Riddle:
Four cars come to a four-way stop, each coming from a different direction. They can’t decide who got there first, so they all proceed at the same time. All four cars go, but none crash into each other. How is this possible?
Answer:
They all made right-hand turns.
PAST RIDDLES:
Riddle:
I’m full of holes, yet I’m also full of water. What am I?
Answer:
A sponge!
Riddle:
I am something you have, but can’t touch. You use me daily, and can even tease me, but you’ve likely never seen me. What am I?
Answer:
Your brain.
Riddle:
I have a wide space, locks, and keys. You can enter, but I have no rooms. What am I?
Answer:
Your computer keyboard
Riddle:
You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer:
The letter “e”
Riddle:
No words in English end in which two letters?
Answer:
V and J.
Riddle:
Many singular nouns become plural by adding an S at the end. But what seven-letter plural noun ending in S becomes a related singular noun when an S is added at the end?
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ _S_
Answer:
Princes (plural) becomes princess (single) when you add an ‘s’.
Riddle:
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer:
Footsteps
Riddle:
How can you drop a raw egg on the concrete floor without cracking it?
Answer:
An egg won’t crack the concrete floor!
Riddle:
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer:
A map.
Riddle:
Jared’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and…?
Answer:
Jared
Riddle:
What is red and smells like blue paint?
Answer:
Red paint
Riddle:
What is so unbelievably fragile that just by speaking its name will break it?
Answer:
Silence
Riddle:
What belongs to you, but everyone else uses it?
Answer:
Your Name
Riddle:
What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?
Answer:
A teapot
Riddle:
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Answer:
Still Mount Everest. Just because it wasn’t discovered didn’t make it any smaller.
Riddle:
Who is the most impolite and disrespectful of all the reindeer?
Answer: Rude-olf
Riddle:
I have a body, arms, legs, and a head, but I’m heartless and have no guts.
What am I?
Answer: A skeleton.
Riddle:
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board.
How is that possible?
Answer: All the people on the boat are married.
Riddle:
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There are no stairs- it’s a one-story house.
Riddle:
I am the ruler of shovels, and I have a double. I am as thin as a knife, and I have a wife. What am I?
Answer: The King of Spades
Riddle:
I have six letters. When you take one away, I become twelve. What am I?
Answer: Dozens
Riddle:
I am something people either love or hate. I change people’s appearances and thoughts. If a person takes care of themselves, I will go up even higher. To some people, I will fool them. To others, I am a mystery. Some people might want to try and hide me, but I will show. No matter how hard people try, I will never go down. What am I?
Answer: Age
Riddle:
From the beginning of eternity
To the end of time and space
To the beginning of every end
And the end of every place.
What am I?
Answer: The letter “e”
Riddle: If I am holding a bee, what do I have in my eye?
Answer: Beauty, because “Beauty is in the eye of the bee-holder.”
Riddle: What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper
Riddle: A prisoner is forced to go into one of three rooms, but he can choose which room. The first room is ablaze with fire. The second one is rigged with explosives that will go off as soon as he enters. The third contains a pair of lions who haven’t eaten in years. Which room should he choose to survive?
Answer: The third door, because any lions who haven’t eaten in years would be dead by now.
Riddle: We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies, and we are not to be judged by our size. What are we?
Answer: Words
Riddle: Multiply all the numbers on your phone’s keypad. What number do you get?
Answer: Zero!
Riddle: A bus without passengers pulls into Tucson, where 10 passengers board it. In Las Cruces, 5 passengers get off the bus, and twice as many passengers get on as in Tucson. Then in El Paso, 25 passengers get off the bus. How many people are on the bus as it leaves El Paso?
Answer: 1 – the bus driver
Riddle: I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish.
What am I?
Answer: A map.
Riddle: A man is washing windows on the 25th floor of an apartment building. Suddenly, he slips and falls. He has nothing to cushion his fall, and no safety equipment — but he doesn’t get hurt. How is this possible?
Answer: He’s washing windows inside the building.
Riddle: I have roads but no cars, forests but no trees, and cities but no people. What am I?
Answer: A map.
Riddle: I weigh nothing, but you can still see me. If you put me in a bucket, I make the bucket lighter. What am I?
Answer: A hole.
Riddle: I can fly, but I have no wings. I can cry, but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows. What am I?
Answer: A cloud.
Riddle: Identify the next letter in the following pattern: O – T – T – F – F – S – S – E – N – ?
Answer: T (These are the first letters of the spelled-out numbers One through Ten)
Riddle: A boy has as many sisters as brothers, but each sister has only half as many sisters as brothers. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
Answer: Four brothers and three sisters.
Riddle: I am a mother and a father but have never given birth. I’m rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?
Answer: A Tree
Riddle: A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?
Answer: An hourglass, with its thousands of grains of sand.
Riddle: Put a coin into an empty bottle and insert a cork into the neck. How can you remove the coin without removing the cork or breaking the bottle?
Answer: Push the cork down into the bottle, then shake the coin out!
Riddle: A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
Answer: The river was frozen.
Riddle: A cup of coffee and a cookie cost $4.40. The coffee costs $4.00 more than the cookie. How much does the coffee cost?
Answer: The coffee costs $4.20, and the cookie is $0.20. Speaking of coffee, don’t try to do mathematical word problems before you have yours. 🙂
Riddle:I can be cracked. I can be made. I can be told. I can be played. What am I?
Answer: A joke.
Riddle: If you can buy 1 for $1, 14 for $2, and 145 for $3, what are you buying?
Answer: House Numbers
Riddle: I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?
Answer: A Book
Riddle: There is a dead man in the middle of a field, with no footprints of any sort nearby. There is nothing next to him but a single unopened package. How did he die? HINT: As he approached the field he knew he was going to die.
Answer: Failed parachute!
Riddle: What four days of the week start with the letter T?
Answer: Tuesday, Thursday, Today, and Tomorrow
Riddle: The 22nd and 24th Presidents had the same biological mother and father, but weren’t brothers. They were both male, and neither was adopted or “switched at birth”. How is this possible?
Answer: They were the same person. The 22nd President was Grover Cleveland. After his first term, Benjamin Harrison was voted into office. Once Harrison was voted out of office, Cleveland was voted back in, becoming the 24th President.
Riddle: Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?
Answer: Corn on the cob, because you throw away the husk, cook and eat the kernels, and throw away the cob.
Riddle: Why can’t someone living in Maine be buried in Florida?
Answer: Because they’re still living!
Riddle: If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?
Answer: One, after they’ve been combined.
Riddle: You walk into a room with a rabbit holding a carrot, a pig eating slop, and a chimp holding a banana. Which animal in the room is the smartest?
Answer: You, hopefully!
Riddle: What word reads the same both upside down and backward?
Answer: swims
Riddle: When you need me, you throw me away. When you’re done with me, you bring me back.
What am I?
Answer: An anchor.
Riddle: I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.
Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short (add “er” to make it shorter)
Riddle: What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
Riddle: What flies when it’s born, lies when it’s alive, and runs when it’s dead?
Answer: A Snowflake.
Riddle: What belongs to you, but others use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle: You will always find me in the past. I can be created in the present, But the future can never taint me. What am I?
Answer: History.
Riddle: There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Answer: Watermelon.
Riddle: These two things are measured by units associated with temperature and time, yet they mark no time and have no temperature. What are they?
Answer: Latitude and longitude.
Riddle: It grows down, yet it also grows up. What is it?
Answer: A goose.
Riddle: What falls yet does not make noise?
Answer: Night
Riddle: I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am always in risk. I am never in danger, though. What am I?
Answer: The letter S
Riddle: Constantly hungry, I must always be fed – and any finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Answer: Fire
Riddle: They are captured by mud and snow, left behind but never taken, and rarely seen in isolation. What are they?
Answer: Footprints
Riddle: Live without it and you will not prevail, but if you have too much of it, you will surely fail. What is it?
Answer: Confidence
Riddle: Glittering points that southward thrust. Sparkling spears that cannot rust. What are they?
Answer: Icicles
Riddle: Olivia throws a softball as hard as she can, and even though it doesn’t touch anything and nobody touches it, the softball comes right back to her. How is this possible?
Answer: She throws it straight up in the air.
Riddle: It can be measured even though it lacks length, width or height. What is it?
Answer: Temperature
Riddle: What 15-letter word contains the letter ‘E’ five times and no other vowels?
Answer: Defenselessness
Riddle: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: Forward I am ton, backwards I am not.
Riddle: I protect you. I sit on a bridge. You can see through me. People walking by might wonder what I hide. What am I?
Answer: A pair of sunglasses.
Riddle: They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they?
Answer: Gloves.
Riddle: What can explode slowly, with no smoke or flame?
Answer: A population.
Riddle: Ray slipped off a 30-foot escalator and landed on a sidewalk. He was embarrassed, yet uninjured. How could this be?
Answer: He slipped off the bottom step.
Riddle: You can rearrange the letters in insatiable to make another ten-letter word that starts with the letter b. What is this ten-letter word?
Answer: Banalities.
Riddle: Joe showed up at a business meeting fresh and alert, even though he had not slept a wink during any of the past four days. Why wasn’t he tired?
Answer: He had slept during the past four nights.
Riddle: It is found in the ground, round as a circle and yards deeper than a cup, and a hundred horses cannot pull it up. It isn’t going anywhere, it cannot think; it might provide you with something to drink. What is it?
Answer: A well.
Riddle: I have a bank, yet no cash. I can run, but can’t walk. I have a bed, but never sleep. I have a mouth, but ingest no meals. What am I?
Answer: A river.
Riddle: At a stop sign on a rural road, there are two trucks in front of a truck, two trucks behind a truck, and one truck in the middle of two trucks. How many trucks are there in total?
Answer: Three.
Riddle: You hold a sheet of cellophane. Fully unfolded, it is 3 feet long by 2 feet wide. How can you get two people to stand on it (when it is fully unfolded) in such a way that they can’t touch or see each other?
Answer: Slide the fully unfolded sheet under a door (or a sufficiently large partition that is not transparent or opaque) and have each person stand on the sheet while on either side of the door or partition.
Riddle: 8549176320 is a large number, and unique for two reasons. It presents all of the numerical digits from 0-9 without a repeat; what is the other reason?
Answer: When the 10 numerals are spelled out and expressed as words, the words are in alphabetical order from start to finish (eight, five, four, nine, one…).
Riddle: What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
Riddle: Holly finds herself in a room without windows, holes or even cracks in the walls. She doesn’t have any tools and the door to the room is 4” think and made of steel. Using only her hands, she manages to escape through the doorway. How does she do it?
Answer: The door is unlocked.
Riddle: How many cubic yards of dirt are in a hole that is 9′ deep, 8′ long and 1′ wide?
Answer: There are no cubic yards of dirt within a hole.
Riddle: What word describes a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand?
Answer: A normal man does not have all ten of his fingers on one hand.
Riddle: Victor is assigned to paint suite numbers on doors at an office building with 100 suites, which will be numbered from 1 to 100. How many times will he have to paint the number 8?
Answer: 20 times-8,18,28,38,48,58,68,78,80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 (which has two eights in it), 89 and 98.
Riddle: A man tells you there are 12 seconds in a year. This sounds absurd, but in what sense is he correct?
Answer: Each month of the year contains a “second” – January 2nd, February 2nd, and so forth.
Riddle: What 3 different numbers can you add together and get the same result as when you multiply them together? (All 3 numbers are whole and positive and none of them are double-digit.)
Answer: 1, 2 and 3. 1+2+3=6, 1x2x3=6.
Riddle: What do the letter T and island have in common?
Answer: They are both in the middle of water.
Riddle: I nearly always lie on a surface, and I come in different shapes and sizes, often with curves. You can put me anywhere you like, yet there is only one proper place for me. What am I?
Answer: A jigsaw puzzle piece.
Riddle: Two sailors stand at opposite sides of a boat. One looks west and the other looks east, and yet they are both able to see each other clearly. How can this be?
Answer: The sailors are looking inward (into the boat) while standing with their backs against the side of the ship.
Riddle: What lives above a star but never burns, has 11 neighbors, and can replace the letters P, Q, R or S in some cases?
Answer: The number 7 (on most telephone keypads)
Riddle: The wind is blowing east through the mountains. A lone pine tree stands on a cliff. Which way do its leaves blow?
Answer: A pine tree has needles, not leaves. So no leaves are blowing in the first place.
Riddle: Name three consecutive days without using words Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Sunday
Answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Riddle: I can’t walk, but at times I run and I am very difficult to hide. What am I?
Answer: Your nose
