Riddles
Think Literal
Simple riddles
Think about it
The hardest ones
(Double points for this column)
(Double points for this column)
100
Your parents have six sons including you and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
Nine—two parents, six sons, and one daughter.
100
Odds are against you
100
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
100
What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
the letter R
100
Can a man legally marry his widow's sister in the state of California?
NO since she is a 'widow', the guy's dead!
200
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
200
A balanced budget
200
What month of the year has 28 days?
all of them
200
How far can you walk into the woods?
Answer: Halfway — after that, you’re walking out
200
I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. What am I?
Graphite
300
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.
300
1 after another
300
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.
300
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mt. Everest, it just wasn’t discovered yet.
300
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Bookkeeper
400
A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
The river was frozen.
400
Split Level
400
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
400
There are four floor in a hotel. the higher the floor, the more people live there, which floor does the elevator visit the most?
1, 2, 3, or 4
1
400
I talk, but I do not speak my mind
I hear words, but I do not listen to thoughts
When I wake, all see me
When I sleep, all hear me
Many heads are on my shoulders
Many hands are at my feet
The strongest steel cannot break my visage
But the softest whisper can destroy me
The quietest whimper can be heard.
-Teddy Roosevelt
an actor
500
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.
500
put IT in writing
500
what do you have to throw out in order to use it
an Anchor
500
What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Heroine
500
I turn polar bears white and I will make you cry. I make guys have to pee and girls comb their hair. I make celebrities look stupid and normal people look like celebrities. I turn pancakes brown and make your champagne bubble. If you squeeze me, I'll pop. If you look at me, you'll pop. Can you guess the riddle?
No (The answer is no)