Challenging Riddles

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

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Where does zero equal six, one equal two, two equal five, three equal five, four equal four, five equal five, six equal six, seven equal three, eight equal seven and nine equal six?

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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?

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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.

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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?

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

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You’re in a room with no doors or windows, there’s a table and a mirror, how do you get out?

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I have a hat that I must wear, I have gills but can breathe air, I have a ring but no wedding band, And on one leg I'm doomed to stand. On a journey we could go, But don't go far for I am slow, A friend of the living and the dead, And beneath my hat I have no head. What am I?

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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?

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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?

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What is this person's name? JKMNO

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The pope has one but doesnt use it; Arnold Schwarzenegger has a large one; Nun's dont need one; Michael J Fox has a small one; Madonna doesnt have one; Let me also add this: your father has it; and your mother uses it. What is it?

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

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Three kids decided to play leap frog. They started the count at a dozen and leaped to six score. They took the round to one past two-hundred, then returned back home for more. What are the names of the three kids?