Brain Teasers / Riddles etc

Are you ready to put the ol’ brains to work again?

You don’t know me yet, but you always miss me when I’m gone. What am I?

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Brain is ticking over.

So, something / someone we’ve not met yet but we’ll miss when no longer there.

My first thought is that it isn’t a someone more a thing. I’m wondering if it may be tomorrow. Haven’t got there yet but once tomorrow has gone we could look back and miss it.

I’m off to think some more.

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I’m enjoying watching your brain tick. You’re on a good path. :grinning_face:

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So, it seems I am warm but not hot yet. :blush: So my previous guess might suggest that it is something to do with time. But what? Perhaps it is the weekend. I always look forward to the weekend and definitely miss it when it is gone. And Bank Holiday weekends I miss even more. Yes, I think I am going to say the weekend. Am I any hotter??

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I have a feeling I know what this is. It might even be a who.
Because I don’t know you, you are from the future.
Because I will always miss you when you are gone - that is a fairly strong assertion you make.

So what or would I miss when it/they have gone and are yet to come into my life.
This has happened to me a few times and the answer is simple.

You are a friend - I have not met you yet but when you come into my life some time into the future, you will be my friend. At this point I should clarify this would have to be a true friend or a life friendship not a transient one. As such you will make an impact on my life and hence when you are gone which you will do so for one reason or another, I will miss you, though you will still be in my heart :slight_smile:

Another way to out this, is to say would be to reflect on this when it has past and say
“An angel flew into my life, and then flew out again!”

My answer (it is final) is you are my future friend/angel, come to enrich my life and then go away leaving me with wonder filled memories of times gone by. These friends are said to come into your life for a season, reason or a lifetime.

:pray:

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I love being able to partake of the creative meanderings of both your thoughts! Truly. Thank you for it. I love the idea of future angel/friend and also of “weekend”, which we always miss when its gone.(but is not the exact answer) Mrs5K , I’m going to say you’ve circled around so close to the answer that I must give the win to you, since you said that "it is something to do with time.. In fact, the answer is “time”.

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I’m loving these answers too and recall going down similar pathways myself to work it out many moons ago. So I won’t give it away but @ManjiB did touch on it in his text :sweat_smile:

Lorraine

Awwwww I over thought it a little :grin: got too carried away. That’s me neverbknow when to stop waffling :face_with_hand_over_mouth::face_with_hand_over_mouth::face_with_hand_over_mouth:

@ManjiB i like the idea of your angel / friend too.

I’m everywhere and a part of everyone. I am at the end of space and time and existence itself. What am I? :slightly_smiling_face:

Uh oh…here’s another one. Brain has been whirring all day.

So, something that is everywhere and with everyone. :thinking::thinking::thinking: initially i thoughtbit might be something like oxygen or air. That could even have fitted the space piece byt I couldn’t make it fit with time. So I got thinking again.

So, I thought about “,The end of space & time” and was out there in the atmosphere again. Then I had a light bulb :light_bulb: moment and looked at it from a different perspective. The end of space & time could be the ladt letter of the words maybe. Letter E? The letter E is also in everywhere, everyone & existence.

Is my lightbulb glowing bright or is the dimmer switch working too well ?

My answer is:

You arE ExactlEE right! It always helps to look at things from another perspective, doesn’t it? I think that is the key to your consistent success–that ability. It helps in all of life. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Well done Ann - I agree with Jeanne, you do have a happy knack (nearly said Happy Jack) for solving these puzzles :slight_smile:

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OOOOOOOOOOKay.
Because these are soooooooooooooooo easy, let’s try this one.

What (or it could be which or who, I don’t know for sure, but lettuce stick with what!) is the next letter in this sequence?

SENTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

It is suggested that if you get this you belong in the 1% clup!

So I am thinking that there are 20 Ts there (if I counted right - I ran out of fingers😁) which must represent something. So i am away to try and think what that might be.

And not forgetting the SEN too.

I did wonder if it was 7, 8, 9, 10 but tyen the second T would need to be an E. I’ll be back.

:thinking::thinking::thinking::thinking::thinking::thinking::thinking::thinking::thinking:

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Yes, I rather think we’ll have to try harder to really challenge you. Clearly these are waaaaaaaaaaaay too easy :slight_smile:

Ann–You are way beyond me in these puzzles. All I got to was that I should ignore all the T’s as they were probably just a distraction. I thought the answer was U, since it comes after T. Duh :zany_face:

I think years of doing puzzles has probably helped me. I recently had a book of puzzles with those sorts of sequences in so guess some of the technique stuck with me. Cheating a bit :grin::grin:

Still-- I am impressed. :star_struck: Here’s another one.

I have a neck, but no head. I have two arms, but no hands. What am I?

I think it is probably an inanimate object. So thought maybe someething like a bottle which has a neck but no head. And some bottles also have handles (arms?)

But I wasn’t convinced by that so thought maybe a chair / sofa that has arms but no hands. But would the chair back be classed as a neck. I don’t think I have ever heard it called that. So I thought i’d mull it over some more.. :thinking::thinking::thinking::thinking::thinking:

Then just before bed last night I was reading my book & there was a line that said "put something inside the neck of his shirt.’ It suddenly came to me that a shirt has arms too. So I’m thinking that might be the answer :grin::grin:

So, if shirt is the answer I would like to thank Rebecca Shaw for the answer & what a coincidence that would be.

Shirt. Final answer :grinning_face:

Ann, you can go ahead and thank Rebecca Shaw, but I think your smart brains had a little to do with guessing the right answer. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: