WHAT IS RIDDLE?
It is a statement, question or phrase that has a double meaning. It is also can be described as a puzzle to be solved. It could be a thought provoking challenge to figure out, or it could be a funny comment that could make you laugh. Riddles could be great busters or conversation starters to get you think.
Riddle is as hard or as simple as you and the person .
TWO TYPES OF RIDDLES
1. ENIGMA - a problem in which a solution is expressed metaphorically. You have to carefully think about the riddle to come up with the solution.
2. CONUNDRUM - a question that opens either the question or the answer.
SAMPLE RIDDLES
1. In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink, a pink shower - everything was pink! What color were the stairs?
2. My name is Rider, I live in a farm. There are four other dogs on the farm with me. Their names are Blacky, Pinky, Whitey, Browny. What do you think the fifth dog's name is?
3. You walk across a bridge and you see a boat full of people yet there isn't a single person on board. How is it possible?
4. What can run but can't walk?
5. Name four days of the week that start with the letter "T".
6. How many months have 28 days.
7. What is at the end of a rainbow?
8. Which weighs more, a found of feathers or a pound of bricks?
9. What word looks the same backwards and upside down.
10. Using only addition, how do you add eight 8's and get the number 1000.
11. Imagine you're in a room that is filling with water. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?
12. What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
13. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
14. I'm full of keys but I can't open any door. What am I?
15. What goes up and never comes down.
16. What intervention lets you look right through a wall.
17. What two keys can't open a door?
18. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
19. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
20. What never asks questions but is often answered.
21. A boy fell of a 30 meter ladder but did not get hurt. Why not?
22. I am an odd number. Take a way one letter and I become even. What number am I?
23. If there are three apples and you take away two, how many do you have?
24. What's full of holes but still holds water?
25. What do the number 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?
26. Say "racecar" backward.
27. What has hand but cannot clap?
28. I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?
29. You walk into a room with a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. Which do you light first?
30. A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How?
31. A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days, then leaves on Friday. How did he do it?
32. How can you throw a ball as hard as you can, to only have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything.
33. Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, everyone ate one burger, yet only three burgers were eaten in all. How is this possible?
34. A boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room. The ER doctor saw the boy and said " I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son." But the doctor was not the boy's father. How could that be?
35. Beth's mother has three daughters. One is called Lara, The other one is Sara. What is the name of the third daughter?
36. A man was outside taking a walk when it is started to rain. The man didn't have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes got soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?
ANSWER KEY
1. There weren't any stairs, it was one story house.
2. Rider.
3. All the people on the boat were married.
4. A drop of water.
5. Tuesday, Thursday, today and tomorrow.
6. All 12 months.
7. The letter W.
8. Neither, they both one pound.
9. SWIMS
10. 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 =1000
11. Stop imagining.
12. Short
13. Glove
14. Piano
15. Your age
16. A window
17. A monkey and a donkey.
18. Footprints
19. Your name
20. A doorbell
21. He fell off the bottom step
22. Seven (take away "s" it becomes even)
23. If you take two apples then you have of course two.
24. a sponge
25. They read the same right side up and upside down.
26. Racecar backward
27. Clock
28. Candle
29. Match
30. The woman is blind and she is reading braille.
31. His horse's name was Friday.
32. Throw the ball straight up in the air.
33. They were a grandmother, a mother and daughter
34. The doctor was his mom.
35. Beth
36. The man was bald.
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