Puzzles #3

#1
	What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? A towel.
#2
	You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? An ear of corn.
#3
	What goes up and down the stairs without moving? A rug.
#4
	What can you catch but not throw? A cold.
#5
	I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I? A nose.
#6
	What's black and white and red all over? A zebra painted red.
#7
	What goes around the world but stays in a corner? A stamp.
#8
	I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I? A sponge.
#9
	Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I? Fire.
#10
	The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it? A coffin.

Riddles # 2

Riddle: Weight in my stomach,
trees on my back,
nails in my ribs,
it's feet I lack.

What am I?

Answer: A ship.

Riddle: I'm heavy but not backwards.

What am I?

Answer: The word 'ton', spelled backwards it is 'not'.

Riddle: What's always coming, but never arrives?

Answer: Tomorrow!

Riddle: I wear a red coat and have a stone in my throat.

What am I?

Answer: A cherry.

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.

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!