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Riddle: Math Time: How Can The Number Four Be Half of Five?

This document contains 3 riddles with their answers. The first riddle asks how the number four can be half of five. The answer is that the Roman numeral IV, which represents four, has half as many letters as the word "five". The second riddle is about something with keys but no locks or rooms, where you can enter but not leave. The answer is a keyboard. The third riddle asks what gets wet while drying. The answer, which most people don't think of, is a towel.

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Riddle: Math Time: How Can The Number Four Be Half of Five?

This document contains 3 riddles with their answers. The first riddle asks how the number four can be half of five. The answer is that the Roman numeral IV, which represents four, has half as many letters as the word "five". The second riddle is about something with keys but no locks or rooms, where you can enter but not leave. The answer is a keyboard. The third riddle asks what gets wet while drying. The answer, which most people don't think of, is a towel.

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Riddle: Math time

How can the number four be half of five?


You might start doing some elaborate fractions but hard
riddles like this are sometimes much more about word play
than crunching the numbers. Think literally and the answer
may just appear right before your eyes.
Answer: IV, the Roman numeral for four, which is “half” (two
letters) of the word five. 

Riddle: Find the key


I have keys, but no locks and space, and no rooms. You can
enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?
This one tricks you by having you think about space that can
be entered. Then it gets you to merge that with a space
without rooms where you can’t leave. You might even be
hung up on those keys. That’s where you should linger. Think
about that word. What are some other meanings of “keys”—
especially that don’t require locks?
Answer: A keyboard

Riddle: Beachy keen


What gets wet while drying?
This one has a simple answer even though it stumps most
people who try to figure it out. Wet and dry seem like they
always have to be opposite, so you might get tripped up.
Think of an object that can, ahem (hint!) absorb or be both.
Answer: A towel.

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