Riddle of the week...

[Valleysboy1978]

Last weeks (just to catch up with the BBC site)...

what sport should be added to the following group of words? "sexist sleevefish profusion delighted extraneous growth furtiveness nevertheless"


This weeks...


Double or Quits

In a moment of terror,
Though the feeling is passing,
I put on my skiing goggles
For the snow that is lashing
And running down my face.
I need to get a grip.
Can my nerves do my bidding
Or are they abandoning ship?

[wossname]

the ansewr to last weeks is "nippleclamps"

What are we supposed to do with the poem?

[Valleysboy1978]

Just for the record the answer was not nippleclamps as that isn't a sport...at least outside of wossname's warped mind

No idea what we're supposed to do with it

[wossname]

Depends what you do with them

[Merrion]

The poem describes the realisation that "Titanic" has just come on and you can't find the TV remote control.

[Valleysboy1978]

And then even worse you're girlfriend says excitedly "Oh! I LOVE this film!"

For the love of god Noooooo!!!

[Ecniv]

Last weeks (just to catch up with the BBC site)...

what sport should be added to the following group of words? "sexist sleevefish profusion delighted extraneous growth furtiveness nevertheless"


This weeks...


Double or Quits

In a moment of terror,
Though the feeling is passing,
I put on my skiing goggles
For the snow that is lashing
And running down my face.
I need to get a grip.
Can my nerves do my bidding
Or are they abandoning ship?

Sounds like somewhere cold.
A passing Terror... Might be a trip/journey to the south/North Pole.
Either that or perhaps its Eddie da Eagle? About to do a sky jump with a little snow falling?
Tobogan (sp?) run?
Setting off an avalanche and trying to beat it to the the bottom (and survive) competition (didn't make it to the olympics...)

[Valleysboy1978]

It's the title that is annoying me, what does Double or Quits have to do with snow? Suggests gambling of some kind

[Valleysboy1978]

Last weeks (just to catch up with the BBC site)...

what sport should be added to the following group of words? "sexist sleevefish profusion delighted extraneous growth furtiveness nevertheless"


This weeks...


Double or Quits

In a moment of terror,
Though the feeling is passing,
I put on my skiing goggles
For the snow that is lashing
And running down my face.
I need to get a grip.
Can my nerves do my bidding
Or are they abandoning ship?

Last weeks (just to catch up with the BBC site)...

what sport should be added to the following group of words? "sexist sleevefish profusion delighted extraneous growth furtiveness nevertheless"


The Answer
The answer is Tennis as all the above words have anagrams of numbers in the middle:
extra(neo)us --> one
gr(owt)h --> two
nev(erthe)less --> three
p(rofu)sion --> four
slee(vefi)sh --> five
se(xis)t --> six
furti(venes)s --> seven
del(ighte)d --> eight

T(enni)s --> nine

[Valleysboy1978]

Perhaps this riddle is too difficult?

[techgnome]

Double in the title probably refers to a Double Black Diamond, a classification of ski trails, and being amonst the most difficult. IT soulds like someone's inner battle as they stand at the top of the hill, looking down the trail and realizes "What the frag have I gotten myself into." I've done that myself a couple of times.

Tg

[space_monkey]

wow i don't think i would have gotten that in a million years. That's not saying much i know.

[wossname]

One two three tennis!!!

Ahh i see it now.

[Valleysboy1978]

Double in the title probably refers to a Double Black Diamond, a classification of ski trails, and being amonst the most difficult. IT soulds like someone's inner battle as they stand at the top of the hill, looking down the trail and realizes "What the frag have I gotten myself into." I've done that myself a couple of times.

Tg

Impressive, better than what I've come up with which is absolutely nothing

[Valleysboy1978]

Answer to the riddle:
The solution lay in identifying the double letters of each word that appeared in the passage - terror, feeling, passing, skiing, goggles, running, need, bidding. Put together they spell RESIGNED.

[Valleysboy1978]

This weeks riddle
Word Pyramid III

Each missing word is an anagram of the one before including one additional letter. Can you find them all?

Down by the tracks, Fred the ? looked up at a ? whilst sat upon a ?. As the ? went by, he sat just ?. Bill the ? fluttered down and started nattering about geometry and home-decorating - he was fascinated with ? and ?. Unfortunately he had forgotten about the 23:02. As Bill got a good ?, Fred's screams were ?.

[mendhak]

of the one before

Of the word just before it, or of the anagram just before it?

[Valleysboy1978]

The anagram before it.