Hello everyone!
Winners for this event and the correct answers to these riddles will be announced sometime this week, in time with the rest of the forum events! Stay tuned! ♥

Answers and Explanations!

Alright, as promised, now that the winners have been announced, here are the explanations for the riddles for those that are curious. Most of these riddles require a combination of Naruto knowledge and flower symbolism to solve! Some of them were purposefully designed to be harder than others, with a range of easy and hard riddles so that there was a good spread of scores for the event, so if you didn’t do too well, don’t feel bad, what’s important is that you had fun! ^_^

Riddle 1

Ninja: Hinata
Flower: Sunflower The name Himawari means sunflower! It’s pretty logical to assume that Hinata loves sunflowers, and sunflowers are bright and cheery, so many things in this riddle point to both Hinata and sunflowers!

Riddle 2

Ninja: Sakura
Flower: Cherry Blossoms Sakura means cherry blossom, and they’re what Sakura is named after! Cherry blossoms are a very short lived flower, and the lines of this riddle refer to Sakura’s medical ninjutsu as well how many people don’t like her. Like, say the entire community.

Riddle 3

Ninja: Ino
Flower: Flowering Dogwood

This was a commonly missed riddle! You have to read it carefully to get that it was about Sai giving Ino an inking of a flowering dogwood!

Riddle 4

Ninja: Kushina Flower:
Pink Carnation

This riddle combines flower symbolism with Naruto knowledge. Pink Carnations symbolize motherly love, and the text of the riddle indicates Kushina!

Riddle 5

Ninja: Tsunade

Not Flower: Anything blood-related, such as blood flower or blood lily

Another riddle that had a lot of show/manga knowledge in it, involving Tsunade’s phobia, and some knowledge/research of existing flowers!

Riddle 6

Ninja: Choji
Flower: *erfly Flower or *erfly Bush

The lines of this riddle refer to Choji’s preference for eating and for the secret Akimichi mystery to grow wings! Of course, the flower has to be related, in this case, it’s the *erfly flower or *erfly bush!

Riddle 7

Ninja: Jiraiya
Flower: Clovenlip Toadflax This riddle combined Naruto knowledge and flower symbolism. The clovenlip toadflax symbolizes “Please notice my feelings for you,” and many of you clever people noticed that “clovenlip” was in quotation marks in the riddle, and successfully searched it out while figuring out the riddle! Of course, TOADflax refers to Jiraiya!

Riddle 8

Ninja: Kakashi

Flower: Yellow Rose

The ninja for this was Kakashi, not Naruto, because of his famous line, “Those who break the rules are *, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than *.” While the riddle doesn’t have the exact line, the sentiment remains the same, and while other ninjas, such as Naruto, espouse this same ideal, this sentiment is most strongly attributed to Kakashi as primarily his quote. Additionally, to get full credit on this question, it was necessary to specify a yellow rose, as yellow roses signify friendship (close to teamwork)!

Riddle 9
Ninja: Rock Lee

Flower: Lotus
While Guy did break his leg, this question refers to Lee because of his inexperience with his own techniques and his *tendency* to injure *himself* with his own techniques, rather than Guy breaking his leg due to simply being overpowered by his opponent. Of course, the Lotus is the correct flower because of the Lotus techniques!

Riddle 10

Ninja: Konan

Flower: Paper Flower, Origami Flower, Paper Rose, etc.

The text for this riddle describes floding up something “crisp and pale,” and also describes one of her mystery attack. One of the harder ones in some ways, but almost everyone got this one right! Great job everyone! :D

Riddle 11
Ninja: Zetsu
Non-flower Gift: Venus Fly Trap
This one was tricky, but if you read the final like correctly, I don’t ask for a flower like in every other riddle, I ask what you would give. In this case, he asks for a little brother, and it’s stated in the lore that Zetsu is a venus fly trap, so that’s the answer! Of course, you can figure out that the ninja is Zetsu due to the clue “Chatterbox” (what the other Akatsuki call him) and the yin/yang aspect!

Riddle 12

Ninja: Gaara

Flower: Cactus Flower

Unfortunately, “Cactus” is not an acceptable answer for this one, as I specifically asked for a flower in the final line. The first four lines all refer to Gaara’s tattoo, which is a combination of the two kanji for “accept” and “heart” and means “love”. As for the cactus flower, Gaara’s hobby is cultivating cacti, and I specifically asked for a flower, and many cacti are flowering plants! This was definitely one of the harder riddles, so kudos to those that got it! :D