110+ Alphabet Riddles with Answers
This page gathers alphabet riddles that turn letters into puzzles about order, spelling, and typography. You will meet the running A to Z pun, a vocabulary trail that keeps returning to letters, and a strong run of answers that name alphabet tools, systems, and parts. Expect clues about alphabetical order, Morse code, dictionary headwords, keyboard keys, and the oddities of how letters look and behave.
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Three Alphabet riddles, answers included
- I am named from alpha plus beta, yet I am not a Greek lesson. I make every later letter take a number in line. What am I?
- Answer: alphabet
- What can be uppercase or lowercase, change a word by myself, and still refuse to have a favorite color?
- Answer: letter
- Who makes Z wait behind A without moving either word?
- Answer: alphabetical order
Alphabet Riddles
- I am named from alpha plus beta, yet I am not a Greek lesson. I make every later letter take a number in line. What am I?alphabet
- What can be uppercase or lowercase, change a word by myself, and still refuse to have a favorite color?letter
- Who makes Z wait behind A without moving either word?alphabetical order
- I am the part of a name people may share without knowing the whole name, and a monogram may steal me. What am I?initial
- What can hide a message where the words look innocent but their first letters gossip?acrostic
- What sentence uses every letter and still sounds oddly overqualified?pangram
- I make a writer dodge one letter so carefully that ordinary sentences become suspicious. What am I?lipogram
- What can help you find a topic by its letter, as if a book had an alphabetic map?index
- Which book makes zebra wait its turn?dictionary
- I can turn three ordinary initials into a tiny personal logo on a shirt. What am I?monogram
- What can replace a lonely A with 'Alfa' when radio static is hungry?NATO phonetic alphabet
- What spells with short and long signals instead of visible letters?Morse code
- I let fingertips read letters that eyes never have to see. What am I?Braille
- What can spell a word with arm positions, making two people look like very patient traffic signals?semaphore
- Which old letter helped write 'the'?thorn
- I am another old English letter for the 'th' neighborhood, and my name sounds like a philosopher's sigh. What am I?eth
- What can let A and E share one typographic chair?ash
- What symbol once got recited after Z?ampersand
- I make children learn letters to a melody that stars already claimed. What am I?alphabet song
- What can share my melody with the alphabet song, which means a star and a spelling lesson secretly sing the same tune?Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- What soup turns lunch into a spelling lesson?alphabet soup
- I can make a refrigerator say 'HELLO' even when nobody in the kitchen has been asked to write. What am I?fridge magnet letter
- What can be small enough to sit on a game board, but one rare letter can make it suddenly important?Scrabble tile
- Which cube makes a table look like an alphabet storm?Boggle cube
- I make 'Taylor, Alex' file under T, even though Alex is standing there looking innocent. What am I?surname sorting
- What can turn 'listen' into 'silent' without gaining or losing a single letter?anagram
- What shortcut turns a long phrase into a few sayable letters?acronym
- I keep the initials of a phrase but make you say them one by one, like a tiny roll call. What am I?initialism
- What is the first Greek letter, and my name supplies the opening of the word for the whole letter set?alpha
- Which Greek letter helps finish the word 'alphabet'?beta
- I am the familiar A to Z system behind modern English, but my name points back to Rome. What am I?Latin alphabet
- What can make a familiar-looking letter mean something unexpected when Russian is doing the talking?Cyrillic alphabet
- Which alphabet reads right to left and begins with aleph?Hebrew alphabet
- I begin with alif and ba, and I send written Arabic from the right side toward the left. What am I?Arabic alphabet
- What can turn alpha, beta, and gamma into an actual writing system rather than a list of science-class variables?Greek alphabet
- Which ancient alphabet helped later scripts inherit letter shapes?Phoenician alphabet
- I am an old set of carved symbols whose name sounds like a collection of little secrets scratched into wood. What am I?runes
- What can let O and E occupy one written character, as if the alphabet had discovered shared housing?oe ligature
- Which letter keeps asking U to come along?letter Q
- I start 'xylophone' and often gets treated like a VIP in word games because I am uncommon. What am I?letter X
- What can appear twice at the end of 'jazz', making one short word feel unusually letter-heavy?letter Z
- Which letter can multiply 'cat' into 'cats'?letter S
- I can join two pieces of a compound while refusing to become a full stop. What am I?hyphen
- What can replace missing letters in a contraction, quietly proving that words have been shortened?apostrophe
- What can be empty yet win a word game?blank
- I can tell you that 'cat' has three letters without knowing what a cat is. What am I?letter count
- What can lead a word on the page, though the first sound you hear is not always its responsibility?first letter
- Which letter gets the final say in a word?last letter
- I rescue a name when a noisy phone call turns one letter into an entirely different rumor. What am I?spelling
- What can settle whether a stubborn extra letter belongs in a word, without asking your friend to admit defeat?spelling dictionary
- What makes 'apple' beat 'apricot' by comparing letters?alphabetizing
- I decide that two words tied at the start must compare their next unequal letters. What am I?lexicographic order
- What can be a two-letter team that acts like one sound, even though neither teammate has resigned?digraph
- Which letter speaks only when it feels like it?silent letter
- I can promote a letter at the start of a sentence or a proper name. What am I?uppercase letter
- What can make a sentence look calmer by using the smaller form of its letters?lowercase letter
- What invisible floor keeps letters standing?baseline
- I push the first line of a paragraph inward, as if the paragraph arrived late and took the side door. What am I?indent
- What can tell a font whether it has a home for a particular letter, symbol, or mark?character set
- What can make one alphabet look formal, playful, or ready for a wedding invitation?typeface
- I worry about how letters look together, not whether they passed their spelling test. What am I?typography
- What can be a broad name for a written symbol that may represent a letter, number, or other mark?glyph
- What broad name covers a written symbol?character
- I am a speech sound that can make one written letter seem to have more than one personality. What am I?phoneme
- What can turn apples into zebras by starting a list at A and refusing to stop until Z has had its turn?A to Z list
- What game makes one letter boss every category?Scattergories
- I can make a classroom's A look like it has an entire supporting cast of picture cards. What am I?alphabet flashcards
- What can turn a classroom into a walking word, with each child carrying one part of the spelling?letter parade
- What roster trick finds names by their starting letters?alphabetical listing
- I sit at the edge of a reference work and tell you where the letter-sorted trail begins. What am I?alphabetical index
- What can be the full word a dictionary puts in bold before it starts explaining anything?dictionary headword
- What word does a dictionary put up front before explaining it?entry word
- I am a small printed hint that tells you which words live on the pages you are about to turn. What am I?guide word
- What can mark the start of a dictionary section with one large letter, like a sign saying 'the alphabet changes here'?section letter
- What single letter can mark a dictionary section?initial cap
- I am a capital letter that can grow tall at the start of a paragraph without becoming a whole word. What am I?drop cap
- What can make a capital look small and fancy?small cap
- What makes a whole line look as if every letter is wearing a capital's hat?all caps
- I am the space between neighboring letters, where a tiny adjustment can make a title stop looking awkward. What am I?kerning
- What can make 'A V' feel too wide or too tight by changing the distance between particular pairs?letter spacing
- What tiny gap can fix an awkward letter pair?ligature
- I join certain letters into one typographic shape, often because the combination looks better than the two pieces apart. What am I?serif
- What can give a letter tiny finishing strokes that make it look ready for an old-fashioned book?sans serif
- What removes the little finishing strokes from letters?monospace
- I give every character the same width, so an I and a W get identical elbow room. What am I?font family
- What can name the collection of related type designs you might choose before deciding on a specific style?font weight
- What makes letters look heavier without adding words?font size
- I change the physical scale of letters, turning a whisper of text into a headline. What am I?point size
- What can measure type size in points, making typography sound oddly mathematical?tracking
- What controls spacing across a whole stretch of text?leading
- I can make letters lean without sending the whole paragraph downhill. What am I?italic
- What can make type look heavier, as if the letters have been lifting tiny weights?boldface
- What can draw a line beneath words?underline
- I can strike through words, leaving them readable while announcing that someone crossed them out. What am I?strikethrough
- What can decide when a word gets a capital, which is why titles and sentences do not dress alike?capitalization
- What makes 'A' and 'a' different to a computer?case sensitivity
- I arrange keys so letters are not in alphabetic order, which is exactly why beginners go looking for A first. What am I?keyboard layout
- What can be the famous keyboard arrangement whose first six letters form its name?QWERTY
- What puts letters in an order that helps software sort them?alphabetic keyboard
- I can put A, B, and C on separate squares so a game can make a word out of loose pieces. What am I?letter tile
- What can stick to a refrigerator and spell a message that loses letters every time someone gets hungry?word magnet
- What can trace a letter's shape without trusting your handwriting?letter stencil
- I show the whole letter set at once, making A and Z neighbors only at opposite ends. What am I?alphabet chart
- What can be a chunky learning piece that makes the letter A double as a toy?letter block
- What can stick a letter to a notebook and make it personally labeled?letter sticker
- I can put ink on paper in the shape of a letter, leaving a small alphabetic fingerprint. What am I?letter stamp
- What can be an alphabet designed for stamping, with each letter leaving the same mark again and again?rubber stamp alphabet
- What printing method treats letters like movable pieces?letterpress
- I belong to the old printing world where individual letters could be arranged, inked, and pressed onto paper. What am I?movable type
- What can be the little key on a typewriter that represents one letter?typewriter key
- Which modern key sends a letter into a computer when you press it?keyboard key
- I can make lowercase letters suddenly become uppercase without asking you to rewrite the sentence. What am I?caps lock
- What can be the key you hold to make a single lowercase letter become uppercase, then release?shift key
- Which key erases the character just before the cursor?backspace key
- I can remove a character ahead of the cursor, making me the forward-facing cousin of backspace. What am I?delete key
- What can separate words on a keyboard even though it is not a letter?space bar
- Which key can confirm an entry or start a new line?enter key
- I can cancel a command without deleting the alphabet, which is useful when a computer gets dramatic. What am I?escape key
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How these alphabet riddles work
These riddles lean on the alphabet's many double lives. A clue may treat a letter as a mark, a sound, a sorting rule, or a physical thing, then pivot to the vocabulary that names that role. The recurring A to Z journey asks what puts words in order, starts a name, finishes a word, or makes one letter behave differently from another.
Answers cluster around letter systems and tools, from "alphabet" and "alphabetizing" to "Morse code", "Braille", and "QWERTY". Some clues turn familiar wordplay into an answer, as when "listen" becomes "silent". Others depend on precise distinctions such as digraph, initialism, acronym, and pangram, so the vocabulary is part of the puzzle.
When to use this page
This page suits a classroom warm-up, a literacy station, or a family puzzle break when the group is already working with letters and words. It also works for teachers building a quick vocabulary check around terms such as Kids, or for adults who want a more technical challenge from typography and keyboard clues.
Use a few riddles aloud, then reveal the answers to compare how each clue names a specific alphabet idea. For a harder round, pick clues on lexicographic order, kerning, ligature, or case sensitivity. The mix fits short activities where the answer can introduce or reinforce terminology.
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41 kid-friendly alphabet riddles with simple words, safe themes, and answers that make young solvers feel clever.
Example Alphabet Riddles for Kids
- I am named from alpha plus beta, yet I am not a Greek lesson. I make every later letter take a number in line. What am I? alphabet
- What can be uppercase or lowercase, change a word by myself, and still refuse to have a favorite color? letter
- I am the part of a name people may share without knowing the whole name, and a monogram may steal me. What am I? initial
- What can help you find a topic by its letter, as if a book had an alphabetic map? index
Hard Alphabet Riddles
For solvers who like a fight: 38 hard alphabet riddles that resist the first guess, and often the second.
Example Hard Alphabet Riddles
- What sentence uses every letter and still sounds oddly overqualified? pangram
- Which book makes zebra wait its turn? dictionary
- What spells with short and long signals instead of visible letters? Morse code
- Which old letter helped write 'the'? thorn
Alphabet Riddles for Adults
40 alphabet riddles with grown-up wit: subtler wordplay and references, zero crudeness, all challenge.
Example Alphabet Riddles for Adults
- Who makes Z wait behind A without moving either word? alphabetical order
- I can turn three ordinary initials into a tiny personal logo on a shirt. What am I? monogram
- What can replace a lonely A with 'Alfa' when radio static is hungry? NATO phonetic alphabet
- What can let A and E share one typographic chair? ash
Funny Alphabet Riddles
The punchline crowd: 42 alphabet riddles built for a laugh, with puns, twists and groan-worthy wordplay included.
Example Funny Alphabet Riddles
- I make children learn letters to a melody that stars already claimed. What am I? alphabet song
- What soup turns lunch into a spelling lesson? alphabet soup
- What can be small enough to sit on a game board, but one rare letter can make it suddenly important? Scrabble tile
- What can turn 'listen' into 'silent' without gaining or losing a single letter? anagram
Easy Alphabet Riddles
Warm up with 40 easy alphabet riddles for quick wins to build momentum before the tricky ones.
Example Easy Alphabet Riddles
- I make a writer dodge one letter so carefully that ordinary sentences become suspicious. What am I? lipogram
- I let fingertips read letters that eyes never have to see. What am I? Braille
- What can spell a word with arm positions, making two people look like very patient traffic signals? semaphore
- I can make a refrigerator say 'HELLO' even when nobody in the kitchen has been asked to write. What am I? fridge magnet letter
Tricky Alphabet Riddles
37 tricky alphabet riddles that bait the obvious answer, so read slowly, the trap is in the wording.
Example Tricky Alphabet Riddles
- What can hide a message where the words look innocent but their first letters gossip? acrostic
- What can share my melody with the alphabet song, which means a star and a spelling lesson secretly sing the same tune? Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- I make 'Taylor, Alex' file under T, even though Alex is standing there looking innocent. What am I? surname sorting
- What shortcut turns a long phrase into a few sayable letters? acronym
What Am I Alphabet Riddles
The classic guessing game: 40 what-am-I alphabet riddles that describe themselves clue by clue. Read, commit to a guess, then reveal.
Example What Am I Alphabet Riddles
- I am another old English letter for the 'th' neighborhood, and my name sounds like a philosopher's sigh. What am I? eth
- I keep the initials of a phrase but make you say them one by one, like a tiny roll call. What am I? initialism
- I am the familiar A to Z system behind modern English, but my name points back to Rome. What am I? Latin alphabet
- I begin with alif and ba, and I send written Arabic from the right side toward the left. What am I? Arabic alphabet
Clever Alphabet Riddles
39 alphabet riddles built on a genuinely neat idea rather than a trap: fair on the first read, satisfying on the reveal.
Example Clever Alphabet Riddles
- What symbol once got recited after Z? ampersand
- Which cube makes a table look like an alphabet storm? Boggle cube
- Which Greek letter helps finish the word 'alphabet'? beta
- Which alphabet reads right to left and begins with aleph? Hebrew alphabet
Long Alphabet Riddles
57 alphabet riddles with a full setup and room for real misdirection, the ones worth reading out loud.
Example Long Alphabet Riddles
- What is the first Greek letter, and my name supplies the opening of the word for the whole letter set? alpha
- What can make a familiar-looking letter mean something unexpected when Russian is doing the talking? Cyrillic alphabet
- What can turn alpha, beta, and gamma into an actual writing system rather than a list of science-class variables? Greek alphabet
- I am an old set of carved symbols whose name sounds like a collection of little secrets scratched into wood. What am I? runes
Alphabet Riddles to Ask Your Friends
37 alphabet riddles built to stump someone: text one without the answer, watch them squirm, then enjoy the reveal.
Example Alphabet Riddles to Ask Your Friends
- What can appear twice at the end of 'jazz', making one short word feel unusually letter-heavy? letter Z
- What can replace missing letters in a contraction, quietly proving that words have been shortened? apostrophe
- What can be empty yet win a word game? blank
- Which letter gets the final say in a word? last letter
Short Alphabet Riddles
In a hurry? 61 bite-size alphabet riddles that get to the point in one line, perfect to text a friend.
Example Short Alphabet Riddles
- Which ancient alphabet helped later scripts inherit letter shapes? Phoenician alphabet
- Which letter keeps asking U to come along? letter Q
- Which letter can multiply 'cat' into 'cats'? letter S
- I can join two pieces of a compound while refusing to become a full stop. What am I? hyphen
All 118 Alphabet Riddles with Answers
1. I am named from alpha plus beta, yet I am not a Greek lesson. I make every later letter take a number in line. What am I?
Answer: alphabet
2. What can be uppercase or lowercase, change a word by myself, and still refuse to have a favorite color?
Answer: letter
3. Who makes Z wait behind A without moving either word?
Answer: alphabetical order
4. I am the part of a name people may share without knowing the whole name, and a monogram may steal me. What am I?
Answer: initial
5. What can hide a message where the words look innocent but their first letters gossip?
Answer: acrostic
6. What sentence uses every letter and still sounds oddly overqualified?
Answer: pangram
7. I make a writer dodge one letter so carefully that ordinary sentences become suspicious. What am I?
Answer: lipogram
8. What can help you find a topic by its letter, as if a book had an alphabetic map?
Answer: index
9. Which book makes zebra wait its turn?
Answer: dictionary
10. I can turn three ordinary initials into a tiny personal logo on a shirt. What am I?
Answer: monogram
11. What can replace a lonely A with 'Alfa' when radio static is hungry?
Answer: NATO phonetic alphabet
12. What spells with short and long signals instead of visible letters?
Answer: Morse code
13. I let fingertips read letters that eyes never have to see. What am I?
Answer: Braille
14. What can spell a word with arm positions, making two people look like very patient traffic signals?
Answer: semaphore
15. Which old letter helped write 'the'?
Answer: thorn
16. I am another old English letter for the 'th' neighborhood, and my name sounds like a philosopher's sigh. What am I?
Answer: eth
17. What can let A and E share one typographic chair?
Answer: ash
18. What symbol once got recited after Z?
Answer: ampersand
19. I make children learn letters to a melody that stars already claimed. What am I?
Answer: alphabet song
20. What can share my melody with the alphabet song, which means a star and a spelling lesson secretly sing the same tune?
Answer: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
21. What soup turns lunch into a spelling lesson?
Answer: alphabet soup
22. I can make a refrigerator say 'HELLO' even when nobody in the kitchen has been asked to write. What am I?
Answer: fridge magnet letter
23. What can be small enough to sit on a game board, but one rare letter can make it suddenly important?
Answer: Scrabble tile
24. Which cube makes a table look like an alphabet storm?
Answer: Boggle cube
25. I make 'Taylor, Alex' file under T, even though Alex is standing there looking innocent. What am I?
Answer: surname sorting
26. What can turn 'listen' into 'silent' without gaining or losing a single letter?
Answer: anagram
27. What shortcut turns a long phrase into a few sayable letters?
Answer: acronym
28. I keep the initials of a phrase but make you say them one by one, like a tiny roll call. What am I?
Answer: initialism
29. What is the first Greek letter, and my name supplies the opening of the word for the whole letter set?
Answer: alpha
30. Which Greek letter helps finish the word 'alphabet'?
Answer: beta
31. I am the familiar A to Z system behind modern English, but my name points back to Rome. What am I?
Answer: Latin alphabet
32. What can make a familiar-looking letter mean something unexpected when Russian is doing the talking?
Answer: Cyrillic alphabet
33. Which alphabet reads right to left and begins with aleph?
Answer: Hebrew alphabet
34. I begin with alif and ba, and I send written Arabic from the right side toward the left. What am I?
Answer: Arabic alphabet
35. What can turn alpha, beta, and gamma into an actual writing system rather than a list of science-class variables?
Answer: Greek alphabet
36. Which ancient alphabet helped later scripts inherit letter shapes?
Answer: Phoenician alphabet
37. I am an old set of carved symbols whose name sounds like a collection of little secrets scratched into wood. What am I?
Answer: runes
38. What can let O and E occupy one written character, as if the alphabet had discovered shared housing?
Answer: oe ligature
39. Which letter keeps asking U to come along?
Answer: letter Q
40. I start 'xylophone' and often gets treated like a VIP in word games because I am uncommon. What am I?
Answer: letter X
41. What can appear twice at the end of 'jazz', making one short word feel unusually letter-heavy?
Answer: letter Z
42. Which letter can multiply 'cat' into 'cats'?
Answer: letter S
43. I can join two pieces of a compound while refusing to become a full stop. What am I?
Answer: hyphen
44. What can replace missing letters in a contraction, quietly proving that words have been shortened?
Answer: apostrophe
45. What can be empty yet win a word game?
Answer: blank
46. I can tell you that 'cat' has three letters without knowing what a cat is. What am I?
Answer: letter count
47. What can lead a word on the page, though the first sound you hear is not always its responsibility?
Answer: first letter
48. Which letter gets the final say in a word?
Answer: last letter
49. I rescue a name when a noisy phone call turns one letter into an entirely different rumor. What am I?
Answer: spelling
50. What can settle whether a stubborn extra letter belongs in a word, without asking your friend to admit defeat?
Answer: spelling dictionary
51. What makes 'apple' beat 'apricot' by comparing letters?
Answer: alphabetizing
52. I decide that two words tied at the start must compare their next unequal letters. What am I?
Answer: lexicographic order
53. What can be a two-letter team that acts like one sound, even though neither teammate has resigned?
Answer: digraph
54. Which letter speaks only when it feels like it?
Answer: silent letter
55. I can promote a letter at the start of a sentence or a proper name. What am I?
Answer: uppercase letter
56. What can make a sentence look calmer by using the smaller form of its letters?
Answer: lowercase letter
57. What invisible floor keeps letters standing?
Answer: baseline
58. I push the first line of a paragraph inward, as if the paragraph arrived late and took the side door. What am I?
Answer: indent
59. What can tell a font whether it has a home for a particular letter, symbol, or mark?
Answer: character set
60. What can make one alphabet look formal, playful, or ready for a wedding invitation?
Answer: typeface
61. I worry about how letters look together, not whether they passed their spelling test. What am I?
Answer: typography
62. What can be a broad name for a written symbol that may represent a letter, number, or other mark?
Answer: glyph
63. What broad name covers a written symbol?
Answer: character
64. I am a speech sound that can make one written letter seem to have more than one personality. What am I?
Answer: phoneme
65. What can turn apples into zebras by starting a list at A and refusing to stop until Z has had its turn?
Answer: A to Z list
66. What game makes one letter boss every category?
Answer: Scattergories
67. I can make a classroom's A look like it has an entire supporting cast of picture cards. What am I?
Answer: alphabet flashcards
68. What can turn a classroom into a walking word, with each child carrying one part of the spelling?
Answer: letter parade
69. What roster trick finds names by their starting letters?
Answer: alphabetical listing
70. I sit at the edge of a reference work and tell you where the letter-sorted trail begins. What am I?
Answer: alphabetical index
71. What can be the full word a dictionary puts in bold before it starts explaining anything?
Answer: dictionary headword
72. What word does a dictionary put up front before explaining it?
Answer: entry word
73. I am a small printed hint that tells you which words live on the pages you are about to turn. What am I?
Answer: guide word
74. What can mark the start of a dictionary section with one large letter, like a sign saying 'the alphabet changes here'?
Answer: section letter
75. What single letter can mark a dictionary section?
Answer: initial cap
76. I am a capital letter that can grow tall at the start of a paragraph without becoming a whole word. What am I?
Answer: drop cap
77. What can make a capital look small and fancy?
Answer: small cap
78. What makes a whole line look as if every letter is wearing a capital's hat?
Answer: all caps
79. I am the space between neighboring letters, where a tiny adjustment can make a title stop looking awkward. What am I?
Answer: kerning
80. What can make 'A V' feel too wide or too tight by changing the distance between particular pairs?
Answer: letter spacing
81. What tiny gap can fix an awkward letter pair?
Answer: ligature
82. I join certain letters into one typographic shape, often because the combination looks better than the two pieces apart. What am I?
Answer: serif
83. What can give a letter tiny finishing strokes that make it look ready for an old-fashioned book?
Answer: sans serif
84. What removes the little finishing strokes from letters?
Answer: monospace
85. I give every character the same width, so an I and a W get identical elbow room. What am I?
Answer: font family
86. What can name the collection of related type designs you might choose before deciding on a specific style?
Answer: font weight
87. What makes letters look heavier without adding words?
Answer: font size
88. I change the physical scale of letters, turning a whisper of text into a headline. What am I?
Answer: point size
89. What can measure type size in points, making typography sound oddly mathematical?
Answer: tracking
90. What controls spacing across a whole stretch of text?
Answer: leading
91. I can make letters lean without sending the whole paragraph downhill. What am I?
Answer: italic
92. What can make type look heavier, as if the letters have been lifting tiny weights?
Answer: boldface
93. What can draw a line beneath words?
Answer: underline
94. I can strike through words, leaving them readable while announcing that someone crossed them out. What am I?
Answer: strikethrough
95. What can decide when a word gets a capital, which is why titles and sentences do not dress alike?
Answer: capitalization
96. What makes 'A' and 'a' different to a computer?
Answer: case sensitivity
97. I arrange keys so letters are not in alphabetic order, which is exactly why beginners go looking for A first. What am I?
Answer: keyboard layout
98. What can be the famous keyboard arrangement whose first six letters form its name?
Answer: QWERTY
99. What puts letters in an order that helps software sort them?
Answer: alphabetic keyboard
100. I can put A, B, and C on separate squares so a game can make a word out of loose pieces. What am I?
Answer: letter tile
101. What can stick to a refrigerator and spell a message that loses letters every time someone gets hungry?
Answer: word magnet
102. What can trace a letter's shape without trusting your handwriting?
Answer: letter stencil
103. I show the whole letter set at once, making A and Z neighbors only at opposite ends. What am I?
Answer: alphabet chart
104. What can be a chunky learning piece that makes the letter A double as a toy?
Answer: letter block
105. What can stick a letter to a notebook and make it personally labeled?
Answer: letter sticker
106. I can put ink on paper in the shape of a letter, leaving a small alphabetic fingerprint. What am I?
Answer: letter stamp
107. What can be an alphabet designed for stamping, with each letter leaving the same mark again and again?
Answer: rubber stamp alphabet
108. What printing method treats letters like movable pieces?
Answer: letterpress
109. I belong to the old printing world where individual letters could be arranged, inked, and pressed onto paper. What am I?
Answer: movable type
110. What can be the little key on a typewriter that represents one letter?
Answer: typewriter key
111. Which modern key sends a letter into a computer when you press it?
Answer: keyboard key
112. I can make lowercase letters suddenly become uppercase without asking you to rewrite the sentence. What am I?
Answer: caps lock
113. What can be the key you hold to make a single lowercase letter become uppercase, then release?
Answer: shift key
114. Which key erases the character just before the cursor?
Answer: backspace key
115. I can remove a character ahead of the cursor, making me the forward-facing cousin of backspace. What am I?
Answer: delete key
116. What can separate words on a keyboard even though it is not a letter?
Answer: space bar
117. Which key can confirm an entry or start a new line?
Answer: enter key
118. I can cancel a command without deleting the alphabet, which is useful when a computer gets dramatic. What am I?
Answer: escape key
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