KQ Riddles!

[Delling]

I'm fairly certain they're the same. I always felt that the end of KQ3 was sort of giving the player an update about just how ruined Daventry had become (why didn't Graham just saddle up with the shield and go kick the 3 headed dragon's butt all the way to the Isle of the Dead?... the shield is supposed to make him invincible right? So, yeah... why not?)

I really didn't like my guess that much so I don't have a riddle prepared at the moment.

Used to see one so grim,
Doesn't like the sight of him!
"Run and hide.
The bad guy's on the other side."


*feels this is ridiculously easy but hasn't the time to make a harder one*

[hercrabbiness]

The Hole in the Wall?

[Delling]

Yeah. I told ya it was easy.

[hercrabbiness]

Yippee! Okay, I've finally thought of something. Hopefully it isn't too vague...

I am easily found
If you look at the ground
For what I am, I'm unordinary
For your quest, not even necessary

[Bludshot]

The 4-leaf clover from KQI

[Delling]

Yippee! Okay, I've finally thought of something. Hopefully it isn't too vague...

I am easily found
If you look at the ground
For what I am, I'm unordinary
For your quest, not even necessary

When I first read it, the line about looking at the ground really made me think about the bridle from KQ4, but that is necessary!

I guess the walnut in KQ1.

[hercrabbiness]

I guess the walnut in KQ1.

Well that was easy! Your move, then.


(What are we, the King and Queen of the riddle thread? )

[Boogeyman]

Wouldn't the clover also be correct? You don't need that to complete KQ1 either.

[hercrabbiness]

You don't? ... Gee, I never knew that. I guess I'll have to take your word for it, then.

[koko_99_2001]

But you do use the clover...it keeps the leprechauns from attacking you, doesn't it? *thinks she read it in the KQ companion*

[Delling]

(What are we, the King and Queen of the riddle thread? )

In light of that comment, I created this riddle:

Knight to King one.
Queen to Rook eight.
Pawn to King one.
Pawn sans a date.

This will be either really easy or ridiculously difficult.

[koko_99_2001]

Cassima?

[Boogeyman]

But you do use the clover...it keeps the leprechauns from attacking you, doesn't it? *thinks she read it in the KQ companion*

You can play the fiddle regardless of whether you have the clover.

[Delling]

Cassima?

Nope.

[Yonkey]

KQ1-4?

[hercrabbiness]

Very puzzling. Prince Alexander?

And if someone does get the answer, could they please explain it to me?

[Deloria]

KQ1-4?

*agrees with slight alterations*

Knight to a King (obviouly Graham in KQI)
Queen to a rook (Valanice was locked in a tower)
Pawn to a King could mean Alexander going to Graham as in finding this way back home, or it could mean he became a king, in which case it refers to KQVI.
And the last one could refer to KQVII if the above is correct.

[awesomeasapossum]

My guess is chessboard land...

[Delling]

KQ1-4?

Correct. Very good. And now, I'll explain.

KQ1-4?

*agrees with slight alterations*

Knight to a King (obviouly Graham in KQI)
Queen to a rook (Valanice was locked in a tower)
Pawn to a King could mean Alexander going to Graham as in finding this way back home, or it could mean he became a king, in which case it refers to KQVI.
And the last one could refer to KQVII if the above is correct.

Knight to King one.
Queen to Rook eight.
Pawn to King one.
Pawn sans a date.

So, the first three lines are descriptive chess notation that describe an aspect of each game (the last line is not descriptive chess notation).

N-K1: Obviously, knight to the square where the king starts, right? Sir Graham becomes King Graham.
Q-R8: So, this one is considerably more abstract: my idea was the queen is at the top of the tower (it just occured to me that I could also have used Pawn to Rook eight, Queen (R8=Q) or Rook one... however the numbers were chosen in part for rhyme and in part for sense so that would have messed up the quatrain so... no).
K1: This is an illegal move. But, the point is indeed that Alexander returns home. I probably would have done "Pawn to King eight, King" if I'd meant KQ6 (though that too is an illegal move).

Pawn sans a date: I thought this was the biggest give away here. Literally, "a pawn without a date" and Rosella is without a date throughout all of KQ4.

I guess it's Yonkey's turn. Deloria is right however that without the logic behind the riddle, there's not enough to exclude certain other things.

*wishes this had gone on longer*

[Yonkey]

  Ok, this one should be fairly easy:

I appear in five and seven
Tossed in sand, but found in the heavens
I can free you from the cold
Part of me is made of gold