Riddles



At night they come without being fetched, And by day they are lost without being stolen The stars

The beginning of eternity The end of time and space The beginning of every end, And the end of every place. The letter "e"

Runs over fields and woods all day Under the bed at night sits not alone, With long tongue hanging out, A-waiting for a bone. A Shoe

What do you use from your head to your toes? and the more it works the thinner it grows? Soap

What kind of cheese is made backwards? Edam Cheese

You are in a room that has two doors. One leads to certain death. The other to freedom. In the room are two people. One always tells the truth. The other always lies. You do not know which is which. You can only ask one of them one question. What do you ask?

Which door will the other person tell me leads to certain death.

There is a common word that is eight letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains a word - from eight letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time? starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I

Billy's mom had 5 children. 4 of their names were: Sam, Mike, Joe, and Chris. What was the 5th childs name? Billy The word CANDY can be spelled using just 2 letters. Can you figure out how? C and Y

I have two hands, but have no arms. I have a face, yet have no neck. what am I? A clock

Where do elephants hide? They hide in trees. Have you ever seen an Elephent hide in a tree? See how well they hide!

What is the next 3 letters in this riddle? o t t f f s s _ _ _ e n t They represent the first letter when writing the numbers one thru ten.

How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550 545+5=550

A man who WAS NOT wearing a parachute jumped out of a plane. But the man landed on his feet. How did this happen? The plane was on the ground.

If a farmer has 17 sheep, and all but nine die, how many are left? 9

Where does yesterday always come after today? A Dictionary

What kind of coat can be put on only when its wet? A Coat of paint

what comes once in a minute 3 times in a minlenimum but not once in 1 thousand years? the letter "m"

What room can noone enter? A mushroom

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away? Charcoal

How far can a man walk into a forest? Half way Because if he is past the middle point he would be walking out.

How many eggs can you eat on an empty stomach? 1, after you are not eating on an empty stomach.

There is a guy in a prison. the only things that are with him in the room are a table and a mirror placed on it. there are no windows in the prison cell. HOW DOES HE GET OUT? he saw the table in half. two halves make a whole. he climbs out of the hole.

What is the greatest worldwide use of snakeskin? To cover snakes

A horse jockey left his town on Friday. He was gone Two days later. He came back on Friday. How? His horse's name was Friday!!

What can you hold without using your hands? Your breath

This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching! The letter "e", which is the most common letter in the English language, does not appear once in the long paragraph.

If a plane crashes on the boarder of Canada and the United States of America, where do the survivors get buried? They dont burry survivors

Many things can create one. It can be of any shape or size. It is created for various reasons, and it can shrink or grow with time. What is it? A hole

Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. A Shadow

Did the people laugh when the lady fell on the ice? No but the ice cracked up.

you say my name and I am no longer there. What am I?? Silence

I am big in the dark and small in the light? What am I? Your eye

If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors? I have no idea

What is the only crime, that if you commit it you will never be arrested for it? Suicide

A man went for a walk in a storm and his hair didnt get wet how could this be? He didnt have hair

Some guys go fishing. There are two fathers and two sons. Each one catches a fish but they end up with 3 fish. How is this possible? There is a grandfather a father and a son.

A woman has two boys who are always fighting. She tells them to stand on the same peice of newspaper until they make up. They cannot touch each other. How does she do it? Slips the paper under a door and makes them stand on each side.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

one had to stand in a corner for a half an hour and not think of anything white

Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west

Ask them to pick a number 1-9. write it down. ask them to pick a number 2-9 but not to tell you. tell them to multiply it by 9. then tell them to add the 2 digits in their head. figure it will equal nine and tell them the right number to subtract from it to equal the first number they picked that you wrote down.