Riddle Contest — July 6 – July 12
Hey everyone! Posted below are the 5 riddles for this week. Read through them and try to guess what they are. Whoever makes the closest guess for all 5 riddles will win a prize and winners will be announced next Friday.
1. A creature that is born first and gets its legs later.
2. Who is it that rows quickly with four oars but never comes out from under his own roof?
3. What is red and blue
And purple and green?
No one can reach it,
Not even the queen.
4. I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to get
out I must break through the wall.
5. It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it?
Let's see what kinds of answers you can come up with this week. Good luck!
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32 thoughts on “Riddle Contest — July 6 – July 12”
1. A frog
2. A turtle
3. A rainbow
4. A chick breaking out of an egg
5. The moon
1.Newts
2. A platypus in an indoor pool
3. The Andromeda Galaxy
4. The toy inside a Kinder Egg
5. The moon
1. Frog
2. Turtle
3. Rainbow
4. Chicks coming out of the egg shell
5. The Moon
1. Frog
2. Turtle
3. Rainbow
4. Hatching
5. The moon
1. A frog
2. A turtle
3. A rainbow
4. A chicken in an egg
5. The moon
1. A frog
2. A turtle
3. A rainbow
4. A chick breaking out of an egg
5. The moon
1) A FROG- its born without legs but has them later
2) A TURTLE- never comes out its shell
3) A RAINBOW- has all those colours noone can reach it
4) A CHICKEN (IN AN EGG)- HAS TO BREAK THE EGG TO COME OUT
5) THE MOON- their is a “NEW MOON” every month
Oh Alexandra L… So original on all but the last. Bacteria! Billions of years old, but each time they split, they’re only two newborns.
Shame on all of you that went with the preschool answers. (I’m kidding)
1. frog
2. turtle
3. rainbow
4. a baby chick
5. the moon (clever… very clever)
1. Somebody not concerned with details.
2. Somebody who does not understand that rowing is usually done in water.
3. My imagination.
4. I believe this is a reference to “the sound of silence” by Simon and Garfunkel.
5. The moon (this was the only one I could get).
1. A frog/ tadpole
2.turtle
3.A rainbow
4.a egg with something alive inside it
5.moon
1. A frog
2. A turtle
3. A rainbow
4. A caterpillar undergoing metamorphosis
5. The moon
1.A tadpole/frog
2.A turtle
3.A rainbow
4.A chick coming out of its egg
5.The Moon
1.frog
2.turtle
3.rainbow ( you can’t reach it because its too high but also no one can reach the END of a rainbow , except maybe a leprechaun )
4. any kind of BIRD, while its still in the egg ( or any animal that is born from an egg , but probably a bird.)
5.moon
1. A frog
2. A turtle
3. A rainbow
4. A chick breaking through its egg.
5. The moon
1. A frog.
2. A turtle.
3. A rainbow.
4. A bird in an egg.
5. The moon.
Durkka.K said…
1. Frog
2. Turtle
3. Rainbow
4. An animal or baby inside egg
5. The moon
1. Frog
2. Turtle
3. Rainbow
4. Chick hatching an egg
5. the moon
1. a butterfly, because its metaphorical legs are its wings and although its born it doesn’t get its ‘legs’ till later
2. A skateboard, the board part being the roof
3. an imaginary rainbow colored- rose, because its imaginary no one can reach it
4.platypus in an egg
5..a one month baby, theres always been month old babies and because of their title once their more than a month their not month old anymore but there are still other month old babies 🙂
1. Frog
2. Turtle
3. Rainbow
4. A chick coming out of its egg
5. The moon
Anika
1: frog
2: turtle
3: rainbow
4: a chick hatching
5: the moon
1. A frog
2. A turtle
3. A rainbow
4. A baby chick in its shell
5. The moon
1. Frog
2. Turtle
3. Rainbow
4. Chick breaking out of an egg
5. The moon
1. A Frog
2. A Turtle
3. A Rainbow
4. A Chick Inside An Egg
5. The Moon
1. Frog
2. Turtle
3. Rainbow
4. Baby chick coming out of its egg
5. Moon
1. Frog
2. A Turtle
3. A majestic rainbow
4. a chick inside an egg that is yet to be hatched
5. Moon
* Frog/amphibian
* Turtle
* Rainbow!!!
* Chick inside egg
* Moon
1. Frog/tadpole
2. A sea turtle
3. Rainbows
4. Any animal that is hatched from an egg
5. The moon
1.A Frog
2. A turtle
3.A rainbow
4.A chick in an egg
5.The moon
Congratulations to this week’s winner and thanks to everyone for all of your answers this week! It was lots of fun reading through them all. The answers I was looking for were the following:
1. A frog
2. A turtle
3. A rainbow
4. A chicken in an egg
5. The moon
Check tomorrow for next week’s riddles!
Was it a draw? Congratulations to the winner!! 😀
who won?
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