Questions tagged [riddle]
This is NOT a general tag for all puzzles that are somehow indirect. A riddle gives indirect clues about an unnamed object or concept to be identified, often in a poem format.
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Make It Great Again
Solution is a single noun.
Combined clue:
Eloquent appeal for repose
This is my own
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Is Frank even right here?
My boss Frank handed me a paper with this line and told me to ignore the prepositions. What is he on about?
Direct straightness investigator to raze rank flat with calm concentration.
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Tell me what word I am
Your clues are as follows.
I'm mostly comprised of the instrument that allows me to be. Without it, I still make sense, though not without confusion.
What word am I?
Hint 1:
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The God of War's Pairs
To Hephaestus, my father’s son,
My two bits, I’ll weigh in:
Do some tasks that I’d like done,
a couple prizes you may win.
The first pair you can find at Godsco
(members-only, if I’d be so precise).
A ...
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Sort this puzzle out
The answer is a single noun.
Built from parts:
(morphs into boast or seize) + (BIV BUTY)
As a whole:
could be young
could be treasure
could be field bound
It could be simpler than it sounds.
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When you're done - you'll have none
The answer is one word.
Complete clue:
against synthesis
Hint:
This is my own.
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Not Benny but close
The answer is a single word. Below are clues for the same:
colleague of chia
home to Oscar
means to open
of ancient origin
This is my own.
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Action / Counter-action riddle
The word is action
Its anagram - counter-action (to the action)
This is my own.
Additional details (added 11/12/25):
These actions belong to a political process.
Each word is both a noun and a verb.
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It's a seven letter word
It started with an argument
And ended with a fight
With a weapon no less
All over this tiny little thing?
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Hello helloʻha?
If you ignore me, I’m like a phone
My numbers are: 02, baby
My sound looks like a question mark
Please send my letter (or all six).
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I have an eye - but not a Cyclops...
I have an eye - but not a Cyclops
I can land - but got no gear
I toggle my gender every year
This is my own and expected to be easy.
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Where are they studying?
A riddle: where are they studying?
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women
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count up their letters with their friends
visit a table for some
elementary knowledge and prepare for college
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It might be some bars they laid
A classic rhyme riddle.
It might be some bars they laid,
It might be how food is made,
It might be what coppers do,
"What is it?", I ask of you.
Thanks to @msh210 and @Sciborg for ...
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Sweet and sour but also devoted what am I
My boss made this riddle.
I am devoted…. I am sweet…. Sometimes I am sour. I am like a punctuation. You all know me. We often clash.
Who, what or where am I?
I am very big, you can’t miss me. ...
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Garbage in, garbage out
I am an object that's collected garbage, but that's also carelessly distributed garbage. Those who produce me might regularly use me to collect their waste. What am I?
(Edited to reduce ambiguity.)
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