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The answer is a letter The Letter E | It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of every space. What is it? |
A cold | What can you catch but not throw? |
It's a kind of tree A palm tree of course | What tree do Fortune Tellers look at? |
When was he born If he was born before 1783, then Massachusetts would still be a British colony | How is it that a person born in Massachusetts, whose parents were both born in Massachusetts, is not born a U.S. Citizen? |
Ring Ring A Telephone | What demands an answer, but asks no question? |
He was bald | Three men were walking out one day. Then it started raining hard. They raced 4 blocks to there house. When they got in, one man didnt get his hair wet. They did not have an umbrella, or a hat. How can this be? |
You find these on tropical islands.A Coconut | A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I? |
I carry milk A milk truck | I give milk and have a horn but I'm not a cow? What am I? |
The Number 9 (9 x 9 = 81, 9 + 9 = 18) | Give me an x, I'll stand to face you. Give me a cross, I'll turn my back on you. What am I? |
It is not possible to guess only three fruits correctly: the fourth fruit is then correct too! So nobody has guessed three fruits correctly and 123-43-39-31 = 10 people have guessed four fruits correctly | In a contest, four fruits (an apple, a banana, an orange, and a pear) have been placed in four closed boxes (one fruit per box). People may guess which fruit is in which box. 123 people participate in the contest. When the boxes are opened, it turns out that 43 people have guessed none of the fruits correctly, 39 people have guessed one fruit correctly, and 31 people have guessed two fruits correctly. The Question: How many people have guessed three fruits correctly, and how many people have guessed four fruits correctly? |
The woman has Multiple Personality Disorder. This happens when a traumatic experience causes so much pain that they make another personality to cope with the situation | RIDDLE ME THIS:A woman walked into an office building, looked at the guard, and said her name was Jenny. The next day she walked into the same building, looked at the same guard and said her name was Julie. What is going on? |
Clean your sink I'm a Sponge | I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I? |
clay | I am like day, you can find me near the river any day, and you can make almost anything out of me. who am I? |
Peru: The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser spotted great weevil | Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser spotted great weevil. |
The King of Hearts in a deck of cards | I have a heart that never beats, I have a home but I never sleep. I can take a mans house and build anothers, And I love to play games with my many brothers. I am a king among fools. Who am I? |
poo | what is brown and stiky and goes round and round |
The anwser is no. Read the last sencence It says “Can you guess the riddle?”So the anwser is no | I turn polar bears white and I will make you cry. I make guys have to pee and girls comb their hair. I make celebrities look stupid and normal people look like celebrities. I turn pancakes brown and make your champane bubble. If you sqeeze me, I'll pop. If you look at me, you'll pop. Can you guess the riddle? 97% of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out, but 84% of kindergarten students were able to figure this out in 6 minutes or less. Can you guess the correct answer? |
Pencil lead | I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. |
A Last Name | The Pope has it but he does not use it. Your father has it but your mother uses it. Nuns do not need it. Your lady friend's husband has it and she uses it. What is it? |
Slave | Captain is to Private as Master is to |
His plan is to dig the tunnel and pile up the dirt to escape | Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan? |
I'm a Stapler | With pointed fangs it sits in wait, With piercing force its doles out fate, Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might, Eternally joining in a single bite. What am I? |
Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as a man and uses two legs and a cane when he's old | It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening. What is it |
there is no answer but its cool to think about | If who I am is whom I love, but whom I love is lost.... then who am I? |
The horse operates a mill and travels in a circular clockwise direction. The two outside legs will travel a greater distance than the two inside legs | A horse travels a certain distance each day. Strangely enough, two of its legs travel 30 miles each day and the other two legs travel nearly 31 miles. It would seem that two of the horse's legs must be one mile ahead of the other two legs, but of course this can't be true. Since the horse is normal, how is this situation possible? |
a 20p and a 10p . one of them isnt a 20p, but the other one is! | how do you make 30p with 2 coins? one of them is not a 20p.. |
A sleeping dreamer | I am the creator, through thick and thin, My time is sunset then I begin. Worlds of men and beasts I make, to me these things are not fake. But Over and over I will kill , I am the tirent and creator but not at will. What am I? |
A Piano | I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I? |
Sawdust | As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. What kind of wood was it? |
Hello...Hello...Hello I am an echo | You heard me before, Yet you hear me again, Then I die, 'Till you call me again. |
an egg | im a container with the inside golden than cant be opened unless im broken!!! |
A fly | Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night? |
grass | I am a tree, but I am very small... Who am I? |
In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers and kept the name when they moved west | Where are the lakes that are referred to in the “Los Angeles Lakers?“ |
A garbage truck | What has garbage and flies? |
Four boys and three girls | There is a certain family with both girl and boy children. Each of the boys has the same number of brothers as he has sisters. Each of the girls has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many boys and girls are there in this family? |
I am Water | Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin. Light enough to caress the sky. Hard enough to crack rocks. What am I? |
One! As I was going to the mall I met a man.. | As I was going to the mall I met a man with seven wives, Each wive held two bags, Each bag held a mother cat, Each mother cat had six babies, How many people where going to the mall? |
the letter e | its is the beginning of existence and the end of time, its the beginning of everything and the end of space, what am i? |
I'm their daughter | A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. Who am I. |
I am their daughter | I am a fathers child and a mothers child, yet I am not a son. Who am I? |
I am a Dentist | I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner or later everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to let me help them. Who am I? |
A Light Switch | When I point up it's bright, but when I point down it's dark. What am I? |
NOTHING | The rich need it The poor have it If you eat it you will die Who am I |
Cain (who killed Abel) | I killed one fourth of mankind. Who am I? |
My Mother | I'm related to you. I'm really close to you! I'm your cousins aunt. Who am I? |
A Peacock | The strangest creature you'll ever find: Two eyes in front and many many more behind. |
the answer is “turds“. want to know how to get this answer? here it is: decifered - read this backwards and you shall see the riddle will reveal itself to thee the clue is a number the answer is not caused through inorder currently out of order the answer lies within after this, the top paragraph is used for only one thing. the word “backwards” after you decifer the riddle, you still have to do some backwards reading. “the clue is a number“. to get this number, count the number of words in each line, for the first, its 5. count from the end of the line “r”and count 5 letters back. you end with “u“. do the same for the rest, and you end with : “usdrt” the next part, is a riddle in itself. “caused through inorder currently out of order the answer lies within” the “caused through inorder”is suggesting an anagram. the “answer lies within”means that the answer is the solved anagram. if we solve the anagram, we come up with two results that make sense. “durst”and “turds”now think, a teenager made this riddle, it would seem strange having an answer like “durst”leaving only one possibility. yep, you guessed it. the answer is “turds“ | ees llahs uoy dna sdrawkcab siht daer eeht ot flesti laever lliw elddir eht erbmun a si eulc eht ton si rewsna eht redroni hguorht desuac redro fo tuo yltnerruc nihtiw seil rewsna eht |
The silver box contained Anna's picture. If her picture had been in the gold box, two statements would have been true. (The messages on both the gold box and the silver box.) If her picture had been in the bronze box, two statements would have been true. (The messages on the bronze box and the silver box.) | Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess named Anna. Anna's father, the King, wanted to be sure his daughter married an intelligent man. To test his daughter's suitors the King hid Anna's picture in one of three boxes. The suitor had to be able to select the box with Anna's picture on one try and within twenty seconds. On the gold box was the message “Anna's picture is in this box“. The silver box had the message “Anna's picture is not in this box.”“Anna's picture is not in the gold box”was written on the bronze box. The King would tell each suitor “Only one of the three messages is correct.”Which box contained Anna's picture? |
Your fingernails | I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I? |
a snake | I have no legs or arms but I still eat with a fork everyday, What am I? |
The number 1 | I am thin, tall and I cannot walk but I have a tilted head . What am I!? |
A wedding ring | What fastens two people yet touches only one? |
A Minotaur | A man but an animal, a horn with two hands. What am I? |
Am at Eight Oak Ave, come but take care. Read through it again to see! | Detective Marty had been trailing three men suspected of committing several fur robberies. He received a message in a sealed envelope delivered by Roscoe, an underworld contact and decided to call Detective Sam, his partner. “I think I found out where the merchandise is stored,”said Detective Marty. Obviously Marty didn't want Roscoe to know what was in the envelope, so he read it to Sam in code. This is what Marty had said: “Flame mate weighty soak shave comedy debut stake scared.” What did the message say? |
Your name | You can carry it everywhere you go, and it does not get heavy. What is it? |
The word Dozens | I am six letters. When you take one away I am twelve. What am I? |
The driver saw the boy because it was during the daylight hours | All the electricity was out in town and none of the street lights or traffic signals had power. A dark limousine was cruising down the newly paved blacktop, with its headlights off. A young boy dressed totally in black (with no reflectors) stepped out to cross the street. The moon wasn?t out and the boy had no flashlight, yet the driver stopped to let the boy cross the street. How did the driver see the boy? |
If i ask the other man which door leads to freedom,what will he say??? P.S.You should take the door opposite to what he says!!! | You are trapped in a dimly lit dungeon deep below the city of Berlin.You know that one door leads to freedom,and a holiday in the canary islands,while the other leads to death. There are two armed giants,each gaurding one of the doors.You know that the giants names are Ivan and Mike.You do not know which is which. You also know that one of them always tells the truth, while the other always tells lies.Yet again,you do not know which is which. You are allowed to ask one of the giants one question. What question should you ask??? |
Pepper | Some say we are red, some say we are green. Some play us, some spray us. What are we? |
They are all boys | Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have five children, half of them are boys.How is this possible? |
The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry | A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be? |
Night and Day | What falls but doesn't break, and what breaks but doesn't fall? |
no such thing | what is a triangle with 2 sides? |
A red-hot poker | What goes into the water red and comes out black? |
The kid filled a glass of water and held it over his head for 10 minutes | A magician was boasting one day at how long he could hold his breath under water. His record was 6 minutes. A kid that was listening said, “that's nothing, I can stay under water for 10 minutes using no types of equipment or air pockets!”The magician told the kid if he could do that, he'd give him $10,000. The kid did it and won the money. Can you figure out how? |
Hyphen. The first two lines yield high-fen. A hyphen is used by a writer to tie (or cramp) two words together | My first is high, My second damp, My whole a tie, A writer's cramp. |
A Joke! | I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I? |
Anna!!!! | what is perfect, pretty, and smart? |
STAIRS | { I GO UP AND DOWN.... BUT NEVER MOVE. WHO AM I? |
It was a Submarine | On a fine sunny day a ship was in the harbor. All of a sudden the ship began to sink. There was no storm and nothing wrong with the ship yet it sank right in front of the spectators eyes. What caused the ship to sink? |
1694 | 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. |
Chapters | One by one we come to life and side by side we wait, while our company swells in number some come early some come late. Some will bore you, some enthrill, but you can not choose between us, you must take us one and all, because we're bound together tightly and we're naught if we break free; if you want some clues about us simply answer who are we? |
I am Fire | No legs have I to dance, No lungs have I to breathe, No life have I to live or die And yet I do all three. What am I? |
Seven dollars plus the rope | A man buys a rope from a woman for $3.00 and hands the woman a $10 bill. The woman goes into the grocery store next door to get change. She returns and gives the man $7.00. After the man leaves, the clerk from the store comes and says, “Hey, that was a counterfeit bill you gave me.”The woman gives the clerk a good bill. How much has the woman lost? |
He was on a motorcycle | A man is late for an appointment and, in his haste, takes a corner so fast that only two wheel were on the pavement. A police man is standing on the corner, but he did not give him a ticket. Why? |
I am Smoke | I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. Who am I? |
What he essentially said to the waiter was: “If Larry ordered the same thing as Gary, I'll have steak.”Since Larry ordered steak and Gary ordered fish, Harry does not get steak | Harry went out to dinner with his friends Larry, Barry, and Gary. Harry sat across from Gary. At Gary's right, opposite Barry, sat Larry. When the waiter came for their orders, Larry and Barry ordered steak. Gary chose fish, and Harry (who likes to be difficult) ordered like this: “Unless the man at the left of the man opposite the man who ordered fish is not having what the man across from the man at the right of the man at my left is having, then I'll have what the man across from the man at the right of the man opposite me ordered. Otherwise, bring me the fettucine alfredo.”Assuming “right”and “left”is from the viewpoint of the diners, what did Harry order? |
A lobster | What goes into the water black and comes out red? |
A sidewalk | { People walk on me day and night. I never sleep...... Who am I? |
In a dictionary | Here on Earth it's always true, that a day follows a day. But there is a place where yesterday always follows today! |
A Wheelbarrow | I have two arms, but fingers none. I have two feet, but cannot run. I carry well, but I have found I carry best with my feet OFF the ground. What am I? |
A coffin,olbiously!!! | The man who made it doesn't want it, The man who bought it doesn't need it, The man who has it can't see it... What is it??? |
the catcher and the umpire | there is a man he leaves home and runs around three blocks, when he comes back home their are two masked men, who are they? |
A riddle | When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing. |
his mother | { A dad and son are in a car accident and the dad dies instantly and the son gets sent to hospital... The doctors have to operate on him, but one of the doctors turns around and says, “I can't operate on him.... he's my son. ” Who am I?? |
Fear | I make you weak at the worst of times but in the ned i keep you safe, You will sweat in my presience even as you grow cold, i dwell with the weak and easily the brave but with out me who could tell the difference. Who am I? |
His wife yelled, “No Charlie.”The doctor and lawyer were both women, so the police officer had to be Charlie | A man was just about to put his key in the door when he heard his wife scream “No Charlie, don't do it!”The man walked in his house to find his wife dead on the floor next to a doctor, a lawyer and a police officer. None of them had name tags and the man did not know who any of them were. The only thing the man knew is that the police officer did it. How did he know? |
Time to get the clock fixed | What time is it when the clock strikes 13? |
Tilt the barrel until the wine barely touches the lip of the barrel. If the bottom of the barrel is visible then it is less than half full. If the barrel bottom is still completly coverd by the wine, then it is more than half full | There is a barrel with no lid and some wine in it. “This barrel of wine is more than half full,”said Curly. “No it's not,”says Mo. “It's less than half full.” Without any measuring implements and without removing any wine from the barrel, how can they easily determine who is correct? |
This one is fairly easy - 324 is the answer | A certain number has three digits. The sum of the three digits equals 36 times this number. Seven times the left digit plus 9 is equal to 5 times the sum of the two other digits. 8 times the second digit minus 9 is equal to the sum of the first and third. What is the number? |
When the mother of the twins went into labor, she was travelling by boat. The older twin, Paul, was born first, barely on March 1st. The boat then crossed a time zone, and the younger twin was born on February the 28th. In a leap year the younger twin celebrates his birthday two days before his older brother | Peter celebrated his birthday on one day, and two days later his older twin brother, Paul, celebrated his birthday. How could this be? |
the person was a little boy who was building a house of cards! | a person was building a house, and then it fell down, he did not get hurt nor get mad,on the count on, he knew it was going to fall and he did not expect any one to live in it.what happened? |
HalfWay | How Far Can You Walk into the woods? |
A Penny | What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? |
Put their hands around a stationary object in the room, which will keep them from leaving the room unless they open their hands | How can you clasp someone's hands together in such a manner that they cannot leave the room without unclasping them? |
A mirror, or a pool of water | I can trap many different things and colors, Ever changing, not boring. Look closely and you may find yourself also caught in my trap. What am I? |
I'm an onion | You can take off all of my skin and I will not cry but YOU will Why ? |
I am a Orange!! | I am a fruit. I taste very yummy. I came from trees, ofcourse. I am color orange. What am I? |
Mercury | I'm a god, a planet, and measurer of heat. Who am I? |