Now comes the moment of truth...First of all, my apologies. I hope you will not rip my head off when I tell you that...the song had been guessed a long time ago, but for literally none (!!!) of the reasons/clues I had laid out so I faced a dilemma: Say that this is the correct answer and have invented all these carefully constructed clues all in vain...or make the riddle go on under an arguably somewhat false impression. If you go back to that post, you will see that I never literally said the song is correct, but that Nie's theories were not what I thought of. I took care to word it like that, also that was arguably still a kind of cheating :) I hope you forgive me for that and I promise you this is the last of these ultra-convoluted riddles - should I ever get to make a riddle again, it will be a more straightforward one !

 

@Nie is (and was) right: It is indeed "The World Turned Upside Down" as it contains the specific phrase "and everything under the sun".

If you look back at the riddle (see below) I hope you agree with me that nothing was as it first seemed and that the clues were very deeply hidden, with many intermediate steps, and convoluted. I still hope that everything makes sense now in retrospect.

 

"It's Not What It Seems"

In my place I have a view from the ground and you're the target that I'm aiming at. I'll be doing my best and I'll see you soon. Do you feel like a puzzle and you can't find your missing piece ? I still got no answers. So I crawl back into your open arms on what a secret everybody knows is to the place that you got found.

 

Thank you all for guessing, I had great fun and I hope you had too and that you are not too angry at me...Well guessed and worked out by all of you in this riddle that spread over 5 pages of posts ! You are all so imaginative and clever, coming up with lots of connections I'd never even thought of !

Your turn now, @Nie ! :D By the way I was impressed how well your theory about The World Turned Upside Down actually fitted :) Goes to show how similar in terms of general /feelings some Coldplay songs are !

No need to apologize in my opinion! Awesome, fun pursuit that makes perfect sense. Nie won this one ten times over with multiple clever theories. Can't wait to see the next one!!

So, can I start the next one? :)

This one is probably way too easy, but I'll give it a go anyway :)

 

In a room with a crowd

of that which is quite loud

 

Will be stars on the ground

when they play _________

Viva?

Isn't it @Nie's turn?

Oh is it? I don't really know the rules of this game sorry.

Yeah since Nie guessed it correctly, he/she (I think she...??) gets to post the new riddle :)

Ahh I see... My appologies to @Nie amd everyone else:)

No problem!

But in the meantime, we can still guess your riddle! Was I right with Viva la Vida?

Nope:)

think about the concerts

Then probably ASFOS?

No again...

 

Hint: it rhymes

Speed of Sound?

Nope

 

Hint: Think about when the Xylobands all light up simultaneously.

Charlie Brown

Yes! :D Charlie Brown is indeed correct!

Haha wow how did I not get that on my first guess?!

Hehehe:)

I guess we now wait for Nie's riddle. Curious what he comes up with since he's so good at solving them:D

OMG... well, I forgive you. You had to bear all of those guessing and theories. :D

I did return to that song a lot because of the other clues, so in the end, for me it had to be either 1 of those or a Coldplay song from which I didn't have the lyrics.

It was a very good riddle and fun to dig into that.

 

To say it with a Pink Floyd song: I'm still recovering from "brain damage" so my riddle is going to be easy:

 

a direction?

on repeat

 

 

edit: I have added something to the riddle. Those 2 clues can be found in the lyrics of the song I'm looking for

Now comes the moment of truth...First of all, my apologies. I hope you will not rip my head off when I tell you that...the song had been guessed a long time ago, but for literally none (!!!) of the reasons/clues I had laid out so I faced a dilemma: Say that this is the correct answer and have invented all these carefully constructed clues all in vain...or make the riddle go on under an arguably somewhat false impression. If you go back to that post, you will see that I never literally said the song is correct, but that Nie's theories were not what I thought of. I took care to word it like that, also that was arguably still a kind of cheating :) I hope you forgive me for that and I promise you this is the last of these ultra-convoluted riddles - should I ever get to make a riddle again, it will be a more straightforward one !

 

@Nie is (and was) right: It is indeed "The World Turned Upside Down" as it contains the specific phrase "and everything under the sun".

If you look back at the riddle (see below) I hope you agree with me that nothing was as it first seemed and that the clues were very deeply hidden, with many intermediate steps, and convoluted. I still hope that everything makes sense now in retrospect.

 

"It's Not What It Seems"

In my place I have a view from the ground and you're the target that I'm aiming at. I'll be doing my best and I'll see you soon. Do you feel like a puzzle and you can't find your missing piece ? I still got no answers. So I crawl back into your open arms on what a secret everybody knows is to the place that you got found.

 

Thank you all for guessing, I had great fun and I hope you had too and that you are not too angry at me...Well guessed and worked out by all of you in this riddle that spread over 5 pages of posts ! You are all so imaginative and clever, coming up with lots of connections I'd never even thought of !

Your turn now, @Nie ! :D By the way I was impressed how well your theory about The World Turned Upside Down actually fitted :) Goes to show how similar in terms of general /feelings some Coldplay songs are !

 

I didn't take any guesses (although I definetely was thinking of some, and also I thought @Nie had it when they said Clocks so I didn't bother to see if it could be something else since it made so much sense :P

This is probably the best riddle yet. You're undisputably the best riddle-maker here!

The way you go about things is so imaginitive, clever, and mysterious. Keep it up! That looked really fun. I will definetely guess more next time ! :D

I have the feeling that my riddle scared everyone away from this thread, though :-/

 

As for Nie's riddle, I have no idea ! I don't know any Coldplay song that has these lyrics, and in case they are meant metaphorically I can only think of Sleeping Sun, Talk (alternate), The Scientist and Princess Of China as potential guesses...but none of them really fits.

The closest I got was "Shiver" since that has "direction" in it but there's nothing about repeating in it, at least when I looked on the lyrics it didn't...

 

I was just going to say that in the days leading up to AOAL's release date (Nov 6) they teased us. If you say "east" (a direction) over and over again it sound's like you're saying "tease". That's why I originally thought AOAL was a possibility, but it isn't now because as far as I know I don't remember any lyrics about "repeat" in it... or "direction" actually in the song.

I was just going to say that in the days leading up to AOAL's release date (Nov 6) they teased us. If you say "east" (a direction) over and over again it sound's like you're saying "tease". That's why I originally thought AOAL was a possibility, but it isn't now because as far as I know I don't remember any lyrics about "repeat" in it... or "direction" actually in the song.

 

Wow, very imaginative of you ! Cool !

Wow, very imaginative of you ! Cool !

 

I'm not very good at decoding these riddles but I just took the two clues together and tried saying each direction on repeat.... it's something I should try more often, might unlock some answers as it unlocked ... something I guess, here :P But I know AOAL's not it XD

I was thinking that direction refers to a place that is repeated in the song

So, my guess is Paradise, Swallowed in the Sea