Riddles
what is red, and smells like blue paint.
Which is heavier: A ton of bricks or a ton of feather?
They weigh the same
A girl feel off a 20 foot latter. She wasn't hurt. How?
She fell off the bottom step.
A man is holding exactly $5.25 but only has one coin. How is this possible?
He has a quarter and a $5 bill.
You go at red and stop at green. What am I?
A watermelon.
What can you catch, but not throw.
A cold.
You see me once in June, twice in November, not at all in May. What am I.
The letter "E"
What four-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
NOON.
What two words, added together, contain the most letters?
Post office.
Bella is outside a shop. She can’t read the signs, but she knows she needs to go in to make a purchase. What store is she at?
An eyeglass store.
Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you will die. What is it?
Nothing
What word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly.
incorrectly
Name three consecutive days without naming any of the seven days of the week.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
I have married many times but have always been single. Who am I?
A priest.
How can you physically stand behind your father while he is standing behind you?
You and your father are standing back-to-back.
The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.
A man goes out in heavy rain and nothing to protect him from it. His hair doesn't get wet. How?
He's bald.
You are in a dark room with a box of matches. On a table are a candle, an oil lamp and a log of firewood. What do you light first?
The match. Can’t light any of those things without a lit match.
I have 13 hearts, but no lungs or stomach. What am I?
A deck of cards.
A girl throws a ball as hard as she can. It comes back to her, even though nothing and nobody touches it. How?
She throws it straight up in the air.
Take one out and scratch my head. I am now black but I once was red.
A match.
Forwards I'm heavy, backwards I'm not. What am I?
Ton
Where does today come before yesterday?
In the dictionary.
I break but never fall. And I fall but never break. What are we?
Day and night.
What are the next three letters in this sequence: O, T, T, F, F, S, S—what comes next?
E, N, T. The letters are the first letters of the written numbers: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. “Eight, nine, ten” are next.