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Christmas Mess

Dexter and Amy were cleaning up after a wonderful Christmas dinner.

“What a great day,” Dexter said, “only 365 days until the next one.”

“No, it’s more,” Amy corrected.

How?

Mystery Food

Susan needed to go to the store to buy some ingredients to cook with. She started writing them down:
Butter
Milk
Eggs
Baking Soda
Cashews
Oranges
Vinegar
Lemon Juice

What was Susan making?

Bonus Submitted Riddle

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven, dissolved into air at once on my birth. I evoke tears of mourning in the eyes that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief. What am I?
Submitted by Ice Princess

Animal Farm

What are the next two animals in this series:

Quail, Weasel, Emu,  Raccoon, -?-, and -?-.

Choose from:
Yak
Turkey
Bumblebee
Ostrich
Tiger
Eland

Half Words

Below are ten words which have been split in half. The first column has all of the starts and the second column has all of the ends. Can you pair the letters and remake the ten words?

BO   AF
BR   RE
FO   NE
GO   AF
HO   KE
JO   EW
LE   IN
LO   AM
LO   MB
SO   PE

Half Eight

What is half of 8, yet isn’t 2 x 2,
0 also isn’t what I’m looking for from you.

Upper Crust

Many years ago, when the British upper crust traveled to what was then the colony of India, they went by ship. (British Airways hadn’t been invented yet.) If they were sufficiently wealthy, they would ask for a stateroom on the port, or left, side of the vessel on the way to India.

On the trip home [...]

Mark Brothers

When Question Mark unlocked the door, he thought that he would see his wallet straight away. But Skid Mark (Question’s brother) decided to put the wallet in a safe. The combination is three 2-digit numbers which can be expressed like this:

xx-xx-xx

You are given the following clues to work out the combination:

The total of the three [...]

Pizza Party

If Giuseppe can make one pizza in 15 minutes and Gaetanno can make one pizza in 12 minutes. How many pizzas will they accumulate in a day if they work together?  Bearing in mind that Maximus takes 20 minutes to eat a pizza and he eats all day long!

Bonus Unsolved Riddle

Big Family

Originally published on January 23, 2010

I was looking through our family photo album with a friend recently. I pointed to a photo and said “brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.”

My friend (being no fool) immediately said “it’s your son, that’s an old one.”

”Then how about the [...]