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You can’t read me, yet here we are.
As good as line 5, but just as far.
Doctors may share this trait.
Or maybe just a half-eaten cake.
What am I?
The answer is a single English word. This is my first riddle, so feedback is appreciated!
Hint 1:
See what the lines are saying about the word carefully.
Hint 2:
One of the lines here has the definition to the answer.
Hint 3:
When looking back at your writing from many, many years ago
Hint 3 (Larger hint):
Foreign texts may seem like this to you.
I think the answer is:
sorry...
illegible (edited, first try was unreadable)
You can’t read me, yet here we are.
or as hint 2: One of the lines here has the definition to the answer.
As good as line 5, but just as far.
as others stated line 5 doesn't exist, therefore can't be read
Doctors may share this trait.
Doctors are often said to have a bad handwriting
Or maybe just a half-eaten cake.
the text on the cake would be half-eaten, too
When looking back at your writing from many, many years ago
sometimes we change our way to write over the years.
It's a bit whacky, here goes:
The answer is
time.
My reasoning:
You can’t read me, yet here we are.
We can't read time, we can only read clocks that conceptualise time for us. I thought "yet here we are" could be a reference to space-time: when we and where we are is connected. Alternatively, I read the saying as "we are" and "yet", which are references to present or future tense.
As good as line 5, but just as far.
Line five doesn't exist (yet), but may well do in a future time(line).
Doctors may share this trait.
I thought of Doctor Who. The Doctor is a time lord or time lady. This is their race, so they share 'time' as part of their identity. The Doctor is of course only one person, but the different incarnations are usually referred to as "the doctors".
Or maybe just a half-eaten cake.
It's a mnemonic device for children to learn the analogue clock as pieces of cake. A half-eaten cake could indicate half-an-hour of time.
Fwiw, I think this is not the intended answer because I couldn't find a way to explain that
the first line can do it all on its own. I also considered 'genome' as an answer but the half-eaten cake didn't work.
I will try my hand at another answer, is the answer
Gibberish
You can't read me, yet here we are.
You can't read gibberish, because, it doesn't mean anything, it's gibberish
As good as line 5, but just as far.
Line 5 doesn't exist, it means as much as gibberish does, which is not much
Doctors may share this trait.
Doctors are known to write in a confusing way, a borderline unreadable mess that's somehow understood by pharmacists
Or maybe just a half-eaten cake.
This maybe refers to talking with your mouth full, or the leftovers of the cake looking unappealing, and haphazardly placed
I think the answer is
Nothing
You can't read me, yet here we are.
You can't read "nothing", but you can read the word itself, and sometimes adding spaces (nothings) between words helps
As good as line 5, but just as far.
Line 5 doesn't exist, nothing to see there
Doctors may share this trait.
Doctors are allowed to share nothing about their patients, as per the Hippocratic Oath
Or maybe just a half-eaten cake.
There's no more of half of this cake, it's gone, nothing's left!
Not too sure about this one, but... maybe it is
space
You can’t read me, yet here we are.
Lots of spaces there, but they cannot be "read"
As good as line 5, but just as far.
There is no line 5, but instead just blank space
Doctors may share this trait.
Doctors could share office space and working space (but that isn't really a trait).
Or maybe just a half-eaten cake.
The eaten half is now just space.
