In work I'm part of the 'global' service support and next to us are the 'diamond' service support. Diamond customers pay extra to have additional things like personalized email templates & auto bonded ticketing systems. But for the most part the diamond guys do the exact same as us but since they have a lot less customer they have more free time. There's also the fact that as the European part of a predominately American customer base, fewer customer are even awake, let alone needing support.
All this means that sometime they do things like toss stress ball around the office.
Last Thursday 2 of those balls landed on my desk so I told they I was going to hide them.
So after they left I did, and left them a riddle on our personal slack channel.
This was it:
Hidden in the shadows of home is your treasure,
One with the mightiest and one with a lesser.
Though you look all day, it is not I you see,
This sinister clue is the only one for thee.
( Ans 1 )That day after they left I hid not only the 2 balls again but also one of their toy cows.
(I wasn't worried about them finding them over the weekend because I know the guy working that weekend was working from home.)
This was the riddle I gave them:
Two orbs parted & hidden from thee,
The furthest away they could possibly be.
First in a place of both boredom or mirth,
Disembodied voices haunt this earth.
Second from afar you talk to me,
Immaterial to solid with the touch of a Key.
Lastly the cow, a precarious planner,
In the middle of all, overside the banner.
( Ans 2 )This evening I hid the balls again.
I think this is the last time I'll do it. It's hard to come up with good riddles.
Not a bride, though I have rings,
Not a dog, though I bark,
In the day I give life,
But I give poison in the dark.
One hidden in me and one in my faux,
To find these ornaments you don't have far to go.
( Ans 3 )EDIT: I came in Tues morning to see the balls on my desk
I think it's safe to say they found them pretty fast.