EasyLateral
"I am Britain's national sport that is not a sport. I require patience, not skill. I have invisible rules that everyone knows. Jump to the front of me at your peril. What am I?"
Answer
A Queue
Explanation
Queuing is considered a quintessentially British cultural institution. Cutting into a queue is considered a serious social offence. The rules of queuing — no pushing, acknowledging who arrived first — are understood by everyone yet never written down.
This is an easy riddle in the Lateral Thinking category — Riddles that require thinking completely outside the box.
Tags:lateralwordplayculture
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