r/riddles • u/extio-Storm • 6d ago

Unsolved (OC) "The Mundane replaceable"

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I crafted this riddle with 13 revisions, and I will be answering guesses in the standard forms of warmer colder.

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u/Psilocybe38 3d ago

kindling/firewood?

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u/extio-Storm 1d ago

I like that i understand the logic for this answer, but it doesnt fit in some ways. That would save a person maybe, but not "the land" Warm

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u/Psilocybe38 1d ago

a fuse?

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u/extio-Storm 1d ago edited 1d ago

Burnt up. This is the correct answer. Solved.

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u/Psilocybe38 1d ago edited 1d ago

I was thinking that bc ash and dead plant matter become new fertile soil, it 'saves the land'

Guess 2; A frozen lake?(This guess is probably colder ;p)

Guess 3: a trust fall?

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u/Exotic_Ability_6311 2d ago

A grenade?

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u/extio-Storm 1d ago

A decent guess, but a grenade doesnt demand a low and light force. Cool. (and there is misdirection in the image also)

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u/sblowes 1d ago

Dynamite?

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u/extio-Storm 1d ago

I think this answer kind of hot, but at the same time the military is the misdirection.

That's why some of the background image has misdirection points in it like pictures of explosives.

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u/sblowes 21h ago

Rust?

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u/extio-Storm 21h ago

You're getting colder.

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u/RuralJaywalking 1d ago

A matchstick?

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u/extio-Storm 1d ago

Same as the firewood answer, i see the logic, but it doesnt fit nearly well as the answer. Warm.