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September 2008 Riddle: Joe and Max are identical twins. Joe was born before Max but Max is older than Joe. How can this be?
Clue 1: They are normal twins.
Clue 2: Joe was born first, but the birth certificates correctly show Max's time of birth as being before Joe’s.
August 2008 Riddle: She died because she packed to quickly. How did she die? Clue 1: She packed one essential item for a particular kind of journey. Clue 2: She packed material and string. Answer: She was a sky diver who packed her parachute too quickly. It did not deploy correctly when she pulled the ripcord.
July 2008 Riddle: A man was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were born in Boston, Massachusetts. He lived all his life in Boston, but he was not a U.S. citizen. How?
Clue 1: There was nothing strange or unusual about this man.
Answer: He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early eighteenth century when it was still a British colony. He was British.
June 2008 Riddle: A pet store owner is counting all the birds and lizards that were delivered to the store. For some odd reason, she decides to tally only the heads and scaly legs of these animals. When she has finished, she has counted thirty heads and seventy legs. How many birds and how many lizards were delivered?
Answer: Let’s do it visually. If all the thirty heads belonged to two-legged birds, then there’d be only sixty legs. If one of the animals has four legs, then there’d be sixty-two legs. If two animals are four-legged, there’d be sixty-four legs. By continuing in this pattern until we reach seventy legs, we will get a combination of twenty-five birds and five lizards.
May 2008 Riddle: Suppose you have a list of numbers from 1 – 100. How quickly can you add them all up without using a calculator? HINT: There is a swift way to add these numbers. Think about how the numbers at the opposite ends of the list relate to each other. Answer: The list contains fifty pairs of numbers that add to 100 (100+0, 99+1, 98+2, 97+3, etc.) with the number 50 as an unpaired leftover. 50 x 100 +50 = 5,050
April 2008 Riddle: Now it’s time to play with marbles. Place a marble in a large coffee cup and carry it to the opposite side of the room. Too easy? To make this task more challenging, turn the cup upside down with the marble in the part of the cup that holds liquid with nothing covering the opening and carry it to the opposite side of the room. Can you figure out the secret to doing this? Answer: Start spinning the marble along the bottom of the cup so it pushes against the inner wall. When the spin is fast enough, the force overcomes the pull of gravity and the cup can be turned upside down without losing the marble.
March 2008 Riddle:
While you were raiding the refrigerator, you discover a piece of bread that had fallen between the refrigerator and the wall several weeks ago. Needless to say, it is covered with mold. Since the mold started growing, the area it has covered has doubled each day. By the end of the eighth day, the entire surface of the bread is covered. When was the bread half-covered with mold? Answer: This is much simpler than it may seem. Since the mold doubles in size every day, it covered half as much area only one day before on day 7!
February 2008 Riddle:
This is an unusual paragraph. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. If you work at it a bit, you might find out. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Answer: The letter "e," which is the most common letter in the English language, does not appear once in the long paragraph.
January 2008 Riddle: Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday (or day names in any other language)? Answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow!
December 2007 Riddle:
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away? Answer: Charcoal
November 2007 Riddle: A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be? Answer: The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
October 2007 Riddle: Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones?
Answer: A square manhole cover can be turned and dropped down the diagonal of the manhole. A round manhole cannot be dropped down the manhole. So for safety and practicality, all manhole covers should be round.
September 2007 Riddle: One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday. How?
Answer: At the time she went into labor, the mother of the twins was traveling by ship. The older twin, Terry, was born first early on March 1st. The ship then crossed a time zone and Kerry, the younger twin, was born on February the 28th. Therefore, the younger twin celebrates her birthday two days before her older brother every leap year.
August 2007 Riddle: A man is wearing black: black shoes, socks, trousers, coat, gloves and ski mask. He is walking down a back street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off but somehow manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man? Answer: It was day time.
July 2007 Riddle: A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son!" How can this be? Answer: The surgeon was his mother.
June 2007 Riddle: There is a man who lives on the top floor of a very tall building. Everyday he gets the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the building to go to work. Upon returning from work though, he can only travel half way up in the elevator and has to walk the rest of the way unless it's raining! Why?
Answer: The man is very, very short and can only reach halfway up the elevator buttons. However, if it is raining then he will have his umbrella with him and can press the higher buttons with it.
May 2007 Riddle: What is everything to someone, and nothing to everyone else? Answer: your mind
April 2007 Riddle: How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick? Answer: Only one; the last one.
March 2007 Riddle: What does no man want, yet no man wants to lose? Answer: His job.
February 2007 Riddle: What has to be broken before it can be used? Answer: An egg.
January 2007 Riddle: What has no beginning, end, or middle?
Answer: A doughnut.
December 2006 Riddle: What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?
Answer: A chalkboard or chalkboard eraser.
Congratulations to the Hudspath family of Illinois. They were the first to submit the correct answer to this riddle.
November 2006 Riddle: The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it? Answer: Darkness
October 2006 Riddle: What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now everyone can have it? You can't buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library. Answer: A telephone book.
September 2006 Riddle: What happened in the middle of the twentieth century that will not happen again for 4,000 years?
Answer: The year 1961 can be read upside down and that won't happen again until 6009.
Updated 8/29/08
