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title: z.string(),
meta_title: z.string().optional(),
description: z.string().optional(),
date: z.date().optional(),
author: z.string().default("Reed Nelson"),
draft: z.boolean().optional(),
}),
});
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---
title: Action Riddles
meta_title: Action Riddles
description: These riddles are given by example. The solver has succeeded when discover the trick and can give examples as well as the riddler.
draft: false
---

These riddles are given by example. The solver has succeeded when discover the trick and can give examples as well as the riddler.

## Contents

- [Green Glass Door](#green-glass-door)
- [Good Line/Bad Line](#good-linebad-line)
- [Magic Moon](#magic-moon)
- [Egyptian Counting](#egyptian-counting)
- [Black Magic](#black-magic)

## Green Glass Door

Ex. "There are trees behind the green glass door, but no leaves"

The riddle is to correctly identify what is and what is not behind the green glass door.

<details>
<summary>Solution</summary>
The only things behind the green glass door have pairs of letters in the word.
</details>

## Good Line/Bad Line

Ex. "Okay, from ____ to ____ is a good line." and "From ____ to ____ is a bad line."

The riddle is to be able to correctly identify good and bad lines.

<details>
<summary>Solution</summary>
The line between two objects is only a good line if the word "okay" is said before the declaration of whether it's a good or bad line.
</details>

## Magic Moon

This is a visual Riddle.

<details>
<summary>Solution</summary>
The 'riddler' begins with a stick in the right hand declaring in some way that they're about to describe their magic moon, and uses the stick it as a brush to draw out whatever they describe in the air, then brings the stick to their left hand, drawing another object, and finishes with the phrase "That's my magic moon."
</details>

## Egyptian Counting

This is a visual riddle.

<details>
<summary>Solution</summary>
Make a little figure on the table with whatever’s available (phone, keys, etc.) and ask what number that figure represents. However many fingers you have on the table is the answer.
</details>

## Black Magic

Two people, A and B, need to know black magic. B leaves the room. A, in collaboration with the "audience", chooses an object in the room. B is called back in, where they will now attempt to guess the object chosen by A and the others. A then points out specific objects to be B, asking if that is the chosen one. After a few inquiries, A will ask about the chosen object, and for the first time, B will answer in the affirmative.

Example:<br>
A: "Is it the desk?"<br>
B: "No."<br>
A: "Is it the blackboard?"<br>
B: "No."<br>
A: "Is it the stapler?"<br>
B: "Yes."

<details>
<summary>Solution</summary>
The object before the chosen object must be black.
</details>
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---
title: Low Grade Riddles
meta_title: Low Grade Riddles
description: It's Low Grade Riddles.
date: 2023-09-01T05:00:00Z
author: Reed Nelson
draft: true
description: These riddles are stupid. These riddles give riddles everywhere a bad name. When someone offers you a riddle, and then gives you these, you are disappointed.
draft: false
---

<details>
<summary>Table of Contents</summary>
## Contents

- [Desert Canoe](#desert-canoe)
- [Barn Roof](#barn-roof)
- [Stop and Go](#stop-and-go)
- [Mary's Shower](#marys-shower)
- [Barn Roof](#barn-roof)
- [Hunger in the Arctic](#hunger-in-the-arctic)
- [Corn](#corn)
- [The Overtold Funeral Riddle](#the-overtold-funeral-riddle)
- [Desert Canoe](#desert-canoe)

## Stop and Go

When does green mean stop and red mean go?

<details>
<summary>Solution</summary>
A watermelon.
</details>

## Desert Canoe
## Mary's Shower

Two people are canoeing through the desert. One says "wears the paddle", and the other replies, "sure does." How does this make sense?
Mary gets in the shower, but surprisingly her hair is not wet when she gets out. How is this possible?

<details>
<summary>Solution</summary>
If you read this, the riddle should be how this is a riddle.
She didn't turn the water on.
</details>

## Barn Roof
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Rethink your life.
</details>

## Stop and Go
## Hunger in the Arctic

When does green mean stop and red mean go?
No matter how terrible things get for the people of the Arctic, they will not eat a penguin. Why?

<details>
<summary>Solution</summary>
A watermelon.
Penguins live in Antarctica.
</details>

## Mary's Shower
## Corn

Mary gets in the shower, but surprisingly her hair is not wet when she gets out. How is this possible?
The riddle goes something like "you throw away the outside, then eat the inside, then throw away..." I don't know.

<details>
<summary>Solution</summary>
She didn't turn the water on.
It's corn.
</details>

## Hunger in the Arctic
## The Overtold Funeral Riddle

No matter how terrible things get for the people of the Arctic, they will not eat a penguin.
A young woman is attending her mother's funeral. While there, she meets a man she has never seen before and falls in love immediately. After the funeral she tries to find him but cannot. Several days later she kills her sister. Why does she kill her sister?

<details>
<summary>Solution</summary>
Penguins live in Antarctica.
She killed her sister in hopes that the man would be at the funeral.
</details>

## Desert Canoe

*Warning: This riddle is actually incredibly high-tier. For best results, do not read on and instead ask Reed to tell you the canoe riddle.*

<details>
<summary>Riddle</summary>
Two people are canoeing through the desert. One says "wears the paddle", and the other replies, "sure does." How does this make sense?
</details>

<details>
<summary>Solution</summary>
If you read this, the riddle should be how this is a riddle.
</details>
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