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"Time" Riddles - Next 10 of 472.
Riddle:
What do you get if a cement truck crashes into a jail?
Answer: Hardened criminals.
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My shallow hills are the faces of kings. My horizon is always near. My music sends men to the grave. My absence sends men to work. What am I?
Answer: Coins.
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In the land of forgotten past, where logic falters and chaos lasts, I whisper quietly through the veil, a cryptic message, delicate and frail. First, you'll seek the titan's home, where footsteps dwindle in silver foam. A cosmic dance of two in sync, their secret lies within the brink. Second, venture to the ancient tale, where elements meet and logic fails. The fifth in line, a metal's pride, with water's touch, it must divide. Third, within the sequence known, a pattern's end, infinitely grown. The first to break, the last to stay, it marches on, in ordered sway. Combine these three, a code is made; the answer hidden, a secret shade. Now, solve the riddle, if you dare, and seek the answer, hidden where?
Answer: "A cosmic dance of two in sync" refers to Janus and Epimetheus, two moons of Saturn that share the same orbital path and swap positions, in what is sometimes referred to as a "cosmic dance." The fifth in line, a metal's pride, with water's touch, it must divide: The fifth element in the periodic table is Boron (B). It's a metalloid, so it shares properties with both metals and non-metals. Boron will react with water at high temperatures, dividing or breaking apart. The second clue points to Boron. The first to break, the last to stay, it marches on, in ordered sway: In the Fibonacci sequence, the first number to "break" the pattern is 4 because it doesn't fit the pattern of summing the two preceding numbers. This may be the third clue's answer. Combining these three answers, we get: Janus and Epimetheus, Boron, and 4. While this combination doesn't lead to a specific location or concept, we can interpret the riddle's last line: Combine these three, a code is made; the answer hidden, a secret shade. The riddle itself is the answer, a secret hidden in the veil of its cryptic language. The joy of the riddle lies in solving the clues and piecing together the puzzle. In this case, the destination is the journey itself.
Riddle:
I can be shiny, sometimes I don't last a year or two and I can be permanent. What am I?
Answer: A bold head.
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I'm a kind of room you'll find in most any building. You've walked into me many times I'm sure. But you have never walked out of me and you never will. What am I?
Answer: An empty room.
Riddle:
Where do sailors take their baths?
Answer: In a tubmarine.
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It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time. What is it?
Answer: A ring.
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I am covered with three layers, two of them can be very sensitive, my layers can cover me in a heart beat or a long time. What am I?
Answer: A cats eye.
Riddle:
At a children's party, 10 kids had juice, 8 kids had cake, and 6 kids had juice and cake.
How many kids were there at the party?
Answer: Tweleve kids. Six kids had juice and cake, leaving two out of the cake eaters that didn't have juice. As there were ten juicers, there must be twelve kids in total.
Riddle:
What two-digit number equals two times the result of multiplying its digits?
Answer: 36 = 2 x 3 x 6.
