1.- Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs, each person had one egg. The riddle is for you to explain how.

2.- What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

3.- I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?

4.- Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?

5.- No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

6.- I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?

7.- At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?

8.- Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?

9.- Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?

10.- A farmer had nine sheep, and all but seven died. How many did he have left?

11.- You are a bus driver. At the first stop of the day, eight people get on board. At the second stop, four get off, and eleven get on. At the third stop, two get off, and six get on. At the fourth stop, thirteen get off, and one gets on. At the fifth stop, five get off, and three get on. At the sixth stop, three get off, and two get on. What color are the bus driver's eyes?

12.- A certain five letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it. What is the word?

13.- An electric train is travelling northwest at 95 miles per hour, and the wind is blowing southwest at 95 miles per hour. In which direction does the smoke blow?

14.- Some months have 30 days. Some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?

15.- A man lives in a house with four walls. Each wall has a window. Each window has a southern exposure. A bear walks by. What color is the bear?

16.- If you had one match and entered a room in which there were a kerosene lamp, an oil burner, and a wood burning stove, which would you light first?

17.- How many animals of each gender did Moses take aboard the ark?

18.- You are competing in a race and overtake the runner in second place. Which position are you now in?

19.- Brothers and sisters I have none but this man's father is my father's son. Who is the man?

20.- What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

21.- Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?

22.- What invention lets you look right through a wall?

23.- What has one eye but cannot see?

24.- If you put a coin in an empty bottle and insert a cork into the neck of the bottle, how could you remove the coin without taking the cork out or breaking the bottle?

25.- ‘There is a house. One enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?’ Can you guess a solution?

Answers

1.- One of the 'fathers' is also a grandfather. Therefore the other father is both a son and a father to the grandson.

2.- The answer to this riddle is "a towel," because a towel gets wetter the more it is used.

3.- A sponge.

4.- A fire.

5.- Alternate Solution #1 Silence.

Alternate Solution #2 A secret.

6.- The shadow.

7.- Alternate Solution #1 Stars.

Alternate Solution #2 Dreams.

8.- Counterfeit money.

9.- A human does. As a baby, it crawls; in old age, uses a cane.

10.- Seven.

11.- Whatever color yours are. You're the bus driver.

12.- Short.

13.- There isn't any smoke. It's an electric train.

14.- All of them.

15.- The only place each window could have a southern exposure is on the north pole. So the bear must have been a polar bear. The answer, therefore, is white.

16.- The match.

17.- None. Noah was the one with the ark.

18.- Second.

19.- The man is my son.

20.- A stamp.

21.- An onion.

22.- A window.

23.- A needle.

24.- Push the cork into the bottle and shake the coin out.

25.- A School.

It offers a perspective on knowledge: there are many things we cannot ‘see’ until we have acquired the wisdom to do so