Those confusing word, sometime picture or sometimes math, problems that trick your brain out of the correct answer. Although if you can prove it there are many acceptable answers.
1. There are 12 fish in a fish tank. Two were eaten by the cat, three drowned, and another two were over fed and so they died. How many live fish are still in the tank?
2. Imagine you are in a sinking rowboat surrounded by hungry sharks, how do you survive?
3A. How would you put a giraffe in the refrigerator?
3B. How would you put an elephant in the refrigerator?
3C. A meeting of all the animals was called by the lion king, which animal will not be at the meeting?
3D. You need to cross a river that has hungry and angry (hangry) alligators swimming in it, how do you cross the river?
4. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
5. What tree can you hold in your hand, without difficulty?
6. In South America you can't take a picture of a man with a wooden leg, why not?
7. On a day in May a father took his son to his work at a software development company. Later in the day a fire started, luckily everyone got out. Unfortunately both the son and father needed to be rushed to the hospital, the dad had a broken collarbone from jumping out of a second story window and then catching the son, who in turn had fractured his left arm. The father and son were taken in different ambulances to different hospitals. When the doctor came in to take care of the son they said, "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son." How can this be?
8. What is the first thing a common human does when they wake up?
9. What book do most teenagers and millennials love?
10. What can be seen once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
11. Which tire doesn't move when a car turns right?
12. I'm not alive but I have five fingers, what am I?
13. Which word is written incorrectly in a dictionary?
14. A truck drove to a village and met four cars. How many vehicles are going to the village?
15. People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I?
16. We kill, and we give life. We are either poison or fruit - you choose. What are we?
17. Which hand is best for stirring sugar into a cup of tea?
18. Feed me, and it will give me life. But give me a drink, and I will die. What am I?
19. Who makes moves while being seated?
20. What flies when it is born, lies when it's alive, and runs when it's dead?
CORRECT ANSWERS!
1. 8 fish, fish can't drown so those three are still alive.
2. Stop imagining
3A. You open the refrigerator door, put the giraffe in, and close the refrigerator door
3B. You open the refrigerator door, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator door.
3C. The elephant, he's stuck in the refrigerator.
3D. You swim across, the alligators are at the meeting already.
4. There are no elephants with one hand.
5. A palm tree.
6. You can't take a picture with a wooden leg, you need a camera.
7. The doctor was the boy's mom.
8. They wake up.
9. Facebook.
10. The letter m.
11. The spare tire.
12. A glove.
13. 'incorrectly '
14. One truck.
15. A plate.
16. Words.
17. It is better to use a spoon.
18. Fire.
19. A chess player.
20. A snowflake.
(A/N) in my 7th grade ela/reading class we would answer a riddle every morning. It was fun and challenging, we had about ten minutes to come up with an answer, and reasons why it would work in the riddle. So for example on riddle 20 another answer could be a rumor because when rumors are first created, or 'born' they travel quickly, or 'fly' from person to person. A rumor isn't ever completely true so it lies while it is 'alive' and finally once a rumor has been proven/disproven it runs out, or 'dies'. So I believe my teacher would find rumors an acceptable answer, even though it isn't the correct one. I may add more riddles later on, I really love riddles (in case you couldn't tell). Have a nice day 😺
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AcakThose things that just brighten your day. And then a short story to go along with it. Disclaimer: I don't own the drawing used as the cover!
