Fun Riddles

What would you do to employ tedious hours or kill time? How about puzzles or brainteasers? This week, let us solve interesting riddles. Don’t be so serious or overthink to solve these riddles. 😊

  1.   What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?

  2.   Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

  3.   What types of words are these: madam, civic, eye, level?

  4.   What ends everything always?

  5.   When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don’t have me. What am I?

  6.   A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?

  7.   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?

  8.   It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect.

  9.   Two fathers and two sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish, So why do they bring home only three fish?

  10.               You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?

  11.               What do letter “t” and an island have in common?

  12.               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.

  13.               Complete this sequence of letters: o, t, t, f, f, s, s, ___, ___, ___

  14.               From the beginning of eternity. To the end of time and space, To the beginning of every end. And the end of every place. What am I?

  15.               I can run but I can’t walk. I have a mouth but I can’t talk, a head but I can’t think, a bed but I can’t sleep. Who am I?

Answer Keys

  1.  your shadow

  2.  meat

  3.  They are palindromes; they read the same forward and backward.

  4.  the letter “g”

  5.  A secret

  6.  His horse’s name is Friday.

  7.  a coffin

  8.  beetle

  9.  Because the fishing group comprises a grandfather, his son, and his grandson, hence just three people.

  10.             your breath

  11.             Both are in water: WaTer

  12.             “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

  13.             e, n, t- The first letter of the numbers from one to ten

  14.             the letter “e”

  15.             a river

Idioms that describe the Feelings of Happiness

Most of us have one wish in common in life: “to be happy”

Although I myself am still working on the definition of ‘being happy’, I know for sure that happiness is not lying in comparing me and others. It is found in what I am, what I have, and where I stand right here and now.

This week, let us brush up on some idiomatic expressions that are related to or describing the feeling of happiness.

(source from https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/7-happy-idioms      &   http://www.grammar.net/top-22-idioms-about-joy-and-happiness)

1.   to be on cloud nine: extremely happy when something wonderful happens.

2.   like a dog with two tails: to look and be very happy.

3.   to be full of the joys of spring: When you are jubilant, energetic, cheerful and happy.

4.   to be as happy as Larry:

When you are as happy as Larry, you are, of course, very happy. But who is Larry? No one is certain but it is believed that 'Larry' refers to an Australian boxer called Larry Foley (1878 - 1917) who after receiving a large payment after winning a fight was described in a newspaper as being 'happy'. Somehow this description stuck and is now used all these years later.

5.   to be on top of the world:

You are on top of the world when you feel wonderful.

6.   to be over the moon

This idiom isn't used so much these days because it is considered a cliché (an overused, unoriginal expression), but it means to be delighted.

The team captain said he was over the moon with their win.

7.   to be in seventh heaven

Bliss; to be so happy it feels like you are in heaven

8.   a joy to behold: a thing or experience that creates a profound sense of pleasure or elation in the spectator

9.   buzzing: excited for something that’s going to happen/  to be stoked about…

10.        happy camper: to be content or satisfied with what is happening in the life and to have no complaints.

Let’s use them in sentences! Choose the right expression in the example sentences below.

  1.  Rian’s mom is really worried about her son’s hobby. He rides a motorbike in his leisure hours and always says he feels like being in seventh _________________ while enjoying the speed.

  2.  The concert hall was ____________________ as the audience was waiting for the music to start.

  3.  The Jackson couple has been on ________________ nine since they found out they are going to be parents this year!!!

  4.  Mr. Ray was always like a happy ________________ even when he was ill. He used to say “Life is good!” all the time.

  5.  Tim loves hiking and feels like being on ___________ of the world each time he explores new mountain ranges.

  6.  Patty’s loving doggie is such a ___________ to behold.

  7.  When I won my age group in the 10K road race, I felt as happy as ____________!!!!!

  8.  Nina will be like a dog with _______________________ if she is chosen as the prima donna at the upcoming opera.

  9.  When Judy happened to hear from her long lost friend, she was over the _____________________.

  10.             It’s amazing that you look like you’re full of the __________________________ on Monday morning while everyone else is suffering from Monday blues.

Answer Keys

 1.  Heaven

 2.  buzzing

 3.  cloud

 4.  camper

 5.  top

 6.  joy

 7.  Larry

 8.  two tails

 9.  moon

 10. joy of Spring

 

A piece of poem in the late Summer evening

Life is…

by Jean Lee

a lonely stroll in the canopy

sometimes shiny with woodnotes,

oftentimes hairy as a mapless navigation,

full of balmy breeze like a soft pat on your tired back,

tainted by unwanted noise from passers-by,

celebrated with ephemeral flame around a bonfire,

fascinated at something new in each twists and turns,

paused by thoughts and doubts at a forked road,

continuing with hopes, regrets, confidence, turbulence, love, peace, ….

and remembered by one or two

                 who will always keep you at heart, 

who will not judge your paths,

and who will be proud of you for just being you