Riddles

[Boogs]

Thinking up new clues is not easy

“off the cuff.”

Absolutely! I struggle to come up with one's I think others can get, but without giving the game away, so I end up giving the game away!
Same here, I do most of these things and other writings without planning or even much forethought in the conscious arena. Just sit back metaphorically and demand what @Outdated nicely terms 'the hind mind' (or was it hind brain? No matter) come to my aid.
My ego just has the job of a secretary - copying it out on the keyboard (and pretending it was all my own work! ).

Unfortunately, Mr Hindmind is on strike currently, and is muttering words like 'caffeine', and 'espresso', and 'energy drinks', and even, if I fancy living dangerously, some breakfast for lunch!
"No carbs, no answers!" it cries out to me.
"I need something stronger than a cuppa tea!"
"Then I'll start thinking vigorously,
On what your riddle seems to be!

Not inside your body.

I'm bloodless, wasn't thinking of me!
Also, just to really split hairs, I didn't say blood corpuscle! (although I did mean that, but I can cheat and backtrack with the best worst of them!).

Sorry, not seeing it, struggling with this one.

 

[FayetheAspie]

A shadow?
That does not fit the original clues though.

 

[AuAL]

@FayetheAspie, no it is a physical thing.

 

[AuAL]

Shall I reveal the answer?

 

[1ForAll]

Heart and struck are the words that first stuck out for me. So, originally I was thinking something to do with lightning. Like some electric charge or current or something made up of electrons and protons. But then the clue 'I need others to die so that I may grow' made that answer make no sense, as an example. I think you gave enough clues. I just have no more guesses on my end, other than wild guesses like nerves, cells, plants, and so on.

 

[AuAL]

@Boogs, for me, Greek coffee for breakfast. Every day. Today was grocery shopping day, so doppio espresso mid-morning. Tea for the afternoon. Sitting now contemplating bed over a wee cup of saké.

 

[AuAL]

I shall hide the answer - you can look at it when you want.

Spoiler: Answer

The answer is the heartwood of trees.
I can’t see you, you can’t see me, even if I’m in front of you.
You can’t see me because I am inside the tree, even if it is in front of you.

You can’t kill me but, if I fail, I may kill you.
Heartwood is not living. Cellular processes have ceased. So it cannot be killed. But if the heartwood of a tree, the structural core, fails it may fall on you and kill you.

I can’t hear you, and will only speak if I am struck.
Heartwood can’t “hear”. It will make a sound if struck, e.g. by an axe.

My numbers are legion.
There are many trees.

No need to fear the heart of darkness.
Heartwood is darker than sapwood.

Others must die so that I may grow.
The innermost sapwood cells cease functioning - die - to make more heartwood.

If I had a heart, would that make me live?
“heart, would” = “heartwood”

Say them aloud, can you at last hear my name? There are hints in a few, but one gives away the game.
Say “heart, would”.

Am I in the sea, am I in a tree, if you could see me, what would you see?
I am in a tree. What “would/wood” you see.

If you only see part, don’t take it to heart.
If there’s more that you could, I’m sure that you would.
The clues, they are ending, but here is one more, in the endings before this, you can find me, I’m sure.

The end of the first two lines, the “endings before this” are “heart” “would”.

A very “literal”, grounded riddle.
Heartwood is a real thing that rises from the ground.

 

[AuAL]

Heart and struck are the words that first stuck out for me. So, originally I was thinking something to do with lightning. Like some electric charge or current or something made up of electrons and protons. But then the clue 'I need others to die so that I may grow' made that answer make no sense, as an example. I think you gave enough clues. I just have no more guesses on my end, other than wild guesses like nerves, cells, plants, and so on.

Cells, plants… you came so close!

 

[Boogs]

Cool, but I'd never have got that one.

Greek coffee's good but nowadays I mostly have triple expresso's with warm milk and a bit of sugar. Who needs food?
And forget those awful pod thingies!

 

[FayetheAspie]

@Boogs The pods don't really taste the same. I don't know but I wonder sometimes if too much plastic from the pod gets diffused into the coffee.

 

[Boogs]

@Boogs The pods don't really taste the same. I don't know but I wonder sometimes if too much plastic from the pod gets diffused into the coffee.

I dunno, but they don't seem as nice as some Lavazza or Illy (though it's rather pricey) in a proper espresso maker (nothing fancy needed). The pods themselves are minute, I mean, really small! Last time I tried one, I used four ruddy pods to get somewhere near strong enough, and it didn't taste great, had all that extra unnecessary waste, and cost at least twice as much per cup.
Automatische Kaffeemaschine? Nein Danke!
(Though I admit to using a microwave to warm the milk! So much for tradition! (don't like all that froth!))

 

[FayetheAspie]

@AuAL So, are you posting another?

 

[AuAL]

@AuAL So, are you posting another?

I might take a rest. Over to someone else?

 

[FayetheAspie]

Forward I go; backwards I do the same.
Some I destroy; Some I bring to fame.
Round and round is the purpose of why I came.
What am I ?

 

[1ForAll]

Forward I go; backwards I do the same.
Some I destroy; Some I bring to fame.
Round and round is the purpose of why I came.
What am I ?

A vinyl record or LP?

 

[FayetheAspie]

No.

 

[FayetheAspie]

Any more guesses?

 

[1ForAll]

Any more guesses?

In my case, I would need a clue, as not enough info to go on.

 

[FayetheAspie]

clue#1

Try writing the answer.
Yes, this is a clue.

 

[1ForAll]

Whether that clue is helpful or not could depend though on how one interpreted that clue. For instance, I could either see that clue as meaning (some examples):

To just print "The answer" .
To hand write "The answer" using cursive writing which I cannot do here.
Print or write what I think the answer could be, which is "I do not know"

Hinting to us that the answer is something writing related.

Hinting to us that the answer has something to do with the words "the answer," meaning for us to look possibly at the letters there.

Telling us to not look at that clue as a command for us to print or write anything, but to just think in some other way about what you said about that clue.

So, @FayetheAspie , that clue may help only if I knew what that clue meant, as you may be speaking in either a literal or non-literal way. I can understand both, but as of right now the clue does not help me come up with more guesses.