Riddles
It is yours but it is often used by others.
What is "It"?
What is my name?
Your name is your own, but it is often used by others.
R
O
R O A D S
D
S
What are Cross Roads?
STAND
TRY2
What is . . . try to understand?
Frank, John, and Peter are fighting.
Frank says John is lying.
John says Peter is lying.
Peter says Frank and John are lying.
Which one of these three is telling the truth?
If Frank is telling the truth, John would have lied about his claim that Peter is lying. So John would have to tell the truth, but then Frank cannot tell the truth. So Frank is lying.
If Peter is telling the truth, then his statement about Frank is wrong, because Frank is claiming that John is lying, whereas he is saying that Peter is lying. So Peter is lying too.
Then John is telling the truth.
It is . . .
Once in a minute
Twice in a moment
But never in a thousand years . . .
What is "It"?
What is . . .The Letter "M"?
SHAGETPE
What is . . . get into shape?
EGSG ESGG
GEGS GGSE
What are . . . scrambled eggs?
There are 3 rooms with a lamp and 1 room with 3 switches that you can turn on and off. You may only look once in each room.
How do you find out which switch belongs to which room?
You turn switch 1 on, switch 2 on, but you turn it off after 5 minutes and leave switch 3 off. Then you go back after 5 minutes to check. 1 is on, 2 and 3 are off, but lamp 2 still glows.
A man describes his daughters and says:
"They are all blond, except 2.
They are all brunettes except 2.
They all have red hair except 2.
How many daughters does this man have?
What is . . . Three daughters. 1x blond, 1x brown and 1x red?
3 BLAME
4 BLAME
What is . . . No one to BLAME?
<No 1, 2 BLAME>
ABCDEFGHIJKLM
NOPQRSTVWXYZ
What is . . . missing you?
John and Harry play with marbles. If John wins a marble from Harry, they both have the same number of marbles. But if Harry wins a marble from John, Harry has twice as many marbles as John.
How many marbles do John and Harry have?
This is a very tricky brain teaser. John has 7 and Harry 5. If John has one more he has twice as many (8 to 4) and if he has one less he has 6 and 6.
F A M I L Y
If A is the father of C,
D is the son of B,
E is the brother of A, and
C is the sister of D.
What is B then of E?
What is . . . B is the sister-in-law of E.
I RIGHT I
What is . . . right between the eyes?
V A D E R S
What is . . . Space invaders?
One night, a man gets a call from the police. The police tell him that his wife has been murdered, and that he needs to come to the crime scene. The man quickly gets dressed and drives 20 minutes in his car.
When he arrives at the crime scene, he is immediately arrested and taken for questioning.
How does the police know that her husband was the perpetrator?
The police asked him to come to the crime scene. He goes to the crime scene. When he obviously knows where this place is. So he is the murderer.
A mother gives her son a present, and says
"If you get hungry, you can eat it
if you get thirsty, you can drink it
if you get cold, you can burn it"
What did the son get?
What is . . . a coconut?
WHERE WHERE
WHERE WHERE
WHERE WHERE
R A I N
What is . . . Somewhere over the rainbow?
IDEJEHT
What is . . . Return of the Jedi?
Fourteen of the children in the class are girls. Eight of the children are wearing blue shirts. Two of the children are not girls and are not wearing blue shirts.
If five of the children are girls wearing blue shirts, how many children are there in the class?
There are 3 boys who wear blue shirts.
And there are 2 children who are not girls and do not wear blue shirts. So 2 boys who do not wear blue shirts.
14 girls + 5 boys = 19