Riddles
Riddles
Math
riddles
Mixed up
100
A candle.
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
100
A teapot
What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t” and ends in “t”?
100
2
What is 1 + 1
100
Neither, they both weigh one pound.
Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
100
They were a grandmother, mother and daughter.
Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, everyone ate one burger, yet only three burgers were eaten in all. How is this possible?
200
here weren’t any stairs, it was a one storey house.
In a one-storey pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink!What color were the stairs?
200
the woman is blind and is reading braille.
A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How?
200
4
What is 2 + 2
200
All 12 months.
How many months have 28 days?
200
The man was bald.
a man was outside taking a walk, when it started to rain. The man didn’t have an umbrella and he wasn’t wearing a hat. His clothes got soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?
300
A clock.
What has hands but can not clap?
300
the match.
You walk into a room with a match, a karosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. Which do you light first?
300
8
What is 4 + 4
300
Tuesday, Thursday, today, and tomorrow.
Name four days of the week that start with the letter “t”?
300
His horse’s name was Friday.
A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days, then leaves on Friday. How did he do it?
400
The house is on the north pole, so the bear is white.
A house has 4 walls. All of the walls are facing south, and a bear is circling the house. What color is the bear?
400
A Towel.
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
400
16
What is 8 + 8
400
Both trains would be at the same spot when they meet therefore they are both equally close to Halifax.
A train leaves from Halifax, Nova Scotia heading towards Vancouver, British Columbia at 120 km/h. Three hours later, a train leaves Vancouver heading towards Halifax at 180 km/h. Assume there’s exactly 6000 kilometers between Vancouver and Halifax. When they meet, which train is closer to Halifax?
400
All the people on the boat are married.
You walk across a bridge and you see a boat full of people yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
500
The letter W.
What is at the end of a rainbow?
500
You draw a shorter line next to it, and it becomes the longer line.
you draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make the line longer?
500
32
What is 16 + 16
500
The bark on a tree.
What goes around and around the wood but never goes into the wood?
500
The doctor was his mom.
A boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room. The ER doctor saw the boy and said, “I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son.” But the doctor was not the boy’s father. How could that be?
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