Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 24, 2020 19:01:58 GMT
Here are some riddles,
correct solution worth 1 point max 3 answers per 24h period, plenty of bonuses expected in this one
1: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?Short
2: What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter? envelope
3: A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?dozens
4: What would you find in the middle of Toronto?O
5: You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?E
6: Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?R
7: I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?e
8: What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right? Noon
9: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?ton
10: What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?chicago
11: I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?few
12: What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?Stone
13: What is the end of everything?G
14: What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?Q
15: I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?Isle
16: What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?Heroin
17: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? Silence
18: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? Rivers
19: Speaking of rivers, a man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How? the river was covered in ice
20: What can fill a room but takes up no space? light
21: If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I? mirror
22: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? Footsteps
23: I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I? key
24: People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I? Money
25: What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?Day & Night
26: What goes through cities and fields, but never moves? Road
27: I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I? Fire
28: The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it? coffin
29:A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting? his son
30: With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?Stapler
31: I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I? Map
32: What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves? Nothing
Current scores
Sav 9 + 2
Chunky Monkey 10 + 0.5 effort bonus
Barbleman 3
tommo 4+1.5 bonus
Daveuk1 4
Millhouse 1
Wobble 1
correct solution worth 1 point max 3 answers per 24h period, plenty of bonuses expected in this one
1: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?Short
2: What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter? envelope
3: A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?dozens
4: What would you find in the middle of Toronto?O
5: You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?E
6: Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?R
7: I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?e
8: What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right? Noon
9: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?ton
10: What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?chicago
11: I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?few
12: What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?Stone
13: What is the end of everything?G
14: What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?Q
15: I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?Isle
16: What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?Heroin
17: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? Silence
18: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? Rivers
19: Speaking of rivers, a man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How? the river was covered in ice
20: What can fill a room but takes up no space? light
21: If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I? mirror
22: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? Footsteps
23: I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I? key
24: People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I? Money
25: What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?Day & Night
26: What goes through cities and fields, but never moves? Road
27: I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I? Fire
28: The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it? coffin
29:A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting? his son
30: With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?Stapler
31: I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I? Map
32: What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves? Nothing
Current scores
Sav 9 + 2
Chunky Monkey 10 + 0.5 effort bonus
Barbleman 3
tommo 4+1.5 bonus
Daveuk1 4
Millhouse 1
Wobble 1
