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How this works/
Each of Gabriel Rhenals' riddles are found in this spot. All original and the result of much thought.
Answer: (Highlight here!)
50/
Any-time access to the greatest minds and to ideas of all kinds. Uninterested in gratifying grinds? Avoiding their bounty surely blinds.
Answer: Books
49/
Infinite but never enough. Punishes a sitting duff.
Having fun? Gone in a puff. Penalty for murder? No need to huff.
Answer: Time
48/
Converts misery. Preserves ecstasy. Promotes civility. Reverses entropy.
Honors ancestry.
Reveals vacancy.
Answer: Art
47/
Most versatile of tools. Governed by rules. Accessible to fools. A weightless weapon for vicious duels.
Answer: Language
46/
Shared, hoarded, flaunted, squandered...
or harnessed.
Answer: Wealth
45/
Summoned in a rush or at one's leisure. An alluring form of visceral pleasure. Easy to achieve, easy to measure. But if abused, you may part with some treasure.
Answer: Speed
44/
Entertains without a bill. Available to any by mere power of will. Keeps one active while sitting still. In union with art? An enticing thrill!
Answer: Imagination
43/
Swarming and multiplying with illusions vast, an out-of-balance strain whose host is dying fast.
Answer: Humanity
42/
Endowed but rarely attained. Impressive but with practice. Shared but never given. Abundant but mostly squandered.
Answer: Talent
41/
In corners and margins, we reside. Our make-do form we do not hide. But by a skillful hand, we’re shown with pride!
Answer: Doodles
40/
Rely on me for any of your thoughts. Need a greater supply? There’s usually lots. Half the cure if bored in spots.
Answer: Paper
39/
Compared to pleasure, subtle and low. But more powerful than, don’t ya know? Conjured at will, a perpetual flow.
Answer: Joy
38/
Weak as a twig or strong as steel. Not seen or measured but very real. Mastered enough, superhuman you’ll feel.
Answer: Will
37/
From danger felt inside or out. A myriad of imaginings can make it sprout. Its fiercest grip from gravest doubt.
Answer: Fear
36/
We only follow two commands. When in single file, you see everything. When shoulder to shoulder, you see nothing.
Answer: Blinds
35/
Thin or fat, short or tall. Even with space, I hug the wall. Want a generous friend? I lend to all.
Answer: Bookshelf
34/
Dropped, left alone and unimpressive in sight. But executes a compensatory plan with dogged and vertical might.
Answer: Seed
33/
Greatly desired but bears secret curse. Disposes to vanity, vapidity or worse. Cages a populace in romantic verse.
Answer: Beauty
32/
One of a pair an author declares. Adds imagined steps to a flight of stairs. If you can climb higher, who even cares?
Answer: Fiction
31/
If I were achieved, you'd hear an angel's sweet harp. But though elusive to all, the pursuit keeps one sharp.
Answer: Perfection
30/
Puts most to sleep, sadly so. But skill and ingenuity clearly show. Targets ears but makes heart and mind glow.
Answer: Classical music
29/
I come in many shapes and sizes. Settled down enough, who from me easily rises? After many years, in me find prizes.
Answer: Couch
28/
Only after my show, dare I speak. When I'm in town, shelter you seek. My venue of choice? Part of my mystique.
Answer: Lightning
27/
We're known to fetch balls, golden in sight. Live close to our home? Hear a symphony at night.
Answer: Frogs
26/
We can flow like a river or nary see release. But let our ducts deliver and you'll soon be at peace.
Answer: Tears
25/
From innards we're born. Our voices a horn. If silent and murderous, you'll have much to mourn.
Answer: Farts
24/
Rises without legs. Moves without wearying. Caresses without hands. Glares without eyes. Punishes without reason.
Answer: Sun
23/
Some follow them. Some dread them. Some forget them. Some realize them. None choose them.
Answer: Dreams
22/
Reaches down and deep through rock and soil. Reaches back and past times of pain and toil.
Answer: Roots
21/
Amid our papery folds, find too much talk. Most, to be sure, are utter schlock. But laying idly by, we wait to rock!
Answer: Scripts
20/
Find in them a sensitive beast. Madly bake goods with endless yeast. Through brief lines serve their evocative feast.
Answer: Poet
19/
I shimmer in most like some great spark. Lost, I bring the doom and stark. Alive, I reverse the dreary and dark.
Answer: Hope
18/
Preferred from cars, least from rot. Sends you back to a time nearly forgot. With a simple pinch, feel my kiss not.
Answer: Scent
17/
An -ism in a change of pace. My reach is far and wide but rarely to her face. Implied is my game, domain and place.
Answer: Misogyny
16/
You can stroke me once, twice or thrice. But earn my ire and pay the price. Is that milk? I'll play nice.
Answer: Cat
15/
Big or small, hidden or not. Sometimes joined by many a dot. Fun to show off. How many ya got?
Answer: Scar
14/
Enemies conspire to turn me green. Act with vigilance to keep me clean. Hot and bored? My benefits seen.
Answer: Swimming pool
13/
An intimate friend in every way. I'm tender and nestle after each long day. But my groove you lose when thrown away.
Answer: Pillow
12/
A large collection always intact. I've hundreds of parts, it's just a fact! Try living without me. An impossible act.
Answer: Skeleton
11/
What the hell did Noah smoke? Without a doubt, nature's funniest joke. Predators beware or face a serious poke.
Answer: Porcupine
10/
Emptied out but always refilled. Cast illusions whose trick is for hours willed. Run by those unreliably skilled.
Answer: Movie theater
09/
As certain as the turning of the earth. I'll be seeing you, no matter your worth. When I do show up, I end all mirth.
Answer: Death
08/
Simple or complex, quiet or loud. No hands but can touch you alone or in a crowd. If you read me, you should be proud.
Answer: Music
07/
I'm mouthless but always chew - massive amounts of flesh, bone and sinew. I dine for years at a time and continue to.
Answer: War
06/
Its voice of shrill screams pierces dreams. Has three lives, sometimes more. Will return, same as before.
Answer: Alarm clock
05/
What grabs much, distant and close? Comes with us all and upstairs it goes? But when unpleasant, avoid its throes.
Answer: Memory
04/
Clocks, stars, ripples and coins. What's in your mind, perfect and round? But when drawn, you're failure-bound?
Answer: Circle
03/
What's represented on trees, can be as annoying as fleas, oft hails from overseas and strives to leave legacies?
Answer: Family
02/
What's close together in hominid, a third of time behind a lid and not to be trusted as there's much from them hid?
Answer: Eyes
01/
What flows without limit, rewards to no end, requires one implement and can make mountains of women and men?
Answer: Writing
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