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    25 RIDDLES

    8. I will reward you with


    1. There was a green house.
    riches if you show acts of
    Inside the green house there was
    consideration. However, if your
    a white house. Inside the white
    acts are ominous, I reward
    house there was a red house.
    retribution. Who am I?
    Inside the red house there were
    lots of babies. What is it?
    ANSWER: KARMA
    ANSWER: WATERMELON
    9. I am not a pool but it has a cover,
    not a tree but has leaves, not a
    2. I am number three, but I am not a
    slave but it is bound, not a
    number. I am hot and cold at the
    website but has pages, and not a
    same moment but not at the
    shirt but has sleeves. Who am I?
    same time. Who or what am I?
    ANSWER: BOOK
    ANSWER: EARTH
    10. Unexpected is my arrival. It is
    announced to all nearby. I protect
    3. Some use me, while other do not.
    you, yet you try to suppress me.
    Some remember, while others
    With my friends I embarrass you.
    have forgot. For profit and gain I
    Who am I?
    am used expertly, I can’t be
    picked off the ground or tossed in ANSWER: SNEEZE
    the sea. Only gained through
    patience and time, can you 11. There was once a soldier who
    unravel my rhyme? had a brother that was wounded
    in battle. But the wounded man
    ANSWER: KNOWLEDGE did not have a brother. How is the
    soldier related to the wounded
    4. I am a measurement of time. But man?
    you will find me on a map, not on ANSWER: SISTER
    a clock. What am I?
    12. I cannot hear or even see, but
    ANSWER: MISISIPPI sense light and sounds there may
    be. Sometimes I end up on a
    5. Thousands of orphans who lost hook, or even deep into a book.
    their old home, found by others What am I?
    who have lost their own. To hide ANSWER: WORM
    a secret that is obvious to all,
    becomes even more obvious 13. I have seven letters and am
    when the host falls. Who am I? something you eat. My only
    anagram can help your pain. If
    ANSWER: WIG your remove my first 2 letters I
    6. You put me on a table and cute wear things down. Removing my
    me, but you don’t eat me. What first 3 letters is an adjective and
    am I? removing my first 4 letters leaves
    a measure of time. Who am I?
    ANSWER: DECK OF CARDS ANSWER: SAUSAGE

    7. Without one or the other both


    would not exist. Who are we?

    ANSWER: LIGHT / DARKNESS


    14. I am many people’s favorites, 21. I have more shoes than
    even though many don’t anybody, but less feet than
    remember their stay. You will everyone. I am met in the
    love to come but hate to leave, if morning, but departed in the
    you get cold use mt sleeves. night. I may shake as if I’m angry,
    What am I? but I won’t bite. What am I?
    ANSWER: BED ANSWER: GROUND
    15. There are 2 ducks in front of the 22. I am a box without hinges, key or
    2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks lid, yet golden treasure inside is
    behind the other 2 ducks beside hid. What am I?
    2 other ducks. How many ducks
    ANSWER: EGG
    are there?
    23. What type of cheese is made
    ANSWER: FOUR
    backwards?
    16. It breaks away from its pack. It
    ANSWER: EDAM
    creates holes in its victims. It can
    travel for miles and disappear. It 24. Which letter of the alphabet has
    is part of a dying breed. What is the most water?
    it?
    ANSWER: LETTER C
    ANSWER: ICEBERG
    25. Railroad crossing watch out for
    17. Not chest or box is now cars. Can you spell that without
    discussed. Money can be held in any R’s?
    it, but just as we test its metal,
    within it there is rust. What am I? ANSWER: THAT

    ANSWER: TRUST

    18. Joe is turning 17 this year, yet he


    turned 16 yesterday. What is the
    date today?
    ANSWER: 1ST JANUARY
    19. If the day before yesterday is the
    23rd, then what is the day after
    tomorrow?

    ANSWER: 27TH

    20. An old lady forgets her drivers


    license at home. She travels
    down a one-way street the wrong
    way. She does not stop at stop
    signs, or stop for people crossing
    the road. A cop is watching her
    do this and he does not give her
    a ticket. What was the Old lady
    exactly doing?
    ANWER: WALKING

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