RIDDLE OF THE DAY
Little Tommy Tittletat took two Ts, to tie two ups to two tall trees, to torment the terrible little tat. How many T's in all of that?
There are 2 T's in all of ThaT.
Find four numbers, the sum of which is 45, so that if 2 is added to the first number, 2 is subtracted from the second number, the third number is multiplied by 2 and the fourth number is divided by 2, then the four numbers so produced are all the same. What are the four numbers?
8 + 2 = 10
12 - 2 = 10
5 x 2 = 10
20 รท 2 = 10
45
One of the four words does not belong with the other three. Which word does not belong? What is it that the others have in common?
1. Green, yellow, red, blue.
2. April, December, November, June.
3. Cirrus, calculus, cumulus, stratus.
4. Carrots, radishes, potatoes, cabbages.
5. Fork, comb, rake, shovel.
1. Green. Yellow, red and blue are primary colors, green is not.
2. December. The other months have only 30 days.
3. Calculus. The others are cloud types.
4. Cabbage. The others are vegetables that grow underground.
5. Shovel. The others have prongs.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps.
You live in a one-story house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be?
What stairs? You live in a one-story house.
Where do bedtime books sleep?
Under their covers.
Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?
There was the father, his son, and his son's son. This equals 2 fathers and 2 sons for a total of 3!
Romeo and Juliet are found dead on the floor in a bedroom. When they were discovered, there were pieces of glass and some water on the floor. The only furniture in the room is a shelf and a bed. The house is in a remote location, away from everything except for the nearby railroad track. What caused the death of Romeo and Juliet?
Romeo and Juliet are found dead on the floor in a bedroom. When they were discovered, there were pieces of glass and some water on the floor. The only furniture in the room is a shelf and a bed. The house is in a remote location, away from everything except for the nearby railroad track. What caused the death of Romeo and Juliet?
What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
The word is starting! starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I. Cool,huh?
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end, the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.
No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
Silence
A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another?
110 miles. (73037)
I am a path situated between high natural masses. Remove my first letter and you have a path situated between man-made masses.
What am I?
A Valley.
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A Penny.
Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?
There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard.
A hole leading in, a hole leading out, we connect to a cavern that is slimy all throughout.
What are we?
A nose.
Find the four-digit number in which the first digit is one-fourth of the last digit, the second digit is 6 times the first digit, and the third digit is the second digit plus 3. What is it?
1694.
Dead on the field lie ten soldiers in white, felled by three eyes, black as night. What happened?
A strike was thrown in 10 pin bowling.
David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
David.
How do you make the number 7 even without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?
Drop the "S".
You go at red but stop at the green. What am I?
Watermelon! You eat the red part, and you stop eating at the green part.
If the day before yesterday is the 23rd, then what is the day after tomorrow?
The 27th.
My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick. Fat, I am slow. The wind is my foe. What am I?
I am a candle.
Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
I am a word of six; my first three letters refer to an automobile; my last three letters refer to a household animal; my first four letters are a fish; my whole is found in your room. What am I?
A carpet.