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Riddle 1: Four men were in a boat on the lake.

The boat turns over, and all four men sink to the bottom of the lake, yet not a single man got wet! Why? Solution: Because they were all married and not single Riddle 2: what is the end of everything?? Solution: the end of everything is g! Riddle 3: What's full of holes but still holds water? Solution: A sponge! Riddle 4: A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible? Solution: "Them" refers to the all the people mentioned.... a woman and 7 children. Riddle 5: My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I'm often invited to play. Yet wherever I go I must take my bow or else I have nothing to say. What am I? Solution: violin Riddle 6: I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I? Solution: I am a Joke. Riddle 7: A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket? Solution: give the four kids their respective apples ... for the last kid, give him the basket with the apple in it Riddle 8: Only two backbones and thousands of ribs. Solution: Railroad Riddle 9: What goes up and down stairs without moving? Solution: Carpet Riddle 10:

What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young; born in an instant yet lasts a life time? Solution: Memories. Riddle 11: An iron horse with a flaxen tail. The faster the horse runs, the shorter his tail becomes. What is it? Solution: A needle and thread. Riddle 12: the maker does not need it, the buyer does not use it, and the user does not see it. what is it? Solution: a coffin Riddle 13: Jack and Jill are lying on the floor inside the house, dead. They died from lack of water. There is shattered glass next to them. How did they die? Solution: Jack and Jill are goldfish. Riddle 14: Take off my skin, I won't cry, but you will. What am I? Solution: An onion Riddle 15: The more you take the more you leave behind. Solution: Footsteps

Riddle 15: If you throw me from the window, I will leave a grieving wife. Bring me back, but in the door, and You'll see someone giving life! Solution: The letter 'n'. wiNdow - widow door - doNor Riddle 16: I can be quick and then I'm deadly, I am a rock, shell and bone medley. If I was made into a man, I'd make people dream, I gather in my millions by ocean, sea and stream. Solution: Sand Riddle 17: Once you hear about me, you want me. Once you have me you want to share me. But if you do, I no longer exist. What am I? Solution:

A secret. Riddle 18: What kind of cake always smiles for the camera? Solution: cheese cake Riddle 19: Though liquid in nature, dont push me too far; for then I will break, and the damage may scar. What am I? Solution: Glass Riddle 20: What is yours but your friends use it more than you do? Solution: Your name! Riddle 21: What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? Solution: A towel Riddle 22: I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I? Solution: A Shadow Riddle 23: Why is Alabama the smartest state in the USA? Solution: Because it has 4 A's and one B! Riddle 24: A man was found dead in his study. He was slumped over his desk and a gun was in his hand. There was a cassette recorder on his desk. When the police entered the room and pressed the play button on the tape recorder they heard: "I can't go on. I have nothing to live for." Then there was the sound of a gunshot. How did the detective immediately know that the man had been murdered and it wasn't a suicide? Solution: The cassette had started at the beginning of the man's utterance. Someone else had to be there to rewind the tape. Riddle 25: You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it? Solution: I am a Bell. Riddle 26: What can run but never walks? Has a mouth but never talks? Has a bed but necer sleeps? Has

a head but never weeps? Solution: A river- a river runs has a mouth when it meges into the sea Has a river bed and has a head at it's mouth Riddle 27: Why don't lobsters share? Solution: They're shellfish Riddle 28: A man killed himself. When the detectives came they found the victim hanging and a puddle of water underneath him. Can you solve this easy riddle. Solution: He probably was standing on ice that melted Riddle 29: Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die. Solution: Fire Riddle 30: It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of every space. What is it? Solution: The Letter E Riddle 31: What do you fill with empty hands? Solution: Gloves Riddle 32: Six glasses are in a row. The first three are full of juice; the second three are empty. By moving only one glass, can you arrange them so empty and full glasses alternate? Solution: Pour the juice from the second glass into the fifth glass. Riddle 33: What is it that everybody does at the same time? Solution: grow older Riddle 34: What turns everything around, but does not move? Solution: a mirror Riddle 35: What is it that everyone requires, everyone gives, everyone asks and that very few take?

Solution: advice Riddle 36: What animal doesn't play fair? Solution: the cheetah Riddle 37: What starts with T ,Deals with T,and ends with T Solution: teapot Riddle 38: I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner or later everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to let me help them. Who am I? Solution: Dentist Riddle 39: If there are three apples, and you take away 2, how many do you have? Solution: 2 Riddle 40: If a red house is made from red bricks, and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a black house is made from black bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks, what is a green house made of? Solution: glass Riddle 41: Two boxers are in a boxing match (regular boxing, not kick boxing). The fight is scheduled for 12 rounds but ends after 6 rounds, after one boxer knocks out the other boxer. Yet, no man threw a punch. How is this possible? Solution: Both boxers are women Riddle 42: I know a word of three letters, add two and a fewer there will be. Solution: few Riddle 43: What two words contain thousands of letters? Solution: Post office Riddle 44: How is your mother's brother's brother in law related to you? Solution: Uncle in law

Riddle 45: Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on earth? Solution: Mount Everest, it just hadn't been discovered! Riddle 46: If you look, you can't see me. If you see me, you cannot see anything else. I can make you walk if you can't. Sometimes I speak the truth. And sometimes I lie. Solution: Sleepwalk... The answer is dream. Riddle 47: On a sunday afternoon, a mother enters he daughters room to find her dead. A detective comes over and asks what everybody was doing. The maid said she was dusting, the brother (who was not fond of his sister) said he was playing video games, the other sister said she was playing with her dolls, the dad said he was getting the mail, and cook said he had been making dinner. Who did it? Solution: The dad murdered the daughter because there is no mail on Sunday. Riddle 48: A man lives on the 26th floor of a building. When he goes to work, he rides all the way down to the elevator. But when he wants to go back to his room, he rides all the way to 20th floor, and takes the stairs for the last 6 floors. Why? Solution: He is a dwarf and could not reach too far up to press the higher buttons. Riddle 49: I have a heart that never beats, I have a home but I never sleep. I can take a mans house and build anothers, And I love to play games with my many brothers. I am a king among fools. Who am I? Solution: The King of Hearts in a deck of cards. Riddle 50: A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him? Solution: 3rd.lions can't survive 3 years without food.. Riddle 51: Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible? Solution: He was 20 in 1980BC and 15 in 1985BC Riddle 52: There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it? Solution: incorrectly

Riddle 53: I can be long I can be short I can be grown I can be bought I can be painted or left bare.What am I? Solution: A fingernail Riddle 54: What happened on the 6th of May 1978 at thirty-four minutes past twelve am What was it? Solution: At the moment, the time and day could be written as: 12:34, 5/6/78 Riddle 55: What is black when you get it red when you use it and white when your through with it? Solution: coal Riddle 56: There was a man who wanted to prove his love to his wife. So, he climbed the highest mountain, swam the deepest ocean and walked the biggest desert. What do you think his wife said? Solution: Nothing. She divorced him for never being at home. Riddle 57: If a boy and his father are driving down a road and they run into a tree. The father died instantly and the boys is rushed to the hospital. At the hospital the rotor comes in and says oh my god that's my son!!! How are they related Solution: The doctor is the boys mother!!! Riddle 58: Where is the only place that yesterday always follows today? Solution: In a dictionary Riddle 59: There is a certain crime, that if it is attempted, is punishable, but if it is committed, is not punishable. What is the crime? Solution: >Suicide. Riddle 60: Young John-John Kennedy was named after me. Yet my name is neither John nor Kennedy. How can that be? Solution: He was born later than I. Therefore he was named after me. Riddle 61: Why can't you take a picture of a Indian woman with hair curlers? Solution: You can't take a picture with hair curlers you need a camera!

Riddle 62: How many birth days does the average man have? Solution: One, he may have many Birthdays, but only one birth day! Riddle 63: It is everything to someone, and nothing to everyone else. What is it? Solution: Your mind Riddle 64: How can this be? A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be? Solution: The woman is a photographer. She shot/took a picture of him, develops it and hang it..

Riddle 65: A woman went to visit her bank manager and she took her young daughter with her. The bank manager said that the womans daughter could stay with his secretary during the meeting. When the woman and her daughter left, the secretary turned to the other secretary and said to her, "That little girl was my daughter." How could that be? Solution: The secretary was the girl's father. Riddle 66: There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male the first three letters signify a female the first four signify a great man and the whole word a great woman. What is the word? Solution: Heroine Riddle 67: What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything? Solution: Your shadow. Riddle 68: What types of words are these: Madam, civic, eye, level. Solution: They are palindromes; they read the same both ways. Riddle 69: It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it? Solution: Beetle. Riddle 70: It's made in your own it's a picture too and it can project to others

something about you Solution: Image Riddle 71: What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks? Solution: candle Riddle 72: 2 fathers and 2 sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So, why do they bring home only 3 fish? Solution: 1 grandpa, his son, and his son. Riddle 73: Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family? Solution: Seven. The four daughters have only one brother, making five children, plus mom and dad. Riddle 74: What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters? Solution: Queue. Riddle 75: When is it bad luck to meet a white cat? Solution: When you're a mouse. Riddle 76: The more of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? Solution: footsteps Riddle 77: Name three keys that unlock no doors. Solution: Donkey, Monkey, Turkey Riddle 78: What word looks the same upside down and backwards? Solution: SWIMS Riddle 79: I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg, I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg, I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole, I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole,

What am I? Solution: A snake Riddle 80: What kind of room has no windows or doors? Solution: Mushroom Riddle 81: What is the longest word in the English language? Solution: Smiles (there's a mile between the first and last letter) Riddle 82: What is the center of gravity? Solution: V Riddle 83: What do you serve that you cannot eat? Solution: A tennis ball Riddle 84: What doesn't get any wetter, no matter how much rain falls on it? Solution: Water Riddle 85: Who can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard? Solution: A barber Riddle 86: You heard me before, Yet you hear me again, Then I die, Til you call me again. What am I? Solution: I am Echo. Riddle 87: What types of animals can jump higher than a house? Solution: ALL ... Houses can't jump. Riddle 88: From what number can you take half and leave nothing? Solution: 8. Take the top half away and the "o" is left Riddle 89: How can you tell the difference between a can of chicken soup and a can of tomato soup? Solution: Read the label

Riddle 90: Three guys run into a bar, the fourth man ducks. Why does he duck? Solution: He didn't want to hit the bar Riddle 91: I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. Solution: A pencil lead. Riddle 92: Name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. Solution: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Riddle 93: The answer I give is yes, but what I mean is no. What was the question? Solution: The question is: Do you mind? Riddle 94: Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet never see each other? Solution: Eyes Riddle 95: What fastens two people yet touches only one? Solution: A wedding ring Riddle 96: How do you put a giraffe in a refrigerator? Solution: Open the door, put him in, close the door Riddle 97: How do you put an elephant in a refrigerator? Solution: Open the door, take the giraffe out, put him in, close the door Riddle 98: All of the animals go to a meeting for the Lion King. One animal doesnt show up.Which animal doesn't come? Solution: The elephant, he's in the refrigerator Riddle 99: You come to a river that aligators live in. There is no boat, raft, bridge, nor material to make them. How do you get across? Solution:

Jump in, swim accross, get out. The aligators are at the meeting Riddle 100: When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing. Solution: A riddle

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