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What Kind Of Music Can You Hear In Space
ROD: 11-24-2025
Riddle: What kind of music can you hear in space?
Answer: A nept-tune.
It’s a pun that combines “Neptune,” the planet, with “tune,” a piece of music. The riddle asks what kind of music you can hear in space, and the answer plays on the pronunciation “Nept-tune,” sounding like “Neptune.” So the “music” in space is a “tune” from “Neptune.” It’s just wordplay—no actual sound involved.
How Do You Spell Hard Water With Three Letters
ROD: 11-23-2025
Riddle: How do you spell hard water with three letters?
Answer: ICE.
I Am Seen In Water Riddle
ROD: 11-22-2025
Riddle: I am seen in the water and seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow, a jay's feather, and lapis lazuli. What am I?
Answer: The color blue.
Why each clue points to blue:
- Water: Large bodies of water often look blue because they reflect the color of the sky and, to a lesser extent, water weakly absorbs longer wavelengths (reds) more than shorter ones (blues), leaving a bluish appearance.
- Sky: The sky appears blue due to Rayleigh scattering—shorter blue wavelengths of sunlight scatter more in the atmosphere, making the dome of the sky look blue. Rainbow: Blue is one of the visible color bands in a rainbow, between green and indigo.
- Jay’s feather: Many blue jays look blue not from pigment but from structural coloration—the microscopic structure of the feathers scatters light to produce blue.
- Lapis lazuli: This gemstone is famously deep blue because of the mineral lazurite.
Number Of Chairs
ROD: 11-21-2025
Riddle: What's the least number of chairs you would need around a table to sit four fathers, two grandfathers, and four sons?
Answer: Four.
The trick is that the roles overlap. You only need four chairs because the same four people can simultaneously satisfy “four fathers,” “two grandfathers,” and “four sons.” A classic arrangement is: great‑grandfather, grandfather, father, and son. In this setup: The great‑grandfather and the grandfather are both grandfathers. All four can be fathers (the son can have a child not present). All four are also sons of someone. So the least number of chairs is four
The Holes
ROD: 11-20-2025
Riddle: A hole leading in, a hole leading out, we connect to a cavern that is slimy all throughout.
What are we?
Answer: It’s the nostrils—the nose. The “hole leading in” and “hole leading out” are the two nostrils, which open into the nasal cavity. That “cavern” is the mucus-lined nasal passages, which stay moist and slimy to filter and humidify air. The riddle’s accepted answer is “a nose.”
Can't Find It
ROD: 11-19-2025
Riddle: I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it.
What is it?
Answer: A splinter.
Trapped!
ROD: 11-18-2025
Riddle: You're in a magical bathroom with no windows and the only way things can get in and out is by an open door. You decide to have a bath so you turn on the tap, you shut the door and the handle breaks so you can't open it, you then turn off the tap and the knob breaks so water keeps coming. How do you save yourself from drowning?
Answer: Pull out the plug in the bath.
What Building Has The Most Stories
ROD: 11-17-2025
Riddle: What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library.
I Follow Soap To Clear Its Trace, I Wash Away What Suds Embrace.
ROD: 11-16-2025
Riddle: I follow soap to clear its trace, I wash away what suds embrace. What am I?
Answer: Water. Water is used to rinse away suds and residue after using soap.
Riddle: I start with the letter e, I end with the letter e. I contain only one letter, Yet I am not the letter e!
What am I?
Answer: An Envelope.
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