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Word Riddles

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!

Truth or Lie?
Riddle:
A prisoner is told: "If you tell a lie, we will hang you and if you tell the truth, we will shoot you." What did the prisoner say to save himself?
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City Names: Wander
Riddle:
This city might as well be called: "Wander."
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Too Late for Supper
Riddle:
What letters of the alphabet come too late for supper?
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Running Into the Woods
Riddle:
How far can a dog run into the woods?
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Finish this sequence top to bottom...
Riddle:
Look at this sequence from top to bottom. What is the next number in the sequence? 1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 ?
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I am a Word
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I am a word of five letters. Take away my first and I am the name of what adorns the estate of many of the nobility of England. Take away my first and second, and I am the name of a place where all the world was once congregated. Take away my last, and I am the name of a beautiful mineral. Take away my two last, and I am the name of a fashionable place of resort. I am small in stature but capable of doing a great deal of mischief, as I once did in London in the year 1666. What word am I?
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The Bank Teller and Her Boyfriend
Riddle:
Why did the bank teller break up with her boyfriend?
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City Names: Sprouts' first name.
Riddle:
City name sounds like: "Sprouts' first name."
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The Shooting Wife
Riddle:
A wife decides to shoot her husband. She does so, then holds him underwater for more than 5 minutes. Finally she hangs him. 10 minutes later they both go out to lunch. How is this possible?
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Drink and I Die
Riddle:
Feed me and I live, give me drink and I die. What am I?
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Head But No Body
Riddle:
I have a head but no body, a heart but no blood. Just leaves and no branches, I grow without wood. What am I?
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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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Keep What's Given
Riddle:
You can't keep me until you have given me. What Am I?
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Once in a Minute BUT Never in a Thousand Years
Riddle:
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
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A Lovely Flower
Riddle:
What flower sounds very kissable?
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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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The Mobile Tree
Riddle:
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
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We are Five Little Objects
Riddle:
We are five little objects of an everyday sort you will find us all in the ladies’ court. What are we?
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Chocolate Sauce and Ice Cream
Riddle:
What did the chocolate sauce confess to the ice cream?
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Which Domestic Animal Am I?
Riddle:
My first letter is in cloud, but never in sky. The second is in roll but not in lie, My third letter is in water but not in trees. My whole makes you milk, kefir, and cheese. What am I?
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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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Trickery!
Riddle:
I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be!
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What can you see in the middle of March?
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What can you see in the middle of March and April that you can never see in any other month?
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Little Pumpkins
Riddle:
Who walks little pumpkins across the road to school?
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A Mother and Father
Riddle:
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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All About the T
Riddle:
I start with T, end with T, and have T in me. What am I?
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What Is It?
Riddle:
What occurs once in a date, twice in Valentine’s Day, and three times in everlasting love?
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Silkworm Fight
Riddle:
Two silkworms started a fight. How did it end?
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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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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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