Riddle: Suppose you want to send in the mail a valuable object to a friend. You have a box which is big enough to hold the object. The box has a locking ring which is large enough to have a lock attached and you have several locks with keys. However, your friend does not have the key to any lock that you have. You cannot send the key in an unlocked box since it may be stolen or copied. How do you send the valuable object, locked, to your friend - so it may be opened by your friend?
Answer: Send the box with a lock attached and locked. Your friend attaches his or her own lock and sends the box back to you. You remove your lock and send it back to your friend. Your friend may then remove the lock she or he put on and open the box.
Riddle: What kind of cheese is made backwards?
Answer: EDAM cheese (made backwards is edam)
Riddle: what goes up and down at the same time, But doesn'move?
Answer: the stairs
Riddle: A beggar's brother died, but the man who died had no brother. How could that be?
Answer: The beggar was his sister!
Riddle: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
Answer: None. You just met all of them on the way.
Riddle: George walked for thirty minutes in the pouring rain without getting a single hair on his head wet. He didn't have a hat or an umbrella and his coat had no hood. How did he do that?
Answer: He was bald.
Riddle: There is a dead man in the middle of a field, nothing is around him and there are no footprints of any sort. There is an unopened package next to him. How did he die? HINT: As he approached the field he knew he was going to die.
Answer: Failed Parachute
Riddle: I can go up a chimney down and down a chimney down but can't go up a chimney up and down a chimney up. What am I?
Answer: an umbrella
Riddle: Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin.
Riddle: I'm usually round I'm as light as a feather but thousands of men cannot carry me What am i?
Answer: bubbles!