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Stumped by a riddle!

Evil GummyEvil Gummy Registered User regular
edited June 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
This one is killing me. It seems so easy, that my mind is becoming a blank. Kindly help me gents!


"A hole to fill a foot or less, this place can be a spider's nest."


My guess was a grave, but something tells me that is wrong..Also, something about a sand trap keeps springing to mind. :/

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  • Richard_DastardlyRichard_Dastardly Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I'm thinking a shoe hole? Does it have a name?

    Edit: I'm terrible at riddles.

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  • PrimePrime UKRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    yeah I would say a Shoe, only holds a foot (or less) and spiders often make their home in them.

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  • NoffNoff Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    A boot.

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    I'm thinking something like a den (synonym for hole and also a term to describe a place where predatory animals such as spiders would nest).

    If a shoe is a culturally common den for spiders in wherever then I guess that might work, but the hole fills the foot, not the other way around (den also doesn't fit with that part, but I'm not convinced by shoe).

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  • Richard_DastardlyRichard_Dastardly Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Right, but how does a hole fill anything?

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    Richard_Dastardly wrote: »
    Right, but how does a hole fill anything?

    Well, answer that and you might answer the riddle!

    Or maybe it's just badly worded, idunno.

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  • Evil GummyEvil Gummy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I'm thinking shoe is correct, I'll let you awesome folks know right away. :D

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  • Richard_DastardlyRichard_Dastardly Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Szechuanosaurus wrote: »
    Richard_Dastardly wrote: »
    Right, but how does a hole fill anything?

    Well, answer that and you might answer the riddle!

    Or maybe it's just badly worded, idunno.

    Could be poorly worded... maybe the hole to fill is a foot or less in depth.

    Edit: I think the riddle is lacking punctuation?

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  • ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2009
    My first thought was a shoe. Let us know!

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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Put a comma in between "fill" and "a", and "a foot or less" becomes what is required to fill the hole. So I'm going with punctuation problems.

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  • Evil GummyEvil Gummy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Shoe was the right answer, awesome! Thanks guys!

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