Riddle:
On a fine sunny day, a ship was in the harbor. All of a sudden the ship began to sink. There was no storm and nothing wrong with the ship yet it sank right in front of the spectators' eyes. What caused the ship to sink?
Answer: The "Submarine" Captain ordered the crew to dive.
Riddle:
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 bustrip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
Riddle:
I am a three digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
Riddle:
One day, you woke up in a place you haven't seen before. There, you saw three rooms, all bringing you to the exit. But, in those rooms, there were notes. It said: 1: the room is filled with poison gas 2: the room has more than 15 lions that haven't eaten for 5 years 3: the room is filled with snipers that would kill anyone who steps in You have no other choice, but to choose one of the three. Which room would be the way that could get you out without being harmed?
Answer: 2. Because if the lions hadn't eaten for five years, they would be dead.
Riddle:
My first is a number, my second another, And each, I assure you, will rhyme with the other. My first you will find is one-fifth of my second, And truly my whole a long period reckoned. Yet my first and my second (nay, think not I cozen), When added together will make but two dozen. How many am I?
Riddle:
James ordered a fishing rod, priced at $3.56. Unfortunately, James is an Eskimo who lives in a very remote part of Greenland and the import rules there forbid any package longer than 4 feet to be imported. The fishing rod was 4 feet and 1 inch, just a little too long, so how can the fishing rod be mailed to James without breaking the rules? Ideally, James would like the fishing rod to arrive in one piece!
Answer: Insert the fishing rod into a box which measures 4 feet on all sides, the fishing rod will fit within the diagonal of the box with room to spare.
Riddle:
A murder had been suspected but the police did not know how the man had been killed. There were no windows, doors, chairs or desks. There was only a puddle left on the floor. The man had been hung by a rope in the middle of the floor underneath him hanging was a puddle. How did the man reach the ceiling and why was there a puddle?
Answer: The man had waited on a large ice cube and when it melted it left a puddle and he hung himself.
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