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Say My Name

Say my name and I disappear. What am I?

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Silence.

An alternate version is, “What is so fragile it breaks when you say its name?”

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From Diner to Menus

How can you go from DINER to MENUS, changing one letter at a time and forming another English word in each step?

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DINER
MINER
MINES
MINUS
MENUS

Another option is:
DINER
DINES
MINES
MINUS
MENUS

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Forward I’m Heavy

Forward I’m heavy, but backwards I’m not. What am I?

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Ton.

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Debbie’s Dragster

Debbie starts driving her dragster from rest and constantly accelerates to 60 mph in 10 seconds. How far does she travel in those 10 seconds?

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1/12 mileTen seconds is 1/6 of a minute and 1 minute is 1/60 of an hour, so 10 seconds is 1/360 of an hour.If you graph her trip with the speed on the y-axis and the time on the x-axis, you get a triangle with height of 60 mph and width of 1/360 of an hour. To calculate the area of the triangle, you multiply 1/2 × 1/360 × 60 = 1/12.

1/12 mile

Ten seconds is 1/6 of a minute and 1 minute is 1/60 of an hour, so 10 seconds is 1/360 of an hour.

If you graph her trip with the speed on the y-axis and the time on the x-axis, you get a triangle with height of 60 mph and width of 1/360 of an hour. To calculate the area of the triangle, you multiply 1/2 × 1/360 × 60 = 1/12.

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Choose Your Own Death

A prisoner was brought before the King to be executed. The King was in a peppy mood and asked the prisoner how he would like to die. The prisoner told him and the King laughed heartily. The prisoner was released and sent on his way, alive.

What did the prisoner say?

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He asked to die of old age.

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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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Apples, Ice and Flowers

Apples, ice, and flowers can do it.
Pears, stones, and coins can’t.

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Float.

By Sef Daystrom

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Whelming Rebus

What does this represent?

 1 3 5 7 9
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 WHELMING

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Overwhelming odds.

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H20 Autumn

What is this?

H₂O autumn

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Waterfall. H₂O is a fancy-pants way of saying water and autumn is a mildly fancy way to say fall (the season).

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Remove My Middle And Still I Remain

Begin with a word, five letters to my name,
Remove the first and last but I am the same
Take out my middle and still I remain.

What word am I?

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Empty. (mpt, emty or mt depending on your interpretation)

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