Riddle Poems
Rebus Picture Puzzles
Logic and Lateral Thinking
License Plate Puzzles
Scrambled Words
100
When I'm young I'm tall When I'm old I'm short When I'm alive I glow Because of your breath I die
What is a candle?
100
STA4NCE
For instance
100
Cathy has twelve black socks and twelve white socks in her drawer. In complete darkness, and without looking, how many socks must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair that match?
What is three?
100
HWDOUDO
How do you do?
100
MEYRH
Rhyme
200
This thing all things devours: Birds, trees, beasts, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
What is time?
200
FAREDCE
Red in the face
200
Mary's mother has four children. The first child is called April. The second May. The third June. What is the name of the fourth child?
What is Mary?
200
2DI4
To die for
200
PAYHP
Happy
300
Thirty white horses on a red hill, First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still.
What are teeth?
300
VA DERS
Space invaders
300
You have a three gallon bucket, a five gallon bucket, and unlimited water. You need to measure our four gallons. How do you do so?
Fill the five gallon container. Pour all but two gallons into the three gallon container. Empty the three gallon container. Put the two remaining gallons from the five gallon container into the three gallon container. Fill the five gallon container one more time. Pour one gallon from the five gallon container by filling the three gallon container. Now the five gallon container contains four gallons.
300
OPNWDE
Open wide
300
ABEGD
Badge
400
You may enter, but you may not come in, I have space, but no room, I have keys, but open no lock.
What is a keyboard?
400
GIVE GET GIVE GET GIVE GET GIVE GET
Forgive and forget
400
Acting on an anonymous phone call, the police raid a house to arrest a suspected murderer. They don't know what he looks like but they know his name is John and that he is inside the house. The police bust in on a carpenter, a truck driver, a mechanic and a fireman all playing poker. Without hesitation or communication of any kind, they immediately arrest the fireman. How do they know they've got their man?
All the other poker players were women.
400
CUINCRT
See you in court
400
RZEBON
Bronze
500
I have streets but no pavement, I have cities but no buildings, I have forests but no trees, I have rivers yet no water.
What is a map?
500
TRY STAND 2
Try to understand
500
Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying on a hill near a remote house. Nobody put them on the lawn but there is a perfectly logical reason why they should be there. What is it?
They were part of a snowman which has since melted.
500
CD8D
Sedated
500
YPLSCOMI
Olympics