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Give me some of your hardest riddles? (with solutions in spoilers) (programming.dev)
submitted 1 day ago by moonpiedumplings@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

She comes sometimes at need,
But never at your heed.
To meet with her is jolly,
To push her would be folly.

Who is she?

edit: for bonus points, I first came across this with a second step in the puzzle. Not a riddle, but a different kind of puzzle. Solve this:

CyphertextLweycxkxr nq kwf mxzqp vlqu yq uxslnkyy, njocy kc yi ykj u dop mjyfff lp udvp nq pws. Kdd qkxrm cbp nqy dgcvw nq qpn kdd zcd wcvdwy dyos qpq njo rlqeyx. Vrp vgo, zz eyfluo, qfkod upihua lpwcedy dopm fyy'n ekcy yrln jexupc ebkxv cu sxjqcdcdvp.

Though that's not the same text I had the first time (it was in a D&D game and the text was related to that), the same technique would need to be applied to read the above text. The riddle's solution is relevant.

[โ€“] postnataldrip@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

My app doesn't support spoilers so I don't know if this has worked. Maybe collapse this comment if you don't want to see it, just in case.

SpoilerLady luck?

Edit: fixed maybe? Thanks @Zagorath@aussie.zone

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You gotta do

[spoiler description] on the first line (most of the time, that means ::: spoiler Spoilers or similar.

spoiler Spoilers Correct :::

[โ€“] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This format doesn't work on Eternity. Eternity >!does them like this!<. Does this way not work for people not on Eternity?

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah that's the old Reddit syntax. Some former Reddit apps haven't updated to support the syntax specified for use on Lemmy. I would recommend contacting your app's devs and asking them to support Lemmy's syntax.

[โ€“] MakingWork@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I'm on Eternity. It worked.

[โ€“] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

It doesn't seem to be working. I'm on Jerboa

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

the edit worked

there's also, if you're interested, a second part of the puzzle that I edited into the above. It's not a riddle though so feel free to ignore.