18 pm

Start another Andrew...

Andrew D · Post by **Andrew D** » Sat Oct 26, 2013 4:42 am

Because Joe Guy has passed on propounding the next riddle, the right to do so devolves upon Guinevere, because she solved the second of the blanks to be solved.

Again, the blanks need not be solved in numerical order. It is perfectly OK to solve them in any order. For example, "(1) __________: the (2) friend of the (3) __________." would be fine.

Guinevere gets to propound the next riddle, because she solved the second-least difficult of the blanks. We know that it was the second-least difficult of the blanks, because it was the second one solved. The fact that it was also blank (2) is irrelevant to that determination.

And again, I will sit out the first three rounds of clues.

Have at it, Guinevere!

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Sat Oct 26, 2013 4:45 am

All day board meeting tomorrow, but I will see what I can some up with on Sunday.

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:45 am

Er, give me another day or so! I have some ideas, am working out the clues.

TPFKA@W · Post by **TPFKA@W** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 5:22 pm

Watch it now, I fear a Cricket match may break out in this exciting thread.

Daisy · Post by **Daisy** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 9:50 pm

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 10:40 pm

I declare @W has to submit the next puzzle, after mine, whether she solves it or not!

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 10:45 pm

(1) _________ lies (2) ___________ in (3) __________ .

(1) Physical
(2) A state of being?
(3) Einstein

TPFKA@W · Post by **TPFKA@W** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:04 pm

You should punish Daisy too since she is encouraging my bad behavior.

My guess: Sex lies dormant in nerds? (and based on this I will not be making any up any riddles so no one need worry)

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:17 pm

Sorry no.

Plan B Forum

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