Riddles 1.0
What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence?
It is time to fix the fence.
Six letters it contains; remove one letter, and twelve remain. What is it? Six letters it contains; remove one letter, and twelve remain. What is it?
Dozens
What can you keep after giving to someone?
Your word.
How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?
F I V E Remove the 2 letters F and E from five and you have IV which is the Roman numeral for four.
Pearl white chest without key or lid. Inside of which, a golden treasure is hid. What am I?
Eating a watermelon
A man in a car saw a golden door, a silver door, and a bronze door. Which door did he open first?
The car door.
I can fly but have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
Clouds.
A man shaves several times a day but still has a beard. How?
He's a barber.
How can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000.
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg.
What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don’t want to use it?
An anchor.
After a train crashed, every single person died. Who survived?
All the couples.
What can you hold in your left hand but not your right?
Your right elbow.
How do you make the number 7 even without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?
Drop the "S" and "seven" becomes "even".
People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I?
Cutlery.
How many months of the year have 28 days?
12 months.
A bus driver was heading to town. He went right past a stop sign without stopping. Then, he turned left where there was a no left turn sign. Finally, he traveled down a one-way street opposing traffic, passed a policeman, and waved hello. He didn’t get a ticket. Why not?
He was walking, not driving.
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle.
Pick a number from 1-10, multiply it by 2, add ten, divide it by 2, now subtract the number that you have from the number you picked. What is it?
Do you have 5?
I am a beer yet kids can drink me and not get drunk. What am I?
Root beer.
What’s the capital in France?
The letter F is the only capital in France
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps.
What gets bigger the more you take away?
A hole.
What two whole, positive numbers have a one-digit answer when multiplied and a two-digit answer when added?
1 and 9.
What is the wealthiest nut?
Cashew.