Today's 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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One day a man is captured and put unjustly to trial for committing depraved crimes, none of which he had actually done. The corrupt system allows this man to be executed, but in a show of a facade of mercy, the evil Queen of the land tells the denizens of the land that she will allow this man to live he can pass the Marble Trial. The rules of the trial are as follows: One: The prisoner is to blindly pick from the jar one of two types of marbles, of which there is only one of each. Two: The black one, if chosen, represents death and thus he will be executed. Three: The white one, if chosen, will let him go free. Normally in the Marble Trial, there are different quantities of marbles depending on the severity of the crimes, but for this event, the Queen announces that there will be only 2. one Black and one White. Or at least, the Queen merely announced that to the public. In a private chat leading up to the Marbel Trial, the Queen actually revealed to the man that she never actually intends for the man to survive, and that the Marbel Trial's Jar is rigged to contain 2 black marbles instead of the proper arrangement. The next day, the man finds himself in a huge arena filled with cheering crowds curious as to how he will fare in the trial- unaware that the trial is rigged in the first place. Without a way to speak to the audience as he will be killed on the spot if he doesn't immediately pick from the jar, how does the man survive?

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I have an end but no beginning, a home but no family, a space without room. I never speak but there is no word I cannot make. What am I?

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If a plane crashed on the boarder of Canada and the U.S., where would you bury the survivors?

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No matter where you are, I am there with you right now. Some people love me, some people hate me, and if you see me once, you’ll never see me again. What am I?

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I fall but never get hurt. I rise but never use my legs. What am I?

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Two people were sitting together at a café where they had first met. Nothing sudden or unusual was immediately spoken, yet after drinking all the coffee from a mug, one uncontrolably sobbed and said this three letter word?

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What can you put in a bucket to make it lighter?

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It may sound impossible, but it's not. You wake up trapped in a round room with six doors. A voice over a loudspeaker tells you that five of the doors are booby-trapped and will bring instant death if you try to open them. Only one door provides an opening that will get you out safely. The doors are evenly spaced around the room. They look exactly alike. Your only clue is that on the wall between each pair of doors is a large letter of the alphabet. Going clockwise, the letters are H, I, J, K, L and M. Which is the correct door that will get you out ... and why?

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A man looks at a painting and says, 'Brothers and sisters, I have none, but that man's father is my father's son.' Who is in the painting?

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I am the greatest teacher out of them all, but alas in the end I kill my pupils.

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I am not alive, but I grow. I don't have eyes, but I will cry. I don't have wings, but I will fly. I don't have hands, but I might knock on your door. What am I?

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I build bridges of silver and crowns of gold. Who am I?

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I have billions of eyes, yet I live in darkness. I have millions of ears, yet only four lobes. I have no muscle, yet I rule two hemispheres. What am I?

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I am a fruit, I am a bird, and I am also a person. What am I?