Its Own Past Tense
What common verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
Eat (ate).
None There’ll Be
There is a word of letters three,
Add one letter to it and none there’ll be.
What is the word?
One. Add an ‘n’ to get none.
Alone I’m Unknown
Alone I’m unknown,
With my twin I’m twenty,
And triplets make me a warning.
What am I?
The letter ‘X’. A single x is often used in math as an unknown, along with Mr. X. Two together (XX) make the Roman numeral 20, and three signifies a warning for adult only content, or a warning to other programmers of a problem in source code.
I Sleep By Day
I sleep by day, I fly by night. I have no feathers to aid my flight. What am I?
A bat.
Leaves That Don’t Fall
I have wood but no bark,
And leaves that don’t fall,
I am made up of branches,
and come in sizes of all.
I am completely devoured many times,
over and over by a worm of a kind.
If you want to know the answer of mine,
look for the secret that I’ve stored inside.
What am I?
A library or bookstore.
Walk On the Living
Walk on the living, they don’t even mumble,
Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble.
What are they?
Leaves. They’re soft and silent when they’re alive but crunchy when dead.
A Word of Weather
Find this eight-letter word.
The first four letters are a variation of the weather.
The third through seventh letters give support but also could used when someone is executed.
And the last three letters forms the name of a person.
What’s the word?
Mistaken.
Mist = Variation of weather.
Stake = a tent stake or when someone is burned at the stake.
Ken = a person’s name.
Longer With a Letter Removed
What 7-letter word becomes longer when you remove a letter?
Lounger (remove the ‘u’ to make the word longer).
A Woman in a Boat
There is a woman in a boat, on a lake, wearing a coat.
If you want to know her name, it’s in the riddle I just wrote.
What’s the woman’s name?
“There” is the woman’s name.
I Cannot Speak
I cannot speak but I have great knowledge,
I’m not a tree but I have leaves.
I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window.
What am I?
A book.