Riddles

Riddles

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//Below are riddles. Some hard, some easy. Some grim, some kind of funny. This is basically just to make your head hurt and in the end make you feel **really** stupid when you discover the answers. I know it made me feel dumb when I didn't get it! All answers are in the discussion. Oh, and by the way, feel free to write in the discussion if you got that particular riddle correct.// =====

The Hanging Woman On July 8th, 1983, the police found a woman in a room hanging from the ceiling from a rope. Below her was a large puddle of water. She had committed suicide. The ceiling had a hook in the middle of it, but it was twelve feet high and the woman was only 5’4’’. There were no objects in the room that could help her boost herself up to that hook which she used, and no people helped her get to that hook. So, how did the woman get up to that hook and hang herself? = =

Two Fathers, and Two Sons On Labor Day weekend, two fathers and two sons went on a canoeing trip. When they got there, all of them got onto one large canoe and rowed out into the middle of the calm lake. Suddenly, one of the men falls overboard; this leaves two people still on the canoe. Where is the forth man?

Poison There are two men. They each are handed identical glasses of lemonade: a cup of fresh-squeezed lemonade, two ice-cubes, three lemon seeds, and a little pink umbrella. There are equal amounts of poison in each glass. The first man drinks his quickly, the second, slowly. Soon, the second man dies of the poison, but the first man stays alive and healthy. Neither had an antidote, and neither knew he was being poisoned. So why did one die and the other live? Flight 86 There is a plane with 134 people on board, including pilots and crew. This is Seven Seas Air Flight 86. It is flying over the border of Mexico and The United States. The plane crashes. It lands exactly on the border. All passengers are neither citizens of Mexico, noe of the U.S.A. So where do they bury the survivors?

The Men in the Rain

Seven men get out of a black car. Three of them are walking on the left, three on the right, and one in the middle. The way they are walking kind of makes the shape of an H. It starts to rain, no pour. When all the men finally get inside the building, only the men on the sides are wet, the one in the middle is perfectly dry. How does this happen?

Four Children = = Erin’s mother has four children: Summer, Winter, Spring and…? What is the name of the last child?

What's Going On In Chicago? Cheryl lives in Chicago, Illinois. One night while eating dinner with the window open, she heard gunshots. That night, Cheryl witnessed two gruesome murders. Before she could leave the room, she saw a building catch fire. She did not commit these murders, not is covering for them, she owns a phone and knows the number for emergencies, and it was not her building that was on fire. So we are left with one question: Why didn’t Cheryl call the police?

The Airliner There is a huge 747 flying somewhere over Asia. It crashes into a mountain. Every single person on the plane dies. Who lives?

The Rooster and the Egg There is a rooster sitting on top of an A shaped roof. It lays an egg. Which side does the egg roll done on?

The Train There is an electric train going 66mph. It is traveling from Seattle, Washington to Salem, Oregon, approximately 260 miles. In each car there are about fifteen people each weighing about 150 pounds. Using Newton's Law of Motion, and the Speed verses Friction Therum, we can answer this question: How much coal was burned?

A Little Rhyme What runs, but never walks. And what tells you something, but never talks? Fish There are eight fish in a full fish bowl. Five drown. How many are left?

A Little Rhyme II

What runs, but never walks? Always murmurs, never talks. Has a mouth, but never eats. Has a bed, but never sleeps? Fire

You are in the middle of a wood and rope bridge over a huge abyss. There is a fire in front of you. You turn around. There is a fire behind you. Where do you go if you want to stay alive?

Three Rooms There are three rooms in front of you. Behind the door to Room 1 is a field of land mines. Behind the door to Room 2 are two hungry lions who haven’t been fed in weeks. Behind the door to Room 3 is a trained sniper who never misses. Which door do you pick?

Fragile What is so fragile that just saying its name with break it?

Busybody = = A woman married over 50 men without ever getting divorced. None of the men died and no one thought the woman acted improperly. Why?

Three Men and a Lady = = Annie went to dinner with three men: Andrew, Ben, and George, and yet she ate alone. Nonetheless the three men showed up to pay for the whole dinner and the tip. Explain.