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Friday, February 3, 2012

Riddles.

Recently my brother Sam got an iPod app that is filled with user uploaded riddles. On our way home from Church one day (It takes an hour to get home) he was reading riddles the WHOLE WAY HOME.


There are a few different types of riddles (technically only 2):

  • An enigma is a problem in which the solution is expressed metaphorically. You have to carefully think about the riddle to come up with the solution. 
  • A conundrum is a question that opens either the question or the answer. 
  • Then there are the stupid ones that you could never have guessed.

A riddle, however, doesn’t need to be classified as one of these types. As long as it is difficult to figure out and has an answer or a meaning to it, it can be classified as a riddle.


We were getting a lot of the stupid ones and after a while we found a pretty steady pattern in the riddles and decided to stick with the same pattern of answers to guess with.

Our guessing pattern went as follows:

TIME....   nope...
LIGHT....    nope...
SHADOWS....  nope...
A BOMB....    nope...
POOP....    nope...


The first 3 where actually right 30% of the time.




I actually have a riddle for YOU!

I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg, I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg, I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole, I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole, What am I?


Submit your answer to the Bulfenroben Facebook Page!
I will post the answer next Friday! GOOD LUCK!

Oh, and I forgot to mention that there is a prize for the winner. A digital prize that's actually worth something.

Once again... GOOD LUCK!


Edit:
The answer is: A Snake!