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Riddle: When you take away the whole from me, there is always some left over. What am I?
Answer: Wholesome!
Riddle: Two travelers spend from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock walking along a level road, up a hill, and back again. Their pace is 4 mph on the level, 3 mph uphill, and 6 mph downhill.  How far do they walk and at what time do they reach the top of the hill?
Answer: 24 miles half past three.
Riddle: What number, when added separately, to 100 and 164 can make each a perfect square?
Answer: The answer is 125. 125+100=225 and 125+164=289.  The square root of 225 is 15 and the square root of 289 is 17.
Riddle: A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another?
Answer: 110 miles. (73037)
Riddle: What God never sees, what the king seldom sees, and what we see every day. What is it? Read my riddle.
Answer: An equal.
Riddle: My first is often at the front door. My second is found in the cereal family. My third is what most people want. My whole is one of the United States. What am I?
Answer: MATRIMONY (mat rye money). Which is certainly a "united state"!
Riddle: What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?
Answer: An umbrella.
Riddle: My first is high, My second damp, My whole a tie, A writer's cramp. What am I?
Answer: Hyphen. The first two lines yield high-fen. A hyphen is used by a writer to tie (or cramp) two words together.
Riddle: You are in a room that is completely bricked in on all four sides, including the ceiling and floor. You have nothing but a mirror and a wooden table in the room with you. How do you get out?
Answer: You look in the mirror you see what you saw, you take the saw and you cut the table in half, two halves make a whole, and you climb out the hole.
Riddle: If you're in a room with no windows, no doors, and everything made of cement. In the room is a mirror and a table. How do you get out?
Answer: Look in the mirror to see what you saw. Take the saw the table in half.  Use the two halves to make a whole.  Then, crawl through the hole to get out.