Questions tagged [wordplay]
A puzzle which incorporates a form of wordplay, such as puns, or which requires wordplay in order to find the solution.
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Riley Riddle #368
My prefix is a language - rather recently designed
My infix is a game - to exercise your mind
My suffix is a journey - a trial to undertake
My whole is all ready - proceed, a guess, to make
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The Queen of Starts - Is Her Bark Worse Than Her Bite?
Each tile belongs to at least one as-yet-unknown category but which belongs where and why?
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Some say I'm part of the solution
My prefix has won the fights
My infix marks the start of flights
My suffix you can almost solve
My whole makes friendly rubber revolve
What am I?
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
Hint 4:
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Unclutch those pearls
Can you see the hidden gems in this string of pearls?
Here they are:
Now, in the same way, can you find the pearls of wisdom in this longer string?
Text version:
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I am used to modify a sentence
I am used to modify a sentence.
I can be used between two letters, and I can be used to swap two letters.
My prefix is commonly used, and my suffix is sometimes found in remote places.
What am I? ...
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Crime and Punishments - Apologies in Advance
You know the drill man!
Place the tiles to find the eight-letter solutions to the clues
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A New Angle and a Plug
Your task remains the same as before - each ellipse represents an as-yet unknown category and each of the tiles belongs in at least one category. Two are placed to help you. Your question is which ...
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Well… perfect timing…
boutonniere
Gaia
frazil
Bezier curve
Devanagari
chasuble
bdelloid
Remember what Taylor Swift removed with Brandon Urie!
And it’s the day this puzzle was posted. Be good, and avoid cacoepy!
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Overlap Deluxe!
My prefix used to levitate a ball
When he was just a lowly youth, and small.
His friends are not con, but surely quite pro.
He's rarely an object, just so you know.
My infix will happily take your ...
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Some wordplay that'll make your eyes roll (among other things...)
Turn me right and I was nearly frozen,
Turn me left and I'm open,
And I was once my own reflection,
Well... Before the revolution
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
Answer:
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Albatross Soup Riddle?
A man was deserted on an island with his friends. Food were running low, but fortunately they managed to survive because one of them made some "albatross soup". After a few days, he was ...
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Triple up, pair off, and single out
Can you transform this word triple
PELTS SORES DIVAN
into this word triple
PLOTS DIVES SANER
just by swapping pairs of ...
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I start with the good and end with the bad
I start with the good and end with the bad
I start with the good and end with the (sort-of?) bad
My second letters spell poet
I rhyme with rest
Old Clues:
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I start with the end
I start with the end.
A sixth of a sixth
I end with the start.
A third of a third.
What am I?
Tiny Hint
Small Hint
Big Hint
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I do not exist: A riley puzzle
My prefix is your Spanish,
My infix is radioactive,
My suffix is what I am not,
And I do not exist, like my imaginary friend.
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What is this 3 word phrase?
If I say
" 1 2 3"
You might thank me politely.
But if I
" 1 2 3"
You might scream loudly
If I bowl
" 2 3 1"
You might cut it squarely
What are the three ...
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Seasons to be Cheerful
Happy hebdomidaire grapple fans!!
In an effort to get Stiv to have to think for more than two minutes - I've drawn a puzzle from the "
Spares" category, which is the equivalent of pulling ...
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A wall of friendly, smiling rileys?
My prefix is another country, known for me,
My infix is a response, not dangerously,
My suffix is a scream, or a rush, for memes,
And my whole is the key.
My prefix is in this clue,
My infix is at ...
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Naming Unconvention
This week's puzzle follows the usual convention: circles which represent as yet unknown categories.
One tile has been placed to help - your task is to place the others and explain why.
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I Can Be Innovation - What Am I?
You use me, perhaps every day,
while too much can lead to your dismay.
I can be innovation, I can be a large blast.
However, that won't last.
You can see me when I am deadly,
while I am invisible when ...
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Three odd objects run in a race. How did they fare? How was the chase?
Seven minutes, turn it on
Put it under, turn it off
Dice it, chop it, lay it out
Add meat and bun and pour it out
It's an old puzzle
But I won't be a muzzle
Can you guess what they are
And how they ...
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What is a phantom in the dark, ghost in the light, and spirit midways?
Another riddle;
Phantom in the dark,
Ghost in the light,
And spirit midways.
What or who am I?
What is the answer?
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Grade School Puzzle
Arithmetic
47 + 28 = ?
107 + 92 + 25 - 7 + 53 = ?
6 + 1 + 53 = ?
26 + 92 = ?
16 + 92 + 53 = ?
22 + 68 + 88 = ?
23 + 85 + 52 + 7 = ?
74 + 85 + 68 = ?
Reading
Ehad fo ocrn
Eredantl estfor malmam
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Imagine a chess board, but seven-eighths wide
My grandfather wrote me this riddle on a napkin when I was 12. It took me more than a year to solve, but I got it eventually. He said I didn't get it until I had explained the sections, so explain ...
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A pointless riddle
Please explain all lines.
I may seem small and useless
Several letters but less than one
In fact I am not here, not at all
But I am near; up above.
Good James made me famous
So when he humbles ...
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The Great Hat Magician
Welcome, welcome!
What an audience we have here tonight, the great Puzzling SE,
I came here with a small riddle, I hope you are all ready!
Let me put my first hat, a hat with a fat belly,
Now I am a ...
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What am I riddle? I exist just before your eyes
I exist just before your eyes but you can't touch me
You can be anywhere but I will be nowhere
I can be bought but no one truly owns me
People buy me but I don't truly exist
I am 3 on a 2
Some ...
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Riddle: "Bone of stone, / Marrow of wood..."
A sunshiny riddle:
Bone of stone,
Marrow of wood.
Stands alone,
Never understood.
Forever atone,
Under the hood.
Crime condone,
On sin brood.
What/who is it?
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Tile And A Place - Where Have The Leaders Gone?
Each circle represents an (as yet) unknown category.
Each of the six tiles belongs to at least one category.
One tile has been placed. Where do the other tiles go and why?
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It's messy on south
It's messy on south,
We have an interesting team
First for the stone.
What are we?
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I am the leader of the alphabet [closed]
A simple one-liner:
I am the leader of the alphabet.
What am I?
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I am a sport - underground plus something round
I am a sport
My first part is underground
My second part is something round
Some hit people and they're as blind as a bat
What sport am I?
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A Few Tile Problem?
Have designed a number of puzzles - would love to know what you thought?
From the four tiles which two are A and B?
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What Am I? - A Word Riddle no. 2
Many have me, yet none own me,
though I am never truly eliminated,
I am rid of through knowledge.
More widespread the more things are known,
What am I?
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So sweet with a burning back
I'm delicious, swoon with sweetness,
But beware my back, you'll burn and perish.
Check my front, it's almost my back,
But with all the cooling waters removed.
Try me, taste me, I'm so sweet,
With ...
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Seeking a list of words formed from existing words
Recently, I asked for some assistance on word formation. The respondent provided me with the Qat website which was perfect. I have another question.
I would like to generate a list of words where ...
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I have only two words, but thousands of letters. What am I?
A short riddle:
I have only two words,
But thousands of letters.
What am I?
What is the answer?
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A nice riddle: can you solve it? [duplicate]
Try to solve this
What is the beginning of the earth, the end of our time, the start of every end, and the end of every place?
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What key is the hardest to turn? [closed]
A simple one-liner:
What key is the hardest to turn?
What is the answer?
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What is the syntax to search QAT for words when reversed form a new word (i.e. not a palindrome)?
Based on a comment currently on this answer, I have as much as A;~A; but this doesn't preclude palindromes.
What can I add to complete this search term?
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How can four be the half of five? [closed]
I came across this enigmatic one-liner:
How can four be half of five?
Can you figure it out?
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Seeking lists of words formed from an existing word
Where is a resource that lists words that can become another word with the addition of one letter while still maintaining the order of the letters? For example, adding an "I" to SLANDER ...
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A riddle: "With a heart of ice, / The height of a tree..."
An above-average hard riddle (no rhymes, though):
With a heart of ice,
The height of a tree.
Not to be cryptic,
Easily found when changing.
The C to a D.
What am I?
What is the answer?
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Above me sits a Seeing Hill, that rises to the sky, try to guess my longish name, what city am I?
Here is a rhyming riddle I came up with only a little while ago.
My first four letters love to talk,
the next three like some sun,
the next pair are quite interested,
the last, a State, we’re done.
I ...
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One in a million: a musical charm
Here's a simple riddle I came up with myself. If this puzzle already exists elsewhere on the Web, please forgive me, I didn't know about it.
As a whole, I'm charmed. Remove two letters from the start ...
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A gift from the USA
I can be a question that ends in a question
I can be a question that ends in an answer
I can be an answer that ends in a question
I can be an answer that ends in an answer
Cut off my end, I still ...
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We are roaming birds, ready to fly away!
We are roaming birds, ready to fly away!
We head to the South, and we stash things away
We head to the West, and we catch the sunray
We head to the East, for a temporary stay
We head to the North -- ...
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