Riddle: What do you get if you cross a chili pepper, a shovel, and a terrier?
Solution: A hot-diggity-dog!
Riddle: What asks no question but demands an answer?
Solution: A telephone.
Riddle: What do cars, trees, and elephants all have in common?
Solution: They all have trunks.
Do you enjoy riddles and puzzles? Well, then, you have come to the right place. We think you will have a lot of fun pondering these mini-mysteries.
Riddle: What can you hold without touching?
Solution: Your breath.
Riddle: What do you get if you cross a cat and a parrot?
Solution: A carrot.
Riddles are of two types.
- Enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical languages, and which require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution.
- Conundrums, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or in the answer.
Riddle: What is brown and sticky?
Solution: A stick.
Riddle: What can you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
Solution: A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush.
Puzzles are games, toys, or problems designed to test skill, ingenuity, or knowledge. Examples of puzzles are crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, and mazes.
Riddle: What do you get if you cross a porcupine with a sheep?
Solution: An animal that knits its own sweaters.
Riddle: I follow you everywhere you go. Who am I?
Solution: I am your shadow.
English journalist Arthur Wayne is credited with being the inventor of the modern crossword. The diamond-shaped puzzle appeared in the “New York World” newspaper on 21 December 1913.
Crossword Compiler
A crossword compiler named Moss,
Who found himself quite at a loss,
When asked, “Why so blue?”
Said, “I haven’t a clue -
I’m 2 Down to put 1 Across.”
by Author Unknown
When the first book of crossword puzzles was published, the creator received $500 down and $300 across.
Riddle: What flies without wings?
Solution: Time.
Riddle: What is better than the best thing and worse than the worst thing?
Solution: Nothing.
Riddle: What does a cat have that no other animal has?
Solution: Kittens.
Riddle: What has two arms, two wings, two tails, three heads, three bodies, and eight legs?
Solution: A man on a horse holding a chicken.
Riddle: Why are lost items always in the last place you look?
Solution: Because when you find them, you stop looking.
Riddle: Your mother’s brother’s only brother-in-law is building a rowboat. Who is building a rowboat?
Solution: Your father.
Riddle: What has a man’s name, is as small as a mouse, and wears a red vest?
Solution: A robin.
Ed: Pete and Repeat were sitting on a log and Pete fell off - who was left?
Fred: Repeat.
Ed: Pete and Repeat were sitting on a log and Pete fell off - who was left?
Fred: Repeat.
Ed: Pete and Repeat . . .
Riddle: What belongs to you but is used more often by others?
Solution: Your name.
Riddle: Which is faster, heat or cold?
Solution: Heat, because people can catch a cold.
Riddle: What goes up and down without moving?
Solution: Stairs.
Riddle:
Proprietors of an ice cream shop want to host a giveaway day to boost business. To avoid large crowds, however, they do not want to advertise the free ice cream cone day broadly. Instead, they post three clues as to the date.
1. The giveaway will be in the first week of a month without an ‘a’ in it.
2. It will be on a day of the week that has a ‘u’ in it.
3. The month has no ‘e’ but the day of the week has an ‘e.’
Can you figure out when to go for a free cone?
Solution:
The first Tuesday in July is free ice cream day.
Riddle: I have a face and two hands; what am I?
Solution: A clock.
Riddle: What is the difference between a cat and a comma?
Solution: One has claws at the end of its paws, and one is a pause at the end of a clause.
Riddle: What is so fragile that it can be broken just by the sound of someone speaking?
Solution: Silence.
Riddle: What does the following tell you about Calvin?
○ Appreciated
○ Calvin
○ Weight
Solution: Calvin is ‘underappreciated’ and ‘overweight.’
Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when two letters are added to it?
Solution: Short.
Riddle: Joe was asked how many ducks he had seen. He answered, “As they ran along a path, I saw one duck in front of two ducks, a duck behind two ducks, and a duck between two ducks.” How many ducks did Joe see?
Solution: Joe saw three ducks, running along a path in single file.
Riddle: If you take away the whole, some still remains - what is it?
Solution: Wholesome.
Riddle: What can you not keep until you have given it?
Solution: Your word.
Riddle: How can you arrange for two people to stand on the same piece of newspaper and yet be unable to touch each other without stepping off the newspaper?
Solution: Slide the newspaper half way under a closed door and ask the two people to stand on the part of the newspaper on their side of the door.
Riddle: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Solution: Forward I am ‘ton,’ backwards I am ‘not.’
Riddle: What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?
Solution: “What time is it?”
Riddle: David’s father has three sons; two of them are John and William; what is the name of David’s father’s third son?
Solution: David.
Riddle: What can swallow you if you do not swallow it first?
Solution: Pride.
Riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away?
Solution: A hole.
Riddle: Two legs sat upon four legs eating one leg. In came four legs - and out went four legs with one leg. Close behind was two legs, without one leg, shaking four legs at four legs.
Solution: A person sat on a chair eating a chicken leg. In comes a dog - and out it went with the chicken leg. Close behind was the person, without the chicken leg, shaking the chair at the dog.
Riddle: I run around but never race, my hands are always on my face, I cannot count very many numbers, you hit me and I let you slumber - what am I?
Solution: An alarm clock.
Riddle: What stays hot even if you put it in the refrigerator?
Solution: Pepper.
Riddle: What part of you disappears when you stand up?
Solution: Your lap.
Riddle: Name three things that have eyes but that cannot see.
Solution: Sewing needles, storms, and potatoes.
Riddle: What has no fingers, but many rings?
Solution: A tree.
Riddle: What has one eye but cannot see?
Solution: A needle.
Riddle: Four legs sat on four legs waiting for four legs to come out of its hole.
Solution: A cat sat on a chair waiting for a mouse to come out of its hole.
Riddle: What is white when it is dirty and black when it is clean?
Solution: A chalkboard (blackboard).
On a shopping trip with a credit card loaned to him by a foreigner, a politician bought a 24-piece jigsaw puzzle. He worked on it every evening for two weeks. Finally, the puzzle was finished. “Look at what I’ve done, Jim,” he said proudly to a campaign staffer. “That’s surely something, Joseph. How long did it take you to finish it?” “Only two weeks.” “Never done a puzzle myself,” Jim said. “Is two weeks fast?” “You bet,” Joseph said. “Look at the box. It says, ‘From two to four years.’”
Riddle: What do a mole and an eagle have in common?
Solution: They both live underground, apart from the eagle.
Riddle: I work only after I have been fired. Who am I?
Solution: I am a rocket.
Riddle: Why did Beethoven not finish the “Unfinished Symphony”?
Solution: Because the Unfinished Symphony was started by Schubert, not Beethoven.
Riddle: What room is never entered?
Solution: A mushroom.
Riddle: What never was and never will be?
Solution: A mouse’s nest in a cat’s ear.
Riddle: A man built a house with all four sides facing south. A bear walked past the house. What color is the bear?
Solution: The bear is a white polar bear, and the house is at the North Pole.
Riddle: What is the first thing you know?
Solution: “The first thing you know, Old Jed’s a millionaire. The kin folks said, ‘Jed, move away from there!’”
Riddle: What is the biggest room in the world?
Solution: Room for improvement.
Polly: What is the difference between ‘ignorance’ and ‘apathy?’
Esther: ‘I do not know,’ and ‘I do not care’!
Polly: You answered correctly!
Riddle: What do you find in the middle of nowhere?
Solution: The letter ‘h.’
Riddle: What did the eye say to the ear?
Solution: Do you hear what I see, hear what I see, hear what I see?
“Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? No, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.” -Robert Brault
Riddle: What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Solution: Trouble.
Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind - what is it?
Solution: Footsteps.
Riddle: If a north-facing rooster was sitting at the point of the roof of a building on the Earth’s equator at exactly 12:00 noon, and laid an egg, which side of the roof would the egg roll down?
Solution: Roosters do not lay eggs, you silly goose - hens lay eggs!
“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No - calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” -Abraham Lincoln
Riddle: What is the difference between an onion and an oboe?
Solution: Nobody cries when you chop up an oboe.
Riddle: If leather makes good shoes, what do banana skins make?
Solution: Good slippers!
Puzzle Poem
When it’s boring
Because of rainy weather
Nothing’s so fun as
Putting a puzzle together.
by Author Unknown
Riddle: What has four legs and feathers?
Solution: A featherbed.
Riddle: Brian’s mom has four children. The first was a boy named Jerry. The second was a girl named Susan. The third was a boy called Robert, and the fourth was another boy. What was his name?
Solution: Brian.
Riddle: What has four legs but no feet?
Solution: A table.
Jigsaw Puzzle fans are called ‘dissectologists’ and have a society called the Benevolent Confraternity of Dissectologists.
Riddle: What has to be broken before it can be used?
Solution: An egg.
Math Problem: $21 in one-dollar bills is split evenly among two fathers and two sons. How is this possible?
Solution: There are only three people: a grandfather, a father, and the father’s son, who each receive $7.
Riddle: What has six legs, four eyes, and five ears?
Solution: A man sitting on a horse eating an ear of corn.
Riddle: What is the difference between a dressmaker and a farmer?
Solution: A dressmaker sews what she gathers, and a farmer gathers what he sows.
“The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.” -Stephen Sondheim
In 2008, 15,000 enthusiasts took five hours to assemble the world’s largest puzzle, in Ravensburg, Germany. It had 1,141,800 pieces and measured 65 feet by 98 feet.
Riddle: What has no beginning or end or middle, and touches every continent?
Solution: The ocean.
Riddle: How can you tell when an elephant has been in your refrigerator?
Solution: By the footprints in the butter.
This is MFOL! . . . most puzzling indeed . . .
Solution: A hot-diggity-dog!
Riddle: What asks no question but demands an answer?
Solution: A telephone.
Riddle: What do cars, trees, and elephants all have in common?
Solution: They all have trunks.
Do you enjoy riddles and puzzles? Well, then, you have come to the right place. We think you will have a lot of fun pondering these mini-mysteries.
Riddle: What can you hold without touching?
Solution: Your breath.
Riddle: What do you get if you cross a cat and a parrot?
Solution: A carrot.
Riddles are of two types.
- Enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical languages, and which require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution.
- Conundrums, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or in the answer.
Riddle: What is brown and sticky?
Solution: A stick.
Riddle: What can you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
Solution: A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush.
Puzzles are games, toys, or problems designed to test skill, ingenuity, or knowledge. Examples of puzzles are crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, and mazes.
Riddle: What do you get if you cross a porcupine with a sheep?
Solution: An animal that knits its own sweaters.
Riddle: I follow you everywhere you go. Who am I?
Solution: I am your shadow.
English journalist Arthur Wayne is credited with being the inventor of the modern crossword. The diamond-shaped puzzle appeared in the “New York World” newspaper on 21 December 1913.
Crossword Compiler
A crossword compiler named Moss,
Who found himself quite at a loss,
When asked, “Why so blue?”
Said, “I haven’t a clue -
I’m 2 Down to put 1 Across.”
by Author Unknown
When the first book of crossword puzzles was published, the creator received $500 down and $300 across.
Riddle: What flies without wings?
Solution: Time.
Riddle: What is better than the best thing and worse than the worst thing?
Solution: Nothing.
Riddle: What does a cat have that no other animal has?
Solution: Kittens.
Riddle: What has two arms, two wings, two tails, three heads, three bodies, and eight legs?
Solution: A man on a horse holding a chicken.
Riddle: Why are lost items always in the last place you look?
Solution: Because when you find them, you stop looking.
Riddle: Your mother’s brother’s only brother-in-law is building a rowboat. Who is building a rowboat?
Solution: Your father.
Riddle: What has a man’s name, is as small as a mouse, and wears a red vest?
Solution: A robin.
Ed: Pete and Repeat were sitting on a log and Pete fell off - who was left?
Fred: Repeat.
Ed: Pete and Repeat were sitting on a log and Pete fell off - who was left?
Fred: Repeat.
Ed: Pete and Repeat . . .
Riddle: What belongs to you but is used more often by others?
Solution: Your name.
Riddle: Which is faster, heat or cold?
Solution: Heat, because people can catch a cold.
Riddle: What goes up and down without moving?
Solution: Stairs.
Riddle:
Proprietors of an ice cream shop want to host a giveaway day to boost business. To avoid large crowds, however, they do not want to advertise the free ice cream cone day broadly. Instead, they post three clues as to the date.
1. The giveaway will be in the first week of a month without an ‘a’ in it.
2. It will be on a day of the week that has a ‘u’ in it.
3. The month has no ‘e’ but the day of the week has an ‘e.’
Can you figure out when to go for a free cone?
Solution:
The first Tuesday in July is free ice cream day.
Riddle: I have a face and two hands; what am I?
Solution: A clock.
Riddle: What is the difference between a cat and a comma?
Solution: One has claws at the end of its paws, and one is a pause at the end of a clause.
Riddle: What is so fragile that it can be broken just by the sound of someone speaking?
Solution: Silence.
Riddle: What does the following tell you about Calvin?
○ Appreciated
○ Calvin
○ Weight
Solution: Calvin is ‘underappreciated’ and ‘overweight.’
Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when two letters are added to it?
Solution: Short.
Riddle: Joe was asked how many ducks he had seen. He answered, “As they ran along a path, I saw one duck in front of two ducks, a duck behind two ducks, and a duck between two ducks.” How many ducks did Joe see?
Solution: Joe saw three ducks, running along a path in single file.
Riddle: If you take away the whole, some still remains - what is it?
Solution: Wholesome.
Riddle: What can you not keep until you have given it?
Solution: Your word.
Riddle: How can you arrange for two people to stand on the same piece of newspaper and yet be unable to touch each other without stepping off the newspaper?
Solution: Slide the newspaper half way under a closed door and ask the two people to stand on the part of the newspaper on their side of the door.
Riddle: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Solution: Forward I am ‘ton,’ backwards I am ‘not.’
Riddle: What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?
Solution: “What time is it?”
Riddle: David’s father has three sons; two of them are John and William; what is the name of David’s father’s third son?
Solution: David.
Riddle: What can swallow you if you do not swallow it first?
Solution: Pride.
Riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away?
Solution: A hole.
Riddle: Two legs sat upon four legs eating one leg. In came four legs - and out went four legs with one leg. Close behind was two legs, without one leg, shaking four legs at four legs.
Solution: A person sat on a chair eating a chicken leg. In comes a dog - and out it went with the chicken leg. Close behind was the person, without the chicken leg, shaking the chair at the dog.
Riddle: I run around but never race, my hands are always on my face, I cannot count very many numbers, you hit me and I let you slumber - what am I?
Solution: An alarm clock.
Riddle: What stays hot even if you put it in the refrigerator?
Solution: Pepper.
Riddle: What part of you disappears when you stand up?
Solution: Your lap.
Riddle: Name three things that have eyes but that cannot see.
Solution: Sewing needles, storms, and potatoes.
Riddle: What has no fingers, but many rings?
Solution: A tree.
Riddle: What has one eye but cannot see?
Solution: A needle.
Riddle: Four legs sat on four legs waiting for four legs to come out of its hole.
Solution: A cat sat on a chair waiting for a mouse to come out of its hole.
Riddle: What is white when it is dirty and black when it is clean?
Solution: A chalkboard (blackboard).
On a shopping trip with a credit card loaned to him by a foreigner, a politician bought a 24-piece jigsaw puzzle. He worked on it every evening for two weeks. Finally, the puzzle was finished. “Look at what I’ve done, Jim,” he said proudly to a campaign staffer. “That’s surely something, Joseph. How long did it take you to finish it?” “Only two weeks.” “Never done a puzzle myself,” Jim said. “Is two weeks fast?” “You bet,” Joseph said. “Look at the box. It says, ‘From two to four years.’”
Riddle: What do a mole and an eagle have in common?
Solution: They both live underground, apart from the eagle.
Riddle: I work only after I have been fired. Who am I?
Solution: I am a rocket.
Riddle: Why did Beethoven not finish the “Unfinished Symphony”?
Solution: Because the Unfinished Symphony was started by Schubert, not Beethoven.
Riddle: What room is never entered?
Solution: A mushroom.
Riddle: What never was and never will be?
Solution: A mouse’s nest in a cat’s ear.
Riddle: A man built a house with all four sides facing south. A bear walked past the house. What color is the bear?
Solution: The bear is a white polar bear, and the house is at the North Pole.
Riddle: What is the first thing you know?
Solution: “The first thing you know, Old Jed’s a millionaire. The kin folks said, ‘Jed, move away from there!’”
Riddle: What is the biggest room in the world?
Solution: Room for improvement.
Polly: What is the difference between ‘ignorance’ and ‘apathy?’
Esther: ‘I do not know,’ and ‘I do not care’!
Polly: You answered correctly!
Riddle: What do you find in the middle of nowhere?
Solution: The letter ‘h.’
Riddle: What did the eye say to the ear?
Solution: Do you hear what I see, hear what I see, hear what I see?
“Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? No, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.” -Robert Brault
Riddle: What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Solution: Trouble.
Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind - what is it?
Solution: Footsteps.
Riddle: If a north-facing rooster was sitting at the point of the roof of a building on the Earth’s equator at exactly 12:00 noon, and laid an egg, which side of the roof would the egg roll down?
Solution: Roosters do not lay eggs, you silly goose - hens lay eggs!
“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No - calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” -Abraham Lincoln
Riddle: What is the difference between an onion and an oboe?
Solution: Nobody cries when you chop up an oboe.
Riddle: If leather makes good shoes, what do banana skins make?
Solution: Good slippers!
Puzzle Poem
When it’s boring
Because of rainy weather
Nothing’s so fun as
Putting a puzzle together.
by Author Unknown
Riddle: What has four legs and feathers?
Solution: A featherbed.
Riddle: Brian’s mom has four children. The first was a boy named Jerry. The second was a girl named Susan. The third was a boy called Robert, and the fourth was another boy. What was his name?
Solution: Brian.
Riddle: What has four legs but no feet?
Solution: A table.
Jigsaw Puzzle fans are called ‘dissectologists’ and have a society called the Benevolent Confraternity of Dissectologists.
Riddle: What has to be broken before it can be used?
Solution: An egg.
Math Problem: $21 in one-dollar bills is split evenly among two fathers and two sons. How is this possible?
Solution: There are only three people: a grandfather, a father, and the father’s son, who each receive $7.
Riddle: What has six legs, four eyes, and five ears?
Solution: A man sitting on a horse eating an ear of corn.
Riddle: What is the difference between a dressmaker and a farmer?
Solution: A dressmaker sews what she gathers, and a farmer gathers what he sows.
“The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.” -Stephen Sondheim
In 2008, 15,000 enthusiasts took five hours to assemble the world’s largest puzzle, in Ravensburg, Germany. It had 1,141,800 pieces and measured 65 feet by 98 feet.
Riddle: What has no beginning or end or middle, and touches every continent?
Solution: The ocean.
Riddle: How can you tell when an elephant has been in your refrigerator?
Solution: By the footprints in the butter.
This is MFOL! . . . most puzzling indeed . . .
