Riddle:
A man goes to work at the same time each day and travels part of his journey facing forwards and the remainder facing backwards. When he returns at the end of his working day, he only faces forwards.
How can this be?
Answer: He works in the engine room of a liner! To get to work, he walks along the decks from his cabin facing forwards, and down the ladders between decks facing backwards. However, when he finishes, he only needs to face forwards to climb the ladders again and walk along the deck back to his cabin.
Riddle:
During a soccer match, a player makes a suggistive comment about women into the referee's ear, who promptly waves the red card and sends the player off.
Why would the referee do this?
Answer: The refree was a women.
Riddle:
George was cleaning the windows on the eighteenth floor of an office block when there was a massive power failure. The electric hoist on his platform was immoblized.
So how did he manage to get down before the power was restored?
Answer: George walked down the stairs. He was cleaning the inside of the windows.
Riddle:
A man strolls into a hospital emergency room where there is a long line up to the reception desk. He walks right to the front and clamly asks to see the consultant in charge. No one gets angry and the receptionist immediately phones. The consultant has never met this man, yet she hurries away from the ward to see him.
Why?
Answer: The man is a florist delievering a bouquet of flowers for the consultant.
Riddle:
How many pluses should we put between the digits of 987,654,321 to get a total of 99, and where?
Answer: (6) 9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 43 + 21= 99
(7) 9 + 8 + 7 + 65 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1= 99
Riddle:
My only timepiece is a wall clock. One day I forgot to wind it and it stopped. I went to visit a friend whos watch is always correct, stayed awhile, and then went home. There I made a simple calculation and set the clock right.
How did I do this even though I had no watch on me to tell how long it took me to return from my friend's house?
Answer: Before I left, I wound the wall clock. When I returned, the change in time equaled how long it took to go to my friends house and return, plus the time I spent there. But I knew the latter because I looked at my friends watch when I arrived and left.
Subtracting the time of the visit from the time I was absent from my house, and dividing by 2, I obtained the time it took me to return home. I added this time to what my friend watch showed when I left, and set the sum on my wall clock.
Riddle:
What question can never be answered with a Yes?
Answer: Are you asleep?
Riddle:
What is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of elements?
Answer: The Letter J.
Riddle:
How many months have twenty-eight days?
Answer: All twelve months have 28 days.
Riddle:
Two schoolgirls were traveling from the city to a dacha (summer cottage) on an electric train.
"I notice," one of the girls said "that the dacha trains coming in the opposite direction pass us every 5 minutes. What do you think-how many dacha trains arrive in the city in an hour, given equal speeds in both directions?"
"Twelve, of course," the other girl answered, "because 60 divided by 5 equals 12."
The first girl did not agree. What do you think?
Answer: If the girls had been on a standing train, the first girl's calculations would have been correct, but their train was moving. It took 5 minutes to meet a second train, but then it took the second train 5 more minutes to reach where the girls met the first train. So the time between trains is 10 minutes, not 5, and only 6 trains per hour arrive in the city.
