Fun Riddles
If eggs are $0.12 a dozen, how many eggs can you get for a dollar?
100 eggs for $0.01 each
Which month has 28 days?
All of them
What moves faster? Heat or cold?
Heat - because you can always catch a cold
What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?
trouble
If you multiplied all of the numbers on the dial pad of a smartphone, what would the total be?
zero because anything multiplied by zero is zero!
Give me food, and I will live. Give me water, and I will die. What am I?
Fire!
The more you take, the more you leave behind? What are they?
Footprints!
How can a man go 8 days without sleep?
He only sleeps at night.
When Josh was 8, his brother was half his age. Now that Josh is 14, how old is his brother?
His brother is 10. Half of 8 is 4, so Josh's brother is 4 years younger. When Josh is 14, his brother is still 4 years younger, so he's 10.
How did the soccer fan know before the game that the score would be 0-0?
The score is always 0-0 before the game
What goes up and down but never moves?
The temperature!(Alternative answer - a flight of stairs!)
What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
The word "wrong!"
What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Your name.
What did the triangle say to the circle?
Your pointless!
It follows you and copies your every move. But you can't touch it or catch it. What is it?
Your shadow.
If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number is this?
Zero
What has one eye but cannot see?
a needle
Can you add the number of sides from a triangle, a pentagon, and a hexagon? How many sides are there in total?
14 sides
I am a three-digit number. My second digit is 4 times bigger than the third digit. My first digit is 3 less than my second digit. What number am I?
141
When two numbers are added together, their sum is 46. One of the numbers is 6 greater than the other. What are the two numbers?
20 and 26
Tom was asked to paint the apartment number on plates for 100 apartments which means he will have to paint numbers 1 through 100. How many times will he paint the number 8?
20 times (8, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 98)
If seven people meet each other and each shakes hands only once with each of the others, how many handshakes will there have been?
21
You are given a large pepperoni pizza for dinner, and you need to divide it into 8 slices for your family dinner. How many times do you need to cut the pizza to divide it into eighths?
4 times
A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
5 cents.
What is the next number in the series? 7,645 5,764 4,576
6,457 because the last number is moved to the front to make the next number in the series.
If you can purchase 8 eggs for 26 cents, how many can you buy for a cent and a quarter?
8
If two's company and three's a crowd, what are four and five?
9
It starts out tall, but the longer it stands, the shorter it grows. What is it?
A candle.
What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?
A clock.
I can fly but I have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes
A cloud
What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
A coat of paint.
What can you put between a 7 and an 8 so that the result is greater than a seven, but less than an eight?
A decimal because 7.8 is greater than 7, but less than 8.
I am never a whole number. If you divide a number by me, then the number increases. What type of number am I?
A fraction
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
A glove.
The more you take away, the bigger this becomes. What is it?
A hole!
You can hold me in your hand and yet I can fill the entire room.
A light bulb
What weighs more, a pound of iron or a pound of feathers?
Both would weigh the same
What are two things you can NEVER eat for breakfast?
Lunch and dinner!
What kind of room has no doors?
Mushroom
What does the zero say to the the eight?
Nice belt
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left?
Nine
They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
Stars
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
The letter M.
What building has thousands of stories?
The library!
A man was walking in the middle of nowhere and it started to rain. He had no umbrella and no hat, but not a single hair on his head got wet. How can this be?
The man was bald!
I've been around for millions of years but i am never more than a month old.
The moon
Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing.
The number 8
Why did the two 4's skip lunch?
They already 8 (ate)
How can you make time fly?
Throw a clock out the window.
Timmy's mother had three children. The first was named April, the next was named May. What was the name of the third child?
Timmy of course!
How many sides does a circle have?
Two. An inside and an outside.
Penny has five children: The 1st kid is named January. The 2nd kid is named February. The 3rd kid is named March. The 4th kid is named April. What is the name of the 5th kid.
What
In an odd little town, was an odd little stream, with odd little fish in an odd little team. A stranger approached a local fisherman and asked him how much his odd little fish weighed. The odd little man replied, "All the fish in this stream weigh exactly 1/2 of a pound plus 1/2 of a fish. Isn't that odd?" How many pounds does an odd little fish weigh?
one
What geometric figure is like a lost parrot?
polygon
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
silence
What is full of holes but can still hold water?
sponge
What gets wetter the more it dries?
towel
I'm full of keys but I can't open any door. What am I?
A piano.
What runs, but never walks, often murmurs - never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
A river.
If I have it, I don't share it. If I share it, I don't have it. What is it?
A secret.
What invention allows you to look right through a wall?
A window!
What has three feet but cannot walk?
A yardstick.
What word contains 26 letters, but only three syllables?
Alphabet!
I have no eyes, no ears, and legs, and yet I help move the earth. What am I?
An earthworm!
Why did the girl wear glasses during math class?
Because it improves di-vision.
Why did the boy eat his math homework?
Because the teacher told him it was a piece of cake.
When you look for something, why is it always in the last place you look?
Because when you find it, you stop looking!
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 did one math book say to the other math book?
Do you want to hear my problems?
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How was that possible?
Friday was the name of his horse.
Which triangles are the coldest?
Ice-sceles triangles
If you buy a rooster for the purpose of laying eggs and you expect to get three eggs each day for breakfast, how many eggs will you have after three weeks?
None, because roosters do not lay eggs
If it took 6 people 9 hours to build a barn, how long would it take 12 people to build the same barn?
None, because the barn is already built.
Are monsters good at math?
Not unless you Count Dracula.
What is the maximum possible number of times you can subtract number 5 from number 25?
Only once, is because when you subtract 5 from 25, it becomes number 20, then 15, etc.
What do mathematicians eat on Halloween?
Pumpkin pi
If you are running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Second place.
I add five to nine and get two. The answer is correct, but how?
When it is 9 p.m., add 5 hours to it and you will get 2 p.m.
Can you make the number seven even without adding, subtracting, dividing, or multiplying by any other numbers?
Yes, get rid of the "s" in seven and it becomes even.
If it takes 10 men to dig a hole, how long does it take for one man to dig a half of a hole?
You can't dig half of a hole
If there are 4 apples and you take away 3, how many do you have?
You have 3 apples
You enter a dark room. You have only one match. There is an oil lamp, a furnace, and a stove in the room. Which would you light first?
You would light the match first
What number goes up and doesn't come back down?
Your age
What gets sharper the more you use it?
Your brain.
I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for more than 5 minutes.
Your breath
What has to be broken before you can use it?
an egg
What has a neck but no head?
bottle
Why was the obtuse angle upset?
cause he was never right
What can you catch but not throw?
cold