Section: «Riddles with Answers»
A riddle is a short description of an object or phenomenon, often in poetic form, containing an intricate task in the idea of an explicit (direct) or implied (hidden) question. The content of riddles reflects a person's life. The world around him: living and inanimate nature, phenomena of reality, objects of labor and everyday life, and more.
Riddle: The title of the problem tells you how to approach these four questions. (A). A bus leaves Moscow for Tula at noon. An hour later a cyclist..
Riddle: A book costs $1 plus half its price. How much does it cost?Answer: $2
Riddle: A watchmaker was telephoned urgently to make a house call to replace the broken hands on a clock. He was sik so he sent his apprentice. The..
Riddle: Can you divide the watch face with 2 straight lines so that the sums of the sums of the numbers in each part are equal?Answer: The sum of the..
Riddle: Not far off shore a ship stands with a rope ladder hanging over her side. The rope has 10 rungs. The distance between each rung is 12 inches...
Riddle: A nonstop train leaves Moscow for Leningrad at 60 mph. Another nonstop train leaves Leningrad for Moscow at 40 mph. How far apart are the..
Riddle: An item is made from lead blanks in a lathe shop. Each blank suffices for 1 item. Lead shavings accumulated for making 6 items can be melted..
Riddle: Place three matches on a table. Tell a friend to add two more matches to make eight. How can this be done?Answer: Add two matches to make a..
Riddle: Three matches are sitting on a table. Without adding another make for three matches four. You are not allowed to break any of the matches...
Riddle: A detachment of soldiers must cross a river. The bridge is broken, the river is deep. What to do? Suddenly the officer in charge spots two..
Riddle: A boy presses a side of a blue pencil to a side of a yellow pencil, holding both pencils vertically. One inch of the pressed side of the blue..
Riddle: How many cats are in a small room if in each of the four corners a cat is sitting, and opposite each cat there sit three cats, and a each..
Riddle: Five apples are in a basket. How do you divide them among five girls so that each girl gets an apple, but one apple remains in the..
Riddle: Place three piles of matches on a table, one with 11 matches, the second with 7, and the third with 6. You are to move matches so that each..
Riddle: What did the two dolphins say after not seeing each other for so long?Answer: "Long time no sea."
Riddle: Why was the ocean arrested?Answer: Because it beat upon the shore.
Riddle: How do shells get around in the ocean?Answer: A taxi crab.
Riddle: Who does the ocean date?Answer: It goes out with the tide.
Riddle: What's the most romantic part about the ocean?Answer: When the buoy meets gull.
Riddle: What body of water was named after a famous spy?Answer: James Pond.
Riddle: How does a river flood?Answer: When it gets to big for its bridges.
Riddle: Where do rivers sleep?Answer: In river beds.
Riddle: How do you get into the great lakes?Answer: With the Florida Keys.
Riddle: What color is the wind?Answer: Blew.
Riddle: Why was the geologist's wife unhappy?Answer: She felt like he took her for granite.