Some original riddles

[groza528]

A = weed
B = work

[Oscar]

That works, groza, but the answer I intended has 2 different meanings for both A and B

[carrier_of_the_arch]

A= break
B= aim

As in: break: (i) lunch (ii) break in a pool game; aim: (i) goal (ii) shooting straight

[Zag]

That's pretty good! Better than anything I've come up with.

BTW, Welcome to Grey Labyrinth, carrier! Stick around!

(Repeating the puzzle for the new page, it was posted by Oscar.)

42. A man on <A> thinks <B> is nothing; a man who is <A>ing thinks <B> is everything.
What are <A> and <B>?

[Oscar]

Some ingenious attempts being made here, but to help it along towards the intended answer:
A begins with 'C', B begins with 'L'

[Jack_Ian]

Not the answer, but this leaped out at me.
A man on cue, thinks timing is nothing. A man queueing thinks time is everything.

[bgg1996]

Is <A> crack?
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[Oscar]

No, bgg1996, this isn't drugs related.
And, with Jack_Ians' effort, the aphorism machine just keeps turning!

[Zag]

on call was the only other phrase "on ___" that I could think of where the missing word starts with C. I didn't get anywhere with it; Is that wrong, as well?

[carrier_of_the_arch]

Wild guess: "A man on court thinks love is nothing, a man who is courting thinks love is everything" For all you tennis fans

[carrier_of_the_arch]

Also as a side-note, thanks for the welcome Zag! The Grey Labyrinth is always great fun to get lost in every now and then.

[Zag]

Nice! I'm sure that's it. Nice one, Oscar.

[Oscar]

Thanks, Zag.
Yup, that's it, carrier_of_the_arch. Good job.

And enjoy the next few months, all tennis fans, with 3 genuine contenders for the men's titles. (4 if Murray gets his head functioning clearly)

[Oscar]

43.
I have many lodgers including these three,
Which on losing their heads new things will they be,
One turns into a runner, you'll not see it walk,
Another, beheaded, is purely all talk,
The third, if its noggin you neatly extract,
Shows only a side, (no limbs and no back)
If you would examine the heads where they fell
There'd be five hundred, parking and West as well.

What am I?

[Jack_Ian]

hmmm...
I have a few candidates, but nothing connects yet.
This is going to take me longer than a coffee break.

[Zag]

I believe I have the third one, but I'm not sure what is meant by 'lodgers.'

[carrier_of_the_arch]

Does the last line refer to the letters D (roman numerals for 500), P and W ?

[Gomez]

Got it! Very nice, Oscar

I don't want to give away the answer to such a nice riddle just yet, but I will say, by way of a hint, that I got the answer from a little birdie

And I can also confirm carrier_of_the_arch's theory that the last line does indeed refer to D, P, and W

[carrier_of_the_arch]

I must confess that I am still quite clueless here I think I might have the first one but the other two are still a mystery to me

[Gomez]

How about if I told you that the little birdie was an Eagle?

Also, I could be wrong but if you've worked out what one of the three "lodgers" is, but are having trouble with the other two, you're probably barking up the wrong tree. As soon as I worked out the first one, it was immediately obvious what the other two were.

[Oscar]

Nice work, Gomez! (I know you have the correct answer since I saw your original, unedited post )

[Jack_Ian]

If it had been East instead of West, then it might have been e-aglet (turning into a runner), but that would have been evil.

[Zag]

Well, since I thought I had one but it didn't help me get the others, it's probably wrong anyway.

I was thinking that the third one was 'W - edge'. I don't see how that fits with lodger, though.

[ralphmerridew]

Another lodger becomes a student at Hogwart's.

[Oscar]

In fact the majority of the lodgers could magically be transformed into young Mister Weasley

[Oscar]

#43 was a golf bag - containing:
a d-river, a p-utter and a w-edge

44.
I'm like a pie,
I come and go,
I'm found with money
And the eye I'm on.

What am I?

[Lepton*]

Maybe a coin? Round, spent, currency, and put on the eyes of dead people in Greek mythology.

[Oscar]

Inventive answer, Lepton, but you'll know when you've got it correct.
Small hint: I'm not a physical object

[3iff]

Maybe a dot or decimal point?

[277SIF*]

This one of mine was never solved.
45.
066
077
089
100
100
105
110
114
117




Apologies if only experienced members can post riddles here. I've haven't even been here for a year.

[277SIF*]

Oh darn, I forgot to put the answer in there.

Bonus points to guess who I am

[Oscar]

Another inventive try, 3iff, which would make a nice riddle in its own right.

Another hint for #44 : this really isn't difficult!

[bgg1996]

44: The letter 'Y'?
It rhymes with pie, and is in money and eye.
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[Zag]

[Zag]

To 277SIF, it's fine that you posted it here, but I have no clue to your puzzle. Except for the third one, the numbers looked like they were bytes in octal. So, basically, I got nowhere.

[Gomez*]

[Ctorj]

[Oscar]

Well done, guys!

I've added Zag's new line, plus an extra one, which should give the game away to anyone still working on it:

44.
I'm like a pie,
I come and go,
I'm found with money
And the eye I'm on
I'm often over, at breakfast
And I'm big in New Orleans.

What am I?

And here's a little diversion based on 3iff's answer above (so don't look there if you want to make this slightly harder)

46.
I'm found on the eye they say
Or I'm carried by a jay
I'm only very little
I'm called a <what?> or <what?>

[Zag]

You didn't add Gomez's line.

For the second one, which I remembered 3iff's guess so I didn't really get to solve it, but how about these lines?

I'll finish your thoughts for you.
And I can separate bills from coins.

[Oscar]

Uh, uh, Zag, it's not an exact reproduction of 3iff's reply, so feel free to keep digging.
And Gomez got the previous one so I'm sure he can bear missing out with his line!