Riddles

Answer to Last Edition's 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?

   1. The letter “R”

2. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Smith family?

   1. There are nine Smiths in the family. Each daughter shares the same brother.

3. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What is it?

   1. Fingerprints

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. Who does this make sense

   1. All the people on the boat are married.

5. A barrel of water weighs 60 pounds. What must you put in it for it to weigh 40 pounds?

   1. You must put a hole in it.

6. What five-letter word has only one left when two letters are removed?

   1. Stone

7. What word looks the same upside down and backward?

   1. SWIMS

8. My rings are not of gold, but I get more as I get old. What am I?

   1. You are a tree.

9. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, and yet never in a thousand years?

   1. The letter “M”

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?

    1. LL61

11. How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550?

    1. Draw a line on the first plus sign that turns it into a 4. The equation then becomes true: 545+5=550.

    2. Draw a line on the equal symbol to make it a crossed-out equal symbol. The equation then becomes true: 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?

    1. You are 23 years-old.

13. A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter, and twelve remains. What is it?

    1. Dozens

14. What word in the English language uses all five vowels plus Y in alphabetical order, and uses each only once?

    1. Facetiously

15. Is it correct to say "the yolk of eggs is white" or "the yolk of eggs are white"?

    1. Neither, since the yolk of eggs are yellow.

New Riddles

1. If a brother, his sister, and their dog  were outside and weren’t under an umbrella, why didn’t they get wet?

2. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

3. If a red house is made of red bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?

4. Draw a line. Without touching the line you just drew, how do you make it a longer line?

5. David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle and ___?

6. Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?

7. As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. What kind of wood was it?

8. A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?

9. I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?

10. Solve this math problem: 2(285)8038(37)18274(748395)0?

11. What has one eye, but can’t see?

12. What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?

13. What would you find in the middle of Toronto?

14. What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?

15. A man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How is this possible?

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