Riddles have are always good for providing a challenge, and the providing the satisfaction of being able to meet that challenge, sometimes with a good Laugh.
Put yourself to the test with these Riddles, and try not to look at the answers until you have a solution to each riddle.
I have cities, but no houses.
I have mountains, but no trees.
I have water, but no fish.
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What am I?
Answer: A Map
What are the two things you cannot have for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and Dinner.
What is there more of, the less you see it?
Answer: Darkness.
You see a boat filled with people.
It has not sunk, but when you look again, you don’t see a single person on the boat.
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Why?
Answer: All the people were married.
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears.
I have no body, but come alive with wind.
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What am I?
Answer: An Echo
What has eyes that cannot see, a tongue that cannot taste, and a soul that cannot die?
Answer: A shoe.
What word in the English language has three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper.
You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy.
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What am I?
Answer: A candle.
What is black when clean and white when it is dirty?
Answer: A blackboard.
What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great man, while the entire word signifies a great woman.
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What is the word?
Answer: Heroine.
What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: A leg.
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him underwater for five minutes. Next she hangs him. Afterwards they enjoy a lovely dinner.
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Explain?
Answer: She took a photo of him and developed it in her dark room.
I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me.
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What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter m.
A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters.
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How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
Answer: Four sisters and three brothers.
What is always coming, but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
Which word in the dictionary is spelt incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly.
How can the number four be half of five?
Answer: IV, the Roman numeral for four, which is “half” (two letters) of the word five.
When will water stop flowing downhill?
Answer: When it reaches the bottom.
What gets bigger and bigger as you take more away from it?
Answer: A hole.
I have keys, but no locks and space, and no rooms. You can enter, but you can’t go outside.
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What am I?
Answer: A keyboard.
What disappears as soon as you say it’s name?
Answer: Silence.
What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel.
How many letters are in the alphabet?
Answer: There are 11 letters in the words “the alphabet”.
What has teeth but cannot eat?
Answer: A comb.
How much does it cost for a pirate to get earrings?
Answer: A buccaneer.
What has many rings but no fingers?
Answer: A Telephone.
What is the difference between a jeweller and a jailer?
Answer: A jeweller sells watches and a jailer watches cells.
What do all the Smiths in the telephone book have in common?
Answer: They all have telephones.
What’s easy to get into, but hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble.
