Riddles

[DrBadStrings]

@DrBadStrings

As before I'll let you or someone else do the next riddle.

Now I should disclose that that particular riddle was easy for me as my Father was a beekeeper when I was a child. Just as a hobby but yeah, I've been around Bee's and bee problems a good portion of my life.

 

[1ForAll]

Edit (subject, pronoun mixup):

Next riddle:

Ariel my friend loves running races,
I am often sad as I come in 2nd places.
"I often say, why do you place always before ol' Buttercup me ?"
She says, "you should not have it before you, you see "
"Then you will win more and break free."

What is it?

 

[Boogs]

A failure to run backwards?

 

[DrBadStrings]

The lead?

 

[1ForAll]

Not those.

 

[1ForAll]

Tip 1: It will be helpful to know who or what is racing as that will make the " it " much easier to answer.

 

[Forest Cat]

It makes me think of the poem "Ariel" by Sylvia Plath. Which I'm sure is way off the mark, I really am terrible at solving riddles.

 

[1ForAll]

It makes me think of the poem "Ariel" by Sylvia Plath. Which I'm sure is way off the mark, I really am terrible at solving riddles.

Good try, but no. The names given sound like something, and there is a word or two in the riddle that could lead someone to what or who was racing too.

 

[Forest Cat]

 

[DrBadStrings]

The Cart. As in the cart before the horse. That's why the horse is always first.

 

[DrBadStrings]

Tip 1: It will be helpful to know who or what is racing as that will make the " it " much easier to answer.

It was this tip that gave it away for me. You can come up with the next riddle. I'm trying to craft one but I'm not ready yet.

 

[1ForAll]

The Cart. As in the cart before the horse. That's why the horse is always first.

@DrBadStrings wins. The racers were horses, and the it answer that I was looking for was--cart-- which, yes, is part of a famous old saying, "Do not put the cart before the horse."

 

[FayetheAspie]

How did the names fit in?

 

[1ForAll]

How did the names fit in?

Buttercup and Ariel were actually choices for names of horses on a video game for Barbie. Those names sound like possible names for horses too, though Ariel is a name for a female too. Other racetrack terms in the riddle were running, races, place, and break free.

 

[FayetheAspie]

Buttercup and Ariel were actually choices for names of horses on a video game for Barbie. Those names sound like possible names for horses too, though Ariel is a name for a female too. Other racetrack terms in the riddle were running, races, place, and break free.

Ok. I would have never recognized that. I never owned a barbie doll much less played any barbie video games.

 

[1ForAll]

Ok. I would have never recognized that. I never owned a barbie doll much less played any barbie video games.

I understand. Never owned Barbies either. Bought such a video game for a young relative longer ago and they needed our help to figure it out.

 

[Boogs]

Likewise. Too ethnic. Ah well, horses for courses!

 

[1ForAll]

If anyone has a new riddle, feel free to post as we are out of town picking up our son now from his 2 hour chess meeting . It would be hard to reply soon as 90 minute drive back.

 

[FayetheAspie]

Part of me you eat; part of me you wear.
Down in the south I am everywhere.
What am I ?

 

[Boogs]

When you say south, are we talking global or local? i.e. south of your land, or just south generally anywhere?
(i.e. is it cultural?)