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Here's one from an online game I'm playing that I haven't cracked yet:

"I watched an army gathering supplies over miles of country side. No homestead did they pillage, no blade of grass was broken. What am I?"

If you think you know then post your answer and I'll see if it works

3. You can spin, wheel, and twist
But it can turn without moving.

And #3 is:

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Milk

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To be fair, I have no idea the reasoning behind that one.

My guess for the reasoning:

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by turn they mean spoil.

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Haha, and there I was thinking I was being original.  What's the actual answer you had in mind?

Originally my answer was just "Give her something important to do". Next time I tell that one though I'll have to remove the space between 'anti' and 'matter' to make it more difficult.

Here's a somewhat original one by me.

How do you make anti matter?

Get her in the kitchen to make Uncle's dinner.

Yes, That's a correct answer! It's a pun based on the riddle, "How do you make anti freeze? (Take away her blanket)"

Here's a somewhat original one by me.

How do you make anti matter?

at the (darth) Maul? (mall)

Yep, kind of a pun that one was.

Here's a riddle for fans of Star Wars.

Where do the Sith do their shopping?

If a farmer gave 17 cents to one son, and 8 cents to his other son, what time would it be?

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Quarter to two!

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I'd say... A well.

That is the correct answer!

Humpty Dumpty?

That was one of my guesses when I first encountered the riddle in Zork 2. But when it made a second appearance in Ultima 5 I decrypted the dialogue files to find the correct answer.

I think that's for the electric chair, not stake.

Homer: MMMMMM ... Steak ... (drools)

That riddle was a tough pun.

Here's one that appeared in two separate games:

What's tall as a house
and round as a cup
but all the king's horses
can't draw it up?

Guess "Burger King" would have probably been too obvious...

Historical leader commonly found in burger joints.

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King!

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Okay, being on the right track...

Your bones?

Yes, that is the correct answer!

The ones that live inside everyone are, "Your Organs."

You're on the right track...

A man does it standing up, a woman does it sitting down, a dog does it on three legs.

This one was on Benny Hill.

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his answer was 'shake hands'

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What grinds down mountains and kills everything?

Hmm might take some 'time' to answer that one...

You got it!

Here's one from a more obscure game.

What lives inside every person?
If you're lucky you'll never see the ones inside yourself.
But in the end they are visible to all.

What has 4 legs for breakfast, two legs for lunch, and 3 legs for dinner?

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I remember very similar riddle, that was like "Who walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in midday and 3 legs in the evening". The answer was: a man, who crawls on four as a baby, walks on two as a grown up and uses stick for extra support in the older ages.
But at this time, it might be just a guy who loves eating chicken legs or something.

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You're on the right track,

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It's a variation of the riddle of the sphinx. Since the answer to the sphinx riddle was 'man' the answer to my new one would be something that eats men, like a cannibal (though a grisly bear or shark or other large carnivore would also work)

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There were some riddles in the Hobbit also, but I don't remember the exact wording for them. A rough paraphrase of one:

What grinds down mountains and kills everything?

As I recall many of these riddles are from "Betrayal at Krondor"

Here's one I made up that gives a new twist to a rather well known riddle

What has 4 legs for breakfast, two legs for lunch, and 3 legs for dinner?

Ok I thought of a more conventional riddle:
"What dish serves three and doesn't ever end?"

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satellite?

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"Small on the foot yet big on the shoe"
What am I?

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The toe!

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What am I?

When you say what are implying that the answer is an inanimate object rather than a person?