What four-letter word can be written forward, backward, or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
NOON
What is at the end of the rainbow?
The letter W
Name three consecutive days without naming any of the seven days of the week.
Yesterday, today, tomorrow
A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder. She wasn’t hurt. How?
She fell off the lowest rung.
What two words, added together, contain the most letters?
Post Office
Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
The “C”
Where does today come before yesterday?
In the dictionary
Three doctors all say Robert is their brother. Robert says he has no brothers. Who is lying?
No one—the doctors are Robert’s sisters.
You are in a dark room with a box of matches. On a table are a candle, an oil lamp, and a log of firewood. What do you light first?
The match.
I go around all the places, cities, towns, and villages, but never come inside. What am I?
A street.
Grandpa went out for a walk and it started to rain. He didn’t bring an umbrella or a hat. His clothes got soaked, but not a hair on his head was wet. How is this possible?
Grandpa was bald
I called my dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crossed the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge, a boat, or a raft. How is that possible?
The river was frozen.
You’re in a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?
Second place
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window.
I break, but never fall. And I fall, but never break. What are we?
Day and night.
You go at red and stop at green. What am I?
A watermelon.
I have 13 hearts, but no lungs or stomach. What am I?
A deck of cards.
I am easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?
A feather.
Bella is outside a shop. She can’t read the signs, but she knows she needs to go in to make a purchase. What store is she at?
An eyeglasses store.
Wednesday, Bill and Jim went to a restaurant they ordered and ate their food and stuff like that. Then they paid the bill, but neither Bill nor Jim paid the bill. Who did?
Wednesday did.
I am higher without a head. What am I?
A pillow.
What are the next three letters in this sequence: O, T, T, F, F, S, S—what comes next?
E, N, T. The letters are the first letters of the written numbers: one, two, three, four, five, etc. “Eight, nine, ten” are next.
How can you physically stand behind your father while he is standing behind you?
You and your father are standing back-to-back.
What type of cheese is made backward?
Edam.
A girl throws a ball as hard as she can. It comes back to her, even though nothing and nobody touches it. How?
She throws it straight up in the air!
An electric train is headed east. Where does the smoke go?
Electric trains don’t make any smoke!
What is the one thing everyone can agree is between heaven and earth?
The word “and”.
When is “L” greater than “XL”?
When you’re using Roman numerals.
A man was driving his truck. His lights weren’t on. The moon was not out. There were no streetlights. Up ahead, a woman was crossing the street. Luckily, the truck driver stopped in time—how did he see her?
It was daytime.
A horse attached to a 24-foot chain wants an apple that is 26 feet away. He reaches the apple and munches on it no problem—how is that possible?
The other end of the chain isn’t attached to anything.
If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?
Wet.
What color is the wind?
Blew.
What tastes better than it smells?
Your tongue.
What can jump higher than a building?
Anything that can jump—buildings can’t jump!
What has four wheels and flies?
A garbage truck.