I submitted answers to 2 riddles and never saw the correct answer...one was about a 6 letter word, I said catnip, and the other was about a box with no hinges or lid etc. etc. and I said either a camera or a pc as in harddrive...containing treasures?? your riddle thread leaves much to be desired as it is very confusing and jumps all over the place.
Susie the answers to the riddles were: CARPET for the six letter word and EGG for the box with no lid. I'm sure the riddles will sort themselves out once everybody gets the hang of them. :-D
I think the last few have been kept in order, as in the next one doesn't begin until the previous one is answered correctly.
Who ever came up with egg is about as far from a box, which is almost always square, and never as fragile as you can get....really, really dumb answer!!!an egg is an egg...not a box! duh? Oh, and what is a carpet eaten by??
The riddle complete wth Zuzu's correct answers. 1-2-3-4-5-6 I am a 6 letter word. Letters 6-5-2 spell out a drink. TEA Letters 4-5-2-3 spell out a fruit. PEAR Letters 1-2-6 spell out a pet. CAT Letters 3-2-6 spell out a pest, which often gets eaten by 1-2-6. RAT What am I? could it be CARPET ? Carpet doesn't get eaten. 3-2-6 i.e. RAT gets eaten by 1-2-6 i.e. CAT
Susie a box can be absolutely any shape surely? Have you never see round boxes, long rectangular or triagular boxes, even heart - shaped boxes? I thought the riddle was ingenious!!! :-D
The riddle came from the book The Hobbit, written by JRR Tolkien. There are so many different things called boxes...your car has a gear box and some call the glove compartment a glove box, in some countries a telephone booth is called a telephone box, there are luxury boxes at sports arenas, a box is simply a container and doesn't have one specific shape. The shell of the egg is a container for the egg itself and therefore by definition can be called a box.
an egg is an egg is an egg and no matter how much you wish it to be so, it is not nor ever will be a box, a doz. eggs may come in a box, but the egg is NOT a BOX....and coming from a kids story or Harry potter or whatever does not make it fact!! get real?
It can be difficult to understand the logic behind some of the answers, especially ones published in works of literature and not in a jokes and riddles book. Since these are in the Jokes and Games Forum and meant to be fun, sometimes an answer just has to be shrugged off as one goes on to the next riddle. :-D I think this discussion has come to an end and hopefully future riddles will be more to your liking. This topic is now locked.
