Riddles

How many months have 28 days?

What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?

What runs around a field but never moves?

If two's company and three's a crowd, what are four and five?

What is the center of Gravity?

What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?

The more you take away the larger it becomes. What is it?

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.

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. What am I?

As your ideas grow, I shrink. What am I?

Mary's mom has four children. The first child is called April. The second May. The third June. What is the name of the fourth child?

What starts with a 'P', ends with an 'E' and has thousands of letters?

What begins with T, ends with T and has T in it?

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?

What has 4 eyes but can't see?

A man leaves home and turns left three times, only to return home facing two men wearing masks. Who are those two men?

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 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?

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?

What loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night?

What is something you will never see again?

Can you name the two days starting with T besides Tuesday and Thursday?

What is the last thing you take off before bed?

What is next in this sequence: JFMAMJJASON_ ?

On my way to Tulsa I saw a man and his wife. His wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wife and man. How many were going to Tulsa?

How can a man go eight days without sleep?

What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?

What has to be broken before you can use it?

Why was 6 afraid of 7?

What's full of holes but can still hold water?

What number comes next in the following sequence? 2 4 8 10 20 _

If you wrote all of the numbers from 300 to 400 on a piece of paper, how many times would you have written the number 3?

If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

The more there is, the less you see.

The more you take the more you leave behind.

I went into the woods and got it, I sat down to seek it, I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it.

What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?

How can you throw a ball as hard as you can, to only have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything?

What thing that God made sleeps with its head down?

You are my brother, but I am not your brother. Who am I?

What is the most common use of cowhides?

Use the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the symbols + and = to make a true equation. Note: Each must be used exactly once and no other numbers or symbols can be used.

What 3 positive numbers give the same result when multiplied and added together?

What number do you get when you multiply all of the numbers on a telephone's number pad?

On a clock, how many times a day do the minute and hour hand overlap?

What jumps higher than a building?

Can you rearrange the letters in new door to make one word?

In what year did Christmas and New Year's fall on the same year?

What is brown or silver, has a head and tail but no arms or legs?

What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?

A man is twenty years old but has only had five birthdays. How is that possible?

I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?

I can run but never walk. Wherever I go, thought are close behind me.

I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?

You walk into a room with a rabbit holding a carrot, a pig eating slop, and a chimp holding a banana. Which animal in the room is the smartest?

What relation would your father's sister's sister-in-law be to you?

What is black when you buy it, red wh en you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

2 men catch 2 fish in 2 minutes. At this rate, how many men could catch 500 fish in 500 minutes?

There are 3 stoves. A glass stove, a brick stove , and a wood stove. You only have 1 match. Which do you light up first?

A boy at a carnival went to a booth ran by a man who said "If I can 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 agreed, 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?

I have lakes with no fish. I have roads with no cars.

I have two arms, but fingers I have none. I've got two feet, but I cannot run. I carry well, but I carry best with my feet off the ground. What am I?

Would you rather enter a pool with a man eating shark, or a pool with ten electric eels?

Riddle: The more you work, the more I'll eat.You keep me full, I'll keep you neat. What am I?

There are several books on a bookshelf. If one book is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right, how many books are on the shelf?

Riddle: A tomato vine is 3 meters long. The bottom foot of the vine doesn't grow any tomatoes but the rest of the vine grows a tomato every 5 inches. How many vegetables can grow off of the vine?

Riddle: A semi truck weighing exactly 10,000 pounds gets onto a bridge that is 100 miles long. The bridge's weight limit is exactly 10,000 pounds, any more will break the bridge. After going about 80 miles down the bridge a small bird lands on the truck. What happens?

Riddle: Why would a hair stylist rather cut the hair of two brunettes than one red head?

Riddle: How high would you have to count before you use the letter 'A' in the spelling of a number?