Monthly Newsletter Riddle Solutions

Did this month’s riddles get you thinking? These stumped even some members of our own team! Check to see if you were right with the answers below.

DECEMBER 2022 SOLUTIONS

What has a head, yet no shoulders? A heart, yet no blood? Alive, but cannot speak?

Solution: Lettuce.

One is a passage between a row of seats, the other is stationary and surrounded by the sea. By word of mouth they seem the same. Take one from the other and your answer remains.

Solution: “A” – Aisle / Isle.

Around the fire or overseas, born of wind and bound in trees. Cheerful, tragic, woeful, quest, elder speak at children’s rest.

Solution: Stories.

NOVEMBER 2022 SOLUTIONS

Who can you never live with?

Solution: Your neighbor.

I am a single vowel word. The antonym of the past tense of the anagram of the synonym of my homophone is me. What word am I?

Solution: Won. (won > lost > lose > sole > one > won)

By losing height, width, or solidity, I double. The tiniest accessory makes me 50% larger. What am I?

Solution: A music note.
Lose width: An eighth note becomes a quarter note. Lose solidity: a quarter note becomes a half note. Lose height: a half note becomes a whole note. Tiny accessory: Put a dot after a note and it makes it 50% longer.

OCTOBER 2022 SOLUTIONS

What kind of money does a vampire use?

Solution: Blood money.

Homer shot two arrows at its center and missed both times, but using a sword swung once at its center and hit it twice. What is it?

Solution: A donut.

It takes less time for me to count down from 100 than it does from 75. What am I?

Solution: A microwave.

SEPTEMBER 2022 SOLUTIONS

I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?

Solution: A map.

What goes further the slower it goes?

Solution: Money.

What do the dollar and the moon have in common?

Solution: They both have quarters.

AUGUST 2022 SOLUTIONS

Without S, there are nine of me, without X, I am one, what am I?

Solution: The word “SIX” because if you take the S away, you have the Roman numeral IX (nine). If you take the X from that, you are left with the Roman numeral I (one).

I cannot be touched, yet may be restored by any who break me. I cannot be seen, yet I vanish when I am called. Where there is nothing, I will likely be. What am I?

Solution: Silence/Quiet

I am a lion, but I cannot roar. I am a parrot, but I cannot soar. I am a dog, but I cannot be taught. I am a zebra, but I cannot trot. What am I?

Solution: A Fish (Lionfish, Parrotfish, Dogfish, Zebrafish)

JULY 2022 SOLUTIONS

A man holds a bee in his hand. What is in his eye?

Solution: Beauty (is in the eye of the “bee” holder)

Two sisters we are, one is dark and one is fair, In twin towers dwelling we're quite the pair, One from land and one from sea, Tell us truly, who are we?

Solution: Salt and Pepper Shakers

Going forward I'm heavy, but backwards I'm not. What am I?

Solution: The word “ton” ton/not

JUNE 2022 Riddles

Three hands have I, and one is not like the others. I have a stone face with eyes that still blink. What am I?

Solution: Poker player

Those who receive me don't always take me. Those who give me away are no poorer for it.

Solution: Advice

A duck was given $7, an ant was given $21 and a spider was given $28. What sum was the cat given?

Solution: $14 ($3.50 per leg)

MAY 2022 Riddles

What five letter word has only one left when two letters are removed?

Solution: Money. (M) ONE (Y)

When did money start to grow on trees?

Solution: When countries started printing paper money.

We sound like Eden as a pair. Make us weight, we won't play fair. Sometimes consensus, most times schism. Usually locked away in prism. If by chance you seek, then throw. The serpent sees where we meet low. We carry freight when we meet high, But separate us, and we die.

Solution: A pair of dice.

Sounds like “paradise”

Weighted dice = cheating

Usually roll different numbers but sometimes doubles

Most common is 6-sided rectangular prism

Dice rolls = gambling

Double ones = snake eyes

APRIL 2022 Riddles

A lady and a cowboy lie next to a bullet, a dime, and a hook. As a result, someone is delighted but doesn’t show it. What are they doing?

Solution: Playing poker. The lady is a queen. The cowboy is a king. The bullet is an ace. The dime is a ten. The hook is the letter J for Jack. The poker player is delighted because he/she has a “straight”.

Delete my first letter, Now I belong to us all. Instead drop my second, I now make a fine shawl. If you take my third, I'll tell you the purpose I serve. Keep all my four letters, A crowd plus one you'll observe.

Solution: Four

Our
Fur
For
“Three’s a crowd” + 1 = Four

There’s a green house. In the green house, there’s a white house. In the white house, there’s a red house. In the red house, there are black rooms. What is it?

Solution: Watermelon

MARCH 2022 Riddles

One falls but never breaks; the other breaks but never falls. They are opposites. They cannot coexist, but neither would know where they end or begin without the other. What are they?

Solution: Daybreak and Nightfall

You are walking alone in the woods and come upon a cabin. You look inside and see two dead men. How did they die?

Solution: Airplane crash

Three brothers share a family sport, an endless marathon. The oldest one is fat and short and trudges slowly on. The middle brother's tall and slim and keeps a steady pace. The youngest runs just like the wind, speeding through the race. "He's young in years, we let him run," the older brothers say. "For though he's surely number one, he's second, in a way."

Solution: The hands on a clock

FEBRUARY 2022 Riddles

What two letters can change money into a continent?

Solution: The letters “P” and “E” transform the EURO into EUROPE

How can you take two away from five and have four left?

Solution: Take away two letters “F “and “E”, which leaves IV, the Roman numeral for four

You can always see me in darkness, but never in the light. I make laughter lethal, but without me, your scars become a ride.

Solution: The letter “s” is in the word “darkness” but not in the word “light”. Added to “laughter” it creates “slaughter” and removed from “scars” creates “cars”.

JANUARY 2022 Riddles

I can be written. I can be spoken. I can be exposed. I can be broken. What am I?

Solution: News

What gets smaller when you turn it upside down?

Solution: The number 9. It becomes a 6.

There are 3 wooden crates. One is labeled "Apples." One is labeled "Oranges." One is labeled "Apples & Oranges." They are all labeled incorrectly. You can reach into one crate, and pull out one fruit. When you do, you must correct all of the labels. How can it be done?

Solution: Pull a fruit from the Apples & Oranges crate. Let’s say you pull an apple out. That crate is full of apples. That means that the crate labeled Oranges has to be Apples & Oranges, because Apples is already taken, and it is mislabeled. That leaves the remaining crate to be Oranges.