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English Riddles for Problem Solving

The document contains 10 riddles with their answers. It is a list of puzzles about words, numbers, and concepts that require logical thinking to solve. Some key riddles included ones about shortening a word by adding letters, lighting matches before other sources, and filling a room without taking up space. The document provides entertainment and brain exercises by posing different types of riddles and mysteries for the reader to unravel.

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English Riddles for Problem Solving

The document contains 10 riddles with their answers. It is a list of puzzles about words, numbers, and concepts that require logical thinking to solve. Some key riddles included ones about shortening a word by adding letters, lighting matches before other sources, and filling a room without taking up space. The document provides entertainment and brain exercises by posing different types of riddles and mysteries for the reader to unravel.

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UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE VICTORIA

ENGLISH VI

RIDDLES

Read and solve the next riddles.

1. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Short

2. You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace.

What would you light first? Match


3. What can fill a room but takes up no space? Ligth

4. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footstepts
5. What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat? Chicago

6. I am a word. If you pronounce me rightly, it will be wrong. If you pronounce me wrong it is


right. What word am I? Wrong
7. What word begins and ends with an E but only has one letter? Envelope

8. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, each wife had seven sacks, each
sack had seven cats, and each cat had seven kits: kits, cats, sacks, and wives. How many
were there going to St. Ives? One
9. What has hands, but can’t clap?

10. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? Silence

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