RIDDLES

 Challenge your students

1.     What goes up and down stairs without moving?

2.     Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.

3.     What can you catch but not throw?

4.     I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?

5.     Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.

6.     Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside.

7.     What goes around the world and stays in a corner?

8.     What gets wetter the more it dries?

9.     The more there is, the less you see.

10. They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.

11. What kind of room has no windows or doors?

12. I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?

13. I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What is this object?

14. It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time. What is this object?

15. The more you take the more you leave behind.

16. Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute.

17. As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone, or fowl.

18. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

19. 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.

20. What can fill a room but takes up no space?

21. It is weightless, you can see it, and if you put it in a barrel it will make the barrel lighter?

22. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

23. Only two backbones and thousands of ribs.

24. Four jolly men sat down to play, And played all night till the break of day. They played for cash and not for fun, With a separate score for every one. When it came time to square accounts, They all had made quite fair amounts. Now, not one has lost and all have gained, Tell me, now, this can you explain?

25. Jack and Jill are lying on the floor inside the house, dead. They died from lack of water. There is shattered glass next to them. How did they die?

 Answers:

1.     Carpet

2.     Fire

3.     A cold

4.     A nose

5.     A match

6.     Corn

7.     A stamp

8.     Towel

9.     Darkness

10. Stars

11. A mushroom

12. A sponge

13. A mirror

14. A ring

15. Footsteps

16. Breath

17. Glove

18. River

19. Splinter

20. Light

21. A hole

22. Silence

23. Railroad

24. Four men in a dance band

25. Jack and Jill are goldfish.