RIDDLES

What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?

• The word is starting! starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I.

• STARTLING, starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I.

• BOTH

• Cup

• Kitchen strainer

• Nothing

• The big person is the small person's mother.

• A small person is big person's father

_{(one word question)}

one word question

The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

• A COIN

• A PLATE

• A COFFIN

With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?

• STAPLER

• KINFE

What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?

• DAY

• NIGHT

• BOTH

• NONE OF THE ABOVE

A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting?

A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?