What is next in this sequence?
Riddles are a greatmental challengefor people of all ages and abell ringerfor the developing youngmindof ateenager.
Needgripping waysto settle your students at the beginning of thelessonor keep their minds going even after a long day?
Incorporate a riddle game every once in a while to strengthen their minds.
A good olmath riddleor vocabularybrain teaseris afun waytochallengetheirlateral thinkingin an untraditional way and elevate criticalthinking skills.
All 5 sisters are busy.
What is the 5th sister doing?
Shes playing chess, of course!
Aboyand an engineer were fishing.
Theboyis thesonof the engineer but the engineer is the father of theboy.
Then who is the engineer?
The engineer is the boys mother.
A plane crashed between the border of Canada and America.
Where do you bury the survivors?
They are survivors, you dont bury them.
When you look for something, why is it always in the last place you look?
Because when you find it, you stop looking!
Lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward.
There are 5 houses.
A blue house, a pink house, a yellow house, ared house, and agreen house.
The blue is made out of blue bricks.
The pink is made out of pink bricks.
The yellow is made out of yellow bricks.
The red is made out of red bricks.
What is the green made out of?
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Three doctors said that Robert is theirbrother.
Robert says he has no brothers.
No one is lying Robert has 3 sisters who all happen to be doctors.
If you multiply me by any other number, theanswerwill always remain the same.
What number am I?
A murderer is condemned to death.
Which room is the safest?
The room with the lions because the lions are already dead.
How many letters are in the alphabet?
There are 11 letters in the alphabet.
A woman is sitting in her hotel room when there is a knock at the door.
She opened the door to see a man whom she had never seen before.
He said, Oh Im sorry.
I have made a mistake.
I thought this was my room.
He then went down the corridor and in the elevator.
The woman went back into her room and phoned security.
What made the woman so suspicious of this man?
You dont knock on your own hotel room door!
No candles burn longerthey all burn shorter.
Two in a corner, 1 in aroom, 0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter.
They are a grandfather, father, andson.
Thepersonwho makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it.
Thepersonwho uses it can neither see nor feel it.
You walk into aroomthat contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace.
What would you light first?
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
Amanis trapped in aroom.
Theroomhas only two possible exits: two doors.
Through the first door, there is aroomconstructed from magnifying glasses.
The blazing hot sun instantly fries anything or anyone that enters.
Through the second door, there is a fire-breathing dragon.
How does the man escape?
He waits until night time and then goes through the first door.
When doesChristmascome before Thanksgiving?
The combined age of a father andsonis 66 years.
The age of the father is the age of theson, but with the digits reversed.
How old are they?
51 and 15 or 42 and 24 or 60 and 6.
There are four brothers in this world that were all born together.
The first runs and never wearies.
The second eats and is never full.
The third drinks and is always thirsty.
Thefourth singsa song that is never good.
What are the four brothers?
Water, Fire, Earth, and Wind.
But not as many people attended as it sounds.
How many were there, and who were they?
Divide 110 into two parts so that one will be 150 percent of the other.
What are the 2 numbers?
A man was outside taking a walk when it started to rain.
The man didnt have an umbrella and he wasnt wearing a hat.
His clothes got soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet.
How could this happen?
The man was bald.
If an electric train is traveling south, which way is the smoke going?
There is no smoke its an electric train.
If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
What 3 positive numbers give the same result when multiplied and added together?
The numbers are 1, 2, and 3.
Anna drank two-thirds cup of wine, and Charlotte drank a fourth cup of wine.
Who drank the most?
Charlotte as she drank four cups of wine.
A man is found murdered in his office.
The suspects are Peter, Julie, Jason, Molly, and Brian.
In the office is a calendar with the numbers 6,4,9,10,11 written in blood.
Who is the killer?
Jason is the killer.
The numbers indicate months and the first letter of each month spells the name of the murderer, e.g.
A man started to town with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn.
He came to a stream which he had to cross in a tiny boat.
He could only take one across at a time.
He could not leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn.
How did he get them all safely over the stream?
He took the goose over first and came back.
Then, he took the fox across and brought the goose back.
Next, he took the corn over.
He came back alone and took the goose.
Who is the youngest?
The baby of the pregnant lady.
Davids father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and…?
What has thirteen hearts but no other organs?
A deck of cards.
I have two coins equaling fifteen cents.
One of them is not a nickel.
What are the two coins?
A dime and a nickel.
One of the coins is not a nickel, but the other one is.
A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all.
There is no lamp, no candle, nothing.
Yet she is reading.
The woman is blind and is reading braille
I am a term used to confirm.
But take away my front, my face, I become known as human avarice.
Agreed
The letter D. The sequence contains the first letter of each month.
Alcohol makes me thrive and multiply, yet water will kill me.
What does he weigh?
Meat
A cowboy rode into town on Friday.
He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday.
How was that possible?
Friday was the name of his horse.
How can a man go 8 days without sleep?
He only sleeps at night.
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
The letter M.
While a cat was outside, it started to downpour.
How could this be?
Thesemind-blowing riddleswill really force anyteento stop and think when coming up with ananswer.
Here are some classiclateral thinkingword riddles:
Amanwas found murdered on Sunday morning.
His wife immediately called the police.
The police instantly arrested the murderer.
Who did it and how did they know?
It was the Maid.
She said she was getting the mail but theres no mail on Sundays!
Five pieces of coal, a carrot, and a scarf are lying on the lawn.
Nobody put them on the lawn but there is a perfectly logical reason why they should be there.
They were used by children who made a snowman.
The snow has now melted.
How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him underwater for five minutes.
Next, she hangs him.
Right after, they enjoy a lovely dinner.
She took a picture of him and developed it in her darkroom.
A man lives on the11th floorof an apartment building.
Every morning he takes the elevator all the way down to the bottom and goes to work.
On rainy days he also goes directly to his floor.
On all other days, he goes to the8th floorand walks up 3 flights of stairs to his apartment.
He is a small person.
He cant reach the upper elevator buttons, but he can ask people to push them for him.
He uses his umbrella to push the buttons on days when it rains.
A woman enters a large metal tube and is overcome with fear.
She clenches her husbands hand tightly and is visibly shaken.
Her husband gently rubs her shoulders but is otherwise unaffected.
Within hours the womans husband tells her that its time to go and the torment ends.
What happened to this woman?
The woman has an incredible, debilitating fear of flying.
She must travel to see a dying relative which adds to her emotional disposition.
Upon entering the plane she is overcome with fear and her husband consoles her.
The flight takes a few hours and upon arrival they are allowed to leave the plan.
Amanis found hanging dead from the ceiling of aroom.
Theroomsdimensions are 15 x 15 x 15.
Themanis only 6ft tall and the rope was only 2ft long.
There are no windows and only one door into the room.
The door is bolted shut from the inside and there is a puddle of water under theman.
How did he kill himself?
The man stood on a block of ice.
A family has a chicken coop containing one dozen egg producing hens.
One night, a terrible storm came and killed all but eight chickens.
How many chickens did the family have in the morning?
The family still had 12 chickens: 4 dead ones and 8 alive!
A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water.
The barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man.
The man says Thank you and walks out.
Why did he do that?
The man had hiccups.
The barman recognized this from his speech and drew the gun for give him a shock.
It worked and cured the hiccups so the man no longer needed the water.
A woman residing in a fifty-story building decides to jump out the window.
She survives the fall with no injuries.
How did she do this?
The woman jumped out of the first-floor window, which was only three feet off the ground.
A man is lying dead in a field.
Next to him, there is an unopened package.
There is no other creature in the field.
How did he die?
The man had jumped from a plane but his parachute had failed to open.
It is the unopened package.
Here is a famouslyhard riddlewritten up byAlbert Einsteinwhen he was young.
Five houses painted five different colors stand in a row.
One person of a different nationality lives in each house.
Clues:
Now, thequestion is…Who owns the fish?
The German in house #4 owns the fish.
Hope you enjoyed these riddles!
