I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around.
What am I?
I am Tree.
What boy wizard magically grew a beard each night?
Hairy Potter.
I always follow you around, everywhere you go at night. I look very bright to people, but I can make the sun dark. I can be in many different forms and shapes.
The moon!
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left alive?
9.
If you have two coins which total 35 cents and one of the coins is not a dime, what are the two coins?
A quarter and a dime. One coin is not a dime, but the other one is.
I am something people love or hate. I change peoples appearances and thoughts. If a person takes care of them self 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.
A man while looking at a photograph said, "Brothers and sisters have I none. That man's father is my father's son." Who was the person in the photograph?
That man's son.
I have hundreds of legs but I can only lean;
You make me feel dirty so you feel clean.
A Broom.
You have 14 brown socks, 14 blue socks and 14 black socks in your sock drawer. How many socks must you remove (without looking to be sure) to have a matched pair?
Four. You will have a pair of one color or another.
One hundred green-eyed logicians have been imprisoned on an island by a mad dictator. Their only hope for freedom lies in the answer to one famously difficult logic puzzle. Can you solve it? Alex Gendler walks us through this green-eyed riddle.
What can point in every direction but can't reach the destination by itself.
Your finger.
Our dinner guests cry that we are evil, when they notice their place in the meal. But its no big deal why; we are just one big happy tribe! And we get real fed up with people!
Who, What or Are we?
Cannibals!
Flat as a leaf, round as a ring; Has two eyes, can't see a thing.
A button
When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?
The difference in age is 23 years, so I must be 23 if my father is twice as old as me.
Before he turned physics upside down, a young Albert Einstein supposedly showed off his genius by devising a complex riddle involving a stolen exotic fish and a long list of suspects. Can you resist tackling a brain teaser written by one of the smartest people in history? Dan Van der Vieren shows how.
I come in many colors and I am very thin, I am found in every country, even in your home, I am very important, you can be very creative with me, I can even help you learn.
What am I?
Paper!
A woman who lives in new york legally married three men, she did not get divorce, get an enollment, or legally seperate.
How is this possible?
She is a minister.
It has a long neck, A name of a bird, Feeds on cargo of ships, It's not alive,
What is it?
A crane.
If 4+2=26, 8+1=79 and 6+5=111. Then, what is 7+3?
410.4+2=26 is because 4-2=2 and 4+2=6,so it is 26. Therefore, 7-3=4 and 7+3=10(410).
Taking that internship in a remote mountain lab might not have been the best idea. Pulling that lever with the skull symbol just to see what it did probably wasn’t so smart either. But now is not the time for regrets because you need to get away from these mutant zombies...fast. Can you use math to get you and your friends over the bridge before the zombies arrive? Alex Gendler shows how.
I'm not clothes but I cover your body;
The more I'm used, the thinner I grow.
What am I?
Bar of Soap
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen; First of all figures, the first of all letters, Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring Before you the name of an eminent king. Who am I?
DAVID (Roman numerals)
Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands?
What is it?
A shirt.
Joe has ten coins totaling $1.19. From these coins, he cannot make exact change for a dollar, half-dollar, quarter, dime, or nickel.
What are the coins?
A half-dollar, a quarter, four dimes, and four pennies.
I am a three digit number.
My tens digit is five more than my ones digit.
My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit.
What number am I?
Number 194.