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 Post subject: Riddle of the keeper stone
PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:53 pm 
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I am many, dragging the past along in our fall,
I am one, keeping future into a cycle.

Who am I?


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 Post subject: Re: Riddle of the keeper stone
PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:56 pm 
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[Redacted--new clue is harder, you guys figure it out]

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 Post subject: Re: Riddle of the keeper stone
PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:59 pm 
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yeah I made the riddle a little harder as you had solved it way too fast :lol:


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:01 pm 
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Well, that was a lot quicker than last time :D

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 11:27 pm 
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:smt014 :smt101 What? I can't understand the clue at all.....and English is my native language. :shock:


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 Post subject: Re: Riddle of the keeper stone
PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:24 pm 
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Diamond.

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 Post subject: Re: Riddle of the keeper stone
PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 11:43 am 
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it's not diamond.

I've reformulated the riddle more clearly.


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 Post subject: Re: Riddle of the keeper stone
PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 8:50 pm 
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coral?


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 Post subject: Re: Riddle of the keeper stone
PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 4:33 pm 
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it's not coral either.

you should ask yourself what is the riddle talking about...


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:00 pm 
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I envision continental drift forming individual continents caused by plate movement on the mantle and then eventually coming back together to form another Pangea.....but I think I may be the wrong track. :cry:


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:02 pm 
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indeed, you're on the wrong track [-X

it's actually more obvious than that


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pallasitic meteorites falling from asteroids?


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:30 pm 
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not meteorites.

Pay more attention to the terms of the riddle. They are quite illustrative.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 3:12 am 
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Maybe Zircon?


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:47 am 
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Oh.....that would make sense.


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