Riddles
He has married many women but has never married. Who is he?
A priest
Using only addition, add eight 8s to get the number 1,000.
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000.
What has hands but can’t clap?
A Clock
There is a house. A person enters this house blind but exits it seeing. What is it?
A School
I am a three-digit number. My second digit is 4 times bigger than the third digit. My first digit is 3 less than my second digit. Guess the number?
141
It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. It is the start of every end, the end of every place.
The letter E
Old Granny Adams left half her money to her granddaughter and half that amount to her grandson. She left a sixth to her brother, and the remainder, $1,000, to the dogs’ home. How much did she leave altogether?
$12,000
What has many teeth but can’t bite?
A comb
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?”
One
A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
Four sisters and three brothers
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Bookkeeper
My twin lives at the reverse of my house number. The difference between our house numbers ends in two. What are the lowest possible numbers of our house numbers?
19 and 91. The difference is 72
I know a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be.
The word “few”
What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
Your left hand
If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal?
11 o’clock plus 2 hours = 1 o’clock
9 o’clock plus 5 hours = 2 o’clock
I am something people love or hate. I change people’s appearances and thoughts. If a person takes care of themself I will go up even higher. To some people, I will fool them. To others, I am a mystery. Some people might want to try and hide me but I will show. No matter how hard people try I will never go down. What am I?
Age.
You know 2 + 2 comes to the same as 2 x 2. Now find a set of three different whole numbers whose sum is equal to their total when multiplied.
1, 2, and 3
Every night I’m told what to do, and each morning I do what I’m told. But I still don’t escape your scold. What am I?
An Alarm Clock
An elephant in Africa is called Lala. An elephant in Asia is called Lulu. What do you call an elephant in Antarctica?
Lost
If yes is no, and once is never, how many sides does a triangle have?
Two
Always in you, sometimes on you; if I surround you, I can kill you. What am I?
Water
What is the smallest number that increases by 12 when it is flipped and turned upside-down?
86. When it is turned upside down, it becomes 98
A plane crashed off the coast of Mexico and every single person died, yet there were two survivors. How could that happen?
The survivors were a couple
People buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?
A plate or bowl
What word in the English language does the following:
The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Heroine