40 Riddles for Work

1. I keep a visitor badge close by, but I am the fabric loop rather than the badge or its clip. What am I?

2. I hold a few sheets together with a bent metal loop, without making a hole in any of them. What am I?

3. Press a rubber stamp onto me before pressing it onto paper; I lend it the color for its message. What am I?

4. I gather wandering wires into one bundle, and my tail slides through my small locking head. What am I?

5. I am a flat waiting room for loose sheets beside the printer, with no rings or covers to close. What am I?

6. A breeze wants your papers to travel, but my whole desk job is being too heavy for that plan. What am I?

7. I give a loose form a firm back and a clip at the top, so you can write while standing. What am I?

8. I sit underneath your drink so the desk does not have to share its damp ring. What am I?

9. I ride along with an email but live outside its message text; you open me to see the file someone sent. What am I?

10. I let your last editing move walk backward, whether it added a word or removed a line. Which command am I?

11. I am a narrow on-screen track with a movable thumb; drag me to visit parts of a document outside the window. What am I?

12. I gradually fill from empty to full while a task runs, offering a picture of how far it has gone. What am I?

13. I keep older versions of a document within reach, so yesterday's wording need not vanish when today's arrives. What feature am I?

14. In the filename notes.txt, I am the part after the final dot that signals the file type. What am I?

15. You may open and read this file, but saving edits to this same file is forbidden by its access setting. What access do you have?

16. I am an email still being composed: not delivered, not deleted, and saved so you can return to me. What am I?

17. I am a meeting room called Tomorrow. An invite says 'Meet in Tomorrow today.' On which day is the meeting?

18. An office sign says 'Use the other door.' The other door has the same sign. How many doors do these two signs refer to in total?

19. I turn you toward a meeting without turning my wheeled base. My seat can spin, but I am staying at your desk. What am I?

20. I spend the workshop wedged between the door and floor, keeping the entrance open without a hand on the handle. What am I?

21. A sign's arrow points toward the printer. You turn the whole sign upside down without moving the printer. Does the arrow still point toward it?

22. A four-page report is printed single-sided, then another copy is printed double-sided. How many sheets do the two copies use altogether?

23. A workshop starts with seven people. Two leave, and those same two return with one new guest. How many people are there now?

24. The notice says 'Every red folder is urgent.' You find an urgent blue folder. Does that contradict the notice?

25. In this rebus, the letter I is directly below the word STAND. Which phrase does the arrangement suggest?

26. An office code shifts every letter forward one alphabet place, with Z becoming A. What does SEND become?

27. A note hides a name in the initials of 'Please Answer Today.' Which name appears?

28. In 'Please file this file,' which word appears once as an action and once as a thing?

29. Add just one punctuation mark to 'lets meet' to make 'let us meet.' Which mark do you add?

30. Remove ICE from the end of OFFICE and attach LINE to what remains. Which word have you built?

31. Four file names are A1, A10, A2 and A3. Sort by the number after A, smallest first. Which name comes last?

32. The phrase 'tea break' loses its spaces and every letter that also appears in TEA. What remains, in order?

33. An edit needs Ana's approval before Bo's, and Bo's before Cy's. Dee must approve after Ana but before Cy. Who must approve third among these four?

34. A floor arrow points south. To reach the east wall, should a robot following that arrow turn left or right?

35. A courier brings two parcels. One weighs twice as much as the other. Together they weigh 15 kg. How much heavier is the larger parcel?

36. A job needs 6 minutes on machine A, then 4 on B. Two jobs may overlap on different machines. Both machines start free. What is the earliest both jobs finish?

37. Exactly one of three lights is on. The notes say 'Red is on,' 'Red is off' and 'Blue is off.' Exactly one note is true. Which light is on?

38. One voucher buys either two notebooks or three pens. With no change or splitting vouchers, what is the fewest vouchers that buy equal positive counts of notebooks and pens?

39. A team demo lasts 35 minutes and must fit wholly between 10:00 and 11:00. A break occupies 10:20 to 10:30. Can the demo fit without overlapping the break?

40. A report passes once through each of four desks. It starts at A and ends at D. It must go directly from C to B. Which route works?