Math Riddle
Two coins add up to 30 cents. One of them is not a nickel. What are the coins?
A quarter + a nickel. One of them is not a nickel but the other one is.
A murder is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms.
The first is full of raging fires;
The second, assassins with loaded guns;
and the third, lions who haven't eaten in years.
Which room is the safest?
Of course, the third one. The poor lions already died of starvation.
What do you call a fish with four eyes?
Fiiiish
You are my brother but I am not your brother. Who am I?
Your sister
What when read from right to left is a servant but when read from left to right is a ruler?
What do the numbers 11, 69, 88, and 96 all have in common?
They are all read the same upside down.
How do you know carrots are good four your eyes?
You never see rabbits wearing glasses.
A window cleaner is cleaning a window on the 25th floor of a skyscraper when, suddenly, he slips and falls. He has no safety equipment and nothing to soften his fall, and yet he is not hurt. How can this be?
He was inside cleaning windows.
When you need me, you throw me away. But when you're done with me, you bring me back.
What am I?
An anchor.
What room in your house do ghost aviod?
The living room
A woman was born in 1948 but only celebrated her 17th birthday quite recently. How can this be?
She was born on Feb. 29th. (leap day)
What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
Your left hand
What was the largest island in the world before Australia was discovered?
Australia- it was still there just not discovered.
I stay in the corner, but travel around the world.
What am I?
A stamp
This five letter word becomes shorter when you add to letters to it.
What is the word?
16,06,68,88,?,98
What is the "?" ?
78. All of the numbers are upside down.
A man is found murdered on a Sunday morning. His wife calls the police, who question the wife and the staffm and are given the following alibis:
The wife says she was sleeping,
the butler was cleaning the closet,
the gardener was picking vegetables,
the maid was getting the mail, and
the cook was preparing breakfast.
Immediately, the police arrest the murderer.
Who did it and how did the police know?
The maid, since there's no mail on Sundays.
What rock group has four men that don't sing?
Mount rushmore
I come once in today, three times in tomorrow, and never in the future. What am I?
The letter O.
I am the first on earth, the second in heaven. I appear twice in a week, though you can only see me once in a year.
What am I?
Letter E.
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
What is the next number in the sequence?
13112221. Each term describes the previous one. Starting with 1, the second term describes it as 11 (one 1), then the third term describes 11 as 21 ( two 1's). etc.
Two girls ate dinner together.
They both ordered iced tea.
One girl drank them very fast
and had finished five in the time it took
the other to drink just one.
The girl who drank one died
while the other survived.
All of the drinks were poisoned.
How did the girl who drank the most survive?
The poision was in the ice, as she slowly drank her one drink, the melting ice released the poision.
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him under water for five minutes. A little while later, they both go out and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
She shot her husband with her camera, and then developed the picture.
We hurt without moving.
We poision without touching.
We bear the truth and the lies.
We are not to be judged by our size.
What am I?
Words
Four men were fishing in a boat on the lake.
The boat turned over and all four men sank to the bottom of the lake. And yet, not one single man got wet.
How can this be?
All the men were married.