Hard Riddles - Good Brain Teasers

As children, we always wanted to test the cleverness of our classmates and friends, therefore, we asked them riddles. As we grew up, we for some reason forgot all about puzzles and started to solve only the 'riddles of life'. However, for some entertainment and also to keep our logic sharp, we should get into the habit of solving some riddles, which often times are brain teasers. Here is one for you, "Which is the word in the English language, that is pronounced exactly the same even after you remove four alphabets from a total of its five alphabets?". These brain teasers are actually just puzzles that need lateral thinking, which are meant to bring a smile to your face - hopefully.

Try your answers for each trick question before clicking the "Show Answer" link. I am sure you will have fun answering them!

1. What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?
   
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   Your shadow
2. Two cannibals were chatting as they had their dinner. One complained that he really quite disliked his new mother-in-law. What was the advice given to him by his companion?
   
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   So just finish your vegetables.!
3. Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
   
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   Meat
4. What types of words are these: Madam, civic, eye, level?
   
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   They are palindromes; they read the same both ways.
5. What ends everything always?
   
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   The alphabet 'g'.
6. When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don't have me. What am I?
   
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   A secret.
7. A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?
   
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   His horse's name is Friday.
8. The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?
   
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   A coffin.
9. It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it?
   
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   Beetle.
10. 2 fathers and 2 sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So why do they bring home only 3 fish?
    
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    Because the fishing group comprises a grandfather, his son, and his son's son - hence just three people.
11. Which is the longest word in English?
    
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    Smiles - Because a 'mile' exists between the two S's. While that is a good answer to the riddle, the actual longest English word is 'Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' - the meaning of which is a lung disease, that is caused due to inhalation of very fine silica particles, which turn cause inflammation of the lungs. The other long English word is 'floccinaucinihilipilification'- which means to describe something as worthless, or turning something into being worthless by deprecating it.'
12. You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?
    
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    Your breath.
13. What do the letter 't' and an island have in common?
    
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    Both are in water - WaTer.
14. Which is the word in English that has nine letters, and remains a word at each step even when you remove one letter from it, right up to a single letter remaining. List each letter as you remove them, along with the resulting word at each step.
    
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    'Startling' is the word. Begin by removing 'l', which makes it 'starting', then take away the 't', making it 'staring', and so on - string; sting; sing; sin; in; and, I.
15. Complete this sequence of letters: o, t, t, f, f, s, s, _, _, _.
    
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    e, n, t - The first letter of the numbers from one to ten.

I am sure after reading these 'good riddles', you would have traveled into the past. These riddles were just a drop in the ocean. There are many riddles in English poetry as well, which are a great amount of fun to solve as well. Before I end this write-up, the answer to the question I asked in the first paragraph is 'Queue'. Was it a hard brain teaser?