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Here’s a classic riddle (30 words) that’s fairly hard:
Short was my life, and brilliant my career;
Behead me, I in lovely green appear;
Behead again, I once was made to save
My chosen inmates from a watery grave.
Doubt anyone will get the answer right away. Feel free, however, to try.
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I believe the answer is Grass.
Hi Scott- a reasonable guess, but there is a better answer…
plants?
Sunflower
Sunflower is definitely a good answer.
For this riddle, what if “behead” means to change the word…
graft?
“I once was made to save
my chosen inmates from a watery grave”
Hint: Biblical
How about “spark”
Lemon
Not lemon, I meant lime. Sorry.
David’s got it
some good guesses, though-Sunflower, grass, lime, plants/graft; glad I was able to come up with something a little more challenging this time
i still dont get it, can you explain?
nice one….
Sure; ’short was my life, brilliant my career’- a ’spark’
to behead is to cut off the 1st letter: the ’s’
‘I in lovely green appear’- a ‘park’
behead again is to remove the ‘p’, which leaves you ‘ark’ (I was once made to save my chosen inmates from a watery grave)
The answer is a frog
This is briliant, I was never good a math but I’m convinced the answer is spark.
ouldnt the answer acctually be noah? not spark? seeing as when it refers to “i” in the 3rd and “my” in the fourth line that it was refering to noah? not the spark? the spark is just an aid to a means the same with park. ark is also andaid to a means but it gives you the final clue you need to complete the riddle.
Another answer could be “antiquark”. Like all anti-matter, the life of
an antiquark is very short and spectacular in this universe. Behead
“antiquark”, and you get quark! Green is one of the “colors” in which
quarks appear. Behead “quark” once more, and you get the biblical
“ark”!
-Vishvas
Impressive, Vishvas!
antiquark doesn’t work because you’re arbitrarily beheading letters that are convenient to your answer. taking away the anti, okay, that’s understandable, but the taking away of qu to form the ark is just a random cutting of letters given you know the final answer.
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