Some riddles

[Slurgly]

Here are a few riddles you can solve.

1.What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows?

2.Voicless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.

3.It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, it lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, ends life, kills laughter.

Okay, try and guess those.

 

[DanteEX]

1st.Mountain

2.wind

3.dark

I bet i got them wrong.

 

[flarion]

1 a building

2 the wind

3 darkness

i think none of them are good

 

[Slurgly]

Yeah, DanteEX got them all. Ok, here are some more.

4. An eye in a blue face, saw an eye in a green face, "That eye is like to this eye" said the first eye, "but in low place, not in high place."

5. A box without hinges, key or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

6. Alive without breath, cold as death, never thirsty, ever drinking, all in mail, never clinking.

Okay, here's a hard one.

7. This thing, all things devour: birds, beasts, trees, flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to meal, slays king, ruins town, and beats high mountain down.

Now lets see you get all those.

 

[Cory the Hedgehog]

7. Is it a Dragon?

 

[Boinciel]

4. A helicopter.
5. Simple. A box that has been welded shut with gold inside.


Now...
8. What gets wetter as it dries?

 

[Slurgly]

Okay, Boinciel, and Cory were wrong. The answer to Boinciel's 8 is a towel. I'm not going to tell you what the other ones are yet though.

 

[Mystic]

We don't need forum games, thanks.