Kid will say like this.....

what is going to be, Same less than it (almost).

what is going to be. Stick close. one more, stick close.

It is.....

Huh, those kids say the strangest things.

a ghost!

strangest things  .....No that is not answer but yes statements are strangest I have ever heard myself

ghost.......no

Kiss

Kiss...........NO

an adventure path?

an adventure path?   .........NO

Will

Will.........No

dekrazee1 .....any explanation on what is your line of thinking? you seem to be thinking too much and not like a kid.....:) If you want to solve this riddle then think like a kid......:)

Seriously? I just throw out whatever comes to mind when I read the riddle

Shoes

It is too early for me to give hints.....

anyways......

Shoes....NO

mirror

mirror....No

dek..have you given up yet?  want a hint?

Nope

Clock

answer is not clock.

Time?

Answer is not "Time " but...do you need hint still? ....

Licorice

Licorice...NO   ...some thought process you have....I am looking for exact sentence/ words kid will say, not general thought process or idea or broad category like something on this EARTH as this is understood by wordings of riddle or I am doing it now..).

huh... you might have mentioned that in the riddle...

I was thinking on this earlier but then riddle would have become too easy and would not be fun. like if I told you that you may have already covered broad subject area but .....I do not want to say more.

ok dekrazee1 has given up or fed up with this riddle. Others are not trying or away for a while now. So I should stop posting riddles...eh?

anyways I will give hint that answer is in line of   "clock / time / either / both" whatever interpretation you may have in your mind.

Sorry dek, I could not say yes earlier as I was looking for exact answer. and did not want to make this riddle very easy.

Given it's been running for months now, I don't think it's that easy

Recess time!

Recess Time ...NO answer is not abstract thought...answer is exact physical real thing which a kid sees.

1 more hint................in riddle and answer there is something about word "less".....this should help. if it does not I will give another hint

handless

12'o'clock?

are the sticks the hands of the clock?

dek...........handles or hand-less?  you have to be more specific and precise

12'o'clock  .....NO

are the sticks the hands of the clock? YES...., now riddle should be easy to solve

No idea

I think I was slow in responding to anon and dek partly because I was travelling on job and do not have internet access. Also this websites, frames do not work from my smartphone.

but is it time for 3rd hint yet?  I already gave 2 hints and said "YES" to anon's 1 question and agreed partially with "dek"

it is 2:20

not THE ANSWER  but would be curious to know how you came up with 2: 20

IT IS 10:25 NOW....

no not really .....:)   but curious how you got came up with this.

1:25

from less than symbol < in a clock it would be around 2:20 or 1:25 ?

less than is not a symbol but it means 1 number less than 2nd number  . answer is neither 1:25 nor 2:20

is this riddle tough or you people are getting ready to debate and fight as soon as answer comes out?  I better get myself prepared to RUN AND FLEEEEEE .....:)

I have no clue, but I'm still lurking 

Yknow, just in case the answer demonstrates some lack of scientific understanding that I need to fix

*grin*

Sk, so does that mean you are offering me a job here at tangler and keep an eye on wrong posts?.....hahahahahahaha.......

By the way the answer only demonstrates beauty of numbers and mathematics with some common sense and child thoughts also..

no other science, physics/biology/chemistry involved

Huh? Offering ... what?

I am confused by your interpretation. If I could find employment as an internet conversation fact checker then that'd be cool I guess, but I don't think anyone's going to pay me for that.

"that I need to fix"    you link pointed to someone saying that he is staying awake to pinpoint to someone making a wrong post...so I thought you want me to do that and I got a job at tangler.

By the way they are such online jobs well known as moderators...depends on how much funding, the web  site company is getting , they maintain admin/moderators, not that I am looking for a job but would be a fun thing to think about

I am aware of the role of moderator   (I am one on another place... it's a particularly lax-ruled place though, so moderating amounts more to banning spambots and the occasional idiotic troll than any actual moderating of discussion)

But I was still confused how you went from me waiting patiently to point out your mistakes (or a comic about someone unable to walk away from someone who is wrong on the internet) to the thought that it was a job offer to be that same kind of mistake fixing person.

For a moment I wondered if you meant me employing you to make mistakes, so that I could fix them, but that would be silly.

Anyway... I still don't have any damn clue about this riddle, I'mma go do something else now.

yeah...my bad..!!!!!! thinking too much I guess

ANOTHER HINT then....answer revolves around 1 single number that a kid comprehends

Is the number 11?

The (almost) same thing is 1, which is less than 11

Also 11 kinda looks like two sticks close together.

Ok whatever I skimmed some of the past Q&A and I don't know if my answer still makes sense or not.

whutevah...

LOL

Funniest convo ever

not 11  but u will get there eventually.  to final answer.... i think

if you need to know quickly what frantic, nerve tangling, hair pulling, brain killing  attempts to solve this were made by dek and others, I will be happy to summarize this for you.......

RELEVANT SUMMARY

"
 12 Jun 10, 5:50 AM    Clock
funlovingguy
 12 Jun 10, 7:40 PM    answer is not clock.
dekrazee1
 12 Jun 10, 8:26 PM    Time?
funlovingguy
 12 Jun 10, 11:16 PM    Answer is not "Time " but...do you need hint still? ....
anyways I will give hint that answer is in line of   "clock / time / either / both" whatever interpretation you may have in your mind.
Sorry dek, I could not say yes earlier as I was looking for exact answer. and did not want to make this riddle very easy.
funlovingguy
 13 Jun 10, 4:56 PM    Licorice...NO   ...some thought process you have....I am looking for exact sentence/ words kid will say, not general thought process or idea or broad category like something on this EARTH as this is understood by wordings of riddle or I am doing it now..).
1 more hint................in riddle and answer there is something about word "less".....this should help. if it does not I will give another hint
dekrazee1
 03 Jul 10, 7:33 AM    handless
Anonymous
 05 Jul 10, 3:06 PM    12'o'clock?
are the sticks the hands of the clock?
funlovingguy
 18 Jul 10, 10:31 PM    dek...........handles or hand-less?  you have to be more specific and precise
12'o'clock  .....NO
are the sticks the hands of the clock? YES...., now riddle should be easy to solve
but is it time for 3rd hint yet?  I already gave 2 hints and said "YES" to anon's 1 question and agreed partially with "dek"
funlovingguy
4 days    less than is not a symbol but it means 1 number less than 2nd number  . answer is neither 1:25 nor 2:20
ANOTHER HINT then....answer revolves around 1 single number that a kid comprehends
"

This SUMMARY should help you, SK

 Still need a hint, I could give you one last one before I close this riddle.

Is the slightly broken english, "what is going to be" meaningful (i.e. means something subtly different from "what is it going to be") or is that just imitating a child's limited command of the languages?

technically neither but partially both, to be precise, it is sort of a question "What is going to be?" answer is our "THE NUMBER"  on clock. This number is also connected with next part of sentence in a different way

By the way I forgot to write earlier that you interpret 11 as 2 sticks close, maybe you missed that sticks are hands of clock, not within number.

Well... the hands are close together once per hour... at approximately 12.00, 1.05, 2.10 etc

Actually, up to 5 minutes past those times, increasing as you go around the clock (since the hour hand moves during the fraction of an hour it takes for the minute hand to catch up with it) For example, by the time the minute hand is pointing straight at 6, the hour hand has had time to get halfway to 7 and such.

So the only time that both "sticks" point directly at any of the numbers, is exactly 12.00

It also occurs to me, that 12am (midnight) can also be considered "zero hour", and zero is less than 12. That, and the time in general becomes "less" (22:00, 23:00 ... 1:00 2:00)

So... the number 12?

Or midnight?

not 12 but 1st statement and second paragraph are thinking in right direction.......times would be 1.06, 2.11, etc (where hands are real close...as riddle says) now u have to figure out which of those times fits best answer to this riddle, u r almost there.....everything  relates to single number in various context or in various lines.

By my estimation, the times in question would gain 25 seconds (the 5 minute gap between numerals on a clockface divided by 12) for each hour gone by, making them 12:00, 1:05, 2:10, 3:16, 4:21, 5:27, 6:32, 7:37, 8:43, 9:48, 10:54, and then there's not another time during the 11th hour; they only meet again when they both reach 12.

Umm... I don't see how any of those times make extra special sense of the riddle... 2:10 has a 2 followed by a 1 I guess, but most all of them have the first digit of the second time being less than the number of hours passed.

you are thinking that time is spoken as "one colon zero five" that is where you are going off.....every phrase in riddle points to one single number with various different meanings, every word has special meaning......also riddle says sticks are close not on top of one another.......now is this helping?

yes, via absolute calculation, our time is very close to one of the times that you have listed, Should I tell you? I should. No, I should not.....damn cannot make up my mind.

Hmmmmm, let me know.

now it is just matter of converting all phrases to relate to 1 single number including absolute time value itself.

riddle says sticks are close not on top of one another

yes, via absolute calculation, our time is one of the times that you have listed

So... the time we're looking for is in the list, or it's a nearby time when the hands are close together but not quite touching? 

not exact but nearby time, maybe a minute ir 2 off, so hands are close.

I wrote my yesterdays post at midnight and so was yawning while typing....missed word close in "yes, via absolute...." line

<ignore this, posted before reading it all/>

SK?  are you taking a break? so many hints and u r so close , i thought u will put this together....I hate to give out answer at this point.   ....

I may be close, but I have no further idea as to how the riddle actually suggests any particular time.

JeeeeeZ!

I can't believe this one is still going...

me neither....

want another hint or wait till you get your strength back to try more on this? I think now that you are close, one more hint should be sufficient to solve this. I hate to give answer and close this riddle since you have put so much effort so far.

if one hint would close this thing down...

you already got few parts of this hint but did not actually put this together

Hint is "It is .....x less than x where x is our number we have been talking about and kid sees x and interpretes several different ways to express this number x in question of riddle" of course on analog clock. I hope this hint helps.

you should get it now

Over to you SK

numbers on the face of a clock... 1 through 12

Since this seems to all be about how things look, let's take a look see at those numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

If the riddle hinges on use of a different font, speak now or forever hold your pieces.

1 through 9... I see no way you could misinterpret, they're only a single digit. 10 could be seen as 1 and 0, with 0 being less than 1, and 12 could be seen as 1 and 2, with 1 being less than 2. But the crossover time near 12 is midnight/noon exactly, which I think we've had ruled out (?) so I'm going after 10

Cross-over time near 10 is 10:54ish ... 10:55 would have 55, 5+5=10

Or 5+4=9 for that matter.

Am I even barking up the right woodland area?

No digit, no other font.............10 ..., you have reached this number correct , now complete the answer. There are already many hints given on how to do this....so read the history if you need help.

reading? aww man... that's haaaaard

The "sticks" are close, so it's got to be around about 5mins to 11, yes?

It says "what is going to be", which I choose to interpret as meaning that it's coming up on the time when the hands cross, rather than being after, so ... somewhere from say, 10:50 to 10:54

10:50 would be "ten to ten"... same number, but one's meaning 10 minutes which is less than the hours that the other is in.

wait... fail

10:50 = 10 to 11

10 is less than eleven though

and it's still "10 to" and pointing at the 10...

10:50 is not 10 to 10..other statements are not accurate although thinking is right...

BUT your last line is 100% correct. I will give this to you and dek for right answers.....

"it's still "10 to" and pointing at the 10..."  .......that is title of riddle. "It is .....?  10 to 10."

+0.75 SK , 0.25 dekrazee1 (dek was correct by saying handles of clock, without which SK would not be able to come to solve this, I think)..

It is...."10 to 10"

what is going to be, (10)     Same less than it (almost).   ....This phrase says same number less than .........10   ( 10 less than 10)

what is going to be. (10)  Stick close. one more, stick close.  .....this phrase says 2 sticks close to.......(10)

All 4 scenarios or phrases or statements work only with 10 and not 11 as for 11 time will not be stated as 11 to 11. Keywords like "It is , What is going to be (twice)" stated by kids were meant to point to same number 10

I know we are adults and we will never be good at kiddie stuff but good effort by all.  By the way my son is learning to read time in clock likethis way and I had to put it as riddle on tangler.

Whoa.... I actually got points out of this??

u r welcome... it is my habit to notice right efforts I guess