Riddles
Here are some riddles. The link to the answers is at the bottom but don't cheat (please?). Email me any good riddles you know.
1. What comes never in a day, twice in a week and once in a year?
2. Silver armour never clinking. Never thirsty 'cos I'm always drinking. What am I?
3.
A man walks up to you and says - "everything I say to you is a lie."
Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?
4.A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys.
How can this be possible?
5.A farmer and his hired help were carrying grain to the barn. The farmer carried one sack of grain and the hired help carried two sacks. Who carried the heavier load and why?
6. A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50."
The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less.
In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
7. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
8. A wise King wants an honest child to take his place on the throne. He gives each of his 3 sons a pack of flower seeds and tells them that the one who grows the most beautiful flowers from these seeds will have his throne. Six months pass and the king checks the flowers. The first 2 had beautiful flower beds while the last child had nothing in his plot but weeds and no flowers. Yet, the king chose this child to have the throne. Why?
9.The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. Are these sentences true or false?
10.What kind of nut has no shell?
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