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(#1) The Cabin
Submitted by Facebook commenter Matt Bishop:
Riddle: There is a cabin in the woods. There are no footprints around the cabin. There are seven people inside that are all dead. They all died at the same time. There is no one else in the cabin. How did the people die?
Answer: It's an airplane cabin; the plane crashed in the woods.
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(#2) Two Masked Men
Submitted by Facebook commenter Juan Crespo:
Riddle: A man leaves home on foot one evening, makes three left turns and arrives back home to find two masked men waiting there. Who are they?
Answer: The catcher and the umpire - the man has made a home run in a baseball game.
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(#3) I Speak Without A Mouth
Submitted by Facebook commenter Fatima Duesbery:
Riddle: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo.
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(#4) The Man Who Made It Sold It
Submitted by Facebook commenter Rob McGrath:
The man who made it sold it.
The man who bought it did not use it.
The man who used it did not know it.
What is it?Answer: A coffin.
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(#5) Twelve Men On An Island
Submitted by Facebook commenter Jessica Coleman:
Riddle: There are 12 men on an island. Eleven of them weigh the same and one of them is either slightly heavier or slightly lighter. You have a seesaw to determine who is the odd one out, but you can only use the seesaw up to three times.
Answer: There are many possible solutions and hypotheticals to this riddle. One is to number the group 1-12 and split them into three groups of 1-4, 5-8, and 9-12. You start by weighing the first two groups on the seesaw (1-4 vs. 5-8). If they are equal, you can weigh two of the regularly weighted (1 and 2) versus two from the last group (9 and 10). If the seesaw is still balanced, use the final seesaw to weigh one regularly weighted man (1) against one of the two remaining unweighed men (11); a balance will tell you the odd man out is 12. If the second use of the seesaw (1 and 2 vs. 9 and 10) was unbalanced, then you would remove one from each end and weigh again (2 vs. 9). If this balances, 10 is the odd man out, if not, 9 is the odd man out.
You can read an in-depth explanation to this riddle for each possible scenario here.
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(#6) The Hotel Room Split
Submitted by Facebook commenter Mike Haney:
Riddle: Three men go into a hotel. The man behind the desk says a room is $30, so each man pays $10 and goes to the room. A while later the man behind the desk realized the room was only $25 so he sent the bellboy to the room with $5. On the way the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split $5 evenly between 3 men, so he gave each man $1 and kept the other $2 for himself.
This meant that the three men each paid $9 for the room, which is a total of $27. Add in the $2 that the bellboy kept = $29. Where is the other dollar?Answer: There is no missing dollar. According to a breakdown from Snopes:
This particular item stumps a good many people because it contains a simple error which is often overlooked due to its deceptive wording. Tracking the money through the transactions referenced in the text reveals that no money has gone missing:
1. The three men start out with $10 each ($10 x 3 = $30).
2. The three men pay $30 for a hotel room. Afterward, a five dollar overcharge is returned to them ($25 + $5 = $30).
3. The bellboy divides up the $5 overcharge, returning $1 to each of the three men (for a total of $3) and keeping $2 for himself ($25 + $3 + $2 = $30).
Where did the missing dollar go? Nowhere. A dollar only goes “missing” because the statement “each man paid $9 for the room” is wrong: each of the men paid out a total of $9, but that $9 included both the room charge and the bellboy’s tip. All in all, each man paid out a total of $9 and had $1 left over, completely accounting for the $30 they started with.
The room cost $25, so each man paid a third of that cost ($8.33). The bellboy kept a tip of $2, so each man paid a third of that cost ($0.67) as well. Overall, each man paid out $9 ($8.33 + $0.67) for the room and bellboy tip and had a dollar left over: (3 x $9) + (3 x $1) = $27 + $3 = $30.
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(#7) Fallen Fishermen
Submitted by Facebook commenter Joey Alejandro:
Riddle: Four men were fishing in a boat on the lake. The boat turned over and all four men sank to the bottom of the lake. And yet, not one single man got wet. How can this be?
Answer: All the men were married.
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(#8) Brothers And Sisters I Have None
Submitted by Facebook commenter Wendie Shoemaker:
Riddle: A man in prison has a visitor. Afterward a guard asks the inmate who the visitor was to him. The inmate replies: "Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who was the visitor to the inmate?
Answer: His son.
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(#9) The Guy Who Had No Eyes
Submitted by Facebook commenter Deborah DeGraffenreid Hancock:
There was a man who had no eyes,
He went abroad to view the skies;He saw a tree with apples on it,
He took no apples off, yet left no apples on it.Answer: It's a plurals problem; the man had only one eye (not eyes), and the tree had only two apples.
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(#10) A Bat And A Ball
Submitted by Facebook commenter Roger Nilsson:
Riddle: A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
Answer: Five cents. If the bat costs $1 more than the ball, and the total cost for both is $1.10, then the ball must cost five cents and the bat $1.05. While a common incorrect answer is 10 cents, then the bat would cost $1.10 and the total cost for both would be $1.20.
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(#11) The 'Diehard' Water Jug Riddle
Submitted by Facebook commenter Nick Olejnik:
Riddle: You have a five-gallon jug and a three-gallon jug. How do you fill one of the jugs with exactly four gallons of water?
Answer:
- Fill the 5-gallon jug with water.
- Empty 3 gallons of the water into the 3-gallon jug, leaving 2 gallons in the 5-gallon jug.
- Pour out the 3-gallon jug completely, and then refill it with the remaining 2 gallons of water from the 5-gallon jug.
- Fill up the 5-gallon jug again.
- Empty a gallon of water from the 5-gallon jug into the 3-gallon jug. (This will fill the 3-gallon jug, as it already has 2 gallons of water in it.)
- The 5-gallon jug now has exactly 4 gallons of water.
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(#12) Devourer Of All Things
Submitted by Facebook commenter Rayna Booker:
This thing all things devours,
Birds, beasts, trees, and flowers.
Gnaws iron, bites steel,
Grinds hard stones to meal,
Slays king, ruins towns,
And beats high mountains down.Answer: Time.
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(#13) Breakfast Time
Submitted by Facebook commenter Daniel Marseglia:
Riddle: It’s 7 am. You are asleep and there is a sudden knock on the door. Behind the door are your parents, who came to have breakfast. In your fridge: bread, milk (pasteurized!), juice, and a jar of jam. To answer, what will you open first?
Answer: Your eyes.
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(#14) Gold Treasure
From Facebook commenter Nyjah Harold:
Riddle: A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. What is it?
Answer: An egg.
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(#15) The Beginning Of Eternity
Submitted by Facebook commenter Doug Miller:
Riddle: I am the beginning of eternity and the end of time and space. The start of every end and the end of every place. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e.”
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(#16) A Riddle Of Words
Submitted by Facebook commenter Dylan Butten:
Riddle: What has four letters, sometimes has nine letters, but never has five letters.
Answer: The riddle has no answer; it is a statement rather than a question - hence the lack of a question mark. “What” has four letters, “sometimes” has nine, and “never” has five.
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(#17) Thirteen Hearts
Submitted by Facebook commenter Sheena Johnson:
Riddle: What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards.
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(#18) The Mysterious Door
Submitted by Facebook commenter Jeremy Johnston:
Riddle: When is a door not a door?
Answer: When it's ajar.
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(#19) Cowboy Time
Submitted by Facebook commenter Luis Figueroa:
Riddle: A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days and leaves on Friday. How did he do it?
Answer: His horse's name is Friday.
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(#20) A Trick Riddle
Submitted by George Owens:
Riddle: What can you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
Answer: A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush.
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(#21) Railroad Crossing
Submitted by Facebook commenter Sue Harrington:
Riddle: Railroad crossing, look out for the cars. Can you spell that, without any R's?
Answer: T-H-A-T.
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(#22) The Doctor's Dilemma
Submitted by Facebook commenter Ray Collins:
Riddle: A man and his son are in a terrible accident and are rushed to the hospital in critical care. The doctor looks at the boy and exclaims "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son!" How could this be?
Answer: The doctor is the boy's mother.
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(#23) Father And (Not) Son
Submitted by Facebook commenter Sue Harrington:
Riddle: I am your father, but you are not my son. Who are you to me?
Answer: My daughter.
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(#24) The Cement Room
Submitted by Facebook commenter Jeremy Squiers:
Riddle: You are stuck in a cement room with no windows or doors. The only things in the room with you are a table and a mirror. How do you get out?
Answer: You look in the mirror and see what you saw, take the saw and cut the table in half. Two halves make a hole - jump through the hole and you're out.
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(#25) The Last Place You Looked
Submitted by Facebook commenter Nasr Saleh:
Riddle: How is it possible to always find what you're looking for in the last place you look?
Answer: If you find what you are looking for, then you would stop looking, so it would be in the last place you looked.
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(#26) The Repetitive Riddle
Submitted by Facebook commenter Regina Bagnall:
Riddle: Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete fell out; who was left on the boat?
Answer: Repeat! Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete fell out; who was left on the boat? Repeat! Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete fell out; who was left on the boat… (etc.)
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