Category Archives: Brain teaser

Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.

If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This week’s riddle:

Until I am measured I am not known,
Yet how you miss me when I have flown.

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.

If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This week’s riddle was shared by my brother-in-law.  It stumped me but maybe you will be able to figure out the answer to this week’s riddle.

How do you talk for a minute straight without using the letter “A”?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.

If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This week’s riddle:

Forward I’m heavy, but backwards I’m not. What am I?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.

If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

Remove six letters from this sequence to reveal a familiar English word.    BSAINXLEATNTEARS

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.  If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance. This weeks riddle is below (good luck).

Say my name and I disappear. What am I?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.  If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance. This weeks riddle is below (good luck).

I have glittering points that downward thrust,
And my sparkling spears will never rust.

What am I?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.  If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance. Fair warning that I think this week’s riddle is really tough so don’t get frustrated if you can’t figure it out.  So here is a hint: Think imitation.

This weeks riddle:

Whoever makes it, tells it not. 
Whoever takes it, knows it not. 
Whoever knows it, wants it not.

What am I?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.  If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle:

My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to try to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.  If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.  Most of these stump me so don’t feel bad if you can’t figure it out right away.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This week’s riddle:  It cannot be seen, it weighs nothing, but when put into a barrel, it makes it lighter. What is it?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.  If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle:

I build up castles.
I tear down mountains.
I make some men blind,
I help others to see.
What am I?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.  If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle:

Weight in my belly,
Trees on my back,
Nails in my ribs,
Feet I lack.

What am I?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.  If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle:

I go around in circles,
But always straight ahead
Never complain,
No matter where I am led.

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