Everyone has it. Those who have the least don’t know they have it. Those who have the most wish they had less of it.
What is it?
Tied Up
A dog is tied to a rope that is 5 feet long. The dog’s food bowl is 20 feet away from the dog and yet the dog is still able to eat from his bowl. How is that possible?
Going Up
What goes up when rain comes down?
Never Clinking
Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever drinking, all in mail, never clinking.
What am I?
Riddle of the Sphinx
What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?
The Farmer’s Cows
A farmer has 10 cows, all but six die.
How many are left?
Still a Word
Which eight letter word still remains a word even after removing each letter from one at a time?
Not Wanted
Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not.
What is it?
Never Released
I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case from which I am never released. I am used by almost everybody at sometime in their life.
What am I?
Want to Share
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you no longer have me.
What am I?
What Word
What word becomes shorter by adding two letters to it?
Gold Coin
Two men find an old gold coin and want to have a coin toss with it to decide who gets to keep it. The only problem is the coin is heavier on one side so it comes up heads more than tails.
What is a fair way for the men to toss the coin and decide who gets to keep it?
Masked Men
A man left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again.
When he got home, there were two masked men waiting for him.
Who were they?
Never Fall
I have a metal roof and a glass wall,
I burn and burn but never fall.
What am I?
Can’t Speak
I cannot speak but I can tell you things.
I’m not a tree but I have leaves.
I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window.
What am I?
Candy Shop
Two fathers and two sons walk into a candy shop. They all spend $0.50 each on a candy bar.
All together they spend a total of $1.50.
How is this possible?
Flora Not Fauna
I am flora, not fauna.
I am foliage, not trees.
I am shrubbery, not grass.
What am I?
Where There is Light
I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me.
What am I?
Giving LIfe
If you throw me from the window, I’ll leave a grieving wife.
Bring me back, but a door, You’ll see something giving life.
What am I?
Next Letter
What would be the next letter in this series?
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