60 Money Riddles - Riddles about Money
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1. I have a head and a tail but no body... What am I?
Answer: A coin.
2. If you have two coins which total 35 cents and one of the coins is not a dime, what are the two coins?
Answer: A quarter and a dime. One coin is not a dime, but the other one is.
3. Is an old hundred-dollar bill better than a new one?
Answer: Well, it's worth 99 more dollars.
4. Where does a snowman keep his money?
Answer: In a snow bank.
5. You give someone a dollar. You are this person's brother, but the person is not your brother. How can that be?
Answer: It's your sister!
6. Why don't cows have money?
Answer: Because the farmer milks them dry.
7. How many gold coins can a leprechaun throw in an empty pot?
Answer: One. After that, it’s no longer empty.
8. Why is the moon like a dollar?
Answer: Because it has four quarters.
9. What did the dollar say to the four quarters?
Answer: You've changed!
10. Where do penguins keep their money?
Answer: In a snow bank!
11. What did the British man lose when he spent his money working out at the gym?
Answer: Pounds.
12. What do you get when you toss a copper penny and a quarter into the blue sea?
Answer: Less money.
13. People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money!
14. Where do fish keep their money?
Answer: In the river bank.
15. People need me, but they always give me away. What am I?
Answer: Money.
16. What is the easiest way to double your money?
Answer: Put it in front of a mirror of course!
17. What has one hundred heads, and no legs?
Answer: A dollar in pennies.
18. I am green all over, yet I know no bounds. If you turn me around a face you will see, being without me produces envy. What am I?
Answer: A dollar bill.
19. I give you all the money in the world but I receive nothing. What am I?
Answer: A tree.
20. What is equal to time, more likely to corrupt, possessed by the rich, needed by the poor, and if taken away, leads to a loss of status?
Answer: Money.
21. A man flipped a coin 9 times and every single time it landed on heads. If the man flipped the coin again, what is the chance that it lands on heads?
Answer: 50%. It's always 50%.
22. I'm hard as a rock, and as light as a feather. I'm passed on to one another. Poor people need me, and rich people have me. What am I?
Answer: Money.
23. What has a head and tail that will never meet?
Answer: A coin/penny
24. I have four characteristics, durability, divisibility, transportability, and non-counterfeitability. What am I?
Answer: Money.
25. I start off red, then I am halved, and turn blue. I am then halved once again, and turn pink. What am I ?
Answer: Australian notes (money) $20 note is red $10 note is blue And a $5 note is pink!
26. What has fifty heads and fifty tails?
Answer: Fifty pennies or coins.
27. I walked down the street day and I found something that had worth. You make sure you don't lose it. It has a color, size, and shape but everyone is different. You touch it, enjoy it, like it, and always count it over. What is it?
Answer: Money.
28. A bottle costs a dollar more than a cork. Together they cost 110 cents. How much does the bottle cost and how much does the cork cost?
Answer: The right answer is that the bottle costs 105 cents, and the cork costs 5 cents.
29. Two women have just lost ten pounds. One was delighted, while the other was dejected. Why?
Answer: The first woman was an American, and had lost ten pounds in WEIGHT. The second woman was an European, and had lost ten pounds in MONEY.
30. You try to gain more of me with every coin. You travel every distance to obtain me. You try every illusion to believe you have me. What am I?
Answer: Freedom.
31. Which is better, an old ten dollar bill or a new one?
Answer: An old TEN dollar bill is better that just a ONE dollar bill!
32. I can bring power, money, connections, repute, and admiration, but I'm useless in the face of love and friendship. Treat others with me, and you'll avoid heartbreak, but you'll also gain endless loneliness. What am I?
Answer: Disguise.
33. You have two coins, and their total value is 11¢. One of the coins is not a penny. What are the two coins?
Answer: The two coins are a dime and a penny. I said "ONE of the coins is not a penny"; if one of the coins is not a penny, then the other coin IS a penny. The coin that is not a penny has to be a dime because the total value should be 11¢.
34. I have four digits, I own a lot of cash money money, I'm kept a secret, but used on the daily. What am I?
Answer: Pin number.
35. Two coins equal 30 cents and one isn't a nickel. What are the two coins?
Answer: A nickel and a quarter because one isn't a nickel but the other one is.
36. Upon my top there is a golden shop wherein a dollar can't be spent. Along my sides stretch nature's slides which will never relent. At my feet where people meet full of ire, dread and lament. What am I?
Answer: A mountain. On the top one can find clarity and make memories that a conventional shop can't sell. Nature's slides are rivers. At my feet or foot of the mountain is the first step and place everyone has to be to begin the climb, which will be difficult (ire, dread and lament)
37. Why is a gooseberry pie like counterfeit money?
Answer: Because it is not currant (current).
38. An archaeologist finds a coin dated 48 B.C. How did he know it was a fake?
Answer: BC is before Christ. Christ was not yet born when the coin would have been made and the date would be impossible.
39. A man was robbed at midnight. The value of the items added up to ten thousand dollars When the police checked, there were two copies of the thief standing outside the door. The police arrested the correct one right away. How could they know?
Answer: The thief stole money. It was falling out of his pockets.
40. How can a man be tall and short at the same time?
Answer: When he is short of money.
41. Many years ago a boy and a girl are planning to run off and get married. But the boy got cold feet and needed to tell the girl. He wanted to send a telegram, but only had enough money for one word. What one word did he send?
Answer: Cantaloupe.
42. If a fender cost six dollars, what will a ton of coal come to?
Answer: To ashes.
43. I have your ohs and your wishes, Your life force and your death gasp. You can visit me, or we can get stuck together; Either way, you'll arrive pale and leave quenched. What am I?
Answer: A well. “Your ohs”: The interjection “oh, well” uses “well” as a conversational filler. “Your wishes”: A “wishing well” is where people toss coins and make wishes. “Your life force”: Wells hold water, essential for life; drinking from a well sustains you. “Your death gasp”: “Farewell” (said at life’s end) contains “well,” and grief often “wells up” as tears. “You can visit me”: A literal water well is a place you go to draw water. “We can get stuck together”: “As well” means “together/also,” and “well… well” is a phrase people repeat when stuck or hesitating. “Arrive pale and leave quenched”: A pun on “pail/pale”—you come with a pail to the well and leave with thirst quenched and the pail filled; or you come looking drained (“pale”) and leave revived by water. All clues point to “well” through its literal meaning (water source) and its many idiomatic uses.
44. A robber came into my store and stole $100 from the register without my knowledge. A few minutes later, the same guy came back with the $100 he stole and purchased $70 worth of items and I gave him $30 in change. How much money did I lose?
Answer: I lost $100
45. What do a- Jealous teenage girl, A dollar bill, And a bed of grass have in common?
Answer: They're all green!
46. If you take me four steps forward from the ball you will see something making a noise. but if you take me four more steps you will need to pay money. Who am i?
Answer: The letter A. If you take the letter 'a' from the word 'ball' and you move it four steps it becomes 'e' and the word is 'bell' and it makes noise and then you move it four more it becomes 'i' and then the word is 'bill' and you need to pay money.
47. If you were to put a coin into an empty bottle and then insert a cork into the neck, how could you remove the coin without taking out the cork or breaking the bottle?
Answer: Push the cork into the bottle and shake the coin out!
48. I am needed to survive, but when am here there is evil and good, when am gone others come in, you don't seek me you die. What I am?
Answer: Money.
49. Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?
Answer: The same reason seven dollars is more than six. Because there is one more.
50. Tara has $29.00 dollars. She bought 4 coloring books that cost $3.00 each, 4 boxes of Crayola crayons that cost $2.00 each. She spends the rest of her money on markers. How much money did she spend on markers?
Answer: She spent $9.00 on markers.
51. What kind of money do vampires use?
Answer: Blood money!
52. Why are mortgages like burglars?
Answer: They secure (seek your) money.
53. You and four other people robbed a bank for 200,000,000 dollars you evenly split the money for every person you get 25% of the money how much do you get.
Answer: You get a 100% cut because 25% x 4 = 100%.
54. 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.
55. I have two coins, one is marked George I and one is marked George IV. One is genuine but one is a forgery. Which is the forgery?
Answer: George I. A coin would not be marked Goerge I because at the time it was produced it would not have been known that there was going to be a George II.
56. I have three USA coins. They are not a quarter, dime or penny and they add up to 60 cents. What are the coins?
Answer: A 50 cent piece and 2 nickels.
57. How can you give someone $63 using six bills, without using any one dollar bills?
Answer: 1 - $50 bill, 1 - $5 bill , 4 - $2 bills
58. What is the difference between a dollar and a half and thirty five-cents?
Answer: Nothing. A dollar and a half is the same as thirty five-cents (nickels). But not the same as thirty-five cents.
59. Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it wants it not. What is it?
Answer: Counterfeit money.
60. My first is often at the front door. My second is found in the cereal family. My third is what most people want. My whole is one of the United States. What am I?
Answer: MATRIMONY (mat rye money). Which is certainly a "united state"!
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