Warm Up with Riddles

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Warm Up with Riddles
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Each puzzle box below portrays a common word or
phrase.
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Can you see evil in the good?
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What two words do you see?
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What words do you see?
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Finish the statement

• It is always darkest before ...
• Never underestimate the power of ...
• You have nothing to fear but ...
• If you can't stand the heat ...

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What happened?

• Trouble with Sons A woman had two sons who were
  born on the same hour of the same day of the same
  year. But they were not twins. How could this be
  so?

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Do you Know..

• Do they have a 4th of July in England?
• How many birthdays does the average man have?
• Some months have 31 days how many have 28?
• If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how
  many do you have?

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Duck or bunny?
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How Many Legs?
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Man or Woman?
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Create a Diagram to Solve

• Question Laura has 3 green chips, 4 blue chips
  and 1 red chip in her bag. What fractional part
  of the bag of chips is green?

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Create a Diagram to Solve

• Question You save 3 on Monday. Each day after
  that you save twice as much as you saved the day
  before. If this pattern continues, how much would
  you save on Friday?

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Create a Diagram to Solve

• Question Sam put 18 pencils in 3 equal groups.
  How many pencils are in each group?

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Create a Diagram to Solve

• Divide the face of the clock into three parts
  with two lines so that the sum of the numbers in
  the three parts are equal.

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Create a Diagram to Solve

• If Jane is older than Kim, Kim is older than
  Shawn. Shawn is younger than Jane and Rachel is
  older than Jane List the people from oldest to
  youngest.

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Create a Diagram to Solve

• There are 12 people in a room. 6 people are
  wearing socks and 4 people are wearing shoes, 3
  people are wearing both. How many people are in
  bare feet?

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Solve the Riddles

• When is a door not a door?
• When it's ajar.
• What's brown and sounds like a bell?
• Dung.

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Solve the Riddles

• What gets wetter the more it dries?
• Towel
• Why is six afraid of seven?
• Because seven eight (ate) nine.

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Solve the Riddle

• I am greater than God, and more evil than the
  devil. Poor people have me. Rich people want me.
  And if you eat me, you'll die. What am I?

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Solve the Riddle

• Can you rearrange the letters of new door to
  make one word?

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Create a Diagram to Solve

• You have 9 dots arranged like a rectangle
• . . .
• . . .
• . . .
• Without lifting your pen, draw four lines that
  cross all 9 dots.

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Solve the Riddle

• Use the homophones "to", "too", and "two" in one
  question.

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Solve the Riddle

• What goes in the blank?
• _ T T F F
• S S E N T
• E T T F F
• S S E N T
• Hint it's not 'E'

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Solve the Riddle

• How many letters does the correct answer to this
  puzzle contain?

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• Speaker "Brothers and Sisters, I have none. But
  this man's Father is my Father's son."
• Who is the speaker talking about?