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Weekend Riddles and Puzzles Corner!

Sian321Sian321 Community Manager Posts: 1,404 Wise Owl
edited May 18 in General Chat
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!
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  • Sian321Sian321 Community Manager Posts: 1,404 Wise Owl
    This weekend's riddles are.....

    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!
  • Lottie5433Lottie5433 Community Connector Posts: 825 Part of The Mix Family
    Q1: What question can you ask all day long, but always get completely different answers for yet all the answers will be correct?
    -> what time is it
    Q2: I cannot talk, but I always reply when spoken to. What am I?
    -> an echo
    Q3: What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
    -> a road
  • Sian321Sian321 Community Manager Posts: 1,404 Wise Owl
    Nice work, @Lottie5433 ! We'll share answers Monday. Anyone else got guesses!?
  • LeylaLeyla Community Manager Posts: 208 Trailblazer
    The answer to the first week of riddles aaaare....

    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!
  • Sian321Sian321 Community Manager Posts: 1,404 Wise Owl
    Hey everyone, its riddles time!!

    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.
  • Rose113Rose113 Community Connector Posts: 3,687 Community Veteran
    1. Your left hand or left elbow
    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
    Sometimes when the people most like you don't love you, it is a hurt that can cause the greatest pain, and this pain can lead you to hate everything.
  • Sian321Sian321 Community Manager Posts: 1,404 Wise Owl
    Love it @Rose113 ! Keep the answers coming anyone else who'd like to play along!
  •  MorgsSmiles24 MorgsSmiles24 Posts: 86 Budding Regular
    Sian321 wrote: »
    Hey everyone, its riddles time!!

    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.

    Q1: left hand
    Q2: still mount everest
    Q3: grandfather (father) father (son/father) son (son)
  • Lottie5433Lottie5433 Community Connector Posts: 825 Part of The Mix Family
    What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
    A: Your left hand. (You can't hold your left hand in your left hand!)
    Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
    A: Mount Everest — it was still the highest, even if it hadn't been discovered yet
    Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet only three people are in the car. How?
    A: They are a grandfather, his son (the father), and his grandson — making two fathers and two sons, but only three people.
  • Sian321Sian321 Community Manager Posts: 1,404 Wise Owl
    Hey everyone, @Lottie5433 , @Rose113 , @morgsmile24 thank you for playing along!

    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!
  • Sian321Sian321 Community Manager Posts: 1,404 Wise Owl
    This week's riddles are Visual Cryptic Riddles.

    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:

    mheja804uoy2.png

    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:
    sddnwcv91ney.png

    Q2:
    dm6g2qx3j0lx.png

    Q3:
    hk0dod4z4js9.png



    Happy guessing!!
  • Rose113Rose113 Community Connector Posts: 3,687 Community Veteran
    edited June 6
    I’m so confused @Sian321 😂

    1) second one?
    2) forever Tuesday/ forever one?
    3) no idea
    Sometimes when the people most like you don't love you, it is a hurt that can cause the greatest pain, and this pain can lead you to hate everything.
  • TheMixTheMix Posts: 3,217 Boards Guru
    Rose- the first part of no.2 answer is correct!
  • shannon_164shannon_164 Community Connector Posts: 2,036 Boards Champion
    ngl @Sian321 i feel like my driving test was easier than these ones🤣
  • Sian321Sian321 Community Manager Posts: 1,404 Wise Owl
    edited June 6
    Hahaha @shannon_164 and @Rose113 , I had to increase the difficulty level because you were all too good!!

    I'll give you another example so you get a sense of how these Visual ones work:

    9qu5d03a7kxu.png


    This is 'Undercover Cop!'

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