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Any Doubt

What common expression is represented by this group of letters?

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d out

Book Bound

I am bound in a book but you cannot read me,
I am struck and played but not musically,
I am your equal in skill and also in stature,
I am used in heat and light manufacture.

What am I?

Coke Wars

John sells two types of coke – regular coke at $0.90 a cup and diet coke at $1 a cup. Two customers came and each bought a cup of coke within 5 minutes of each other. Both asked for “One cup of coke, please” and both gave $1 to John.
After receiving the money, John had [...]

Hidden Cars

In this conundrum, your job is to try and discover the car model within each sentence.

The model is hiding in the consecutive letters within a sentence.

Example: This recipe calls for only one onion.

Answer: Neon (oNE ONion)

1. The zookeeper gave the chimp a large banana.

2. The police had the home of the pyromaniac cordoned off.

3. There [...]

The Elephant in the Room

This is a real story from “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” which happened in ancient China almost 2000 years ago:

One day, Sun Quan gave king Cao Cao an elephant as a present. Cao Cao was very pleased and he rushed to see the arrival of the elephant with his seven year old son and his [...]

Locked Up

They keep me locked up, but I guess I’m thankful, in short. I hand out the beatings, while my neighbors import and export.
We make a good team, especially me as the muscle, But with two dozen guards, I’m glad we never tussle.
But really, I got a lot of my own connections. Imports and exports, with [...]

Merry Christmas

Santa always leaves plans for his elves to determine the order in which the reindeer will pull his sleigh. This year, for the European leg of his journey, his elves are working to the following schedule that will form a single line of nine reindeer:
Comet behind Rudolph, Prancer and Cupid.
Blitzen behind Cupid and in front [...]

O, tannenbaum

“I planted five rows of four Christmas trees each.” The man boasted to his boss. The boss looked at him and said, are you saying you planted 20 Christmas trees in one day? No, the man said, I only planted 10 trees. How did he do it?

When Salvation Army Santa’s surround you at the exit [...]

Four Seats

If there are 4 empty seats in a theatre, how many combinations are there for the number of ways 4 people could sit in these seats?

I can be Cracked

I can be cracked,
I can be made.
I can be told,
I can be played.
What am I?