Riddles and such
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1
There are two different colors of socks in a drawer.
without being able to see inside the drawer, how many socks
must you remove from the drawer to ensure that you will have a pair that match.
2
A snail is a t the bottom of a well and wants to get out.
He manages to crawl up the wall 3 feet each day,
but at night he must rest. (after all that work during the day)
and so he slips back down 2 feet.
If the well is 30 feet deep, how long will it take him to get out
3
On a shelf in the library, there is a three book set of almanacs labelled volume 1,
Volume 2 and volume 3. Each book is 2 and a half inches thick, the pages being 2 inches thick and
each cover is a quarter inch thick. A bookworm starts eating it's way from the first page of volume 1 and stops
at the last page of volume 3.
How far did the bookworm travel?
4
An old friend of the family left $666,666 to two fathers and two sons to be split equally.
After careful consideration they each happily recieved $222,222. Why and how was this possible.
5
If a snail crawls half way around a circle and turns around and crawls half way back,
Is it now back where it started?
6
What day of the year has 25 hours in it?
7
Can you tell what we are:
Half of four of us are two of us,
twice two of us are six of us,
twice eight of us are ten of us,
and twice five of us are eight of us.
8
A man and his son are driving home from a basketball game,
when they have a terrible accident.
The man is taken to the emergency room for treatment and the boy is taken
straight to the operating table.
The surgeon comes over to the operating table, sees the boy and says,
"I can't operate on this patient, he's my son!"
How can this be.
9
What belongs to you but is mostly used by others?
10
You are attending a party with some friends when one of them states
that there is something in the room that everyone can touch with either of their hands,
but you can only touch it with your left hand.
What is it?
11
Can a non veteran man living in the Washington D.C. area be buried
in Arlington National Cemetary?
12
Two Japanese who have never seen each other, meet at the New York Chinese Embassy.
They decide to have drinks together in a nearby bar. One of them is the father of the other ones son.
How is this possible.
13
Is it legal in South Dakota for a man to marry his widows sister?
14
A man was critically wounded during a viscious fight, in 1958, he died and was buried in 1957.
How is this possible.
15
How many animals of each species did Moses bring aboard the Ark?
16
How many grooves does the average twelve inch 33 1/3 LP have on it?
17
What common chemical compound is represented by the letters
H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O ?
18
Water lilles double in area every 24 hours.
In spring, there is one water lily on the lake.
In 60 days the lake is completely covered with lilies.
How many days did it take to cover half of the lake?
19
I have two coins totaling 55 cents,
one is not a nickle.
What are the two coins?
20
A ten foot rope ladder whose rungs are one foot wide is hanging over the side of the boat.
At this time there is only one foot of ladder under the water. It now begins to rain heavily,
if it rains at the rate of one foot every two hours, how many hours will it take to cover half of the ladder?
21
What eight letter word starts with an E and ends in an E and has only one letter in between?
22
Throw away the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside throw away the inside.
What am I?
23
A truck driver went three blocks the wrong way down a one way street without
breaking the law. How come?
24
A boy and a girl are standing on the same sheet of newspaper,
yet it is impossible for them to kiss. How come?
25
A cowboy rode into Dodge City on Friday stayed two days then rode out of town on Friday.
How is this possible?
26
A man tossed a soccer ball ten feet. It stopped in mid-air, reversed direction and came back to him.
How come?
27
A dog trotted all the way across the lake, without sinking in the water.
How come?
28
A prize fighter was unconscious seven times during the week, yet he was never ill
or injured or knocked out in a fight.
How come?
29
A man married 57 women. None died and he was never divorced, yet he was one of the most
admired men in town. How come?
30
What day would yesterday be if thursday was four days before the day after tomorrow?
31
What is it you sit on, sleep in, and brush your teeth with?
32
If momma bull, papa bull and baby bull are in a pasture and
baby bull gets scared, who would he run to?
Answers:
1: 3 socks
2: 28 days
3: 3 inches
4: There were only three men, grandfather, father and son.
5: No. It is only a quarter of the way.
6: The day the clocks get turned back to daylight savings time
7: Letters of tha alphabet.
8: The surgeon is the boys mother.
9: Your name
10: Your right elbow.
11: No. He's not dead.
12: They are husband and wife and both are blind.
13: No. The man would be dead.
14: The fight happened in 1958 B.C and he died in 1957 B.C.
15:None, it was Noah
16: 2 ,it's a continuous groove, one on each side.
17: Water H2O (H to O)
18: 59 days.
19: The coins are a 50 cent piece and a nickle. Because one is not a nickle but the other one is.
20: It will never cover the ladder because the boat will rise with the water.
21: envelope
22: Corn on the cob --turkey or chicken also work with this one
23: He was walking.
24: A: they were standing back to back
A: they were standing on opposite sides of a door with the paper running under the door
25:Friday was the name of the horse
26: He threw it straight up
27: It was winter and the lake was frozen
28: He was sleeping
29: he was a minister
30: Yesterday would be friday, today would be saturday and tomorrow would be sunday.
31: A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush
32: Papa bull, there's no such thing as a momma bull
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