Riddles and Brain Teasers

Even Seven

How can you make seven even?

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Remove the letter “s”, turning it into the word “even”.

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One Sunday to Seven Saturday

1. Sunday
2. Monday
3. Tuesday
4. Wednesday
5. Thursday
6. Friday
7. Saturday

What phrase does this represent?

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Days are numbered. Commonly used to say someone or something is going to end soon.

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Tagged with rebus

What has wings but can not fly.
Is enclosed, but can outside also lie.
Can open itself up or close itself away.
Is the place of kings and queens,
And doggerel of every means.
What is it upon which I stand,
Which can lead us to different lands?

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A stage.

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Reordered Mistake

What reordered word is a mistake?

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Errored, which is an anagram of reorder.

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One Six Seven Nine to Twenty Four

Given the numbers 1, 6, 7 and 9, find an equation that equals 24. You may only use each digit once.

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91 – 67 = 24 or
(9 – 6) x (7 + 1) = 3 x 8 = 24 or
6 x √9 + 7 – 1 = 18 + 6 = 24

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Kings And Queens May Cling To Power

Kings and queens may cling to power
and the jester’s got his call
But, as you may all discover,
the common one outranks them all

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An ace (in a deck of cards).

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Passes Before The Sun

What passes before the sun but makes no shadow?

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Air.

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Cops Close Cellar Corpse

Replace the letters with numbers to make this a valid mathematical equation.

    COPS
   CLOSE
  CELLAR
  CORPSE
    CASE
+ COLLAR
--------
  RECTOR

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I Am What Remains

I am what remains of what
was once a living whole,
dug in deep, protruding, though,
and unobtainable.

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A stump.

By Sef Daystrom

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Tagged with What am I?

Going Down to the River

A zebra was going to the river. On the way the zebra encountered five giraffes. Each giraffe had five monkeys on their neck. How many animals were going to the river?

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Just one – the zebra. The other 30 animals (5 giraffes and 25 monkeys) were going the other way.

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