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Here you find a collection of alphabet-related puzzles,
riddles and rhymes. Have fun...


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AEFHIKLMNTVWXYZ
BCDGJOPQRSU
Can you tell why the letters arearranged is this way?
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I am at the beginning of time,
I complete the coming of night;
I occur twice in eternity,
And I am always within sight.

What am I?
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          A
        B C
      D E F
    G H  I  J
  K M N O P
Q R S  T  U V
       W X
        Y Z


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What is the property shared by the twelve letters:
A D E I L N O R S U Y Z, and no other?
I woñder how long it will take before I see, at last, an answer to this!

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A word I know,
Six letters it contains,
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains.
What word am I?

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I am a five-letter word.
Take away my first letter, my name sounds the same.
Take away my last letter, my name remains the same.
Take away my middle letter, I still sound the same.
What word am I?
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If to half a dozen you add six and five hundred, the result is clear, lucid and glowing?
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1. Can you decode the following 5 words, and explain?
2. What is the longest word you can decode that way?

I O Z W
E H U W
U I H Z
H Z U I
U I O H U W
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What letter comes on the question mark?


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Adam had none. Eve had two. Everyone nowadays has three. What?
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What occurs once in every two minutes, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
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What special property do the following letters of the alphabet have?

j,k,m,q,u,x,z
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Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor dog a bone.
When she got there,
The cupboard was bare
and so Old Mother Hubbard cried out, "OICURMT!"

What might that strange exclamation mean?
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A young man wakes up on the side of a desert road with a nasty bruise on his temple. He has no car, no possessions, and no clothes to his name. In fact, he can't even remember his name, since the blow to his head left him with amnesia. Desperately, he looks around in search of a clue that might tell him who he is. That's when he notices a tattoo on his left arm. There are three short rows of letters:
Eb - Ob
wsn
SWISS


Who is the young man and what does the tattoo mean?
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Of what three letters of the alphabet are burglars are most afraid of?
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Railroad crossing,
Look out for the cars!
Can you spell that,
Without any "R"s?

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    i   j
  d   g   c
f   j   c   n

Which letter completes the pyramid?
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'Twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell,
And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell.
On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest,
And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed.
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Its beginning is that of loneliness
Its end of that of strife
But the truth inside is one of a dove
and it brings joy to all life.

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Here's a little exercise. Match each item in list A with the appropriate item from list B. The first one is given as an example.

List A:
1.
Blind hogs   = pgpg = pigs without eyes
2. 23456789jkq
3. A place to eat, but no afternoon snack
4. Arid, landlocked nation
5. Christmas pageant
6. Difficult profession
7. Disturbed fruit
8. Fool
9. Solo
10. Unpollinated flowers
List B:
pgpg
able
ale
carr
crds
det
gu
loomloom
ountry
pay

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If some LETTER of the alphabet was a CURSOR, and this cursor was a famous person, who would it be?
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Can you find a six letter word that when typed on a Qwerty-keyboard makes another word when all letters are shifted one to the right ?
Example: toys - L-shift = Rita
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Look at the top row of letters on your keyboard from Q to P. There are 10 letters in this order: Q,W,E,R,T,Y,U,I,O, and P. Can you tell me a 10-letter word you can type using just the top row of letters? Letters can be used twice. What is the longest you can make?
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I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications' incomprehensibleness.

What's so peculiar about this sentence?
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