Life of a _______
Life of a _______
I eat all my life, but when I drink I die. What am I?
A candle. Takes air to burn and when water touched the flame it dies out.
All Riddles
Reveal Answer
Train Journey
Train Journey
Mr. Grumper grumbles about bad time-keeping trains like everybody else. On one particular morning he was justified, though.
The train left on time for the one hour journey and it arrived 5 minutes late. However, Mr. Grumper’s watch showed it to be 3 minutes early, so he adjusted his watch by putting it forward 3 minutes. His watch kept time during the day, and on the return journey in the evening the train started on time, according to his watch, and arrived on time, according to the station clock.
If the train traveled 25 percent faster on the return journey than it did on the morning journey, was the station clock fast or slow, and by how much?
The station clock is 3 minutes fast. The morning journey took 65 minutes, and the evening journey therefore took 52 minutes, and the train arrived 57 minutes after it should have left, that is, 3 minutes early.
I Can Sizzle Like Bacon
I Can Sizzle Like Bacon
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?
A snake.
If you have three oranges
If you have three oranges
If there are three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have?
Two. You took TWO
The Answer Is Right in Front of You
The Answer Is Right in Front of You
The beginning of eternity.
The end of time and space.
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.
What am I?
The letter 'e'.
What’s her name?
What’s her name?
Mary’s mother has 3 daughters, the first’s name is May, the second’s name is June. What is the third daughter’s name?
Mary!
The Missing Dollar
The Missing Dollar
Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5.
He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in.
The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day!
Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night.
We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent.
Where did the other dollar go?
The facts in this riddle are clear: There is an initial $30 charge. It should have been $25, so $5 must be returned and accounted for.
$3 is given to the 3 friends, $2 is kept by the bellhop - there you have the $5.
The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking - and quite successfully for most.
Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay $9, not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid $27 for the night. But we know that the clerk will tell us that they were charged only $25 and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by the bellhop, you come up with $30.
Twice In a Moment
Twice In a Moment
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "m"
Man and a barrel
Man and a barrel
A man takes a barrel that weighs 20 pounds, and then puts something in it. It now weighs less than 20 pounds.
What did he put in the barrel?
He put a hole in the barrel to make it weigh less.
Thin dog, Fat dog
Thin dog, Fat dog
Two dogs are sitting on a porch – a fat dog and a thin dog. The little dog is the son of the fat dog, but the fat dog is not the father of the thin dog. Can you explain?
The fat dog is the mother.