| Riddles: this is a warning cause im not posting the answers to these riddles, you have to at least try to figure them out on your own but if you're really stumped email me at mell0yell05@hotmail.com |
| When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got the answer, compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors. What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die? I've seen you where you never were, And where you never will be; And yet you in that very same place, May still be seen by me. What is it? I go up and down at the very same time, I exist throughout life on only one side. I am very old and yet may be new. You might see me but I'll never see you. A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one and twelve is what remains. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? A man lives in his house. He also works out of his house and his job is very important. Everyday the man must sleep with the lights on to avert from tradgedy. One night the man gets so sick of the light he turns it out for the night. The next moring he reads the newspaper, takes out a gun, and shoots himself. Where did the man live? Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth? What five letter English word does not change its pronunciation when four letters are taken away? Looking at a picture a man says "Brothers and sisters I have none but that man's father is my father's son." Whose picture is it? If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch? There are three errers in the statement of this problem. You must detect all of them to recieve full credit. How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick? Bill's parents have three sons. The first is named Tom, the second is named Dick. What is the third son named? What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? A patient is rushed into the emergency ward of the Conundrum National Hospital after a horrific road crash, and is in urgent need of an operation to save his life. The surgeon on duty walks into the room and says "Oh my god! I can't operate on this boy. He is my SON!" but the surgeon was not the boy's father. How could this be? A bottle and a cork together cost $1.50. the bottle costs $1.00 more than the cork. How much does each cost? A cop sees a bus driver going down a one way street the wrong way and just sits there and does nothing. Why? The one who makes it, sells it. The one who buys it, never uses it. The one that uses it never knows that he's using it. What is it? Which common English word is most often pronounced incorrectly? A barbecue grill holds two steaks at a time. It takes ten minutes to grill one side of a steak. What is the shortest amount of time it will take to grill three steaks on both sides? This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching! |