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08-28-2010, 05:47 PM
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waltuO
N'wahs With Attitude
Riddle Thread
This is a collection of Riddles that I found and put together. They all have answers, so enjoy! 
1) My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
Answer: A candle
2) Has a mouth but does not speak, has a bed but never sleeps.
Answer: A River.
3) If you break me
I do not stop working,
If you touch me
I may be snared,
If you lose me
Nothing will matter.
Answer: Hope.
4)Touching one, yet holding two,
it is a one link chain
binding those who keep words true,
'til death rent it in twain.
What is it?
Answer: A wedding ring.
5) What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
6)What can you catch but cannot throw?
Answer: A cold.
7)I can run but not walk, yet I am attached to something else. What am I?
Answer: A nose.
8 )What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
Answer: A Stamp.
9)Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
10)The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
Answer: A Coffin.
11)I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?
A shoe.
12)Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I?
Answer: Paper
13)When someone speaks it, it breaks. What is it?
Answer: Silence.
14)A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?
Answer:Suicide
15)You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
Answer: An onion.
16)I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
Answer: A Shadow.
17)I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?
Answer: A hole
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18 )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?
Answer: Tommorow.
19)I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
Answer: Breath.
20)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?
Answer: Smoke.
21)Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat.
22)A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?
Answer: His horses name is Friday.
23)It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it?
Answer: Beetle.
24) What does the letter "T" and the word "Island" have in common
Answer: They are both in WaTer.
25)When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don’t have me. What am I?
Answer: A secret.
26)What work can no one ever finish?
Answer: Their autobiography.
27)Before a judge handed down a sentence, he let the convicted person make a statement. The judge said that if the statement was true, he would only sentence the convicted to four years in prison. If the convicted made a false statement, the sentence would be six years in prison. The convicted made the sentence, and the judge let the person go free. What was the statement?
Answer:The convicted said the sentence would be six years in prison. If that statement were true, then the judge would have to give him four years in prison – which would then make the statement false. In order for the statement to be false, the judge could only sentence him to four years in prison, which would make the judge have to go back on his word. The convicted got to go free because it was the only way the judge could stick to his word.
28 )There are three cups of flour and you take one away. How many cups of flour do you have now?
Answer:You only have one cup – you took it away.
29)You can take four of the five letters out of this word, but the pronunciation never changes. What is the word?
Answer: Queue.
30)You have a piggy bank that has a capacity of one gallon. When it is empty, how many coins can you put into it?
Answer:You can only put one coin in. After you have put that coin in, the piggy bank won’t be empty anymore.
31)How can't a man marry his widow’s sister?
Answer: Because he's dead.
32)Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one
Micheal j fox has a small one
Madonna doesn't have one
the pope has one but he never uses it
Bill Clinton Has one and he uses it all the time!
What is it?
Answer: A surname.
33)If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?
Answer:A lie. It can't be the truth without contradicting itself (and therefore being a lie), but some of my statements can be lies, and this is one of those statements.
34)You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?
Answer: Fill the 3-gallon container with oil and pour it into the 5-gallon container. Then fill the 3-gallon container again and use it to fill the 5-gallon container the rest of the way. One gallon will be left in the 3-gallon container.
35)Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?
Answer: You need a camera to take photo's not curlers.
36)Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?
Answer: The word: "Wholesome"
37)A word I know, six letters it contains, subtract one, and twelve remains. What am I?
Answer: Dozens. Because dozen means twelve, and since dozens is a six-letter word, if you take away the 's' then you get dozen.
38 ) 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?
Answer: The man did exactly what he said he would, and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.
39) James ordered a fishing rod, priced at $3.56. Unfortunately, James is an Eskimo who lives in a very remote part of Greenland and the import rules there forbid any package longer than 4 feet to be imported. The fishing rod was 4 feet and 1 inch, just a little too long, so how can the fishing rod be mailed to James without breaking the rules and without chopping parts of the rod off?
Answer: Insert the fishing rod into a box which measures 4 feet on all sides, the fishing rod will fit within the diagonal of the box with room to spare.
40) It is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poorest of people have it, and the wealthy people need it, and if you eat it, you will die. What is it?
Answer: Nothing
Feel free to post your own riddles and I will be happy to add them to the list.
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User Submitted Riddles
A man is in a room with no windows or doors and just a mirror and a table in the room with him. The room was built around him so how did he get out?
He looked in the mirror and seen what he SAW. He took the saw and cut the table in half. Two halves make a whole so he crawled out the hole.
-Submitted by King Jamie
1) My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
2) Has a mouth but does not speak, has a bed but never sleeps.
3) If you break me
I do not stop working,
If you touch me
I may be snared,
If you lose me
Nothing will matter.
4)Touching one, yet holding two,
it is a one link chain
binding those who keep words true,
'til death rent it in twain.
What is it?
5) What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
6)What can you catch but cannot throw?
7)I can run but not walk, yet I am attached to something else. What am I?
8 )What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
9)Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
10)The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
11)I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?
12)Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I?
13)When someone speaks it, it breaks. What is it?
14)A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?
15)You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
16)I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
17)I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?
18 )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?
19)I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
20)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?
21)Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
22)A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?
23)It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it?
24) What does the letter "T" and the word "Island" have in common
25)When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don’t have me. What am I?
26)What work can no one ever finish?
27)Before a judge handed down a sentence, he let the convicted person make a statement. The judge said that if the statement was true, he would only sentence the convicted to four years in prison. If the convicted made a false statement, the sentence would be six years in prison. The convicted made the sentence, and the judge let the person go free. What was the statement?
28 )There are three cups of flour and you take one away. How many cups of flour do you have now?
29)You can take four of the five letters out of this word, but the pronunciation never changes. What is the word?
30)You have a piggy bank that has a capacity of one gallon. When it is empty, how many coins can you put into it?
31)How can't a man marry his widow’s sister?
32)Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one
Micheal j fox has a small one
Madonna doesn't have one
the pope has one but he never uses it
Bill Clinton Has one and he uses it all the time!
What is it?
33)If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?
34)You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?
35)Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?
36)Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?
37)A word I know, six letters it contains, subtract one, and twelve remains. What am I?
38 ) 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?
39) James ordered a fishing rod, priced at $3.56. Unfortunately, James is an Eskimo who lives in a very remote part of Greenland and the import rules there forbid any package longer than 4 feet to be imported. The fishing rod was 4 feet and 1 inch, just a little too long, so how can the fishing rod be mailed to James without breaking the rules and without chopping parts of the rod off?
40) It is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poorest of people have it, and the wealthy people need it, and if you eat it, you will die. What is it?
Feel free to post your own riddles and I will be happy to add them to the list.
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User Submitted Riddles
A man is in a room with no windows or doors and just a mirror and a table in the room with him. The room was built around him so how did he get out?
-Submitted by King Jamie
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08-31-2010, 06:53 PM
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King Jamiɘ
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I saw one on NCIS a while back which I thought was good
A man is in a room with no windows or doors and just a mirror and a table in the room with him. The room was built around him so how did he get out?
He looked in the mirror and seen what he SAW. He took the saw and cut the table in half. Two halves make a whole so he crawled out the hole
A man is in a room with no windows or doors and just a mirror and a table in the room with him. The room was built around him so how did he get out?
08-31-2010, 06:57 PM
#13
Tomahawk
Banned
Originally posted by King
I saw one on NCIS a while back which I thought was good
A man is in a room with no windows or doors and just a mirror and a table in the room with him. The room was built around him so how did he get out?
He looked in the mirror and seen what he SAW. He took the saw and cut the table in half. Two halves make a whole so he crawled out the hole
A man is in a room with no windows or doors and just a mirror and a table in the room with him. The room was built around him so how did he get out?
That is the hardest thing ever
08-31-2010, 07:07 PM
#14
waltuO
N'wahs With Attitude
Originally posted by King
I saw one on NCIS a while back which I thought was good
A man is in a room with no windows or doors and just a mirror and a table in the room with him. The room was built around him so how did he get out?
He looked in the mirror and seen what he SAW. He took the saw and cut the table in half. Two halves make a whole so he crawled out the hole
A man is in a room with no windows or doors and just a mirror and a table in the room with him. The room was built around him so how did he get out?
Added to the list. :y:
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08-31-2010, 07:13 PM
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ResistElite,
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