Riddles (1)

1.       A gambler is holding 3 coins. One is an ordinary quarter, the second has 2 heads, and the third has 2 tails. The gambler chooses one of the coins at random and flips it, showing heads. What is the likelihood that the other side is tails?
2.       As I was walking my dog to the market I met an elderly couple going in the opposite direction  with their 3 sons and 3 daughters.  Each son had 2 dogs of his own and each dog had 3 fleas.  Each daughter had 2 cats and each cat had 2 fleas.  In total, how many persons, animals and  insects were going to the market?
3.       My daughter has many sisters. She has as many sisters as she has brothers.  Each of her brothers has twice as many sisters as brothers.  How many sons and daughters do I have?
4.       A plane crashed and every single person on board this flight was killed, yet...there we're survivors. Explain how?
5.       How many 1 foot by 1 foot bricks would it take to complete a building that's 20 feet long on all four sides and 20 feet high?
6.       A cop was walking past a restaurant when he heard someone scream, "No John, not the gun!" He ran inside and saw a doctor, a lawyer, a milkman, and a dead body on the floor. He promptly walked over to the milkman and arrested him. He didn't witness the shooting and there was no apparent evidence to prove who shot the person and no one told him who the killer was. How did the policeman instantly know it was the milkman?
7.       What is so special about this sequence below?
8 5 4 9 1 7 6 10 3 2 0
8.       A horse is tied to a five-meter rope, six meters away from it was a bail of hay. Without breaking the rope, the horse was able to get to the bail of hay. How is this possible?
9.       Mary was making apricot jam. She put all the apricots in the pot and stirred them up. Then she remembered she had to add 1 ounce of lemon juice for every two apricots. How did she figure out how much lemon juice to put?
10.    Steve and Sally where sitting in their family room one night. While Steve was watching TV; his wife Sally was reading. All of a sudden the power went out and Steve decided to go to bed, but Sally kept on reading. With no use of artificial light, Sally kept on reading. How?

Answers
1.       One in three, since there're 3 heads, and only one of them has tails opposite.

2.       Two. Just my dog and I.

3.       4 daughters, 3 sons.

4.       There were married people on the flight… only "single” people died.

5.       Only 1… the “last brick” you put in will complete it”

6.       The milkman was the only male. The doctor and lawyer were females, so the cop knew that “John” was the milkman.

7.       The numbers are in alphabetical order. (eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, six, ten, three, two, zero)

8.       The other end of the rope is tied to nothing.

9.       She counted the pits.

10.    Sally was blind… she was reading a book by Braille.

RIDDLES （2）

1 How do we know that the play has a happy ending?

2 How can a girl have been eleven on her last birthday, and be thirteen next birthday?

3 How can a hat talk?

4 How do Eskimos(爱斯基摩人) dress?

5 How do mountain climbers break up with their boyfriends?

6 How can you spell mousetrap in three letters?

7 How do goldfish go into business?

8 How can you make tomatoes ripen?

9 Why won't you ever be hungry at the beach?

10 How did they catch the gangster who committed the robbery on Mount Everest(称珠穆朗玛峰)?

answers

1 Because everyone was so happy that it was over.

2 If she's turned twelve today.

3 Add the letter C and you make it chat.

4 As quickly as possible.

5 They cut ties.

6 Cat.

7 They start on a small scale.

8 Tell jokes about them until they turn red.

9 Because of all the sand which is there.

10 He returned to the scene of the climb.

RIDDLES （3）

1. Suppose you have a baseball. You're to throw it with all your might and have it stop and come back to you. How can you do this thing with the ball without using any other objects?

2. Suppose I give you an egg. Now, standing right where you are on this hard wooden floor, how could you drop that egg three feet without breaking the shell?

3. Two fathers and two sons went hunting. They shot three rabbits. Yet each took home one rabbit. how was that possible?

4. You're the pilot of an airplane that flies from New York to Chicago --- a distance of 740 miles. The plane goes 200 miles. The plane goes 200 miles an hour. It makes one stop for 30 minutes. What's the pilot's name?

5. After a man was given a gun and blindfolded, someone hung up his hat. The man paced off 100 yards, turned around and shot a bullet through his hat. How was that possible?

6. Suppose you wanted a log cut up. You called a workman who said he would charge 50 cents to cut it into two pieces, but you want the log cut into four pieces. How much would the workman charge?

answers

1.The baseball will stop and come back to you without hitting anything --- if you throw it straight up in the air.

2. Drop the egg from a height of four fee. It will drop three feet without breaking. After that, what a mess!

3. There were only three people hunting: a boy, his father, and his grandfather. The boy's father, of course, was the son of the grandfather.

4. Well, you're the pilot. What did you say your name was?

5. The man's hat was hung over the end of his gun.

6. First the workman would cut the log into two pieces. Then he'd cut each of these pieces in two. He would make a total of three cuts. At 50 cent a cut, that would be '1.50.