Riddle:
If I say I am lying, am I telling the truth?
Answer: This is impossible to solve, because if I were telling the truth, then I would be lying, which doesn't make sense since I am telling the truth. If I am lying, then what I said was true and that doesn't make sense either.
Riddle:
It speaks with a hard tongue, it cannot breathe, for it has no lungs. What is it?
Answer: A Bell.
Riddle:
I build up castles. I tear down mountains. I make some men blind, I help others to see. What am I?
Answer: I am Sand.
Riddle:
What is the shape of a kiss?
Answer: Elliptical—a-lip-tickle.
Riddle:
A hundred stones are placed, in a straight line, a yard distant from each other. How many yards must a person walk, who undertakes to pick them up, and place them in a basket stationed one yard from the first stone?
Answer: In solving this question it is clear that to pick up the first stone and put it into the basket, the person must walk two yards, one in going for the stone and another in returning with it; that for the second stone he must walk four yards, and so on increasing by two as far as the hundredth, when he must walk two hundred yards, so that the sum total will be the product of 202 multiplied by 50, or 10,100 yards. If any one does not see why we multiply 202 by 50 in getting the answer, we refer him to his arithmetic.
Riddle:
What did the faucet say to the shower?
Answer: "You're a big drip."
Riddle:
A woman went into a bank to cash an insurance refund check. By mistake the teller gave her dollars for cents and cents for dollars. She put the money in her purse but accidentally dropped a nickel on the floor. When she got home, she found that she had exactly twice the amount of the check she had cashed. She didn't have any money in her wallet before going to the bank. What was the exact amount of that check?
Answer: The amount must have been $31.63. She received $63.31. After she dropped a nickel there would remain the sum of $63.26, which is twice the amount of the check.
Riddle:
There is a house. One enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?
Answer: A school.
Riddle:
Joe has ten coins totaling $1.19. From these coins, he cannot make exact change for a dollar, half-dollar, quarter, dime, or nickel.
What are the coins?
Answer: A half-dollar, a quarter, four dimes, and four pennies.
Riddle:
What animal has no wings, but yet will fly?
Answer: A caterpillar has no wings, but will fly when it matures and becomes a butterfly.
Riddle:
Join a noun and adjective, and make a verb. What is the word?
Answer: Impeach.
Riddle:
Granny looked up from her rocking chair and said: As far as I can tell, there is only one anagram of the word trinket.
What is it?
Answer: The word knitter.
Riddle:
My first is in chocolate but not in ham, my second's in cake and also in jam, my third at tea-time is easily found, my whole is a friend who's often around. What am I?
Answer: A Cat!
Riddle:
It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. What is it?
Answer: A cabbage.
Riddle:
A large truck is crossing a bridge 1 mile long. The bridge can only hold 14000 lbs, which is the exact weight of the truck. The truck makes it half way across the bridge and stops. A bird lands on the truck. Does the bridge collapse?
Answer: No, it does not collapse. Because it has driven a half mile - you would subtract the gas used from the total weight of the truck.
Riddle:
What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot?
Answer: Carpet.
Riddle:
About the size of a squash, He robs the whole village. What is it?
Answer: A rat.
Riddle:
A riddle in which the answer is a 6 letter word.
A monument - men all agree - am I in all sincerity. Half cat, half hindrance made. If head and tail removed should be, then most of all you strengthen me; replace my head, then stand you see on which my tail is laid. What is it?
Answer: A Tablet.
Riddle:
My first is a fluid, my second a solid, my whole a plant. What is it?
Answer: Liquorice.
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.
