RIDDLES
What has hands but cannot clap?
A clock.
What gets broken without being held?
A promise.
If 2 is company and 3 is a crowd, what are 4 and 5?
9.
I come from a mine and am surrounded by wood. I help others to express themselves. What am I?
Pencil lead
What can travel all around the world while remaining stuck in a corner?
A stamp.
Whoever makes it, has no need of it. Whoever buys it, has no use for it. Whoever uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.
Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month, and in the same year—but they're not twins. How is this possible
The girls are triplets.
I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can't go outside. What am I?
A computer keyboard.
You're in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove, and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?
The match.
A butcher stands six feet and one inch tall and wears size 12 shoes. What does he weigh?
Meat.
It belongs to you, but everyone else uses it.
Your name.
Ask this question all day long, but always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers will be correct. What is the question?
What time is it?
Which tire doesn’t move when a car turns right?
The spare tire.
How is seven different from the rest of the numbers between one and 10?
Seven is the only one with two syllables.
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short.
What grows up while growing down?
A goose or duck
Two men are in a desert. They both have backpacks on. One of the guys is dead. The guy who is alive has his backpack open and the guy who is dead has his backpack closed. What is in the dead man’s backpack?
A parachute.
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don't have me. What am I?
A secret.
What can run but never walk, have a mouth but never talk, have a head that never weeps, and a bed that never sleeps?
A river.
First, I threw away the outside and cooked the inside. Then I ate the outside and threw away the inside. What did I eat?
Corn on the cob.
What can be split infinitely and still never be seen?
An atom.
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
A teapot.
I am a three digit number. My second digit is four times bigger than the third digit. My first digit is three less than my second digit. What am I?
141
A man left home running. He ran away and then turned left, ran the same distance, and turned left again, ran the same distance, and turned left again. When he got home, there were two masked men. Who were they?
The catcher and the umpire.
Using only addition, add eight 8s to get the number 1,000.
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000.