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    Book of Riddles: Best Riddles from Sphinx to the Space Age
    Book of Riddles: Best Riddles from Sphinx to the Space Age
    Book of Riddles: Best Riddles from Sphinx to the Space Age
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    Book of Riddles: Best Riddles from Sphinx to the Space Age

    By Igor Kryan and Alisa Kryan

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    Some of these riddles said to be 10 millennia old, while others me and my daughter just made up in 2019. Regardless of the age, they will bend your mind, make you appear super smart and impress your friends. Welcome to the game that challenging and tricky but very fun - from logic puzzles and unusual questions to crime solving and paradoxes.
    The idea to write this book came when my 10 years old daughter returned from school and asked me, "You walk into a room with a hamster riding a wheel, a rabbit holding a carrot, a pig playing with a ball, a dog fetching a stick and a chimp playing a guitar. Which creature in the room is the smartest?" I did not know. She smiled and said, "Hopefully, you!" The same way, hopefully, you will become smarter and more sophisticated after reading this enigmatic book of riddles.
    Answers Included.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJan 6, 2019
    ISBN9780359340590
    Book of Riddles: Best Riddles from Sphinx to the Space Age

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      Book of Riddles - Igor Kryan

      Book of Riddles: Best Riddles from Sphinx to the Space Age

      Book of Riddles:

      Best Riddles from Sphinx to the Space Age

      Igor Kryan, Alisa Kryan

      Copyright © 2019 by Igor Kryan, PhD

      All rights reserved by Igor Kryan. No part of this

      publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system

      or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,

      mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without

      the prior permission in writing of the copyright owner.

      ISBN 978-0-359-34059-0

      www.youtube.com/c/IgorKryan

      Printed in the United States of America

      Introduction.

      Some of these riddles said to be 10 millennia old, while others me and my daughter just made up in 2019. Regardless of the age, they will bend your mind, make you appear super smart and impress your friends. Welcome to the game that challenging and tricky but very fun - from logic puzzles and unusual questions to crime solving and paradoxes.

      The idea to write this book came when my 10 years old daughter returned from school and asked me, You walk into a room with a hamster riding a wheel, a rabbit holding a carrot, a pig playing with a ball, a dog fetching a stick and a chimp playing a guitar. Which creature in the room is the smartest? I did not know. She smiled and said, Hopefully, you! The same way, hopefully, you will become smarter and more sophisticated after reading this enigmatic book of riddles.

      Content

      Introduction.

      Content.

      Part 1. Sphinx Riddles.

      Part 2. Crime Solving Riddles.

      Part 3. Logic Paradoxes.

      Part 4. Math Riddles or Are They?

      Part 5. Language Riddles or Are They?

      Part 6. Drivers' Riddles.

      Part 7. Animal Riddles.

      Part 8. What Am I?

      Part 9. Who Am I?

      Part 10. Bets.

      About the Author.

      Recommended Similar Books.

      Part 1. Sphinx Riddles.

      Egyptian Sphinx devoured all travelers who could not answer the riddle correctly and so it shall be your fate if you are wrong. We cannot know the exact Sphinx riddles because most of travelers got devoured many millennia ago but here are some surviving puzzles according to the Greek Legend. See if you can answer them.

      1. What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?

      2. What do all the people on earth doing this moment?

      3. Sea does not have these types of rocks on the bottom.

      4. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What is it?

      5. I am never was but I always will be. What I am?

      6. What can you hold in your right hand but not in your left hand?

      7. Many have heard me but no one has seen me. I will not speak back until I am spoken to. What am I?

      8. We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear truth and lies. But we are not to be judged by our size. What are we?

      9. What disappears when you say its name?

      10. This belongs to you, but everyone else uses it.

      11. You can break me without touching me, or even seeing me. What am I?

      12. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it, you'll die. What is it?

      13. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don't have me anymore. What am I?

      14. I am always between earth and sky but you will never each me no matter what your do. What am I?

      15. I live where light exist but shine light on me an I die. What am I?

      16. What always grows and never shrinks?

      17. I have ten or more daughters. I have less than ten daughters. I have at least one

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