Until I am measured, I am not known
Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, When I have flown.
✨ I am Time
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Until I am measured, I am not known
Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, When I have flown. What am I?
Hint: Until I am measured…
✨ Time
L2 · what am i
Violet, indigo, blue and green, yellow, orange and red; these are the colors you have seen after the
Violet, indigo, blue and green, yellow, orange and red; these are the colors you have seen after the storm has fled.What am I?
Hint: Violet…
✨ I am a Rainbow
L1 · what am i
Walking home one day, you take a short cut along the train tracks
Walking home one day, you take a short cut along the train tracks. The tracks cross a narrow bridge over a deep gorge. At the point you are 3/8 of the way across the bridge, you hear the train whistle somewhere behind you. You charge across the bridge, and jump off the track as the train is about to run you down. As it happens, if you had gone the other way, you would have reached safety just before being run over as well. If you can run ten miles per hour, how fast is the train moving?
Hint: Walking home one day…
✨ The train is moving at 40 miles per hour
L3 · math
We are little creatures; all of us have different features
We are little creatures; all of us have different features. One of us in glass is set; one of us you’ll find in jet. Another you may see in tin, and the fourth is boxed within . If the fifth you should pursue, it can never fly from you. What are we?
Hint: We are little creatures; all of us have different features…
✨ We are vowels
L3 · brain teaser
Weight in my belly, Trees on my back
Weight in my belly, Trees on my back. Nails in my ribs, Feet I do lack.
✨ I am a ship
L2 · what am i
What always goes to bed with shoes on?
What always goes to bed with shoes on?
✨ A Horse
L2 · joke
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
✨ A Remark
L3 · brain teaser
What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?
What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?
✨ Pride
L3 · brain teaser
What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young; born in an instant yet last
What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young; born in an instant yet lasts a life time?
Hint: What can bring back the dead; make us cry…
✨ Memories
L3 · brain teaser
What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?
What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?
✨ Salt
L2 · what am i
What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?
What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?
✨ An umbrella
L3 · brain teaser
What can go up and come down without moving?
What can go up and come down without moving?
✨ The temperature
L3 · brain teaser
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Hint: What can run but never walks…
✨ Water A river
L2 · what am i
What can you catch but not throw?
What can you catch but not throw?
✨ A cold
L2 · joke
What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
✨ Eat and Ate
L3 · brain teaser
What demands an answer, but asks no question?
What demands an answer, but asks no question?
✨ Ring Ring A Telephone
L2 · what am i
What do you serve that you can't eat?
What do you serve that you can’t eat?
✨ A tennis ball
L2 · joke
What do you use to hoe a row, slay a foe, and wring with woe?
What do you use to hoe a row, slay a foe, and wring with woe?
✨ Your hands
L3 · brain teaser
What falls but doesn't break, and what breaks but doesn't fall?
What falls but doesn’t break, and what breaks but doesn’t fall?
✨ Night and Day
L3 · brain teaser