I have been searching for the answer to this riddle for a long time...

A seven letter word (i.e. 1234567) whereby the 123 word in an animal, 2345 is a type of food, 456 is a utensil, and 567 is something that remains the same every year.

Any Clues???

Shawn

I'm trying to think of all the three-letter animals that I can:

ape
asp
ass
bat
bug
boa (hmm...what about boa...then oats..."boatsXX"?)
cat
cod
cow
cur
dog
elk
emu
ewe
gnu
hen
her (ok, just kidding on this one)
hog
man
nag
pet
pig
pup
ram
rat
yak

Is this of any help?

Scott,
There were a couple I hadn't thought of.

I have been starting to think there isn't a solution. Searched long and hard on the net for the answer but it is not to be found.

Thanks.
Shawn

scott

you forgot Fox, Lam(b).

Maybe trying this dictionary/crossword/etc. page will help:
http://dictionary.langenberg.com/

A Harry Potter friend of mine suggested "Hogwart" as the answer. I like his logic:

123="Hog"=animal
2345="Ogwa"="Agua"=spanish for water=food
456="War"=utensil
567="Art"=something that never changes

<G>

Scott, We're getting closer.

shawn

War is a utensil? Art never changes? Ogwa?

Where did you hear this riddle, Shawn?

I think he got it from here

Click me!!!!

It was e-mailed to me. The version on the site Wayman mentioned is different but worth looking at.

Thanks,
Shawn

Taken from the above site.


From Owen (okl-word@juno.com):

Well, I've found _an answer, but I don't really like it since it's an archaic word, "propend," meaning "to have a propensity; incline or tend," and these types or riddles propend towards more current terms.
PRO = professional athletes are lions or tigers or bears or ducks (oh, my!). Some of the women they've dated may say they're animals even without the team designations.
ROPE = slang for spaghetti, sausages or licorice.
PEN = a writing utensil.
END = December 31st.

There is at least one other riddle list out there, BTW, which is also searching for this solution, without results so far. No one seems to know where it comes from, so there is no guarantee that there _is a correct answer, nor that it's been transcribed correctly, nor even that it is meant to be solved in English!

I missed that one, I will have to look again. I have found the other folks looking for it also. I think it was a yahoo list. In any case I appreciate it.

shawn

Here's another old one:

What is:

Better than God
Worse than the devil
The rich don't need it
The poor have it
If you eat it you die

Best thoughts,
John Smetana

Nothing.

"The rich need it" actually.

/Tomas

Pedantics...no it's..

Whats as good as God,
as Evil as the Devil,
The poor have it,
the rich want it,
and if you eat it you die?

back to riddles?

Where is there a bottom at the top??

In Cups&Balls? Not in John Bannon's routine though, since he actually uses them as vessels mostly and not turned upside down.

/Tomas

Nope

It's really a bottom...at the top!!

Ummmm.....a toilet?

Kaj :oO

ha ha hah aha haha ahahah

I nearly **** ****** laughing


no silly.....



.....its your leg!!.

LOL, toilet is funnier.