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What kind of room has no doors or windows?
A pun riddle that walks you through a house and then out into the woods. The “room” in question is not a room at all.
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Hint: It grows in the woods.
Reveal the answer
A mushroom
The word mushroom ends in “room”, but it is a fungus.
How to solve it (spoilers)
How to think about it
- Every room in a building has at least a doorway, so the riddle must be using “room” inside another word.
- Think of words that end in “room”: bathroom, ballroom, mushroom.
- Only one of those is not a space in a building.
- A mushroom grows in the woods and has neither doors nor windows.
Why “a mushroom” is the answer
The word “mushroom” ends in “room”, so a mushroom is a “kind of room” in the punning sense, and as a fungus it obviously has no doors or windows. The riddle works by splitting a word where it was never meant to be split. “Headroom” and “legroom” also lack doors, but they are not things you can point at.
Common wrong answers
- A closet. A closet has a door.
- A prison cell. Cells have doors, even if they are locked.
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