Riddles 31
Lighter Barrel
What can be seen, but cannot be touched, and when put in a barrel, will make the barrel lighter?
Answer
A beam of light!
No Space Necessary
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer
Light.
Drop It
What can you break without hitting or dropping it?
Answer
A promise.
Dead Eat
What do the dead eat, that the living would die if they ate it?
Answer
Absolutely nothing.
Don’t Lose
What does no man want, yet no man want to lose?
Answer
His job.
TEKRAM
What expression would these letters describe?
T
E
K
R
A
M
Answer
Up-Market.
Falls, Never Breaks
What falls but never breaks?
What breaks but never falls?
Answer
Night and Day!
Run Dead
What flies when it’s born, lies when it alive, and runs when it’s dead?
Answer
A snowflake.
Six Legs, Four Feet
What has six legs, two heads, four ears, two hands, but walks on four feet?
Answer
A horse and rider.
Six Faced
What has six faces,
But does not wear makeup.
It also has twenty-one eyes,
But cannot see?
Answer
A six-sided die.
Babysitter’s Cookies
A babysitter came over one day to babysit 10 children. She decided to give them a snack. In a jar there were 10 cookies. She wants to give each one a cookie, but still keep one in the jar. How will she do it?
Answer
She hands the 10th child the jar with one cookie left in it.
Mens Club
There is a certain club which is for men only. There are 600 men who belong to this club and 5% of these men wear one earring. Of the other 95% membership, half wear two earrings and the other half wear none. How many earrings are being worn in this club?
Answer
Six hundred. We know that 5%, or 30 of the men are wearing one earring. Of the other 95%, or 570, we know that half are wearing two earrings and the other half none. This is the same as if they all wore one.
Different Water Jugs
There are two plastic jugs filled with water. How could you put all of this water into a barrel, without using the jugs or any dividers, and still tell which water came from which jug?
Answer
Freeze them first. Take them out of the jugs and put the ice in the barrel. You will be able to tell which water came from which jug.
Each King
There are 50 horses and 50 kings riding along an old dirt road. They came to a peach tree with 50 peaches. Each took one, yet there were still 49 left. How is this possible?
Answer
Each is the name of one of the kings and he’s the only one that took one!
Hiding Ducks
There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks.
There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks.
There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks.
How many ducks are there?
Answer
Just four, in a square formation.
Bad Taxi Driver
There are 2 cops parked along a one-way street looking for traffic violations. They spot a taxi driver going in the wrong direction, yet they do nothing. Why?
Answer
The taxi driver wasn’t driving at the time, he was walking.
Mouth Tastes Them
The sun bakes them, the hand breaks them, the foot treads on them, and the mouth tastes them. What are they?
Answer
Grapes.
Creature with Many Eyes
The strangest creature you’ll ever find: Two eyes in front and many many more behind.
Answer
A Peacock.
Crystal Cage
The higher I climb, the hotter I engage, I can not escape my crystal cage.
What am I?
Answer
Mercury in a thermometer.
A Special Number
The following number is the only one of its kind: 8,549,176,320Can you figure out what is so special about it?
Answer
It’s the only number that has all the digits arranged in alphabetical order.