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An Alphabetic Phrase

What phrase can be made using the following letters?

A B C D E F G I

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Big-faced.

I wouldn’t suggest calling anyone that, unless you want a big red nose from being punched.

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Look In My Face

Look in my face and I am someone,
Look in my back I am no one.

What am I?

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A mirror. The face of a mirror shows your face, but the back of a mirror shows nothing but dust and cardboard (depending on the type of mirror).

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An Apparition

Two people were in a house. No one came in or went out, but then there were three people. What happened?

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The two people were a husband and an expectant wife, who gave birth to her baby.

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The Peace Maker Weapon

What weapon is also a peace maker?

Note: Think homonyms

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A knife. It turns things into pieces.

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What’s Nowhere But Everywhere

What’s nowhere but everywhere except where something is?

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Nothing. (From Gotham)

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A Special Racecar

What is special about the phrase “Race car”?

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It’s a palindrome (a word or phrase that’s spelled the same backwards and forwards).

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12-Letter Word With All the Vowels

What 12-letter word has each of the vowels in alphabetical order without any repeated vowels?

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Abstemiously. It’s 12 letters long and the letter y is considered a vowel in certain cases, and is included. Facetiously is another word that has all the vowels in order, but it’s only 11 letters long.

Abstemiously. It’s 12 letters long and the letter y is considered a vowel in certain cases, and is included. Facetiously is another word that has all the vowels in order, but it’s only 11 letters long.

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I Am And Yet Cannot

I am and yet cannot,
I’m an idea, yet can rot,
I’m two but none,
On land but on sea.

What am I?

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A paradox / pair of docks.

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None There’ll Be

There is a word of letters three,
Add one letter to it and none there’ll be.

What is the word?

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One. Add an ‘n’ to get none.

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Asleep, Parts, Ideals Trianagrams

Rearrange the letters of the first word to form a new one, then rearrange the letters of the new word to form a third.

ASLEEP _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
PARTS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
IDEALS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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1. ASLEEP, PLEASE, ELAPSE
2. PARTS, TRAPS, STRAP (TARPS or SPRAT also work)
3. IDEALS, SAILED, LADIES

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