Today's Riddles

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A blacksmith has many apprentices working for him, and as a reoccurring game, every so week one of them succeeds at forging a key to let loose his pet monkey. The monkey goes wild, throwing stuff and breaking things until the blacksmith finally recages him and puts on a different lock. The ordeal has become costly. The blacksmith scolds the apprintices and makes them do the monkey catching, and puts them to extra work. The apprentices do find the extra work bothersome, yet they continue to pick the locks, releasing the monkey. The blacksmith is at his wit's end. He makes more and more complex locks, but everytime, one of his apprentices succeeds in solving it. The blacksmith asks for your advice. What should he do? He doesn't want to sell his pet monkey, nor does he have another place for it to stay.

2

I am a bar that is not set high or low, but laterally. I add continuity to meaning by saying nothing. Struck the most and thought of the least. Ubiquitous and unique but surrounded by alternatives.

21

The person who makes me doesn't need me. The person who buys me doesn't use me. The person who uses me never knows it. What am I?

2

I grow where no flower grows, Where no light touches the walls. Up or down, that I don't care. Was here before people were.

13

I am a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be. What am I?

12

What are the next three letters in this sequence: O, T, T, F, F, S, S, ?

4

How many months have 28 days?

13

What gets sharper the more you use it?

5

I'm never odd or even, but I can't be anything else. What am I?

7

What do you answer even though it never asks you a question?

6

I go in hard, come out soft, and am never the same. What am I?

12

What has a head, a foot, and four legs?

5

What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none?

1

I live for but a single breath. Any touch could spell my death. A rainbow spins within my eye. Make me right, and I can fly.

4

After signing a potential payment written in a foreign language that he could not read, a man went and stood in a covered room, waiting for somebody he last met a week ago. That person came to the man with their face partly covered, and circled him, staring. The man handed the person an object. Then, moving away, he stepped on a piece of glass and heard a shout. What was shouted?