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What is the highest mountain on Earth, even before it was discovered?
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
What kind of band never plays music?
What is the best month for a parade?
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What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
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What is always coming but never arrives?
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What goes around in circles but always stays straight?
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What has a head but never weeps, and a bed but never sleeps?
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What can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard?
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What is red and smells like paint?
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Study Notes
Wordplay and Riddles
- "Short" is the word that becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it.
- "Tongue" is what tastes better than it smells.
- "Exhaust" lives an exhausting life.
Objects and Characteristics
- A "typewriter" has keys but can't open locks.
- A "balloon" is not alive, but it grows; it doesn't have lungs, but it needs air.
- An "echo" speaks without a mouth and hears without ears; it has no body, but it comes alive with wind.
- A "joke" can be cracked, made, told, and played.
Colors and Concepts
- "Blue" is seen in the water if seen in the sky; it's in the rainbow, a jay's feather, and lapis lazuli.
Wordplay and Puns
- A "nail" can be long or short; it can be grown or bought; it can be painted or left bare; it can be round or square.
- The part of a road that ghosts most love to travel is the "dead end".
- A "coin" has a head, a tail, but does not have a body.
- "Rain" comes down but never goes up.
- You can "catch" a cold, but not throw it.
- The more you take footsteps, the more you leave behind.
Descriptions and Analogies
- A "mirror" cracks if you drop it, but it always smiles back if you give it a smile.
- A "river" has a bed but never sleeps; it has a mouth but never speaks.
- The "sun" can fly without wings; it can cry without eyes; whenever it goes, darkness flies.
- A "promise" can be written, spoken, exposed, or broken.
Puns and Wordplay
- "Bubble gum" goes in hard, comes out soft, and never minds if you want to blow it.
- "Stars" come without being fetched at night and are lost without being stolen by day.
- A "wheel" goes around in circles but always straight ahead; it never complains, no matter where it is led.
- The "law" breaks you if you disobey it, but it saves you if you obey it.
More Riddles and Puns
- A "parachute" is what's in the pack of a dead guy in the desert.
- The best month for a parade is "March".
- A "barber" can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard.
- "Living rooms" are what ghosts avoid.
- A "rubber band" is a type of band that never plays music.
- "Red paint" is what's red and smells like paint.
- "All of them" is the answer to which month of the year has 28 days.
- You can never answer "yes" to "Are you asleep?"
- A "deck of cards" has 13 hearts but no other organs.
More Wordplay and Puns
- A "bank" has branches but no fruit, trunk, or leaves.
- You can hold your "left hand" in your right hand but never in your left hand.
- A "comb" has many teeth but can't bite.
- A "river" can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps.
Wordplay and Riddles
- "Short" is the word that becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it.
- "Tongue" is what tastes better than it smells.
- "Exhaust" lives an exhausting life.
Objects and Characteristics
- A "typewriter" has keys but can't open locks.
- A "balloon" is not alive, but it grows; it doesn't have lungs, but it needs air.
- An "echo" speaks without a mouth and hears without ears; it has no body, but it comes alive with wind.
- A "joke" can be cracked, made, told, and played.
Colors and Concepts
- "Blue" is seen in the water if seen in the sky; it's in the rainbow, a jay's feather, and lapis lazuli.
Wordplay and Puns
- A "nail" can be long or short; it can be grown or bought; it can be painted or left bare; it can be round or square.
- The part of a road that ghosts most love to travel is the "dead end".
- A "coin" has a head, a tail, but does not have a body.
- "Rain" comes down but never goes up.
- You can "catch" a cold, but not throw it.
- The more you take footsteps, the more you leave behind.
Descriptions and Analogies
- A "mirror" cracks if you drop it, but it always smiles back if you give it a smile.
- A "river" has a bed but never sleeps; it has a mouth but never speaks.
- The "sun" can fly without wings; it can cry without eyes; whenever it goes, darkness flies.
- A "promise" can be written, spoken, exposed, or broken.
Puns and Wordplay
- "Bubble gum" goes in hard, comes out soft, and never minds if you want to blow it.
- "Stars" come without being fetched at night and are lost without being stolen by day.
- A "wheel" goes around in circles but always straight ahead; it never complains, no matter where it is led.
- The "law" breaks you if you disobey it, but it saves you if you obey it.
More Riddles and Puns
- A "parachute" is what's in the pack of a dead guy in the desert.
- The best month for a parade is "March".
- A "barber" can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard.
- "Living rooms" are what ghosts avoid.
- A "rubber band" is a type of band that never plays music.
- "Red paint" is what's red and smells like paint.
- "All of them" is the answer to which month of the year has 28 days.
- You can never answer "yes" to "Are you asleep?"
- A "deck of cards" has 13 hearts but no other organs.
More Wordplay and Puns
- A "bank" has branches but no fruit, trunk, or leaves.
- You can hold your "left hand" in your right hand but never in your left hand.
- A "comb" has many teeth but can't bite.
- A "river" can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps.
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