riddles

I am a three digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?

194

The day before yesterday I was 21 and the next year I will be 24. What day is my birthday?

31st December. It must be the 1st January, when I turned 22 and so 21 the day before. As it is now a new year, I will be 23 this year and so 24 next year.

Using only addition, how can you add eight 8s to get the number 1,000?

888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000.

What has six faces, But does not wear makeup. It also has twenty-one eyes, But cannot see?

A die (dice)

Though sometimes I am made of purest gold, I cannot be bought and I cannot be sold. What am I?

A heart

I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet my keys can unlock your deepest senses. What am I?

A piano

Typewriter

Can you find a 10 letter word in English language which can be typed using only the 1st rows of the computer keyboard ?

You throw away the outside, eat the inside, then throw away the inside. What is it?

Corn on the cob

No time at all it is already built

If it took twelve men eighteen hours to build a wall, how long would it take nine men to build it?

What is both possible and impossible at the same time?

Impossibility

When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?

In the dictionary

What is the most useful instrument in a mathematics teacher's tool kit?

Multi-pilers!

Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill said he had no brothers. Who was lying?

No-one. The doctors were Bill's sisters

A woman was horrified to find a fly in her tea. The waiter took her cup and went into the kitchen and returned with a fresh cup of tea. She shouted, "You brought me the same tea!" How did she know?

She had already put sugar in it and when she tasted the new tea it was already sweet.

Where do TVs go on vacation?

To remote places

Tom and his younger sister were fighting. Their mother was tired of the fighting and decided to punish them by making them stand on the same piece of newspaper in such a way that they couldn't touch each other. How did she accomplish this?

Tom's mother slid a newspaper under a door, each sibling standing on each side

Is an old hundred dollar bill better than a new one?

Well, it's worth 99 more dollars

A prisoner is told "If you tell a lie we will hang you; if you tell the truth we will shoot you." What can he say to save himself?

You will hang me

What tastes better than it smells?

Your tongue

how many 10's can go into 100?

one otherwise you're taking 10 from 90

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

the contestant should switch to the other door Under the standard assumptions, contestants who switch have 2/3 of a chance of winning the car, while contestants who stick to their initial choice have only a 1/3 chance of winning a goat

There are several books on a bookshelf. If one book is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right, how many books are on the shelf?

9 books

What do you get if you cross an apple with a Christmas tree?

A pine-apple

A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bustrip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away!

How do you spell candy in 2 letters ?

c and y c(and)y

You are lost in the woods and the path you are following forks into two: a path to the left and one to the right. One path will lead you to safety while the other will cause you to be lost forever. At the fork are two twin sisters who know which path is which. The sisters are identical in every way except one: one of the sisters always tells the truth while the other always lies. You can ask only one question and you don't know which sister is which. What can you ask them so you know which path to take?

Ask one of the sisters which path their sister would tell you to take. Let's say the left hand path is the correct one to follow. The sister that lies knows their truthful sister would tell you the left hand path, so as they always lie they will tell you the right hand path. The honest sister knows their lying sister will tell you the right hand path and because they're honest, they will tell you this. So you should follow the opposite path to that which you are told, regardless of which sister tells you.

How did Darth Vader know what Luke Skywalker was getting for Christmas?

Because he felt his presents

James Bond was relaxing in his hotel room in Lyon when he heard a knock at his door. Bond opened the door and sees a beautiful woman whom he had never seen in his life. She said that she is so sorry and she thought that this was her room. She was about to leave the room when the Bond takes out his pistol and ask the girl to stop. What made Bond suspicious of the girl?

Bond was suspicious of the women as one never knocks its own door at the hotel.

My first is in conjoiner but not in rejoin My second is in heretical but not in article My third is in diction but not in indict My fourth is in prescription but not in sportiness My fifth is in congratulate but not in rectangular My sixth is in derailment but not in indeterminate My seventh is in anteater but not in rennet My eighth is in economist but not in economics My ninth is in agape but not in gap

Chocolate Bar

What does a snowman like to eat for breakfast?

Frosted Flakes

A clown lives in a lighthouse. When he went to bed he turned out the lights. That night he killed over 200 people died. The clown doesn't sleep walk nor did he wake up in the middle of the night. how could the clown kill over 200 people that night?

He killed over 200 people because the light in the lighthouse wasn't on!!!

A man is found murdered in his office. The suspects are Peter, Julie, Jason, Molly and Brian. In the office is a calendar with the numbers 6,4,9,10,11 written in blood. Who is the killer?

Jason is the killer. The numbers indicate months and the first letter of each month spells the name of the murderer, e.g. the 6th month is June and the first letter of June is J, the 4th month is April and the first letter of April is a, and so on.

How do Christmas trees keep their breath fresh?

Orna-mints

What do mathematics teachers like to eat?

Pi

What did the little lobster get on its math test?

Sea-plus

There is a certain club which is for men only. There are 600 men who belong to this club and 5% of these men wear one earring. Of the other 95% membership, half wear two earrings and the other half wear none. How many earrings are being worn in this club?

Six hundred. We know that 5%, or 30 of the men are wearing one earring. Of the other 95%, or 570, we know that half are wearing two earrings and the other half none. This is the same as if they all wore one.

There was a plane crash in which every single person was killed. Yet there were 12 survivors. How?

The 12 survivors were married, not single

When you don't know what I am, I am something. When you know what I am, I am nothing. What Am I?

The answer was what that question was! The answer would be a riddle! a riddle would be nothing if you knew it and if you dunt know the answer to the riddle, its still something.

A man in a car saw a Golden Door, Silver Door and a Bronze Door. What door did he open first?

The car door

What room do ghosts avoid?

The living room

A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.

Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?

The number 8. On its side, it looks like the symbol for infinity and when you cut it in half, it looks like two zeroes

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift. Why is the present time a gift?

The present time is a gift because you might not see the mystery of tomorrow

Who is never hungry on Christmas Day?

The turkey, because he's always stuffed.

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day. Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go?

There is an initial $30 charge. It should have been $25, so $5 must be returned and accounted for. $3 is given to the 3 friends, $2 is kept by the bellhop - there you have the $5. The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking - and quite successfully for most. Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay $9, not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid $27 for the night. But we know that the clerk will tell us that they were charged only $25 and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by the bellhop, you come up with $30.

Forwards I am heavy, backwards I am not. What am I?

Ton

You want to boil an egg for exactly 15 minutes but you only own a 7-minute hourglass and an 11-minute hourglass. How can you achieve what you want?

Turn both hourglasses over as you start boiling the egg. After 7 minutes the 7-minute hourglass will run out. Turn it over to start again. In another 4 minutes the 11-minute hourglass will run out. At this point, turn over the 7-minute hourglass. It will now take another 4 minutes to run out. When it does so, your egg will have been boiling for exactly 15 minutes (7 minutes + 4 minutes + 4 minutes).

There are three men: A grandfather, a father (the grandfather's son) and the father's son.

Two fathers and two sons go fishing together in the same boat. They all catch a fish but the total catch for the day is three fish. How is this possible?

You have two ropes, each of which takes exactly one hour to burn if lit from one end. The ropes are not identical, nor are they uniform, i.e. it doesn't necessarily take half an hour for half the rope to burn. With only these two ropes and a way to light them, how do you measure out 45 minutes?

You can do this in the following way: First, light both ends of one rope and only one end of the other rope. This will cause the first rope to burn out in 30 minutes (as you lit both ends it will burn in half the time as if you'd only lit one end). When the first rope burns out, there will be 30 minutes left on the second rope (as each rope takes one hour to burn when lit from one end). So then, light the other end of the second rope so both ends of it are now burning. This rope will now burn out in another 15 minutes. The total time elapsed at this point will be 45 minutes (30 + 15 = 45 minutes).

little Mary is trapped in a room suddenly a voice said "one of these doors leads you to freedom" door one: hot burning fire that will burn her the first thing she opens the door door two: a clown waiting to kill any man/woman who goes in there door three: a car waiting to run her over which door is the safest?

door two it says the clown will kill any man/women who enters the room Mary is not an adult yet so she won't be killed by the clown!!!

I appear once in a minute twice in a moment but never in a thousand years

the letter m