What am I? Riddle-Game
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You are both very clever!Priya Murugesan wrote: ↑13 Apr 2025, 09:20Yesss! Superr!!
Next your turn.. Waiting for your riddle!!
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New Riddle:
1) I was once absolutely necessary
2) I contained millions of "characters"
3) I am now long obsolete
What am I?
1) I was once absolutely necessary
2) I contained millions of "characters"
3) I am now long obsolete
What am I?
“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
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― Steven Wright
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Maybe Papyrus?
"You may think you have always disapeared when you are no longer in the picture, but you have never left the frame." A Wise Man
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María Andrea Fernández Sepúlveda
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A punched card?
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DATo
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Sorry, neither a punched card nor papyrus.
(Both good guesses by the way.)
HINT: A very common item used universally.
“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
― Steven Wright
― Steven Wright
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María Andrea Fernández Sepúlveda
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A newspaper?
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DATo
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Not a newspaper.
“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
― Steven Wright
― Steven Wright
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Maybe a dictionary? A paper one? Or an address book?
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María Andrea Fernández Sepúlveda
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Maybe a dictionary? A paper one? Or an address book?
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DATo
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You are on the right track.María Andrea Fernández Sepúlveda wrote: ↑14 Apr 2025, 20:22 Maybe a dictionary? A paper one? Or an address book?
“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
― Steven Wright
― Steven Wright
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A video tape?
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DATo
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Not a video tape. The answer to the riddle was around long before video tapes but, historically speaking, still in "modern" times.
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A phone booth 
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You are EXTREMELY close.
“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
― Steven Wright
― Steven Wright
