A friend told me this riddle a few weeks ago, and I have remembered it now. I have not yet solved it. It goes like this: A man eats what he does not have. If he had what he doesn't, he wouldn't be what he is. Who is he? He told me that I can ask as many questions as I want, and so...

I have some browser tabs that have been open for several days.  A few of them show my reputation as either 2221 or 2231.*  My rep is currently 2165, for a drop of 66 from the high-water mark.  My # of posts edited and my progress toward earning a “Sportsmanship” badge also went down. __________ *...

This is it. This is the night. Megina, a fellow puzzler, has been invited to a secret reception, by a secret society, in a secret place (yes, a lot of secrets). She has already discovered the place. It's a country mansion out of town. God, she feels as a character of Eyes Wide Shut. But she's n...

Riddle quality is dropping. I think most of us have seen it lately: there’s been a slow slide in effort and energy put into riddles, and it’s starting to seriously hurt the site. On Stack Exchange, our goal is to optimize for pearls, not sand, and right now, we’re very much not doing this. If we ...