Book of Riddles

Book of Riddles
By Denis Stolc
 FOREWORD

Hello Traveller!!!

This book was created to expand your

adventure. It doesn't matter where you are, in
what time or dimension. I'm sure everyone will
find something enjoyable here. I would like to
thank my beloved wife and sons who always
support me. I would also like to thank you, for
trust and time you will spend on this book.
Thank you and have fun!
 Contents

1. Level I 9 - 20
2. Level II 21 - 40
3. Level III 41 - 56

4. Hints 57 – 63

5. Answers 64 - 79
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Level I

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 1.

What goes up but never comes down?

2.

What belongs to you but other people

use it more than you?

10
 3.

I'm tall when I'm young, and I'm

short when I’m old. What am I?

4.

What is always in front of you but

can’t be seen?

11
 5.

What can you break, even if you

never pick it up or touch it?

6.

Feed me and I get stronger, but give me

a drink and I’ll die. What am I?

12
 7.

If you’ve got me, you want to share

me. If you share me, you haven’t
kept me. What am I?

8.

First you need to break me, then you

can use me. What am I?

13
 9.

How can you create 3 squares moving

exactly 3 sticks?

14
 10.

What runs around the city but never

moves?

11.

What question can you never answer

yes to?

15
 12.

What is full of holes but still holds

water?

13.
1432 → 2143 → 3214 → …
Write the next four numbers.

16
 14.

I possess a halo of water, walls of

stone, and a tongue of wood. Long I
have stood. What am I?

15.

What has roots that no one sees and

looms much taller than trees? Up it
goes but yet it never grows. What is
it?

17
 16.

Three playing cards in a row. Can

you name them with these clues?
There is a Two to the right of a king.
A diamond will be found to the left of
a spade. An ace is to the left of a
heart. A heart is to the left of a spade.
Now, identify all three cards.

17.

I jump when I walk and sit when I

stand. What am I?

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 14.

I possess a halo of water, walls of

stone, and a tongue of wood. Long I
have stood. What am I?

15.

What has roots that no one sees and

looms much taller than trees? Up it
goes but yet it never grows. What is
it?

17
 16.

Three playing cards in a row. Can

you name them with these clues?
There is a Two to the right of a king.
A diamond will be found to the left of
a spade. An ace is to the left of a
heart. A heart is to the left of a spade.
Now, identify all three cards.

17.

I jump when I walk and sit when I

stand. What am I?

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Level II

21
 18.

What disappears as soon as you say

its name?

19.

What always runs, but never walks,

often murmurs but never talks, has a
bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but
doesn’t eat?

22
 23.

The more you take, the more you

leave behind. What are they?

24.

What has cities, but no people, has

forests, but no trees, and seas, but no
fish?

25
 20.

35, 15, 5

68, 48, 32, 6

79, 63, 18, 8

87 …

Each of these sequences follows the

same rule, and each one continues
until it resolves to a number under
ten. How should the sequence starting
with 87 continue?

23
 23.

The more you take, the more you

leave behind. What are they?

24.

What has cities, but no people, has

forests, but no trees, and seas, but no
fish?

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 25.

F=A+B I=A+E

C=B+B E=D+F

D=B+C H=F+G

G=B+D

1. 4. 5. 8. 12. 16. 17. 18. 21.

Assign letters to the correct numbers.

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 26.

A girl has as many brothers as sisters,

but each brother has only half as
many brothers as sisters. How many
brothers and sisters are there in the
family?

27.

I am an odd number. Take away a

letter and I become even. What
number am I?

27
 31.

I touch your face, I’m in your words,

I’m a lack of space and beloved by
birds. What am I?

32.

What occurs once in every minute,

twice in every moment, yet never in a
thousand years?

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 33.

What is black when you find it, red

when you use it, and grey when it’s
thrown away.

34.

Many have heard me, but no one has

seen me, and I will not speak back
until spoken to. What am I?

31
35.

32
The eight tiles above have been sorted
into two groups according to a rule.
Part of this rule is that in Group A,
the three dots on each tile are
arranged clockwise starting with the
dot on top, and in Group B, they’re
arranged counterclockwise.

In which group does this tile belong?

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The eight tiles above have been sorted
into two groups according to a rule.
Part of this rule is that in Group A,
the three dots on each tile are
arranged clockwise starting with the
dot on top, and in Group B, they’re
arranged counterclockwise.

In which group does this tile belong?

33
 38.

A vessel have I, that is round as a

pear, moist in the middle, surrounded
with hair and often it happens, that
water flows there.

39.

I have one and you have one. So do

the woods, fields, streams and seas,
fish, beasts and crops and everything
else in this revolving world.

35
 40.

Always old, sometimes new.

Never sad, sometimes blue.

Never empty, sometimes full.

Never pushes, always pulls.

41.

What goes through cities and fields,

but never moves?

36
 36.

What are the next three letters in

this combination?

OTTFFSS

37.

Turn me on my side and I am

everything. Cut me in half and I am
nothing. What am I?

34
 38.

A vessel have I, that is round as a

pear, moist in the middle, surrounded
with hair and often it happens, that
water flows there.

39.

I have one and you have one. So do

the woods, fields, streams and seas,
fish, beasts and crops and everything
else in this revolving world.

35
 40.

Always old, sometimes new.

Never sad, sometimes blue.

Never empty, sometimes full.

Never pushes, always pulls.

41.

What goes through cities and fields,

but never moves?

36
 42.

What breaks yet never falls, and

what falls yet never breaks?

43.

Lighter than what I am made of,

more of me is hidden than is seen.
What am I?

37
 44.

Spawned without seed, produced in

ways of wonder,

I load my sweetened breast with floral

plunder.

Kings’ honeyed fare grows gilded

through my flair.

Sharp spears of fearsome war are

what I bear,

and I beat handless! - Craftsmen’s

metalware.

38
 45.

My rings are not of gold, but I get more

as I get old. What am I?

39
40
 46.

It cannot be seen, it cannot be felt,

Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,

Lies behind stars and under hills,

and empty holes it fills.

Comes first follows after,

Ends life kills laughter.

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 48.

I march before armies, a thousand

salute me.

My fall can bring victory, but no one

would shoot me.

The wind is my lover, one-legged am I.

Name me and see me at home in the

sky.

44
 50.

You found a chest but it’s closed with

weird looking lock. There’s an
envelope under the lock. Would you
like to open it?

Text in the envelope says

“Follow the arrows and numbers in center.
When you turn one cog, the other three move as
well. The numbers which are positioned at the
end reveal a four-digit safe combination.”

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 49.

We hurt without moving.

We poison without touching.

We bear the truth and the lies.

We are not to be judged by our size.

What are we?

45
 50.

You found a chest but it’s closed with

weird looking lock. There’s an
envelope under the lock. Would you
like to open it?

Text in the envelope says

“Follow the arrows and numbers in center.
When you turn one cog, the other three move as
well. The numbers which are positioned at the
end reveal a four-digit safe combination.”

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47
 51.

I’m always there, some distance

away. Somewhere between land or sea
and sky I lay. You may move towards
me, yet distant I stay.

48
 52.

Shades shifting as I leave the Earth

and sky. My place is not on land, it’s
not up high. No one else dreads his
exile with such fears, but I would
make the world be lush with tears.

49
 54.

I can flutter and take your breath

away.

I can take a beating, but do not

bruise.

If I stopped you would be sure to lose.

All day and night, I am with you.

What am I?

52
 55.

In limbs and face my look is not the

same.

Armed with these horns, my other

features frame a fearsome man.

In Gnossian fields my fame is clear.

Crete’s bastard born unclaimed in

shame,

A beast and man when I am called

my name.

53
 56.

I feel no flame while living in the

fire,

But mock the pains while deep

within the pyre.

As the hearth crackles and the embers

glimmer,

I do not burn, though wood’s fierce

flames grow dimmer.

54
 54.

I can flutter and take your breath

away.

I can take a beating, but do not

bruise.

If I stopped you would be sure to lose.

All day and night, I am with you.

What am I?

52
 55.

In limbs and face my look is not the

same.

Armed with these horns, my other

features frame a fearsome man.

In Gnossian fields my fame is clear.

Crete’s bastard born unclaimed in

shame,

A beast and man when I am called

my name.

53
 56.

I feel no flame while living in the

fire,

But mock the pains while deep

within the pyre.

As the hearth crackles and the embers

glimmer,

I do not burn, though wood’s fierce

flames grow dimmer.

54
 57.

Who is not stunned by my amazing

fate? When with great strength I
prop up countless trees?

Soon, though, a slender spike relieves

great weight.

Birds in the sky and fish that swim

in seas, began their life from me in
yesteryear.

My hold on one third of the world is

clear.

55
 58.

What is it that given once, you’ll

have either more or none?

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HINTS

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 18. When nobody speaks.

19. You cannot enter the same twice.

20. Try to multiply the numbers.

21. You can find them in forest.

22. Made from glass.

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 23. You don't leave them when you
stay in one place.

24. Have four cardinal directions.

25. Just try trial and error method.

26. Try do draw it.

27. Write down all odd numbers from 1

to 10. Notice the word "even".

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28. Try to add and later multiply
some numbers.

29. Breathe in.

30. It's always with you.

31. It's everywhere, take's no space.

32. Pay attention to the letters.

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 33. Thrown in fire.

34. Often in mountains.

35. Write down the names of the

colors. Notice the first letters.

36. Count down the numbers. Focus on

words.

37. It’s a number.

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 38. I can see everything.

39. Disappears at night.

40. You can see me only at night.

41. You move on it.

42. Life cycle.

43. Think about water.

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 44. Insect.

45. You can hide underneath it.

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1. Your Age

2. Your Name

3. A Candle

4. The Future

5. A Promise

6. Fire

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7. A Secret

8. An Egg

9.

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 18. Silence

19. A River

20.

87, 56, 30, 0. Multiply the digits in a

number to get the next number.

21. Leaf

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 10. A Wall

11. Are You Asleep?

12. A Sponge

13. 4321

14. A Castle

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 15. Mountain

16. Ace of Diamonds, King of Hearts,

Two of Spades

17. Kangaroo

68
 18. Silence

19. A River

20.

87, 56, 30, 0. Multiply the digits in a

number to get the next number.

21. Leaf

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 22. A Mirror

23. Footsteps

24. A Map

25.

A=1 E = 17

B=4 F=5

C=8 G = 16

D = 12 H = 21

I = 18

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 26. 3 brothers 4 sisters

27. Seven

28. The number at the center of each

triangle is equal to the sum of the
numbers at its base multiplied by the
number at its apex. For example
(6+8) x 2 = 28

29. Light/Air

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30. The Shadow

31. Air

32. Letter “M”

33. Coal

34. An Echo

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35. Group B. The dots on each tile are
in alphabetical order by color (Blue,
Green, -Orange, Purple, Red,
-Yellow), with Group A -going
clockwise from the top dot and Group
B counterclockwise.

36. The correct OTTFFSS riddle answer

is ENT. Each letter represents the first
letter of each number starting from
one. Therefore, O – One, T – Two, T –
Three, F – Four… etc.

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37. Number 8. On its side, it looks like
the symbol for infinity and when you
cut it in half, it looks like two zeroes.

38. Eye

39. The Shadow

40. The Moon

41. Road

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42. Day and night

43. An iceberg

44. Apis/Bee

45. A tree

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46. Darkness

47. Tree

48. Flag

49. Words

50.

8, 2, 8, 1

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 51. The horizon

52. Cloud

53. Ask "If I asked your brother what

the good door is, what would he say?"

If you ask the truth-telling brother,

he will point to the bad door, because
this is what the lying brother would
point to.

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