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Riddle:
A man had a bar of lead that weighed 40 lbs., and he divided it into four pieces in such a way as to allow him to weigh any number of pounds from one to forty. What are the weights of the four pieces?
Answer: 1, 3, 9, 27, are the weights of the four pieces.
Riddle:
If 6 doubloons are worth 1 1/2 ducats, how many ducats are 27 doubloons worth?
Answer: 6 3/4 ducats (27/6=4 1/2. 4 1/2 x 1 1/2= 6 3/4)
Riddle:
Mr. and Mrs. Smith were walking home from the shopping mall with their purchases when Mr. Smith began to complain that his load was too heavy. Mrs. Smith turned to her husband and said, "I don't know what you're complaining about because if you gave me one of your parcels, I would have twice as many as you and if I gave you just one of mine, we would have equal loads." How many parcels was each carrying?
Answer: Mrs. Smith was carrying seven parcels and Mr. Smith was carrying five.
Riddle:
Charlotte is 13 years old. Her father Montague is 40 years old. How many years ago was Charlotte's father four times as old as Charlotte?
Answer: Four years ago. When Charlotte was 9 her father was 36, 4 times her age.
Riddle:
Out of 100 ladies attending the gala,85 had a white hand bag;75 had black shoes;60 carried an umbrella;90 wore a ring;
How many ladies must have had all four items?
Answer: 10
Divide by 3. All the ladies had three items. The remainder shows the number of ladies who had 4.
85756090______310 / 3 = 100 + 10 remainder
Riddle:
I am slim and tall, Many find me desirable and appealing. They touch me and I give a false good feeling. Once I shine in splendor, But only once and then no more. For many I am "to die for". What am I?
Answer: A Cigarette
Riddle:
A store has on sale a computer and word processor small enough to fit in your pocket. It can add, multiply, subtract, divide, and write in all languages. A delete device will correct any error. No electricity is required to operate it. The price? Only a few cents! How can the store make a profit by selling it so cheap?
Answer: The computer is a wooden pencil with an eraser!
Riddle:
A queen bee was buzzing, a worker bee was buzzing, a honey bee was buzzing, and a killer bee was buzzing.
How many bees were in buzzing?
Answer: One. There is only one b in the word buzzing
Riddle:
A rubber ball is tossed off the top of a 90 foot building. Every time it bounces, it goes back up half way. How many bounces will the ball take before it stops?
Answer: The answer is infinite, in a gravity free world. But of course gravity will eventually stop it.
Riddle:
A man sails off on a cruise between Mexico and the USA. He does not stop at any ports and does not even come out of the cabin, yet he makes $300,000 from his trip.
How?
Answer: He's a smuggler.
