Exercise your brain , use your wit and solve these funny and tricky riddles and puzzles with answers .




1. What is the difference between a jeweller and a jailor ?

ANSWER = A jeweller sells watches , a jailer watches sells

 


2. An eye in a blue face saw an eye in a green face . "That eye is like to this eye" said the first eye "But in low place , not in high place." ?

ANSWER = The sun on the daisies

 


3. What's the most romantic part about the ocean ?

ANSWER = When the buoy meets the gull

 


4. If the only frying pan in the house is large enough to cook two pancakes at a time and pancakes take one minute to brown one side , how can you make three pancakes in three minutes ?

ANSWER = Pour two pancakes and brown the first side. After the first side is done , flip one , take the first one off , flip the third one and put the second one back on . Cook both pancakes until they are brown.

 


5. There was a boy named Bob. Bob really loved apples. Once ,he took a basket full of apples and ran to his house behind the owner of the apples. The owner saw Bob running back to his house and didn't ran after. Why ?

ANSWER = The basket of apples were free.

 


6. 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 $500." The boy looked around and saw no weigh scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the man writes he will 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 as he said he would and wrote " YOUR EXACT WEIGHT " on the paper.

 


7. What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that untill you have one letter left. What is the word ?

ANSWER = The word is " STARTING " ( Starting, Staring, String, Sting, Sing, Sin, In, I )

 


8. Five apples are in a basket. How do you divide them among five boys so that each boy gets an apple, but one apple remains in the basket ?

ANSWER = Serve the fifth boy his apple in the basket

 


9. I am a word of six letters, my frist three letters refer to an automobile, my last three letters refer to a household animal, my first four letters is a fish, my whole is found in your room. What am I ?

ANSWER = CARPET

 


10. Two blondes were going to Disneyland and came to a fork ( three road diversion) in the road. One way said highway 93 right and the other said Disneyland left. Why did the blondes go home ?

ANSWER = Because they thought that Disneyland actually left.





Also see Riddles Quiz 1