Riddles and Brain Teasers

Measures Out Time

I measure out time,
Until in time,
All is smashed into me.

What am I?

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Sand

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Slice My Head

You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I’m dead.

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An onion.

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As Long As They’re Dead

This is a place. The first letter is after A and before Z but nowhere in between. You can bring as many people as you want, as long as they’re all dead. Where is it?

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The cemetery. The letter C is after A and before Z, and it’s not found in the word “between”. The cemetery won’t take live ones. Fortunately I don’t speak from experience on that.

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Longest Words With Letters in Alphabetical Order

What is the longest, non-scientific word to have all of its letters in alphabetical order?

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Billowy.

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Surf, School, Room

What word can be added before or after these words to make a new word or phrase?

Surf, School, Room

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Board. Surf board, school board (or maybe boarding school), board room.

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100 Less Than 99

Where do you find that 100 is less than 99?

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On a microwave. Most microwaves will run for a minute if you enter 100, but will run for a minute and 39 seconds if you enter 99.100 is also less than 99 in an ordered ranking, where 1 is first, and 100th is a lower rank than 99th place.

On a microwave. Most microwaves will run for a minute if you enter 100, but will run for a minute and 39 seconds if you enter 99.

100 is also less than 99 in an ordered ranking, where 1 is first, and 100th is a lower rank than 99th place.

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Pushing Car Past Hotel Lands You in Jail

A man pushes his car by a hotel and gets sent to jail. Why?

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The man is playing monopoly, and landed on the Go To Jail space. An alternative version of this is, “A man stops his car in front of a hotel and immediately knows he is bankrupt.” The answer is the same, that he’s playing Monopoly, but this time he landed on a space with a hotel and didn’t have enough money to pay the bill.

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