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"Wood" Riddles - First 10 of 52.

Riddle: You live in a one story house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be?
Answer: What stairs? You live in a one-story house.
Riddle: I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.
Riddle: You have three stoves: a gas stove, a wood stove, and a coal stove, but only one match. Which should you light first?
Answer: The match!
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.
Riddle: This thing devours all things. All man, all beasts, all flowers and trees. Even the fiery sun, and the shadowy moon, will one day be devoured by this thing. Stone it grinds, metal it bites. And it shall make wood rot. Is it powerful? Well it is rather not, but it kills powerful things a lot. Its immortal yet it is not some type of god. What is it?
Answer: Time.
Riddle: When is a piece of wood like a King?
Answer: When it is made into a ruler.
Riddle: While exploring the wilds of Canada, George was captured by hostile wood fairies. Zion, the powerful chief of the fairies told him he could make one final statement which would determine how he would die. If the statement he made was false, he would be boiled in water. If the statement were true, he would be fried in oil. George found neither of this options too his liking, so he made a statement that got him out of this seemingly impossible situation. What is the one statement he could have made?
Answer: George said: "You will boil me in water." The fairies were faced with a dilemma. If they boil him in water, that would make his statement true, which means he should have been fried in oil. They can only fry him in oil if he makes a true statement, but if they do, it would make his final statement false. The fairies had no way our of their situation so they were forced to set George free.
Riddle: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson were going on a hike through the woods. After a long day of hiking, they stopped for the night. They ate a cold meal, pitched a tent, and went to sleep. Both of them woke up in the middle of the night. "The stars are out tonight," remarked Doctor Watson. "What does this tell you?" Sherlock asked. "Well," he replied, "By the positions of the stars, it's roughly midnight." "What else does this tell you?" Sherlock asked again. "I don't know!" Doctor Watson retorted, annoyed. "What does it tell you?" What did the detective notice?
Answer: "Elementary, my dear Watson. Someone has stolen our tent."
Riddle: I'm long but short. I can brake but bend. I can be wood, tape, and almost anything if you get me just right. What am I?
Answer: I'm a ruler.
Riddle: What do you call a tree-chopper who sleeps on the job?
Answer: A slumber-jack

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