RIDDLES
David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?
David
If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?
A secret
What has words, but never speaks?
A book
What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
NOON
What question can you never answer yes to?
Are you asleep yet?
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness
Where does today come before yesterday?
The dictionary
What can you catch, but not throw?
A cold
Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?
The letter “r”
What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Day, and night
What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
An echo
What gets bigger when more is taken away?
A hole
What has one eye, but can’t see?
A needle
You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
The letter “e”
With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?
A stapler
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
A bank
What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
A chalkboard
It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
Your name
Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
They are a grandfather, father and son.
I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Fire
What goes up but never comes down?
Your age
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano
If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Second place
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
A river