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A Crossworm Puzzle
crossworm (noun) - A song that gets stuck in one's crossword puzzle.
See also: earworm
You know how it is - one moment, you've got a song stuck in your head; the next, it's stuck in your crossword ...
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The Answer To Everything - What Am I?
While I can be the answer to everything and everyone,
too much of me and your demise will be spun.
I can make things strong,
but transition is where I belong.
I am not natural, as is the common plant,
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Really cheesy, huh?
I scamper away at any sound,
I'm the thing next to your desktop, waiting to be found.
Change one letter and you are in me,
Add one letter, take a spoonful,
Yum! What a beauty.
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An everyday object... but it's a Really Obvious Problem Everyday
None of me and things might fall
Things also can't move, as I recall
Part of me, and you are me
All of me, might determine your fate,
After all, you would be under constraint
I am a 4 letter word. ...
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The blade of the leaf
Given a bird, a cat and a shrew,
along with a bat to give you a few.
Some sleep at night,
others in light,
surprisingly you are one too.
How do you relate to the title?
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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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A Puzzling Easter Egg Hunt
What follows here is a little Easter Egg hunt I've pulled together for you all this year. Ultimately, you need to discover a single word of four letters in length which will be revealed by the puzzle ...
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As Slaughter Crept unto the Sheep
Turn in my lord! Turn in my lord!
But water I cannot afford.
Some milk is best at your request.
Now hide you and get you some rest.
But as he sleep, to him she creep,
As slaughter crept unto the ...
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The Abysmal King
What was the king's name (missing from the riddle),
but more interestingly, what was the king trying to hide?
Slay me now, and take a solemn vow,
Men can't say I might have died this way,
Thrust ...
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A Hand-picked Piece
Another riddle from ~ Words That Get Stuck In MacGyver88's Head ~(:P)
The following is but a novice trial.
No points expected nor a prize to win.
For thoughts to paper helps to cease the rile.
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My prefix is a single word
Today, my dear fellas, I want you to see,
that there is a whole new riddle by me.
The word I am seeking is not very long,
it's part of a show, where connections are strong.
The prefix is meant to be ...
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My Parts Are The First Parts
Another riddle from ~ Words That Get Stuck In MacGyver88's Head ~(:P)
My beginning is the first part of a type or an action.
For type, two is normal, some use more for different traction.
My ...
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Off the ground the game is at stake
My first part is a pound to take
The other part means to forsake
Off the ground the game is at stake
Fly around; make no mistake
Who am I?
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I shall Keep Watch for My Family
Inspired, again. This time, by @Stiv. Enjoy!
You asked me what I did before I fell asleep;
Perhaps you'll know if I tell you whose watch I need to keep.
I'm the freest of them all, all things ...
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Fire and Water, Hear Me Roar
My first is the first of an outrageous utterance
My second the second of appropriate circumstance
My third's the essence of heat, why anything cools
My last a procedure, all about the rules
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Listen for my color
I've been away from the site for a while with work, kids, and going back to school; but since I have some down-time this evening I've decided to write a few riddles for the community. As always, I ...
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A Striking Resemblance (no.2)
I didn’t explain how the first one worked as to prevent it from being to easy; the way these riddles work is that I supply as many synonyms to a word as possible (within reason) to narrow down your ...
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A Striking Resemblance (no.1)
I was inspired by the Teapot riddles and have decided to attempt a new type of wordplay puzzle. This should prove to be fun! ...
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See me once, see me twice
A very short riddle just came to my mind, let's see if it can be cracked:
see me once, food can usually be found
see me twice, thundering typhoons all around
hints are coming daily, if needed. ...
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A Quick Easy Riley
I've hit a road block with my story riddles and need to refresh my mindset; therefore, I am writing a quick and easy puzzle for the community to solve. Good luck to all of you!
Look for the prefix, ...
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Impractical, Improbable, and Incredible
My functions are complex, I will fight your wars.
A design that'll perplex, not bought at your stores.
Carefully crafted to be awesome, as I'm stuffed with weapons of war,
Hear the bullets around you ...
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When Will I Be Served?
My prefix's mind is quite fair and precise.
My suffix can flow with a warm sacrifice.
My infix is shown in a shuffle and worn.
My lady, though blind, balances with a thorn.
What am I?
The answer is $...
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A Riddle of Riddles
As the title states, I have decided to make another quite involved riddle, and though I should probably get away from acrostics for a while (more users are noticing them in my puzzles), I just couldn'...
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My prefix grunts
My prefix grunts,
my infix can be found on a blunt.
My suffix might be hard,
but you'll find me in a yard.
What am I?
Clarification:
The word "blunt" is used in reference to a ...
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Feral and untamed
A recent creation, I'm built like a horse;
I'm feral and untamed, a wild beast, of course.
Free content licensing I do endorse,
A bug ran from home and now codes open source.
What am I?
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The Greatest Test Drive Ever!
So I went by a car dealership yesterday evening with the intent to buy a used car; upon test driving it, I fell in love with it! This thing was the perfect combination of luxury and sport, and the ...
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Will Riley Riddles ever end?
Maybe, maybe not — but the answer won't.
My prefix is the first half of what was before.
My suffix curses Scotland in red and no more.
My infix is a hotshot when scrambled (what egg?).
I am twice my ...
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A connection between Riley Riddles and I
The following riddle was inspired by what is referred to as "Riley Puzzles / Riddles" (example).
Another Riley Riddle! This one keeps to the traditions, but it might be a little too hard. I ...
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Sum41? How About Tongue41?
I'll admit, okay? I have no tongue.
But that doesn't mean that we are done-
A delicious dessert, or perhaps your manhood;
But don't forget to double it good.
A cold treat with a 'nana
But without the ...
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Yet another Riley Riddle
An invading force was once named my prefix
What they left after, colored my suffix
Forgetting my infix is just not allowed
When applied to people, I'm more than a crowd
What am I?
Hint:
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What a Fascinating Thing You Are
I've really enjoyed creating riddles lately, and I'm back with another one. This one should be simplistic enough, but who knows; maybe it'll stump you for a few minutes.
My suffix is a ship; my ...
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I didn't ask to be torn apart and put back together again
Bippity boppity boo!
I don't really know how to shoot;
By the end, your love for me grew,
By the end, I knew what I must do.
You can be sure that when danger looms,
I will prevent our ...
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Can we get a Table for Two?
Can we get a Table for Two?
The poker player gasps at fate;
He gets more than a pair of eight.
To amplify her work and fun
Saloon girl adds a pair of one.
The answer will be two words....
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A Baffling Riley
My prefix will make you shiver and shake
My infix is when you hesitate
My suffix is as strong as could be
My whole will baffle you totally.
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The Imaginary Food Riddle
I am a food you'd never find or certainly wouldn't eat
I don't exist, and yet I do, now isn't that a feat!
I am a good example of something that is wrong
I'm mentioned in the speech of some but more ...
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Can you name the two?
TWO came forth from the very same mother
and most people could not tell one from the other
They arrived the same day, on the very same spot,
they look just the same, yet twins they are not
To further ...
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Just a character reference
What leaves ewe at six,
A short start of seven,
Steers a flying stick,
To refer to Eleven,
Princess's small sidekick,
Who left one to heaven?
Re-order the answers of the first 5 lines to ...
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A Riddle of Successive Subtractive Sentences
All in all: out of bed! Time the morning to greet!
Minus one and the statesman is losing his seat.
Minus two: it's a hue or a kind of a smirch.
Minus three, in a way, nothing short of a perch.
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I make a song of silence
I make a song of silence,
so sit and listen well.
I hold in beasts of many kinds
far from where they dwell.
I've taken some peculiar things,
like artifacts and faces.
I have thick skin and spent ...
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I'm purple and small, what am I?
I'm purple and small,
not hard to make at all.
I take you to new places,
Where you will see some new faces.
I'm part of the world, yet take you away,
When you step through me, you see mostly grey.
You ...
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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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