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Ready Your Cerebrum! It’s Raining Riddles!
Solve these riddles — written by you fine readers, AND Wondercade's mysterious Puzzler!
Try your hand at these 20 riddles — some are user-submitted by you fine readers, while others were written up by Wondercade’s own mysterious Puzzler. Can you get them all?
(The answers to the reader riddles are in a cypher — not to stump or confuse, but simply to avoid being passively spoiled! To crack this particular code, simply replace each answer’s letter with the subsequent one in the alphabet: so “b” in the answer becomes “c,” “z” becomes “a,” and so forth.)
YOUR FELLOW WONDERCADE READERS’ RIDDLES
What gets bigger the more you take away from it? —Gretchen L.
Cypher: Z gnkd
What do homonymous authors ceremoniously practice? —Jim K.
Cypher: Sgd Vqhsd Qhfgs Qhsd
What are two things you can never eat for breakfast? —Norma M. and her grandson, Bo
Cypher: Ktmbg zmc chmmdq
Why did Coach go to the bank? —Tom S.
Cypher: Sn fds ghr ptzqsdqazbj
There’s a man in jail and on visitors’ day someone visited him. When the visitor left the guard asked, “Who visited you?” The prisoner said, “‘Brothers and sisters, I have none, but this man’s father is my father’s son.’ Who visited me?” —Violet
Cypher: Ghr rnm uhrhsdc ghl
When is a door not a door? —Mykolas
Cypher: Vgdm hs’r zizq
I run but don’t walk, have a mouth but don’t talk, and a bed but don’t sleep. What am I? —Ed C.
Cypher: Z qhudq
Why did the man name his two dogs Rolex and Timex? —Harry K.
Cypher: Sgdx vdqd vzsbg cnfr
Rachel goes to the supermarket and buys 10 tomatoes. Unfortunately, on the way back home, all but 9 get ruined. How many tomatoes are left in a good condition? —Nika S.
Cypher: Mhmd
If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring? —Jonathan F.
Cypher: Ohkfqhlr
NOW, OUR PROFESSIONAL PUZZLER’S BRAINTEASERS
REMINDER: THEY START SIMPLE AND GET HARDER. KINDA LIKE ME.
All right, now onto the next batch of riddles, courtesy of The Puzzler themself…
Narrator Note: This riddle below, says The Puzzler, dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, circa 2000 B.C.E…and is considered the first riddle ever. Which may explain why it’s sorta easy.
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Narrator Note: Another history lesson for ya, kid…The Puzzler says this one below comes from a famous text from the Middle Ages called the Exeter Book: a tome of Old English poetry which was bequeathed by Leofric, the Bishop of Exeter, to the local monastery in 1072. Here’s one of the earliest known riddles in English…
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Narrator Note: Another from the Exeter Book, below. Y’know, for being a pious text, some of these Old English riddles are…pretty dirty?! Maybe my mind’s in the gutter, kid…
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Narrator Note: Significantly fewer stiff things in holes this time!
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Narrator Note: Another historical one; one that’s apparently quite famous…though there’s debate as to which St. Ives in England it’s talking about, which is perhaps a meta riddle…
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That does it! Thanks, kid. Feeling like you want to know the answers, after giving it a valiant effort…? Then click here!