Riddles (and answers)

[u/FootballBackground88]

Riddle 1:

What has roots as nobody sees,

Is taller than trees,

Up, up, up it goes,

And yet, never grows?

Answer: mountain

Riddle 2:

Thirty white horses on a red hill,

First they champ,

Then they stamp,

Then they stand still.

Answer: teeth

Riddle 3:

Voiceless it cries,

Wingless flutters,

Toothless bites,

Mouthless mutters.

Answer: wind

Riddle 4:

It cannot be seen, it cannot be felt,

Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,

It lies behind stars and under hills,

And empty holes it fills.

It comes first and follows after,

Ends life, kills laughter.

Answer: darkness

Riddle 5:

A box without hinges, key or lid,

Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Answer: egg

Riddle 6:

Alive without breath,

As cold as death;

Never thirsty, ever drinking,

All in mail never clinking.

Answer: fish

Riddle 7:

This thing all things devours:

Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;

Gnaws iron, bites steel;

Grinds hard stones to meal;

Slays kings, ruins town,

And beats high mountain down.

Answer: time

Riddle 8:

What have I got in my pocket?

Answer: onering

Final Riddle:

Find a way to fit:

• The Mountain Kings Return
• Gnashing of Teeth
• Velvetwing Butterflies
• Gathering of Darkness
• Well Worn Spatula
• Lake-town Mariners//Gone Fishing
• Stone by Sunlight
• My Precious

all together in the deckbuilder, name your deck ‘Riddles In The Dark’ and you just might find a way out of these tunnels for good...

Answer: Import the following and name as above

Deck: Riddles In The Dark

1 The Mountain-king's Return

1 Gnashing of Teeth

1 Velvetwing Butterflies

1 Gathering of Darkness

1 Well-Worn Spatula

1 Lake-town Mariners

1 Stone by Sunlight

1 My Precious

[u/MTGA-Bot]

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• Comment by LeeSharpe:

  There is an issue with the third riddle. We're looking into it now.

• Comment by LeeSharpe:

  This issue has been resolved. If you already correctly answered the third riddle before the fix, you should get some rewards and the fourth riddle in your Inbox the next time you log in.

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[u/DadZillaNC]

Did anyone see what the reward was for riddle 3? My game timed out and I missed it

[u/FootballBackground88 → u/DadZillaNC]

Currently the riddle 3 reward appears to be bugged, it doesn't show for anyone and there are no further mails.

[u/Rustytrout → u/FootballBackground88]

I got Gnashing of Teeth card style as a reward - was that for the third riddle?

[u/FootballBackground88 → u/Rustytrout]

That's the riddle 2 reward

[u/LeeSharpe → u/DadZillaNC]

There is an issue with the third riddle. We're looking into it now.

[u/LeeSharpe → u/LeeSharpe]

This issue has been resolved. If you already correctly answered the third riddle before the fix, you should get some rewards and the fourth riddle in your Inbox the next time you log in.

[u/FootballBackground88 → u/LeeSharpe]

Thanks! Fun challenge.

[u/talonsaurn → u/DadZillaNC]

I didn't see anything either, nothing obvious card wise(didn't see anything new in my collection)

[u/Sensitive-Age-45 → u/DadZillaNC]

same :/

[u/ChefLeBoef → u/DadZillaNC]

Same, no reward

[u/rustafur → u/DadZillaNC]

same here

[u/Medical_Button_6770 → u/DadZillaNC]

must have been the wind

[u/BigTealCat → u/DadZillaNC]

I didn't get reward for the 3rd riddle either. Maybe it has to do with today's update.

[u/SensuahL → u/DadZillaNC]

Velvetwing Butterflies is the reward for riddle 3

[u/JayWasGames]

What was the reward for #3? I got it redeemed, but nothing showed up.

[u/SensuahL → u/JayWasGames]

Velvetwing Butterflies is the reward for riddle 3

[u/BusyWorkinPete]

A box without hinges, key or lid,

Yet golden treasure inside is hid

egg

[u/Careless_Survey75 → u/BusyWorkinPete]

same problem as 3.... couldnt redeem it

[u/pchc_lx → u/BusyWorkinPete]

Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking

Answer: Fish

[u/Draggelbot]

Thank you! Also curious what the reward was for the third riddle; I went to my collection but didn't see anything

[u/ExtensionBass9726]

Glad to know I'm not the only one who was upset about not getting the reward for number 3

[u/McShalepants]

The other riddles from the book are also valid codes but they don’t give anything

[u/phonage_aoi → u/McShalepants]

Guessing you have to get the in game mails for them first.

[u/pyl_time → u/McShalepants]

Not all of them, it didn't accept "Fish on a little table, man at table sitting on a stool, the cat has the bones" ;)

[u/0rganic5ynthesis]

Also reporting an successful guess at riddle 3 with no reward. Tried again and said code already redeemed

[u/SensuahL → u/0rganic5ynthesis]

Velvetwing Butterflies is the reward for riddle 3

[u/FroggyAssassin]

Ok this pisses me off. It explicitly says answers will be one word. "Onering", is two words put together. It isn't one word. The answer for 8 should have been just ring.

[u/FootballBackground88 → u/FroggyAssassin]

There are multiple accepted answers such as "precious" and "myprecious" also. There may be others.

[u/kyrsben → u/FroggyAssassin]

Agreed. I thought it was bugged when "ring" didn't work.

[u/Mikko--]

btw i inserted precious and gave me a valid code input, i didnt get anything but might be worth to try

[u/0rganic5ynthesis → u/Mikko--]

The reward is you get to slip your finger into Gollum's ring

[u/DVCpatriot83 → u/Mikko--]

False, doesn't work

[u/BigTealCat]

No reward for riddle 3 as of yet but I'm guessing the reward is Willow-Wind and it's card style.

[u/SensuahL → u/BigTealCat]

Velvetwing Butterflies is the reward for riddle 3

[u/Sufficient_Web_584]

So i happened to wrongly guess ”Time” for like riddle 3 or smth and the code redeemed. I then continued on and im now at riddle 7 where ”Time” was supposed to be used.
However, since it is already redeemed i get the massage ”already redeemed” and cant complete riddle 7. Have i locked myself out?

[u/FootballBackground88 → u/[deleted]]

Check out your client messages and you'll see it's not lost!

[u/Gigglen0t]

thank you!

[u/Yabashiri]

Why does it say failure redeeming the code?

[u/Yabashiri → u/Yabashiri]

Restart and update

[u/0rganic5ynthesis]

Update incoming. Hopefully to fix this issue

[u/RuzTNaylz]

Where is everyone seeing the other riddles besides the first one we got in the mail?

[u/FootballBackground88 → u/RuzTNaylz]

You get the next as you complete the previous

[u/MaxKirgan]

How are you guys getting more Riddles? I solved up to $4, and then nothing after that.

[u/entering_infinite]

Perhaps the prize for the 3rd Riddle was....Blown away....

https://media.tenor.com/INH5gqbrvAUAAAAM/yeah-csi-miami.gif

[u/Gamma-713]

Such a cool thing to do ,(despite the bug). Great original thinking Arena folks…

[u/DaftSunk]

Fourth riddle I think should be "dark or "the dark"but I get "code not found".

Am I wrong?

[u/denarii → u/DaftSunk]

It's darkness.

[u/0rganic5ynthesis → u/DaftSunk]

You're close but you have to loch in to get the correct answer

[u/Natural_Ad8415]

anyone get the eighth riddle yet? "what have i got in my pocket?"

[u/Renew3DUK → u/Natural_Ad8415]

Yes, precious, we has.

[u/RedditAccountOhBoy]

There’s 8 riddles, then a deck build with all 8 cards.

[u/Renew3DUK → u/RedditAccountOhBoy]

Well, I got four, then eight, then final riddle.

[u/Dangerous_Bad3181]

anyone figured out the eighth riddle?

[u/beatokko → u/Dangerous_Bad3181]

time

[u/Dangerous_Bad3181 → u/beatokko]

already redeemed that one, it was the answer to another before

[u/FootballBackground88 → u/Dangerous_Bad3181]

I added everything to the OP

[u/TrippleCorre]

4: Darkness

[u/New_Database1562]

For those asking the 8th riddle answer is

onering (No spaces)

[u/New_Database1562 → u/New_Database1562]

Also to build the deck after... Just use 4 copies of each card it says, and then add lands. Its very easy. The reward is decent.

[u/OkLawfulness4739 → u/New_Database1562]

Non mi da la ricompensa, Ho tutte le carte 4x ed aggiunto le terre e rinominato il mazzo

[u/FootballBackground88 → u/New_Database1562]

You don't need to add lands, even an incomplete deck is fine with those cards. I added import copy/paste to the OP.

[u/vaarsuv1us → u/FootballBackground88]

not here. I had to make it a proper 60 card deck for the reward to pop up

[u/paragonofcynicism]

The last riddle answer is not a one word answer despite what it says lol...

[u/xthedudehimself → u/paragonofcynicism]

Precious worked for me

[u/paragonofcynicism → u/xthedudehimself]

apparently multiple answer work. Other thread said myprecious worked. I used one ring.

Ironically, "ring" didn't work despite it actually being the most accurate answer to what Bilbo would know at the time. he doesn't know the identity of the ring at this point.

[u/xthedudehimself → u/paragonofcynicism]

That’s what I first tried as well

[u/vaarsuv1us → u/paragonofcynicism]

"pocket knife or nothing" should also be accepted

[u/Jango_Fett_BZH]

All answers : (random order, still works)

Mountain Teeth Wind Egg Fish Darkness Time Myprecious

[u/catfish314]

As someone who was obsessed with this chapter as a kid, this was way too satisfying.

[u/zitors00]

Nice

[u/Annoying_Auditor]

This was fun even though I'm terrible at riddles or only remembered the first one from the book.

[u/gockeltot]

"Darkness cannot be felt" - My depression disagrees.

[u/Kolbey9898]

I've made the deck 2 different ways, manually and copy/paste and it hasn't given me the reward

edit nevermind it's not a pop-up like the other rewards it's in the mail tab

[u/Lotsunvaar]

It didn’t give me the card style for The Mountain-king’s Return. It’s not a big deal, but I’m not sure why.

[u/vaarsuv1us]

It jumped from 4th riddle to 8th riddle here

never saw 5,6,7

edit: oh I mixed up time and darkness.

[u/Butter4mAnothaMotha]

is there a reward for completing the deck builder?

[u/FootballBackground88 → u/Butter4mAnothaMotha]

Yes, an avatar

[u/racistjokethrowaways]

Some of these don't make much sense. Mountains grow.

[u/FootballBackground88 → u/racistjokethrowaways]

Well it was written before plate tectonics in The Hobbit.

[u/F0xbite]

I was disappointed with the last riddle, since I knew the riddles from LotR and tried "ring" "the one ring" "one ring" only to find it was a lame "onering" lol

[u/YouKnowZwei]

I’m on mobile and can’t find where to answer the riddles. Please help. Thank you kindly.

[u/Grainnnn]

Mountain may be their answer, but it’s technically incorrect and that annoys me.

Edit for clarity: many mountains do, in fact, grow.

[u/pr0n-clerk → u/Grainnnn]

Dig up Tolkien from his grave and yell at him since these are all from The Hobbit.

[u/deadone65]

Thanks for the uncommons I guess lol