I'll second Kingrames' advice and give some tips on refining riddles. I'm new to the site (been here for under two months), but I've had success with the following process:

To make the best of each post, never think up, write, and post a riddle all in one sitting. Brainstorm before writing to make the most of your idea. Once written, revisit it the next day and look for alternate answers that can be avoided; one poorly chosen word can tarnish a 200-word riddle.

For example, my short, brutal riddle sat in a text document for a couple days as "LIAR-RAIL-LAIR : lies?". My first rhyming riddle spent a few days as "SATURN; sega, car company, planet, Saturday, rockets, Holst's planets" and slowly evolved into a riddle over time. I posted it one day after I had finished writing it, changing a few words that might throw people off or make any clue too broad. Adding "strong" to the last line of this was a product of this process.

If you're writing very short riddles, incorrect answers are going to happen, and some will be bad, but that's what down-votes are for. Just take your time with each riddle and consider other answers which might fit. You won't catch them all, and that's okay; the community as a whole is quite clever!

Avoid posting multiple riddles, especially similar ones, on the same day.

Making a riddle easier is better than making a riddle harder, because you usually can't gauge how hard a puzzle will be, and because making a riddle harder usually means the puzzle-maker just made it more vague and confusing for the sake of difficulty.

I'll second Kingrames' advice and give some tips on refining riddles. I'm new to the site (been here for under two months), but I've had success with the following process:

To make the best of each post, never think up, write, and post a riddle all in one sitting. Brainstorm before writing to make the most of your idea. Once written, revisit it the next day and look for alternate answers that can be avoided; one poorly chosen word can tarnish a 200-word riddle.

For example, my short, brutal riddle sat in a text document for a couple days as "LIAR-RAIL-LAIR : lies?". My first rhyming riddle spent a few days as "SATURN; sega, car company, planet, Saturday, rockets, Holst's planets" and slowly evolved into a riddle over time. I posted it one day after I had finished writing it, changing a few words that might throw people off or make any clue too broad. Adding "strong" to the last line of this was a product of this process.

If you're writing very short riddles, incorrect answers are going to happen, and some will be bad, but that's what down-votes are for. Just take your time with each riddle and consider other answers which might fit. You won't catch them all, and that's okay; the community as a whole is quite clever!

Avoid posting multiple riddles, especially similar ones, on the same day.

Making a riddle easier is better than making a riddle harder, because you usually can't gauge how hard a puzzle will be, and because making a riddle harder usually means the puzzle-maker just made it more vague and confusing for the sake of difficulty.

I'll second Kingrames' advice and give some tips on refining riddles. I'm new to the site (been here for under two months), but I've had success with the following process:

To make the best of each post, never think up, write, and post a riddle all in one sitting. Brainstorm before writing to make the most of your idea. Once written, revisit it the next day and look for alternate answers that can be avoided; one poorly chosen word can tarnish a 200-word riddle.

For example, my short, brutal riddle sat in a text document for a couple days as "LIAR-RAIL-LAIR : lies?". My first rhyming riddle spent a few days as "SATURN; sega, car company, planet, Saturday, rockets, Holst's planets" and slowly evolved into a riddle over time. I posted it one day after I had finished writing it, changing a few words that might throw people off or make any clue too broad. Adding "strong" to the last line of this was a product of this process.

If you're writing very short riddles, incorrect answers are going to happen, and some will be bad, but that's what down-votes are for. Just take your time with each riddle and consider other answers which might fit. You won't catch them all, and that's okay; the community as a whole is quite clever!

I'll second Kingrames' advice and give some tips on refining riddles. I'm new to the site (been here for under two months), but I've had success with the following process:

To make the best of each post, never think up, write, and post a riddle all in one sitting. Brainstorm before writing to make the most of your idea. Once written, revisit it the next day and look for alternate answers that can be avoided; one poorly chosen word can tarnish a 200-word riddle.

For example, my short, brutal riddle sat in a text document for a couple days as "LIAR-RAIL-LAIR : lies?". My first rhyming riddle spent a few days as "SATURN; sega, car company, planet, Saturday, rockets, Holst's planets" and slowly evolved into a riddle over time. I posted it one day after I had finished writing it, changing a few words that might throw people off or make any clue too broad. Adding "strong" to the last line of this was a product of this process.

If you're writing very short riddles, incorrect answers are going to happen, and some will be bad, but that's what down-votes are for. Just take your time with each riddle and consider other answers which might fit. You won't catch them all, and that's okay; the community as a whole is quite clever!

Avoid posting multiple riddles, especially similar ones, on the same day.

Making a riddle easier is better than making a riddle harder, because you usually can't gauge how hard a puzzle will be, and because making a riddle harder usually means the puzzle-maker just made it more vague and confusing for the sake of difficulty.