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  1. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
  2. What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
  3. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
  4. The more you take, the more you leave behind. "What am I?"
  5. What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? "What is it?"
  6. What has 88 keys, but can't even open a single door?
  7. A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
  8. Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?
  9. David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
  10. A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

Answers: 10 Best Riddles Quiz

  1. A Penny.
  2. The word is "starting". Remove the middle "T" and you have "staring", Remove the "A" and you get "string", remove the "R" then you have "sting", remove the "T" and you get "sing". Remove the "G", and you get "sin", remove the "S" and you're left with "in",  and finally, remove the "N" and you're left with "I".
  3. The letter M.
  4. You take footsteps and leave footprints.
  5. A die (dice).
  6. A piano.
  7. An apple a day keeps the doctor away!
  8. There was the father, his son, and his son's son. This equals 2 fathers and 2 sons for a total of 3!
  9. David.
  10. The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.
  1. A Penny.
  2. The word is "starting". Remove the middle "T" and you have "staring", Remove the "A" and you get "string", remove the "R" then you have "sting", remove the "T" and you get "sing". Remove the "G", and you get "sin", remove the "S" and you're left with "in",  and finally, remove the "N" and you're left with "I".
  3. The letter M.
  4. You take footsteps and leave footprints.
  5. A die (dice).
  6. A piano.
  7. An apple a day keeps the doctor away!
  8. There was the father, his son, and his son's son. This equals 2 fathers and 2 sons for a total of 3!
  9. David.
  10. The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.