A Sinking Ship

Imagine you’re alone in a boat with a large hole in the bottom. Sharks are swimming around you on all sides and the boat is sinking fast. How do you survive?

Stop imagining ;)

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Ground Not For Thy Daily Bread

Ground not for thy daily bread,
Leave me in my scented bed,
Ignore me not, lest I doth wither,
My name I leave you to consider.

A flower. The soil they grow in is not used for food, like wheat to make bread, but for their smell. A neglected flower will wither.

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Answer This Honestly

What question can you never honestly answer yes to?

Are you asleep? (or dead, or conscious, or being silent).

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Far Blow Bacon

What do the following words have in common?

far
blow
bacon
lather
fasting
wariness
pacemaker

Each of these words becomes a new word when the letter ‘e’ is placed after the first letter.

far = fear
blow = below
bacon = beacon
lather = leather
fasting = feasting
wariness = weariness
pacemaker = peacemaker

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Least Sleepy Month

In what month do people sleep the least?

February, because there are fewer days.

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Four Against the Masses

We are four against the masses. We are trying to find the one who is the whole package. We sigh, we laugh, we frown while we hope that the next one will be the one. Who are we?

Four orphaned siblings. It seems like there may be a better answer than this. If you have one, please add a comment.

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Starts and Ends with E

What starts with “e”, ends with “e” and has one letter in it?

Envelope. Eye is a potential alternative. When spoken out loud it sounds like a single letter (I).

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Complete This GPPAP Series

What are the next four letters in this series?

GPPAP KTGAMTC WTBCOTP ????

GPRA – Georgie Porgie ran away.

Here’s the whole nursery rhyme:

Georgie Porgie, pudding, and pie,
Kissed the girls, and made them cry.
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.

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Sharpshooter

A sharpshooter hangs up his hat, turns around and walks 5000 meters in one direction, then turns around and shoots his gun, putting a hole right through his hat. How did he do it?

He hung the hat up on his gun.

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Look at My Face

If you look at my face you won’t see 13 in any place. What am I?

A clock face. It only has the numbers 1 through 12.

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