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What Word Contains All Of The Twenty Six Letters

Riddle: What word contains all of the twenty six letters?
Answer: Alphabet.
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Two Numbers Riddle

Riddle: Take two numbers, such that the square of the first, plus the square of the second, shall equal 8; while the first, plus the product of the first and second, shall equal 6. What are the two numbers?
Answer: 2 and 2.
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A Time When They Are Green A Time When They're Brown

Riddle: A time when they are green, a time when they're brown, but both of these times, cause me to frown. But just in between, for a very short while, They're perfect and yellow and cause me to smile! What am I talking about here?
Answer: Bananas.
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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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Echoes Of Worlds

Riddle: I hold a thousand voices, yet not one sound I make. I open doors to worlds though I never roam or break. In lines I travel paths, but never take a step— When you seek new places, I am the map you’ve kept. What am I?
Answer: A Book.

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!

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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

What Can You Hold In Your Right Hand But Not In Your Left

Riddle: What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
Answer: Your left hand!

As Empty As Space

Riddle: Empty as space , Scary as a ghost, I appear every night What am I?
Answer: Darkness.

Cold But Burn It Touched Riddle

Riddle: I am cold to the touch but yet I burn if held. What am I?
Answer: I am dry ice. Dry ice is frozen, solid, carbon dioxide that freezes at −109.2F.  The extreme cold makes it dangerous to handle with bare skin.

I Am Safe And Secure.

Riddle: As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
Answer: Stable.

Rebus Puzzles

Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #5 Series 1

Answer: Moon over Miami.

Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #11 Series 1

Answer: Time on my hands.

Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #38 Series 1

Answer: Up a lazy river.

Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #44 Series 1

Answer: How the west was won.
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