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And the final riddle!
I am very heavy but not backwards. What am I?
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She would be aged 98.

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The penultimate riddle:
When I am 4 my sister is half my age. How old is she when I am 100?
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The answer is of course a sponge!

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Today’s riddle:
This object has holes on the top and holes on the bottom. It has holes on one side and on the other side. It has holes all around it and holes all around its inside. And with all these holes it’s a great way to hold water.
What is it?
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The lions that haven’t been fed for 3 years won’t have coped well, that’s the best room.

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New riddle:
A murderer is condemned to death, and is given the choice of three rooms. The first room is full of raging fires, the second has assassins with loaded guns, and the third has a pack of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years.
Which room should he choose?
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The time is 9am.

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Today’s riddle:
Two hours from now it will be half as long until noon as it will be an hour from now.
What time is it now?
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The fifth daughter is Mary.

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New riddle:
Mary’s mother has 5 daughters. Their names are Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono and .... can you work out the name of the fifth daughter..?
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Top = 6
Right = 5
Left = 1
Are there any other solutions? Investigation with simultaneous equations implies not..

a = Top b = R c = L
eqn1: a + b = 11
eqn2: a + c = 7
eqn3: b + c = 6

eqn2 rearranged: a = 7 - c
sub into eqn1: 7 - c + b = 11
b - c = 4 : eqn4

noroomfor QED..!

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Visual Riddle:
From the arithmagon can you find the missing values of the circles?
The circles’ values add to give the square in between.
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Riddle #1 : SEVEN
Riddle #2 : SIX

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Double riddle today:
I am an odd number, and if you take one letter away from me I become even, what am I?
I am an even number, and if you take one letter away from me I become odd, what am I?
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That’ll be 500 eggs for £5

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New riddle for this week, and let’s take it back to our core subject..
If eggs cost £0.12 a dozen how many eggs can you buy with a fiver?
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Hope you appreciated the extra time on this tough one, the letter “e” is the answer you’re looking for.

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Riddle time.
What is:
The beginning of eternity,
The end of time and space,
The beginning of every end,
The end of every place.
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