Riddle Me This!

How is your logic?

Riddle 1

• A man walks into a bar and orders water. The bartender pulls out a shotgun and fires 5 shots that barely misses the man.

• The man says, “thank you”, leaves a tip, and walks out.

• Why?

Riddle 1 Answer

• The bartender scared the man’s hiccups away

Riddle 2

• A man is trapped in a room that was built around him. There are no doors, windows, or holes in the walls and floors.

• The only things in the room are a table and a mirror.

• How did the man get out?

Riddle 2 Answer

• He looked in the mirror to see what he saw.• Used the saw to cut the table in half. • Two halves make a (w)hole.• He climbed out the hole.

Dilemma #3 A man lived all alone, didn’t leave his house, and no one visited him. He had someone deliver his supplies every two weeks. One night he got dressed for bed turned out the lights and went to sleep. His actions that night resulted in many deaths. What happened?

Man lived in a light house and didn’t leave on the light

Dilemma #4

A man rode up to Yucca Valley on Thursday, stayed two days only, and returned on Thursday.

The horse’s name was Thursday

Dilemma #5

There is a purple one-story house, and everything in it is purple. The floor is purple, the furniture is purple, the refrigerator is purple, even the dog is purple. What color do you think the stairs are?

There are no stairs in a one-story house

Dilemma #6

A man, on his way home, takes three left turns and is greeted by two men in masks. Who are these

men?

Baseball players

Dilemma #7

Which weighs more...a hundred pounds of feathers or a hundred pounds of rocks?

They weigh exactly the same

Dilemma #8

Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May.

What do you think the third child was named?

Johnny

Dilemma #9

It is a freezing winter night. You have one match in your pocket when you enter the room which

contains a lamp, a kerosene heater, and a wood burning stove. Which should you light first?

The Match

Dilemma #10

A man is lying dead with a backpack on, face down in the desert. When he is finally found, the rescuers could not find any shoe tracks near him, there is nothing around, and he did not die of natural causes. What happened?

He was a parachutist whose parachute didn’t open

Dilemma #11

If there are five apples on the table and you take away two, how many do you have?

2

Dilemma #12 Jake was working for a large construction company that was very concerned about employee theft. Someone tipped the company security that Jake was the man to watch. Each night he passed

through security with a wheelbarrow full of chunks of concrete. The security guards checked the contents daily but they found nothing of value. Jake was stealing, but how did Jake he do it?

He was stealing the wheelbarrows

Dilemma #13 A man dressed all in black is walking across the

street. The moon is not shining. No street or house light is on. A car approaches; none of its lights are on. The car stops immediately to avoid hitting the

man. How is this possible?

It was daytime

Dilemma #14

Why can’t you bury a man, in Louisiana, who is living west of the Mississippi River?

Because he is still living!

Dilemma #15

Two men are out hiking. They cross a ridge of a mountain and find a cabin on the ridge. Nobody

had ever been on this mountain’s ridge before. So how did it get there?

It is an airplane cabin of a crashed airplane

Dilemma #15

Sabrina, Romeo, and Juliet live together in an apartment. One night Sabrina finds Juliet dead on the

floor in a pool of water with broken glass around. Although upset, she never contacts the police. Why?

Juliet is a fish

Dilemma #16

Susie’s glass was filled to the top. She held it straight out in front of her and tipped it 90 degrees.

She didn’t spill any water. How is that possible?

It wasn’t water in the glass but a different drink

Dilemma #17

A man and his son were in a car accident. The man died instantly and the son was rushed to the nearest hospital. In the emergency room the doctor took one look at the

boy and said, “I cannot operate on him, for he is my son.”

The doctor is the mother

Dilemma #18

Jeri, Kevin, Jon, and Meg walked home in the rain. All of them got their shoes wet, but only half of them got their

hair wet. None of them had a hair covering (hat, scarf, etc.) and nobody had an umbrella. How is this possible?

Half of them were bald

Dilemma #19

A goat is tied to an 8 foot length of rope. A bucket of food is 15 feet in front of the goat. Without

assistance (or breaking the rope) the goat is able to eat from the bucket. How is this possible?

The other end of the rope wasn’t tied to anything

Dilemma #20

Police are on the trail of robbers. As they walk across a muddy field they see a hat, scarf, and two large buttons on the ground. They just smile and

move on. Why did the police not stop?

They came across a melted snowman

Dilemma #20

Two people are standing on the same piece of newspaper and yet they cannot touch each other.

How can this be possible?

They are on opposite sides of a door and the newspaper is underneath the door

Dilemma #21

A plane crashed. Not a single person survived to tell the story. Yet...the story was told by a woman who

had been on the plane. How?

The woman was married

Dilemma #21

His stealing made his parent’s proud. They even took him out for a special dinner. Why?

He stole a base in a game of baseball

Dilemma #22

Ann lives on the 26th floor of a high-rise apartment. She takes the elevator down each morning to go to school; in

the afternoon, if she is alone, she rides the elevator to the 20th floor and walks up to her apartment. Why doesn’t she

just ride the elevator all the way to the 26th floor?

She is too short to reach the 26 button on the elevator

Dilemma #23

Jack shaves at least three times a day. He still wins the contest for having the longest beard. How is this

possible?

He’s a barber

Dilemma #24 Mr. Luke kicked open the door and surveyed a very puzzling scene. A man hung from the end of a rope in a room measuring 5 meters

by 5 meters. There was water on the floor. In one corner of the room was a bed. In another corner a chair and a table stood beside

an open window. The only door into the room had been locked from the inside. The distance between the floor and the dead

man’s feet was 2 meters. It seemed a simple suicide except for he was too far off the ground and no object was close enough for him

to have stood on. Mr. Luke figured it out...can you?

The man stood on a block of ice

Dilemma #25 There is a tiger, a chicken, and chicken feed. You

have a boat that will only hold you and one other. You must get all to the other side of the river. How

would you do it?

If you don’t do it right the tiger will eat the chicken and the chicken will eat the feed. So,

you take the chicken over first. Go back and get the tiger. Take the chicken back with you and leave while you take the feed. Finally, go back

and get the chicken.

Dilemma #26 You are in a 1 ton truck and need to cross a 2 mile long bridge that can hold a maximum of 1 ton. Nobody else is on the bridge. Halfway across a bird lands on your truck. Why wouldn’t the bridge collapse under the

weight?

The fuel you would use to drive the 1 mile would make up for the added weight of the

bird.

Dilemma #27 You give me food and I live. You give me water and I

die. What am I?

fire

Dilemma #28 Imagine you are in a unbreakable box with no

windows or doors. How do you get out?

Stop imagining

Dilemma #29

Forgive & Forget

GIVEGIVEGIVEGIVE

GETGETGETGET

Dilemma #30

A river

What can run but never walks,Has a mouth but never talks,Has a bed but never sleeps?

Dilemma #31

Silence

What word do you break when you say it?

Dilemma #32

A coffin

What does a maker make, but doesn’t need;A buyer buys, but doesn’t use;And a user uses, but doesn’t know?

Dilemma #33

Mailman: mail isn’t delivered on Sunday & the Maid: no corners in round castle

On a Sunday, in a round castle, the king was killed. The only suspects are the queen, princess, prince, maid, and mailman. The Queen was having tea with a witch. The princess was riding her favorite winged horse. The prince was fencing with an ogre. The maid was sweeping spider webs out of the corners. The mailman he was making deliveries to all the peasants. So…who killed the King?

SAME AS TIGER ONE A Farmer, A Chicken, & A Fox: Problem Solving

Problem: A farmer must get a bag of grain, a chicken, and a fox to the other side of a river. The boat is only big enough to hold the farmer and one of the other items. How can the farmer get everything safely across the river?