Riddles or puzzles

From Monty Python and the Holy Grail

What's your favourite colour?

Blue

I found one on the this forum, the water jug puzzle from Die hard 3.


There must be some in Batman by the riddler.
And perhaps in Harry potter movies and the lord of the rings.

Can anybody remember some?

Whim

I found 4 riddles which were asked by the riddler in Batman Forever. According to the source each riddle had a number in it which spelled out something. But they didn't go in to the matter more.

1. If you look at numbers on my face you won't find 13 anyplace.
2. Tear 1 off and scatch my head, what once was red is black instead.
3. The 8 of us go forth and not back to protect our king from the foes attack.
4. We're 5 little items of an everyday sort, you'll find us all in a tennis court.

I guess there were more riddles since these four letters MAHE make nothing interesting.


Whim

Blue. NO RED! (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh)

Bye bye sir Galahad.

Weren't there riddles in the movie Seven?



whim

I can't believe I can't think of the title but there was a movie that the whole thing was a riddle.

There were only two guys in the whole move. I think one was the husband and the other was the wife's lover.

Maybe Michael Cain was in it.....

"Sleuth" was the name of the movie!

I vaguely remember that film, I think the other guy was Christopher Reeve

"Deathtrap" was the one with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve - another good puzzler!

"Sleuth" had Michael Caine and Lawerence Olivier.

Those two would make a great double feature. I might have to hit the classics section of the movie store.

You are dead right there boomer, they are a pair of classics. I'd watch them tonight if I could get hold of them.

Die Hard 3 also asked the "When I was going to St. Ives" riddle.

Lots of classic riddles in The Hobbit of course (animated).

Do you know any of "the hobbit" riddles.


Whim

Damn, there's one at the Gate of Moria, the answer being Elvin for 'friend' but I can't remember the wording.

There's one from the original(ish) Batman (ie Adam West/Burt Ward) but I think it may have been in the TV series rather than the movie.

Three men are in a boat with four cigarettes and nothing else. How do they manage to smoke?


They throw a cigarette overboard and make the boat a cigarette lighter!

Thanks hingehead. I also started think about alice in Wonderland and perhaps even shakespeare plays.


Speak friend and enter.
I found that mellon is elvin for friend.



whim

I'm pretty sure the films 7 and January Man had serial killers who delighted in leaving puzzles for the police. In fact that's a pretty common motif in cop flicks.

The Hobbit riddles.

GOLLUM:
What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?

BILBO: Easy! Mountain, I suppose.

GOLLUM: Does it guess easy? It must have a competition with us, my preciouss! If precious asks, and it doesn't answer, we eats it, my preciousss. If it asks us, and we doesn't answer, then we does what it wants, eh? We shows it the way out, yes!

BILBO: All right.

NARRATOR 2: …said Bilbo, not daring to disagree, and nearly bursting his brain to think of riddles that could save him from being eaten. All he could think of was an old one.

BILBO:
Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.

GOLLUM: Teeth! Teeth! But we has only six, my precious.

NARRATOR 3: Then Gollum asked the second.

GOLLUM:
Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.

BILBO: Half a moment!

NARRATOR 1: …cried Bilbo, who was still thinking uncomfortably about being eaten. Fortunately, he had once heard something like this before and, getting his wits back, he thought of the answer.

BILBO: Wind, wind, of course.

NARRATOR 2: Bilbo was so pleased that he made up one on the spot.

BILBO:
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."

GOLLUM: Ss, ss, ss.

NARRATOR 4: Gollum had been underground a long, long time, and was forgetting this sort of thing. But just as Bilbo was beginning to hope that the wretch would not be able to answer, Gollum brought up memories of ages and ages ago.

GOLLUM: Sun on the daisies, it means, it does.

NARRATOR 3: These aboveground sort of riddles were tiring for Gollum, and they made him hungry too. So this time he tried something a bit more difficult and unpleasant.

GOLLUM:
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.

NARRATOR 1: But Bilbo had heard that sort of thing before, and the answer was all around him anyway.

BILBO: Dark!

GOLLUM: Sssssss!

NARRATOR 2: Bilbo was still trying to think of a really hard one. To gain time, he asked one he thought would be easy.

BILBO:
A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

NARRATOR 4: But Gollum hissed and spluttered and did not answer.

BILBO: Well, what is it?

GOLLUM: Give us a chance. Let it give us a chance, my preciouss-ss-ss.… Eggses! Eggses it is!

NARRATOR 3: Now Gollum thought it was time to ask something hard and horrible.

GOLLUM:
This thing all things devours
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers

Gnaws iron, bites steel,
Grinds hard stones to meal,

Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down!

NARRATOR 1: Bilbo sat in the dark thinking of all the giants and ogres he had ever heard of, but not one of them had done all these things.

NARRATOR 2: He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know, but he could not think of it. He began to get frightened, and that is bad for thinking!

NARRATOR 4: Gollum began to get out of his boat. He flapped into the water and paddled to the bank.

NARRATOR 1: Bilbo could see the eyes coming towards him. His tongue seemed to stick in his mouth. He wanted to shout, "Give me more time! Give me time!" But all that came out was

BILBO: Time! Time!

GOLLUM: (stops) Sssssssss.

NARRATOR 2: Bilbo was saved by pure luck, for "time" was the answer!

NARRATOR 3: Gollum was getting angry, and also tired of the game. It had made him very hungry indeed. He sat down in the dark by Bilbo.

GOLLUM: It's got to ask us a quesstion, my preciouss, yes, yess, yesss. Jusst one more quesstion to guess, yes, yess.

NARRATOR 1: But Bilbo simply could not think of any question with that nasty, wet, cold thing sitting next to him, pawing and poking him. He scratched himself, he pinched himself. Still, he could think of nothing.

GOLLUM: Ask us! Ask us!

NARRATOR 2: Bilbo pinched himself and slapped himself and even felt in his pocket.

NARRATOR 1: There he found the ring he had picked up in the passage and forgotten.

BILBO: (to himself) What have I got in my pocket?

GOLLUM: Not fair! It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?

NARRATOR 2: Bilbo had been talking to himself, but Gollum had thought it was a riddle. Having nothing better to ask, Bilbo stuck to his question.

BILBO: (louder, to Gollum) What have I got in my pocket?

GOLLUM: Sssssss. It must give us three guesseses, my preciouss?-three guesseses.

BILBO: Very well! Guess away!

GOLLUM: Handses!

BILBO: Wrong! Guess again!

GOLLUM: Sssssss.

NARRATOR 4: Gollum thought of all the things he kept in his own pockets: fishbones, goblins' teeth, wet shells, a bit of bat-wing, a sharpening stone to sharpen his fangs on. He tried to think what other people kept in their pockets.

GOLLUM: Knife!

BILBO: Wrong! Last guess!

NARRATOR 3: Gollum hissed and spluttered and rocked backwards and forwards, slapped his feet on the floor, wriggled and squirmed. But he dared not waste his last guess.

BILBO: Time's up!

GOLLUM: String?-or nothing!

BILBO: Both wrong!

NARRATOR 1: Bilbo jumped at once to his feet and held out his sword.

BILBO: And now you must show the way out!

GOLLUM: Ssssssssssss!

Thanks Guys.

Whim

There was a pictoral puzzle in a Bob Hope movie (was it Ghost Hunters or Pardon my Ghost?- one was the same plot with Martin & Lewis) where there was a series of what appeared to be marching men etched on a basement wall. it turned out that they were musical notes without the staff bars drawn in, and when played on the nearby organ, the notes opened a secret panel.