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My drunken formula?
I know that today is an important day, but I can't remember why... All I have in my possession is this formula I wrote last night in my drunken stupor:
You go here:
$$B = 25 + \biggl(\frac{O}{...
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Riddle Requiring Magical Knowledge
This may be too tricky (it requires specialized knowledge) or have multiple answers, but I'll try to make it specific:
My name sets afire confusion and ire.
With creatures acquired, battles change ...
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Hello, Goodbye, Adios, Aloha
I say hello, I say goodbye
One moment I'm low, the next I am high
I can make you see something you did not see
The invisible can be seen through me.
What am I?
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Tricky T Tribute (or: Humble H Homage)
I made up a bunch of riddles over the weekend and wrote them on a stack of cards. Unfortunately, I dropped the stack outdoors. The cards blew everywhere and one of the riddles is missing. Can you ...
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What happened to the boat?
A man wandered around on a boat,
And fell through a hole in the hull;
He was gobbled up by a shark,
And then by a flock of seagulls.
Three days later the man's ghost came back,
To haunt the boat with ...
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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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You Can't See Me Coz I'm NOT John Cena!
As a pack, we pursue the pity, for power, on the flee.
As a king, I was a clashing knight, couldn't you see?
As a wolf, I am white without any whispers;
And just for fun, I'm first fish,...
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This one is about YOU! (and other things)
This first one is just you plus...
...dwarfs in Snow White,
...bits in a byte,
...tripod's upright,
...and a number that is quite lucky at least in my opinion.
Then there's you plus...
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I rhyme with omega
The place of the birth of a short-reigning king,
the fifth of his name and the last of his kind.
As well as the place of his death one cruel spring,
the label of genocide later assigned.
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Even street orphans speak in riddles nowadays
How do you do, my name's Gavroche,
whispering words of wisdom, see?
Bucharest coins are nothing posh,
neither is neighbouring currency.
This is the man that wrote the song "Charmaine",
this ...
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Hebrews, Muslims and Biblical men
The first among Hebrews, a beverage of barley,
the first among Muslims, a city with Ali,
share a relationship which is the same
as a Biblical man's English and Spanish name.
Who is the Biblical ...
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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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Wikipedia Says So #3
Previous puzzles in series: #1, #2
A reference to the order to cite
The works of those who write
And star and edit
And even more get credit!
It's about the boring part of the night.
Hint 1:...
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The thousand-year enigma
Three two and five versus one five and three twos,
sellable merchandise made out of these clues,
latter being northern the first's in the east,
country's name one thousand years back at least.
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Called by human names, we always existed
We are like sinful dwarves, or wonders that glisten.
One of us is there to listen.
One of us is there to cook.
Another, at night, is there to look.
One is the leader to show the way.
One does what is ...
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