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Magnificent Seven
Eight and five, last name and given,
We are one six six six even;
The first in cow, the last in oxen
Three in damsel, three in vixen.
Question: What are we called?
We are one six six six even;
The first in cow, the last in oxen
Three in damsel, three in vixen.
Question: What are we called?
Hint
One of five, I the only one,One in cat, two in mitten,
Two are odd, five are even
Seven in all, one in seven.
Answer
ROMAN NUMERALS.Explanation of the riddle:
The last name has eight letters (NUMERALS) while the first or given name has five (ROMAN).
Using each of the numerals once gives MDCLXVI, which is 1,666.
C ( which is found in Cow) is first of the seven in the alphabet while X ( which is found in oXen) is last.
Three of seven are found in DaMseL. Three are also found in VIXen.
Explanation of the hint:
I is the only one of five vowels among the seven Roman numerals.
C is found in Cat, M and I in MItten.
I and V are odd numbers. The rest are even numbers.
There are seven Roman numerals. One of them is found in seVen (the V).
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Griphook, you have the power! Great Teaser. Thank you for stretching my brain.
Wow. What degree of difficulty but lovely.
Mar 25, 2003
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Outstanding! And by the numbers to boot.
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Jun 23, 2003
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Jan 07, 2004
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One of the best riddles I've ever seen and quite difficult. Very clever, griphook!
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Mar 26, 2004
WOW!!!!!!! you come up with alot of them. soem are really hard. this one i couldn;t figure out. maybe i'll get the next one.
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yet another stumper from griphook-keep it up!
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Nice work but with the hint i found it out it mad it easy
Aug 09, 2004
A ten not a seven.
AWSOME i cant find the words ,,,,i know this is an old one, but i just found it and am very happy i did,,,so now i must list it as number 1 in my favorites,,,THANK YOU!
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I was truly impressed. Excellent riddle.
I was truly impressed. Excellent riddle.
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WOW . Difficult, but it proves the writer's intelligence. Good job!
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OMG I ACTUALLY GOT TAT ONE AND TAT IDS PROBLY THE HARDEST ONE I EVER GOT LOL!!!
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whoa that was hard i was amazed to see the answer
I got it (after about 15 minutes and 10 times reading it)
The second and third lines are what finally gave it away, I got C from cow, and then VIX from vixen, after that everything fell into place.
I'm so proud of myself, I solved the hardest riddle available
P.S. This definately deserves to be the hardest.
The second and third lines are what finally gave it away, I got C from cow, and then VIX from vixen, after that everything fell into place.
I'm so proud of myself, I solved the hardest riddle available
P.S. This definately deserves to be the hardest.
magnificent
If an answer to a riddle has an explanation three times longer than the riddle itself... don't bother with it.
No need for explanations for some geniuses of your kind... lol
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