Riddles and Brain Teasers
How many letters are in the alphabet?
11. (t-h-e-a-l-p-h-a-b-e-t)
What question can you never honestly answer "yes" to?
Are you asleep?
Billy's mother had five children. The first was named Lala, the second was named Lele, the third was named Lili, the fourth was named Lolo. What was the fifth child named?
Billy
Jack and Jill are lying on the floor inside the house, dead. They died from lack of water. There is shattered glass next to them. How did they die?
Jack and Jill are goldfish...
Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?
Neither, the yolks are yellow
If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
None...roosters don't lay eggs
Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?
She lives in the Southern Hemisphere
There are three houses. One is red, one is blue and one is white. If the red house is to the left of the house in the middle, and the blue house is to the right of the house in the middle, where's the white house?
Washington D.C.
How do we know heat travels faster than cold?
We can catch cold
What can you catch but not throw?
a cold
As I walked along the path, I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone, or fowl. What is it?
a glove
It is weightless, you can see it, and if you put it in a barrel it will make the barrel lighter. What is it?
a hole
Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup. Even a river can't fill it up. What is it?
a kitchen strainer
Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
a match
I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I?
a mirror
What kind of room has no windows or doors?
a mushroom
I run, yet I have no legs.
a nose
He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
a priest
You can't keep this until you have given it.
a promise
It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time. What is it?
a ring
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
a river
If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
a secret
I went into the woods and got it, I sat down to seek it, I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it.
a splinter
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?
a sponge
What can go around the world but stays in a corner?
a stamp
You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?
a telephone
What do you serve that you can't eat?
a tennis ball
What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
a yardstick
What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don't want to use it?
an anchor
What has to be broken before it can be used?
an egg
Take off my skin, I won't cry, but you will.
an onion
Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute.
breath
What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
coat of paint
The more there is, the less you see.
darkness
Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside.
ear of corn
What word begins and ends with "e" but only has one letter in it?
envelope
Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
fire
The more you take the more you leave behind.
footsteps
What do you fill with empty hands?
gloves
How far can a dog run into the woods?
halfway, then its running out
A man was walking in the rain in the middle of nowhere without a coat or an umbrella. He got soaked, but not a single hair on his head was wet. How can this be?
he was bald
A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 12 pounds?
holes
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
light
What book was once owned by only the wealthy but now everyone can have it, cannot be purchased in a bookstore, nor checked out from a library?
phone book
What has only two backbones and thousands of ribs?
railroad tracks
What goes up and down the stairs without moving?
rug
You hold me in your hand. I divide everything I touch into more than once piece. What am I?
scissors
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
short (short-er)
No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
silence
They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.
stars
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode back out on Friday. How is this possible?
the horse's name is Friday
What occurs twice in a week, once in a year but never in a day?
the letter E
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?
the letter M
What can go up and come down without moving?
the temperature
Why don't lobsters share?
they're "shellfish"
What's the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?
to hold cows together
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
towel
I am a word. If you pronounce me rightly, it will be wrong. If you pronounce me wrong it is right. What word am I?
wrong
What goes up and never comes down?
your age
What instrument can you hear but not see?
your voice