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I can be heavy, but I'll never sink. When I am ready, my glass is a drink
Riley Riddle:
My prefix runs past, When you leave what you cast, Where a square may be skipped by a pawn. My suffix is vast, When I swap first with last, Where a breath may be currently drawn. ...
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2
answers
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A crumbled, jumbled poem
I wrote a beautiful, verbose poem for you all, but Riddler went and scrambled the whole thing up! Can you figure out the order of the lines and put it back together again for me? And while you're at ...
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1
answer
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They Couldn't Sit Down 'Till They Got It Out of Town
What are the missing words, but most importantly, what is "it"?
They couldn't sit down 'till they got it out of town
To send it back was nice,
But who'd have bet the odds,
They'd send it ...
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2
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I'm Not A Racist Warrior!
Being a holy warrior is my pride
Yet will I never truly be a knight
For they say bad is my eyesight
Though I know that is not right
It's just how I am meant to be
That half this earth I ...
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1
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I am found in a pool, never sinking nor afloat; pass the squares that I rule, and a soldier must promote
Riddle me this:
Although I'm a cube, I do not have six sides;
Beneath me is green, although no grass resides.
My pockets are large enough — I can fall in!
But then you'll fall out, though at ends you ...
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1
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Don't close me, I'm dangerous
I haven't written a riddle in a while, and my New Year's resolution is "make more puzzles," so here is a quick little riddle for you!
Dragon or demon, locked in its pen,
But without even ...
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12
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4
answers
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Trapped in Time
A Greek trapped in time
by a Roman refine
Mother precedes
we'll never be freed
Circling around
waiting to be found
perhaps by my shipmates
if they've not met their fates
Who am I? And where can ...
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2
answers
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A Far Eastern Poem
You insist I should take one
Ten I shall take as I won.
Tendencies are like a corpse
Fire spreads over entire course.
Fighting as they found a hole
Bamboos grow on land as whole.
Bamboozling, I take ...
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2
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The Sound After
Oh, my beautiful lady first
There goes away the thirst
If today were not this blue
There would be a direct clue
Oh, please look at this mirror
Then you'll see me no error
If people called us twins
...
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My scream becomes louder the faster I advance, though I do not have a mouth and will never in my circumstance
Riddle me this:
My scream becomes louder the faster I advance,
Though I do not have a mouth and will never in my circumstance.
The moment I depart is the moment I arrive,
Though sometimes I delay, a ...
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4
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Straddling the line between poem and puzzle
Some say I'm dishonest, that I am a cheat,
a no-good hoodwinker and full of deceit!
But I disagree, for I hold a good conscience,
just ask my friend Deedee, she'll tell you it's nonsense
The truth ...
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1
answer
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A Writer Named Poky Was Betrayed
Riddle me this:
I am home to the letters, But I am not the alphabet. Whenever there be errors, The display may then correct / A corner may correct. You can find my ancestor, Only in the highest ...
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1
answer
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A Lonely Lady on An Island
Riddle me this:
I have a crown, but not a throne, And a flame that does not burn. I hold a book with numbers shown, But the pages can't be turned. My giant robes are always green; My hands and ...
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1
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Enthusiastic Expression (in Blue)
Pardon the bad poetry, but who am I thinking of?
Uncle Sam took a journey to France,
Sky-high wisps for to move with his feet,
And to feel a particular emotion,
A feeling so down-low and sweet.
He'd ...
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The First Great War
I am a great battle; long ago I took place,
The name is Nick though that wasn't always the case.
The King or the prince, which one was greater?,
Some said "The king!, The prince, he came ...
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