311.
Once it is more than dense, Once he speaks in verse.
312.
It is always heard with jubilation that many come to the table; Because if one thing doesn't please you, another one will suit your stomach. No one may appear before him, for it punishes many and spares not one. And if you want to sue someone there, you might have to bear the costs.
313.
As a vessel, now large, now smaller, Here a little dirty, there much cleaner, I am everywhere, my child, Where there are bakers and where there are butchers. But I grew up twice as a river in the land of the dear Saxons.
314.
How is this so strange: It sits in itself -- is that clear to you? And if it sits in itself to tend itself, it is often, in itself, embarrassed.
315.
He is always welcome to the merchant, because he brings earnings and profit; It is only welcomed when it sounds joyful and comforting.
316.
You have it and always desire to keep it, and yet you always desire not to receive it.
317.
Some people probably listen to her in the open field; But do not catch her, my friend, otherwise people will flee from you!
318.
If it is given to you with water, it can save life and limb; But if you add fire to it, then it often brings eternal rest.
319.
With “der” it adorns the spring meadow and wears the colour of nature. With “das” it shows the wild power of madness and passion.
320.
(Masculine.) Assassinating, I jump out of the ambush.
(Neuter.) I sound flattering in every artist's ear.
321.
A sailor of the air, he carries the dove away as his prey. A proud steamer, he crosses the seas in Germany's honor.
322.
If the ship wants to sail into the surging sea, then I can never be missing, it would hardly reach its destination without me, you can definitely count on that. No state can exist without me, that remains an undisputed sentence. But despite the fact that I am never expendable, I am often not well liked. And if you soon sail into the new year and your soul feels a dread, let God always be to you what I name, and you will surely reach your goal.
323.
What many a man and woman have often wished for, The first page of every book tells and shows you exactly.
VIII. Riddles of Meaning:
The word should be guessed according to its different senses.
324.
I am never for the rich, but often for the poor; Anyone who has to do without me is in turn not content.
325.
The poor guy has a hat and no head and only has one foot and no shoes.
326.
You have seen it already; it strikes and yet has no hand; it goes and yet stands still; It stands and yet hangs on the wall.
327.
A tributary of the Rhine, Can never be far from you.
328.
Without having feet, I rush away at a fast pace, I don't stop day and night and yet I'm always in bed.
329.
A house, right artful, small and neat, is without chair and table and bed; However, whoever lives there is at least quite comfortable.
330.
It is not a house, but one builds it; You don't eat it, but you chew it; If you don't chew it, you'll burn it. You know it, say: What do you call it?
331.
He has a comb and does not comb his hair; He has two spurs and is not a knight; He has a sickle and is not a reaper.
332.
I am often trampled upon, yet I heal bruise and cut and stab.
333.
Loaded with burdens I can walk; Take my burdens and I'll stay standing.
334.
As soon as you pronounced me, you immediately broke me.
335.
If you guess me right, you guessed wrong; And if you guess wrong, you guessed right.
336.
One eats very little without me, and yet one does not eat me alone.
337.
What is it that goes over the water and yet stands quite still?
338.
Can you use two characters from our alphabet to tell me a bird that you often see?
339.
As is well known, people put on shoes so that they can walk better; But which ones are put on so that something does not move?
340.
Water otherwise quenches fire; me, water first sets aglow.
341.
I don't have feet for walking, only for standing, and on my lap you find rest at many a task.
342.
I am not, I was not, I will not be. You think I'm joking? I tell you: no! I stand visibly in front of your face; And if you want to look for me, you won't find me.
343.
It is a word of three meanings for the German; the first was once terrible to his forefathers; the heavy hand of history moves on, The German inherits the scepter; you see how in the second the bishop presses the weighty crown on the forehead of the chosen German son. The Third is circling in the high-arched hall at the coronation banquet.
(Hauff.)
344.
Two buckets are seen going down and up in a well, and when the one rises full, the other must sink. They wander restlessly back and forth, alternately full and empty again, and if you bring this one to your lips, that one hangs in the deepest depths, they can never refresh you with their gifts at the same moment.
(Schiller.)
IX. Anagram:
A different word is formed by moving the letters.
345.
I am a thing consecrated to holy service; If you change the symbols, a priest's garment.
346.
No one lives without me; Isn't that clear enough? So know: in me are hidden “Erbgut” (inheritance) and “Betrug” (deception).
347.
To reach it, you must be a winner; If you now move the signs, it's a city on the Rhine.
348.
How do you turn the words “ach Ader” into a charade?
349.
The farmer wants it from his field; If you just change two characters, that's what the rich man wants from the money.
350.
I deliver firewood to keep you warm in winter; If two signs change within me, I will steal your warmth.
351.
Six letters name for you a creeping animal, native but scarce. -- If you swap my head with my foot, rodents will immediately arise.
352.
The first will refer to time, the fish will probably flee the second.
353.
On the ridge of the mountains it divides the regions of flowing waters; transpose the letters and it is a corrosive poison.
354.
Have five letters handed to you, arrange them, and you will have a name for the boys; But you will separate the last two signs from the first and place them at the beginning, and there shines towards you, in the bright glow of the firmament, what my word now names.
355.
Five signs that tell you a mountain range, which reveals itself to be a large one. Transpose them skilfully so that you can eat them with appetite.
356.
Nothing would be more fatal for the countryman than if I were to always rule, which I didn't want to wish for him either. By exchanging both last signs, make me a great painter, like few of his equal.
357.
I am known as a drink, but if my head is used as a foot, and if one then reads me the other way around, I will be consumed as food.
358.
It is a robber of a special sort; If you pair the characters differently, an animal quickly emerges that looks very clumsy and ugly.
359.
I don't play with the bow or arrow for fun; If I come flying, my destination is the heart. If my head is at the end, I am queen; I will then send sweet scents to you.
360.
Completely disembodied I have to float there - just set my first three letters at the foot, take away the fourth and in all haste I transform myself into my opposite.
X. Accent Puzzle:
Depending on the stress on the individual syllables, the meaning of the word changes.
361.
(telegram!) My -- V is definitely following today; V -- brings me to you in the evening.
362.
Isn't V -- and loose nature A man who was once happy Become the poorest man? My friend take a -- V on it!
363.
Only he who keeps V -- and duty has -- V the thanks of the world.
364.
A good -- V is of value, To anyone who asks for advice, But it is V -- of rarity, When it appears at the right time.
365.
The most sorrowful distress prevails, death had entered the land and holds a frighteningly rich harvest. You know the disease -- V being. Many a face, still red in the evening, V - in the morning, and death -- in a few but anxious hours it has found new prey.
XI. Criss-Cross Riddles:
Multiple syllable combinations create new word images.
366.
1 | 2 --+-- 3 | 4
1, 2 delights you in summer, 3, 4 always belongs to the barrel. The 1, 4 song sounds horrible, 1, 3 disturbs the peace. If you only take 4 and 2, then there are many different things.
XII. Math Puzzle.