Riddles and Brain Teasers

Voiceless It Cries

Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouth-less mutters. What is it?

The wind.

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Dry As a Bone

Milton was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and wasn’t wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How did this happen?

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Milton sadly suffers from alopecia, more commonly known as baldness. The old coot was as bald as a ping pong ball, leaving not a single hair on his head to get wet.

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Counting Squares

How many squares of any size are in this grid?

4 x 4 grid

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30.

There are:

16 1×1 squares
9 2×2 squares
4 3×3 squares
1 4×4 square (the whole shape)

Hence, 16 + 9 + 4 + 1 = 30.

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Singular When Adding an S

There are many English words that you can add an “s” to make it plural. But far fewer words become singular when you add an “s”. What are two examples of these much rarer words?

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Cares -> Caress
Princes -> Princess

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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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I Am Here, I Am There

I am here, I am there
I am burned into the mind of none
I walk on fire and live on ice
My words are meaningless for I talk not
I hate everyone yet fear no one
I have lived for centuries
Yet I have never existed
What am I?

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Nothingness.

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September 10th In Britain

What happened on September 10th, 1752 in Britain?

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Nothing happened that day. It didn’t exist due to the transition from a Julian calendar to Gregorian.

No Head On Which A Hat To Place

I always run but never walk,
I sometimes sing but cannot talk,
No head on which a hat to place,
You always look me in the face.

What am I?

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A clock. It runs all the time, it “sings” for hourly chimes, cuckoos or alarms, it doesn’t have a head (but does have hands) and you look a clock in the face to tell the time.

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Silent Military Communication

How could a member of the military communicate silently and without light?

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By using braille.Braille was based on a tactile military code called night writing, developed by Charles Barbier in response to Napoleon’s demand for a means for soldiers to communicate silently at night and without light. In Barbier’s system, sets of 12 embossed dots encoded 36 different sounds. It proved to be too difficult for soldiers to recognize by touch and was rejected by the military.

By using braille.

Braille was based on a tactile military code called night writing, developed by Charles Barbier in response to Napoleon’s demand for a means for soldiers to communicate silently at night and without light. In Barbier’s system, sets of 12 embossed dots encoded 36 different sounds. It proved to be too difficult for soldiers to recognize by touch and was rejected by the military.

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Banana

What does this represent?

BAN ANA

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Banana split. It’s the word banana, and it’s split apart.

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