Monday, 3 March 2014

Riddles # 1

Riddle: I have four wings, but cannot fly.
I never laugh and never cry;
On the same spot I'm always found, toiling away with a little sound.

What am I?

Answer: A fan.

Riddle: A hobo picks up cigarette butts from the ground and can make a cigarette with 4 butts. If he finds 16 cigarette butts, how many cigarettes can he make?

Answer: 5. He makes 4 cigarettes with the 16 butts. Then he smokes them and has 4 more butts to make another cigarette.

Riddle: We hurt without moving.
We poison without touching.
We bear the truth and the lies.
We are not to be judged by our size.

What are we?

Answer: Words.

Riddle: An ant gets onto one end of a tight rope that is 1 meter long. The ant is traveling at 1 centimeter per second, but the entire rope is being stretched an extra 1 meter a second (it can be stretched forever).

Will the ant ever reach the other end of the rope?

Answer: He will reach the end of the rope eventually. Once he gets onto the rope, the rope behind him also stretches, so this must also be accounted for.

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