Basic Ridddles
What gets wet while it's drying?
What is a towel?
YROSR
You say this if you're polite
Sorry
Larry’s father has five sons named Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty…Guess what would be the name of the fifth?
Larry! He would be the fifth son
How can you make seven even?
Take away the S
What can you catch but not throw?
A cold
Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
The letter "C"
LEPNIC
MUST use this in math
If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
It will become wet.
A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days and leaves on Friday. How did he do it?
The horse's name is Friday
What comes down but never goes up?
Rain
What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?
Silence
MOROSACLS
You spend a lot of time here
Classroom
How many times you can subtract the number 5 from 25?
Once
A clerk in the butcher shop is 5'10'' tall. What does he weigh?
Meat
What is brought to the table and cut, but never eaten?
A deck of cards.
What do an island and the letter T have in common?
They’re both in the middle of water
EEETNIMXPR
You do this in science
Experiment
What is the easiest way to throw a ball, have it stop, and completely reverse direction after traveling a short distance?
Throw the ball straight up
With what vegetable do you throw away the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside of the inside, and throw away the inside?
Corn on the cob
The red house is on one side and the blue is on the other, where is the white house?
In Washington D.C.
I have keys but no locks. I have a space but no room. You can enter, but can’t go outside. What am I?
A keyboard
MAPNGIC
A 5th grade memory
A summer activity
Two men play five games of checkers. Each man wins the same number of games. There are no ties. Explain this.
They are not playing each other.
There be a place,
'Tis oh so true,
Where you can see yourself,
But yourself can't see you.
A mirror
What is always the last thing to mend,
the middle of the middle and the end of the end?
The letter "d"