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You've found your way to the finale of the top riddles trilogy. You started off with the our 100 good riddles, and you have finally reached the next 100 1. Riddle: I'm found in socks, scarves and mittens. I'm found in the paws of playful kittens. What am I? Answer: Yarn. 2. Riddle: What did one math book say to the other math book? Answer: Do you want to hear my problems? 3. Riddle: Which three letters can frighten a thief away? Answer: I C U. 4. Riddle: I may be simple, I may be complex; I may have a name, but no gender or sex; I am often a question, or statements as a setup; I tend to have an answer, 'til you find it I won't let up. What am I? Answer: A riddle. 5. Riddle: What kind of running means walking? Answer: Running out of gas! 6. Riddle: Tool of thief, toy of queen. Always used to be unseen. Sign of joy, sign of sorrow. Giving all likeness borrowed. What am I? Answer: A mask. 7. Riddle: Can a man legally marry his widow's sister in the state of California? Answer: NO since she is a 'widow', the guy's dead! 8. Riddle: What can go up and come down without moving? Answer: The temperature. 9. Riddle: A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver? Answer: None. A pear tree does not bear plums. 10. Riddle: Lily is a lilypad in a small pond. Lilly doubles her size each day, On the 20th day she covers the whole pond. On what day was Lily half the size of the pond? Answer: Day 19, it's not 10 because on day 20 she doubled from day 19, so 19 must be half the size of the pond. 11. Riddle: What can hold water even though it has holes? Answer: A Sponge. 12. Riddle: A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I? Answer: I am a Butterfly. 13. Riddle: There is a clothing store in Bartlesville. The owner has devised his own method of pricing items. A vest costs $20, socks cost $25, a tie costs $15 and a blouse costs $30. Using the method, how much would a pair of underwear cost? Answer: $45. The pricing method consists of charging $5 for each letter required to spell the item. 14. Riddle: What do you call a bear with no teeth? Answer: A gummy Bear. 15. Riddle: The rungs of a 10 foot ladder attached to a ship are 1 foot apart. If the water is rising at the rate of one foot an hour, how long will it take until the water covers over the ladder? Answer: It will never cover the ladder because as the water rises, so will the floating ship. 16. Riddle: What kind of candy would a prisoner want before he is executed? Answer: A Life Saver. 17. Riddle: I have a head and a tail but no body... What am I? Answer: A coin. 18. Riddle: Which one of Santa's reindeer is the fastest? Answer: Dasher. 19. Riddle: What word contains all of the twenty six letters? Answer: Alphabet. 20. Riddle: Two camels were facing in opposite directions. One was facing due East and one was facing due West. They were in the desert so there was no reflection. How can they manage to see each other without walking around or turning around or moving their heads? Answer: The two camels were facing each other the entire time. Hence facing in opposite directions. 21. Riddle: I'm clean when I'm black, Dirty when white; Get too close, And you might sneeze. What am I? Answer: A Chalkboard. 22. Riddle: What runs without legs? Answer: Water. 23. Riddle: A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. His wife immediately called the police. The police questioned the wife and staff and got these alibis: The Wife said she was sleeping. The Cook was cooking breakfast. The Gardener was picking vegetables. The Maid was getting the mail. The Butler was cleaning the closet. The police instantly arrested the murderer. Who did it and how did they know? Answer: It was the Maid. She said she was getting the mail. There is no mail on Sunday! 24. Riddle: Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot, All is cool where it is not. What is it? Answer: Sunshine. 25. Riddle: How did the pancake hurt itself? Answer: Doing backflips. 26. Riddle: Why are Christmas trees bad at knitting? Answer: Because they always drop their needles. 27. Riddle: What did Adam say the day before Christmas? Answer: It's Christmas, Eve! 28. Riddle: One is to three as three is to five and five is to four and four is the magic number. What is the pattern? Answer: One has three letters in the word three has five letters in it five has four letters and four has four letters in it (if you try more numbers they will always come back to the number four: so four is the magic number) 29. Riddle: I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I? Answer: A Candle. 30. Riddle: How do you fix a jack-o-lantern? Answer: With a pumpkin patch. 31. Riddle: A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows, how many cows will he have? Answer: Ten Cows. We can call the pigs cows but it doesn't make them cows. 32. Riddle: Where does a werewolf like to hide? Answer: In your claws-it. 33. Riddle: A slender body, a tiny eye, no matter what happens, I never cry. What am I? Answer: A needle. 34. Riddle: There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet, there was nothing wrong with what he had done. Why? Answer: His father was in front of him when he was born, therefore he was born before him. His mother died while giving birth to him. Finally, he grew up to be a minister and married his sister at her ceremony. 35. Riddle: What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish? Answer: A map. 36. Riddle: If fish lived on land, where would they live? Answer: In Finland. 37. Riddle: What flowers are kissable? Answer: Tulips. 38. Riddle: I have hundreds of legs but I can only lean; You make me feel dirty so you feel clean. What am I? Answer: A Broom. 39. Riddle: If the day before yesterday is the 23rd, then what is the day after tomorrow? Answer: The 27th. 40. Riddle: What is the end of everything? Answer: The letter "g". 41. Riddle: Why is Peter Pan always flying? Answer: He Neverlands. 42. Riddle: If a boy blows 18 bubbles, Then pops 6 eats 7 and then He pops 5 and blows 1. How many are left? Answer: 1. 43. Riddle: Two blondes were going to disneyland and came to a fork in the road. One way said highway 93 right and the other said Disneyland left. Why did the blondes go home? Answer: Because they thought that disneyland actually left. 44. Riddle: What starts with a T, ends with a T and has T in it? Answer: A teapot. 45. Riddle: I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I? Answer: Your fingernails. 46. Riddle: What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters? Answer: Eat and Ate. 47. Riddle: What has toes but no feet or legs? Answer: Tomatoes. 48. Riddle: How do caterpillars swim laps? Answer: They do the butterfly. 49. Riddle: Who always enjoys poor health? Answer: A doctor. 50. Riddle: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I? Answer: The word Ton. 51. Riddle: A sharpshooter hung up his hat and put on a blindfold. He then walked 100 yards, turned around, and shot a bullet through his hat. The blindfold was a perfectly good one, completely blocking the man's vision. How did he manage this? Answer: He hung is hat on the barrel of his gun. 52. Riddle: A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later? Answer: He was an astronaut on a space walk, doing repairs. 53. Riddle: Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin, Light enough to caress the sky, Hard enough to crack rocks. What am I? Answer: Water. 54. Riddle: What did Sir Lancelot wear to bed? Answer: A knight gown! 55. Riddle: When does a British potato change its nationality? Answer: When it becomes a french fries. 56. Riddle: I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness. What am I? Answer: The letter S. 57. Riddle: A plane crashed between the border of Canada and America. Where do you bury the survivors? Answer: They are survivors, you don't bury them. 58. Riddle: If your uncle's sister is not your aunt, what relation is she to you? Answer: Your mother. 59. Riddle: What four-legged animal can jump higher than a house? Answer: Any, Houses can't jump. 60. Riddle: Two cops walked into a room with no windows and found a dead man who obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn't figure out how. There was no chair beneath him that he might have jumped off of, or a table. Just a puddle of water. How'd he do it? Answer: He stood on a block of ice until it melted. 61. Riddle: When may a man's coat pocket be empty, and yet have something in it? Answer: When it has a hole in it. 62. Riddle: Why did the turkey cross the road? Answer: To prove he wasn't chicken. 63. Riddle: What is the hardest key to turn? Answer: A don-key 64. Riddle: What did the triangle say to the circle? Answer: You’re pointless. 65. Riddle: A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I? Answer: A Coconut. 66. Riddle: The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father's age is the son's age reversed. How old could they be? (3 possible solutions). Answer: 51 and 15. 42 and 24. 60 and 06. 67. Riddle: There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. He has a wife and 2 kids. What does he weigh? Answer: Meat. 68. Riddle: What is the longest word in the dictionary? Answer: Smiles (there is a mile between the two S's) 69. Riddle: Which President wore the largest hat? Answer: The one with the largest head. 70. Riddle: How do you know that a vampire loves baseball? Answer: Because he turns into a bat every night. 71. Riddle: What happened to the broken-down frog? Answer: It got toad (towed) away. 72. Riddle: I come in many colors and I am very thin, I am found in every country, even in your home, I am very important, you can be very creative with me, I can even help you learn. What am I? Answer: Paper! 73. Riddle: 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? Answer: Heroine. 74. Riddle: What day would yesterday be if Thursday was four days before the day after tommorow? Answer: Friday. 75. Riddle: Why do skeletons go on vacations alone? Answer: Because they have no-body to go with. 76. Riddle: If a chicken says, "All chickens are liars". Is the chicken telling the truth? Answer: Answer: Chickens cannot talk. 77. Riddle: I am white, black and read all over. What am I? Answer: Newspaper! 78. Riddle: What boy wizard magically grew a beard each night? Answer: Hairy Potter. 79. Riddle: What falls down but never breaks? Answer: Nightfall. 80. Riddle: A group of campers have been on vacation so long, that they've forgotten the day of the week. The following conversation ensues. Darryl: What's the day? I don't think it is Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Tracy: Well that doesn't narrow it down much. Yesterday was Sunday. Melissa: Yesterday wasn't Sunday, tomorrow is Sunday. Ben: The day after tomorrow is Saturday. Adrienne: The day before yesterday was Thursday. Susie: Tomorrow is Saturday. David: I know that the day after tomorrow is not Friday. If only one person's statement is true, what day of the week is it? Answer: It is Wednesday. If it was any other day of the week, more than one statement would be true. To solve the riddle, evaluate each person's statement and write down what day it could be according to the statement. David's statement indicates it could be any day of the week except for Wednesday. When you list the days that it could be according to everyone's statement, it turns out Wednesday is the day mentioned only one time. Darryl: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday Tracy: Monday Melissa: Saturday Ben: Thursday Adrienne: Saturday Susie: Friday David: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday 81. Riddle: I'm so fast you can't see me, though everyone else can see straight through me. I don't stop until the day you die. What am I? Answer: The blink of an eye. 82. Riddle: I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I? Answer: I'm a Sponge. 83. Riddle: I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I? Answer: The wind. 84. Riddle: What is faster hot or cold? Answer: Hot, you can easily catch a cold. 85. Riddle: What relation would your father's sister's sister-in-law be to you? Answer: This person would be your mother. 86. Riddle: You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I? Answer: A reflection. 87. Riddle: No sooner spoken than broken. What is it? Answer: Silence 88. Riddle: What type of music is a mummy's favorite? Answer: Wrap. 89. Riddle: What do you call a person who is afraid of Santa Claus? Answer: Claustraophobic. 90. Riddle: What jack has a head but no body? Answer: Jack-o-lantern. 91. Riddle: Where do you take a sick pirate ship? Answer: To the dock! 92. Riddle: Why was the nose so tired? Answer: Because it had been running all day. 93. Riddle: Which word is the odd one out: Seventy, Brawl, Clover, Proper, Carrot, Swing, Change, Travel, Sacred, Stone? Answer: Carrot. When the first and last letters are removed from the other words, they still spell another word. 94. Riddle: When was the latest year that is the same upside down? Answer: 1961. 95. Riddle: A mother has 6 girls and each of them has a brother. How many children are there? Answer: 7. Each girl has the same brother. 96. Riddle: What do you call a snowman in the summer? Answer: Puddle. 97. Riddle: 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? Answer: The third. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead. 98. Riddle: What two whole, positive numbers that have a one-digit answer when multiplied and a two-digit answer when added? Answer: 1 and 9. 99. Riddle: It is a 5 letter word if you take away first letter it is something you get from sun, if you remove second letter you will get something to eat, if you remove third letter you get a word you use in pointing at and if you remove the fourth letter you get something to drink. What is it? Answer: Wheat. 100. Riddle: Why did the scarecrow win so many awards? Answer: He was out-standing in his field!

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