I need help with this riddle (it'll make me look smart at the office)

[LanternWaste]

I'll look really, really good at work if someone can help me out with this riddle...

A trip with no fall
from a 5 sided space
or a little golden ball
in a magical place


Thanks for your guesses, help and prognostications...

[Richard Steele]

1. LOCKING: No sex threads.

But seriously- I haven't a clue. sorry.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Besides looking good at the office

what will you win???? :evilgrin:

[LanternWaste]

3. Respect, love, honor... the usual stuff.

Respect, love, honor... the usual stuff.

(Not really, but a girl I have a terribly unrequited crush on would be impressed...)

[wildhorses]

4. ben-wa ball

:shrug:

[plcdude]

6. I can tell it is

Friday afternoon and we know what you are thinking about. Hope you have a good weekend.

[wildhorses]

7. who me??

:rofl:

[LanternWaste]

8. That though crossed my mind, too...

That though crossed my mind, too...

Bad idea to use that particular answer...lol

[wildhorses]

10. well then, where are all the smarty pants when we need them

:wtf: is this thing???

[Richardo]

29. .

[wildhorses]

40. ~~~~~~~

:rofl:




O_O





whacha staring at big guy??

[buddhamama]

5. hmmm...

LSD or a similar drug. shrug:

[ceile]

9. Shooting star?

[LanternWaste]

15. This is going to keep me awake tonight....

Best answer I've heard so far... let's pretend that's it until we find out differently.

This is going to keep me awake tonight....

[ceile]

16. me too.

I really dislike riddles.....

[Lance_Boyle]

11. 5 sided space

Pentagon?

Trip with no fall... gotta be an Arizona vacation, since they have no concept of autumn out there.

Little golden ball? I'm thinking BBs.

So, it's very clear to me that what we have here is a riddle about Rumsfeld taking a trip to Arizona and being shot with a BB gun.

What do I win?

[LanternWaste]

13. I'll let you know as soon as...

I'll let you know as soon as everyone in the office stops laughing at me because I offered your answer up...

[Lance_Boyle]

14. First they laugh at you,

then they buy you drinks,
then they laugh at you some more,
then you win.

;-)

[Richard Steele]

12. OK, a serious thought: a first-generation U.S. satellite.

Trip without a fall: Launched and never hit earth again.

5-sided place: The Pentagon, cuz the ARMY was in charge of our first
launches, and NASA is still a branch of the Defense Dept.

Golden ball/magic place: spherical satellite in orbit.

You might need to google for a US satellite that was ball-shaped;
the first one we launched was cylindrical. The Soviets used spherical
design for Sputnik 1, so we may have done the same at some point early on.

[BrotherBuzz]

22. excellent stab at it but the operative word is OR

or a little golden ball

[Richard Steele]

25. That's not NECESSARILY an operative in the 'either/or' sense.

At least, as far as I understand the traditinal riddle format, it isn't.

MOOT point, though- I still don't REALLY think my 'satellite'
answer is correct.
It just doesn't have that punchline-style PAYOFF
that you get from the answer to a good riddle.

It doesn't have that "Oh, of COURSE..." factor, y'know?

[BrotherBuzz]

26. Well then, dammit, take another stab at it

;)

[Richard Steele]

27. Why? What's my motivation?

I'm not the one tryin' to get my hot coworker
out of her pants, y'know!

I've been in a great relationship for over 7 years now-
when I want some nasty, red-hot, howlin' MonkeyLove, I just
surprise her by cleaning the living room.
No need to go dragging RIDDLES into it.

Life is good.

[BrotherBuzz]

30. I'll give you a big shiny dime

;)


Come on, this riddle has me stumped.

[Richard Steele]

31. Nice try- there are no BIG shiny dimes.

If I had a NICKLE for every time I fell for THAT ONE....

[BrotherBuzz]

32. OK, I'll offer you a seven-cents nickel.

Do you know what this country needs today?...A seven-cent nickel. Yessiree, we've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near a hundred years' daylight saving. Now, why not give the seven-cent nickel a chance? If that works out, next year we could have an eight-cent nickel. Think what that would mean. You could go to a newsstand, buy a three-cent newspaper and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last a family a lifetime!

[Richard Steele]

34. Hmmmm....Well, if I said I wasn't interested, I'd be LYING.

I'm not interested.

[edwin]

17. Snitch?

Thought "a little golden ball in a magical place" refered to the snitch used in Quidditch :shrug:

[LanternWaste]

20. I'm clueless about Harry Potter

I'm clueless about Harry Potter. But that's been one answer bandied around the office.

[ccjlld]

18. Could the little golden ball

be a Snitch? Such as a "Golden Snitch" from Harry Potter?

[edwin]

19. Ha!

Beat you! :P

[wildhorses]

21. with the use of the word "or"

makes me think it can be 2 things...one thing "or" the other thing the same word when spelled differently...:shrug:

[BrotherBuzz]

23. Jinx!

We're on the same page.

[wildhorses]

24. GMTA

I think we are on to something....now if we could just figure it out...

[edwin]

28. Let's try something else

The Golden Ball is a FIFA award that has been awarded to:

1982 Paolo Rossi
1986 Diego Maradona
1990 Salvatore Schillaci
1994 Romario
1998 Ronaldo
2002 Oliver Kahn
2006 Zinedine Zidane

A 5 sided space is what soccer balls used to be made off:


:shrug:

[wildhorses]

33. I think you are on to something with this soccer thing

where is the magical space?

is there somehow that Harry Potter and soccer could have some kind of pun

some kind of play on words?

:shrug:

[edwin]

35. Sort of stuck

Hoping for more inspiration.

Thought of Maradona (trip with no fall).

Found out that there will be no quidditch scene in HP movie 5.

Jeez.

[wildhorses]

36. dadgum it !!

:grr::banghead:

[edwin]

42. Thanks!

I am learning all kinds of new things in this thread! :hi:

[wildhorses]

51. always glad to be of service and BTW

Welcome to the Lounge:hi:

Come late, stay early and post often!!

[BrotherBuzz]

37. I got stuck thinking outside the box...

In my case, the five-sided space was a box. :shrug:

[cwydro]

38. I'm terrible at riddles

but my mom is great at them. If we're sure this isn't dirty...I'll send it to her...yeah...little golden ball in a magic place makes me think of Harry Potter too. I think the "or" is important.

[wildhorses]

39. oh ...go ahead...send it to your Mom

we need a clean mind in on this...:hi:

[cwydro]

41. oh yeah right

this advice from the Ben-Wa woman.....:hi: :P

[wildhorses]

50. I see you are now in the 700 club...if you want help getting out

just let me know :hug::hi:

it is SOOO good to see you on here, again:loveya:

signed,

the ben-wa woman :rofl:

[ccjlld]

43. The answer is a snitch

1st part of the riddle goes back a ways, but something we Dems should have gotten. I slapped my forehead and went "Duh!" when I saw it finally worked out!

A trip with no fall from a 5 sided space ====== Linda Tripp worked at the Pentagon

Linda Tripp was a !!!!!Snitch!!!!!

Several of us were right about the other part

Little golden ball from a magical place - Golden Snitch from HP

[cwydro]

46. ooooohhhhh

I like that one...is this a blue office where this riddle originated?

[ccjlld]

47. I don't know

where I found it was in folks asking about a game called Gold Rush on AOL.

[wildhorses]

52. I believe we have a winner here!!

Snitch meets the requirements for both sides of the equation :bounce:

and like you I am *slapping my forehead* :eyes:

it also has the a-ha factor :think:

Bravo ccjlld :applause:


and welcome to the Lounge :hi:

come late, stay early and post often :pals:

and while you're at it how about filling us in on your username :shrug:


and oh yeah, (bout forgot the main thing)

HAVE FUN :rofl:

[ccjlld]

53. Explanation of my user name

I started working in the Datacenter at Mizzou in 1985. At the time we were called Campus Computing (makes sense, right?). We had to pick a user name that started with "cc". So I just added the initials of my first, middle, maiden, and married name at the time. Hence, ccjlld. Since I've been using it at work for over 20 years, I have a tendency to use it for other things.

BTW, since then our department has had 4 or 5 different names. The current is IATS, (Information and Access Technology Services), however, in the next year we will be changing our name once again to Mizzou IT.

Thanks for the welcome to the Lounge! I've been a lurker and sometimes poster for a long time!

[LynzM]

44. A 5-sided space could be a pyramid...

That's the only help I've got to offer, at the moment...

[Karenca]

45. See the above post

It's the the Pentagon.

[Whoa_Nelly]

48. Maybe it's about this fairy tale

First went to wikipedia and found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows_Pole

So then went looking for "The Golden Ball" fairy tale
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=steel&book=english&story=ball

and here:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/meft/meft04.htm


A trip with no fall
(Saved from the hangman's noose)
From a five-sided space
(hmmmm...not sure)
Or a golden ball
(is in the story)
In a magical place
(more from the story)

[DawgHouse]

49. a magical place...

Disney? :(

sorry to mention the "d" word but I'm just trying to figure out the riddle!!

I never saw the movie but this Disney movie references a golden ball..

http://www.ultimatedisney.com/treasureplanet.html