Riddle me this.

[Jesster]

Alright then. Alex, if we were wrong I'll give others another chance to answer yours. Until then...



I'm teary-eyed but never cry
Silver-tongued, but never lie
Double-winged, but never fly
Air-cooled, but never dry

What am I?

[emjay]

Just another quick point about the assumptions Losty; my dad's analysis of the marbles puzzle was that it would also work with nine marbles... but it chooses eight so that it sends you down the wrong track of thinking about say dividing it into groups of four (when it needs groups of three to succeed... whether it's eight marbles or nine) which is what I did wrong with that puzzle. So perhaps the key to all these puzzles is to look carefully right from the get go and try and identify what assumptions it wants you to make, and then be very wary of them.

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I don't know if it would ruin it to think aloud and try to analyse this puzzle in terms of assumptions? What do you guys think?

[Jesster]

I don't know if it would ruin it to think aloud and try to analyse this puzzle in terms of assumptions? What do you guys think?

Knock yourself out. I'd love to see your thought process on this one.

[emjay]

I don't know if it would ruin it to think aloud and try to analyse this puzzle in terms of assumptions? What do you guys think?

Knock yourself out. I'd love to see your thought process on this one.

Hehe... I bet you would Just like my smirking dad Okey dokey

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Problem is I haven't got a clue how to do it

First thought is that it's trying to get you to personify it. And second thought is that each statement causes its own assumption. Not much to go on yet

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Whatever assumptions the never x parts suggest... they're where I think the problems will be. So it's almost like undoing whatever first impressions they cause, and trying to read it as if you'd never read them. So teary eyed but never cry tries to make you personify the teary eyes, but I doubt the teary eyes will be anything to do with actual eyes... so let's just go simple here and reduce that to watery. This is gonna take a while

[emjay]

I'm not certain at all about this, and probably going down all the wrong lines but as a first guess (and to allow me to go to bed ) maybe something like a whale? as being something watery (tenuous here... but maybe you can't be said to able to cry underwater), silvery (well grey), double winged (assuming they have fins), and air cooled (they breathe air but living in the sea are never dry.) I really don't think this is it, but it's a stab at it... I just fear that it's still too 'personified'... or at least 'animalified'

[Alex K]

Good morning everyone *yaaawn* babies, man, why can't they simply sleep? Anyways, yes, wow, Jesster was right again: if the front person doesn't hear anything, the others are both unsure, and that means he has a black one! Carry on...

[Jesster]

I'm not certain at all about this, and probably going down all the wrong lines but as a first guess (and to allow me to go to bed ) maybe something like a whale? as being something watery (tenuous here... but maybe you can't be said to able to cry underwater), silvery (well grey), double winged (assuming they have fins), and air cooled (they breathe air but living in the sea are never dry.) I really don't think this is it, but it's a stab at it... I just fear that it's still too 'personified'... or at least 'animalified'

It is not a whale. I like the way you are thinking, though.

[Ravenshire]

Alright then. Alex, if we were wrong I'll give others another chance to answer yours. Until then...



I'm teary-eyed but never cry
Silver-tongued, but never lie
Double-winged, but never fly
Air-cooled, but never dry

What am I?

Not sure how the first line works in, but I'm gonna guess Mercury

[Jesster]

Mercury is correct.

[Ravenshire]

I am pleasing to the eye
A tool for many absent of mind
A tapestry of fickle lies
Blind to even the most pensive spies
I'm often the breeder of fervent lust
But I am one you must not trust.

What am I?