When it is alive, all but one sings. When it dies, all but one cheers.
What is it?
Sounds The Same
If you remove the first, third and last letter from this five letter word it still sounds the same.
What is the word?
Teary Eyed
I’m teary-eyed but never cry. Silver-tongued, but never lie. Double-winged, but never fly. Air-cooled, but never dry.
What am I?
Honest Politicians
There is a room full of 100 politicians. Each one is either honest or a liar. You know to facts about these politicians:
1. At least one of them is honest.
2. If you pick any two politicians, at least one of them is a liar.
From this information, can you determine how many politicians are honest and how many are liars?
One Can’t Keep
What can one person not keep, two can hold, and three people can destroy?
Window Cleaner
A window cleaner is cleaning the window on the 10th story of an apartment building when he slips and falls.
There was nothing to catch the window cleaners fall yet he was not hurt. How can that be?
Same Age
Jessica just turned 13 years old. Her father Chris is 40 years old.
How many years ago was Chris four times as old as Jessica?
In Heaven Not Hell
I am in heaven but not in hell.
I’m in the devil but not in god.
I’m in the river but not in the sea.
What am I?
Here to There
I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing.
What am I?
Without Wings
I move without wings, between silken string.
I leave as you find, my substance behind.
What am I?
Seven Letters
The exact same seven letters in the exact same order can fill in all the blanks in the following sentence and the sentence will make sense:
The _______ surgeon was _______ to do the surgery because he had _______ .
What are the seven letters?
Diamond in a Bottle
There is valuable diamond inside of an empty wine bottle. The wine bottle is made of glass and has a cork sealing the top. You cannot break or damage the glass in any way. You are not allowed to take the cork out of the bottle.
If you can get the diamond out of the bottle, it is yours.
How do you get the diamond out without damaging the glass or removing the cork?
Special Transaction
Mark went to a restaurant for dinner last night. When he received his check he paid with a hundred dollar bill.
When the waiter returned his change, Mark received one of every denomination of currency under one hundred dollars.
What was the total cost of Mark’s meal?
What Does It Equal
If 1 = 5, 2 = 10, 3 = 15, and 4 = 20.
What does 5 equal?
Truth and Lies
We can hurt without moving. We can poison without touching. We can bear the truth and lies. We are not to be judged by our size.
What are we?
Same Parents
How could the 22nd and the 24th president of the United States have the same parents when they were not brothers?
Looks Like a Cat
I act like a cat, I look like a cat, yet I am not a cat.
What am I?
Hungry Horse
A horse is tied to a rope 9 meters long and the horse’s food is 17 meters away from the horse.
How does the horse reach the food?
Matters that Count
Placed above, I make greater things small. Placed beside I make small things great. In matters that count, I always come first. Where others increase I keep them the same.
What am I?
You’re Fired
A wealthy man had an important flight the next day. Early that morning his security guard tells the man not to take the plane because he just had a dream that the plane would crash. The security guard then leaves as it is the end of his shift.
The wealthy man took the advice of his security guard and traveled by train instead. Once he arrives at his destination, he learns the plane did in fact crash. He then fires his security guard.
Why did he fire the security guard?