Riddle (answer added, end of page 2)

Another riddle, separate answer for each line.

For America's past time I am the best
Helicopters fall to rest
Spread poison through the ground
Different colors all around

Baseball. Crash landing. Contaminate. Rainbow.

No, one catagory but 4 answers.

DS,

Did your teachers every tell you to stop daydreaming and get back to work?
A fist full of coon grease says they did.

Please clarify. 'past' time, as in history, or 'pass' time, as in recreation.



Charlie

In the context it is being used past time is correct

Let's just say I did not belong in school though I did suffer through until the 10th grade.

IC.

Revolution, rotate, round up, rainbow, or maybe radiate

Bryce

No, the answers will all have a similarity. This is not an easy riddle

Cash, Crash, Trash, Splash.

Mike

No

Summer, Winter, Spring, Fall.

Mike

No, I'm pretty happy with this riddle, it is difficult and will make sense once the answer is given. Ill give a clue tomorrow of there is no progress.

I got the first one right.

I offer that catching the last coyote is easier than riddles.

Plus, Mom never let me play with the neighbor kid who riddled the neighborhood.

Let it rain man.

Let it rain.

Okay, almost 500 views and no one has come close. First hint, America's past time is baseball

Baseball would be a PASS time. (Something to do to keep you occupied or entertained.)




Charlie

Babe Ruth
Kobe Bryant
colon caperpuck
Jeff Gordon

I am not going to disagree with that but it is described as "past time" in nearly all common referencing.

That is actually a good answer but not the correct one. Bonus point for good deductive reasoning even if the answer is incorrect.

I'm not much for sports, the baseball reference is the only thing to do with sports.

Actually that would be PASTIME, not pass time or past time

https://grammarpartyblog.com/2012/01/20/pass-time-versus-pastime/

LOL

Thank you. This was one of the things throwing me off even after Charlie asked for clarification.

Mike

Should have done a 'spell check'.



Charlie

My bad, I googled it and first one I seen was past time, I don't know much about baseball

On my phone pasttime auto corrects to past time and shows pasttime as being spelled incorrectly

1 Chicago cubs

I meant ME, I should have checked it out before I butted in.

For America's past time I am the best
Helicopters fall to rest
Spread poison through the ground
Different colors all around

The answer- Trees!

Specifically
Ash
Maple
Black Walnut
Rainbow Eucalyptus

This one may have been to difficult, thanks for everyone who played along.

Cool. That one was tricky but I enjoyed it.

Mike

I honestly have trouble finding fault in this answer, it was a pretty dang good one!
Thanks, my brother got one I wrote a couple days ago in a couple mins so I wrote this one to stump him, he is 24 hours into it and I havent heard from him.

Maple ??????????????

You've never heard Maples called "helicopter trees"? That one may be more regional, it seems like most people here tell there kids maple seeds are "helicopters", this was the only line one of my family members figured out (she was from Illinois)

Nope never have heard that. Got just a bit of time in Helos but I've never heard that !!

I would have never solved the riddle but for the record maple is the most used wood in baseball bats with ash being highly regarded as well. Also several other tree species have wind carried twirling seeds as a distribution method and black walnut toxicity is what it is referenced as and not a poison and other species like hickory have similar but lesser levels of toxin. I know nothing about the rainbow trees.

Bryce

Rainbow Eucalyptus are absolutely gorgeous. I'm amazed there aren't more attention given them, or plantings of them in this country and elsewhere.

well heck, I thought bats were made of Ash, pretty sure I saw a show one time that said Ash was preferred, sorry bout that one boys.

Though other trees have similar seeds it seems common atleast locally to call maples "helicopter trees" I hear that often from customers.

I was pretty confident in the first two so I may have been a bit lackadaisical about the Walnut reference, I knew that one would be hard.

Rainbow Eucalyptus, see the picture

Cool looking tree !!

They sure are, Sir Ken. Google images of them brings up a plethora of photos that are unreal to see. How amazing it would be to walk among a grove of them. I don't know if the leaves are as medicinal and aromatic as the ones that line the roads in CA and HI ....but the colours alone have my vote . If they grew up in the Rockies here, I would surely plant them.