Riddles

[FayetheAspie]

clue #2

It is a part of some living thing.

 

[1ForAll]

clue #2

It is a part of some living thing.

I give up on my end.

 

[FayetheAspie]

The answer is baleen.

https://coralislandadventures.org/a...les and accordions,into the mouth as possible.

 

[DrBadStrings]

The answer is baleen.

https://coralislandadventures.org/ask-the-accordion#:~:text=Baleen Whales&text=What do whales and accordions,into the mouth as possible.

That is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing the video as well as giving us the answer.

 

[1ForAll]

New riddle:

Long ago, the practice began,
where one plus one became a teen
To avoid flogging from any less weight,
in a very doughy scene.

What am I?

 

[DrBadStrings]

sourdough starter?

 

[1ForAll]

sourdough starter?

No, but great guess.

 

[1ForAll]

Tip #1"

Loaves of bread were involved during that practice.

 

[FayetheAspie]

 One pack of doughnuts +  one doughnut = thirteen doughnuts .

This was called a baker's dozen.
Is this the answer?

 

[1ForAll]

 One pack of doughnuts +  one doughnut = thirteen doughnuts .

This was called a baker's dozen.
Is this the answer?

You figured it out @FayetheAspie. You are the winner!

 

[FayetheAspie]

I write but I can't read.
I tell stories and yet never speak.
What am I ?

 

[Forest Cat]

A printer?

 

[FayetheAspie]

I can see how that could fit but it was not what I had in mind. I'll award a silver medal for the answer and request further guesses.
@Forest Cat

 

[Forest Cat]

Woo-hoo, silver medal, I almost solved one, finally

 

[1ForAll]

I write but I can't read.
I tell stories and yet never speak.
What am I ?

The past, as like in the idiom "rewrite the past." The past can tell stories too, if not meant in a literal way.

 

[FayetheAspie]

No. Forest Cat was fairly close.

 

[1ForAll]

A newspaper. Edit: That cannot be it, never mind.

 

[FayetheAspie]

A newspaper is written on but does not write.

 

[1ForAll]

A typewriter.

 

[FayetheAspie]

clue#1

Jessica Fletcher on the series Murder She Wrote should know about this one.