Level 1: asy riddles that don't rhyme
Level 2: easy riddles that rhyme
Level 3: harder riddles that don't rhyme
Level 4: harder riddles that rhyme
A man is looking at a picture. His friend asks him whom the picture is of. He replies in this manner: Brothers and Sisters, I have none. But that man's father, is my father’s son. Who is in the picture? Answer: His son
A beggar's brother went out to sea and drowned.
But the man who drowned had no brother.
What was the relationship between the man who drowned and the beggar?
Answer: The beggar was his sister
The Sphinx asked Oedipus, “What creature, goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noonday, on three in the evening?” And he answered,
Answer: “Man. In childhood he creeps on hands and feet; in manhood he walks erect; in old age he helps himself with a staff”
I'm as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I'll approach like a breeeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear.
I'll dance to the music, though I can't hear. Of names I have many, of names I have one. I'm as slow as a snail, but from me you can't run. What am I?
Answer: A shadow
Note: I heard somewhere that this riddle was asked of a group of college students, and only about 15% of them got it right. On the other hand, upon survying kindergardeners, about 80% got it right.
What's better than the best thing and worse than the worst thing? Answer: Nothing
How can you drop an raw egg five feet onto a concrete floor and not have the egg break?
Answer: Drop the egg from a height more than five feet. The egg will fall five feet without breaking, but will when the egg hits the floor.
You want to send a valuable object to a friend.
You have a box, which is more than large enough to contain the object. You have several locks with keys. The box has a locking ring, which is more than large enough to have a lock attached. But your friend does not have the key to any lock that you have. How do you do it? Note that you cannot send a key in an unlocked box, since it might be copied.
Answer: Attach a lock to the ring. Send it to her. She attaches her own lock and sends it back. You remove your lock and
send it back to her. She removes her lock.
OR
Have your friend send you an open lock that only she has the key to.
An Arab sheik tells his two sons to race their camels to a distant city to see who will inherit his fortune. The one whose camel is slower will
win. The brothers, after wandering aimlessly for days, ask a wise man for advice. After hearing the advice they jump on the camels and race as fast as they can to the city. What did the wise man say?
Answer: He told them to switch camels.
Note: Smoking IS BAD for you, and you should try, I hope, to stay out of prison.
You have behaved VERY badly and end up in prison. Consistently you also like to smoke, but you only have 10 used pieces of cigarettes. However, from 3 used pieces, you can make one cigarette and smoke it (after smoking one cigarette you get a used cigarette again). How many cigarettes can you smoke during your long stay in the dungeons?
Answer: 5. --First you make out of nine used cigarettes three cigarettes and smoke them. You have now 1 (10-9) + 3 (the 3 you just smoked) = 4 used cigarettes. Then you make one out of three used cigarettes. You have now 1 (4-3) + 1 (the one you just smoked) = 2 used cigarettes. Then you lend a used cigarette from an other guy in prison and make a fifth cigarette.
You smoke it and give the guy the used cigarette back. You have now smoked 5 cigarettes.
