Some original riddles

[bgg1996]

I 1 (unus)
V 5 (quinque)
X 10 (decem)
L 50 (quinquaginta)
C 100 (centum)
D 500 (quingenti)
M 1,000 (mille)
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[carrier_of_the_arch]

X: X- 10, X- cross, ex-
C: C- 100, sea, see

[Oscar]

Definite progress!

[carrier_of_the_arch]

MIX: MIX- 1009, (a) mix, (to) mix
I can't find any more valid roman numerals that are also words

[bgg1996]

I.D.
identification. 499.
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[Oscar]

Remember 'I' am a modern, physical object - it's just my 'brothers' who are not. Also 'I' am unique in my neighbourhood.
Further hint: Although I resemble both my 'brothers' equally, I am actually closer to the Roman one in value

[bgg1996]

Caesar salad?
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[bgg1996]

H?
J?
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[carrier_of_the_arch]

A die?

[carrier_of_the_arch]

I am developing a migraine

[carrier_of_the_arch]

Post-migraine thought: Are you a COMPACT DISC (CD)? The two brothers being DC (Roman numerals for 600) and DC (direct current).

[Oscar]

I'm glad you're over your migraine, carrier_of_the_arch, but your guess, while inventive, is not correct.

Since we're on a new page I'll repost the riddle:

47.
I' m unique! (Well, among those with whom I operate)
Sadly, I used to be more valuable a few thousand years ago.
But even now I'm highly valued.
In fact on special occasions I'm worthy of my brother in yet a third assembly!

What am I?

I'm not going to give any further clues just yet, I'll just wait for serendipity to strike. You might be doing anything, maybe just playing some game or other, when inspiration hits you, and you go
'That's it! I know the answer to Oscar's riddle!'

[carrier_of_the_arch]

Damn you Oscar...you are getting some kind of sick pleasure out of this aren't you

[Oscar]

Not at all - just the normal human pleasure of seeing someone else suffer!

By the way, I was lying about not giving another clue - read my last post again carefully.

[Gomez*]

I think we need a bigger hint.

[Oscar]

OK.
[There's a game that I'm pretty sure almost every poster on this board has played....]

[Suspence]

Civilization?
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[Oscar]

Apparently this game can be found in about one third of American households

[bgg1996]

World of Warcraft?
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[bgg1996]

Sims?
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[Zag]

bgg, you're really showing your age (or lack thereof). I would think that chess/checkers/backgammon would be even more than one third, so I imagine we're talking about Monopoly, Clue, Yachtzee, something like that. Nothing from any of those seems to fit the riddle, though.

[bgg1996]

The game of LIFE? Stratego?
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[Suspence]

How about RISK?
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[Jack_Ian]

I'm guessing X.
It's worth 8 in scrabble (only one X in set), but 10 as a Roman numeral.
I'm assuming the third assembly relates to XY chromosomes.

[Suspence]

If that isn't the intended answer, it should be.
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[Oscar]

Two thirds correct, Jack_Ian!

For the third assembly it's a very well-known one. Why might a Scrabble X be worthy of this member on 'special occasions'?

[Icarus]

[Oscar]

Nice ideas, Icarus, but the third assembly is nothing to do with a game, it's a collection used by all of us constantly, every day

[Suspence]

X = 24 in the alphabet?
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[Oscar]

That's it! The long saga is finally ended.

I'm an 'X' scrabble tile worth 8 points normally, as opposed to the 10 of my Roman numeral 'brother', but on 'special occasions' (when I'm played on a triple letter square) I'm worth 24, which is where my other 'brother' is in the alphabet.

[Zag]

Bah! I like it better as the chromosome, especially because you said "worthy of my brother."

[Zag]

#48. A pretty easy one that I just made up.

I'm not very big; I could fit in your hand.
But I have wrought changes throughout the land.

I am a weapon, or an agent of peace.
I can have power that does not cease.

I'm not what's prized; instead you'll find
The prize is the tracks I leave behind.

[Oscar]

[Zag]

Well, right. So the speaker (the X) is the sister, and she's referring to her brother, Y.

[Jack_Ian]

When I cam up with the chromosome solution, I thought it was weak. It didn't fit as snugly as I'd hoped. If I had seen the connection for the letter I would have been pretty certain of my answer.

As for #48, I'm pretty sure it's not a syringe filled with opiates, but it could be.

[Oscar]

[groza528]

For Zag's: I don't think the past participle of "write" is "wrought"

[bgg1996]

If I remember correctly, it's not the Y-chromosome that makes one male, but the absense of a second X-chromosome.
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[Zag]

Hmmm. We may have to move this to the Science forum soon.

But I think you're wrong, since people with [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter's_syndrome]Klinefelter's syndrome (a.k.a. XXY syndrome)[/url] are male.

[Jack_Ian]

The Y chromosome is there to fix the mistakes in the X chromosome.
It intercedes at key moments to alter standard development leaving the X chromosome to do most of the work. That's why males still have nipples etc. They were not fixed in the current patch. Not really sure when the next patch comes on-stream, as there are numerous reports of its imminent release, but then that's been the case for millennia already.