RIDDLES
I have hands but cannot clap. What am I?
What is a clock?
What comes next: 2, 4, 6, ___?
What is 8?
How many months have 28 days?
What is all of them?
What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
What is “incorrectly”?
Why can’t you take a picture of a man with a wooden leg?
Because a camera takes pictures, not legs
What has to be broken before you can use it?
What is an egg?
If you have three apples and take away two, how many do you have?
What is 2?
What goes up but never comes down?
What is your age?
What has a ring but no finger?
What is a phone?
What runs but never walks?
Water / a river
I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
What is a candle?
Which is heavier: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
They weigh the same.
What has one eye but cannot see?
What is a needle?
What word begins with “E,” ends with “E,” and has one letter?
What is an envelope?
Why did the math book look sad?
Because it had too many problems
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
What is a clock?
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 run away. How many are left?
What is 9?
If a plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada, where are the survivors buried?
Survivors aren’t buried.
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
What is “short”?
What can be broken without being held?
A promise
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
What are footprints?
If you drop a yellow hat into the Red Sea, what does it become?
What is wet?
What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
What is a stamp?
What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps