The Coffin Riddle:
The man who built it doesn't want it, the man who bought doesn't need it, the man who needs it doesn't know it. Body parts remaining: 6
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How Did Tom Die Riddle
A man named Tom goes to a party. Him and three guests go into a back room to play some games. A few hours later the four of them are discovered dead. One was beaten with a shovel, another had a drill bit in his head, and the other had been clubbed to death. Tom has no marks on his body.
How did he die?
How did he die?
Hint:
He died of a heart attack (all of the deaths are related to a suit in a deck of cards). Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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A Heart That Never Beats
I have a heart that never beats,
I have a home but I never sleep.
I can take a man's house and build another's,
And I love to play games with my many brothers.
I am a king among fools.
Who am I?
I have a home but I never sleep.
I can take a man's house and build another's,
And I love to play games with my many brothers.
I am a king among fools.
Who am I?
Hint: It's part of a game.
Weightless On A Scale
Im measured on a special type of scale but I dont weigh anything
I cant be seen but Im not the Invisible Man
I can whistle but I have no mouth
I can knock down trees but Im not a lumberjack
I help you fly a kite but Im not a piece of string
I blow but Im not someone playing the trumpet.
What am I?
I cant be seen but Im not the Invisible Man
I can whistle but I have no mouth
I can knock down trees but Im not a lumberjack
I help you fly a kite but Im not a piece of string
I blow but Im not someone playing the trumpet.
What am I?
Hint:
Pools Of Sharks And Eels
Hint:
If you do not wish to die, join the man in his feast. Notice the man is eating the shark, since there are no commas to make it "a man, eating shark" and there isn't a dash to make it "a man-eating shark". Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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When The Casket Shuts
I have no mind or a soul.
I've been eternally attached since man's dawn.
My kind disappear on and off,
to everyone I accompany them to their death,
and buried with them, then I hide away when the casket shuts.
What am I?
I've been eternally attached since man's dawn.
My kind disappear on and off,
to everyone I accompany them to their death,
and buried with them, then I hide away when the casket shuts.
What am I?
Hint:
10 Apples Riddle
Doctor Harish and a bus driver Manish are both in love with the same woman named Priyanka. The bus driver need to go for a long trip of 10 days. Before he left he gave priyanka 10 apples. Why?
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One Wise Son
An old man wanted to leave all of his money to one of his three sons, but he didn't know which one he should give it to. He gave each of them a few coins and told them to buy something that would be able to fill their living room. The first man bought straw, but there was not enough to fill the room. The second bought some sticks, but they still did not fill the room. The third man bought two things that filled the room, so he obtained his father's fortune. What were the two things that the man bought?
Hint:
The wise son bought a candle and a box of matches. After lighting the candle, the light filled the entire room. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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A Suitor To Portia Riddle
The casket scene in "The Merchant of Venice" contains several riddles. Which of these nobles was NOT a suitor to Portia? This odd-man-out noble might easily be confused with the contender who chose 'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'
Hint:
The Actions Of Pericles
Pericles must answer Antiochus' riddle to win the hand of his daughter. If he fails he will face death. The riddle is:
"I am no viper, yet I feed
On mother's flesh which did me breed.
I sought a husband, in which labour
I found that kindness in a father:
He's father, son, and husband mild;
I mother, wife, and yet his child.
How they may be, and yet in two,
As you will live, resolve it you."
What does Pericles do?
"I am no viper, yet I feed
On mother's flesh which did me breed.
I sought a husband, in which labour
I found that kindness in a father:
He's father, son, and husband mild;
I mother, wife, and yet his child.
How they may be, and yet in two,
As you will live, resolve it you."
What does Pericles do?
Hint:
Understands the riddle to mean incest and hints to Antiochus his understanding.
Antiochus realises from Pericles' hints that Pericles has understood the riddle and determines to have him killed. I am not aware of any other reference to incest in Shakespeare. Incest seems to retain its rightful shock value much more in Shakespeare and the classics. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Antiochus realises from Pericles' hints that Pericles has understood the riddle and determines to have him killed. I am not aware of any other reference to incest in Shakespeare. Incest seems to retain its rightful shock value much more in Shakespeare and the classics. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Fulfilling Her Stipulation
"When from my finger you can get this ring and are by me with child", when he will not sleep with her?
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The Thane Of Fife Riddle
Macbeth is given three pieces of oracular information by the apparitions. The first apparition, an armed head, states 'beware _____, beware the Thane of Fife'. Who was the Thane of Fife? (He had a wife).
Hint:
The answer is Macduff. Only the first apparition answers straightforwardly. Macbeth should have taken notice of such specific information. The other two apparitions present riddles, where the answer is not what it seems. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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The Bloody Child Riddle
The second apparition in "Macbeth", the bloody child, recommends 'be bloody, bold and resolute, laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth'. How was the Thane of Fife able to kill Macbeth in the light of this prophecy?
Hint:
His mother had a Caesarean.
A bit of a quibble really but those apparitions did not play fair; Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped. Presumably this was an early Caesarean. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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A bit of a quibble really but those apparitions did not play fair; Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped. Presumably this was an early Caesarean. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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The Favorite Daughter
King Lear tests his daughters' love by the strength of their protestations. What a foolish fond old man!
Goneril says amongst other things that Lear is 'dearer than eyesight, space and liberty'. Regan professes that she is 'an enemy to all other joys'. Cordelia the favorite daughter is tongue-tied and she offers one word only '________'.
Fill in the blank.
Goneril says amongst other things that Lear is 'dearer than eyesight, space and liberty'. Regan professes that she is 'an enemy to all other joys'. Cordelia the favorite daughter is tongue-tied and she offers one word only '________'.
Fill in the blank.
Hint:
Nothing.
Your Answer: love
The correct answer was Nothing
Other accepted answers: nothing
"Nothing will come of nothing, speak again". Lear really wants her to try again but she counters that she cannot "heave my heart into my mouth" and also doubts her sisters sincerity, "Why have my sisters husbands, if they say they love you all? ". Lear cannot believe her lack of warmth "so young and so untender". Cordelia counters "so young, my lord, and true". Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Your Answer: love
The correct answer was Nothing
Other accepted answers: nothing
"Nothing will come of nothing, speak again". Lear really wants her to try again but she counters that she cannot "heave my heart into my mouth" and also doubts her sisters sincerity, "Why have my sisters husbands, if they say they love you all? ". Lear cannot believe her lack of warmth "so young and so untender". Cordelia counters "so young, my lord, and true". Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Don't Drink My Blood
I roam the woods of Hogwarts school
And my coat is a lovely white,
But don't you dare, try to drink my blood
Or you'll be cursed for life.
What am I?
And my coat is a lovely white,
But don't you dare, try to drink my blood
Or you'll be cursed for life.
What am I?
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