One riddle could be: A man is found dead in a room with a puddle of water and a piece of broken glass. The answer is he was a fish in a fishbowl. The fishbowl broke, so he died and the water made the puddle.
A man lives on the 10th floor of a building. Every day he takes the elevator to the 1st floor to go to work. When he comes back, if it's a sunny day, he takes the elevator to the 7th floor and walks up the stairs to the 10th floor, but if it's a rainy day, he takes the elevator all the way to the 10th floor. The answer is that he is a short man. On sunny days he can't reach the button for the 10th floor, but on rainy days he has his umbrella to press it.
There's a riddle story about a locked room with a table, a mirror, and a window. The riddle is how to get out. The answer is to look in the mirror, see what you saw, take the saw, cut the table in half, two halves make a whole, and then climb out through the hole (whole). It's a play on words in English.
One riddle could be about the different Monstie types. For example, 'I fly high, breathe fire, and am often found in the mountains. What am I?' The answer could be Rathalos. It's a well - known flying wyvern in Monster Hunter Stories that has a fire - based attack and is often located in mountainous areas.
One classic scary riddle is: 'I have no feet to dance, I have no eyes to see, I have no life to live or die, but yet I do all three. What am I?' The answer is a fire. A fire can seem to 'dance', it doesn't have eyes but can 'look' menacing, and it's not alive but can start and end, causing destruction like a living thing might.
Joke: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. Riddle: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? A clock. Funny story: A magician was walking down the street and turned into a grocery store.
Look for any unusual or unexpected elements in the story. In black stories, often the solution is something that is not obvious at first glance. For instance, in a story about a man who refuses to enter a particular room, the reason might be related to a past trauma associated with that room that is only hinted at through some small details in the description. You have to piece these clues together to solve the riddle.
They often involve being trapped, like in the riddle of the room with no exit. Trapped situations are inherently scary. It makes you feel the helplessness of the character in the riddle.
One of the best could be about a haunted house. A girl enters an old, decrepit house. As she walks around, she hears a strange ticking sound that gets louder every 7 minutes. Eventually, she realizes the house is alive and trying to trap her inside.
The story of Rosa Parks is also very significant. She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. This simple act of defiance became a symbol of the civil rights movement and inspired many others to fight for equality.
One 'black story' could be about a haunted house in a small town. People say strange noises come from it at night and shadowy figures are seen in the windows.
One horror story could be about a haunted mirror. In the '7 second riddles horror story', there might be a mirror that shows a different, terrifying face every time someone looks into it for 7 seconds. It drives people mad as they keep seeing these grotesque images and can't escape the mirror's curse.