Riddles

Test your intelligence with 1400 riddles and answers, including easy, short and funny riddles for kids and some of the really best and hard riddles for adults. Not forgetting math and logic riddles for the left-brained people.

Weather Forecast

John was watching television. Just after the midnight news there was a weather forecast: “It is raining now and will rain for the next two days. However, in 72 hours it will be bright and sunny.” “Wrong again,” snorted John. He was correct but how did he know?

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Cake of Soap

If you place 1 cake of soap on a pan of a scale and ³⁄₄ cake of soap and a ³⁄₄ pound weight on the other, the pans balance. How much does a cake of soap weigh?

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Saving Time

Our man Ostap was going home from Kiev. He rode halfway by train – fifteen times as fast as he goes on foot. The second half he went by ox team. He can walk twice as fast as that. Would he have saved time if he had gone all the way on foot? If so, by how much?

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Yes. He took as much time for the second half of his trip as the whole trip would have taken on foot.

So no matter how fast the train was, he lost exactly as much time as he spent on the train. He would have saved ¹⁄₃₀ of the time by walking all the way.

Double Your Money

What’s the easiest way to double your money?

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Coin Doubles in Value

What coin doubles in value when half is deducted?

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