Seven
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
There are seven parts to this riddle,
Each is part of a greater whole.
You see most of these,
Everyday as you please:
First is what I did to a book yesterday,
Second mixes with apples.
Third is a shout, then "ouch" you say,
Fourth shares the sound of mean.
Fifth is what the wind had done,
The sixth is often skipped.
The last and final can be called by two names,
If roses are this, then which is the blue one?
Answer
The 7 Colors of the Rainbow
Red: read a book
Orange: apples and oranges
Yellow: Yell and Ow
Green: Rhymes with "Mean"
Blue: The wind "blew"
Indigo is often skipped
Violet: Roses are red, Violets are blue.
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zonahobo   
Jun 12, 2005
|  We don't get to see these often enough in the desert .. but when we do, it's a great sight .. sometimes double! Thanks for the colorful riddle! |
rashad 
Jun 12, 2005
| Very nice.
The title is a good hint though!  |
flipflopchica
Jun 12, 2005
| Good job! Very creative!! |
xmadnetx  
Jun 12, 2005
| Hehe...it was ok. I thoght it was hard. You should have given a hint. But its still cool  |
deadeye823
Jun 12, 2005
| Nice riddle! One of my faves! |
Javian
Jun 12, 2005
| Thanks for the great comments |
tennistripleXXX
Jun 12, 2005
| I agree with DeadEye823. I loved it. Ten out of Ten!!!!!!! |
onlyeeyore
Jun 13, 2005
| It was very good! (Although the "indigo is often skipped" reminded me of the "la, a note to follow sol" in the Do, a deer song!) |
bhssoccer23
Jun 13, 2005
| That was so cool! I got the first and last lines, but not the riddle as a whole! Awesome, KUTGW! |
trickyleprecaun
Jun 20, 2005
| nice one!!!!!!!!!!! |
madleon
Jul 13, 2005
| X-cellent |
gummbypal
Jul 13, 2005
| Ironic, i just used roy g biv in my last submitted teaser and you still got me. Colorfully clever. |
pleroux
Jul 13, 2005
| Very clever! I was completely bamboozled by it! |
secerlemak
Jul 13, 2005
| I think it was really clever of u. It wasnt easy and it wasnt hard. I liked it! |
Noor
Jul 13, 2005
| it was a tough one for me, i am new to this.
Great job |
poppyattex
Jul 13, 2005
| It was cool,but I do not understand Indigo is skipped. |
skimela
Jul 13, 2005
| i thought it was very easy, i got it after straight away from the clue for 'red' |
Ozymandias
Jul 13, 2005
| ABSOLUTELY SUPER!  |
lycanthrope
Jul 13, 2005
| Great riddle! I thought I had it, but I skipped Indigo! |
sambean
Jul 13, 2005
| i got all of them except indigo i couldn't think of which color is usually skipped. That was really cool |
SaturnCat08
Jul 13, 2005
| Good One!  |
Aarghonauts
Jul 13, 2005
| Good old Roy G. Biv!! (red, orange, yellow, etc). Took me a mo, but I got it!! Nice puzzle |
autumnparalegal
Jul 13, 2005
| hehehehe, that was so cute..i liked that one! Good job!!! |
libradawn
Jul 13, 2005
| I had no idea with this one!  |
redneck_woman
Jul 13, 2005
| A good one, but hard! Lost me on "indigo" and the last line "two names". Everyone else seems to love it, so thats  |
Javian
Jul 13, 2005
| Thanks, glad you all liked it. |
tjm531
Jul 13, 2005
| Great riddle! I got Red and Violet and started thinking of Clue! mostly because of the line "this is often skipped", which I thought was rope. good job! |
luckyseven
Jul 13, 2005
| good one I liked it. this is going to be the first ion my favorites list |
MTK_90
Jul 13, 2005
| GOOD ONES!!! |
lisha_kc
Jul 13, 2005
| uhm....didnt they already post this one???????????????????????  |
hotbeaverchick
Jul 13, 2005
| i liked. very creative
good one |
nightowl19
Jul 13, 2005
| That was pretty fun...keep up the good work! |
amn22492
Jul 13, 2005
| I knew this one right away, since I did a science fair project on the light spectrume. Nice job! |
wordsrcool
Jul 13, 2005
| Exellent riddle! I thought it was extreemely easy, but that's because I got it before I even started to read the part about the colors. It was still good though. |
summachick
Jul 13, 2005
| Good riddle but it sounds familiar |
poison_ivy
Jul 13, 2005
| Pretty good, but a little easier than some. Good job!
Rainbows are rare in Las Vegas, being in the desert, but they're pretty cool in Washington!
(I live winters in WA and summers in NV) |
jazzey
Jul 13, 2005
| good one.. however, i strongly think that pink should be added to the rainbow |
mengting2013
Jul 14, 2005
| I too think pink should be added to the seven colored rainbow. other people think there are more than seven colors. |
crybaby1234
Jul 16, 2005
| how do u answer teasers
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emily103
Sep 01, 2005
| for me it was really hard good one! it's one of my favorites. |
dodger
Oct 17, 2005
| grrrrrrreat.......i loved it,but didn't get indigo....i always remember the colors of the raimbow as being the first letters of "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" R,O,Y,G,B,I,V |
realm2346
Oct 31, 2005
| ROYGBIV...at first, I didn't get it...and then, when I knew the first and last answer, I got it...and indigo is one of my favorite colors. |
brainster
Mar 15, 2006
| Very well written! That was great fun! |
vlerma
Jul 13, 2006
| Javian, great teaser - you stumped me, but it was so simple once you see the answer. Really good job. More please? |
scallio
Jul 13, 2006
| Nice teaser! I've always thought rainbows had just six colors. Learned something new today. Couldn't figure how ROPE could be a color! (skip rope)
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HScott13
Jul 13, 2006
| Really easy, but nicely written. Must be a better clue for indigo, but I'm not going to critisize as I haven't actually come up with one. Not sure about the '2 names' bit. I was always taught ROY G BIV, and I was expecting to learn of another method which didn't end in V. |
bradon182001
Jul 13, 2006
| Nice teaser. I didn't get it, I was trying to read too much into it.Have to learn to take this kind of teaser at face value. Great job.  |
Pizzazz2u
Jul 13, 2006
| A very *Superb teaser*! Although I had the final answer, the clues leading to the answer were Quite Tough for this character Keep them coming |
OldChinaHand
Jul 13, 2006
| Like 'realm2346' above, I got 1 & 7 and simply coloured in the rest. Nice job. |
speedqueenkmw
Jul 13, 2006
| got the 1st & last line but that's all  think I'm making these harder than they are. Nice Job! |
starnz
Jul 13, 2006
| "ROY G. BIV" sure came in handy for this riddle! He makes it easy to remember the colors of the rainbow!! Cute Riddle. Thanks! |
starnz
Jul 13, 2006
| Just saw dodger's comment! We had the same idea!!! I never heard the sentence he used, but I've always know the person Roy G. Biv!!! |
kukuzyavochka
Jul 13, 2006
| This ones a good one...I guess. Pretty cool, not THAT tough, but, hey, it was pretty fun... |
danigi
Jul 13, 2006
| This was a good one. I only got three of the colors, but I'm new to this. But I enjoy racking my brain. |
Musikman212 
Jul 13, 2006
| I agree with a couple of the other comments. I've seen this riddle before somewhere. I knew the answer from the opening lines and I'm not that smart. |
kcheer2493
Jul 13, 2006
| that was clever and new! I tought that was wicked creative and really good |
Stuff1
Jul 13, 2006
| Very nice. All I got was the violet! |
kman613
Jul 13, 2006
| That was an AWESOME riddle. |
tonjawithaj
Jul 13, 2006
| Very funa nd very creative! |
bagogirl
Jul 13, 2006
| I liked it! Even though I didn't get it, it wasn't too easy yet it wasn't impossible! Very Good! |
tallyho_2022
Jul 13, 2006
| I got the riddle but, the second line about the apples should read - what apples don't mix with - cause the saying is If two things are different they are compareing apples to oranges. Also I guess the other name for violet is blueish purple. good teaser either way |
FeaerFactorY666
Jul 13, 2006
| I like this one! Very cute and clever! |
Nellem
Jul 13, 2006
| I didn't get it but it was a good one |
luv2sing101
Jul 13, 2006
| Good job! i liked it! |
coachpisco
Jul 13, 2006
| Liked it a lot |
bradnufsaid
Jul 13, 2006
| Boring and very very very easy to answer. You knew the answer on the first one, because you look for something that is part of a whole. |
tdbrsun
Jul 13, 2006
| I had fun doing this one. Thanks. Not really that easy unless you figured it was colors righ away. I didn't. |
jabdr
Jul 13, 2006
| Great teaser, Javian. Clever clues. |
SillyJilly
Jul 13, 2006
| That was great. I Almost checked the answer then gave it another thought. " the opne skipped along with Violets gave ti to me. as Elem teacher, we always include Indigo andthe kids always say What's Indigo?"
Great!! |
scr26
Jul 13, 2006
| the last is supposed 2 be purple not indigo and violet! DUH! |
doka13
Jul 13, 2006
| ROYGBIV... no indigo is second to last... they're right... very cute teaser, i liked it!! |
c_rae
Jul 13, 2006
| I thought it was great!
I had an idea it ahd to do with colors, but didn't have the patience to spend a little more time on it. |
cox_94
Jul 13, 2006
| tHAT WAS A gREAT teaser... 2 thumbs UP!!! |
utnative
Jul 14, 2006
| me again i got red yellow and blue
does that mean my mind is starting to work? very good teaser
 |
utnative
Jul 14, 2006
| me again i didn't
know what ROYGBIV meant, i guess i to the back of tha class again  |
Badger
Jul 14, 2006
| Clever format. Pretty easy if you're good pals with ROY. I'm sure it was difficult for the folks that never learned that memory device. Good one. Thanks! |
benjam
Jul 14, 2006
| Double thumbs up. A littlte too easy though... |
RRAMMOHAN
Aug 04, 2006
| 'Seven' immediately gave a clue about days of the week, a prism, and a rainbow. Got the first clue easily and the rest followed. Nice teaser and well thought of clues. Thanks. Would like to see more of these. |
drussel3
Oct 24, 2006
| I was thinking down a different track, senses: Sight, taste, touch, hear... Now I get it after looking at your answer. |
kingofda808
Nov 03, 2008
| chheee hooo i aucatlly got diz one...yeah it was preat easy...da vilot and blew and idk somother gave it up... |
patiencewithaP
Jul 13, 2009
| Very fun! Thanks for posting! |
auntiesis
Jul 13, 2009
| I really enjoyed this teaser. I got the color part, but I didn't put it together with a rainbow.
Very good teaser. |
tahomac
Jul 13, 2009
| excelent,i only missed the indigo one. |
UptheHill
Jul 13, 2009
| NICE!!! |
dalfamnest
Nov 30, 2009
| Good one - but I'm not sure about indigo ... what do you mean by "is often skipped"? Omitted? I've never heard of a rainbow with only six colours. Never mind, it was an enjoyable teaser. |
cutebug 
Jul 13, 2012
| GW-it was nice to see your comment yesterday. Where have you been? |
gaylewolf
Jul 13, 2012
| Some how I figured this one out!
CB, nice to hear from you! Check personal messages! Everyone have a great day!! |
tripleteam5
Jul 13, 2012
| puzzle was clever, BUT it needed a little more info as to what was expected...especially when you start with using READ when you want RED. Just my opinion  |
mejajones
Jul 13, 2012
| A nice, simple puzzle to end the week -- ahh! |
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