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RIDDLES.!!! Be careful with these tricky word problems. All is not what it seems!

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RIDDLES…

Be careful with these tricky word problems. All is not what it seems!

. Three large people try to crowd under one small umbrella, but nobody gets wet. How is this possible?

The sun is shining; there's no rain.

. If you take two apples from three apples, how many do you have?

Two.

. An electric train is traveling northwest at 95 miles per hour, and the wind is blowing southwest at 95 miles per hour. In which direction does the smoke blow?

There is not any smoke. It's an Electric Train.

. Some months have 30 days. Some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?

All of them.

. A woman gave birth to two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year but were not twins. How is this possible?

They were two of triplets.

. A black man dressed all in black, wearing a black mask, stands at a crossroads in a totally black-painted town. All of the streetlights in town are broken. There is no moon. A black-painted car without headlights drives straight toward him, but turns in time and doesn't hit him. How did the driver know to swerve?

It's daytime; the sun is out.

. A man was born in 1964 and died in 1984 at the age of 25. How is this possible?

He's born in room number 1964 of a hospital and dies in room number 1984.

. What two words have the most letters in it?

Post Office.

. How many birthdays does the average man have?

One.

. If you had one match box and entered a room in which there were a kerosene lamp, an oil burner, and a wood burning stove, which would you light first?

The match box.

. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

Foot-steps.

. He who has it doesn't tell it.He who takes it doesn't know it.He who knows it doesn't want it. What is it?

Counterfeit Money.

. What goes round and round the wood but never goes into the wood?

The bark of a tree.

. I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall.

A Chicken in an egg.

. It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it?

The Moon.

. 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.

The letter ‘S’.

. Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet never see each other?

Eyes.

. What comes down but never goes up?

Rain.

. I’m tall when i’m young and i’m short when i’m old. What am I?

A Candle.

. What goes up when rain comes down?

An umbrella!

. Take away my first letter, and I still sound the same. Take away my last letter, I still sound the same. Even take away my letter in the middle, I will still sound the same. I am a five letter word. What am I?

EMPTY.

. What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t” and ends in “t”?

A teapot!

. What has one eye but cannot see?

A needle.

. Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

Neither, they both weigh one pound!

. A horse is on a 24 foot chain and wants an apple that is 26 feet away. How can the horse get to the apple?

The chain is not attached to anything.

. Mr. Blue lives in the blue house, Mr. Pink lives in the pink house, and Mr. Brown lives in the brown house. Who lives in the white house?

The president!

. How do you make the number one disappear?

Add the letter G and it’s “GONE”.

. What goes up but never comes down?

Your AGE.!!!

. How can you take 1 from 19 and leave 20?

When the numbers are expressed in roman numerals, this works out:If you take I from XIX, you are left with XX.

. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?

70. (30 divided by 2 is 15, but 30 divided by 1/2 is 60.)

. What word is always spelled incorrectly?

Incorrectly.

. In a group of siblings, there are seven sisters, and each sister has one brother. How many siblings are there in total?

Eight: Seven sisters and One brother.

. Two women and two doctors walk into an ice cream parlor. They each order an ice cream cone.When their ice creams come, there is only 1 strawberry,1 chocolate and 1 vanilla.

How come they didn't complain?

One of the woman was a doctor.

. A boy and a doctor was fishing. The boy is the doctor's son but the doctor is not the boy's father.Who is the doctor?

His Mother.

. Rearrange the following letters so as to form one word: NEW DOOR

One Word.

. If an Airplane crashed exactly on the border of France and Germany, where would the survivors be buried?

You do not bury survivors.

. If you are in a race, what place are you in if you take over the person who is in second place?

Second Place.

. There are three houses, one is red, one is blue and one is white. If the red house is to the left of the house in the middle and the blue house is to the right of the house in the middle,where is the white house?

In Washington D C.

. If a man is trapped in a room. There are no doors no windows how did he get out?

Through the door way, There were no doors but a door way.

THANK YOU.!!!

N. Vignesh.

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