The Sphinx’s Riddle is a sort of riddle game.  Every fortnight there’s a new riddle on the Sphinx’s Riddle page of this blog, and to see the riddle you must type in a password, which is always the answer to the riddle from the fortnight before.  If you can’t figure out a riddle, never fear.  I will have the previous fortnight’s riddle here, along with the answer.

Why is it called the Sphinx’s Riddle?  The sphinx from Greek and Egyptian mythology was a monster of Thebes.  It had the face of a woman, the wings of an eagle, and the body of a lion.  Now that’s an interesting mythical creature!  She, or maybe I should say, it, stopped travelers to ask them a riddle about the three ages of man.  If they couldn’t answer, well, then… let’s just say that they didn’t get to their anticipated destination.  Eventually, a man named Oedipus came along and defeated the Sphinx.

Check for the next riddle, coming out soon (see the dates right after the riddle on the Sphinx’s Riddle page, here)!

 

5’th Fortnight

I am secret.

Sometimes simple,

Sometimes not.

I unlock things.

I can be given,

Or sometimes

Figured out.

What am I?

Answer: password

(outdated) NOTE: the answer to this riddle will be the password for this page, Sphinx’s Riddle, from August 17, 2015 — August 31, 2015.  Check in between those two dates for 2 back-to-school riddles!

4’th Fortnight’s Riddle

I am invisible,

Yet needed

For all to

be alive

today.

NOTE: The answer to this Sphinx’s Riddle is going to be the password for the next riddle, posted on the Sphinx’s Riddle page of this blog from August 3, 2015 through August 17, 2015.

Answer/password: oxygen

3’rd Fortnight’s Riddle

I have five hearts, yet cannot love.

I can be short – or three yards long!

I can regenerate, but only some parts.

I am neither male nor female.

What am I?

Note: The answer will be the password for the Sphinx’s Riddle page from July 20 – August 3, 2015.

Answer: earthworm

2’nd Fortnight’s Riddle

I come so fast and go so quick,

Yet I can seem to drag.

I’m faster than sound, faster than light.

You can’t blink an eyelash without me going past!

I’m always the same although

I change others, it’s always been so.

 

NOTE: The answer will be the password on the Sphinx’s Riddle page from July 6-20, 2015.

Answer: time

1’st Fortnight’s Riddle

I have a mouth

Through which food goes

Into my clear self.

I have a ring around my mouth

To hold in place the sealing lid

‘Til I am needed

In the winter.

Handy hint: think mulberry season.  Canning.

 

NOTE: The answer will be the password for June 22-29.

Answer: canningjar