Challenging Riddles

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Trickle, trickle... You wake up in an hourglass, sand falling on your head. Outside there is desert, devoid of everything human except for one small signpost. You can barely read the letter left by your nefarious captor: "DON'T WORRY. I TOLD YOUR FRIENDS. THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY." Trickle, trickle... You wait till the sand is ankle deep, and then, standing on the sand, you try reaching to clog the hole, but your ankle is chained with almost no extension from the bottom. The hole is still two feet above your stretched hands. Trickle, trickle... You look around for extensions, maybe a stick? But alas, you have nothing except your clothes: denim jeans and a white shirt. You empty your pockets, finding a wrapper with chewed gum and a pocket knife. Trickle, trickle... The hourglass will not break from the inside. You have tried using your knife but have only dulled the blade. Trickle, trickle... You have less than an hour. By then, the sand will rise, completely suffocating you. Hurry now, the sand is already up to your shins.

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A man is exploring the jungle, and comes across a native tribe. The tribe members take him to their chief, and the chief speaks: We don't allow trespassers, so we'll have to kill you. But you can say a final statement. If I judge your statement to be true, you'll be speared to death. If I judge it to be false, you will be burned at the stake. The man agrees and calmly says his final statement. We don't allow trespassers, so we'll have to kill you. But you can say a final statement. If I judge your statement to be true, you'll be speared to death. If I judge it to be false, you will be burned at the stake. The man agrees and calmly says his final statement. After some puzzling by the chief and the other tribe members, they had no choice but to let him go. What was the man's statement?

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"Welcome to my mansion." The door slams behind as you enter a large meeting hall. You turn back and pull at the handles, but your host replies, "These are one-way doors." He takes you by the hand and proceeds to show you down the chamber and into a larger room. Everything is covered in white and scarlet drapes. You hear eerie music playing from a pipe organ. Your host asks, "Do you like it?" Hoping to escape, you say, "I-- I think I just need a little fresh air." Your host agrees, and leads you out a backdoor. As soon as he let's you go, you run as fast and far away into the woods as you can. Branches and wind whip at your face. It feels like forever, but when you finally find a clearing, you realize you've returned to the mansion. "That did not take you long. Come, welcome back." You feel a force push you back inside, maybe ghosts or armored knights. You again find yourself in the large meeting hall, but it looks a little different. As your host walks you down the chamber and into another room, he notices your confusion and smiles, explaining, "These are not the same halls. Earlier you came in from the right wing of my mansion. This is the left wing." After you hear the last note played from the organ's leturgical piece, your host leads you out a front door. "You may truly leave this time; the tour has ended. But you'll be back," He laughs. "In fact, you have already been here on numerous occasions. You have just forgotten." What is this place!?

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I'm the end that brings the end, I'm the one that hides. Shackles gird me waist to toe, Sealed in tower I. Ever tasked to make amends, Slowly here I die. My stricken foe you'll never know, His death is met with sigh.

18

I can be big or small. Only you can see me. If you have me you are not crazy. What am I?

15

It may sound impossible, but it's not. You wake up trapped in a round room with six doors. A voice over a loudspeaker tells you that five of the doors are booby-trapped and will bring instant death if you try to open them. Only one door provides an opening that will get you out safely. The doors are evenly spaced around the room. They look exactly alike. Your only clue is that on the wall between each pair of doors is a large letter of the alphabet. Going clockwise, the letters are H, I, J, K, L and M. Which is the correct door that will get you out ... and why?

10

Beautiful lights, A land of much darkness. A city a-way, It might fit the Starks best. She shows her age, Her port has no flavor. In let the cook, Five species to savor.

3

The day is my night and the night is my day, when I shout and they shout back I run away. What am I?

16

There are are three things wrong wrong with this sentence. What are those three things?

14

A dead body is found at the bottom of a multistory building. It looks quite clear that the person has committed suicide by jumping off from one of the floors. A detective comes, goes to the first floor and walks in the room facing the direction in which the body was found. He opens the closed window of that room and flips a coin towards the floor. He goes to the second floor and does the exact same thing till the last floor. Then, when he climbs down, he tells the team that it is a murder, not suicide. Why?

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We begin with a tap, Then first a stream followed by a drop. A slipper pointed straight to the ground, With another just as round. Now not a queue but of the same form, A distinguished nought but with a part torn. All ended with a squiggle. What am I?

7

X is a beast that is nimble and sly. Y is a shout to make projectiles fly. XY, a glow in the woods in the night. YX, a way to arrive at a site.

9

A man made this ordered list of animals: Dolphin, zebra, ostrich, rhino, pig, otter, species X. What can you tell me about species X?

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What's represented here? A = 4, B = 0, C = 3, D = 1, E = 0, F = 1, G = 1, H = 1, I = 4, J = 0, K= 2, L = 1, M = 8, N = 8, O = 3, P = 1, Q = 0, R = 1, S = 2, T = 2, U = 1, V = 2, W = 4, X = 0, Y = 0, Z = 0

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Yesterday was a normal day for Liam. He woke up and did his normal routine, going outside at 8 to breathe in the fresh oxygen, then going in around 9 to brush his teeth. Later that night at 10 o'clock as he was partying under neon lights, he began to feel unwell. At 11 his Sodium levels dropped and he fell. They rushed him to the hospital and at 2 they tried to heal him. But at 3 little Liam didn't make it and he was gone. As the one in charge of his funeral, When should you bury Liam?