Riddles 1
If you go to the movies and you´re paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice, or two friends to the movies at the same time?
It´s cheaper to take two friends at the same time. In this case, you would only be buying three tickets, whereas if you take the same friend twice you are buying four tickets.
A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn´t break the law. How come?
She was walking.
A group of ten people are going out for pizza but only two of them have an umbrella to keep them dry. But they manage to walk all the way to the pizza place without getting wet. How is this possible?
It isn´t raining outside.
A woman was sitting in her hotel room when there was a knock at the door. She opened the door to see a man whom she had never seen before. He said ¨Oh I´m sorry, I have made a mistake, I thought this was my room.¨ He then went down the corridor and in the elevator. The woman went back into her room and phoned security. What made the woman so suspicious of the man?
You do not knock on your own hotel room and the man did.
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows, ends life, kills laughter. What am I?
Darkness
I cannot hear or even see, but sense light and sounds that may be. Sometimes I end up on the hook, or even deep into a book. What am I?
A worm
If in a car race, the man who came two places in front of the last man finished one ahead of the man who came fifth. How many contestants were there?
6
There is a one story house. The walls are blue, the floor is pink, the stove and cupboards are red. What color are the stairs?
There are not any stairs.
Pronounced as one letter, and written with three, two letters there are, and two only in me. I am double, I am single, I am black, blue, and gray, I am read from both ends, and the same either way. What am I?
An eye
This thing all things devours: birds, beasts, trees, flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel; grinds hard stones to meal; slays kings, ruins towns, and beats high mountains down. What am I?
Time
My first is twice in apple but not once in tart. My second is in liver but not in heart. My third is in giant and also in ghost. I ´ m best when I´m in roast. What am I?
A Pig
A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven´t eaten in three years. Which room is safest for him?
The third room. Lions that haven´t eaten in three years are dead.
How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?
He was a priest.
I am a word of five letters and people eat me. If you remove the first letter, I become a form of energy. Remove the first two and I´m needed to live. Scramble the last 3 and you can drink me. What am I?
Wheat, heat, eat, tea
I stare at you; you stare at me. I have three eyes, yet can not see. Every time I blink, I give you commands. You do as you are told, with your feet and hands. What am I?
Traffic lights
I am always there, some distance away, somewhere between land and sea and sky I lay. You may move towards me, but distant I will stay. What am I?
The horizon
You walk into a room with a rabbit holding a carrot, a pig eating slop, and a chimp holding a banana. Which animal in the room is the smartest?
You
North
On my way to St. Ives I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had seven kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks, wives. How many were going to St. Ives?
One-just me
An empty bus pulls up to a stop and 10 people get on. At the next stop 5 people get off and twice as many people get on as at the first stop. At the third stop 25 get off. How many people are on the bus at this point?
One-the driver
I can bring tears to your eyes; resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time. I form in an instant but I last a lifetime. What am I?
A memory
I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I have never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
A pencil
Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they are not twins. How can this be?
They are part of a set of triplets.
A 10 foot rope ladder hangs over the side of a boat with the bottom rung on the surface of the water. The rungs are one foot apart, and the tide goes up at the rate of 6 inches per hour. How long will it be until three rungs are covered?
Never because the boat will rise with the tide.
There is a window cleaner who is cleaning a window on the 25th floor of a skyscraper. He suddenly slips and falls. He has no safety equiqment and nothing to soften his fall, but he is not hurt at all. How do you account for that?
He was inside cleaning windows.