Riddles are the most useful mental exercise. These riddles can be used to melt the ice on the brains. Due to advancement in technology i.e. net, scientific calculators and computers our brains have become rusty. So, from time to time we should provide our brains the oil of riddles so that it could work in a proper way. Riddles also do have different types like mathematical riddles, phrase riddles etc. usually a riddle has the answers in itself. The only thing one needs to do is to find the clue. If this clue is caught then the riddle could be solved easily. Riddles enhance our thinking ability and prepare us to solve other difficult issues. Sometimes clues are provided with the riddles and many a times we ourselves need to find the clue. If the clue is found, then just remember that, the game is over.
- When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.
A riddle
- A hundred-year-old man and his head one night old.
Snow on a tree stump
- 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 snail
- Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet never see each other?
Eyes
- 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?
Sawdust
- It stands on one leg with its heart in its head.
A cabbage
- Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be found sitting on the roof.
Fire, smoke
- Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?
A fly
- Which tree is the most difficult to get along with?
A crabtree
- What do you not want to have and not want to lose?
A lawsuit
- What type of house weighs the least?
A lighthouse
- What four letters frighten a thief?
OICU
- I have a mouth on my head and eat everything. What am I?
A backpack
- The dwarves and Snow White sit down for a bite. ow fast can you guess what she serves her guests next?
Seven Seconds
- I wear a red robe, With staff in hand, And a stone in my throat. What am I?
A cherry
- I live in a busy place in the city, I'll let you stay with me for awhile, If you don't feed me, I can get you into trouble. What am I?
A parking meter
- I don't exist unless you cut me, but if you stab me I won't bleed. I hate no one yet am abhorred by all. What am I?
A fart
- Two in a whole and four in a pair, And six in a trio you see ,And eight's a quartet but what you must get, Is the name that fits just one of me?
A half
- What has a head, one arm, one leg and a round bottom?
A handicapped parking sign
- 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?
Pour the juice from the second glass into the fifth glass.
- What relation would your father's sister's sister-in-law be to you?
Your mother
a wrote:
these riddles SUCK!!!!!!!
herlinda wrote:
love the riddles...but how do i view the answers to the riddles?