Riddles

1. What question can you never answer “yes” to?

Are you asleep yet?

1. What goes up but never comes down?

Your age

2. How is it possible to see through a wall?

If you look through a wall

3. What has multiple eyes but can’t see?

Potatoes

4. At what time are you supposed to stop playing April Fools' Day pranks?

12pm is traditionally when you have to stop playing April Fools' Day pranks.

5. Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?

None, they both weigh the same.

6. If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?

Two apples

7. What is the end of everything?

The letter “g”

8. What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?

Queue

9. What can fill a room but takes up no space?

Light

10. What has one eye, but can’t see?

A needle

11. How many times does the word “bee” show up in the Bee Movie script?

173

12. How many cards are there in a deck of cards?

54 cards

13. How do you write eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?

888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000

14. Challenge: what question from the 24 above has been repeated in a previous issue?

Question 11: “What has one eye, but can’t see?”

This Month's Riddles

1. I like indigo but not blue, I like onions but not turnips, I like forms but not shapes. According to the same rule, do I like tomatoes or avocados?

2. Ben walked into a hardware store and asked the price of some items. The salesman said: One costs $1, Eight costs $1, Seventeen cost $2, One hundred four costs $3 and One thousand seventy two costs $4. What was Ben buying?

3. If there are four sheep, two dogs and one herds-men, how many feet are there?

4. What is more useful when it is broken?

5. A pregnant lady named her children: Dominique, Regis, Michelle, Fawn, Sophie and Lara. What will she name her next child? Jessica, Katie, Abby or Tilly?

6. Five apples are in a basket. How do you divide them among five girls so that each girl gets an apple, but one apple remains in the basket?

7. I'm a god, a planet, and measurer of heat. Who am I?

8. If 4+2=26, 8+1=79 and 6+5=111. Then, what is 7+3?

9. A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?

10. What are the next three letters in this combination? OTTFFSS

11.  A man drove from New York City to Los Angeles in four day. At the end of his trip, he discovered that one of his tires had been punctured. How was he able to make the drive?

12. One of these words does not belong: Which is it and why? Brawl, Carrot, Change, Clover, Proper, Sacred, Stone, Seventy, Swing, Travel.

13. I have a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? What am I?

14. What has ten letters and starts with gas?