Riddles
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.
A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?
Answer: The man was bald.
What makes this number unique: 8,549,176,320?
Answer: It has each number, zero through nine, listed in alphabetical order.
You are kidnapped by a mad scientist. Who’s going to experiment on you. He has injected a new drug into your blood and suggests being thrown into one of the tanks.
in 1st tank, there is a corrosive acid that will burn your skin.
2nd tank is the lava out of the largest volcano which erupted a year ago.
3rd tank toxic chemicals that will kill you.
4th tank mercury that will destroy your brain.
Which tank is safe?
Answer: The volcano erupted a year ago, so the lava must be solid.
The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?
Answer: A coffin.
In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995, that same person is 10 years old. How can this be?
Answer: The person was born in 2005 BC.
How can 8 + 8 = 4?
Answer: When you think in terms of time. 8 AM + 8 hours= 4 o’clock.
You are locked up in the room. There are three doors, but touching the doorknobs is unsafe.
In the 1st doorknob, there are High voltage fatal of humans
2nd doorknob, Red Hot iron that will burn your hand off, and
in the 3rd doorknob, Poison strong enough to kill you
Which doorknob would you turn?
Poison is only fatal if injected.
Forrest left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home, there were two masked men. Who were they?
Answer: The catcher and the umpire.
A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?
Answer: His son
Your parents have six sons including you and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
Answer: Nine—two parents, six sons, and one daughter.
You’re escaping a maze, and there are three doors in front of you. The door on the left leads to a pit of lava. The door in the center leads to a room filled with deadly gas. The door on the right leads to a lion that hasn’t eaten in three months. Which door do you choose?
Answer: The door on the right. A lion that hasn’t eaten in three months would be dead.
A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. Why?
Answer: He’s playing Monopoly.
You are in a room that has three switches and a closed door. The switches control three light bulbs on the other side of the door. Once you open the door, you may never touch the switches again. How can you definitively tell which switch is connected to each of the light bulbs?
Answer: Turn on the first two switches. Leave them on for five minutes. Once five minutes has passed, turn off the second switch, leaving one switch on. Now go through the door. The light that is still on is connected to the first switch. Whichever of the other two is warm to the touch is connected to the second switch. The bulb that is cold is connected to the switch that was never turned on.
What is next in this sequence of numbers: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, ______?
Answer: 13112221. Each sequence of numbers is a verbal representation of the sequence before it. Thus, starting with 1, the next sequence would be “one one,” or “11.” That sequence is followed by “two one,” or “21,” and so on and so forth.
You inherited an old house from your rich uncle. When you were exploring the cellar you came across a door and opened it. In that room, there were three bags. One of the bags has $1 million cash and the others are empty. There is a message on each bag.
1st bag, The cash is not here,
2nd bag, The cash is not here, and
3rd bag, The cash is in the second bag
Only one message is true.
Which bag has money?
Answer: Money can not be in second and third bags. It is in the first bag.
Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat.
I left my campsite and hiked south for 3 miles. Then I turned east and hiked for 3 miles. I then turned north and hiked for 3 miles, at which time I came upon a bear inside my tent eating my food! What color was the bear?
Answer: White. The only place you can hike 3 miles south, then east for 3 miles, then north for 3 miles and end up back at your starting point is the North Pole. Polar bears are the only bears that live at the North Pole, and they are white.
If you have a 7-minute hourglass and an 11-minute hourglass, how can you boil an egg in exactly 15 minutes?
Answer: To boil the egg in exactly 15 minutes, follow these four steps.
One morning, little 6 year old Mary got trapped in a castle in Costa Rica. There are 4 doors, and one leads to freedom.
1st door: Lava will immediately melt anyone.
2nd door: The killer clown would beat any person to death.
3rd door: Deadly frost will freeze her at once.
4th door: Cops will shoot any man or woman indiscriminately.
Which door is safe?
Answer: Door 4. it is said they shoot any man or woman, but Mary is not an adult.