Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
A man and a dog were going down the street. The man rode, yet walked. What was the dog’s name?
I have an eye but still cannot see. Who am I?
What you cannot hold but it is yours?
I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?
Twice ten are six of us, Six are but three of us, Nine are but four of us; What can we possibly be? Would you know more of us? Twelve are but six of us, Five are but four, do you see? What are we?
How many letters are in the alphabet?
I know a nine-letter word having only one vowel. Do you ?
Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I am double, I am single, I am black blue and grey, I am read from both ends, And the same either way.
I am under you when I am whole. I shift above you if you remove the first letter. I come all around you if you remove the second as well. Can you tell me who I am?
The word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
