Mikey's Riddles topic

The shops are places that stand for the months. A month in the summer. August? The second month, February, has 29 days in a leap year. Because it is cold outside, in a winter month. This month is a summer month, but you were born in a winter month. The number of the winter month is higher than the number of this summer month? December? You remember 24 years. Two more years which you don't remember. 2007 - 26 = 1981, which is an odd year.The first month of the winter that begins in 1981?December 1981, that's my best guess. I don't know how to pinpoint the day.
And frankly, it's way past my bedtime, so I can't think straight anymore.

Years and days are interchangeable? The number of years coincides with the number of the day of the month?That would make it January 24th, 1981.Edited by Parasomnium, : spelling

If lower is higher and higher is lower, you have turned something upside down. If what you have turned upside down is now higher than the shop that you've stopped at, which I presume stands for August, or 8, then the only number I can think of is 6, which upside down is 9, higher than 8.January 6th, 1981?

Here's a riddle for you, Mike.Once, in my youth, I took part in a game with a group of people, consisting of six individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class, plus one individual who was just a smart person, but no genius. No one knew who this person was, except the person himself.Elementary in this game was that we should come up with a strategy that would eliminate this person in one go. Each of us was, in turn, to say a word that would have some connection to the other words already spoken, without consulting with each other before we spoke the words. Of course, the first one to speak would have no word to connect with.The first word spoken was "Iodine". Then, in quick succession, the following words were spoken: "Gold", "Vanadium", "Aluminium", "Rubidium", "Cobalt", "Bismuth".We then knew who the smart person was. Do you?

I haven't seen the right answer yet, but I think I must clear up a misunderstanding: I said that the merely smart person must be eliminated in one go, by which I meant just one round of words. The silence after "Bismuth" simply means that everyone has said their word and that it's done.There is a clue in the description of the group, although I think you'd need a reverse dictionary - a dictionary in which the descriptions of the words are alphabetized rather than the words themselves - to look it up.

You are indeed on the right track. Now use a thesaurus...

They had many talents.

You'll be fine if you can read it.(Nice twist in your own riddle, Mike, I don't think I would have guessed it.)Added by edit: I hope you don't mind that I put my riddle in your thread. I don't mean to hijack it.Edited by Parasomnium, : see above

Very well done, Cynic1! Welcome to the club, by the way.