Fun Riddles

What would you do to employ tedious hours or kill time? How about puzzles or brainteasers? This week, let us solve interesting riddles. Don’t be so serious or overthink to solve these riddles. 😊

  1.   What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?

  2.   Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

  3.   What types of words are these: madam, civic, eye, level?

  4.   What ends everything always?

  5.   When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don’t have me. What am I?

  6.   A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?

  7.   The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?

  8.   It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect.

  9.   Two fathers and two sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish, So why do they bring home only three fish?

  10.               You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?

  11.               What do letter “t” and an island have in common?

  12.               Which is the word in English that has nine letters, and remains a word at each step even when you remove one letter from it, right up to a single letter remaining. List each letter as you remove them, along with the resulting word at each step.

  13.               Complete this sequence of letters: o, t, t, f, f, s, s, ___, ___, ___

  14.               From the beginning of eternity. To the end of time and space, To the beginning of every end. And the end of every place. What am I?

  15.               I can run but I can’t walk. I have a mouth but I can’t talk, a head but I can’t think, a bed but I can’t sleep. Who am I?

Answer Keys

  1.  your shadow

  2.  meat

  3.  They are palindromes; they read the same forward and backward.

  4.  the letter “g”

  5.  A secret

  6.  His horse’s name is Friday.

  7.  a coffin

  8.  beetle

  9.  Because the fishing group comprises a grandfather, his son, and his grandson, hence just three people.

  10.             your breath

  11.             Both are in water: WaTer

  12.             “startling” is the word. Begin by removing “L”, which makes it “starting”, then take away the “t”, making it “staring”, and so on. String; sting; sing; sin; in; and I

  13.             e, n, t- The first letter of the numbers from one to ten

  14.             the letter “e”

  15.             a river