I remember something similar to this from a book I read about a year ago. Hope my memory serves me well
You will need three tries, weighing TWO marbles on each side on the first two tries, then on the final try, weighing 2 marbles, one on each side.
Combining two of the 7 "same weight" marbles will produce double it's weight, however, if combined with the heavier marble, it will produce a different weight.
So let's say on Try #1 you weigh a total of 4 marbles, 2 on each side, and they are perfectly balanced, then we can safely say that on the next try, the set of 4 marbles will have an unbalanced weight. Since one side WILL have the heavier marble.
On the final, third try, take the heavier side of 2 marbles, and weigh them. From there, you can find the heavier, 8th marble by weighing the two.
It could be possible to do this in two tries, but three tries will be the most guranteed.
Now, let me think of a riddle.
Here it is! This is the first time I've made my own riddle so... good luck!
I am the shroud of darkness of the King beyond the sea. I am the bridge that spans the flow of forgotten dreams. I am the one of the both darkness and night, Encircling the dwarf who once had might. Without me, neither living nor dead you shall be, Unless of silver or gold, your mouth gleams.
Who am I?
Now, to provide more of a challenge, I require you to provide a full explanation as to why you think your answer is correct. It's quite easy in my opinion. If you know, some things...
NOPE this one is really hard.
Maybe the sandman. Because he is the bridge between dreams we don't remember. whenever I dont remember a dream I have sand in my eyes.
He is out at all times.
And there was a suspicion that if you had silver or gold in your mouth that he would stay away.
Actually It's Teth one of the Lord's servants. In Psalm 119 verse 72 it says:
I've got an idea for a riddle but it needs fleshing out so I'm gonna pass for now.
Here's a brainteaser to tide people over until someone comes up with a good riddle:
You have 8 marbles which are all identical in appearance. Same size, same color, same shape, etc. 7 of the marbles weigh the exact same amount but the eighth is slightly heavier. The difference in weight is too small to tell by hand, however your are equipped with a balance scale. What is the minimum number of comparisons needed to be guaranteed to identify the heavy ball. Explain your answer.
One, if you compare the first two marbles you choose and find that one is heavier, but I'm sure that's not what you meant by "guaranteed." If you're asking how many comparisons I'd need in the worst case scenario, where the heaviest marble is the last one I could choose, the answer is either 7 (if you can only compare marbles one by one) or 3 (if you're allowed to compare groups of marbles - 4 on each side, then divide the heavier group, then divide the heavier group again). Alternatively, you can very significantly increase your chances of finding the heavy marble first by placing them all into a bag with a point at the bottom, shaking it, and pulling out the bottom marble.
Actually It's Teth one of the Lord's servants. In Psalm 119 verse 72 it says:
The law from your mouth is more precious to me
5]than thousands of pieces of silver and gold
Just so you know, Teth isn't a person... it's the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet . That psalm is sort of an ancient version of an alphabetic acrostic.
And to Alnar: I actually have no good guesses to that riddle at the moment, but I'll get back to you when I do.
EDIT: Never mind. I have a guess (as of 17 minutes after my post, in case time becomes an issue).
I am the shroud of darkness of the King beyond the sea. I am the bridge that spans the flow of forgotten dreams. I am the one of the both darkness and night, Encircling the dwarf who once had might. Without me, neither living nor dead you shall be, Unless of silver or gold, your mouth gleams.
My guess is Charon.
He is the ferryboatman for the river Styx in Greek mythology.
You could then, I suppose, call him a sort of bridge.
Vergil describes Charon in his Aeneid, and I suppose you could call him a dark character.
Coincidentally, Charon is also a moon of Pluto, a dethroned "dwarf planet."
Obviously, you cannot pass across the Styx and into the Underworld, unless...
You can pay Charon. People were often buried with coins in or on their mouths to ensure that they would make it across the Styx.
I remember something similar to this from a book I read about a year ago. Hope my memory serves me well
You will need three tries, weighing TWO marbles on each side on the first two tries, then on the final try, weighing 2 marbles, one on each side.
Combining two of the 7 "same weight" marbles will produce double it's weight, however, if combined with the heavier marble, it will produce a different weight.
So let's say on Try #1 you weigh a total of 4 marbles, 2 on each side, and they are perfectly balanced, then we can safely say that on the next try, the set of 4 marbles will have an unbalanced weight. Since one side WILL have the heavier marble.
On the final, third try, take the heavier side of 2 marbles, and weigh them. From there, you can find the heavier, 8th marble by weighing the two.
It could be possible to do this in two tries, but three tries will be the most guranteed.
A clever solution that would guarantee finding the heaviest marble in 3 tries. However not the solution I was looking for.
One, if you compare the first two marbles you choose and find that one is heavier, but I'm sure that's not what you meant by "guaranteed." If you're asking how many comparisons I'd need in the worst case scenario, where the heaviest marble is the last one I could choose, the answer is either 7 (if you can only compare marbles one by one) or 3 (if you're allowed to compare groups of marbles - 4 on each side, then divide the heavier group, then divide the heavier group again). Alternatively, you can very significantly increase your chances of finding the heavy marble first by placing them all into a bag with a point at the bottom, shaking it, and pulling out the bottom marble.
EDIT: oh... never mind. I'm really behind >.<
This is a refinement on the above solution that has the advantage of scaling to much larger numbers of marbles (you would only need to add one comparison every time you doubled the number of marbles). It is not, however, the solution I was looking for.
*claps* HCrest got it! Yes the answer was Charon. And you have provided a good enough explanation too.
To explain some two parts, I'll give my short explanation 0n the 1st and 3rd lines.
Charon covers a bit of the planet Pluto in darkness. It is 'beyond the sea' because Pluto is the planet after Neptune, the god of the sea in Roman mythology.
He is one of 'darkness and night' because Charon is the son of Nyx (night) and Erebus (darkness)
With that said HCrest may now post the next riddle.
I have a new answer to ATGOWTWT's brain teaser. Not quite so different.
This solution will require only two tries with the balancing scale. And this is guaranteed. On the first try, weigh 3 marbles on each side. If there is no imbalance, weigh the last two marbles left. One side will have the heavier marble. If there is an imbalance however on the first try, take the heavier side of 3 marbles and pick two marbles. If there is no imbalance, the 3rd marble of that set will have the heavier marble. If there is an imbalance, the heavier side has the heavier marble.
I have a new answer to ATGOWTWT's brain teaser. Not quite so different.
This solution will require only two tries with the balancing scale. And this is guaranteed. On the first try, weigh 3 marbles on each side. If there is no imbalance, weigh the last two marbles left. One side will have the heavier marble. If there is an imbalance however on the first try, take the heavier side of 3 marbles and pick two marbles. If there is no imbalance, the 3rd marble of that set will have the heavier marble. If there is an imbalance, the heavier side has the heavier marble.
That's the answer I was looking for.
I'm glad Hcrest got your riddle. I would have been stumped.
*claps* HCrest got it! Yes the answer was Charon. And you have provided a good enough explanation too.
To explain some two parts, I'll give my short explanation 0n the 1st and 3rd lines.
Charon covers a bit of the planet Pluto in darkness. It is 'beyond the sea' because Pluto is the planet after Neptune, the god of the sea in Roman mythology.
He is one of 'darkness and night' because Charon is the son of Nyx (night) and Erebus (darkness)
With that said HCrest may now post the next riddle.
-snip-
Alright, cool. I'll try to think up something new and interesting... consider this a placeholder 'till I'm done.
Alright, here it is. And I must warn you, it will require some pretty random knowledge on some infrequently thought-about subjects, or at the very least, some skill with research on the internet . If you've already heard of it, this will be much easier for you. And as usual, if only to annoy Vexx, it will not follow poetic meter .
I begin with the picture of every thing's beginning,
Where therein lies Venn's image,
And the ornament from the door of the Chalice.
But I grow, now within me a three-foot rests,
The sign of the grandest author(s),
Or perhaps the witches' goddess of SEAL.
I grow yet again, as all the children grow inside,
And once I reach a second form,
The green might call me home, for a time.
I'll continue to grow, and when I am full,
You could pull from me an insensate Ent,
Or the category of Persephone's undoing,
Or call me that from which this unfolds,
And annex the target of Ankou.
But regardless of my perfumes,
I am a friend of priests and numberphiles alike.
Alright, so what is it? Also, since I think this was a good idea, I'll ask you to give me some reasoning for each guess. Not a line-by-line analysis if you don't want to, but whatever made your guess occur to you.
Nota bene: all punctuation, capitalization, and spelling is intentional.
While I do not know the answer, I can probably provide an explanation (in a literal sense) for some things to make it easier for others.
Venn's image could be the Venn Diagram.
The witches' goddess is (what I think to be) Hecate. She is the patron goddess of witches.
The green, perhaps it means the grass? Nature?
Insensate means "lacking physical sensation" or "lacking compassion or sympathy; unfeeling" and ent could mean giant.
Persephone's undoing can be many things, but I would think it was her eating of the pomegranate seeds which confined her to stay with Hades for a part of the year for the rest of her life.
Ankou is a personification of death in Breton mythology.
Those are what Ithink some parts in the riddle mean. You can pick up from that, search, think, and put it all together. Because this riddle somewhat stumps me ._.
While I do not know the answer, I can probably provide an explanation (in a literal sense) for some things to make it easier for others.
Venn's image could be the Venn Diagram.
yes.
The witches' goddess is (what I think to be) Hecate. She is the patron goddess of witches.
no, but an excellent thought.
The green, perhaps it means the grass? Nature?
think of it in a much less literal sense; almost as slang even
Insensate means "lacking physical sensation" or "lacking compassion or sympathy; unfeeling" and ent could mean giant.
ent can mean giant, yes, in its original sense. I am referring specifically to Tolkein's ents.
Persephone's undoing can be many things, but I would think it was her eating of the pomegranate seeds which confined her to stay with Hades for a part of the year for the rest of her life.
yep, though, because it may help your thought process, you may want to think of the pomegranate as a whole, and not just its seeds.
Ankou is a personification of death in Breton mythology.
good
Those are what Ithink some parts in the riddle mean. You can pick up from that, search, think, and put it all together. Because this riddle somewhat stumps me ._.
Alright, cool. I'll try to think up something new and interesting... consider this a placeholder 'till I'm done.
Alright, here it is. And I must warn you, it will require some pretty random knowledge on some infrequently thought-about subjects, or at the very least, some skill with research on the internet . If you've already heard of it, this will be much easier for you. And as usual, if only to annoy Vexx, it will not follow poetic meter .
I begin with the picture of every thing's beginning,
Where therein lies Venn's image,
And the ornament from the door of the Chalice.
But I grow, now within me a three-foot rests,
The sign of the grandest author(s),
Or perhaps the witches' goddess of SEAL.
I grow yet again, as all the children grow inside,
And once I reach a second form,
The green might call me home, for a time.
I'll continue to grow, and when I am full,
You could pull from me an insensate Ent,
Or the category of Persephone's undoing,
Or call me that from which this unfolds,
And annex the target of Ankou.
But regardless of my perfumes,
I am a friend of priests and numberphiles alike.
Alright, so what is it? Also, since I think this was a good idea, I'll ask you to give me some reasoning for each guess. Not a line-by-line analysis if you don't want to, but whatever made your guess occur to you.
Nota bene: all punctuation, capitalization, and spelling is intentional.
Alright, so "Venn's image" == a Venn diagram.
Persephone's undoing was a pomegranate...
Well, the rest of it, in order...
The picture of everything's beginning, containing a Venn diagram... Well, to me this sounds as though you're describing a state of infinite possibility, containing all possibilities and the relations between them.
"The ornament from the door of the chalice"... is this a reference to the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail, perchance?
"the green"... I dunno if it's just me, but it sounds like a reference to a drug of some sort.
"You could pull from me an insensate Ent,
Or the category of Persephone's undoing," So, something which can produce a senseless tree giant, or a fruit... "when I am full".
Friend of priests and "numberphiles". Number-lovers. Mathematicians?
Not certain on this... but it seems to describe, in some ways, the Moon.
Also, it's probably better you don't use rhyme and rhythm. If you did, I'd be able to follow it too well. The breaking of flow actually makes it significantly harder for me
Green.. Green.. Greed? Money? it's symbolized as the color of love, lust, it signifies witchcraft, evil, and decay. Even prosperity.
Actually, I think you've literally hit everything but what I meant by it
Well then, a pomegranate is symbolized as:
In Greek Mythology, the fruit of the dead,
In Egypt, it symbolizes prosperity and ambition.
Yes. Though I'm not going for a symbolic meaning here, the ones that the pomegranate carry offered some very nice poetic similarity to themes of the riddle's answer. Don't consider that too much of a hint though... I didn't tell you much that you didn't already know.
Is it me, or is there lot's of "Death" in that riddle? ._.
Yes. Like the pomegranate, the rest of my symbols contain themes that pertain to the riddle's answer. There is one more theme that I tried to include, and finding it might help guide your thinking.
Alright, so "Venn's image" == a Venn diagram.
Persephone's undoing was a pomegranate...
See my pomegranate references above
Well, the rest of it, in order...
The picture of everything's beginning, containing a Venn diagram... Well, to me this sounds as though you're describing a state of infinite possibility, containing all possibilities and the relations between them.
not quite; it's a bit more literal
"The ornament from the door of the chalice"... is this a reference to the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail, perchance?
different Chalice, sorry
"the green"... I dunno if it's just me, but it sounds like a reference to a drug of some sort.
nope. 'Green' is an adjective.
"You could pull from me an insensate Ent,
Or the category of Persephone's undoing," So, something which can produce a senseless tree giant, or a fruit... "when I am full".
yep. maybe some rewording on the senseless tree giant thing would help your thought process, but basically, yeah.
Friend of priests and "numberphiles". Number-lovers. Mathematicians?
yes.
Not certain on this... but it seems to describe, in some ways, the Moon.
No, but one feature of the moon does capture perhaps the most important aspect of the answer. That will not make sense until you're closer to solving, though.
Also, it's probably better you don't use rhyme and rhythm. If you did, I'd be able to follow it too well. The breaking of flow actually makes it significantly harder for me
I just find that it's difficult to do all the other things I want to do: the thematic language, the precise references, and in a few cases, the flexible meanings of words, when I also have to worry about rhyming
And... here's a pretty big hint, so proceed with caution.
The last two lines probably provide the most valuable information for narrowing down your potential answers, and the two that precede those could... well, actually, I'll save that one for later if nobody guesses it soon
WARNING:
Responses to people's guesses will often contain hints.
Actually, I think you've literally hit everything but what I meant by it
Yes. Though I'm not going for a symbolic meaning here, the ones that the pomegranate carry offered some very nice poetic similarity to themes of the riddle's answer. Don't consider that too much of a hint though... I didn't tell you much that you didn't already know.
Yes. Like the pomegranate, the rest of my symbols contain themes that pertain to the riddle's answer. There is one more theme that I tried to include, and finding it might help guide your thinking.
See my pomegranate references above
not quite; it's a bit more literal
different Chalice, sorry
nope. 'Green' is an adjective.
yep. maybe some rewording on the senseless tree giant thing would help your thought process, but basically, yeah.
yes.
No, but one feature of the moon does capture perhaps the most important aspect of the answer. That will not make sense until you're closer to solving, though.
I just find that it's difficult to do all the other things I want to do: the thematic language, the precise references, and in a few cases, the flexible meanings of words, when I also have to worry about rhyming
And... here's a pretty big hint, so proceed with caution.
The last two lines probably provide the most valuable information for narrowing down your potential answers, and the two that precede those could... well, actually, I'll save that one for later if nobody guesses it soon
Well, I'm guessing that "one" aspect of the moon would be it's ever-changing phases. Different all the time, and it's the shadow of the Earth upon the moon. That or the fact that it reflect's the sun's light.
Well, I'm guessing that "one" aspect of the moon would be it's ever-changing phases. Different all the time, and it's the shadow of the Earth upon the moon. That or the fact that it reflect's the sun's light.
Would the answer be Shadow?
No and no... the relation to the moon may not make sense until you're closer to the answer, so don't focus too much on that for now. By the way, I like the new avatar
You will need three tries, weighing TWO marbles on each side on the first two tries, then on the final try, weighing 2 marbles, one on each side.
Combining two of the 7 "same weight" marbles will produce double it's weight, however, if combined with the heavier marble, it will produce a different weight.
So let's say on Try #1 you weigh a total of 4 marbles, 2 on each side, and they are perfectly balanced, then we can safely say that on the next try, the set of 4 marbles will have an unbalanced weight. Since one side WILL have the heavier marble.
On the final, third try, take the heavier side of 2 marbles, and weigh them. From there, you can find the heavier, 8th marble by weighing the two.
It could be possible to do this in two tries, but three tries will be the most guranteed.
Now, let me think of a riddle.
Here it is! This is the first time I've made my own riddle so... good luck!
I am the shroud of darkness of the King beyond the sea.
I am the bridge that spans the flow of forgotten dreams.
I am the one of the both darkness and night,
Encircling the dwarf who once had might.
Without me, neither living nor dead you shall be,
Unless of silver or gold, your mouth gleams.
Who am I?
Now, to provide more of a challenge, I require you to provide a full explanation as to why you think your answer is correct. It's quite easy in my opinion. If you know, some things...
Maybe the sandman. Because he is the bridge between dreams we don't remember. whenever I dont remember a dream I have sand in my eyes.
He is out at all times.
And there was a suspicion that if you had silver or gold in your mouth that he would stay away.
Actually It's Teth one of the Lord's servants. In Psalm 119 verse 72 it says:
One, if you compare the first two marbles you choose and find that one is heavier, but I'm sure that's not what you meant by "guaranteed." If you're asking how many comparisons I'd need in the worst case scenario, where the heaviest marble is the last one I could choose, the answer is either 7 (if you can only compare marbles one by one) or 3 (if you're allowed to compare groups of marbles - 4 on each side, then divide the heavier group, then divide the heavier group again). Alternatively, you can very significantly increase your chances of finding the heavy marble first by placing them all into a bag with a point at the bottom, shaking it, and pulling out the bottom marble.
EDIT: oh... never mind. I'm really behind >.<
P.S.: I'll get a better signature eventually...
Just so you know, Teth isn't a person... it's the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet . That psalm is sort of an ancient version of an alphabetic acrostic.
And to Alnar: I actually have no good guesses to that riddle at the moment, but I'll get back to you when I do.
EDIT: Never mind. I have a guess (as of 17 minutes after my post, in case time becomes an issue).
I am the shroud of darkness of the King beyond the sea.
I am the bridge that spans the flow of forgotten dreams.
I am the one of the both darkness and night,
Encircling the dwarf who once had might.
Without me, neither living nor dead you shall be,
Unless of silver or gold, your mouth gleams.
My guess is Charon.
He is the ferryboatman for the river Styx in Greek mythology.
You could then, I suppose, call him a sort of bridge.
Vergil describes Charon in his Aeneid, and I suppose you could call him a dark character.
Coincidentally, Charon is also a moon of Pluto, a dethroned "dwarf planet."
Obviously, you cannot pass across the Styx and into the Underworld, unless...
You can pay Charon. People were often buried with coins in or on their mouths to ensure that they would make it across the Styx.
P.S.: I'll get a better signature eventually...
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A clever solution that would guarantee finding the heaviest marble in 3 tries. However not the solution I was looking for.
This is a refinement on the above solution that has the advantage of scaling to much larger numbers of marbles (you would only need to add one comparison every time you doubled the number of marbles). It is not, however, the solution I was looking for.
To explain some two parts, I'll give my short explanation 0n the 1st and 3rd lines.
Charon covers a bit of the planet Pluto in darkness. It is 'beyond the sea' because Pluto is the planet after Neptune, the god of the sea in Roman mythology.
He is one of 'darkness and night' because Charon is the son of Nyx (night) and Erebus (darkness)
With that said HCrest may now post the next riddle.
I have a new answer to ATGOWTWT's brain teaser. Not quite so different.
This solution will require only two tries with the balancing scale. And this is guaranteed. On the first try, weigh 3 marbles on each side. If there is no imbalance, weigh the last two marbles left. One side will have the heavier marble. If there is an imbalance however on the first try, take the heavier side of 3 marbles and pick two marbles. If there is no imbalance, the 3rd marble of that set will have the heavier marble. If there is an imbalance, the heavier side has the heavier marble.
That's the answer I was looking for.
I'm glad Hcrest got your riddle. I would have been stumped.
Alright, cool. I'll try to think up something new and interesting... consider this a placeholder 'till I'm done.
Alright, here it is. And I must warn you, it will require some pretty random knowledge on some infrequently thought-about subjects, or at the very least, some skill with research on the internet . If you've already heard of it, this will be much easier for you. And as usual, if only to annoy Vexx, it will not follow poetic meter .
I begin with the picture of every thing's beginning,
Where therein lies Venn's image,
And the ornament from the door of the Chalice.
But I grow, now within me a three-foot rests,
The sign of the grandest author(s),
Or perhaps the witches' goddess of SEAL.
I grow yet again, as all the children grow inside,
And once I reach a second form,
The green might call me home, for a time.
I'll continue to grow, and when I am full,
You could pull from me an insensate Ent,
Or the category of Persephone's undoing,
Or call me that from which this unfolds,
And annex the target of Ankou.
But regardless of my perfumes,
I am a friend of priests and numberphiles alike.
Alright, so what is it? Also, since I think this was a good idea, I'll ask you to give me some reasoning for each guess. Not a line-by-line analysis if you don't want to, but whatever made your guess occur to you.
Nota bene: all punctuation, capitalization, and spelling is intentional.
P.S.: I'll get a better signature eventually...
Venn's image could be the Venn Diagram.
The witches' goddess is (what I think to be) Hecate. She is the patron goddess of witches.
The green, perhaps it means the grass? Nature?
Insensate means "lacking physical sensation" or "lacking compassion or sympathy; unfeeling" and ent could mean giant.
Persephone's undoing can be many things, but I would think it was her eating of the pomegranate seeds which confined her to stay with Hades for a part of the year for the rest of her life.
Ankou is a personification of death in Breton mythology.
Those are what Ithink some parts in the riddle mean. You can pick up from that, search, think, and put it all together. Because this riddle somewhat stumps me ._.
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yes.
no, but an excellent thought.
think of it in a much less literal sense; almost as slang even
ent can mean giant, yes, in its original sense. I am referring specifically to Tolkein's ents.
yep, though, because it may help your thought process, you may want to think of the pomegranate as a whole, and not just its seeds.
good
Well, I'm glad it wasn't too easy...
P.S.: I'll get a better signature eventually...
Well then, a pomegranate is symbolized as:
In Greek Mythology, the fruit of the dead,
In Egypt, it symbolizes prosperity and ambition.
Is it me, or is there lot's of "Death" in that riddle? ._.
Persephone's undoing was a pomegranate...
Well, the rest of it, in order...
The picture of everything's beginning, containing a Venn diagram... Well, to me this sounds as though you're describing a state of infinite possibility, containing all possibilities and the relations between them.
"The ornament from the door of the chalice"... is this a reference to the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail, perchance?
"the green"... I dunno if it's just me, but it sounds like a reference to a drug of some sort.
"You could pull from me an insensate Ent,
Or the category of Persephone's undoing," So, something which can produce a senseless tree giant, or a fruit... "when I am full".
Friend of priests and "numberphiles". Number-lovers. Mathematicians?
Not certain on this... but it seems to describe, in some ways, the Moon.
Also, it's probably better you don't use rhyme and rhythm. If you did, I'd be able to follow it too well. The breaking of flow actually makes it significantly harder for me
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Responses to people's guesses will often contain hints.
Actually, I think you've literally hit everything but what I meant by it
Yes. Though I'm not going for a symbolic meaning here, the ones that the pomegranate carry offered some very nice poetic similarity to themes of the riddle's answer. Don't consider that too much of a hint though... I didn't tell you much that you didn't already know.
Yes. Like the pomegranate, the rest of my symbols contain themes that pertain to the riddle's answer. There is one more theme that I tried to include, and finding it might help guide your thinking.
See my pomegranate references above
not quite; it's a bit more literal
different Chalice, sorry
nope. 'Green' is an adjective.
yep. maybe some rewording on the senseless tree giant thing would help your thought process, but basically, yeah.
yes.
No, but one feature of the moon does capture perhaps the most important aspect of the answer. That will not make sense until you're closer to solving, though.
I just find that it's difficult to do all the other things I want to do: the thematic language, the precise references, and in a few cases, the flexible meanings of words, when I also have to worry about rhyming
And... here's a pretty big hint, so proceed with caution.
The last two lines probably provide the most valuable information for narrowing down your potential answers, and the two that precede those could... well, actually, I'll save that one for later if nobody guesses it soon
P.S.: I'll get a better signature eventually...
Well, I'm guessing that "one" aspect of the moon would be it's ever-changing phases. Different all the time, and it's the shadow of the Earth upon the moon. That or the fact that it reflect's the sun's light.
Would the answer be Shadow?
No and no... the relation to the moon may not make sense until you're closer to the answer, so don't focus too much on that for now. By the way, I like the new avatar
P.S.: I'll get a better signature eventually...