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I work retail and tonight is Uuuugghh Night for me, so I decided to do something fun! I've been wanting to do a giveaway for all you wonderful people for a while now anyway. Here's how it works!

I have included three riddles. PM me your best answers. Please answer by private message only so as to not give it away for other players! Now, I'm not a particularly trusting person, but I'm trusting you all not to try to Google them! The first person to get all three right will get their choice of any one egg and five straws from any of my special foundation gems! Or ten straws, if the winner prefers or can't use eggs. The next five people to get at least two of the three right will get their choice of five straws! Everyone who makes an attempt will get their choice of one straw!

My Special Foundation Boys

My Special Foundation Girls

Winners can feel free to go on a tour of 238452 though, if you want to look for something else, and we'll see what we can work out!

Riddle #1: Two Would-Be Chiefs
Once upon a time in a land very far away, there was a tribal chief. She was a good chief, wise and compassionate and cool-headed, and she had twin daughters who were just as wise and compassionate and cool-headed as their mother. But there can only be one Chief, so she devised a plan to determine which of the two worthy young women would take her place when the time came. Well before she would need an heir (she wasn't foolish enough to wait until she was old to figure this out), she called her two daughters together and told them this: "You are both wise and compassionate and cool-headed, and either of you would make an excellent Chief. It is beyond me to choose between you, so in a week's time you will both saddle up your finest horses and leave the city to race for the honor. But a Chief must know humility as well as honor, so it will not be the horse that re-enter's the city's gates first who wins the race for her mistress, but the one who finishes second."
So in a week's time, both young would-be Chiefs packed for a long journey, for they knew it would be some time before they found a way to return home. The sisters saddled up their finest mares and set off from the city side by side. For five years they traveled together, climbing mountains and crossing deserts and wandering deep into forests, going on daring adventures and rescuing those who needed rescuing, and learning skills and trades from masters around the world, and experiencing much that they never would have otherwise. They grew much in wisdom and courage and perseverance, those five years, and in their love for each other.
But in time they came to dearly miss their family and their tribe, and they wished to return home. So one sister said to the other,
"Do you recall, dear sister, a rumor of a witch who lives deep in the forest near our city, a wise old woman who, the rumor says, can answer any riddle and solve any puzzle?"
"I do recall," her sister replied, "And though truly I would be as happy standing beside you while you rule justly and wisely and compassionately as I would be holding the Chief's Staff myself, our mother would not have set us this task if she did not mean us both to seek victory with all the coolness of our heads and courage of our hearts. Since neither of us in good honor may stand down, perhaps this wise old one will be able give us an answer that will allow us to return home at last."
Her sister agreed with this on every point, so the two women traveled high into the mountains in search of a feather from the great golden eagle, and far across the plains to find a hair from the legendary black unicorn, and deep into the dark jungle to barter a whisker from the mythical white panther, gifts worthy of the question they sought to ask and the one they sought to ask it of, and once they had their offerings they turned their mares back toward home, to the gentler forest just outside their own city.
Long they wandered the woods seeking the witch, and at long last they followed a hummingbird to her quiet cottage. The sisters left their horses to wait outside, took a deep breath, and stepped through the open door to ask the wise witch how the could ever finish this race and return home. Not two minutes later, both women ran from the cottage, leapt into the saddle, and raced for their city's gates as quickly as their very fine (and by now very well conditioned) mounts could take them.
So riddle me this, dear listeners: What did the wise witch say?


Riddle #2: What am I?
You carry me always, yet never lift me; I belong to you alone, yet others use me more that you do; you give me to everyone you meet, yet never lose me. What am I?

Riddle #3: Two Paths
A daring adventurer came upon a deep, dark, deadly wood, and she needed to cross to the other side. There were two paths through the wood, one on the left and one on the right. One path lead safely through the wood, and the other lead to certain death, but no one knew which path was which. Between the paths sat two sphinx statues. Both statues know which path is which, and one statue always speaks the truth, but the other speaks only lies, and no one knew which statue was which (except the statues themselves, of course). Any adventurer who seeks to cross the deep, dark, deadly wood may ask a single question of both statues, which they will both answer, one with a lie and one with the truth. Our daring and clever adventurer asked her one question, and immediately knew which path was which and crossed safely through the deep, dark, deadly wood. What question did she ask?

Bonus riddle! This silly old thing is just here for fun, because I want to see what you will all say, the answers to this one will have no bearing on the contest.
Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Have fun :)