Section: «Riddles with Answers»
A riddle is a short description of an object or phenomenon, often in poetic form, containing an intricate task in the idea of an explicit (direct) or implied (hidden) question. The content of riddles reflects a person's life. The world around him: living and inanimate nature, phenomena of reality, objects of labor and everyday life, and more.
Riddle: A house has 6 stories, each the same height. How many times as long is the ascent to the sixth floor as the ascent to the third?Answer: 2 1/2..
Riddle: As I traveled up and down our great glorious country, I found myself in a place where the tempature goes up sharply in the day and down at..
Riddle: A soccer fan, upset by the defeat of his favorite team, slept restlessly. In his dream a goalkeeper was practicing in a large unfurnished..
Riddle: When the celebrated German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was nine he was asked to add all the integers from 1 through 100...
Riddle: Two schoolgirls were traveling from the city to a dacha (summer cottage) on an electric train. "I notice," one of the girls said "that the..
Riddle: How many months have twenty-eight days?Answer: All twelve months have 28 days.
Riddle: What is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of elements?Answer: The Letter J.
Riddle: What question can never be answered with a Yes?Answer: Are you asleep?
Riddle: My only timepiece is a wall clock. One day I forgot to wind it and it stopped. I went to visit a friend whos watch is always correct, stayed..
Riddle: How many pluses should we put between the digits of 987,654,321 to get a total of 99, and where?Answer: (6) 9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 43 + 21= 99..
Riddle: A man strolls into a hospital emergency room where there is a long line up to the reception desk. He walks right to the front and clamly asks..
Riddle: George was cleaning the windows on the eighteenth floor of an office block when there was a massive power failure. The electric hoist on his..
Riddle: During a soccer match, a player makes a suggistive comment about women into the referee's ear, who promptly waves the red card and sends the..
Riddle: A man goes to work at the same time each day and travels part of his journey facing forwards and the remainder facing backwards. When he..
Riddle: If it is 1,800 kilometers to America, 1,200 kilometers to Japan, 2,400 kilometers to New Zealand, and 1,400 kilometers to Brazil- How far is..
Riddle: A sphere has three, a circle has two, and a point has zero. What is it?Answer: Dimensions.
Riddle: Given two 2s, "plus" can be changed to "times" without changing the results: 2 + 2= 2 x 2. The solution with three numbers is easy too: 1 + 2..
Riddle: What are three ways you can add 4 odd numbers and get ten?Answer: 1+1+3+5=10 1+1+1+7=10 1+3+3+3=10
Riddle: Using only brackets, parentheses, and these signs +,-, X, /. How can you express 100 with 5 1's and express 100 three ways with five..
Riddle: Can you combine plus signs and five 2's to get 28? Can you combine plus signs and eight 8's to get 1,000?Answer: 22+2+2+2=28;..
Riddle: A boy has as many sisters as brothers, but each sister has only half as many sisters as brothers. How many brothers and sisters are there in..
Riddle: When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?Answer: The difference in age is 23 years, so I must be 23 if my..
Riddle: A man phoned his daughter to ask her to buy a few things he needed for a trip. He told her she would find enough dollar bills for the..
Riddle: When was the latest year that is the same upside down?Answer: 1961.
Riddle: Two cyclists began a training run, one starting from Moscow and the other starting from Simferopol. When the riders were 180 miles apart, a..