Simple Riddles

• What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? A clock
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• What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Short
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• What word begins and ends with an ‘e’ but only has one letter? Envelope
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• What has a neck but no head? A bottle
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• What type of cheese is made backwards? Edam
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• What gets wetter as it dries? A towel
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• Why did the boy bury his flashlight? Because the batteries died.
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• Which letter of the alphabet has the most water? The C
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• What starts with a ‘P’, ends with an ‘E’ and has thousands of letters? The Post Office!
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• What has to be broken before you can use it? An egg
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• Why can’t a man living in New York be buried in Chicago? Because he’s still living!
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• What begins with T, ends with T and has T in it? A teapot
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• How many letters are there in the English alphabet? There are 18: 3 in ‘the’, 7 in ‘English’ and 8 in ‘alphabet’.
• Which month has 28 days? All of them of course!