RIDDLES

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Riddles (to ponder while “walking the line”)

1. I can be seen when it’s cold, but not when hot. You need me to live – take your last and you’re not.

2. If  one=3, two=3, three=5, and four=4, what do five+six= ?

3. I sound like a word of one letter, but I’m actually three. I look the same from both ends – I’m a palindrome you see.

4. Take me from there, and I end up here.

5. Add a letter to one, place it with care. Use the right letter – It’s no longer there.

6. Two fathers and two sons went into a bar to have a drink together. They spent a total of $15 and each man spent the same amount. How much did each man spend?

7. Tom and Marie go down to the beach to collect sea shells. They take one bag with them. How many shells can they put in the empty bag?

8. Before Sir Richard Burton attempted to discover the source of the Nile , which river was the world’s longest?

9. A woman has six daughters and they each have one brother. How many children does the woman have?

10. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in second place, what place would you be in now?

11. There is a town where 5 percent of all the people living there have unlisted phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the town’s telephone directory, on average, how many of these people would have unlisted phone numbers?

12. What five letter word, no matter how you pronounce it, is always pronounced wrong?

13. If two hours ago, it was as long after 1 o’clock in the afternoon as it was before 1 o’clock in the morning, what time would it be now?

14. Which English word is pronounced the same, if you take away the last four letters?