Riddles
This five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it.
What is the word?
short
When you need me, you throw me away. But when you're done with me, you bring me back.
What am I?
an anchor
This ancient invention allows people to see through walls.
What is it?
a window
I stay in the corner but travel around the world.
What am I?
a stamp
Many have heard me, but no one has seen me, and I will not speak back until spoken to.
What am I?
an echo
I have seas without water.
I have forests without wood.
I have deserts without sand.
I have houses with no brick.
What am I?
a map
Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, I will devour them all.
What am I?
scissors
If it's information you seek, come and see me. If it's pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three.
What am I?
a bookkeeper
I go on four legs in the morning, on two legs at boon, and on three legs in the evening. What am I?
a man. He crawls as a baby, then walks, then uses a cane in old age.
I have a tongue and though I cannot walk, I'm known to get around.
What am I?
a shoe
A woman was born in 1948 but only celebrated her 16th birthday quite recently.
How can this be?
She was born on February 29th (leap day).
A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river. He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing. If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken. If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn.
How does he do it?
Man carries the chicken to the other side, man carries fox to the other side and returns with the chicken, man leaves the chicken on the original side and carries the corn to the other side, man carries the chicken to the other side.
Under pressure is the only way I work, and by myself is the only way I'm hurt.
What am I
a diamond
I take what you receive and surrender it all by waving my flag.
What am I?
a mailbox
A murder is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms:
the first is full of raging fires;
the second, assassins with loaded guns;
and the third, lions who haven't eaten in years.
Which room is the safest?
The third one. The poor lions died of starvation.
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
What is the next number in the sequence?
The next number is: 13112221. Each number describes the previous number. Starting with 1,the second line describes it 11 (one 1). Then the third line describes 11 as 21 (two 1's). Then the fourth line describes 21 as 1211 (one 2, one 1). This is the pattern.
16, 06, 68, 88, ?, 98.
What is the '?'?
The '?' is '78'. All of the numbers, when read upside down, are the numbers 86 - 91.
I am the first on earth, the second in heaven.
I appear twice in a week, though you can only see me once in a year.
What am I?
letter E
A man is found murdered on a Sunday morning. His wife calls the police, who question the wife and the staff, and are given the following alibis:
the wife says she was sleeping, the butler was cleaning the closet, the gardener was picking vegetables, the maid was getting the mail, and the cook was preparing breakfast.
Immediately, the police arrest the murderer.
Who did it and how did the police know?
The maid. There is no mail on Sundays.
We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size.
What am I?
words
Smell me, buy me, and deliver me. Still, I won't change.
What am I?
cent, scent, and sent
I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case from which I'm never released, and yet I am used by many.
What am I?
Pencil lead
It lies behind rocks and rills, and under mountains and hills. It cannot be seen or felt, nor even heard or smelt.
What is it?
The dark
Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not.
What is it?
counterfeit money
500 is at my end and my start, yet 5 is at my heart, The first letter and the first number make me complete. My name is that of a king.
What am I?
David. D=500, and I=1 (the first number). 'A' is the first letter of the alphabet.