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Riddle Collection: 22 Word and Phrase Riddles!

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Word riddles force us to re-examine our relationship with words and phrases. To solve these 22 riddles, you must look at all possible meanings of words, trying to tease out the different meanings and their relationship to various phrases you know. You must think both literally and metaphorically, with a good dose of logic!

Four Words in One
Riddle:
What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great man, while the entire word signifies a great woman. What is the word?
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A Term Used to Confirm
Riddle:
I am a term used to confirm. But take away my front, my face, I become known as human avarice.
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Die in the Light
Riddle:
I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. What am I?
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Shorter Word
Riddle:
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
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Part Chicken, Part Goat, Part Cat
Riddle:
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?
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Twelve Remain
Riddle:
A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?
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Hurt Without Moving
Riddle:
We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size.
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B in the Hand
Riddle:
If there is a B in my hand - what is in my eye?
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A New Meaning
Riddle:
I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?
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Backwards Cheese
Riddle:
What kind of cheese is made backwards?
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The Mobile Tree
Riddle:
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
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Word With One Letter
Riddle:
What word begins and ends with an E, but has only one letter?
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The Sealed Room
Riddle:
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
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Falls But Never Breaks
Riddle:
What falls, but never breaks. What breaks, but never falls?
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Which Word Doesn't Fit?
Riddle:
Which of the following words don't belong in the group and why? CORSET, COSTER, SECTOR, ESCORT, COURTS
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Back to Front
Riddle:
What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
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Brings You Down
Riddle:
What brings you down but never up?
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Knight on Knight
Riddle:
If you see a knight jumping over another knight - what are you watching?
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One Disappears
Riddle:
How do you make the word 'one' disappear?
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Four of Five
Riddle:
What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
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One Left
Riddle:
What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?
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The Easiest City to Find
Riddle:
This city is the easiest city in the world to get to.
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