RIDDLE #01
1. The names of seven people are hidden in the sentence below.
The letters are in consecutive order.
Can you find them?
Can dyeing a bedspread cause this much trouble?
RIDDLE #02
Here's a palindrome for you!!
What command did the people having a picnic give the low flying cloud?
G _ _ _ _
RIDDLE #03
Jason and Dean were brothers.
Jason married Jackie, and Dean married Denise.
However, Jason and Denise have the same wedding anniversary.
Dean's wedding anniversary was one month before this date, and Jackie's was one month after it.
There have been no divorces or remarriages.
How do you explain this?
RIDDLE #04
Find the word that fits the first definition, then add an "S" in front of it to make a new word that matches the second definition.
Place an "S" before to be ill, and get part of a boat.
Place an "S" before a corridor, and get future determination.
RIDDLE #05
What is the 4-digit number (no zeros) in which the first digit is the cube of two, the second and third digits are the first number doubled, and the fourth digit is the sum of the second and third?
RIDDLE #06
In a math test, Sue lost to Sally, but not to Jane.
Alice lost to Jane.
Jane was neither first nor last.
Sally beat Sue.
Jane lost to Sue.
Tina scored lower than Alice.
Who came in last?
RIDDLE #07
John went to a party one night.
The next day he was asked if he met a lot people at the gathering.
"Figure it out for yourself," John said.
"Of the girls I spoke to, all but two were blondes, all but two were brunettes, and all but two were redheads."
How many girls did he talk to?
RIDDLE #08
There are three boxes of fruit.
One contains just apples, one contains just oranges and one contains a mixture of both.
Each box is labeled -- one says "apples," one says "oranges," and one says "apples and oranges."
However, it is known that none of the boxes are labeled correctly.
What is the least amount of fruit that you can remove from the boxes to be able to correctly label them?
RIDDLE #09
What is the largest number you can write using the digits 1, 2, and 3? Just the digits, no other symbols.
RIDDLE #10
What two numbers have a product of 48 and, when the larger number is divided by the smaller, a quotient of 3?
RIDDLE #11
Eliminate only one letter in the word that fits the first definition to realize the second.
Take a letter form another word for earth and make something circular.
Take a letter from a word for a colored liquid and get a liquid measure.
RIDDLE #12
While on vacation, Tom visited his mother's mother-in-law's only son's only daughter.
What relationship is she to Tom?
RIDDLE #13
How many common English words can you make by rearranging the letters below?
A B E E I L R S T
RIDDLE #14
Daniel, my son, is exactly one fifth of my age.
In 21 years time, I will be exactly twice his age.
My wife is exactly seven times older than my daughter, Jessica.
In 8 years time, my wife will be three times older then Jessica.
How old are Daniel and Jessica now?
RIDDLE #15
My first is in ocean but never in sea, my second's in wasp but never in bee.
My third is in glider and also in flight, my whole is a creature that comes out at night.
What am I?
RIDDLE #16
What is the number that is 5 more than one-fourth of one-tenth of one-third of 3,000?
RIDDLE #17
Fill in each of the blanks below with a word that means the same as the words on either side.
(mail) ____________ (piece of wood often supporting a fence)
(area in front or _____________ behind a house) (a measurement)
RIDDLE #18
A father is four times as old as his son.
In twenty years, he'll be twice as old.
How old are they now?
RIDDLE #19
Can you find a five letter word, which, when typed in upper-case, reads the same upside down?
RIDDLE #20
Rachel has 5 more brothers than she has sisters.
Her brother Ryan has 3 more brothers than he has sisters.
If there are no more than 10 siblings, how many boys and girls are in the immediate family?
