JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Riddle Me Part

If you're just hanging about, press the title and let us know what you think.


I start as hanging carpets part

One ends and calls the second starts

My tune extravagant and brassy,

See my business, dress up classy,

For your treat has just begun;

Don't move, but have me run.

'So, are you two?'
'Not two, one with two ends.'
'One start and two ends?'
'Don't be ridiculous, one end and one end that starts.'

 

Riddle Answer A Show

 

Riddle Explanation

my tune extravagant and brassy - a show tune.

see my business, dress up classy - show business.

for your treat has just begun; don't move, but have me run - to run the show.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Riddle Me Deep

If you've both started and finished your thoughts and to the conclusion, click and let us know.


Not at the start but in, the deep

Requires not a crawl or creep,

But run with the whole band aboard,

Agree together in accord,

But you afford too much you snake,

You weasel, to my end, a lake!

'What does it mean to agree in a cord? How do I climb into a cord?'
'Not in a cord, in accord, together.'
'Not just me in a cord? We have to get into a cord together? Blimey'.
 

 

Riddle Answer A Jump

 

Riddle Explanation

not at the start but in, the deep - to jump into the deep end.

requires not a crawl or creep, but run - to take a running jump.

run with the whole band aboard, agree together in accord - jump on the band wagon.

but you afford too much you snake, you weasel, to my end, a lake! - go jump in a lake!

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Riddle Me Rocky

If you too have rocked this riddle, then click on the title and let us know below.


I'm young, I go at rocky ledges,

Friends to fences, I'm to hedges,

Brambles, thorny bushes, shoot

I'll rob a bank, make off with loot

On horseback, me around I may

But I you not this time today.

'I feel like I've heard this ting before'.
'You certainly have, and very recently'.
'What have I heard today...is it my name? Is it the bird outside? Or the cars driving past?'
'No'.

 

Riddle Answer A Kid

 

Riddle Explanation

I'm young, I go at rocky ledges, friends to fences, I'm to hedges, brambles, thorny bushes, shoot - a young goat.

shoot I'll rob a bank, make off with loot on horseback - Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty, was an American Old West gunfighter and outlaw.

me around I may - to kid around.

but I you not this time today - I kid you not.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Riddle Me Dizzy

If you've whizzed to the answer, then click the title and leave it below.


Though not so fast I still might whiz

You buy some sweets, I'm there and dizzy

Dashing 'bout and happy grabbing,

Pointing, poking, jeering, jabbing

I will always be just what I am

Until I'm not me anymore, must reprogramme.

'I've no idea what you might be.'
'Perhaps you're too close to me to see.'
'So I'm you too?'
'Not entirely, but at least your might tends to be.'

 

Riddle Answer A Kid

 

Riddle Explanation

though not so fast I still might whiz - a whiz kid.

you buy some sweets, I'm there and dizzy dashing 'bout and happy grabbing - to be like a kid in a candy store.

pointing, poking, jeering, jabbing I will always be just what I am - kids will be kids.

until I'm not me anymore, must reprogramme - you're not a kid anymore.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Rockin' Robin

She strut her stuff, the real rocking' robin.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Riddle Me Rule

If you've worked out the rule, then click the title and leave a comment above board.


I'm taught, each differs as a rule

Yet somehow I maintain a school,

For who else would have? I was shocked

To find in disarray unstocked,

So collect me together cherish

I might die, might wish me perish!

'I was taught also.'
'I don't think you ever learnt this though.'
'So it must be a rather peculiar subject, such as, horse bating, or, tea-coaster design.'

 

Riddle Answer A Thought

 

Riddle Explanation

I'm taught, each differs as a rule yet somehow I maintain a school - a school of thought.

for who else would have? I was shocked - who would have thought?

to find in disarray unstocked, so collect me together - to collect one's thoughts.

cherish I might die, might wish me perish! - perish the thought!

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Attack of the Vikings

It was actually quite a pleasure being invaded. I had never met such a happy viking.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Riddle Me Arms

If you've got arms then you've got hands, so click the title and type your thoughts.


Out goes your arms and else comes in

And up with someone recently not been,

You've been and now you're tired plenty

Winks I get and two-fold twenty,

See you soon and me you later,

Less you meet a carburator.

'Wow, the leafy decorations are creepy this week. I feel like I'm being watched.'
'Just watch your words, that's all they can see.'

 

Riddle Answer A Catch

 

Riddle Explanation

up with someone recently not been - to catch up with someone.

you've been and now you're tired plenty winks I get and two-fold twenty - to catch forty winks.

see you soon and me you later - catch you later.

less you meet a carburator - to catch fire.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Riddle Me Scent

If you've a sniff of the answer, click the title to leave a trail.


They follow but your dummy scent

I'm off and they lose where you went,

What tracks you took, they're off and gone

Away a stone is close but left anon

Until I bring the light, my move demands

That you will understand.

'I sent a dummy?'
'No, your dummy scent.'
'What did my dummy send?'
'Nothing in the slightest!'

 

Riddle Answer A Throw

 

Riddle Explanation

scent I'm off and they lose where you went - to throw someone off the scent.

what tracks you took, they're off and gone - to throw someone off the tracks.

away a stone is close - a stone's throw away.

until I bring the light, my move demands that you will understand - to throw an amount of light on something.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

The Royal Queen

She sat there balancing her royal crown with more poise than I'd ever seen in any Queen.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Riddle Me Bone

There's many bone to make a body, click the title see your folly.


To me you've got a least one bone,

One brain from which I take what's known

But you won't share? Well I'll climb on,

And with my tool for rock so brawn

For ice, I swing and you may shatter, ceases

Then I'm up and gather pieces.

'I've got hundreds of bones.'
'I'm sure you do, but just one is important here, and it's not inside your body.'

 

Riddle Answer A Pick

 

Riddle Explanation

to me you've got a least one bone - to have a bone to pick with someone.

one brain from which I take what's known - to pick someone's brain.

but you won't share? Well I'll climb on - to pick on someone.

and with my tool for rock so brawn for ice, I swing and you may shatter - a pick is a tool for breaking hard surfaces such as rock and ice.

you may shatter, ceases then I'm up and gather pieces - to pick up the pieces.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

And Pose

I found it strange this new fashion, in every picture she turned her fingers into scissors.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Riddle Me Destiny

If you are destined to give an answer then click the title and leave it in the box below.


Take destiny out for a drink,

I'm early, sooner than you think

To ask to see, for I am blind

Perhaps to double more inclined

But though you take them out, you've lots no doubt;

Of me you're out.

'Why do you never take me out for a drink anymore?'
'I never took you out for a drink before.'
'Precisely!'

 

Riddle Answer A Date

 

Riddle Explanation

take destiny out for a drink - to have a date with destiny.

I'm early, sooner than you think - to do something at an early date, or some date soon.

you think to ask to see, for I am blind - a blind date.

perhaps to double more inclined - a double date.

but though you take them out, you've lots no doubt; of me you're out - to be out-of-date.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

And She Flows

If only from all taps I turned flowed such a refreshing surprise. 

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Riddle Me Another

If you've another comment, then click the title above to leave it below.


You give another's me to yet one more,

For which both other thanks you for

In honesty the rule is mine,

If I'm of both worlds, both are fine,

If I'm to dress up special, prey

That I will be in one Sunday.

'You give yours to someone else?'
'No, I give another's to someone else. And they both thank me for it.'

 

Riddle Answer The Best

 

Riddle Explanation

you give another's me to yet one more, for which both other thanks you for - to give someone’s best to someone else, as in the expression give my best to them.

in honesty the rule is mine - honesty is the best policy.

if I'm of both worlds, both are fine - the best of both worlds.

if I'm to dress up special, prey that I will be in one Sunday - to be in one's Sunday best.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

A feather in one's cap (2)

She must have been truly the best of friends with Peacock to have gotten so many feathers for her cap.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Riddle Me Label

If you want to label this thread with comment, click the title above.


Mark each sign and check each label,

Be as full of me as able,

For in this world, if not one me,

You'll find the Devil with maybe

An attitude rough feathery,

Not duck, you need a teal see.

'I checked each label on my clothes, is that everything?'
'Um...sure, though I don't think you're quite full enough.'

 

Riddle Answer Care

 

Riddle Explanation

mark each sign and check each label, be as full of me as able - to be careful.

for in this world, if not one me - to not have a care in the world.

you'll find the Devil with maybe an attitude - to have a Devil-may-care attitude.

an attitude rough feathery, not duck, you need a teal see - TLC, or tender loving care.

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

A feather in one's cap (1)

She clearly was a good friend of the Peacock's, or else how would she have gotten such a feather in her cap?

Read More
JackBrutusPenny JackBrutusPenny

Riddle Me Come

If you've me, or at least the answer, click and leave a comment on your thoughts.


You've me, in fact has every man

To come and change with time, began

Now look back and how foolish you

That once you thought the thing to do,

They try to keep in files, documents surmount,

But for you can't account.

'Have I you?'
'Well, yes you do. But it's certainly questionable.'

 

Riddle Answer Taste

 

Riddle Explanation

you've me, in fact has every man to come - every man to his taste.

they try to keep in files, documents surmount, but for you can't account - there is no accounting for taste.

Read More