Wednesday, 18 September 2013

reverse puzzling - Reassemble the riddles!


I'd just finished writing four short 4-line riddles, painstakingly making sure each line was correct, when a wind caught the slips of paper I'd been using to write on and blew them all over the floor. Quickly I picked them up again, but the order of them was lost. I'd written each line of each riddle on a separate slip, so that I could rearrange them if necessary, but now I regretted this decision. Some of the lines were repeated multiple times (I'd tried to be clever by writing overlapping riddles), and I was struggling to remember which lines could be put together into which riddle. Here are all the lines, in alphabetical order and without punctuation:



  1. "A faithful friend"

  2. "Contracted to love"

  3. "I can wave to you"

  4. "I'm bound to you"


  5. "In most of the world"

  6. "Living by nose"

  7. "Through woe or joy"

  8. "Which we may run down"

  9. "Without hands at all"

  10. "You can feel my salt"


Can you reassemble these lines to form four simple 4-line riddles, and solve them?



I'm unsure how hard this challenge is going to be. If it goes unsolved for a while, the first piece of information I'll add is which of the 10 lines are duplicated.




This is the first puzzle of this kind I've made, and I'm unsure how well it's going to work. All feedback welcome.



Answer



This was a lot of fun, I think the result might be:


1:



In most of the world
you can feel my salt
I can wave to you
without hands at all

-Ocean



2:



Living by nose
I can wave to you
without hands at all
A faithful friend
-Dog




3:



Contracted to love
Through woe or joy
I'm bound to you
A faithful friend
-Spouse



4:




Living by nose
Which we may run down
Through woe or joy
You can feel my salt
-Tears



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