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Let's see if you can solve these tricky riddles! Have fun!!
(No cheating - answers are at the end of the section)
1. What goes up and down stairs without moving?
2. Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
3. What can you catch but not throw?
4. I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
5. Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
6. Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside. What am I?
7. What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
8. What gets wetter the more it dries?
9. The more there is, the less you see.
10. They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.
11. What kind of room has no windows or doors?
12. I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?
13. I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What is this object?
14. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?
15. The more you take, the more you leave behind.
16. As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone, or fowl.
17. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
18. I went into the woods and got it, I sat down to seek it, I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it.
19. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
20. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
Answers:
1. Carpet 2. Fire 3. A cold 4. A nose 5. A match 6. Corn 7. A stamp 8. Towel
9. Darkness 10. Stars 11. A mushroom 12. A sponge 13. A mirror 14. A telephone
15. Footsteps 16. Glove 17. River 18. Splinter 19. A Light 20. Silence
(No cheating - answers are at the end of the section)
1. When is 1500 plus 20 and 1600 minus 40 the same thing?
2 What 3 positive numbers give the same result when multiplied and added together?
3 A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
4 When I take five and add six, I get eleven, but when I take six and add seven, I get one. What am I?
5 There are 12 kids in a classroom. 6 kids are wearing socks and 4 are wearing shoes. 3 kids are wearing both. How many are bare feet?
6 Divide 20 by half and add 30, what do you get? 7 If Mr. Flynn is 90 centimeters plus half his height, how tall is he?
8 How can you give someone $83 using exactly 7 bills, without using any one dollar bills?
9 What number do you get when you multiply all of the numbers on a telephone's number pad?
10 There are two fathers and two sons. They walk into a candy store and each buys a candy bar for 50 cents. The total for all of the candy bars was $1.50. How is that possible?
Answers: 1. military time
2. 1, 2 and 3
3. The ball costs 5c. Not 10c. One dollar more than 10c is $1.10, $1.10 +
10c is $1.20 One dollar more than 5c is $1.05. The sum of which is
$1.10.
4. clock
5. 5 kids are bare feet.
6. 70. 20 divided by 1/2 + 30 = 70
7. 180 centimeters.
8. Give them 1 fifty dollar bill, 1 twenty dollar bill, 1 five dollar bill and 4 two dollar bills.
9. Zero. Anything multiplied by 0 will equal 0.
10. There was a grandfather, a father and a son.
Answer sheet follows but don't peek!
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