Riddles

Riddles

  1. What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
  2. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Smith family?
  3. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What is it?
  4. You see a boat filled with people. You look again, but this time you don’t see a single person on the boat. The boat has not sank. How does this make sense?
  5. A barrel of water weighs 60 pounds. What must you put in it for it to weigh 40 pounds?
  6. What five-letter word has only one left when two letters are removed?
  7. What word looks the same upside down and backward?
  8. My rings are not of gold, but I get more as I get old. What am I?
  9. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, and yet never in a thousand years?
  10. What is the postcode district of the village that Liam Dutton correctly pronounced in the Channel 4 News video uploaded September 9th of 2015?
  11. How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550?
  12. When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?
  13. A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter, and twelve remains. What is it?
  14. What word in the English language uses all five vowels plus Y in alphabetical order, and uses each only once?
  15. Is it correct to say "the yolk of eggs is white" or "the yolk of eggs are white"?

The answers to these riddles will be announced in the next edition.