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Weekend Riddles and Puzzles Corner!
Sian321
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Hey folks,
As a bit of fun, we're launching a little 'riddles and puzzles' corner here on this Thread for anyone who wants to play along!
Each Friday we'll aim to share a few riddles for you all to puzzle over during the weekend - and then on Monday we'll post the answers.
In the meantime, feel free to post your own guesses in the thread below!
As a bit of fun, we're launching a little 'riddles and puzzles' corner here on this Thread for anyone who wants to play along!
Each Friday we'll aim to share a few riddles for you all to puzzle over during the weekend - and then on Monday we'll post the answers.
In the meantime, feel free to post your own guesses in the thread below!
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Q1: What question can you ask all day long, but always get completely different answers for yet all the answers will be correct?
Q2: I cannot talk, but I always reply when spoken to. What am I?
Q3: What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
Have fun playing along!!
.......Answers to come on Monday!
-> an echo
-> a road
Exactly what @Lottie5433 said!
1) "What time is it?"
2) An echo
3) A road
We hope it got your brains pumping, @Sian321 will be back Friday to provide another lot of riddles/puzzles for y'all!
Questions below - throw your guesses in the thread!
Q: What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
Q Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Q. Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet only three people are in the car. How?
Answers to come on Monday.
2. Cantenjagua mountain or whatever it is
3. One father is the father of the father and one son is the song of the father ie. Grandfather (is the dad of the father) father (is the son of the grandfather) and the father has a son
Q1: left hand
Q2: still mount everest
Q3: grandfather (father) father (son/father) son (son)
A: Mount Everest — it was still the highest, even if it hadn't been discovered yet
A: They are a grandfather, his son (the father), and his grandson — making two fathers and two sons, but only three people.
Here are your results....
Q: What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
A: Your left hand.
Q Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
A: Mount Everest, it just wasn’t discovered yet.
Q. Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet only three people are in the car. How?
A: They are grandfather, father and son.
Well done to all correct answers!
To give you a sense of how they work, they are a little visual picture that plays on a famous phrase or word-play, for example:
This image depicts.... (drum roll......can you guess???).....'Two steps forward, one step back'!
Get it?
Okay, great! So your riddles this week are:
Q1:
Q2:
Q3:
Happy guessing!!
1) second one?
2) forever Tuesday/ forever one?
3) no idea
I'll give you another example so you get a sense of how these Visual ones work:
This is 'Undercover Cop!'