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Jangled Febrifuge

What word comes next:

jangled
febrifuge
marbles
apricot
mayflower
jungle
julienne

Choose from: augment, elephant, autumn, juiciest.

A local farmer wants to keep his sheep safe. He has one mile of fence, with which to surround the sheep. Luckily there is a very straight river which he can also use. Obviously the farmer wants to fence off as much land as possible, what shape will the fenced off area be and how [...]

Secret Identities

Quick show of hands — who can tell me who Wally West is?

Those of you not raising your hands probably had girlfriends in high school. Those of you with your hands flailing through the air probably spent your youth debating whether or not Wolverine’s claws could cut through Captain America’s shield.

Yes, any connoisseur of the [...]

Eggzactly

A science teacher told his after school class, “Whoever can get this egg into this smaller glass bottle will win no homework for a week! The rules are: the egg has to go into the bottle in one piece, and you can’t break the bottle. You can also use anything in the science lab. So, [...]

Special Numbers

When my kids were in school, they like all the other kids, had to learn their numbers. So each day for homework, they would bring home a list of numbers on a piece of paper, and they were asked to write out the letters that spelled that number, right next to each of them. So [...]

Lotta Bling

My rings tell such a story
Of years past with gracious glory
Where I live is where I stay
From that spot I cannot stray
From my home man taketh me
So they can erect another home, you see
Many others bore into my sides
These things that crawl and things that glide
I weep with beauty or stand with grace
Every year I [...]

Tiny Dwelling

A house with two occupants, sometimes one, rarely three.
Break the walls, eat the boarders, then throw away me.

What am I?

Magic Markers

You can do it in vessels for getting you clean.
You can do it to fabric to stop being seen.
You are doing it when you’ve come up short.
You’ve done it too when you’ve been equalled in sport.
This may sound like there should be images but then,
You can do all those things without pencil or pen.

What is [...]

Be the Ball

Originally published on May 24, 2010

Name the one word that is commonly used in the following eight sports?

Football, basketball, hockey, baseball, boxing, golf, fishing, and bowling.
Here’s a hint: It has a different meaning in each sport.

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State the City

Bonus Unsolved Riddle

Originally published on August 31, 2010

Imagine you’re at home in a city somewhere in the United States. You decide to travel along each of the four compass directions, north, south, east, and west. Day 1, you travel due north and you eventually cross a state line. Let’s call this state X. You return [...]

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