Riddles and Brain Teasers

It Is Hate

It is hate and has hate in it, but it isn’t hate.

Hatred.

By Sef Daystrom

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Whelming Rebus

What does this represent?

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 WHELMING

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Overwhelming odds.

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A dad offered to pay his son $5 for every correct answer on his math test. His son said he would pay his Dad $8 for every incorrect answer. There were 26 questions on the test and no money was exchanged.

How did this happen?

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The son got 16 questions correct and missed 10. This means he owed his Dad 10 * $8 = $80, but his Dad owed him 16 * $5 = $80, so it was a wash.
Two math equations to solve it are x + y = 26 and 5x = 8y.

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No One Can Reach It

It’s red, blue, purple and green, no one can reach it, not even the queen. What is it?

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A rainbow.

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I Am Pronounced As One Letter But Written As Three

I am pronounced as one letter but written as three,
There are two of me, I am single, I am double,
I can be blue, brown, black or green.
I can be read from right to left or left to right and am still the same.

What am I?

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Eye.

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Never Dies Or Gets Worn Out

What is deep within you, never dies or gets worn out, and only needs some fire from time to time?

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Your soul. Your soul is deep inside of you, it never dies and at various points in our lives we all get fired up about something.

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A Promise to the President

Ronald has a rare opportunity to meet the President of the United States. During his visit the president gives him a gift but tells Ronald he is never to sell it unless he sees the president again. Ronald consents, but the president dies later that year. Years later a man offers to buy the President’s gift for $1000. Ronald agrees and exchanges the gift for 20 crisp $50 bills. Did he keep his promise?

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Yes. The president was Ulysses S. Grant, who died in 1885 and whose face has been on the $50 bill since 1913. He saw the president on the bills before he made the exchange.

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Ghoti Pronunciation

How do you pronounce Ghoti?

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Fish. The gh is pronounced as in tough, the o as in women and the ti as in nation. Ghoti is a constructed word to illustrate irregularities in English spelling.