ThinkTank Riddles #8

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Welcome to the eighth edition of ThinkTank Riddles

Let's Get Thinking! 

Riddle #1

Jonathan works as an assistant at a butcher's shop. He plays football on the weekends and enjoys watching Star Wars. He is 6 foot 2 and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

Riddle #2

I have only one colour, but not one size; stuck on the bottom but easily flies. I'm present in sun but not in rain; I do no harm and feel no pain. What am I?

Riddle #3

What connects two people but touches only one?

Riddle #4

What begins and has no end, and is the end of everyone who begins?

Riddle #5

Where can you finish a book without finishing a sentence?

Riddle #6

Jessica runs away from home. She turns left, and keeps running. After some time she turns left again and keeps running. She later turns left once more and runs back home. Why?

Riddle #7

Two men are in a desert. Each are wearing packs. One man is alive and the other man is dead. One man's pack is open and the other is closed. What happened?

Riddle #8

You get thrown into a hole. The hole is 30ft deep, 6ft wide and has water at the bottom. You can't climb the sides of the hole, you can't dig through it, and you can't call for help. How do you get out?

Riddle #9

How can you fit ten horses into nine single-horse carriers?

Riddle #10

I promise.

I do.

I offend.

I point.

I fight.

What am I?

Riddle #11

Gary pushes his car into a hotel and loses a fortune. However, a few minutes later, he is just as rich as he was before. What happened?

Riddle #12

Miles and Debbie are hiking through a forest, when they come across a cabin. They immediately know that everyone inside the cabin is dead. How?

Riddle #13

If Edna's daughter is my daughters mother, what am I to Edna? Her grandmother; her mother; her daughter; her granddaughter; or Edna herself?

Riddle #14

I’m always there, some distance away, between land or sea and sky I lay. You may move towards me, yet distant I stay. What am I?

Riddle #15

How much dirt is in a square hole that measures four feet wide, five feet long, and ten feet deep?

Well, that's it for today's edition! As usual, I will post the answers in the comments after a week, but until then, put your guesses in the comments to see if you're right! See you next time!

27 Comments
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Level 68
Mar 24, 2025
Here'e the long overdue answers!

1. Jonathan weights meat. He's an assistant at a butcher's shop.

2. A shadow

3. A wedding ring

4. Death

5. In a prison, you can complete a book but still have time to serve on your sentence.

6. She's playing baseball (or softball)

7. There were parachutes in the packs. The one whose pack is closed is dead, because the chute didn't come out.

8. It's a well. Climb up the rope and escape

9. Have one pregnant horse

10. The five fingers

11. Gary is playing Monopoly

12. It's a plane cabin, crashed in the forest and mangled to a horrific extent

13. Her mother

14. The horizon

15. None, it's a hole

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Level 65
Oct 25, 2024
4 is death

6 she turned left thrice, running in a quadrilateral, eventually returning home, though not facing the original direction she faced in

13 is edna’s daughter

14 is horizon

15 there is no dirt because its a hole

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Level 68
Oct 25, 2024
For #6, you very accurately described what she did. But you failed to answer: why?
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Level 65
Oct 26, 2024
if same distance, then she ran in a square, returning to her original destination
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Level 68
Oct 26, 2024
Again: Why?
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Level 65
Oct 26, 2024
she changed her mind? i genuinely have no clue
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Level 71
Jul 16, 2025
The running from home doesn't necessarily have to be negative. Maybe she was jogging.
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Level 75
Oct 25, 2024
5 When it says The End

8 Wait for the rain

9 Put extra horse in the carriage

10 Is the fingers from left to right on the right hand

12 They are murderers

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Level 68
Oct 25, 2024
#5, "The End" is actually a sentence. Sorry.

#9, each carrier is only wide/long enough for a single horse

#10, no, they aren't.

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Level 75
Oct 25, 2024
Sentences needs verbs
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Level 68
Oct 25, 2024
ohmygosh you're right. Thanks for correcting me
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Level 68
Mar 24, 2025
I said #10 meaning #12, btw
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Level 61
Oct 25, 2024
1 is animal meat?

2 is a blue sky?

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Level 68
Oct 25, 2024
#2 not quite. The sky is not stuck down low
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Level 61
Oct 25, 2024
4: Death

5: In prison

6: She ran in a square shape

14: The horizon

15: There's no dirt. It's a hole for gods sake

10: Feelings maybe?

11: Gary owns the hotel?

13: Her granddaughter?

Love these riddles

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Level 68
Oct 25, 2024
#10 more tangible than that.

#11 this still doesn't explain what happened here.

#13 are you sure?

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Level 87
Oct 25, 2024
To hit the ones nobody else already mentioned:

7: 2 skydivers, one who never opened his parachute.

11: Gary's playing monopoly.

12: It's a crashed airplane cabin.

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Level 68
Oct 25, 2024
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Level 63
Oct 25, 2024
1. meat

2. the sole of a winged shoe

3. computer

4. death

5. by giving up

6. she's jogging around the block

7. skydiving

8. the water is all the way to the top too

9. one pulls em

10. human

11.car insurance

12. its burned to ground and they see skeltons

13. edna's son in law

14. horizon

15. none

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Level 68
Oct 25, 2024
#2 Well I don't really know what to say here.. care to explain a little more?

#8 No, there is water only at the bottom.

#11 This could be a good explanation, but it doesn't really cover all aspects. For instance, why is Gary pushing his car?

#12 Its not really a cabin anymore if its burned to the ground, is it?

#13 Try harder

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Level 63
Feb 14, 2025
insurance fraud
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Level 63
Feb 14, 2025
also whats wrong w s-in-law
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Level 55
Oct 25, 2024
#6 Jessica is playing softball
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Level 65
Oct 26, 2024
ok i should have known
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Level 63
Feb 14, 2025
sequel
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Level 68
Feb 14, 2025
coming
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Level 63
Feb 14, 2025
8 is use the rope of the bucket (its a well