Over 220 riddles and brainteasers to tax your brain! [MEGAPOST]

A big compliation of over 220 riddles and brainteasers for you to tax your brain with. If you spot any duplicates or errors please let me know. And as always if you have some to contribute, let me know in the comments section!

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Q: What has a foot but no legs?
A: A snail

Q: Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you
die. What is it?
A: Nothing

Q: What comes down but never goes up?
A: Rain

Q: I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am

I?
A: A candle

Q: Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What

is the fifth daughters name?
A: If you answered Nunu, you are wrong. It’s Mary!

Q: How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in

it?
A: It can have a hole in it.

Q: In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink

cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table,

a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink!
What color were the stairs?
A: There weren’t any stairs, it was a one story house!

Q: A dad and his son were riding their bikes and crashed. Two

ambulances came and took them to different hospitals. The man’s

son was in the operating room and the doctor said, “I can’t

operate on you. You’re my son.”
How is that possible?
A: The doctor is his mom!

Q: What goes up when rain comes down?
A: An umbrella!

Q: What is the longest word in the dictionary?
A: Smiles, because there is a mile between each ‘s’

Q: If I drink, I die. If i eat, I am fine. What am I?
A: A fire!

Q: Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the

outside and throw away the inside. What is it?
A: Corn on the cob, because you throw away the husk, cook and

eat the kernels, and throw away the cob.

Q: What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
A: Short

Q: What travels around the world but stays in one spot?
A: A stamp!

Q: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in

one thousand years?
A: The letter M

Q: What has 4 eyes but can’t see?
A: Mississippi

Q: If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have

it. What is it?
A: A Secret.

Q: Take away my first letter, and I still sound the same. Take

away my last letter, I still sound the same. Even take away my

letter in the middle, I will still sound the same. I am a five

letter word. What am I?
A: EMPTY

Q: What has hands but can not clap?
A: A clock

Q: What can you catch but not throw?
A: A cold.

Q: A house has 4 walls. All of the walls are facing south, and

a bear is circling the house. What color is the bear?
A: The house is on the north pole, so the bear is white.

Q: What is at the end of a rainbow?
A: The letter W!

Q: What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s

strongest man couldn’t hold it for more than a minute?
A: His breath!

Q: What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t” and ends

in “t”?
A: A teapot!

Q: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
A: Silence.

Q: You walk into a room with a match, a karosene lamp, a

candle, and a fireplace. Which do you light first?
A: The match.

Q: A man was driving his truck. His lights were not on. The

moon was not out. Up ahead, a woman was crossing the street.

How did he see her?
A: It was a bright and sunny day!

Q: What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
A: A palm!

Q: If an electric train is travelling south, which way is the

smoke going?
A: There is no smoke, it’s an electric train!

Q: You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make the

line longer?
A: You draw a shorter line next to it, and it becomes the

longer line.

Q: What has one eye but cannot see?
A: A needle

Q: A man leaves home and turns left three times, only to return

home facing two men wearing masks. Who are those two men?
A: A Catcher and Umpire.

Q: Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
A: Neither, they both weigh one pound!

Q: How many months have 28 days?
A: All 12 months!

Q: A frog jumped into a pot of cream and started treading. He

soon felt something solid under his feet and was able to hop

out of the pot. What did the frog feel under his feet?
A: The frog felt butter under his feet, because he churned the

cream and made butter.

Q: A horse is on a 24 foot chain and wants an apple that is 26

feet away. How can the horse get to the apple?
A: The chain is not attached to anything.

Q: If a blue house is made out of blue bricks, a yellow house

is made out of yellow bricks and a pink house is made out of

pink bricks, what is a green house made of?
A: Glass

Q: What goes up a chimney down but can’t come down a chimney

up?
A: an umberella

Q: We see it once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a

day. What is it?
A: The letter “E”

Q: Mr. Blue lives in the blue house, Mr. Pink lives in the pink

house, and Mr. Brown lives in the brown house. Who lives in the

white house?
A: The president!

Q: They come out at night without being called, and are lost in

the day without being stolen. What are they?
A: Stars!

Q: How do you make the number one disappear?
A: Add the letter G and it’s “GONE”

Q; What goes up but never comes down?
A: Your age!

Q: Tuesday, Sam and Peter went to a restaurant to eat lunch.

After eating lunch, they paid the bill. But Sam and Peter did

not pay the bill, so who did?
A: Their friend, Tuesday.

Q: What gets broken without being held?
A: A promise.

Q: What is always coming but never arrives?
A: Tomorrow

Q: What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
A: A Road

Q: What has Eighty-eight keys but can’t open a single door?
A: A piano

Q: What has a neck but no head?
A: A bottle

Q: A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a

coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the

squirrel, or the bird?
A: None of them, because you can’t get a banana from a coconut

tree!

Q: Which eight-letter word still remains a word after removing

each letter from it?
A: Starting-Staring-String-Sting-Sing-Sin-In-I.

Q: What has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps,

can run but never walks, and has a bank but no money?
A: A river!

Q: The Smith family is a very wealthy family that lives in a

big, circular home. One morning, Mr. Smith woke up and saw a

strawberry jam stain on his new carpet. He figured out that

everyone who was there that morning had a jam sandwich. By

reading the following excuses, figure out who spilled the jam.
Billy Smith: “I was outside playing basketball.”
The Maid: “I was dusting the corners of the house.”
Chef: “I was starting to make lunch for later.”
Who is lying?
A: It was the maid. The house is circular, it has no corners.

Q: Two fathers and two sons go on a fishing trip. They each

catch a fish and bring it home. Why do they only bring 3 home?
A: The fishing trip consists of a grandfather, a father and a

son.

Q: What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon, and

3 legs at night?
A: A person! As a baby you crawl (4 legs), as an adult you walk

(2 legs), then when you are older you use a cane (3 legs)

Q: The more it dries, the wetter it becomes. What is it?
A: A towel!

Q: What can you hear but not touch or see?
A: Your voice.

Q: What starts with “P” and ends with “E” and has more than

1000 letters?
A: A post office!

Q: What loses its head in the morning but gets it back at

night?
A: A pillow

Q. What is something you will never see again?
A: Yesterday

Q: Jack rode into town on Friday and rode out 2 days later on

Friday. How can that be possible?
A: Friday is his horse’s name!

Q: Can you name the two days starting with T besides Tuesday

and Thursday?
A: Today and tomorrow.

Q: What is round on both sides but high in the middle?
A: Ohio.

Q: If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and

five?
A: Nine!

Q: What is the center of Gravity?
A: The letter V.

Q: What is the last thing you take off before bed?
A: Your feet off the floor.

Q: A lawyer, a plumber and a hat maker were walking down the

street. Who had the biggest hat?
A: The one with the biggest head.

Q: What kind of room has no doors or windows?
A: A mushroom.

Q: I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can

enter but can’t go outside. What am I?
A: A Keyboard

Q: What is next in this sequence: JFMAMJJASON_ ?
A: The letter D. The sequence contains the first letter of each

month.

Q: A man was cleaning the windows of a 25 story building. He

slipped and fell off the ladder, but wasn’t hurt. How did he do

it?
A: He fell off the 2nd step.

Q: How many seconds are there in a year?
A: 12. (January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd….)

Q: One night, a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker go to

a hotel. When they get their bill, however, it’s for four

people. Who’s the fourth person?
A: One night can also mean one knight. That makes four: one

knight, a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker!

Q: What instrument can you hear but never see?
A: Your voice! You can sing with your voice like an instrument

and hear it, but no one can see it!

Q: I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from

which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost

everybody.
A: Pencil lead

Q: What goes round the house and in the house but never touches

the house?
A: The sun

Q: What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone

else?
A: Your word

Q: What walks all day on its head?
A: A nail in a horseshoe

Q: What gets wet when drying?
A: A towel

Q: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in

a thousand years?
A: The letter M

Q: What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the

oceans couldn't fill it up?
A: A sieve

Q: There were five men going to church and it started to rain.

The four that ran got wet and the one that stood still stayed

dry.
A: Body in coffin, and bearers

Q: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
A: Footsteps

Q: He who has it doesn't tell it. He who takes it doesn't know

it. He who knows it doesn't want it. What is it?
A: Counterfeit money

Q: Brothers and sisters have I none but that man's father is my

father's son.
A: My son

Q: Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for

meals and hides at night?
A: A fly

Q: I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops.
A: A sandal

Q: What goes round and round the wood but never goes into the

wood?
A: The bark of a tree

Q: I went to the city, I stopped there, I never went there, and

I came back again.
A: A watch

Q: I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no

doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through

the wall.
A: A chicken in an egg

Q: Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be

found sitting on the roof.
A: Fire, smoke

Q: There are four brothers in this world that were all born

together. The first runs and never wearies. The second eats and

is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The

fourth sings a song that is never good.
A: Water, fire, earth, wind

Q: A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the

cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A

rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm

the torment of man.
A: Rain

Q: Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws.

Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all.
A: Shears (or scissors)

Q: What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a

carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage

cannot go without it?
A: Noise

Q: It stands on one leg with its heart in its head.
A: A cabbage

Q: It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more

than a month old. What is it?
A: The moon

Q: A white dove flew down by the castle. Along came a king and

picked it up handless, ate it up toothless, and carried it away

wingless.
A: Snow melted by the sun

Q: As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood

which was neither straight nor crooked. What kind of wood was

it?
A: Sawdust

Q: What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
A: Your name

Q: What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney

up?
A: An umbrella

Q: What is is that you will break even when you name it?
A: Silence

Q: What fastens two people yet touches only one?
A: A wedding ring

Q: What is it the more you take away the larger it becomes?
A: A hole

Q: I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You

cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of

crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find

me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.
A: The letter S

Q: What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
A: A pack of cards

Q: Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the

road yet never see each other?
A: Eyes

Q: What holds water yet is full of holes?
A: A sponge

Q: Though it is not an ox, it has horns; though it is not an

ass, it has a pack-saddle; and wherever it goes it leaves

silver behind. What is it?
A: A snail

Q: Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a

mouth, to which the air alone gives birth.
A: An echo

Q: A hundred-year-old man and his head one night old.
A: Snow on a tree stump

Q: What goes into the water red and comes out black?
A: A red-hot poker

Q: What goes into the water black and comes out red?
A: A lobster

Q: When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but

when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.
A: A riddle

Q: Three eyes have I, all in a row; when the red one opens, all

freeze.”
A: traffic light.
  
Q: What animal walks on all fours in the morning, two in the

afternoon and three in the evening?”
A: The answer is man, since he crawls as a child then walks and

uses a cane when he gets older.

Q: What does “Mill + Walk + Key=”
A: Milwaukee.
       
Q: I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and

I'll make it lighter. What am I?
A: A hole.

Q: What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?

A: Silence.

Q: I have a tail, and I have a head, but i have no body. I am

NOT a snake. What am I?
A: A coin.

Q: What falls, but does not break, and what breaks but does not

fall?
A: Night falls and day breaks.

Q: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat

the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
A: An ear of corn.

Q: I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in

the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?
A: A sponge.
   
Q: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks,

has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
A: A river.

Q: I never was, am always to be,/No one ever saw me, nor ever

will,/And yet I am the confidence of all/To live and breathe on

this terrestrial ball./What am I?
A: Tomorrow.

Q: I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird,

flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of

mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause

for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air.

What am I?
A: Smoke.

Q: 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?
A: An eye.

Q: A man is on a trip with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn.

He comes upon a stream which he has to cross, and finds a tiny

boat which he can use for the same. The problem though, is that

he can only take himself and either the fox, the goose, or the

corn across at a time. It is not possible for him to leave the

fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How

can he get all safely over the stream?
A: Take the goose over first and come back. Then take the fox

over and bring the goose back. Now take the corn over and come

back alone to get the goose. Take the goose over and the job is

done!

Q: A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said

to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of

paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay

you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees,

thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he

weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man

$50. How did the man win the bet?
A: The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote 'your

exact weight' on the paper.

Q: What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
A: a coat of paint


Q: What goes up a chimney down, but won't go down a chimney up?
A: an umbrella


Q: What letter is next in this sequence?
M, A, M, J, J, A, S, O,__
A: N
These are the first letters of the months of the year


Q: What's full of holes but still holds water?
A: a sponge

Q: What building has the most stories?
A: A Library

Q: Why is an island like the letter T?
A: It is in the middle of "waTer".

Q: 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?
A: an eye

Q: My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
A: A candle

Q: What other letter fits in the following series:
B C D E I K O X?
A: The letter H. All of the letters in the series flipped

vertically remain the same.

Q: What is the next letter in the series: "B, C, D, E, G, ..."?

And Why?
A: The next letter would be P. They all rhyme.

Q: Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy

three cats. Each female gets her own cat. How is this possible?
A: There is a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter.The

grandmother is also the mother's mother, so there are 2

daughters and 2 mothers, but only a total of 3 people.

Q: What has wheels and flies, but is not an aircraft?
A: A garbage truck

Q: What is the best month for a parade?
A: March

Q: What's white when it’s dirty?
A: A blackboard

Q: Which is faster, hot or cold?
A: Hot’s faster. You can catch a cold.

Q: Six glasses are in a row. The first three are full of juice;

the second three are empty. By moving only one glass, can you

arrange them so empty and full glasses alternate?
A: Pour the juice from the second glass into the fifth glass.

Q: Two fathers and two sons went duck hunting. Each shot a duck

but they shot only three ducks in all. How come?
A: The hunters were a man, his son and his grandson.

Q: When is your mind like a rumpled bed?
A: When it is not made up.

Q: What can you put in a wood box that will make it lighter?
A: holes

Q: What is it that everybody does at the same time?
A: grow older

Q: Take away my first letter; take away my second letter; take

away all my letters, and I would remain the same. What am I?
A: The postman (mailman)

Q: A doctor and a nurse have a baby boy. But the boy's father

is not the doctor and the mother is not the nurse. How can it

be?
A: The doctor is the mother (female doctor) and the nurse is

the father (male nurse).

Q: You can keep it only after giving it away to someone else.

What is it?
A: Your word

Q: What seven letters did Old Mother Hubbard say when she

opened her cupboard?
A: O I C U R M T

Q: What is so fragile even saying its name can break it?
A: Silence

Q: How could a cowboy ride into town on Friday, stay two days,

and ride out on Friday?
A: His horse is named Friday!

Q: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in

a thousand years?
A: The letter M

Q: The more you take the more you leave behind.
A: footsteps

Q: A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one,

and twelve is what remains.
A: dozens

Q: This runs fore to aft on one side of a ship, and aft to fore

on the other. What is it?
A: The name of the ship

Q: I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can

unlock your soul. What am I?
A: A Piano

Q: What turns everything around, but does not move?
A: a mirror

Q: While walking across a bridge I saw a boat full of people.

Yet on the boat there wasn't a single person. Why?
A: Every one on the boat is married.

Q: Here on earth it is true, yesterday is always before today;

but there is a place where yesterday always follows today.

Where?
A: In a dictionary

Q: I am an insect, & the first half of my name reveals another

insect. Some famous musicians had a name similar to mine. What

am I?
A: beetle

Q: What relation would your father's sister's sister-in-law be

to you?
A: Your mother.

Q: There is a seven-letter word in the English language that

contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters."

What is the word?
A: "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein,

herein.

Q: Brothers or sisters have I none, but that mans father is my

fathers son. Who is that man?
A: I am my fathers son, so that mans father must be me. So that

man must be my son.

Q: What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
A: SWIMS

Q: When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct

answer?
A: When you add two hours to eleven o'clock, you get one

o'clock.

Q: How far can a dog run into the woods?
A: Halfway through the woods. After halfway the dog would be

running out of the woods, not "into the woods."

Q: Two legs I have, and this will confound: only at rest do

they touch the ground! What am I?
A: A Wheelbarrow

Q: It goes up, but at the same time goes down. Up toward the

sky, and down toward the ground. It's present tense and past

tense too, come for a ride, just me and you. What is it?
A: A See-Saw

Q: Which word from Group B belongs with the words from Group A?
A: blast, paper, box, bank
B. juice, bag, cradle, carpet
A: BAG. All of the words in group A can begin with the word

SAND

Q: I am a path situated between high natural masses. Remove my

first letter & you have a path situated between man-made

masses. What am I?
A: valley (-v = alley)

Q: What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?
A: your breath

Q: What 7 letter word becomes longer when the third letter is

removed?
A: lounger

Q: Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it

not. And whoever knows it wants it not.
A: counterfeit money

Q: You can see nothing else
When you look in my face,
I will look you in the eye
And I will never lie.
A: your reflection

Q: I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there

will be.
A: few

Q: What are the next 3 letters in this riddle?
o t t f f s s _ _ _
A: e n t
The first seven letters stand for - one two three four five six

seven

Q: He starts and ends 2 common English words. One painful in

love, one painful in everyday matter.
Do you know what 2 words I must be?
A: Heartache and Headache

Q: Brothers and sisters I have none but this man's father is my

father's son.
Who is the man?
A: the man is my son.

Q: What is greater than God,
more evil than the devil,
the poor have it,
the rich need it,
and if you eat it, you'll die?
A: Nothing.

Q: Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs

in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
A: Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two

feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane as an old man.

Q: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp.
A.
Well

Q: Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's

shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
A.
Meat.

Q: There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a

white house. Inside the white house there was a red house.

Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
A.
Watermelon.

Q: What kind of room has no doors or windows?
A.
A mushroom.

Q: What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
A: A palm.

Q: Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
A: Incorrectly.

Q: If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you

haven't got me. What am I?
A: Secret.

Q: What gets broken without being held?
A: A promise.

Q: Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.
A: Fire.

Q: A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a

hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing Monopoly.

Q: How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

Q: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not.

Q: He has married many women, but has never been married. Who

is he?
A preacher.

Q: Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

Q: Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?
Stop imagining.

Q: What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window.

Q: What can you catch but not throw?
A cold.

Q: What is at the end of a rainbow?
The letter W.

Q: What is as light as a feather, but even the world's

strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
His breath.

Q: What has one eye but cannot see?
A needle.

Q: What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

Q: Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

Q: Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of

the days of the week, paused on their way to school to

straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is

yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from

Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before

yesterday was tomorrow!"
On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
A: The two children were so befogged over the calendar that

they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

Q: A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them

among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays

in the basket?
A: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the

fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the

apple.

Q: There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear

tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind

blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground.
How come?
A.
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew,

one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the

tree and there were no pears on the ground.

Q: A poor farmer went to the market to sell some peas and

lentils. However, as he had only one sack and didn't want to

mix peas and lentils, he poured in the peas first, tied the

sack in the middle, and then filled the top portion of the sack

with the lentils. At the market a rich innkeeper happened by

with his own sack. He wanted to buy the peas, but he did not

want the lentils.
Pouring the seed anywhere else but the sacks is considered

soiling. Trading sacks is not allowed. The farmer can't cut a

hole in his sack.
How would you transfer the peas to the innkeeper's sack, which

he wants to keep, without soiling the produce?
A.
Pour the lentils into the innkeeper's sack, bind it and turn

inside out. Pour in the peas. Then unbind the sack a pour the

lentils back to your sack.

Q: The captain of a ship was telling this interesting story:

"We traveled the sea far and wide. At one time, two of my

sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was

looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they

could see each other clearly."
How can that be possible?
A.
The marines were standing back against the sides of the ship so

they were looking at each other. It does not matter where the

ship is (of course it does not apply to the North and South

Pole).


Q: A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port.

The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs

is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is

rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour.
When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
A.
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on

water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

Q: Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager

and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate

is $25 and gives the bellboy $5 to return to the guests. On the

way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult

to split among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to

each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they

paid $9 each, totaling $27. The bellboy has another $2, adding

up to $29.
Where is the remaining dollar?
A.
This is a nice nonsense. Each guest paid $9 because they gave

$30 and they were given back $3. The manager got $25 and the

difference ($2) has the bellboy. So it is nonsense to add the

$2 to the $27, since the bellboy kept the $2.

Q: 13 people came into a hotel with 12 rooms and each guest

wanted his own room. The bellboy solved this problem.
He asked the thirteenth guest to wait a little with the first

guest in room number 1. So in the first room there were two

people. The bellboy took the third guest to room number 2, the

fourth to number 3, ..., and the twelfth guest to room number

11. Then he returned to room number 1 and took the thirteenth

guest to room number 12, still vacant.
How can everybody have his own room?
A: Of course, it is impossible. Into the second room should

have gone the 2nd guest, because the 13th guest was waiting in

room number 1.

Q: Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at

the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not

twins.
How can this be?
A.
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

Q: A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way

street in the wrong direction, but didn't break the law.
How come?
A.
She was walking.

Q: What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet

never in a thousand years?
A.
The letter m.

Q: Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?
A: Why should a living man be buried?

Q: Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's

sister? Why?
A: No, it is not legal to get married if you are dead.

Q: A man builds a house rectangular in shape. All the sides

have southern exposure. A big bear walks by. What color is the

bear? Why?
A: The bear is white since the house is built on the North

Pole.

Q: If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you

have?
A: If you take 2 apples, then you have of course 2.

Q: How far can a dog run into the woods?
A: The dog can run into the woods only to the half of the wood

- than it would run out of the woods.

Q: One big hockey fan claimed to be able to tell the score

before any game. How did he do it?
A: The score before any hockey game should be 0:0, shouldn't

it?

Q: You can start a fire if you have alcohol, petrol, kerosene,

paper, candle, coke, a full matchbox and a piece of cotton

wool. What is the first thing you light?
A: A match, of course.

Q: Why do Chinese men eat more rice than Japanese men do?
A: There are more Chinese men than Japanese men.

Q: What word describes a woman who does not have all her

fingers on one hand?
A: Normal - I wouldn't be very happy if I had all my fingers

(10) on one hand.