Riddles

1.    Q: What gets wetter as it dries?

A: A towel.

2.    Q: Everyone has it and no one can lose it, what is it?

A: A shadow.

                       

3.    Q: At night they come without being fetched. And by day they are lost without being stolen.

A: A stars.

4.    Q: I start with ‘P’ and end with ‘E’, but I have thousands of letters. Who am I?

A: Post Office.

5.    Q: I will come one time in a minute, two times in a moment, but will never come in thousand years. Tell who am I?

A: ‘M’.

6.    Q: Which moves faster? Heat or Cold?

A: Heat. Because many catches cold but cannot catch heat.

7.    Q: A person who makes it ,it is not useful for him . A man who buys It ,it is not useful for him too,the man who is using it cannot see and cannot feel it. What am I?

A: A coffin. The coffin maker doesn't use it. The buyer doesn't use it. And the person who uses it cannot feel anything as they've passed away.

8.    Q: I can be gold, silver and even produced in pieces of paper. Without me you are nothing but trash to others. To gain me you would do anything. What am I?

A: Money.

9.    A king wants to hire a servant . He has finalised 3 applicants all the same qualification , not sure who he has to hire, so he gives them a test. They are taken into a room , the only thing in the room is a table with 5 hats and a box . 2 white and 3 black hats. All three candidates are placed against a wall facing each other and are then blind folded. The king then places a black hat on each ones head , the 2 white hats are placed in the box is removed from the room. The blindfolds are removed , the applicants may not communicate with each other . The King tells them that the first one to come out and tell him what colour hat he has on and how he knows this ,will be employed . The King leaves and 5 minutes later one comes out and says " I have a black hat on my head." The King says "How do you know?" The canditate answers?

A: If any person saw two wearing white hats, then he would know he had a black hat a would leave, but no one left.

If any person saw one other wearing a white hat, then he would know that his hat is not white, or else the third person would have left.

So the correct candidate can be confident his hat is black because no one else left the room first.

10. Q: A man was found dead in his study. He was slumped over his desk and a gun was in his hand. There was a cassette recorder on his desk. When the police entered the room and pressed the play button on the tape recorder they heard: "I can't go on. I have nothing to live for." Then there was the sound of a gunshot. How did the detective immediately know that the man had been murdered and it wasn't a suicide?

A: The cassette had started at the beginning of the man's utterance. Someone else had to be there to rewind the tape.

11. Q: Ten fish I caught without an eye,

and nine without a tail.

Half of eight, and six missing heads,

landed in my pail.

Who can tell me,

as I ask it,

how many fish are in my basket?

A: Zero - 10 without the "I" is 0, 9 without it's tail leaves 0, 8<-- divided here leaves twice 0, 6 without it's head leaves.

12. Q: A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears." A young man bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be?

A: The parrot was deaf!

13. Q: A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. His wife immediately called the police. The police questioned the wife and staff and got these alibis: The Wife said she was sleeping. The Cook was cooking breakfast. The Gardener was picking vegetables. The Maid was getting the mail. The Butler was cleaning the closet The police instantly arrested the murderer. Who did it and how did they know?

A: It was the Maid. She said she was getting the mail. There is no mail on Sunday! -next day air and email doesn't count.

14. Q: A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

A: The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote 'your exact weight' on the paper.

15. Q: A man is on a trip with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn. He comes upon a stream which he has to cross, and finds a tiny boat which he can use for the same. The problem though, is that he can only take himself and either the fox, the goose, or the corn across at a time. It is not possible for him to leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How can he get all safely over the stream?

A: Take the goose over first and come back. Then take the fox over and bring the goose back. Now take the corn over and come back alone to get the goose. Take the goose over and the job is done.