Riddles

Level 1

1. Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?

    

2. What has hands but cannot clap?

    

3. What has to be broken before it can be used?

    

4. What has one eye but cannot see?

    

5. Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?

Level 2

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

    

2. Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?

    

3. George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?

    

4. What is yours but more people use it more than you?

    

5. How old is your son? Asked a man t his neighbour. My son is five times as old as my daughter and my wife is five times as old as my son. I am twice as old as my wife whereas my grandmother m who is celebrating her eighty-first birthday is as old as all of us put together. How old is the man’s son?

    

    

Level 3

1. Three playing cards in a row. Can you name them with these clues? There is a two to the right of a king. A diamond will be found to the lift of a spade. An ace is to the left of a heart. A heart is to the left of a spade. Now, identify all three cards.

    

2. You have two coconuts and you want to find out how high they can be dropped from a 100-story building before they break. But you only have $1.40 and the elevator costs a dime each time you ride it up (it's free for rides down).
   How can you drop the coconuts to guarantee you will find the lowest floor they will break at, while starting and ending at floor 1?
   Note: They break when dropped from the same height and they don't weaken from getting dropped.

    

3. We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size. What are we?

    

4. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so ordinary and plain that you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly unusual though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out. Try to do so without any coaching!

    

5. I have two arms, but fingers I have none. I've got two feet, but I cannot run. I carry well, but I carry best with my feet off the ground. What am I?

Answers for riddles in the February 2018 newsletter

      Level 1

1. A corn on the cob because you throw away the husk, cook and eat the kernels, and throw away the cob.

    

2. A clock

    

3. An egg

    

4. A needle

    

5. The C

Level 2

1. A carpet

    

2. 888+88+8+8+8-1000

    

3. Elizabeth is drinking coffee. The letter E appears twice in her name as it does in the names of the others that are drinking coffee.

    

4. Your name

    

5. Five

      Level 3

1. Ace of Diamonds, King of hearts, Two of spades

    

2. You could drop it at floor 1 first (because you start at floor 1). Then you would go to the floors: 14, 27, 39, 50, 60, 69, 77, 84, 90, 95, 99, and 100. Whatever floor your first coconut breaks at, go to the floor above the last floor the coconut survived and drop the second coconut from this floor. Then go up by one floor until the second coconut breaks and that is the lowest floor it will break at.

    

3. Words

    

4. The letter E, which is the most common letter used in the English language, does not appear in the paragraph.

    

    

5. A wheelbarrow.