Riddle:
What is the value of 1/2 of 2/3 of 3/4 of 4/5 of 5/6 of 6/7 of 7/8 of 8/9 of 9/10 of 1,000?
Answer: One hundred - work backwards and you will understand.
Riddle:
How many times does the long hand of the clock pass the short hand between midnight one day and midnight the following day? As both hands are together at the starting time of midnight this does not count as a pass.
Answer: 21.
Riddle:
A train just leaves a station and enters a tunnel. Where is the best place for a claustrophobic person to sit?
Answer: In the back. See, the train is still accelerating as it is leaving the station so the train will be moving faster when the back of the train enters the tunnel.
Riddle:
In the back yard, there is a hollow stump, that contains six ears of corn. If a healthy squirrel carries out only three ears each day, how many days will it take to empty the stump?
Answer: Six. Each day the squirrel will carry out the two ears on his head plus one ear of corn.
Riddle:
Which is the largest room in the world?
Answer: The room for improvement.
Riddle:
Why is your eye like a boy being whipped?
Answer: It is under the lash.
Riddle:
Name three things that?
1. Are red
2. Can swim
3. Give off heat
Answer: Answers may vary.
1. Apples, Roses, Stop Signs
2. Fish, Dogs, Snakes
3. Sun, Fire, Your body
Riddle:
Name the first three presidents to live in the white house?
Answer: Adams
Jefferson
Madison
Riddle:
A person gets up 180 times every night and sleeps for at least 7 hours at a time. Where does the person live?
Answer: At the North or South Pole.
Riddle:
If you have three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have?
Answer: the answer is 2 two you take 2.... (you have 2)
Riddle:
What have these words in common?
ASPIRATED GRANGERS PRELATES SWINGERS CHASTENS
Answer: All can be diminished by one letter (from begining and end alternately) forming a new word each time.
Riddle:
It has rib bones and back bones. It swallows human beings whole, then spits them out alive. What is it?
Answer: A house.
Riddle:
Dreaming of apples on a wall. And dreaming often, dear. I dreamed that, if I counted all, How many would appear?
How many?
Answer: And dreaming of ten, dear.
Riddle:
Suppose you want to send in the mail a valuable object to a friend. You have a box which is big enough to hold the object. The box has a locking ring which is large enough to have a lock attached and you have several locks with keys. However, your friend does not have the key to any lock that you have. You cannot send the key in an unlocked box since it may be stolen or copied. How do you send the valuable object, locked, to your friend - so it may be opened by your friend?
Answer: Send the box with a lock attached and locked. Your friend attaches his or her own lock and sends the box back to you. You remove your lock and send it back to your friend. Your friend may then remove the lock she or he put on and open the box.
Riddle:
A sign on the barber's door says "I shave only those who do not shave themselves". Does the barber shave himself?
Answer: There is no answer; it's a paradox. It cannot be made to work.
Riddle:
If seven cats kill seven rats in 7 minutes, how many would be needed to kill one hundred rats in 50 minutes?
Answer: 14.
Riddle:
Can you list 15 items that are sold in pairs?
Answer: 1. Shoes
2. Gloves
3. Socks
4. Ice Skates
5. Skis
6. Shoe laces
7. Earrings
8. Ear plugs
9. Dice
10. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Candy
11. Speakers
12. Dumb Bells
13. Chop sticks
13. Drum sticks
14. Knee pads
15. Fake eyelashes
Riddle:
How can you spell "enemy" in three letters?
Answer: F O E.
Riddle:
A dog had three puppies, named Mopsy, Topsy and Spot. What was the mothers name?
Answer: What
Riddle:
A man walking along a railraod track sees a train thundering at high speed towards him. Instead of immediately jumpimg off the track, he charges directly at the train for about ten feet and only then gets off the track.
Why?
Answer: The man was on a bridge when he first saw the train so he couldn't jump off the track immediately.
