Riddle:
Two travelers spend from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock walking along a level road, up a hill, and back again. Their pace is 4 mph on the level, 3 mph uphill, and 6 mph downhill.
How far do they walk and at what time do they reach the top of the hill?
Answer: 24 miles half past three.
Riddle:
Dreaming of apples on a wall. And dreaming often, dear. I dreamed that, if I counted all, How many would appear?
How many?
Answer: And dreaming of ten, dear.
Riddle:
DEFENDING, CALMNESS, SIGHING, CANOPY and STUMBLE. What do these words have in common?
Answer: They each have 3 letters in common. CA NOP Y.
Riddle:
What have these words in common?
ASPIRATED GRANGERS PRELATES SWINGERS CHASTENS
Answer: All can be diminished by one letter (from begining and end alternately) forming a new word each time.
Riddle:
Can you Form a word from the letters? A B C D E F G I. (note; the word is hyphenated)
Answer: Big-Faced.
Riddle:
A traveler came to the river side, with a donkey bearing an obelisk. But he did not venture to ford the tide, for he had too good an *.
What is the missing word?
Answer: Asterisk = "Ass to Risk".
Riddle:
A man has nine children, born at regular intervals. The sum of their squares of their ages is equal to the square of his own age.
What are the ages of the children?
Answer: 2 - 5 - 8 - 11 - 14 - 17 - 20 - 23 - 26
Riddle:
If you overtake the 3rd person in a race, what would be your position?
Answer: 3rd position.
Riddle:
Mr. and Mrs. Ketchum have daughters named January, February, March, April, May, June and July. What is her next daughters name.
Answer: What.
Riddle:
A judge has a murder case. The person who was murdered has a family member who thinks they found the murderer. The family members' lawyer called up a witness. The lawyer asked where the witness was on the day of the murder. The witness says "Well it was like any other Sunday morning, I got the mail, went to Jill's diner, and then went home and watched cartoons for the rest of the day." The lawyer says "he is lying!" How does the lawyer know the witness is lying?
Answer: The witness says he went to get the mail and there are no mail deliveries on sundays. Also Sunday cartoons are only in the morning so how could the witness be watching them all day?
