okay, here's some riddles a friend gave me to work with. He never gave me the answers so if you guess them don't ask me if they are right.
(PS: I don't know why the numbering is messed up)
The best way to answer is to copy and paste that question and keep using that post by editting it whenver you want to answer a 2nd riddle.
#2 - A prisoner is enclosed in a room. This room has no doors, no windows and no other hole large enough for the prisoner to escape via. He has no tools, he has no assistance. He does have a table and a chair in the centre of the room. The room is quite large, walls are two foot thick. How can the prisoner escape?
#4 - What are you given at a very early age and always belongs to you, but is used more by others than by yourself?
#6 - Can you find the hidden country in the following paragraph: There are many standard credit cards in modern use today, for example ACCESS, VISA, and AMEX. I counted at least 17 different ones advertised in a one hour period.
#7 - Strong is to weak as hot is to ==?==
#10 - If Mario can eat 110 cakes in 10 minutes and Kev can eat 56 cakes in 8 minutes, how long will it take Mario and Kev to eat 954 cakes?
#11 - I have a very large barrel that is extremely heavy. What can I put in it that will make it lighter. It is not a gas and by lighter, I mean less heavy?
#12 - Hot is to freeze as ==?== is to melt?
#14 - What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?
#16 - What is the 10th prime number?
#17 - Water is to ice as steam is to ==?==
#18 - Last weekend I was given my pocket money, which is meant to last me all week. On Monday, I spent a quarter of my money on clothes. On Tuesday, I spent one third of my remaining money on a CD. On Wednesday I spent half of my remaining money on sweets. Finally on Thursday I spent my last ?1.25 on a comic. How much pocket money did I receive?
#19 - What letter comes next in this sequence: >< L C D ==?==
#21 - Kevin is 5 years old, James is also 5 and Rebecca is 7. How old is Jacqueline?
#24 - Start with a number larger than 0, square it, add 4, double, take away 3, times 4 and finally subtract the original number. If you were now left with 20, what number did you start with?
#25 - A fire engine was rushing to a small fire, 15 miles away. The fire engine set out with 120 gallons of water, however, the water tank had a leak and the fire engine was losing water at the rate of 2 gallons per minute. The fire engine travelled at a constant 30 miles per hour. The fire required 50 gallons of water - did the fire engine have enough water when it arrived?
#26 - In a football syndicate, the winnings amounted to ?7657. There were more than 30 people in the syndicate but less than 100. Each won exactly the same number of pounds and no pence were involved. How much did each win?
#27 - If yesterday was Saturday's tomorrow and tomorrow was Wednesday's yesterday, what day would it be today?
#28 - This equation is correct, how though? 8 + 8 = 91
#29 - They are 3 errers in this puzzle, what are they?
#30 - You heard me before, Yet you hear me again, Then I die, 'Till you call me again.
#31 - If there are forty cups on the table and one cup breaks, how many tea cups are left?
#32 - Using the numbers 123456789, can you make them total 100. You can use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as well as brackets. However, they must stay in the same order.
#33 - Why did the golfer wear two pairs of pants?
#34 - What asks no question but demands an answer?
#35 - SAFE + STAY + SOON + SKIP = STOP, PINK + PORE + PUSH + PLOT = ==?==
#36 - Using eight eights and addition only, can you make 1000?
#37 - Which are there more of: days in a year or bones in a human body?
#38 - Kevin's mother has three children. The first was called Alpha, the second was called Beta. What was the name of the third?
#39 - How many of each animal did Moses take into the Ark?
#40 - What can you break without touching it?
#41 - Can you name five days of the week without writing Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday?
#42 - I am lighter than a feather, yet no man can hold me for very long. What am I?
#43 - What is unusual about this paragraph? You will find that this is not just an ordinary paragraph if you look at its words. An odd group of words this is! Can you find what it is?
#44 - What four digit number has digit 2 less than digit 4 which is two thirds of digit 1 which is two thirds of digit 3 which is three times digit 2?
#45 - If today is Monday, what is the day after the day before the day before tomorrow?
#47 - It burns no coal, no oil, no nuclear fuels and has no need for electricity. It uses no man made explosions. Yet it is far hotter than all ovens and fires and furnaces. What is it?
#48 - I once cashed a cheque at the bank. I had spent ?0.05 before I realised the bank clerk had made a mistake. He had transposed the pounds with the pence. I now had exactly twice the value of the original cheque. What was the original cheque's value?
#49 - Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to Z=26. Can you find a familiar 11 letter word whose letter values total only 52?
#50 - You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock. This one gains exactly 15 minutes every hour. It is now showing 2:00pm and you know that is was correct at midnight, when you set it. The clock stopped 7 hours ago, what is the correct time now?
#51 - I was walking down Mulberry Lane, I met a man doing the same. He tipped his hat and drew his cane, And in this rhyme I said his name. What was the man's name?
#53 - If it were two hours later, it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it?
#54 - Which four vegetables have been merged together? CAB SWE RPR EED OAA ETN
#55 - What number comes next in this sequence: 7 8 5 5 3 4 4 ==?==
#56 - My bath has two taps and a plug hole. The cold tap on its own fills the bath in 12 minutes, the hot one in 8 minutes. The plug hole can drain the bath in 24 minutes with the taps off. How long will the bath take to fill if I leave both taps on with the plug left out?
#57 - If two hours ago it was as long after one o'clock in the afternoon as it was before one o'clock in the morning, what time would it be now?
#58 - What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
#59 - What do you need for brushing your teeth, combing your hair and keeping the rain off?
#60 - How many times per day do the hour and minute hands of a clock form a right angle?
#61 - Exactly how many minutes is it before six o'clock if 50 minutes ago it was four times as many minutes passed three o'clock?
#62 - A kind old gentleman decided to give 12 sweets to each of the girls in his town and 8 sweets to each of the boys. Of the 612 children in his town, only half the girls and three quarters of the boys were allowed to take the sweets. How many sweets did the kind old gentleman have to buy?
#64 - James and Steve were busily emptying their book shelves from one room to another. James on his own could have cleared the room in 18 hours. Steve also would take 18 hours. Unfortunately, John was moving the books back into the first room from the second. He could fill the first room in 36 hours. How long will it take the three of them to complete the task?
#65 - A local fisherman caught a large trawler load of haddock. He decided to donate some of his fish to the local community, 1672 people in all. To each person over 50 he gave 16 fish and to each person under 50 he gave 96 fish. If only 3/4 of the over 50s collected their haddock and only 1/8 of the under 50s collected their fish, how many fish did the fisherman distribute it total?
#68 - What comes next in this sequence: dog cat mouse mole deer pig ==?== Choose from: tiger cow rabbit frog.
#69 - What comes next in this sequence: PN BP KT RK ==?==
#73 - A man is lying dead with a backpack on, face down in the desert. What happened
#78 - When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don?t have me. What am I?
#80 - Not born, but from a Mother's body drawn, I hang until half of me is gone. I sleep in a cave until I grow old, then valued for my hardened gold. What am I?
#82 - I arrive once in every second, once in every minute and once in every year. What am I?
#85 - During a recent Cluedo weekend, four games were played. In one game Miss Scarlet used the spanner, but not in the library. In another game the rope was used in the study, but not by Colonel Mustard. During one game the gun was used in the conservatory, whilst in another game Professor Plum was not to be found in the library. Colonel Mustard was never in the conservatory and Mrs White never used the rope. The lead piping may or may not have been used in the kitchen. Can you determine who used what and where?
#87 - If you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?
#88 - If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?
#90 - A car travelled from London at a speed of 40mph. Its fuel consumption was 30 mpg. It had a 5 gallon tank which was full when it started, but at that very moment began to leak fuel. After 60 miles the car stopped with a completely empty tank. How many gallons per hour was it losing?
I didn't make these up, so credit goes to whoever did. I don't think my friend did either, he didn't give me the site in Email :P
Anyways enjoy!
(PS: I don't know why the numbering is messed up)
The best way to answer is to copy and paste that question and keep using that post by editting it whenver you want to answer a 2nd riddle.
#2 - A prisoner is enclosed in a room. This room has no doors, no windows and no other hole large enough for the prisoner to escape via. He has no tools, he has no assistance. He does have a table and a chair in the centre of the room. The room is quite large, walls are two foot thick. How can the prisoner escape?
#4 - What are you given at a very early age and always belongs to you, but is used more by others than by yourself?
#6 - Can you find the hidden country in the following paragraph: There are many standard credit cards in modern use today, for example ACCESS, VISA, and AMEX. I counted at least 17 different ones advertised in a one hour period.
#7 - Strong is to weak as hot is to ==?==
#10 - If Mario can eat 110 cakes in 10 minutes and Kev can eat 56 cakes in 8 minutes, how long will it take Mario and Kev to eat 954 cakes?
#11 - I have a very large barrel that is extremely heavy. What can I put in it that will make it lighter. It is not a gas and by lighter, I mean less heavy?
#12 - Hot is to freeze as ==?== is to melt?
#14 - What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?
#16 - What is the 10th prime number?
#17 - Water is to ice as steam is to ==?==
#18 - Last weekend I was given my pocket money, which is meant to last me all week. On Monday, I spent a quarter of my money on clothes. On Tuesday, I spent one third of my remaining money on a CD. On Wednesday I spent half of my remaining money on sweets. Finally on Thursday I spent my last ?1.25 on a comic. How much pocket money did I receive?
#19 - What letter comes next in this sequence: >< L C D ==?==
#21 - Kevin is 5 years old, James is also 5 and Rebecca is 7. How old is Jacqueline?
#24 - Start with a number larger than 0, square it, add 4, double, take away 3, times 4 and finally subtract the original number. If you were now left with 20, what number did you start with?
#25 - A fire engine was rushing to a small fire, 15 miles away. The fire engine set out with 120 gallons of water, however, the water tank had a leak and the fire engine was losing water at the rate of 2 gallons per minute. The fire engine travelled at a constant 30 miles per hour. The fire required 50 gallons of water - did the fire engine have enough water when it arrived?
#26 - In a football syndicate, the winnings amounted to ?7657. There were more than 30 people in the syndicate but less than 100. Each won exactly the same number of pounds and no pence were involved. How much did each win?
#27 - If yesterday was Saturday's tomorrow and tomorrow was Wednesday's yesterday, what day would it be today?
#28 - This equation is correct, how though? 8 + 8 = 91
#29 - They are 3 errers in this puzzle, what are they?
#30 - You heard me before, Yet you hear me again, Then I die, 'Till you call me again.
#31 - If there are forty cups on the table and one cup breaks, how many tea cups are left?
#32 - Using the numbers 123456789, can you make them total 100. You can use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as well as brackets. However, they must stay in the same order.
#33 - Why did the golfer wear two pairs of pants?
#34 - What asks no question but demands an answer?
#35 - SAFE + STAY + SOON + SKIP = STOP, PINK + PORE + PUSH + PLOT = ==?==
#36 - Using eight eights and addition only, can you make 1000?
#37 - Which are there more of: days in a year or bones in a human body?
#38 - Kevin's mother has three children. The first was called Alpha, the second was called Beta. What was the name of the third?
#39 - How many of each animal did Moses take into the Ark?
#40 - What can you break without touching it?
#41 - Can you name five days of the week without writing Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday?
#42 - I am lighter than a feather, yet no man can hold me for very long. What am I?
#43 - What is unusual about this paragraph? You will find that this is not just an ordinary paragraph if you look at its words. An odd group of words this is! Can you find what it is?
#44 - What four digit number has digit 2 less than digit 4 which is two thirds of digit 1 which is two thirds of digit 3 which is three times digit 2?
#45 - If today is Monday, what is the day after the day before the day before tomorrow?
#47 - It burns no coal, no oil, no nuclear fuels and has no need for electricity. It uses no man made explosions. Yet it is far hotter than all ovens and fires and furnaces. What is it?
#48 - I once cashed a cheque at the bank. I had spent ?0.05 before I realised the bank clerk had made a mistake. He had transposed the pounds with the pence. I now had exactly twice the value of the original cheque. What was the original cheque's value?
#49 - Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to Z=26. Can you find a familiar 11 letter word whose letter values total only 52?
#50 - You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock. This one gains exactly 15 minutes every hour. It is now showing 2:00pm and you know that is was correct at midnight, when you set it. The clock stopped 7 hours ago, what is the correct time now?
#51 - I was walking down Mulberry Lane, I met a man doing the same. He tipped his hat and drew his cane, And in this rhyme I said his name. What was the man's name?
#53 - If it were two hours later, it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it?
#54 - Which four vegetables have been merged together? CAB SWE RPR EED OAA ETN
#55 - What number comes next in this sequence: 7 8 5 5 3 4 4 ==?==
#56 - My bath has two taps and a plug hole. The cold tap on its own fills the bath in 12 minutes, the hot one in 8 minutes. The plug hole can drain the bath in 24 minutes with the taps off. How long will the bath take to fill if I leave both taps on with the plug left out?
#57 - If two hours ago it was as long after one o'clock in the afternoon as it was before one o'clock in the morning, what time would it be now?
#58 - What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
#59 - What do you need for brushing your teeth, combing your hair and keeping the rain off?
#60 - How many times per day do the hour and minute hands of a clock form a right angle?
#61 - Exactly how many minutes is it before six o'clock if 50 minutes ago it was four times as many minutes passed three o'clock?
#62 - A kind old gentleman decided to give 12 sweets to each of the girls in his town and 8 sweets to each of the boys. Of the 612 children in his town, only half the girls and three quarters of the boys were allowed to take the sweets. How many sweets did the kind old gentleman have to buy?
#64 - James and Steve were busily emptying their book shelves from one room to another. James on his own could have cleared the room in 18 hours. Steve also would take 18 hours. Unfortunately, John was moving the books back into the first room from the second. He could fill the first room in 36 hours. How long will it take the three of them to complete the task?
#65 - A local fisherman caught a large trawler load of haddock. He decided to donate some of his fish to the local community, 1672 people in all. To each person over 50 he gave 16 fish and to each person under 50 he gave 96 fish. If only 3/4 of the over 50s collected their haddock and only 1/8 of the under 50s collected their fish, how many fish did the fisherman distribute it total?
#68 - What comes next in this sequence: dog cat mouse mole deer pig ==?== Choose from: tiger cow rabbit frog.
#69 - What comes next in this sequence: PN BP KT RK ==?==
#73 - A man is lying dead with a backpack on, face down in the desert. What happened
#78 - When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don?t have me. What am I?
#80 - Not born, but from a Mother's body drawn, I hang until half of me is gone. I sleep in a cave until I grow old, then valued for my hardened gold. What am I?
#82 - I arrive once in every second, once in every minute and once in every year. What am I?
#85 - During a recent Cluedo weekend, four games were played. In one game Miss Scarlet used the spanner, but not in the library. In another game the rope was used in the study, but not by Colonel Mustard. During one game the gun was used in the conservatory, whilst in another game Professor Plum was not to be found in the library. Colonel Mustard was never in the conservatory and Mrs White never used the rope. The lead piping may or may not have been used in the kitchen. Can you determine who used what and where?
#87 - If you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?
#88 - If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?
#90 - A car travelled from London at a speed of 40mph. Its fuel consumption was 30 mpg. It had a 5 gallon tank which was full when it started, but at that very moment began to leak fuel. After 60 miles the car stopped with a completely empty tank. How many gallons per hour was it losing?
I didn't make these up, so credit goes to whoever did. I don't think my friend did either, he didn't give me the site in Email :P
Anyways enjoy!
, #51 andrew, #55 - 10, #58 - temp, #73 - his parachute didn't open, #82 - E. 
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Or you can go with "today," tomorrow," etc.
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