Questions tagged [word]
A puzzle whose answer will be a word or a set of words but not a phrase or sentence.
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My prefix is food, my suffix is rude
I thought of this riddle myself. Feedback is appreciated.
My prefix is food.
My suffix is rude.
My infix comes in rounds.
I keep you off the ground.
What am I?
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Vowelburger™ Riddle
(A new kind of riddle)
I ordered 5 Vowelburgers™ with buns and meat only - help me identify each one from the description on the menu!
Meat
Vowelburger™
A
weak
E
cyst
I
succeed
O
secured
Y
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Four-words (----||||)
Four-words:
My first is indivisible, but not really.
My second is a cloak worn by men, but in ancient Rome.
My third is a cruel wicked person, but not a human.
My fourth is about 20 quires, but in ...
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Piece de Resistance - Introduction & Ace and A's
OP's Words
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Read the following section for the storyAce Two Three Four Five ...
Hey guys (and gals), I have worked on this for weeks, took me ...
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A short, brutal riddle
Left alone, I'm a word with five letters.
I'm honest and fair, I'll admit.
Rearranged, I'm of no use to trains.
Again, and I'm an overt place, warm and well lit.
What am I?
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Twelve Labours - #01 Nemean Iron
This puzzle is part of the ‘Twelve Labours’ series. Previous instalments can be found here: Prologue
Having finally deciphered his mother’s map, Hercules got dressed, wolfed down some breakfast and ...
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Piece de Resistance - Five Flowers with One Missing
Five - Flowers with One Missing
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five ...
Removing the silver matter, you see ...
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Piece de Resistance - Three Troublesome Toshes
Three - Troublesome Toshes
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five ...
For the third time you removed the ...
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Piece de Resistance - Two Boxes, Two Boxes of Letters
Two - Boxes, Two Boxes of Letters
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five ...
Out of Character: Finally, a ...
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Twelve Labours - #03 Golden Hind
This puzzle is part of the ‘Twelve Labours’ series. Previous instalments can be found here: Prologue | 01 | 02
Hercules was grateful the morning sun wasn’t hotter as he pulled the heavy flatbed ...
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Twelve Labours - #04 Erymanthian Bar
This puzzle is part of the ‘Twelve Labours’ series. Previous instalments can be found here: Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03
Now one crate lighter, Hercules made his way back up the road to the Erymanthian ...
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Twelve Labours - #05 Eugene's Tables
This puzzle is part of the ‘Twelve Labours’ series, but can be solved independently. Previous instalments can be found here: Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04
After being snookered by Pholus’ puzzle for ...
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See me once, see me twice
A very short riddle just came to my mind, let's see if it can be cracked:
see me once, food can usually be found
see me twice, thundering typhoons all around
hints are coming daily, if needed. ...
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Twelve Labours - #06 Stymphalian Beards
This puzzle is part of the ‘Twelve Labours’ series, but can be solved independently. Previous instalments can be found here: Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05
Hercules looked down at his to-do list ...
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I, for one, welcome our new
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #30: Metapuzzles...
For two months, the ship had hovered above the world ... silent, unmoving, just relentlessly hovering in a fixed spot over a desolate ...
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The Longest Word Made from Chemical Symbols [closed]
So, as you probably know, each and every element in the Periodic Table has its own unique chemical symbol, which is either one, two, or three letters long. For instance, Oxygen is represented as O and ...
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Piece de Resistance - Seven Images Are Worth Digits
Seven Images Are Worth Digits
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five Six Seven ...
Another colourful piece of ...
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Twelve Labours - #07 Cleats 'N' Balls
This puzzle is part of the ‘Twelve Labours’ series, but can be solved independently. Previous instalments can be found here: Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06
Emerging from the barbers with a ...
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See me once, See me Twice #7
Here I am again, with another See me once riddle. Have fun!
See me once, at the start of the week
See me twice, the men becoming bleak
See me once, when gambling on chinese ground
See me twice, saved ...
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Twelve Labours - #09 House of Hippolyta
This puzzle is part of the ‘Twelve Labours’ series, but can be solved independently. Previous instalments can be found here: Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08
The House of Hippolyta ...
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A new word puzzle
Here is a new, original puzzle that I have made! You have to find the word that I describe.
Me, I am an introduction
My anagram is past tense of what you are doing now.
The homophone of my anagram is ...
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You will have to pray!
This riddle is so easy that I already have created another one. Just in case.
Anyway, please avoid wild guesses.
For sure I am queer
and out of place
Are you still here?
Go start the chase
But ...
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It's time to play...Add-A-Gram!
Anyone who loves Scrabble or this site is probably familiar with anagrams. But what about Add-A-Grams? An Add-A-Gram takes a word, adds a letter, and then shuffles the letters to make a new word (I ...
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Tired of me yet?
Inspired by Riley's riddle,
My prefix is a secret,
My suffix sings a stick,
My infix is trouble,
How sad is it.
What am I?
Hint 1
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Vowelburger™ Double Supreme #1
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle here
The local Vowelburgers™ restaurant added a twist to compete its sales with the other branches. They started making double patty burgers where the patties ...
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I can be a number
See me once, I don't want to, shoo!
See me twice, care what you say, for I'm a taboo
See me once, I can be a number
See me twice, the sports team likes to slumber
Hints will come bidaily. Good Luck!
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Piece de Resistance - Eight Doubled Tetrominoes Make a Tetronogram
Eight Doubled Tetrominoes Make a Tetronogram
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight ...
Time for ...
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See me once, See me twice #8
See me once, I like riddles so don't be a buzzkill
See me twice, tell everyone because I'm really ill
First hint:
I am prepared to give out more hints if needed. Good luck!
Here are the previous ...
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Just a bunch of dudes
My prefix is dude.
My infix is little dude.
My suffix is too loud, dude.
I'm a stand-up dude.
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Clue Web #1 - Let's start
This may not be perfect and I have no idea how it should be tagged to be honest but... Here's an idea for a word puzzle. A clue web!
You get 4 clues for each of the outer labels (A1, A2, etc.) on ...
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Longest word with adjacent letters on a keyboard
What is the longest English word you can type using only letters that are adjacent on a QWERTY keyboard?
You can start anywhere and then either repeat the previous letter or move to an adjacent one.
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You dirty Mind - What am I?
I may sometimes be rather dry
But you prefer moist and hot.
The flesh is soft, you must apply
Just the right touch, don't get caught.
I must be pierced to bring you joy
My smell is known and often ...
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See Me Once, See Me Twice #6 - Fanmade
This is another see me once, see me twice riddle that has been done by @Cashbee. Here is a link to the last one done by them.
See me once, I am a change, See me twice, changes have already been ...
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I'm half high, but what am I?
See me once, with two joints, already half high
See me twice, as a part of the toast that the people will cry
See me once, at concerts, but not Bob Marley's
See me twice, aren't these some cheerful ...
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Piece de Resistance - Nine is Three Tripled
Nine is Three Tripled
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine...
Here is the transcription of the ...
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Teapot Riddle: all of my teapots can be 'strong'
If you don't know what a teapot riddle is read closely:
The 'teapot' is one word I'm currently searching for.
You have to guess it.
It's always the same word but has different meanings.
First clue:
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riddle - pray you can find the word!
To answer this riddle, solve each of the four lines independently and put all the clues together to get a one-word final answer.
Nonsensical abstraction high up in the army;
The woman with the wheel ...
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See me once, see me twice #5
Here I am again with a fifth See me once riddle. Have fun finding the answer!
see me once, I'm taped together as a twist.
see me twice, used by both chef and geologist.
see me once, icky ...
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A seven letter word - the meaning doesn't change if you remove letters
I am a seven letter word. If you remove one letter from me my meaning does not change. If you remove two letters from me my meaning still does not change, and if you remove three letters from me, my ...
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Riley Riddles in Reverse
In the all-famous Riley riddles, you have to guess one word from clues about its prefix, infix and suffix. Here, instead,
You get three words.
You must find one solution word that you can attach.....
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Cryptic Poem: a study in what?
One day, while you work through one of your countless puzzle books, you notice that a sheet of paper has been slipped inside with a curious little poem written on it.
A Study
An ancient man ...
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Captain Pun's new boat
My good friend Captain Pun has bought a new boat.
"And this is a picture of its sail!" he said, showing me this:
"Solve the nonogram and you'll soon know what type of boat it is!"
Can you solve ...
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Six-words (------) Six-words (||||||)
Six-words:
My first is what a bouncer does if they think you're cool enough
My second is what my fourth does to your pain
My third is your surroundings on a grassy hill in summer
My fourth ...
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So many Anagrams!
For this puzzle, you have to find two words that are anagrams of each other to fit into the "____". For example, you might place earth and heart.
After we _____ for many hours we were very ...
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Don't clear your terminal history
You woke up this morning locked in a room. The only apparent exit is a door with a terminal. On the screen you see the following:
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Five-words (-----|||||)
Five-words:
My first is a kind of cattle from Asia (more than one).
My second is what a horse did to its victory if it just won a race on its own merit.
My third is found together with a groom.
My ...
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Riddles/puzzles having answer hidden in the question? [closed]
Can you give any example of riddles or puzzles in which the answers are someway "cleverly hidden" inside the question?
I think that such examples are more common in word-related riddles, but maybe ...
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The Riddle - I Could be Seen in Many Places
In whole, you may see me in the competition, or on the street.
Remove my front part, you may see me in the body, or on the lawn.
Remove my rear part, you may see me in the prison, or in the grocery.
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Five words with one vowel difference
Can you find a set of 5 words in English which all differ by just one vowel? This is easiest to explain with an example:
Batter. Better. Bitter. Botter. Butter
Close, but "botter" isn't a real ...
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My Lovely Connect Wall
The 16 words below may be partitioned into 4 groups of 4 connected words.
Additionally, each of the four groups can be represented by a single group-word.
Finally, the four group-words are connected ...
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