Riddle:
I make the leaves green, I make the dirt brown, I make the blue birds blue, I make all of your dreams come true. What am I?
Answer: A box of crayons.
Riddle:
A woman has a heart attack. She dials 911 for help, but nobody comes to help and she dies. Why did nobody come?
Answer: She dialed 911, but she didn't really call 911 because she didn't press the Call button.
Riddle:
What do you call it when you walk into a spider web?
Answer: Free Karate lessons.
Riddle:
The following numbers share a unique property: 1691, 1961, 6009, 6119, 6699, 6889, 8118. What is it?
Answer: Each number reads the same when viewed upside down.
Riddle:
What single-digit number should go in the box with the question?
| 6 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | ? |
| 8 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
Answer: The missing number is 4. Simply add the first and second rows together to get the third row value.
| 65, 927 | |
| + | 14, 354 |
| 80, 281 |
Riddle:
Re-arrange the letters, O O U S W T D N E J R, to spell just one word. What is it?
Answer: 'Just one word'.
Riddle:
Charlotte is 13 years old. Her father Montague is 40 years old. How many years ago was Charlotte's father four times as old as Charlotte?
Answer: Four years ago. When Charlotte was 9 her father was 36, 4 times her age.
Riddle:
Gazing up at the portrait hung over the fireplace in his drawing room his lordship remarked:
'Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son.'
Who is in the Portrait?
Answer: His son.
Riddle:
Find four numbers, the sum of which is 45, so that if 2 is added to the first number, 2 is subtracted from the second number, the third number is multiplied by 2 and the fourth number is divided by 2, then the four numbers so produced are all the same. What are the four numbers?
Answer: 8 + 2 = 10
12 - 2 = 10
5 x 2 = 10
20 ÷ 2 = 1045
Riddle:
Rearrange all the letters in each of the sentences to form, in each case, a well-known proverb.
1. I don't admit women are faint.
2. It rocks. The broad flag of the free.
3. Strong lion's share almost gone.
What are the proverbs?
Answer: 1. Time and tide wait for no man.
2. Birds of a feather flock together.
3. A rolling sone gathers no moss.
