Riddles Coulum 1
Five apples are in a basket. How do you divide them among five girls so that each girl gets an apple, but one apple remains in the basket?
Give the fifth girl her apple in the basket.
David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
David.
I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Fire.
I am something people love or hate. I change peoples appearances and thoughts. If a person takes care of them self I will go up even higher. To some people I will fool them. To others I am a mystery. Some people might want to try and hide me but I will show. No matter how hard people try I will Never go down. What am I?
Age.
What is more useful when it is broken?
An egg.
A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him underwater for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
You live in a one story house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be?
What stairs? You live in a one-story house.
What runs around the whole yard without moving?
A fence.
Only one color, but not one size,
Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.
Present in sun, but not in rain,
Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.
What is it?
It's a shadow!
I make two people out of one. What am I?
A mirror.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps.
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.
Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?
There was the father, his son, and his son's son. This equals 2 fathers and 2 sons for a total of 3!
Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? What is it?
A shirt.
I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. What am I?
A blackboard.
What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
he word is starting! starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I. Cool,huh?
Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?
There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard.
What can you catch but never throw?
A cold.
If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal?
11 o'clock plus 2 hours = 1 o'clock
9 o'clock plus 5 hours = 2 o'clock
Samuel was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?
This man is bald!
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A Penny.
What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What is it?
A die (dice).
A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?
He was walking...not driving.
What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
Your name.
Why is Europe like a frying pan?
Because it has Greece at the bottom.