Riddle:
Jack has 8 bricks, 7 of them weigh the same but one is slightly heavier. Using a balance scale, how can Jack find the heavier brick in two weighings?
Answer: First, he splits them into piles of 3, 3, and 2 bricks.
Then, he weighs both groups of 3 with each other. If they balance he knows the brick is one of the 2 unweighed bricks and he can weigh them to find the heavier one.
If the stacks of 3 bricks do not balance, he will weigh 2 of the 3 bricks.
If they balance he will know the brick left unweighed is heavier, or if they do not balance, he will find the heavier one.
Riddle:
A man has 9 children. Half of them are boys. How is this possible?
Answer: they are all boys
Riddle:
You're running a race and pass the person in 2nd place. What place are you in now?
Answer: You're in second place. You didn't pass the person in first.
Riddle:
Johnny's mother had three children. The first was named April and the second was named May. What was the name of the third child?
Answer: Johnny
Riddle:
At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?
Answer: The Stars
Riddle:
What has a mouth but doesn't eat, a bank with no money, a bed but doesn't sleep, and waves but has no hands?
Answer: A river
Riddle:
If a dog is tied to a piece of rope that is 6m long, how can he reach a bone that is 7m away?
Answer: The other end is not tied to anything.
Riddle:
It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?
Answer: Nothing.
Riddle:
What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
Answer: A River.
Riddle:
I never was, am always to be. No one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all, To live and breath on this terrestrial ball. What am I?
Answer: Tomorrow or the future.
