Puzzles and Riddles

Deep Forest Door

The password for the door is based on the Lord of the Rings Door of Durin riddle.

Pedo Mellon a Minno in LoTR, translates to :Speak, friend, and enter. mellon is 'friend', so the password is "mellon"

Sphinx Riddles

Riddle 1

A thing there is whose voice is one;  Whose feet are four and two and three. So mutable a thing is none That moves in earth or sky or sea. When on most feet this thing doth go, Its strength is weakest and its pace most slow. It's a copy of "Oedipus the King, by Sophocles" that the Spinx ask's the hero.

The answer is "man" but you need to spell it "Man"

Riddle 2

This all things devours:  Beasts, and trees, and flowers; Gnaws iron, and bites at steel; Grinds the hardest stones to meal; Slays king, and ruins town, Beats the highest mountain down."

The answer is "Time"

Riddle 3

''A house there is. One enters it blind, yet comes out seeing.''

The riddle is one of twenty-five known Sumerian riddles etched on a clay tablet discovered from Sumer. The riddles were translated by E.I. Gordon in 1960.

The answer is "School"