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Fun Riddles
1) A barrel of rum weighs 40 pounds. What can you put in the barrel to make it weigh 25 pounds?
Answer: Holes.
2) What gets harder to catch the more you run?
Answer: Your breath.
3) The more of these you take, the more that are left behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps.
4) You are in a room with three monkeys. One has a banana, one has a stick, and one has nothing. Who is the smartest primate in the room?
Answer: You are.
5) A cowboy arrives on a Sunday, stays three days, and leaves on Friday. How is that possible?
Answer: The horses name is Friday.
6) What gets wet while it dries?
Answer: A towel.
7) I'm an odd number. If you take out one of the letters in my name, I become even, what am I?
Answer: The number seven.
8) What happens once in a minute, Twice in a moment, And never in a thousand years.
Answer: The letter m.
9) What's a pirates favorite letter?
Answer: The letter Rrrrr.
10) Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: The Dictionary.
11) What holds water but is full of holes.
Answer: Sponge.
12) I have cities without houses. There are mountains but not trees. I have water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: Map.
13) Sam's father has three sons. Snap, Crackle, and who?
Answer: Sam.
14) The person who buys it doesn't need it. The person who makes it has no use for it. The person who uses it cannot see or feel it. What am I?
Answer: A coffin.
15) What two animal names are also parts of a computer?
Answer: A mouse and ram.
16) I can be big or small. Controlled or accidental. I often bring others joy. And I sometimes am followed by laughter. What am I?
Answer: Smile.
17) What is answered without it being asked as a question?
Answer: Doorbell.
18) What attack skill could a sheep use if it learned karate?
Answer: Lamb chop.
19) What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: Eggs.
20) What has hand but can't clap?
Answer: Clock.
21) What four letter word is shorter when you add two letters?
Answer: Short.
22) What invention lets you look through a wall?
Answer: Window.
23) Imagine you are stuck in a coffin behind a wall with only you inside. How can you easily get out?
Answer: You're imagining it I said so stop imagining it.
24) This word changes sexes when you remove the last two letters. What word am I?
Answer: Princess.
25) Take one of these out and scratch it's head. I am now black what once was red. What am I?
Answer: Match.
26) I have many teeth but cannot bite. What am I?
Answer: A comb.
27) What has many keys but cannot open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
28) How many times can you subtract 10 from 100.
Answer: Once because after you subtract from one hundred it becomes 90.
29) What goes up and down without moving?
Answer: A Carpet.
30) What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in 1000 years?
Answer: The letter m.
31) I'm the beginning of the end, the end of time and space, the beginning of eternity, the end of every place. What am I?
Answer: The letter e.
32) What has a bed that you shouldn't sleep in?
Answer: A River
33) How far can you walk into a forest?
Answer: A single step. Once you step in the forest you are now walking through the forest not into it.
34) When you are looking for something why is it always in the last place you look?
Answer: Because when you find it you stop looking.
35) What is in a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
36) You are a bus driver. There are forty people on your bus. You drop twenty off at the first corner, pick up ten passengers at the next stop, and drop off 25 more at the final stop. What color are the bus drivers eyes?
Answer: The bus driver has your color eyes (ex: hazel). I said you're the bus driver.
37) How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
Answer: None, it was Noah on the ark.
And there's a list of 37 great riddles to solve and ponder over from the list of the author's favorite riddles. These riddles are fun and they can be used to spark interesting conversations. I hope you enjoyed the list. Thanks for reading!