{"id":4456,"date":"2019-02-28T02:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T07:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2019-02-28T02:33:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T07:33:44","slug":"malaika-riddle-me-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2019\/02\/28\/malaika-riddle-me-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaika: Riddle Me This"},"content":{"rendered":"

Be honest, how many times have you been stuck in a car playing the alphabet game with your family or friends? <\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, it\u2019s fun the first few rounds, but once you pass \u201cm,\u201d the game becomes a vicious race to the finish line. Who saw what word first? Who\u2019s going to call out the cheater? What do you do when everyone gets pouty over losing?<\/span><\/p>\n

See, the alphabet game was my favorite as a kid. Long car rides became a vocabulary \u201cI spy\u201d competition (my apologies to those who left their glasses back at home), but over time the game started to lose its appeal. That\u2019s when my mom decided to bring out her riddle book: <\/span><\/p>\n

Grandma likes cookies, but she doesn\u2019t like milk. She likes puppies, but she doesn\u2019t like dogs. She likes kittens, but she doesn\u2019t like cats. What does Grandma like?<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

Riddles stump us. They challenge us. They make us giddy when we finally figure out the answer. I thought I would leave my riddles behind when I left for college, but the truth is riddles have been my best ice-breaker since arriving at Boston University. Whenever I\u2019m sitting in a group of strangers or waiting with my friends, I bust out a riddle. <\/span><\/p>\n

Jack and Judy were lying on the floor dead. There was a puddle of water and broken glass on the floor. How did they die?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year, my New Year\u2019s resolution is to challenge myself intellectually; I want to sharpen my brain in a new and exciting way. As you can probably guess, I do so by figuring out the answer to a riddle everyday. Do I always guess correctly? No, but I have a ton of fun trying. <\/span><\/p>\n

I wanted to share this because riddles are often overlooked. Don\u2019t underestimate the power of a good brain-teaser. It\u2019s the crowd pleaser that keeps on giving. Here\u2019s a little riddle relevant to BU. See if you can figure it out; the answers to all three are below. No peeking!<\/span><\/p>\n

BToEsRtRoInE!R<\/strong><\/p>\n

Happy riddling, <\/span><\/p>\n

CA Malaika<\/span><\/p>\n

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(from top to bottom) Grandma likes things with double letters, Jack and Judy were goldfish; they dies because their bowl broke, Terrier in Boston!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Be honest, how many times have you been stuck in a car playing the alphabet game with your family or friends? Sure, it\u2019s fun the first few rounds, but once you pass \u201cm,\u201d the game becomes a vicious race to the finish line. Who saw what word first? Who\u2019s going to call out the cheater? … Continue reading Malaika: Riddle Me This<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44476],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}