riddles
Riddle: If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?
Answer: A promise.
Riddle: I have a tail and a head, but no body. What am I?
Answer: A coin.
Riddle: What 2 things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner.
What has thirteen hearts, but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards.
Riddle: What’s the capital of France?
Answer: The letter “F.” It's the only capital letter in France.
Riddle: Which word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?
Answer: The word “short.”
What has keys but can't open locks?
What has keys but can't open locks?
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.
Riddle: I go up and down, but never move. What am I?
Answer: A staircase.
Riddle: Two fathers and 2 sons spent the day fishing, but only caught 3 fish. This was enough for each of them to have one fish. How is this possible?
Answer: There were only 3 people fishing. There was one father, his son, and his son's son. This means there were 2 fathers and 2 sons, since one of them is a father and a son.
Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven.
Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: Neither—they both weigh a ton.
Riddle: You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What am I?
Answer: The letter “R.”
Riddle: I can fill a room, but I take up no space. What am I?
Answer: Light.
If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal?
1 o'clock plus 2 hours = 1 o'clock 9 o'clock plus 5 hours = 2 o'clock
t can't be seen, can't be felt, can't be heard, and can't be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, and kills laughter. What is it?
Answer: The dark.
Which of the following words don't belong in the group and why? CORSET, COSTER, SECTOR, ESCORT, COURTS
COURTS. All of the others are anagrams of each other.
What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
Eat and Ate.
Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? What is it?
A shirt
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Answer: Silence.
How many letters are in the alphabet?
11. their are 11 letters in "the alphabet"
What are the next three letters in this combination? OTTFFSS
Answer: E N T (Each letter represents the first letter in the written numbers: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, etc.).
How is seven different from the rest of the numbers between one and ten?
Answer: Seven has two syllables and the other numbers only have one syllable.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M.”