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Riddle:
Many years ago a boy and a girl are planning to run off and get married. But the boy got cold feet and needed to tell the girl. He wanted to send a telegram, but only had enough money for one word. What one word did he send?
Answer: Cantaloupe.
Riddle:
Name three types of fish that one can never catch?
Answer: Selfish, wolfish, and huffish.
Riddle:
Susy is traveling by ship from south of the equator to the north. She has a nice little cabin with a bathroom, but no window. Sally has no compass nor other instruments. Just the general luggage one brings on board a long cruise. Yet, without leaving her room or talking with anyone, Susy will be able to tell when the ship has crossed the equator. How?
Answer: Susy can fill the sink and watch it drain. When the water reverses direction when going down the drain, she will know they have crossed the equator.
Riddle:
What two reasons why whispering in company is not proper?
Answer: It is not aloud (allowed).
Private earing (privateering) is unlawful.
Riddle:
Messy Marge's mother was scolding her once again for keeping such a messy bedroom -- and right after she had said she was done cleaning it. Her mother began her lecture by saying, "Messy Marge (that is what her mother called her), I just finished inspecting your room, and I was shocked by some of the things I discovered on your bedroom floor. I found 11 red balloons, 7 orange-colored stars, 9 green things which resembled clover leafs, 4 moon-shaped objects of a bluish color, and 10 little pink hearts; but the mess that really irritated me was the 26 horse shoes I found on your closet floor! Is Messy Marge destined to be the next subject on the TV show "Hoarders: Buried Alive," or is there some less horrific explanation for the contents of her room?
Answer: Messy Marge is messy with her belongings, but she has also been caught eating in her room. In this case, she’s been eating bowls of Lucky Charms cereal, and spilling many of the colored marshmallows in various places in her room.
Riddle:
If a hen and a half lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will half a dozen hens lay in half a dozen days?
Answer: Two dozen. If you increase both the number of hens and the amount of time available four-fold, the number of eggs increases 16 times. 16 x 1.5 = 24.
Riddle:
If a fender cost six dollars, what will a ton of coal come to?
Answer: To ashes.
Riddle:
Amy's purple net. What is the anagrammed word?
Answer: Supplementary.
Riddle:
Holding two swords and eight spears and dressed in a cow-leather tunic, I peek through a hole in the door. What am I?
Answer: A Crab.
Riddle:
I exist, but have no material form. I am made of numbers, but appear square. I build upon other of my own, but do not topple down. I sit still and do nothing, but I'm still useful. What am I?
Answer: Minecraft Blocks.
