Top Rated Riddles of All Time
There is a boat with a ladder attached to it, the ladder is eight feet tall. If the water rises four feet how much of the ladder will be on top of the water?
A man went on a trip with a fox, a goose and a sack of corn. He came upon a stream which he had to cross and found a tiny boat to use to cross the stream. He could only take himself and one other - the fox, the goose, or the corn - at a time. If he could not leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How does he get all safely over the stream?
There were an electrician and a plumber waiting in line for admission to the Home Show. One of them was the father of the others son. How could this be possible?
If you go to the movies and you're paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice, or two friends to the movies at the same time?
Walking home one day, you take a short cut along the train tracks. The tracks cross a narrow bridge over a deep gorge. At the point you are 3/8 of the way across the bridge, you hear the train whistle somewhere behind you. You charge across the bridge, and jump off the track as the train is about to run you down. As it happens, if you had gone the other way, you would have reached safety just before being run over as well. If you can run ten miles per hour, how fast is the train moving?
Your in a place called Bobby's world and there is only one Law. There is a mirror, but no reflection. There is pizza with cheese, but not sausage. There is pepper, but no salt. There is a door, yet no entrance or exit. What is the law?
First tell me who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, give me the sound often heard during the search for a hard-to-find word.
Finally, what is always the last thing to mend; the middle of middle, and the end of end?
Now string them together and answer me this: Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
In a pond there are some flowers with some bees hovering over the flowers. How many flowers and bees are there if both the following statements are true: 1. If each bee lands on a flower, one bee doesn't get a flower. 2. If two bees share each flower there is one flower left out.
I can slash but I have no knife,
I can dash but I have no legs,
I can pound but I have no hammer,
I can star but I have no stage.
What am I?
You use me everyday but let me rest at night. I have an identical twin beside me all the time. For some reason you always cover me up. I am not alive but I have a soul.
What am I?
Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I'm double,
I'm single,
I'm black, blue, and gray,
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way.
What am I?
There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where can you place an apple so that all but one person can see it?