Rebus Revisited

Can you figure out the following rebus?

Salt: Good morning
Pepper: Hello

One Letter

A headless man had a letter to write;
It was read by a man who had lost his sight.
The dumb repeated it word for word;
And deaf was he who listened and heard.

Three Cards, All in a Row

Some quick and easy logic to start your short week off with:

Three playing cards in a row. Can you name them with these clues?
There is a two to the right of a king.
A diamond will be found to the left of a spade.
An ace is to the left of a heart.
A heart is to the left of a spade.
Now, identify all three cards.

April was born in April

April’s birthday is in April, which is in the fall. How is this possible?

Sheep Counting

1) Why are 2002 pennies worth more than twenty dollars?

2) Juanita's grandmother is only five years older than her mother. How is this possible?

3) Farmer Bob has four white sheep, three black sheep, and one brown sheep at her farm. How many sheep can say they are the same color as another sheep at the farm?



Just so you know, the third one is more of a joke than a riddle.

Radar

What does the D in R.A.D.A.R. stand for? If you're a true geek (and since I didn't know this until yesterday, I guess I'm not) you'll know what the entire acronym.

Despite Concerning the Past Within

I like indigo but not blue. I like onions but not turnips. I like forms but not shapes. According to the same rule, do I like tomatoes or avocados?

Same as Before

What 5 letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?

They grow up so fast!

In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995 that same person is 10 years old.
How is this possible?

A Question From Andrew

Andrew left this one after a previous post. He was kind enough to let me use it as a puzzle for today.

Andrew said...

Hey,

I have my own puzzle for you all.

What is special about the following words?

ADD
DUD
END
ITS

Two clues to help a bit:

1) This is not an exhaustive list...these words just all share this special trait

2) The length of the words is not important.

I'm sure Andrew will be back tomorrow to answer this one, because I can't!

An Eminent King

Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all figures, the first of all letters,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.

A Great Man ... or was it a Woman?

Name the word of three syllables, that when you take away five letters a male will remain. If you take away four letters, a female will remain. If you take away three lettters, a great man will appear. The entire word shows you what Joan of Arc was.

Prefix this?

What three letter word can prefix the following three words to make three new words?
Ache, Nest, and Drum.

Lets End the Week With Logic

Today is Sunday, and you know what that means, chores, chores, and more chores. Sally, Jamie, and Max were given some chores. Use the following clues to find out who did what, and how long it took them.

People: Sally, Jamie, and Max

Chores: Empty the trash cans, Clean the cat litter, and vacuum

Times: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, and 45 minutes

Clues:
1) Sally cleans the cat litter.
2) Jamie's chore doesn't take 30 minutes.
3) Max doesn't vacuum.
4) Sally's chore takes 45 minutes.

Instruments

Can you decipher the musical instruments represented below (rebus)?

1. P O

2. BA BA

3. ECLART

4. @ # $ %

The Sound of Silence

These scrambled words are each missing one of their letters. Add one letter to each and unscramble all four words in this familiar group.

1. syrlep
2. gas
3. semyrar
4. hmet

Five little items

There are two riddles today:

1) We're 5 little items of an everyday sort, you'll find us all in A Tennis Court.
What are we?


2) What animal can you spell using the letters: W-E-A-L-U?

Monday Morning Special

What's so special about the following sentence?

A big cuddly dog emitted fierce growls, happily ignoring joyful kids licking minute nuts on pretty queer rotten smelly toadstools underneath vampires who x-rayed young zombies.

I am not sure?

What's so peculiar about this sentence?

I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications' incomprehensibleness.

Jump, Jump!

A guy bet his neighbor $100 dollars that his dog could jump higher than a house. Thinking this not possible, the neighbor took the bet an lost.
Why did he lose the bet?

And no, we're not talking about a doll house or some other miniature house.

YYUR

Can you translate the following:

YYUR-YYUB-ICURYY4ME

The night the lights went out

Sean and Heather where sitting in their family room one night. While Sean was watching T.V his wife Heather was reading. All of a sudden the power went out and Sean decided to go to bed, but Heather kept on reading. With no use of artificial light, Heather kept on reading. How?