RIDDLES

1. Two men are in a desert. They both have packs on. One of the guys is dead. The guy who is alive has his pack open, the guy who is dead has his pack closed. What is in the pack?
  A Parachute that didn’t open

2. If you throw me from the window, I will leave a grieving wife. Bring me back, but in the door, and You’ll see someone giving life! What am I?
 The letter ‘n’.wiNdow – widow. door – doNor

3. Why is it against the law for a man living in Delhi to be buried in Mumbai?
     Because he is still living.

The mathematician laughed at the others and with his design, beat the others. What did he do?

     The mathematician made a small fence around himself and declared himself to be on the outside.

5. Bay of Bengal is in which state?

liquid state

  

Brothers and sisters I have none but this man's father is my father's son.
Who is the man?

the man is my son.

What is greater than God,
more evil than the devil,
the poor have it,
the rich need it,
and if you eat it, you'll die?

Nothing.

Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
What is it?

A coffin.

Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?

Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane as an old man.

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

A stamp.

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

A towel.

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

Meat.

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?

Watermelon.

What kind of room has no doors or windows?

A mushroom.

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

A palm.

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?

Incorrectly.

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

Secret.

What gets broken without being held?

A promise.

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

Fire.

A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?

He was playing Monopoly.

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?

None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

Forward I am ton, backwards I am not.

He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?

A preacher.

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?

An onion.

Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?

Stop imagining.

What invention lets you look right through a wall?

A window.

What can you catch but not throw?

A cold.

What is at the end of a rainbow?

The letter W.

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?

His breath.

What has one eye but cannot see?

A needle.

What is always coming but never arrives?

Tomorrow.

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

Neither, they both weigh one pound.

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!"
On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?

The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?                                         4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple. 

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground.

How come?

At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

A poor farmer went to the market to sell some peas and lentils. However, as he had only one sack and didn't want to mix peas and lentils, he poured in the peas first, tied the sack in the middle, and then filled the top portion of the sack with the lentils. At the market a rich innkeeper happened by with his own sack. He wanted to buy the peas, but he did not want the lentils.
Pouring the seed anywhere else but the sacks is considered soiling. Trading sacks is not allowed. The farmer can't cut a hole in his sack.

How would you transfer the peas to the innkeeper's sack, which he wants to keep, without soiling the produce?

Pour the lentils into the innkeeper's sack, bind it and turn inside out. Pour in the peas. Then unbind the sack a pour the lentils back to your sack.

The captain of a ship was telling this interesting story: "We traveled the sea far and wide. At one time, two of my sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they could see each other clearly. "How can that be possible?              The marines were standing back against the sides of the ship so they were looking at each other. It does not matter where the ship is (of course it does not apply to the North and South Pole).

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour.

When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?

If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives the bellboy $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to split among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totaling $27. The bellboy has another $2, adding up to $29.
Where is the remaining dollar?                                                            

 This is a nice nonsense. Each guest paid $9 because they gave $30 and they were given back $3. The manager got $25 and the difference ($2) has the bellboy. So it is nonsense to add the $2 to the $27, since the bellboy kept the $2.

13 people came into a hotel with 12 rooms and each guest wanted his own room. The bellboy solved this problem.He asked the thirteenth guest to wait a little with the first guest in room number 1. So in the first room there were two people. The bellboy took the third guest to room number 2, the fourth to number 3, ..., and the twelfth guest to room number 11. Then he returned to room number 1 and took the thirteenth guest to room number 12, still vacant. How can everybody have his own room?  

Of course, it is impossible. Into the second room should have gone the 2nd guest, because the 13th guest was waiting in room number 1.

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins.

How can this be?

The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn't break the law.

How come?

She was walking.

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

The letter m.                 

1. Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?
2. Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister? Why?
3. A man builds a house rectangular in shape. All the sides have southern exposure. A big bear walks by. What color is the bear? Why? (similar to the Bear riddle in the section Einstein's Riddles)
4. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
5. How far can a dog run into the woods?
6. One big hockey fan claimed to be able to tell the score before any game. How did he do it?
7. You can start a fire if you have alcohol, petrol, kerosene, paper, candle, coke, a full matchbox and a piece of cotton wool. What is the first thing you light?
8. Why do Chinese men eat more rice than Japanese men do?
9. What word describes a woman who does not have all her fingers on one hand?

    ANSWERS:

    

1. Why should a living man be buried?
2. No, it is not legal to get married if you are dead.
3. The bear is white since the house is built on the North Pole.
4. If you take 2 apples, then you have of course 2.
5. The dog can run into the woods only to the half of the wood - than it would run out of the woods.
6. The score before any hockey game should be 0:0, shouldn't it?
7. A match, of course.
8. There are more Chinese men than Japanese men.
9. Normal - I wouldn't be very happy if I had all my fingers (10) on one hand.

 EINSTEIN'S RIDDLES 

Albert Einstein allegedly made this riddle for his scholars.

A fellow encountered a bear in a wasteland. There was nobody else there. Both were frightened and ran away. Fellow to the north, bear to the west. Suddenly the fellow stopped, aimed his gun to the south and shot the bear. What color was the bear?
If you don't know, this may help you: if the bear ran about 3.14 times faster than the fellow (still westwards), the fellow could have shot straight in front of him, however for the booty he would have to go to the south.

It all happened on the North Pole. When the man shot, he must have been right on the North Pole. Getting it? So it makes sense to assume that the only color the bear could be was WHITE. 
So this is it. I've heard another logical solutions (even that there are no bears neither on the North nor on the South Pole), but this one presented makes sense to me. 

Eight married couples meet to lend one another some books. Couples have the same surname, employment and car. Each couple has a favorite color. Furthermore we know the following facts:

1. Daniella Black and her husband work as Shop-Assistants.
2. The book "The Seadog" was brought by a couple who drive a Fiat and love the color red.
3. Owen and his wife Victoria like the color brown.
4. Stan Horricks and his wife Hannah like the color white.
5. Jenny Smith and her husband work as Warehouse Managers and they drive a Wartburg.
6. Monica and her husband Alexander borrowed the book "Grandfather Joseph".
7. Mathew and his wife like the color pink and brought the book "Mulatka Gabriela".
8. Irene and her husband Oto work as Accountants.
9. The book "We Were Five" was borrowed by a couple driving a Trabant.
10. The Cermaks are both Ticket-Collectors who brought the book "Shed Stoat".
11. Mr and Mrs Kuril are both Doctors who borrowed the book "Slovacko Judge".
12. Paul and his wife like the color green.
13. Veronica Dvorak and her husband like the color blue.
14. Rick and his wife brought the book "Slovacko Judge" and they drive a Ziguli.
15. One couple brought the book "Dame Commissar" and borrowed the book "Mulatka Gabriela".
16. The couple who drive a Dacia, love the color violet.
17. The couple who work as Teachers borrowed the book "Dame Commissar".
18. The couple who work as Agriculturalists drive a Moskvic.
19. Pamela and her husband drive a Renault and brought the book "Grandfather Joseph".
20. Pamela and her husband borrowed the book that Mr and Mrs Zajac brought.
21. Robert and his wife like the color yellow and borrowed the book "The Modern Comedy".
22. Mr and Mrs Swain work as Shoppers.
23. "The Modern Comedy" was brought by a couple driving a Skoda.

      Is it a problem to find out everything about everyone from this information?

          

The following grid puzzle might be easy.
There are 5 ships in a port.

1. The Greek ship leaves at six and carries coffee.
2. The ship in the middle has a black chimney.
3. The English ship leaves at nine.
4. The French ship with a blue chimney is to the left of a ship that carries coffee.
5. To the right of the ship carrying cocoa is a ship going to Marseille.
6. The Brazilian ship is heading for Manila.
7. Next to the ship carrying rice is a ship with a green chimney.
8. A ship going to Genoa leaves at five.
9. The Spanish ship leaves at seven and is to the right of the ship going to Marseille.
10. The ship with a red chimney goes to Hamburg.
11. Next to the ship leaving at seven is a ship with a white chimney.
12. The ship on the border carries corn.
13. The ship with a black chimney leaves at eight.
14. The ship carrying corn is anchored next to the ship carrying rice.
15. The ship to Hamburg leaves at six.

         

Five friends have their gardens next to one another, where they grow three kinds of crops: fruits (apple, pear, nut, cherry), vegetables (carrot, parsley, gourd, onion) and flowers (aster, rose, tulip, lily).

1. They grow 12 different varieties.
2. Everybody grows exactly 4 different varieties
3. Each variety is at least in one garden.
4. Only one variety is in 4 gardens.
5. Only in one garden are all 3 kinds of crops.
6. Only in one garden are all 4 varieties of one kind of crops.
7. Pears are only in the two border gardens.
8. Paul's garden is in the middle with no lily.
9. Aster grower doesn't grow vegetables.
10. Rose grower doesn't grow parsley.
11. Nuts grower has also gourd and parsley.
12. In the first garden are apples and cherries.
13. Only in two gardens are cherries.
14. Sam has onions and cherries.
15. Luke grows exactly two kinds of fruit.
16. Tulips are only in two gardens.
17. Apples are in a single garden.
18. Only in one garden next to the Zick's is parsley.
19. Sam's garden is not on the border.
20. Hank grows neither vegetables nor asters.
21. Paul has exactly three kinds of vegetable.

Who has which garden and what is grown where?

      

          The Brit lives in the Red house.

           The Swede keeps dogs as pets. 

           The Dane drinks tea.

           The Green house is next to the White house, on the left. 

           The owner of the Green house drinks coffee. 

           The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. 

           The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill. 

           The man living in the centre house drinks milk. 

           The Norwegian lives in the first house.

           The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.

           The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. 

           The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.

           The German smokes Prince. 

           The Norwegian lives next to the Blue house.

           The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

Who has fish at home? Are you one of the 2%?