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Riddle:
4, 12, x, y, 105, z, 34. What are the values of x, y & z?
Answer: x=36, y=108, z=102, To get x & y, multiply the preceding number by 3 to get the next value. But after y, the next numbers decrease by 3, So z=105-3=102, then at z, the numbers are divided by 3.
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There are 12 people on an island and one is heavier than the others. You have to figure out which Islander is the heaviest using a seesaw. But you can only use the seesaw 3 times. How do you figure out which one is heavier?
Answer: First, you do six and six. If one of the six is heavier, then you do three and three. Then if one of the three is heavier than you do one and one. If the second or first one on the seesaw on heavier, than that is the answer. But if none of them are heavier then you know that the one that is not on the seesaw is heavier.
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What place is this... where its participants wear uniforms, and the number of participants always increases and never decreases?
Answer: A cemetery
Riddle:
Why is the letter F like an incendiary?
Answer: Because it makes ire fire.
Riddle:
A single word which is versatile, it can be a letter, unknown to the problem, a variable, a target, a love, an intercept, and a type of chromosome. What am I?
Answer: X.
Riddle:
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.
Riddle:
I have your ohs and your wishes, Your life force and your death gasp. You can visit me, or we can get stuck together; Either way, you'll arrive pale and leave quenched. What am I?
Answer: A well.
“Your ohs”: The interjection “oh, well” uses “well” as a conversational filler. “Your wishes”: A “wishing well” is where people toss coins and make wishes. “Your life force”: Wells hold water, essential for life; drinking from a well sustains you. “Your death gasp”: “Farewell” (said at life’s end) contains “well,” and grief often “wells up” as tears. “You can visit me”: A literal water well is a place you go to draw water. “We can get stuck together”: “As well” means “together/also,” and “well… well” is a phrase people repeat when stuck or hesitating. “Arrive pale and leave quenched”: A pun on “pail/pale”—you come with a pail to the well and leave with thirst quenched and the pail filled; or you come looking drained (“pale”) and leave revived by water. All clues point to “well” through its literal meaning (water source) and its many idiomatic uses.
Riddle:
Why should a doctor never be seasick?
Answer: Because he is accustomed to see (sea) sickness.
Riddle:
I am the creature that robs men of their dignity, pride, and will. I feast on children's dreams till' they have none. I am the monster in your head, waiting to strike. What am I?
Answer: I am fear, SO FEAR ME!
Riddle:
I am said to be strong and unbreakable yet gental and kind. I may be suppressed but not ignored. I can be lost but may be found. I can die yet still live on. What am I?
Answer: The sun.
