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What Three Letters Change A Girl Into A Woman?

Riddle: What three letters change a girl into a woman?
Answer: Replace the letters G, I, and R with the three letters A, D, and Y.  The word "lady" is another word for woman. Other possible answers: AGE, MRS, MOM...
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Advance Half The Distance?

Riddle: If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach the door?
Answer: Infinity! Technically you will never reach the door, as you can only move half the distance, no matter how small.
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What Was The Highest Mountain On Earth

Riddle: Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
Answer: Mount Everest.
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Eight Letter Words

Riddle: What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Answer: The word is starting! starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I.  Cool,huh?

Take It And Leave It

Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. "What am I?"
Answer: Footsteps.

Heads Or Tails

Riddle: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A Penny.

Rice Krispies

Riddle: David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
Answer: David.

Riddled For Days

Riddle: Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

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Bad Luck & Black Cat

Riddle: Is it true that we'll have bad luck if we encounter a black cat?
Answer: It depends on whether we're human or a mouse!

Peculiar Creature

Riddle: What creature walks on four legs when young, two legs when grown, and sometimes three legs when old?
Answer: A human.

Increases And Never Decreases

Riddle: What place is this... where its participants wear uniforms, and the number of participants always increases and never decreases?
Answer: A cemetery

One Plus One

Riddle: If 1 + 1 = 2, what's the other answer?
Answer: Any other answer is wrong!

World's Song

Riddle: What song can everyone in the world sing?
Answer: The 'Happy Birthday' song.

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There Are Two Sisters; One Gives Birth To The Other, Who In Turn Gives Birth To The First

Riddle: There are two sisters; one gives birth to the other, who in turn gives birth to the first. Who are they?
Answer: Day and night. Both words that are both feminine in the Greek language.

Question

Riddle: I am an object, everywhere I go people clap for me. What am I?
Answer: A mosquito!

Give A Name To A Cat And It Will Call Itself

Riddle: Give a name to a cat and it will call itself. What is the name?
Answer: Meeoow is the name.

What Has A Neck But No Head

Riddle: I have a neck but no head. What am I?
Answer: A bottle.

Strange Subtraction

Riddle: How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?
Answer: F  I V  E Remove the 2 letters F and E from five and you have IV which is the Roman numeral for four.

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Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #16 Series 1

Answer: May I have this dance?

Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #32 Series 1

Answer: Take it or leave it.

Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #41 Series 1

Answer: Home on the range.

Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #55 Series 1

Answer: Back to nature.
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