Q: Mermaid
PAX: Squatter, Skidmark, Crawlspace, slappy, Eliza, Waxjob, Stitch, Flower Pot, Mermaid
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
F3 Riddle Me This Workout 4/28/2025
Warmup, I will read a riddle and you will do the exercise until you get it right… If you get it wrong, then you do 10 burpees.
SSH
“What has to be broken before you can use it?”
A) A promise
B) An egg
C) A seal
D) A stick
:point_right: Answer: B) An egg
Mountain Climbers
“I’m not alive, but I grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?”
A) Fire
B) Shadow
C) Cloud
D) Time
:point_right: Answer: A) Fire
Plank Jacks
“What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?”
A) A lawn mower
B) A hose
C) A fence
D) A dog
:point_right: Answer: C) A fence
Run Around the Circle
“What has many teeth but can’t bite?”
A) A zipper
B) A comb
C) A saw
D) A rake
:point_right: Answer: B) A comb
Cherry Pickers
“I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. Who am I?”
A) A barber
B) A magician
C) A soldier
D) A photo
:point_right: Answer: A) A barber
Tempo Merkins
“What is full of holes but still holds water?”
A) A basket
B) A sponge
C) A strainer
D) A towel
:point_right: Answer: B) A sponge
Tempo Squats
“Which word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?”
A) Incorrectly
B) Dictionary
C) Misspelled
D) Confused
:point_right: Answer: A) Incorrectly
Stretch what you need
“What kind of coat is best put on wet?”
A) A raincoat
B) A trench coat
C) A coat of paint
D) A fur coat
:point_right: Answer: C) A coat of paint
Workout – mosey around campus and find riddles. Solve them to do the exercise listed, miss and add a penalty. We did one exercise for each riddle, and some were quick and we did a minimum # and others went for quite a while. We only missed 2 of these and did 10 burpees for each miss.
:mag: Classic Brain Teasers
1. “The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?”
2. :point_right: Answer: Footsteps
3. “What has hands but can’t clap?”
4. :point_right: Answer: A clock
5. “I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?”
6. :point_right: Answer: A candle
7. “What gets wetter the more it dries?”
8. :point_right: Answer: A towel
9. “What can travel around the world while staying in the same corner?”
10. :point_right: Answer: A stamp
:brain: Logic-Based Riddles
1. “You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?”
2. :point_right: Answer: The letter ‘e’
3. “What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?”
4. :point_right: Answer: The letter ‘m’
5. “If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?”
6. :point_right: Answer: A secret
7. “Forward I am heavy, but backward I’m not. What am I?”
8. :point_right: Answer: The word ‘ton’
9. “The more you take out of me, the bigger I get. What am I?”
10. :point_right: Answer: A hole
:brain: More Riddles (Medium Difficulty)
1. “What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do?”
2. :point_right: Answer: Your name
3. “What has one eye but can’t see?”
4. :point_right: Answer: A needle
5. “What comes down but never goes up?”
6. :point_right: Answer: Rain
7. “What has a neck but no head?”
8. :point_right: Answer: A bottle
9. “I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but not go outside. What am I?”
10. :point_right: Answer: A keyboard
11. “What can fill a room but takes up no space?”
12. :point_right: Answer: Light
13. “I’m always in front of you but can’t be seen. What am I?”
14. :point_right: Answer: The future
15. “The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. The person who uses it never knows they’re using it. What is it?”
16. :point_right: Answer: A coffin
17. “What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?”
18. :point_right: Answer: Short
19. “What has a head, a tail, but no body?”
20. :point_right: Answer: A coin
Our circle of trust came from the Q Source, 3.11 Contentment. We differentiated between joy and happiness. Happiness being an emotion derived from an activity, whereas joy is a state of being derived from duress and the ability to maintain a steadiness through hard things. Joy is a disposition, not an emotion. I will include screenshots of all of 3.11 of the Q Source because it is a great chapter, but I wanted to share this small piece this morning. Someone filled with joy realizes they can’t control everything, so they are prepared. That preparation leads to a man who plays a game, and win or lose, he has mindset, he may be happy, but he is looking ahead and he knows how to handle himself because of his preparation. Some one who pursues happiness is unprepared for hard things, and wants to control the game so they can control that outcome. A less favorable outcome will yield an emotional state from a position of being unprepared. If you can’t derive happiness from an activity, you can become sad, or angry at things beyond your control. This is my paraphrase, and the Q source says it much better.
The point of the workout today was to create mild chaos, to think while we put the body under a light amount of stress to push us so that we can work toward joy. If we get up and do hard things to prepare our minds and our bodies, when we encounter hard things, we will face them with joy.
