Puzzles & Riddles! Try me!
PUZZLE OF THE DAY!
PUZZLE OF THE DAY!
ANSWER: The word is starting! starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I.
What runs without getting tired?
Answer: Water!
What a poor man has, a rich man wants and if you eat it you die?
Answer: Nothing.
How much dirt is in a hole that was dug 5m deep and 6m wide?
Answer: There is no dirt because it was dug out
What is so fragile that when you say its name you breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
1. How much tea is in the average size tea kettle?
2. What gets wetter as it dries?
3. How far can a dog run into the woods?
4. The letters of what number, 1-50, are in alphabetical order?
5. What number’s letters are in reverse alphabetical order?
6. Ed had 5 apples and ate all but 3. How many did he have left?
7. “King, are you sorry you are King?” What’s unusual about this sentence?
8. The letter that comes right after AB in the alphabet is E. How so?
9. How do you make a pear disappear?
Answers to Puzzlers
1. How much tea is in the average size tea kettle? None, there is water in a tea kettle, not tea!
2. What gets wetter as it dries? A towel.
3. How far can a dog run into the woods? Halfway. After that it is running out of the woods!
4. The letters of what number, 1-50, are in alphabetical order? forty
5. What number’s letters are in reverse alphabetical order? one
6. Ed had 5 apples and ate all but 3. How many did he have left? 3!
7. “King, are you sorry you are King?” What’s unusual about this sentence? It’s a palindrone–it reads the same forward as backward.
8. The letter that comes right after AB in the alphabet is E. How so? In the word “alphabet” “e” follows “ab”!
9. How do you make a pear disappear? To “pear”, append in front “disap”!
Answer: 12! All of them have at least 28 days!
What occurs once in a minute, once in a second, once in a month and once on a century but not at all in a year, an hour or a week?
ANSWER: The letter n !
A new hotel has 100 rooms. The decorator needs to put numbers on all the doors. How many number 1’s does he need to buy?
21 – 1,10,11,11, 12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,21,31,41,51,61,71,81,91,100 ! Did the 2 11’s catch you out?!!
If Fred gives one marble to Bert, they will have the same number. If Bert gives one marble to Fred, Bert will have half the amount of marbles Fred has. How many marbles do they each have?
ANSWER: Fred = 7 , Bert = 5.
What 5 letter word has 1 consonant followed by 4 vowels? If you remove the vowels, the sound is not altered. Hint: THINK ABOUT HOW THE QUESTION IS ASKED!
ANSWER: queue
A village has 2 men who cut hair: Bert who is the only barber in “Hair today, gone tomorrow” and Fred who is the only barber in “Hair Peace”. Fred’s hair is well cut whilst Bert looks like he has had a fight with a lawnmower. Who would you go to have your hair cut?
ANSWER: Bert because he will have cut Fred’s hair and made a good job of it!
Monday:
Where can I put my right hand where I can’t put my left hand?
ANSWER: My left elbow!
Tuesday:
A father and his son are travelling in a car. The car crashes and the father is killed. The boy is taken to hospital and needs an operation. The surgeon comes into the operating theatre, looks at the boy and says, “I can’t operate, he’s my son.”
ANSWER: Surgeon was his mother!
Wednesday:
What belongs to you but gets used by everyone else more than you?
ANSWER: Your name.
Thursday:
You go on holiday to Norway. When you arrive at your cabin, you find that there is no heat or electricity. However there is wood in the fireplace, a wood-burning stove, a candle and an oil lamp. You search through your pack and find you only have one match. What should you light first?
ANSWER: The match!
Friday:
What can you make that no one—not even you—can see?
ANSWER: Noise.
Sporting Riddles!
Monday - Can you name a sport where winners move backwards and losers move forwards?
Answer: Tug of war
Tuesday - I am used in most sports, have four different colours and there is an island that shares my name. What am I?
Answer: Jersey
Wednesday - What sport is played all around the world, has 4 letters, and starts with a tee?
Answer: Golf
Thursday - John the Caretaker, Claire, Mary Murray and Mr. Nolan are participating in the school race final have beaten all the other teachers in their heat. The results are as follows:
John beat Claire
Mary Murray beat Mr. Nolan
Mr. Nolan beats John
Who came first?!!
Answer: Mary
Friday - What can you serve but never eat?
A tennis ball.
PUZZLE OF THE DAY!
Tuesday: I need to be broken before I can be used. What am I?
Answer: An egg!
Wednesday: What word contains 26 letters, but only has three syllables?
Answer: Alphabet
Thursday: There's a one-story house where everything is yellow. The walls are yellow. The doors are yellow. Even all the furniture is yellow. The house has yellow beds and yellow couches. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There aren't any stairs—it's a one-story house.
Friday: I am often following you and copying your every move. Yet you can never touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: A shadow!