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What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?
A coat of paint.
1. Riddle: When Grant was 8, his brother was half his age. Now, Grant is 14. How old is his brother?
Answer: His brother is 10. Half of 8 is 4, so Grant’s brother is 4 years younger. This means when Grant is 14, his brother is still 4 years younger, so he’s 10.
6. Riddle: It has keys, but no locks. It has space, but no room. You can enter, but can’t go inside. What is it?
Answer: A keyboard.
1. Riddle: What can jump higher than a building?
Answer: Anything that can jump — buildings don’t jump, silly!
5. Riddle: It’s raining at midnight, but the forecast for tomorrow and the next day is clear. Will there be sunny weather in 48 hours?
Answer: No, it won’t be sunny because it will be dark out. In 48 hours, it will be midnight again.
I have no wings, but I can fly. And I have no eyes, but I can cry. What am I?
A cloud.
Riddle: 81 x 9 = 801. What do you need to do to make this equation true?
Turn it upside down. 108 = 6 x 18.
8. Riddle: It’s the only place in the world where today comes before yesterday. Where is it?
Answer: The dictionary.
2. Riddle: An elephant in Africa is called Lala. An elephant in Asia is called Lulu. What do you call an elephant in Antarctica?
Answer: Lost.
6. Riddle: Santa has one neighborhood left to visit on his way to the North Pole. In that neighborhood, there's a blue house made of gingerbread, a red house made of peppermint, and a white house made of vanilla. If Santa flies to the blue house first, then to the red house and then to the white house, where does he go next?
Answer: He goes back to the North pole (his home!).
I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere.I'm the beginning of eternity, the end of time & space. What am I?
The letter E.
Double it and multiply it by 4. Then divide it by 8 and you’ll have it once more. What number is it?
Answer: Any number. If a number is doubled and multiplied by 4, it’s actually been multiplied by 8, so dividing by 8 will get you the original number again.
9. Riddle: If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?
Answer: A secret.
3. Riddle: Imagine you are in a room with no windows or doors. How will you get out?
Answer: Stop imagining.
4. Riddle: Mrs. Brown has 5 daughters. Each of these daughters has a brother. How many children does Mrs. Brown have?
Answer: They have 6 children. Each daughter has the same brother. There are 5 daughters and 1 son.
How many letters are in the alphabet?
1 letters (there's only 11 letters in the phrase 'the alphabet').
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?
Answer: 194. (great for teaching place value!)
15. Riddle: Everyone has me but no one can lose me. What am I?
Answer: A shadow.
4. Riddle: What happens once in a minute, twice in a moment but never in one thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M”.v
8. Riddle: A new clothing store has a unique method of pricing items. A vest costs $20, a tie costs $15, a blouse costs $30, and underwear costs $45. How much would pants cost?
Answer: $25. The pricing method charges $5 for each letter needed to spell the item.
There's a one-story house. Everything in the red house is red, the walls are red, the bathroom is red, the floor is red, the kitchen is red, all of the bedrooms are red. So, what color are the stairs?
Answer: There's no stairs, it's a one-story house.
16. Using only addition, how can you add eight 8's to get the number 1,000?
Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000.
21. Riddle: What kind of room has no walls or corners?
Answer: A mushroom.
2. Riddle: What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?
Answer: The letter N.
3. Riddle: Liam was 11 the day before yesterday, and next year he’ll turn 14. How is this possible?
Answer: Today is January 1st, and Liam’s birthday is December 31st. Liam was 11 the day before yesterday (December 30th), then turned 12 the next day. This year on December 31st he’ll turn 13, so next year he’ll turn 14.