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My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured

easy Age 6+ object what am i

My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick Fat, I am slow Wind is my foe.

Hint: My life can be measured in hours…

✨ I am a candle
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My thunder comes before the lightning; My lightning comes before the clouds; My rain dries all the l

medium Age 8+ nature what am i

My thunder comes before the lightning; My lightning comes before the clouds; My rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

Hint: My thunder comes before the lightning; My lightning comes before the clouds; My …

✨ A volcano
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My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I'm often invited to play

medium Age 8+ music what am i

My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I’m often invited to play. Yet wherever I go I must take my bow or else I have nothing to say. What am I?

Hint: My voice is tender…

✨ A violin
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My voice rises above the din, Sometimes catching all unaware

easy Age 6+ object what am i

My voice rises above the din, Sometimes catching all unaware. I never ask questions, yet get many answers.

Hint: My voice rises above the din…

✨ I am a doorbell
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Never resting, never still

easy Age 6+ nature what am i

Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot, All is cool where it is not. What is it?

Hint: Never resting…

✨ Sunshine
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Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, and a long tail which she let fly; and every time she went thr

medium Age 8+ object what am i

Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, and a long tail which she let fly; and every time she went through a gap, a bit of her tail she left in a trap. What is she?

Hint: Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye…

✨ A needle and thread
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On a fine sunny day a ship was in the harbor

easy Age 6+ vehicle logic

On a fine sunny day a ship was in the harbor. All of a sudden the ship began to sink. There was no storm and nothing wrong with the ship yet it sank right in front of the spectators eyes. What caused the ship to sink?

Hint: On a fine sunny day a ship was in the harbor…

✨ It was a Submarine
L2 · logic

One word in this sentence is misspelled

tricky Age 8+ wordplay brain teaser

One word in this sentence is misspelled. What word is it?

✨ It isn't spelled wrong, the one word in this sentence misspelled is “misspelled.“
L3 · brain teaser

Other than being colors, what do the words orange, silver and purple have in common?

medium Age 8+ color brain teaser

Other than being colors, what do the words orange, silver and purple have in common?

Hint: Other than being colors…

✨ There is no word in the English language that rhymes with them
L2 · brain teaser

Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws

medium Age 8+ object what am i

Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all.

Hint: Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws…

✨ Shears, or scissors
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Polly Perkins was after a talking parrot, so she went to the local pet shop in the hope of securing

tricky Age 8+ animal logic

Polly Perkins was after a talking parrot, so she went to the local pet shop in the hope of securing such a find. She was in luck. The shop assistant assured her that the parrot would learn and repeat any word or phrase it heard. Polly was delighted. However, a week later, the parrot still hadn’t spoken a word. Polly returned to the shop to complain, however, it appeared that the assistant was accurate in what he had said, and refused a refund. Why didn’t the parrot talk?

Hint: Polly Perkins was after a talking parrot…

✨ The parrot was deaf and as such couldn't repeat a single word it had heard!
L3 · logic

Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me

medium Age 8+ body what am i

Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I’m double, I’m single, I’m black, blue, and gray, I’m read from both ends, And the same either way. What am I?

Hint: Pronounced as one letter…

✨ You have two of them An eye
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Pronounced as one letter, But look and you'll see, That really I'm written with three

medium Age 8+ body what am i

Pronounced as one letter, But look and you’ll see, That really I’m written with three. I’m read from both ends, The same either way. What am I?

Hint: Pronounced as one letter…

✨ I am an eye, or an ewe
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RIDDLE ME THIS:A woman walked into an office building, looked at the guard, and said her name was Je

medium Age 6+ time what am i

RIDDLE ME THIS:A woman walked into an office building, looked at the guard, and said her name was Jenny. The next day she walked into the same building, looked at the same guard and said her name was Julie. What is going on?

Hint: RIDDLE ME THIS:A woman walked into an office building…

✨ The woman has Multiple Personality Disorder. This happens when a traumatic experience causes so much pain that they make another personality to cope with the situation
L1 · what am i

Rungs of a Ladder The rungs of a 10 foot ladder attached to a ship are 1 foot apart

tricky Age 8+ nature brain teaser

Rungs of a Ladder The rungs of a 10 foot ladder attached to a ship are 1 foot apart. If the water is rising at the rate of one foot an hour, how long will it take until the water covers over the ladder?…

Hint: Rungs of a Ladder The rungs of a 10 foot ladder attached to a ship are 1 foot ap…

✨ It will never cover the ladder because as the water rises, so will the floating ship
L3 · brain teaser

Samuel was out for a walk when it started to rain

easy Age 6+ body brain teaser

Samuel was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn’t wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?

Hint: Samuel was out for a walk when it started to rain…

✨ This man is bald!
L2 · brain teaser

Shortly after jumping from an aircraft at 5000 or so feet, a man deploys his parachute

medium Age 8+ science brain teaser

Shortly after jumping from an aircraft at 5000 or so feet, a man deploys his parachute. When he looks up he sees a rather large hole in his parachute. Nonetheless he lands safely without assistance and without using his reserve chute. Why did he survive?

Hint: Shortly after jumping from an aircraft at 5000 or so feet…

✨ Most parachutes need a hole in them to let the air pass through. Otherwise the parachute would swing wildly side to side
L2 · brain teaser

so your in a mansion and the powers out

tricky Age 8+ building logic

so your in a mansion and the powers out. you see a green door and a red door which do you go through (It does’nt matter which door). Now you see a purple door and a orange door which do you go through. now you see a door with a golden handle and a door with a silver handle which door do you go through no you finally come to some signs 1 says death from drowning another says death from machine guns and the last 1 says death from electric chair (all the signs are on doors). then you see a big sign that says or stay in the mansion and starve to death. which do you do and also live.

Hint: so your in a mansion and the powers out…

✨ The eletric chair the powers ouy
L3 · logic

Some say we are red, some say we are green

medium Age 6+ food what am i

Some say we are red, some say we are green. Some play us, some spray us. What are we?

Hint: Some say we are red…

✨ Pepper
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