Top Rated Riddles of All Time
The world’s tallest skyscraper took seven years to build. Each year the workmen were able to double its height. How many years did it take for the skyscraper to reach half of its maximum height?
Jack is a farmer and owns some chickens. One day, he took a basket of fresh eggs to the market to sell.
The first person bought half of all the eggs in the basket and half an egg.
Then, the second person bought half of the remaining eggs and half an egg.
Later, the third person bought half of the remaining eggs and half an egg.
Now Jack's basket has only 1 egg left.
If no eggs were broken in the process, how many eggs did he originally have in his basket?
Carol is traveling by ship from south of the equator to the north. She has a nice little second class cabin which has a bathroom, but no window. Carol has no compass nor other instruments. Yet, without leaving her room or talking with anyone, Carol knew exactly when the ship crossed the equator.
How did she know?
As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Each wife had seven sacks
Each sack had seven cats
Each cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St. Ives?
Four people come to an old bridge in the middle of the night. The bridge is rickety and can only support 2 people at a time. The people have one flashlight, which needs to be held by any group crossing the bridge because of how dark it is.
Each person can cross the bridge at a different rate: one person takes 1 minute, one person takes 2 minutes, one takes 5 minutes, and the one person takes 10 minutes. If two people are crossing the bridge together, it will take both of them the time that it takes the slower person to cross.
Unfortunately, there are only 17 minutes worth of batteries left in the flashlight. How can the four travellers cross the bridge before time runs out?
In the land of the green glass door there are riddles but no answers, sheets but no blankets, and books but no words. Name something found in the land of the green glass door.
A man is in an area where blue-backed frogs are quite common.
He finds one and it then begins to rain quite hard, to which he becomes quite stressed.
The rain becomes more and more ferocious and the man has to leave, quite disappointed.
Who is the man, and what is going on?
(Hint: blue-backed frogs are now extinct)
A natural state, I'm sought by all.
Go without me, and you shall fall.
In times past you'd me when you spend,
and use me when you eat to no end.
What am I?