Challenging Riddles

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A man walks into a bar, asks the bartender for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a shotgun, and fires a round nearly missing the man’s ear. The man says thanks, and leaves a tip. Why the water, why the tip?

5

It kills scientists in seconds, Europeans take a little longer. Americans are unaffected.

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.

1

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?

14

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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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?

4

I need to own up to something. I do love esoteric four-letter acronyms. If the second is idle, what is the first?

5

Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Mary have?

2

Someone poisoned one of your eight potions. They all look identical, so you can't tell the difference. One sip of the poison is lethal enough but it will only kill after an hour, however, the potions are needed one hour later so you must find the poison in this time. There are three criminals on death sentence for you to use as test subjects. What could you do to find the poisoned potion?

2

What is this person's name? JKMNO

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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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There are 8 beings; all killed by each other: The king. The butcher. The knight. The blacksmith. The assassin. The sailor. The bird. The thief. The riddle goes as follows: A fowl befell the kingly head that foiled a deadly plot. Instead with dagger forged by Ned, Sir Michael was for naught. The Jack-Tar Joan, had caught the thief and sent that rogue to hell. With blood and feathers on his boots and stolen broach as well. The knight killed one, for heinous acts, whose shoes were caked in mud. The sickly sparrow breathes its last, in pools of swinish blood. The royal chef paid a golden broach, for pork that soon was burned. Into the woods went ned and Joan and only Ned returned. Put the deaths in order. Who kills who, and in what order?

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It's the middle of the night. A man wakes up from his slumber in a confused daze. Still in his day clothes, he checks the time. It's 02:43. He tries to go back to sleep, but his body won't have it. He goes downstairs to his kitchen and opens the fridge. He grabs the jug of milk as well as a glass cup. He pours it, takes a swig of it, but doesn't drink the whole thing. He puts the jug of milk back in the fridge and leaves the half cup of milk on the window sill incase he still can't fall asleep. As he is going back upstairs, he realizes he has left some lights on from before he went to sleep. He can't remember why they were on in the first place, so he proceeds to turn every off light that he left on. He climbs back into his cozy bed and drifts off within a half hour. He wakes up around 07:27, takes a shower, and gets ready for the day. He goes downstairs to have breakfast and sees his leftover milk from the middle of the night on the sill, but to his horror, he looks outside and sees hundreds of fresh human corpses surrounding the east end of his house. Why?

9

Take three-fourths a cross, and a circle complete. Then two semi-circles on a vertical line meet. Next there's a triangle that stands on two feet. Then two semi-circles and a circle complete.

5

What do a pack of lions; a (sometimes) infinite tessellation of squares; somebody who has difficulty reaching a destination; an animal that looks similar to, but is not, a mouse; a group of proteins found in wheat, alongside starch; the abbreviation for a US state next to California; and a slow-moving mammal famous for its slowness, have in common?