English Word with Three Consecutive Double Letters

What English word has three consecutive double letters?

Bookkeeper (or bookkeeping). An alternate, tricky, answer could be Woollen (where W is a “double u”).

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In A Dark Room with a Rope and a Pencil

Imagine you are in a dark room with a locked door. All you have with you is a rope and a pencil. You can hear the rain outside, but there
are no windows. How do you get out?

Stop imagining.

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Alive Without Breath

Alive without breath,
As cold as death,
Clad in mail never clinking,
Never thirsty, ever drinking

A fish.

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Take Off My Skin

Take off my skin, I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?

An onion.

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Odd Row Out

Which row is the odd one out?

A. K N Q T W Z
B. B F J N R V
C. A F K P V Z
D. 3 6 9 12 15 18
E. 7 11 15 19 23 27
F. 13 18 23 28 33 38

C is the odd row out.

In A two letters are skipped between each letter.
In B three letters are skipped between each letter.
In C four letters are skipped between each letter except V, which should be U.
The numbers in rows D, E and F follow the same pattern.

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TOWN Rebus

What does this represent?

T
O
W
N

Downtown.

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Little Miss Eticote

Little Miss Eticote
In her white petticoat
And her red nose
The longer she stands
The shorter she grows

A candle.

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Turning the Years Upside Down

What years from the 1900s and 1800s are the same year when read upside down?

1961 and 1881.

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Bank Wait Times

Suppose a small bank has one teller and customer transactions take 10 minutes on average. With 5.8 customers arriving per hour, what is the expected wait time? What would it be if you added a second teller?

With one teller, customers will wait nearly five hours on average. But adding a second teller makes the wait go down to 3 minutes.

Thanks to John D. Cook for this one.

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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.

A skull.

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