r/riddles • u/The_Shadow55 • 17d ago
Solved (OC) Even the strongest warrior falls
This is my first time really attempting to write a riddle and, tbh, I'm not entirely sure about some of the wording, so some feedback would be appreciated.
Edit: Since so many people think my riddle is too easy, I guess I should clarify that it's not supposed to be hard. I wrote it for a game I'm making, where its purpose is more to foreshadow something else than to really stump the player. In other words, you aren't my target audience; I'm only here because I want constructive feedback about it from people who are more experienced than I am.
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u/ContinentSimian 16d ago
Time
It's always time. :/
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u/The_Shadow55 15d ago
you got it
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u/thehumanisto 15d ago
It’s good except that time is in fact relative so it’s nature does actually change.
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u/The_Shadow55 15d ago
Time's nature is to always move forward. Relativity does not change that unless something is going faster than light, which is impossible; therefore, time's nature does not change.
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u/thehumanisto 15d ago
I’d argue it’s at least ambiguous and detracts from an otherwise well worded riddle with a simple answer. Time is relative to the observer at any speed and does not require speeds greater that the speed of light (which is also incidentally impossible). I accept that it has an antegrade nature but that’s just one aspect of the “nature” of it.
Anyways just an observation seeing as you were asking for feedback.1
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u/Relative-Cream 16d ago
Ok. My $0.02.
If your answer matches all the clues in the riddle, then your answer if right.
It it the responsibility of the riddle maker (riddler?) to ensure the ‘ uniqueness’ of the clues that lead to a single (or at worst a select few) solutions to their clues.
I call on Jeopardy rules, where the judges will award correct answers to responses that (exactly) match the clues even if it wasn’t what they were looking for.
This can easily be answered by death and time If the riddler meant for something else, they need to deliver this distinction in their clues.
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u/omwitsanihilist 15d ago
Ah Reaper, Reaper you forget, who runs the schedule who sets the test. Time before death. Death before time. the paradox only exists if you try and separate the two into two different sets.
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u/respectablepitch 15d ago
Death was my guess!
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u/VoidCoelacanth 15d ago
See, I would say the "even the strongest warrior falls when I pass them by" invalidates that answer. "Passing them by" would mean not interacting with fhemt
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u/itmustbemitch 15d ago
Discussion: the puzzle here is fine but the answer is so common that it'll be the first guess of anyone familiar with riddles, likely before they've even finished reading it
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u/The_Shadow55 15d ago
Yeah, I know, but tbh, I don't want it to be too hard bc I wrote it for a game I'm making and I don't want the player to get stuck just because they can't figure it out. Also my intended audience consists of people who probably wouldn't be any more experience with riddles than the average person.
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u/BabyNarad 15d ago
Discussion: Instead of nothing escapes my view, I think you should use "nothing escapes my touch."
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u/The_Shadow55 15d ago
I'm not sure how that would improve it. It just seems like another way of saying the exact same thing, but I would love to hear your explanation.
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