Puzzles are a sure way to have fun, it’s a riddleA type of puzzle that requires brainstorming to solve. It usually consists of questions and answers, unconventional questions that require you to think in unconventional ways in order to come up with the right answer. It’s a good way to train the brain. If it seems like your brain needs a wake up, try answering some tricky questions. Here are some riddles with answers that will interest you.
Q1 : How many seconds do you have in a year?
Ans : 12 seconds – January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd, etc.
Q2 : If 5 peacocks lay 10 eggs in 2 days, how many peacocks lay 100 eggs in 24 days?
Ans : No peacock lays eggs, only peacocks lay
Q3 : How many oranges can you put in an empty container?
Ans : Just an orange – If you insert an orange, it is not an empty container.
Q4 : Adding two letters will make the five letter word shorter. What is it?
Ans : short
Q5 : You ran a 5000 meter marathon and beat the person in second place. What place are you in?
Ans : Second place
Ans : It is illegal to bury a living man if he is alive
Q7: If it takes 5 men about 3 hours to dig 3 holes, how long does it take 2 men to dig half a hole?
Ans : There is no such thing as a half hole and it cannot be dug!
Q8 : Two girls played and completed 5 chess games. Each of them has won the same number of games and there has not been a draw in any game. How did it happen?
Ans : The two girls did not play against each other and played with different competitors
Q9 : A farmer had 20 cows. Due to an infectious disease, all but 11 cows suddenly died. How many cows does he have now?
Ans : 11 cows – ALL but 11 cows died – 11 cows survived
Q10 : On your left you see a beautiful red house and on your right a hypnotic greenhouse, on your front a warming and attractive pink house. Then where is the White House?
Ans : The White House is in the United States
Q11 : What is at the end of a rainbow?
Ans : The letter W
Q12 : What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t” and ends with “t”?
Ans : A teapot
Q13 : A girl sits in a house at night that has no light at all. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Still, she reads. As?
Ans : The woman is blind and reads Braille.
Q14 : How far can a dog run in the forest?
Ans : The dog can only run halfway into the woods – as if running out of the woods.
Q15 : If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
Ans : If you take 2 apples, then of course you have 2.
Ans : Beth.
Q17 : I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Ans : A candle.
Q18 : 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 phone, a pink shower – everything was pink! What color were the stairs?
Ans : There were no stairs, it was a one-story house.
Q19 : What has hands but can’t clap?
Ans : One o’clock.
Q20 : A train travels from Halifax, Nova Scotia at 120 km/h bound for Vancouver, British Columbia. Three hours later, a train departs Vancouver, bound for Halifax at 110 mph (180 km/h). Suppose there are exactly 6000 kilometers between Vancouver and Halifax. If they meet, which train is closer to Halifax?
Ans : Both trains would be in the same place when they meet, hence they are both equally close to Halifax.
Q21 : What goes around and around the forest but never goes into the forest?
Answer: The bark of a tree.
Q22 : Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, each ate a burger, but only three burgers were eaten in total. How is that possible?
Ans: You were grandmother, mother and daughter.
Q23 : A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays three days, and then departs on Friday. how did he do it
Ans : His horse’s name was Friday.
Q24 : You go over a bridge and see a boat full of people, but there is not a single person on board. How is that possible?
Ans : All the people on the boat are married.
Q25 : A boy was taken to the hospital emergency room. The paramedics saw the boy and said, “I can’t operate on this boy. He is my son. “But the doctor wasn’t the boy’s father. How can that be?
Ans : The doctor was his mother.
Ans : The game.
Q27 : What gets wetter and wetter as it dries?
Ans: A towel.
Q28: You draw a line. How can you extend the line without touching it?
Ans : You draw a shorter line next to it and it becomes the longer line.
Q29 : A man was walking outside when it started raining. The man had no umbrella and hat. His clothes were soaked, but not a single hair on his head had gotten wet. How could that happen?
Ans : The man was bald.
Q30 : What can run but not walk?
Ans : A drop of water.
Q31 : A house has 4 walls. All walls face south and a bear circles the house. What color is the bear?
Ans : The house is at the North Pole, so the bear is white.
Q32 : Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Ans : Neither do they both weigh a pound.
Q33 : How many months are in 28 days?
Ans : Every 12 months.
Q34 : Name four days of the week that begin with the letter “t”?
Ans : Tuesday, Thursday, today and tomorrow.
Q35 : Two mothers and two daughters had a picnic of ham, potato salad and beans. Each individual only ate one dish. How is it possible that no one went hungry?
Ans : The picnic-goers are a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter.
Q36 : If Sally’s daughter is my daughter’s mother, what am I to Sally?
Ans : I’m Sally’s daughter.
Ans : The Wallaces.
Q38 : How many years are there between 5 B.C. and 5 AD
Ans : 9 because there is no year 0
Q39 : How can you throw a ball as hard as possible so that it only comes back to you even if it doesn’t bounce?
Ans : Throw the ball straight up in the air.
Q40 : My name is Ruger, I live on a farm. There are four other dogs on the farm with me. Their names are Snowy, Flash, Speedy and Brownie. What do you think is the name of the fifth dog?
Answer : Ruger.
Q41 : I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I’ll straighten. What number am I?
Ans : Seven (take away the ‘s’ and it becomes ‘even’).
Q42 : The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are you?
Ans : footprints.
Q43 : Which two keys cannot open a door?
Ans : A monkey and a donkey.
Q44 : What invention allows you to look straight through a wall?
Ans : A window.
Q45 : What is full of holes but still contains water?
Ans : A sponge.
Q46 : When an electric train travels east at a speed of 100km/h and a strong west wind blows, which way does the train’s smoke drift?
Ans : No smoke comes out of electric trains.
Ans : racing car backwards
Q48 : How are dog catchers paid?
Ans : By the pound.
Q49 : What never asks questions but is often answered?
Ans : A doorbell.
Q50 : What is yours but other people use it more than you?
Answer : Your name.
Q51 : What does that mean? I’m right I
Ans : Right between the eyes.
Q52 : Which 5 letter word gets shorter when you add two letters?
Ans : Shorter.
Q53 : Imagine you are in a room that is filling with water. There are no windows or doors. how do you get out
Ans : Stop introducing yourself.
Q54 : What do the numbers 11, 69 and 88 have in common?
Answer: They read it the right way round.
Q55 : Which word looks the same upside down?
Ans : SWIMMING.
Q56 : A boy fell from a 30 meter ladder but was not injured. Why not?
Ans : He fell from the bottom step.
Q57 : How do you add eight eighths and get the number 1000 using only addition?
Ans : 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000.
Q58 : I have a large piggy bank, 48 centimeters square and 42 centimeters tall. Approximately how many coins can I put in my empty piggy bank?
Ans : Only one, after which it will not be empty.
Q59 : What travels faster? Hot or cold?
Ans : Hot is faster because you can catch a cold.
Q60 : What has a mouth but cannot eat, what moves but has no legs, and what has a bank but cannot put money in it?
Ans : river
GTNTL …….
Ans : I, T, S – the first letter of each word in the sentence.
Q62 : A boy is walking down the street with a doctor. While the boy is the doctor’s son, the doctor is not the boy’s father. Then who is the doctor?
Ans : The doctor is the boy’s mother.
Q63 : A man sentenced to death has the choice of choosing one of the three rooms mentioned. The first room is a furnace filled with flames, the second has men armed with loaded guns, while the third has lions that have been starving for years. Which should the man choose?
Ans: The third room, because years of hungry lions would be dead long ago!
Q64 : Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Michael J. Fox has a short. Madonna doesn’t use hers. Bill Clinton always uses his. The Pope never uses his. What is it?
Ans : Surname
Q65 : First I threw away the outside and cooked the inside, then I ate the outside and threw away the inside, what did I eat?
Ans : corn on the cob
Q66 : If you have me, you immediately want to share me. But if you share me, you don’t have me.
Ans : A secret
Q67 : Joseph and Lena are found dead on the ground with some water around. The windows are open and a strong breeze blows the curtains around. how did they die
Ans : Joseph and Lena were goldfish. The wind overturned her bowl and killed her!
Q68 : A man is trapped in a sealed room with only two doors. One of them leads to a fire-breathing dragon, while the other leads to a room made up of a magnifying glass. Anyone who dares enter it will be charred before they know it. how does he escape
Ans : He will wait for nightfall and then step out of the glass room!
Q69 : What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?
Ans : Your breath!
Q70 : I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You can’t express happiness without me, I’m in the middle of cruising. I’m always in danger, but never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I’m never out of the dark.
Ans : The letters