Seven Letters and Something You Eat
I have seven letters and am something you eat. My only anagram can help your pain. If you remove my first 2 letters I wear things down. Removing my first 3 letters is an adjective and removing my first 4 letters leaves a measure of time.
What am I?
Sausage. You eat sausage, assuage is the only single-word anagram and provides relief from pain. Usage wears things down, sage is an adjective and age is a measure of time.
A Human with Five Hands
How can a human have five hands?
In addition to the two hands on the end of their arms, they also have three hands of cards. Another alternative could be handwriting, of which most people have one, but that could be added into the mix.
Many and One
We are many and one,
We wave and we drum,
We will cover a stare,
With you everywhere.
What are we?
Hands.
I Wear You Down
I wear you down, yet you will mourn me once I fly.
You can kill me, but I will never die.
Time.
(found in The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare)
In School Without Learning
I’m in school without learning,
And control from the middle.
What am I?
A fish. They swim in schools and the fish in the middle of a school control the school. The fish on the outside are guided by those in the middle.
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
An ace (in a deck of cards).
A Box Without Hinges
A box without hinges, key or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
What is it?
An egg.
(From J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit)
Four Times Every Week
What happens four times in every week, twice in every month and once in a year?
The letter ‘e’. There are four ‘e’s in ‘every week’, two ‘e’s in ‘every month’ and one ‘e’ in ‘year’.