28 Tricky Riddles with Answers

28 Tricky Riddles with Answers


1.How can you add eight 6s together so that the total adds up to 750?

Answer

666 + 66 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 750


2.A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs and, as she is going home, all but three break. How many eggs are left unbroken?

Answer

Three


3.Friday, Jason and Jeff went to the store to buy some bread. The total of $12 was divided equally among the friends. Jason paid $4 and Jeff paid $4 as well. Who paid the other $4?

Answer

Their friend Friday


4.In a one story house at the corner of the road, the bedrooms were yellow, the kitchen was blue, the living room was orange, the garage was green, the entry hall was red and the sitting room was purple. What color were the stairs?

Answer

There are no stairs in a one-story house


5.People make me, keep me, change me, raise me, even though I can be very dirty. What am I?

Answer

Money


6.A grandmother, two mothers and two daughters went to the cafe for some tea. They ordered one cup each. What was the total number of cups that they ordered?

Answer

3, one for each person (the grandmother is also a mother and the mother is also a daughter) – OR – 2 (both people are mothers and daughters and one is a grandmother)



7.Frank was born in 1933 and died in 1946 at the age of 57. How can this be?

Answer

He was born in the hospital room 1933 and died in room 1946


8.Which of the following is not white? Egg whites, The White House, polar bears, golf balls, milk, marshmallows and white onions.

Answer

Polar bears, because their fur is colorless. Each fur strand is actually transparent and pigment free with a hollow core which reflects light.


9.After an 8 hour flight from Los Angeles’ LAX airport to the Manila airport from what direction would you be landing in Manila?

Answer

None, because you’d still be somewhere over the ocean because it usually takes about 13 hours from Los Angeles to Manila


10.What was the longest river in the world before the Amazon River was discovered?

Answer

The Amazon, because it was still the longest even before anyone discovered it


11.I am a few inches long, a couple inches wide and most women would love to get their hands on me. What am I?

Answer

A bar of gold


12.The mad scientist wanted to take a person who had 5 heads and remove 4 of them and sew them onto a clown’s head. He estimated that it would take 43 minutes per head. How long would it take him to complete the entire procedure?

Answer

He can’t complete it because no person has 5 heads


13.Ivanka is smoking an e-cigarette and blowing it on Jared and it is bothering him and follows him everywhere he goes. What can Jared do to avoid the smoke?

Answer

Nothing, because e-cigarettes do not produce smoke


14.There has never been a single airplane that has successfully landed at the airport in Cincinnati. How can this be?

Answer

Because there is actually no airport in Cincinnati. The closest airport is across the state line in Kentucky.


15.If you paint a brown house white it will become a white house, if the stop light changes from red to green then the light is green. So, if you throw a white shirt into the Red Sea, what will it become?

Answer

It will become wet. There would be no color change because the Red Sea is not actually red


16.If turkeys are for Thanksgiving, jockeys are for horses and monkeys are for the jungle, then what is for rednecks?

Answer

Hickeys


17.If a male tiger is to tigress, rooster is to hen and bull is to cow, then a male dog is to what?

Answer

A girl who is super rude (if you don’t get this, you might just be too young)


18.How many birthdays does the average Jehovah Witness’ have?

Answer

None, they don’t celebrate birthdays


19.If a military camp has 183 soldiers and a military rebel has one shot to get them all, what would the rebel do to make sure one shot got all 183?

Answer

He would ask all 183 to stand close so that they all fit in the photo


20.If a yellow brick road is yellow, Blue from Blue’s Clues is blue and the White House is white, then what color is a greenhouse?

Answer

It is transparent, because it is made of glass


21. 4 rubber ducks were floating in the bathtub, 2 floated away and 2 drowned. How many rubber ducks are still alive?

Answer

Zero, because rubber ducks aren’t alive and cannot drown


22.A pair of shoes and and pair of socks cost a total of $1.10. The shoes cost $1.00 more than the socks. How much do the socks cost?

Answer

$0.05 (not $0.10)


23.If you buy a rooster so that you can harvest and eat eggs every morning and you expect to have three eggs every morning for breakfast, then how many eggs would you have after 10 days?

Answer

Zero, because roosters do not lay eggs


24.Which of the following is correct: 1) Ostrich can fly, or 2) Ostriches can fly?

Answer

Neither because ostriches can’t fly


25. If E + 1 = 4, D + 1 = 3, E – D = 1, then what do you get when you put E and 3 together?

Answer

Something that looks a lot like the number 8 (when you combine them side by side)


26.What has hands but cannot wear gloves, a face but cannot look?

Answer

A clock


27.What is the smallest: a meter, 3.2 feet or a yard?

Answer

It depends on whose yard it is, but most house’s yards are much bigger than a meter or 3.2 feet.


28.Among the numerical numbers 1-10, what number is most likely to be the fattest?

Answer

Eight, because seven eight nine

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