Waspo's Game of Riddles

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Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to put on my pant and my glass, and go scissor something 0_0

[ElManisero]

because using wordplay in riddles is totally not a thing.

[Kaios]

It's not world play when there is a difference in perspective regarding the English language itself.

[lachlaan]

The difference in perspective shouldn't be there in the first place. I agree that nowadays a pant isn't quite one leg of a pair of pants, nor is a scissor one half of a pair of scissors, but a sock can indeed be singular and while the idiom "a pair of socks" phrased that way usually refers to, in fact, a likely matching pair, that doesn't really make the alternate meaning of the phrase any less correct. Which is to say, two socks, not necessarily of the same pair. That's why it's wordplay, because both meanings work on their own.

[Kaios]

The difference in perspective shouldn't be there in the first place. I agree that nowadays a pant isn't quite one leg of a pair of pants, nor is a scissor one half of a pair of scissors, but a sock can indeed be singular and while the idiom "a pair of socks" phrased that way usually refers to, in fact, a likely matching pair, that doesn't really make the alternate meaning of the phrase any less correct. Which is to say, two socks, not necessarily of the same pair. That's why it's wordplay, because both meanings work on their own.

The play on words was the removal or exclusion of the word matching, not a difference in perspective regarding the phrase "a pair of socks," at least in my opinion.

Originally when I read the riddle I assumed that because all my life when I refer to a pair of socks I've always done so referring to a matching pair that the trick of the riddle was meant to make you say two socks because a pair is two, when really it actually involved the use of the colours in the riddle leading you to conclude that four would be the answer.

That is how I became confused, it's like a trick question but a trick riddle. You know?

[Champie]

Comment withdrawn

[Kaios]

Why are you emphasizing look? Now you're just adding things to the riddle that were never intended.

RIDDLES ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS

[Champie]

Why are you emphasizing look? Now you're just adding things to the riddle that were never intended.

RIDDLES ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS

Agreed. My comment has been withdrawn

[ElManisero]

Riddle #6:

Forward I'm heavy, backwards I'm not.

What am I?

Today's riddle is sponsored by the fine private citizen Brona!
Brona reminds pilgrims that while you have the right to bear arms, they won't help much if he finds you alone in the woods...
As a special prize to the winner of today's riddle, Brona is offering a Redcoat's Musket (with a suspicious blood stain) in addition to the silver and points on the leaderboard.



[Winner = Alprice / RonPaulFTW - 3 minutes]

[alprice]

A ton