Riddles and Brain Teasers

Teeth.

30 white horses upon a red hill, first they start stamping, then they stand still. What are the 30 white horses?

Nine

A farmer has seventeen sheep. All but nine of them die. How many sheep does he have left?

The woman is blind and is reading braille.

A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How?

The woman is a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it and hung it up to dry.

A man and a woman live peacefully in a house together. But one day the woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over five minutes. Finally, she hangs him, but ten minutes later they go out and enjoy a wonderful dinner. How can this be?

The poison from the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drank the punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually, as the ice cubes melted the poison was released into the punch.

A man went into a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone at the party who drunk the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?

The man was a lighthouse keeper and when he turned the lights off the boats couldn't see and crashed into the rocks.

A man went to sleep and he turned off the light. The next day when he woke up there were many dead people due to his actions the night before?

No, without its stinger the bee will die.

Can a bee that loses its stinger grow another one?

Bicycles.

Every day, a cyclist crosses the border between Spain and France carrying a bag. No matter how much custom officials investigate him, they do not know what he is smuggling. Do you?

Eight.

How many sides does an octagon have?

A bed.

I'm hard all around but soft in the middle. What am I?

31, because I multiplied the number by 2 and subtracted one.

If 7 is transformed into 13 and 11 is changed to 21 then what does 16 become?

Stars.

In the dark they are found without being fetched, in the light they are lost without being stolen. What are they?

Harry Potter, like all other books, has odd-numbered pages on the right. Therefore, pages 15 and 16 are the front and back of a single page, and nothing could have been found between them.

Jack tells Jill, "This isn't the $5 bill you left on the the table. I found it between pages 15 and 16 of Harry Potter." Jill retorts, "You're lying and I can prove it." How did Jill know?

The gentleman in the portrait is the son of the man who is speaking.

One man shows another the portrait of a gentleman and tells him: I have neither brothers nor sisters, but this man's father is the son of my father. Who is the man in the painting?

The outside.

Scientists have proven that one side of a cat has more hair. Which side is it?

11

Take a look at all these numbers: 66, 22, 99, 33, 44, 55. What number greater than 1 can be divided into all these numbers without leaving a remainder?

Fish

The fishmonger is 1.8 meters tall. He wears size 8 shoe and wears XXL shirts. What does he weigh?

He jumped from a first floor window.

There is a fire in a 12 story building. A man panics and jumps out of the window. How does he survive?

There are four feet in the barn, cats have paws, not feet.

Two people are in a barn. Ten cats follow them in. How many feet are in the barn now?

A needle, a potato, the alphabet and a hurricane.

What are four things that have an "eye" but cannot see?

They read the same right side up and upside down.

What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?

The lyrics.

What do you call the words in a song?

Nothing.

What does man love more than life, fear more then death or mortal strife, what the poor have the rich require, and all contented men desire. What misers spend and spendthrifts save and all men carry to the grave?

Big brother.

What does this say? BROTHER

Backward glance.

What does this say? ECNALG

Double vision

What does this say? Vision Vision

Little sister.

What does this say? sister

A pencil.

What gets smaller when ideas grow?

A staircase, the temperature or a thermometer.

What goes up and down without moving?

A goose.

What grows down while it grows up?

A clock.

What has a face and arms but no nose, ears, mouth, eyes, or body?

The three blind mice.

What has six eyes, but can not see?

A plane.

What has wings, can fly but is not living?

Nothing

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die?

20. (2+3=5; 5+4=9; 9+5=14; 14+6=20; and so on.)

What is the next number in this sequence: 2, 5, 9, 14,...

A door.

What moves forwards and backwards but has no legs, it cannot talk, it cannot walk, it doesn't slither or crawl across the floor either. It comes in different shapes, sizes and colours. What is it?

Are you asleep?

What question can never be answered, "Yes?"

A fence.

What runs around a soccer field but never moves?

H2O (Water).

What's this? HIJKLMNO

A candle.

When I'm young I'm tall When I'm old I'm short When I'm alive I glow Because of your breath I die What am I?

50

Which number should replace the question mark? 5, 14, 23, 32, 41, ?, 59

It is illegal to bury a person while they are still living.

Why is it illegal to bury a man living in South Carolina in North Carolina?

Second.

You are running in a street marathon and you overtake the person in 2nd place. What place are you now?

All of the people on the boat are married.

You walk across a bridge and you see a boat full of people yet there isn't a single person on board. How is that possible?