# Anyone good at riddles?

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**Created:** [January 28, 2008, 7:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545 "2008-01-28T07:04:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/1 "2008-01-28T07:04:28Z")

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The maker doesn’t want it; the buyer doesn’t use it; and the user doesn’t see it. What is it?

What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their religion or politics, agree is between heaven and earth?

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin’s egg. Why not?

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**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/2 "2008-01-28T07:11:14Z")

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3rd…no penguins in the artic

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**Author:** ![sureshot007](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot007/32/7345_2.png) [@sureshot007](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot007)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/3 "2008-01-28T07:12:03Z")

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> Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin’s egg. Why not?

because penguins live in Antarctica.

edit: beat me to it.

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**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/4 "2008-01-28T07:13:35Z")

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2nd could be space, or more precisely a space

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**Author:** ![Oroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@Oroc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Oroc)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/5 "2008-01-28T07:13:37Z")

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Interested to know the answer but i do not know haha. I did know the 3rd one, heard it once b4.

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**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/6 "2008-01-28T07:15:11Z")

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1st on is a coffin

edit only because of the song “The Maker” covered by DMB did I get that one…

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/7 "2008-01-28T07:31:17Z")

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1 and 3 are correct

2 new ones

A butcher in the butcher shop is 5’ 10" tall. What does he weigh?

In Okmulgee, Oklahoma, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

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**Author:** ![L8APEX1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/l8apex1/32/7276_2.png) [@L8APEX1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/L8APEX1)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/8 "2008-01-28T07:38:05Z")

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> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
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> A butcher in the butcher shop is 5’ 10" tall. What does he weigh?

the meat that he is cutting

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**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/9 "2008-01-28T07:47:04Z")

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> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
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> In Okmulgee, Oklahoma, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

is there now Okmulgee OK?

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**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/10 "2008-01-28T07:47:28Z")

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> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
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> In Okmulgee, Oklahoma, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

Because wooden legs do not work terribly well as a camera.

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**Author:** ![walter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/walter/32/7202_2.png) [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/11 "2008-01-28T07:48:54Z")

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^lol

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/12 "2008-01-28T07:50:10Z")

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correct lol

2 more

In what year did Christmas and New Year’s fall in the same year?

There were an electrician and a plumber waiting in line for admission to the International Home Show," One of them was the father of the other’s son. How could this be possible?

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**Author:** ![walter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/walter/32/7202_2.png) [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/13 "2008-01-28T07:51:46Z")

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In what year did Christmas and New Year’s fall in the same year?  
\>\>every year

There were an electrician and a plumber waiting in line for admission to the International Home Show," One of them was the father of the other’s son. How could this be possible?

\>\>one was a woman, incest, bought the child, lots of ways

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**Author:** ![L8APEX1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/l8apex1/32/7276_2.png) [@L8APEX1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/L8APEX1)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/14 "2008-01-28T07:52:56Z")

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every year

the electrician and the plumber the father and mother or vice versa

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/15 "2008-01-28T08:19:06Z")

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very good :tup:

a few more

A child is born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents who were both born in Boston, Massachusetts. The child is not a United States citizen. How is this possible?

Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?

Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg are white” or “The yolk of the egg is white”?

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/16 "2008-01-28T08:28:18Z")

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mt everst

neither is correct to say

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**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/17 "2008-01-28T08:49:15Z")

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neither, yolk are yellow

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 8:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/18 "2008-01-28T08:58:54Z")

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These are good. I’ll be telling these all day today lol. :tup:

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**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/19 "2008-01-28T09:15:16Z")

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> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
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> A child is born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents who were both born in Boston, Massachusetts. The child is not a United States citizen. How is this possible?

They where born before the United Stated was formed?

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**Author:** ![snowracer101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@snowracer101](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/snowracer101)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-good-at-riddles/42545/20 "2008-01-28T09:22:50Z")

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you guys want a good one? This was a week long riddle my teacher gave us in school it took us for ever to guess it

A detective walks into a room, notices a dead guy hanging from the ceiling. He also notices a walking cane and some sawdust.  
Why did this man hang himself?

Goodluck, ill give the answer later

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