Riddle:
A prisoner is told, "If you tell a lie we will hang you; if you tell the truth we will shoot you." What can he say to save himself?
Answer: You will hang me.
Riddle:
What is served, but not by a waiter; and an ace but not a card?
Answer: A volleyball: A volleyball serve that drops without the opposing team touching it is called an ace. Also, a tennis ball. In tennis, an ace is a legal serve that is not touched by the receiver, winning the point for the server.
Riddle:
What animal has no wings, but yet will fly?
Answer: A caterpillar has no wings, but will fly when it matures and becomes a butterfly.
Riddle:
Join a noun and adjective, and make a verb. What is the word?
Answer: Impeach.
Riddle:
Granny looked up from her rocking chair and said: As far as I can tell, there is only one anagram of the word trinket.
What is it?
Answer: The word knitter.
Riddle:
It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. What is it?
Answer: A cabbage.
Riddle:
A house has 6 stories, each the same height. How many times as long is the ascent to the sixth floor as the ascent to the third?
Answer: 2 1/2 times (5/2, not 6/3).
Riddle:
What is another name for a bison?
Answer: Buffalo.
Riddle:
This number added to it's square, and the digits of that summation added together, bring it back to itself. What is it?
Answer: 3. 3 squared is 9. 3+9=12. Take the two digits of the summation and add them; 1+2=3. In short; 3-9-12-3. This can also work with the number 0 and 9.
Riddle:
What came first the chicken or the egg?
Answer: The chicken. There had to be a chicken in order for the egg to be layed.
Riddle:
I have three USA coins. They are not a quarter, dime or penny and they add up to 60 cents.
What are the coins?
Answer: A 50 cent piece and 2 nickels.
Riddle:
About the size of a squash, He robs the whole village. What is it?
Answer: A rat.
Riddle:
A robber comes in a house that a rich person owns and hears a voice Jesus is watching you. He goes in the kitchen and hears it even louder. Jeaus is watching you and keeps going room through room it getting even louder till he comes to the bedroom and sees a parrrot that is saying, "Jesus is watching you" The robber is freaked out when he hears something moving behind him. What is it?
Answer: It was Jesus, the owners Rottweiler (dog)
Riddle:
I am slim and tall, Many find me desirable and appealing. They touch me and I give a false good feeling. Once I shine in splendor, But only once and then no more. For many I am "to die for". What am I?
Answer: A Cigarette
Riddle:
A riddle in which the answer is a 6 letter word.
A monument - men all agree - am I in all sincerity. Half cat, half hindrance made. If head and tail removed should be, then most of all you strengthen me; replace my head, then stand you see on which my tail is laid. What is it?
Answer: A Tablet.
Riddle:
My first is a fluid, my second a solid, my whole a plant. What is it?
Answer: Liquorice.
Riddle:
A train just leaves a station and enters a tunnel. Where is the best place for a claustrophobic person to sit?
Answer: In the back. See, the train is still accelerating as it is leaving the station so the train will be moving faster when the back of the train enters the tunnel.
Riddle:
What word is spelled the same way front and backward?
Answer: Racecar is racecar backwards.
Riddle:
It has rib bones and back bones. It swallows human beings whole, then spits them out alive. What is it?
Answer: A house.
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.
