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? Give a reason.
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:
A little house full of meat, no door to go in and eat.
What am I?
Answer: A Nut.
Riddle:
Ben walked into a hardware store and asked the price of some items. The salesman said: One costs $1, Eight costs $1, Seventeen cost $2, One hundred four costs $3 and One thousand seventy two costs $4. What was Ben buying?
Answer: Ben was buying home address numbers and they cost $1 per digit.
Riddle:
Jack has 8 bricks, 7 of them weigh the same but one is slightly heavier. Using a balance scale, how can Jack find the heavier brick in two weighings?
Answer: First, he splits them into piles of 3, 3, and 2 bricks.
Then, he weighs both groups of 3 with each other. If they balance he knows the brick is one of the 2 unweighed bricks and he can weigh them to find the heavier one.
If the stacks of 3 bricks do not balance, he will weigh 2 of the 3 bricks.
If they balance he will know the brick left unweighed is heavier, or if they do not balance, he will find the heavier one.
Riddle:
A man has 9 children. Half of them are boys. How is this possible?
Answer: they are all boys
Riddle:
You're running a race and pass the person in 2nd place. What place are you in now?
Answer: You're in second place. You didn't pass the person in first.
Riddle:
Johnny's mother had three children. The first was named April and the second was named May. What was the name of the third child?
Answer: Johnny
Riddle:
At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?
Answer: The Stars
Riddle:
What has a mouth but doesn't eat, a bank with no money, a bed but doesn't sleep, and waves but has no hands?
Answer: A river
