15 riddles in english
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(1)You live in a one storey house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be?
(2)What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What is it?
(3)How do you make the number 7 an even number without addition, subtraction, multiplication or division?
(4)I am a word of six; my first three letters refer to an automobile; my last three letters refer to a household animal; my first four letters is a fish; my whole is found in your room. What am I?
5)Brothers and sisters I have none but this man's father is my father's son.
Who is the man?
6)I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?
(7)A man was found dead next to a 13 story building. The police say it was a suicide, but you say it was a homicide (someone killed him). To prove this, you go to each floor on the building, open the window, and toss a penny out. You do this to each floor until you reach the 13th floor, open the window, and toss a penny out. How does this prove it wasn't a suicide?
7)A pregnant lady named her children: Dominique, Regis, Michelle, Fawn, Sophie and Lara. What will she name her next child? Jessica, Katie, Abby or Tilly?
8)How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?
(9)Tom and his younger sister were fighting. Their mother was tired of the fighting and decided to punish them by making them stand on the same piece of newspaper in such a way that they couldn't touch each other. How did she accomplish this?
10)You have 5 kids and you have to get them all into a car. Tommy and Timmy are twins but they fight so they can't sit together. Sarah and Sally fight too, so they can't sit together. Max fights with his sisters so he can only sit by his brothers. There's 5 seats side by side and you have to put them in order. How would you seat the kids, so that everyone is happy?
11)Can a man legally marry his widow's sister in the state of California?
12)I always follow you around, everywhere you go at night. I look very bright to people, but I can make the sun dark. I can be in many different forms and shapes. What am I?
13)What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
14)A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I?
15)Which of the following words don't belong in the group and why? CORSET, COSTER, SECTOR, ESCORT, Courts??????
Answer:
15 + 5 =20 +brainliest plz
Explanation:
Riddle #1
Until I am measured I am not known.
Yet how you miss me when I have flown.
Riddle #2
If you drop me I'm sure to crack,
but give me a smile and I'll always smile back.
Riddle #3
What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
Riddle #4
It's red, blue, purple and green.
No one can reach it, not even the queen.
Riddle #5
I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space.
I am essential to creation, and I surround every place.
Riddle #6
The one who makes it always sells it.
The one who buys it never uses it.
The one who uses it never knows he's using it.
Riddle #7
What's black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you're done with it?
Riddle #8
Each morning I appear to lie at your feet.
All day I will follow no matter how fast you run, yet I nearly perish in the midday sun.
Riddle #9
My life can be measured in hours.
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick. Fat, I am slow.
Wind is my foe.
Riddle #10
You've heard me before, yet you hear me again,
Then I die 'til you call me again.
Riddle #11
What does man love more than life,
Fear more than death or mortal strife.
What the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire.
What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves,
And all men carry to their graves?
Riddle #12
Three lives have I.
Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
Light enough to caress the sky,
Hard enough to crack rocks.
Riddle #13
At the sound of me, men may dream or stamp their feet.
At the sound of me, women may laugh or sometimes weep.
Riddle #14
I build up castles, I tear down mountains.
I make some men blind, I help others to see.
Riddle #15
Reaching stiffly for the sky, I bare my fingers when it's cold.
In warmth I wear an emerald glove, and in between I dress in gold.
Riddle #16
Whoever makes it, tells it not.
Whoever takes it, knows it not.
Whoever knows it, wants it not.
Riddle #17
You saw me where I never was and where I could not be. And yet within that very place, my face you often see.
Riddle #18
Say my name and I disappear.
Riddle #19
I drift forever with the current down these long canals they've made.
Tame, yet wild, I run elusive, multitasking to your aid.
Before I came, the world was darker. Colder, sometimes, rougher, true.
But though I might make living easy, I'm good at killing people too.
Riddle #20
I am always hungry and will die if not fed, whatever I touch will soon turn red.
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