Short Riddles

Short riddles with answers are most often just one or two sentences long. But don’t be fooled, these short riddles could be very tricky as well.

Success Before Work

Where does success come before work?

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A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?

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What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

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What is unusual about the following words: revive, banana, grammar, voodoo, assess, potato, dresser, uneven?

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A hundred arms, a thousand fingers, but it has no eyes to see where it lingers. What is it?

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