Riddle 1
1. I give milk and have a horn but I'm not a cow?
What am I?
2. I am the owner of a pet store. If I put in one canary per cage, I have one bird too many. If I put in two canaries per cage,
I have one cage too many. How many cages and canaries do I have?
3. There is a bus full of people travelling over San Francisco and no one gets off the bus throughout the journey. But when it gets to
the other side there is not a single person left. How is this possible?
4. A great King, who likes to play chess a lot, decides
to retire.
Before that, he tells his three sons: I will give my kingdom
to one of you on only one condition.
"You will have to spend exactly half of the days it remains
for you to live playing chess."
The two older sons refuse, telling him that they can't predict how
many days they are going to live.
The youngest son accepts. How can he fulfill the Kings wishes?
Answer:The youngest son will play chess every other day.
5. What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?
6. When I am filled I can point the way, When I am empty Nothing moves me, I have two skins One without and one within. What am I?
7. I am four times as old as my daughter. In 20 years time I shall be twice as old as her. How old are we now?
8. Peter celebrated his birthday on one day, and two days later his older twin brother, Paul, celebrated his birthday. How could this be?
9. Here on Earth it's always true, that a day follows a day. But there is a place where yesterday always follows today!
10. Some say we are red, some say we are green. Some play us, some spray us. What are we?
11. What kind of can never needs a can-opener?
Riddle 2
1. What occurs once in
a minute, twice in a moment,
but never in an hour.
2. It goes up and down the stairs without moving.
3. Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
4. What's the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space,
the beginning of the end, and the end of every place?
5. What five letter English word does not change its
pronunciation when four letters are taken away?
6. What falls but doesn't break, and what breaks but doesn't fall?
7. I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to
the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?
8.What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but
never sleeps?
9. My first is in fish but not in snail, My second is in rabbit but not in tail. My third is in up but not in down, My fourth is in tiara but not in crown.
My fifth is in tree you plainly see, My whole a food for you and me. What am I?
10. 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?
11. 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?
Riddle 3
1. 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?
2. What common English verb becomes its own
past tense by rearranging its letters?
3. What has hands, but is not flesh, bone or blood?
4. 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?
5. I look at you, you look at me
I raise my right,you raise your left.
What is this object?
6.Two planes take off at the same exact moment. They are flying across the Atlantic. One leaves New York and
is flying to Paris at 500 miles per hour. The other leaves Paris and is flying to New York at only 450 miles
per hour ( because of a strong head wind ). Which one will be closer to Paris when they meet?
7.There are 2 different colors of socks in a drawer. Without being able to see inside the drawer, how many socks
must you remove from the drawer to ensure that you will have a pair that match?
8. When is a door not a door?
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Riddle 4
1. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
2. I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
3. Take one out and scratch my head
I am now black but once was red.
4. He has a look of awful scorn,
And wears his clothes a funny way,
Waving his hands over fields of corn,
He keeps the birds away!
5. I'm in a rock, not in a stone
I'm in marrow, but not in bone
I'm in a bolster, not in a bed
I'm not living , I'm not dead
6. I have 2 coins totaling 55 cents, one is not a nickel.
What are the 2 coins?
7. Why can't you take a picture of a Canadian woman
with hair curlers?
8. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was
the tallest mountain in the world?
9. What can you catch but not throw?
10. They can trickle down, They can tickle too. Or make you sneeze, Or comfort you. Their rustling sound, you've rarely heard,
Unless you're a pillow or a bird! What are they?
Riddle 5
1. Remove the outside, cook the inside,
eat the outside, throw away the inside.
2. What goes around the world and stays
in a corner?
3. What gets wetter the more it dries?
4.The man who invented it, doesn't want it.
The man who bought it, doesn't need it.
The man who needs it, doesn't know it.
5. The more there is the less you see.
6. A carpenter was in a terrible hurry. He had to work as quickly as possible to cut a very heavy 10 foot plank
into 10 equal sections.
If it takes 1 minute per cut, how long will it take him to get the
10 equal pieces?
7. Why are 1898 silver dollars worth more than 1897 silver dollars?
8. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May.
What was the third child's name?
9.How can a woman living in New Jersey, legally marry 3 men, without ever getting a divorce, be widowed,
or becoming legally separated?
10. Round as a button, Deep as a well. If you want me to talk, You must first pull my tail. What am I?
11. When I left, I didn't know where I was going; when I got there, I didn't know where I was; when I returned, I didn't know where I had been. Who was I?
Riddle 6
1. They come at night without being called and are
lost in the day without being stolen.
2. Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
3. There was a green round house.
Inside the green round house was a smaller white house.
In the white house was a red house.
And living in the red house were lots of little black babies.
4. What kind of room has no windows or doors?
5. They are Dark, and always on the run,
without the sun, there would be none.
6. If there are 5 apples on the counter and you take
away 2, how many do you have?
7. If, having only one match, on a freezing winter day, you entered a room which contained a lamp, a kerosene heater,
and a wood burning stove, which should you light first.
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