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Are you very verbal? Are you good at understanding the written word and playing with it? Then you'll love this category, filled with challenging word play riddles!

City Names: Rooster appears after sudden loud noise.

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Which city can be also named: "Rooster appears after sudden loud noise."
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So Fragile

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What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
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All About the T

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I start with T, end with T, and have T in me. What am I?
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A 7 Letter Word

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I am a 7 letter word. I become longer when my third letter is removed. What am I?
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A Mother and Father

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I am a mother and a father, but have never given birth. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?
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Hate to Face It

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Everyone asks for me, but everyone hates to face me. For some I am agony. For others, I am relief. What Am I?
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A Bunch of Babies

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If you have two twins, three triplets and four quadruplets, how many people do you have?
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Breaks on Water

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What breaks on water but never on land?
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Shorter Word

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What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
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Hurt Without Moving

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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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Four of Five

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What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
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Catch But Not Throw

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What can you catch, but not throw?
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One Left

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What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?
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All About the T

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What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
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Word With One Letter

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What word begins and ends with an E, but has only one letter?
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Four Words in One

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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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One Eye But Can't See

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What has one eye, but can’t see?
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Gollum's Riddle

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This was Gollum's final riddle from The Hobbit: "This thing all things devours; Bird, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slay king, ruins town, and beats a mountain down."
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Once in a Minute BUT Never in a Thousand Years

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What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
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Hands But Can't Clap

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What has hands but can't clap?
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Die in the Light

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I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. What am I?
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Brings You Down

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What brings you down but never up?
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Light as a Feather

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I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for more than a few minutes. What Am I?
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Math Book Talk

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What did one math book say to the other math book?
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The Carnival Trick

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A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $10, but if I cannot, I will pay you $10." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $10. How did the man win the bet?
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As a Stone Inside a Tree

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As a stone inside a tree, I’ll help your words outlive thee. But if you push me as I stand, the more I move the less I am. What am I?
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I live in my little house all alone...

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I live in my little house all alone. There are no windows or doors, and if I want to go out I have to break through the wall. What am I?
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The Jones Brothers

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One snowy night, Detective Anderson was in his house reading a book. All of a sudden a stone came crashing through his window, breaking it. Anderson got up and looked out the window just in time to see three neighborhood brats who were brothers run around a corner. Their names were Alan Jones, Mark Jones and Peter Jones. Not knowing of Anderson's reputation as a genius detective, the two innocent brats teased him by sent a note with clue on Anderson's front door. The note reads "? Jones. He broke your window." Which one of the three Jones brothers should Anderson question about the incident?
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Six Faces

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What has six faces, But does not wear makeup. It also has twenty-one eyes, But cannot see?
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Hold Me Tight

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Lifeless eyes on my smiling face and watch your child's sleeping place. In their dreams they hold me tight. What am I?
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