Riddles and Brain Teasers

Question 1

Imagine you’re in a room that is filling with water.

Accepted Answer

you get out by stop imagining

Question 2

What can run but can't walk?

Accepted Answer

drop of water

Question 3

What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?

Accepted Answer

your name

Question 4

What invention lets you look right through a wall?

Accepted Answer

window

Question 5

What has hands but can't clap

Accepted Answer

clock

Question 6

What word looks the same backwards and upside down?

Accepted Answer

SWIMS

Question 7

What does this mean? I RIGHT I

Accepted Answer

Right between the eyes

Question 8

I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old

Accepted Answer

candle

Question 9

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

Accepted Answer

neither they both weigh one pound

Question 10

I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?

Accepted Answer

7

Question 11

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

Accepted Answer

footprints

Question 12

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

Accepted Answer

towel

Question 13

Using only addition, how do you add eight 8’s and get the number 1000?

Accepted Answer

888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8

Question 14

What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Accepted Answer

short

Question 15

What never asks questions but is often answered?

Accepted Answer

a doorbell

Question 16

what starts with "t", filled with "t" and ends with "t"

Accepted Answer

teapot

Question 17

A boy fell off a 30 meter ladder but did not get hurt. Why not?

Accepted Answer

he fell off the bottom step

Question 18

What two keys can’t open any door?

Accepted Answer

monkey and a donkey

Question 19

A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days, then leaves on Friday. How?

Accepted Answer

his horse's name was Friday

Question 20

If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?

Accepted Answer

2

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