All Questions
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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?