Riddle 1
What has to be broken before you can use it?
an egg
I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
The letter “e”
I add lots of flavor and have many layers, but if you get too close I’ll make you cry. What am I?
An onion
If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?
Wet
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
What is the end of everything?
The letter “g”
What gets wet when you get dry?
A towel
What gets bigger the more you take away?”
A hole
What is orange in color, green on top, and sounds like a parrot?
A carrot!
What’s black and white and read all over?”
A newspaper.
If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?
A secret.
What building has the most stories?
The library
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Foot steps
What has many keys but can’t open any doors?
A piano
Tom’s father has three sons: Jim, John, and what’s the third one’s name?
Tom
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
What has legs but cannot walk?
A chair
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter M
Everyone has it and no one can lose it; what is it?
A shadow
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
A barber.
81 x 9 = 801. What do you need to do to make this equation true?
Turn it upside down. 108 = 6 x 18.
How do you make the number one disappear?
Add the letter G and it’s “gone”.
If six children and two dogs weren’t under an umbrella, how come none of them got wet?
Because it wasn’t raining.
A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How is this possible?
He was born on February 29.
Zoey has a very big family. She has 20 aunts, 20 uncles, and 50 cousins. Each of her cousins has an aunt who is not Zoey’s aunt. How is this possible?
Their aunt is Zoey’s mom!
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Your breath.
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
All the people on the boat are married.
It’s the only place in the world where today comes before yesterday. Where is it?
Dictionary
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it, but almost nobody takes it. What is it?
Advice.
I am so simple, that I can only point yet I guide men all over the world.
Compass
What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
A potato.
Where are the lakes always empty, the mountains always flat and the rivers always still?
A Map.
Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Mary have?
Five—each daughter has the same brother.
A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
He was born on February 29.
Not many people have stepped on me. I never stay full for long. I have a dark side. What am I?
The moon.
A man started to town with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn. He came to a stream which he had to cross in a tiny boat. He could only take one across at a time. He could not leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How did he get them all safely over the stream?
He took the goose over first and came back. Then he took the fox across and brought the goose back. Next, he took the corn over. He came back alone and took the goose.
A man looks at a painting and says, ‘Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.’ Who is in the painting?
His son.
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
A bank.
A man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?
The river was frozen.
A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder. She wasn’t hurt. Why?
She fell off the bottom step.
What kind of cup doesn’t hold water?
Cupcake or hiccup
What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters?
The Post Office
What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes but not in decades, years, or days?
The letter N.
What month of the year has 28 days?
All of them
What kind of apples do computers prefer.
Macintosh.
After an electric train crashed, every single person died. Who survived?”
All of the couples.
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and white when you are done with it?
Charcoal!
There were two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck, and one duck in the middle. How many ducks were there in total?
Three.