Riddles1
What has hands but doesn't clap?
A clock
Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother — how many children does Mary have?
Five, each daughter has the same brother.
A boy and his father get into a car accident. When they arrive at the hospital, the doctor sees the boy and exclaims “that’s my son!” How can this be?
The doctor is the boy’s mother.
Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
C (sea)
Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?
A Map
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven
How many months have 28 days?
All 12 months.
What five letter word becomes shorter when you remove two letters from it it?
Short (Short-er)
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
There was a green house. Inside the green house, there was a white house. Inside the white house, there was a red house. Inside the red house, there were lots of babies. What is it?
a Watermelon
Your mother’s brother’s only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is asleep on your couch?
Your father
How many letters are in the alphabet?
11 (t-h-e a-l-p-h-a-b-e-t)
What goes up but never comes back down?
Your age
What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Trouble.
What happens once in a lifetime, twice in a moment, but never in one hundred years?
The letter "M"
What instrument can you hear but never see?
Voice
If a red house is made of red bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?
Glass, all greenhouses are made of glass.
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?
The woman is blind and is reading braille
After a train crashed, every single person died. Who survived?
All of the couples.
What word begins and ends with an E, but only has one letter?
Envelope