Riddles and Brain Teasers

A traffic light. It has three “eyes” (the red, orange and green lights) and the leg is the pole holding it up. Many people beg the light to stay green as they’re approaching.

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Two in a Corner

Two in a corner,
One in a room,
Zero in a house, but one in a shelter.

What am I?

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The letter “r”.

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Word With All 26 Letters

What word contains all 26 letters?

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Alphabet (unfortunately there aren’t any actual dictionary words with every letter in the alphabet, so this gimmicky, somewhat unsatisfying answer has to suffice).

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A man is leaving on a business trip and stops by his office on the way to the airport. The night watchman stops him and says, “Sir, don’t take that flight. I had a dream last night that your plane would crash and everyone would die!” The business man cancels his trip and sure enough, the plane crashes, killing all the passengers. The man gives his watchman a $10,000 reward for saving his life, then fires him. Why?

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Because his night watchman was sleeping on the job.

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The Answer Isn’t 6

What goes in place of the question mark?

1 3 5
2 4 ?

(It’s not 6)

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R. It’s a representation of a stick shift, where 1-5 are gears and R represents reverse.

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