Riddles and Clues

13 August 2010 | Filed Under RPG 

I am writing so many riddles in preparation for Harry Potter Weekend (a birthday party for Harry, and then the first game of the HP Role Playing Game).

I need clues for a scavenger hunt we’re doing for the party, and I need riddles little firsties can solve, since they’re not skilled enough to take on much else.

Riddles are both frustrating and fun, to come up with clues that are both challenging and possible to solve. I like to make them rhyme, so that’s another difficulty. So it’s like poetry, but designed to stump.

For obvious reasons, I won’t post what I have now. I’ll update this post with my Harry Potter riddles after Harry Potter Weekend is over. Stay tuned!

EDIT: Here are some of the riddles I made. Short ones are from the scavenger hunt, longer ones are sphinx riddles for the RPG. If you like, post your guesses to the sphinx riddle in the comments!

“On the threshold of a magical portal
Lies power too great for a mortal.
Look past the bone and Mungo’s sign,
To find this, the fourth clue of mine.”

Answer: the Elder Wand, hidden in the St. Mungo’s sign of a crossed wand and bone.

“When you get in trouble with the Marauder’s Map,
You go to Dumbledore, but not for a nightcap!
He’s in the dungeons playing a game,
And knowing Dumbledore, it’s probably lame.”

Answer: the invisibility cloak, hidden in a Dumbledore’s Office lego box

“First think of getting a drink off the cuff,
Or when someone doesn’t have nearly enough.
Next, tell me what’s always the first thing to steep
Dark in the morning when you want to sleep.
And finally give me the thing often found
Within a front door or lost on the ground.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which item would you be unwilling to miss?”

“My first never are and never will be;
It’s trapped in the past, but Man is the key.
My second is hunted by Man in the wood;
But it owns the night, as well it should.
United you’ll find these opponents are bound;
Though their tensions remain, changes abound.”

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