Riddles!
Riddle 48: A professor thinks of two consecutive numbers between 1 and 10. 'A' knows the 1st number and 'B' knows the second number A: I do not know your number. B: Neither do I know your number. A: Now I know. There are four solution for this.What are they ??
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Riddle 52: One day, a person went to horse racing area, Instead of counting the number of human and horses, he instead counted 74 heads and 196 legs. Yet he knew the number of humans and horses there. How did he do it, and how many humans and horses are there?
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Riddle 55: There is a common English word that is seven letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains a common English word -- from seven letters right on down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing a letter at a time?
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Riddle 10: Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb! What is it?
Answer: Water
Riddle 36: If you throw me from the window, I will leave a grieving wife. Bring me back, but in the door, and You'll see someone giving life! What am I?
Answer: the letter n
Riddle 67: The day before yesterday was two days after Monday. What day is today?
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Riddle 25: Something very extraordinary happened on the 6th of May, 1978 at thirty-four minutes past twelve a.m. What was it?
Answer: the time and date could be written out: 12:34 5/6/78
Riddle 27: Feed me and I live, give me drink and I die. What am I?
Answer: Fire
Riddle 17: A millionaire by the name of Mr. Boddy was found shot dead inside his car in a parking lot. The doors are all locked, and the windows are up, and nobody could have shot him inside the car. The only bulletholes in the car are on Mr. Boddy (none on the windows or doors, etc.) How did the murderer kill him?
Answer: Mr. Boddy was driving a convertible and was shot from above.
Riddle 12: An archeologist claims he found a Roman coin dated 46 B.C. in Egypt. How much should a museum pay for the coin?
Answer: Nothing
Riddle 41: What does this say? Owa, Tagu, Siam.
Answer: Oh what a goose I am
Riddle 61: If you count 20 houses on your right going to the store and 20 houses on your left coming home, how many houses did you count?
Answer: Only 20 houses. You counted the same houses twice
Riddle 56: What 5 letter word can be rearranged 3 different times to get 3 different words each containing 1 more syllable than the last? The word has no duplicates of letters.
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Riddle 58: There once was an evil wizard. He took 3 women from their homes and turned them into rose bushes that looked exactly alike. He put them in his garden. One of the woman had a husband and children and begged the wizard to let her see them. He agreed. At night, he brought the woman to her house. In the morning he came and took her home. One day the husband decided to go rescue her. So he snuck into the wizard's garden. He looked and looked at the 3 identical rose bushes trying to figure out which could be his wife. Suddenly, he knew the answer and he took his wife home. How did he know which rose bush was his wife?
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Riddle 59: Andy dislikes the catcher. Ed's sister is engaged to the second baseman. The center fielder is taller than the right fielder. Harry and the third baseman live in the same building. Paul and Allen each won $20 from the pitcher at pinochle. Ed and the outfielders play poker during their free time. The pitcher's wife is the third baseman's sister. The pitcher, catcher, and infielders except Allen, Harry, and Andy, are shorter than Sam. Paul, Andy, and the shortstop lost $50 each at the racetrack. Paul, Harry, Bill, and the catcher took a trouncing from the second baseman at pool. Sam is involved in a divorce suit. The catcher and the third baseman each have two children. Ed, Paul, Jerry, the right fielder, and the center fielder are bachelors. The others are married. The shortstop, the third baseman, and Bill each cleaned up $100 betting on the fight. One of the outfielders is either Mike or Andy. Jerry is taller than Bill. Mike is shorter than Bill. Each of them is heavier than the third baseman. Using these facts, determine the names of the men playing the various positions on the baseball team.
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Riddle 60: There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors?
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Riddle 62: Four cars come to a four way stop all coming from a different direction. They can't decide who got there first so they all go forward at the same time. They do not crash into each other but all four cars go. How is this possible?
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Riddle 63: A horse travels a certain distance each day. Strangely enough, two of its legs travel 30 miles each day and the other two legs travel nearly 31 miles. It would seem that two of the horse's legs must be one mile ahead of the other two legs but of course this can't be true. Since the horse is normal, how is this situation possible?
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Riddle 46: How can I get the answer 24 by only using the numbers 8,8,3,3.
Answer: 24= 8/(3-(8/3)) 24 = 8/(9/3-8/3) = 8/ 1/3
Riddle 28: A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, "twelve." The member replied, "six " and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, "six." The member replied, "three" and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,"ten" and the man replied, "five." But he was not let in. What should have he said?
Answer: "three"
Riddle 2: a man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
Answer: 1:45 (The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two)
Riddle 6: Mr. Black, Mr. Gray, and Mr. White are fighting in a truel. They each get a gun and take turns shooting at each other until only one person is left. Mr. Black, who hits his shot 1/3 of the time, gets to shoot first. Mr. Gray, who hits his shot 2/3 of the time, gets to shoot next, assuming he is still alive. Mr. White, who hits his shot all the time, shoots next, assuming he is also alive. The cycle repeats. If you are Mr. Black, where should you shoot first for the highest chance of survival?
Answer: Mr. Black should shoot at the ground, because if Mr. Black shoots the ground, it is Mr. Gray's turn. Mr. Gray would rather shoot at Mr. White than Mr. Black, because he is better. If Mr. Gray kills Mr. White, it is just Mr. Black and Mr. Gray left, giving Mr. Black a fair chance of winning. If Mr. Gray does not kill Mr. White, it is Mr. White's turn. He would rather shoot at Mr. Gray and will definitely kill him. Even though it is now Mr. Black against Mr. White, Mr. Black has a better chance of winning than before.
Riddle 45: A high school has a strange principal. On the first day, he has his students perform an odd opening day ceremony: There are one thousand lockers and one thousand students in the school. The principal asks the first student to go to every locker and open it. Then he has the second student go to every second locker and close it. The third goes to every third locker and, if it is closed, he opens it, and if it is open, he closes it. The fourth student does this to every fourth locker, and so on. After the process is completed with the thousandth student, how many lockers are open?
Answer: 31 The only lockers that remain open are perfect squares (1, 4, 9, 16, etc) because they are the only numbers divisible by an odd number of whole numbers; every factor other than the number's square root is paired up with another. Thus, these lockers will be 'changed' an odd number of times, which means they will be left open. All the other numbers are divisible by an even number of factors and will consequently end up closed. So the number of open lockers is the number of perfect squares less than or equal to one thousand. These numbers are one squared, two squared, three squared, four squared, and so on, up to thirty one squared. (Thirty two squared is greater than one thousand, and therefore out of range.) So the answer is thirty one.
Riddle 57: A woman owns a shop and the first day she had 13 customers, the second day she had 14 customers, the third 95, and the fourth 62. Following the sequence, how many customers will she have tomorrow?
Answer: 35 customers. The numbers reversed are 31415926 and with a decimal they are 3.1415926, which is Pi, meaning the next number is 53, reversed to be 35.
Riddle 16: Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?
Answer: 7. 2 parents 4 daughters and 1 son
Riddle 39: What is the next number in this series? 6, 14, 36, 98, 276, ? (ps. this one is really hard! requires quite a bit of thinking and math)
Answer: 794 The nth term in the series is given by the sum of x^n for x in the range 1 to 3, i.e. 1^n + 2^n + 3^n. Thus the first term is 1^1 + 2^1 + 3^1 = 1 + 2 + 3 = 6, the second term is 1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 = 1 + 4 + 9 = 14, and so on. The sixth term is then 1^6 + 2^6 + 3^6 = 1 + 64 + 729 = 794
Riddle 9: -It has a golden head It has a golden tail but it hasn't got a body. What is it?
Answer: A gold coin
Riddle 18: If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie? Give an explanation.
Answer: A lie, because the statement itself says that everything told will be a lie.
Riddle 66: Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?
Answer: Brad was standing on the outside of the building, looking inside, then he jumped in. He was a window washer.
Riddle 24: Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan?
Answer: Dig a tunnel and pile the dirt under the window until they could climb out.
Riddle 49: Outside a room there are three light switches. One of switch is connected to a light bulb inside the room. Each of the three switches can be either 'ON' or 'OFF'. You are allowed to set each switch the way you want it and then enter the room(note: you can enter the room only once) Your task is to then determine which switch controls the bulb ??
Answer: Flip one switch on, wait a while, then turn it off. Turn on another switch. Enter the room. There should be a warm lightbulb, an "on" lightbulb, and an "off" lightbulb
Riddle 19: Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible?
Answer: He was born in 2000 B.C.
Riddle 4: A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?
Answer: His horse was named Friday
Riddle 64: A man was found dead in his study. He was slumped over his desk and a gun was in his hand. There was a cassette recorder on his desk. When the police entered the room and pressed the play button on the tape recorder they heard: "I can't go on. I have nothing to live for." Then there was the sound of a gunshot. How did the detective immediately know that the man had been murdered and it wasn't a suicide?
Answer: It had to have been a murder because someone had to have stopped and rewound the tape after the gunshot. (When the detective pushed play on the recorder, the recording started immediately.)
Riddle 5: One snowy night, Sherlock Holmes was in his house sitting by a fire. All of a sudden a snowball came crashing through his window, breaking it. Holmes got up and looked out the window just in time to see three neighborhood kids who were brothers run around a corner. Their names were John Crimson, Mark Crimson and Paul Crimson. The next day Holmes got a note on his door that read '? Crimson. He broke your window.' Which of the three Crimson brothers should Sherlock Holmes question about the incident?
Answer: Mark Crimson, because "? Crimson" is read as "Question Mark Crimson".
Riddle 11: A clerk in a butcher shop is 5 feet and 11 inches tall. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat
Riddle 30: A vacationing family sitting around the campfire has the following conversation: 1. Father: What day is it? I am sure it isn't Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. 2. Mother: Well that's not very helpful dear. Besides yesterday was Friday. 3. Father: No, now that I think about it, yesterday wasn't Friday, tomorrow is Friday. 4. Jon: The day after tomorrow is Thursday. 5. Meg: You are nuts. Tomorrow is Thursday. 6. Mother: Actually, it's probably Thursday today. 7. Jon: All we know for sure is that it wasn't Sunday yesterday. If only one statement above is true, what day of the week is it?
Answer: Monday
Riddle 13: Before Mount Everest was found, what was the tallest mountain on Earth?
Answer: Mount Everest was still the tallest mountain in the world, even if it hadn't been found yet
Riddle 22: While exploring the wild highlands of Ireland, Robert was captured by goblins. Grumpy, the chief of the goblins told him he was allowed one final statement on which would hinge how he would die. If the statement he made was false, he would be boiled in water. If the statement were true, he would be fried in oil. Sine Robert did not like either option, so he made a statement that forced the goblins to release him. What is the one statement he could make to save himself?
Answer: Robert said: "You will boil me in water." The goblins were faced with a dilemma. If they boil him in water, that would make his statement true, which means he should have been fried in oil. They can only fry him in oil if he makes a true statement, but if they do, it would make his final statement false. The fairies had no way out of their situation so they were forced to set Robert free.
Riddle 23: Sabrina gave Samantha as many dollars as Samantha started out with. Samantha then gave Sabrina back as much as Sabrina had left. Sabrina then gave Samantha as back as many dollars as Samantha had left, which left Sabrina broke and gave Samantha a total of $80.00. How much did Sabrina and Samantha have at the beginning of their exchange?
Answer: Sabrina had $50 and Samantha had $30
Riddle 47: I am thinking of a 6-digit number. The sum of the digits is 43. And only two of the following three statements about the number are true: (1) it's a square number, (2) it's a cube number, and (3) the number is under 500000.
Answer: Statements 1 and 3 are true. The number is 499849
Riddle 37: Imagine that you are in a boat, in the middle of the sea. Suddenly you are surrounded by hungry sharks, just waiting to feed on you. How can you put an end to this?
Answer: Stop imagining!
Riddle 35: What does this say? ISSUES ISSUES ISSUES ISSUES ISSUES ISSUES ISSUES ISSUES ISSUES ISSUES
Answer: Tennis shoes
Riddle 8: 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 man 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?
Answer: The carnival man wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.
Riddle 7: A father and son went in their car for a road trip. They got in a car crash. The father died, and the son was badly injured. He needed surgery, but in the hospital when the doctor comes in, the doctor says, "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son." How is this possible?
Answer: The surgeon is his mother.
Riddle 53: A man and his wife are driving alone in the car. Suddenly the car veers off the road and into a swamp! The wife cannot get out, so the husband climbs out of one of the windows. He closes the windows and locks the car and goes to a mechanic up the road. The mechanic is not home so he comes back to the car. When he gets there, the windows are closed and the doors are locked just as he left it but his wife is dead and there is a person in the car that he has never seen before. How is this possible?
Answer: The wife was pregnant and gave birth to her child (who the man had never seen before) while he was away.
Riddle 54: What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?
Answer: The year's date reads the same when turned upside down. That will not happen again until 6009.
Riddle 31: The paragraph below is very unusual. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? "Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby , walking towards that group, saw a youg girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "
Answer: There are no e's in it!
Riddle 34: Can you decipher the following common phrase? T M C A U O H S M W T E
Answer: What comes up must come down
Riddle 38: A man wearing black clothes, black shoes and a black hat is walking down a street. The street lamps are all off. A black car, with its headlights off, comes speeding down the road, but screeches to a halt, just before hitting the man. How did the driver see the man?
Answer: Who said this took place during the night? It all happened on a sunny day :')
Riddle 3: You are in a inescapable room. no windows and no doors and a ceiling and a floor all made out of concrete. all that's in the room are a mirror, a table, and you. How do you get out?
Answer: You look in the mirror and see what you saw. You take the saw and cut the table in half. Since two halves make a whole, you crawl out the hole.
Riddle 14: The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?
Answer: a coffin
Riddle 65: A man takes a barrel that weighs 20 pounds, and then puts something in it. It now weighs less than 20 pounds. What did he put in the barrel?
Answer: a hole
Riddle 33: Bill has been married for ten years and his wife says, "My anniversary present better be on the driveway tomorrow and it better go from 0-200 in 2 seconds." A small package shows up for her the next morning. What is it?
Answer: a scale
Riddle 32: Forward I'm heavy, but backwards I'm not. What am I?
Answer: a ton
Riddle 21: What's black when you get it, Red when you use it, And white when you're all through with it?
Answer: charcoal
Riddle 29: A man is traveling to a town and comes to a fork in the road. If he goes left, he goes to the liars' village. If he goes right, he then goes to the village of truths - which is where he wants to go. However, he does not know which way is which. He doesn't have time to go both routes, so he approaches a stranger who is standing in the middle of the fork. The stranger says he may only ask 3 questions and he will answer them. The man asks, "Are you from the village of truths?" The stranger says, "Yes!" However, the man is still facing a dilemma: If the stranger was from the village of truths he can only tell the truth, but if he was from the village of liars, he would say he was from the village of truth. So then he asks the stranger, "Are you telling the truth?" The stranger says, "Yes!" But sadly this leaves the man in the same position as before. But the man still has one more question. What should it be and why?
Answer: he said, "lead me to your village"
Riddle 43: Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
Answer: language
Riddle 42: It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?
Answer: nothing
Riddle 40: Einstein's Intelligence Quiz Einstein wrote this quiz last century. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. There are 5 houses in 5 different colors In each house lives a person with a different nationality These 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink. Here's the question: Who owns the fish? The Brit lives in a red house The Swede keeps dogs as pets The Dane drinks tea The green house is on the left of the white house The green house owner drinks coffee The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk The Norwegian lives in the first house The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats. The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer The German smokes Prince The Norwegian lives next to the blue house The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water With these 15 clues the problem is solvable.
Answer: the German
Riddle 15: Two boxers are in a boxing match (regular boxing not kick boxing). The fight is scheduled for 12 rounds but ends after 6 rounds after one boxer knocks out the other boxer. Yet no man throws a punch. How is this possible?
Answer: the boxers were women
Riddle 26: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: the letter "M"
Riddle 50: A farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to fence off the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence. The engineer made his fence in a circle and said it was the most efficient. The physicist made a long line and said that the length was infinite. Then he said that fencing half of the Earth was the best. The mathematician laughed at the others and with his design, beat the others. What did he do?
Answer: the mathematician made a small, circular fence around himself and said he was on the outside of the fence. (:
Riddle 51: You are on an island in the middle of a lake. The lake is in a remote part of the country and there has never been a bridge connecting it to the mainland. Every day a tractor and wagon gives hayrides around the island. Puzzled as to how the tractor had gotten onto the island, you ask around and discover that it had not been transported by a boat or the air. Nor was it built on the island. Explain how the tractor got there?
Answer: the tractor was driven over when the lake was frozen
Riddle 1: Four men were in a boat on the lake. The boat turns over, and all four men sink to the bottom of the lake, yet not a single man got wet! Why?
Answer: they were all married men
Riddle 20: I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot I'm always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?
Answer: windmill
Riddle 44: 2+3=8, 3+7=27, 4+5=32, 5+8=60, 6+7=72, 7+8=?? Solve it?
Answer:98 2+3=2*[3+(2-1)]=8 3+7=3*[7+(3-1)]=27 4+5=4*[5+(4-1)]=32 5+8=5*[8+(5-1)]=60 6+7=6*[7+(6-1)]=72 therefore 7+8=7*[8+(7-1)]=98 x+y=x[y+(x-1)]=x^2+xy-x"
