Riddles and Brain Teasers

Fill in the Missing Element

Here is a series of numbers:

16 06 68 88 ___ 98

What belongs in the blank spot?

87 is the common answer to this, but it has to be flipped upside down, so I consider L8 more correct.If you flip the numbers horizontally by 180 degrees:86 87 88 89 90 91You see that the blank spot is 87, counting from 86 to 91. However, you need to flip it around, so it becomes L8.

87 is the common answer to this, but it has to be flipped upside down, so I consider L8 more correct.

If you flip the numbers horizontally by 180 degrees:

86 87 88 89 90 91

You see that the blank spot is 87, counting from 86 to 91. However, you need to flip it around, so it becomes L8.

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A City in the Twilight

Half-way up the hill, I see thee at last, lying beneath me with thy sounds and sights — A city in the twilight, dim and vast, with smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights.

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The Past (Longfellow).

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Who Is Silent In Parliament?

Who is silent in Parliament?

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The letter i, which is the only silent letter in the word Parliament.

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No Eyes But Once Could See

I do not have eyes but I once could see. I used to have thoughts but now I’m empty.

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A skull.

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Peggy’s Shy Parrot

Peggy wanted to buy a talking parrot and went down to the pet shop. She bought a parrot after being assured it would repeat any word or phrase it heard. Peggy bought the parrot and took it home, but it still hadn’t said a word after a few weeks. She returned to the shop to complain, but discovered the original assurances were still accurate. Why didn’t the parrot talk?

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It was deaf so it couldn’t hear a phrase to repeat it.

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From There to Here

I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing.

What am I?

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The letter “t”.

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Crazy Taxi Driver

A taxi driver runs through four red lights, two stop signs and goes through a house. A police officer witnesses this but doesn’t do anything. Why not?

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The taxi driver is not in his cab, he’s out for a run. The house he went through was his own because he was done running.

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